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Cartoonists. the magazine is significant, it's the same magazine firebombed in 2011 for publishing a cartoon of the prophet mohammed. they're well known for satirizing christians and jews and muslims and now they've been the target of the attack today. >> the president of france says the country is at the highest terror alert level in response to the situation. and says there have been several terror attacks that have been thwarted in recent weeks. is the question is there an ongoing threat there? it was the middle of the day in paris. when this happened. two two heavily armed gunmen. maybe a ...

Ideology as a justification. and that's why we put forward the meta data retention laws. that's why we are determined to work with them as quickly as we can in the new year. the assurance i give to you and to every australian is that this government will do whatever is possible to keep you safe. that's what we'll do, because nothing undermines a society, a community, an individual than any sense that are you not safe if your own homes, in your own streets. and i pledge myself, and i'm sure mike would say the same. i pledge myself to do whatever is humanly necessary to maximize the protection o...

Planning that would leave signatures for security organizations to track, somebody like the gunman yesterday, who just walks into a coffee shop with a sawed-off shotgun hidden in a bag. those are the kind of people that would be very high on the watch list for security agencies, but at the same time, the kind of people who it's very difficult to keep tabs on. >> everything that the prime minister outlined, upgrading the security, raising the terror alert level, boosting and funding for security agencies, none of that, really, could prevent what happened yesterday. so i guess, does that raise q...

Medical condition. a lot of unknowns in relation to what we are seeing. i believe the police by now, since 10:00 this morning, would have lots of operational intelligence and tactical intelligence in case needed to be decisive action taken. >> we have been reporting this is the only area in sydney that authorities are concerned about. it is isolated geographically to the coffee shop. we got a statement saying the consulate general in sydney has been evacuated as a precaution. there is a smaller number of staff there. that has been evacuated as a precaution. i want to talk about the overall sec...

Habits. >> shepard: we will see. jonathan hunt, thank you. police are searching for the gunman who killed three kids and a rabbi outside a jewish school in the southwest of france. the french president nicholas sarkozy today called it it the worst school attack in the nation's history. he also raised the nation's terror alert level to the highest they have in france. police say the killer opened fire, then took off on a motorcycle and they say somebody used that same gun in two separate attacks last week. those attacks killed three french paratroopers and seriously injured another. well, the c...