Charlie Hebdo: new cover featuring Prophet Mohammed launched - live
Charlie Hebdo: new cover featuring Prophet Mohammed launched - live, It was widely assumed Charlie Hebdo's latest edition would sell out but sales were so fast, another run of 2m has been ordered. Across Paris, people queued to get their hands on a copy and some even found their way on eBay sought by those keen to get a copy.
The London Evening Standard reports on a coffee shop owner who has received death threats for a "Je Suis Charlie" sign outside his cafe.
Adel Defilaux, a French-born Muslim, owns The Antishop in Brick Lane, East London, and told the newspaper of an intruder demanding he take down the sandwich board sign.
“He came in very aggressively and he told me to remove the sign. I asked him why and he said his community was offended by it and said if I didn’t remove it something bad was going to happen," Mr Defliaux said.
“I told him I was Muslim myself and I wanted to talk gently with him and I said people can’t kill journalists for expressing themselves.
“I calmly explained to him that what he was saying was not the reality of Islam. I thought I could calm him down, but it had the opposite effect. He went crazy."The French justice ministry says more than 50 cases have been opened for 'condoning terrorism' since Paris attacks
11.43 A prominent Saudi cleric, Sheikh Ahmed al-Ghamedi, told AFP that publication of the latest image was a mistake.
"It's not a good way to make the people understand us. Jesus or Moses, all messengers (of God) we should respect," and should not be made fun of in pictures or words, Mr Ghamedi said. "I believe it will make more problems."
11.37 Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister, calls for respect in the aftermath of the Prophet Mohammed Charlie Hebdo front cover. Earlier, a spokesman for the foreign ministry condemned the cover as "provocative".
"We believe that sanctities need to be respected and unless we learn to respect one another it will be very difficult in a world of different views and different cultures and civilisations," Mr Zarif said.
11.15 According to Today's Zaman in Turkey, three of the country's satirical magazines intend to publish their magazines with 'Je Suis Charlie' written in white on a black background within a speech bubble.
The source for the story comes from an account, believed to be Uykusuz's official Twitter account, saying: "All together 'Je Suis Charlie'"
Huge queues form in France as the first edition of Charlie Hebdo published since the deadly attacks in Paris sells out within minutes A major counter-terrorism programme intended to stop young Muslims from being radicalised by jihadists is “clearly not working,” the former head of MI5 has warned, writes Matthew Holehouse.
Baroness Manningham Buller, who was the director general of the Security Service at the time of the 7/7 bombings, said the decision of 600 Britons to fight in Syria and Iraq with Isil was evidence that the Prevent scheme had failed.
After nearly a decade of trying to halt the spread of "toxic and murderous" jihadist ideology in Britain, the government still “do not really know what works,” she said.
The London Evening Standard reports on a coffee shop owner who has received death threats for a "Je Suis Charlie" sign outside his cafe.
Adel Defilaux, a French-born Muslim, owns The Antishop in Brick Lane, East London, and told the newspaper of an intruder demanding he take down the sandwich board sign.
“He came in very aggressively and he told me to remove the sign. I asked him why and he said his community was offended by it and said if I didn’t remove it something bad was going to happen," Mr Defliaux said.
“I told him I was Muslim myself and I wanted to talk gently with him and I said people can’t kill journalists for expressing themselves.
“I calmly explained to him that what he was saying was not the reality of Islam. I thought I could calm him down, but it had the opposite effect. He went crazy."The French justice ministry says more than 50 cases have been opened for 'condoning terrorism' since Paris attacks
11.43 A prominent Saudi cleric, Sheikh Ahmed al-Ghamedi, told AFP that publication of the latest image was a mistake.
"It's not a good way to make the people understand us. Jesus or Moses, all messengers (of God) we should respect," and should not be made fun of in pictures or words, Mr Ghamedi said. "I believe it will make more problems."
11.37 Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister, calls for respect in the aftermath of the Prophet Mohammed Charlie Hebdo front cover. Earlier, a spokesman for the foreign ministry condemned the cover as "provocative".
"We believe that sanctities need to be respected and unless we learn to respect one another it will be very difficult in a world of different views and different cultures and civilisations," Mr Zarif said.
11.15 According to Today's Zaman in Turkey, three of the country's satirical magazines intend to publish their magazines with 'Je Suis Charlie' written in white on a black background within a speech bubble.
The source for the story comes from an account, believed to be Uykusuz's official Twitter account, saying: "All together 'Je Suis Charlie'"
Huge queues form in France as the first edition of Charlie Hebdo published since the deadly attacks in Paris sells out within minutes A major counter-terrorism programme intended to stop young Muslims from being radicalised by jihadists is “clearly not working,” the former head of MI5 has warned, writes Matthew Holehouse.
Baroness Manningham Buller, who was the director general of the Security Service at the time of the 7/7 bombings, said the decision of 600 Britons to fight in Syria and Iraq with Isil was evidence that the Prevent scheme had failed.
After nearly a decade of trying to halt the spread of "toxic and murderous" jihadist ideology in Britain, the government still “do not really know what works,” she said.
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