Hello and welcome to News Hour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
We're beginning in Paris, which 10 years ago to this day was convulsed by Islamist violence.
I say to this day, it was actually the evening when panic and bloodshed swept the French capital,
beginning with suicide bombers detonating themselves outside the French National Stadium,
the Stade de France, where the men's football team were playing Germany.
And then...
Nine jihadis sent by the Islamic State Group in Syria fanned out across the north of Paris,
targeting bars, restaurants, and above all a music venue called the Bataclan.
This was how the radio station France and Faux reported the news
as it was breaking 11pm local time that night.
The presenters saying that the latest toll according to the police was 18 dead.
In the end, 130 people had been killed.
More than 400 were wounded.
France was shaken to its core.
The country was also arguably profoundly changed by the violence.
We'll look at that more in a moment with the survivor of the massacre and also with our veteran Paris correspondent Hugh Scofield who joins me now and Hugh I Take us back to that night.
I mean it it was it it beggar believed didn't it?
It did I remember it very well as if it were yesterday.