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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.

Charlie Hebdo: new cover featuring Prophet Mohammed launched - live

Charlie Hebdo: new cover featuring Prophet Mohammed launched - live, More from Isil: "Charlie Hebdo has again published cartoons insulting the prophet and this is an extremely stupid act," said a statement read on Al-Bayan radio, which the jihadist group broadcasts in areas under its control in Syria and Iraq.

09.26 Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant says publishing new Mohammed cartoon is 'extremely stupid'

09.19 Véronique Faujour, head of printers, Messageries Lyonnaises de Presse, said the print run will be raised to five million, reports Henry Samuel.

“It will be circulated in batches of around 500,000 copies per day which will allow kiosks that are asking for more to be resupplied.”

Up to a million will be sold today, said the printers.At Saint-Lazare train station in Paris, a long queue was already snaking outside the newsagent at 6am when it opened.

“They should have got more copies in today. I can’t keep up with demand,” said Marie-Claire, the owner, told AFP.
09.14 Charlie Hebdo has completely sold out across France. This means at least 500,000 copies have been bought, according to reports.

Stefan de Vries, a French journalist, writes on Twitter: "There are still copies of #CharlieHebdo available. On @eBay. For €100,000."

09.05 Iran has said the new magazine cover is "insulting" and "provocative". The magazine cover "provokes the emotions of Muslims and hurts their feelings around the world, and could fan the flame of a vicious circle of extremism," said foreign ministry spokesman Marzieh Afkham.

08.49 AFP reports John Kerry, US secretary of state, is to meet François Hollande.
08.33 The controversial French comedian Dieudonne has been arrested for being an "apologist for terrorism" after writing a Facebook comment suggesting he sympathised with one of the gunmen that attacked Paris last week, a judicial source told AFP.

08.26 As news agencies and reporters in France suggest the magazine is due to sell out before dawn, Henry Samuel reports print run will increase to five million "due to demand".

In Turkey, the secular daily, Cumhuriyet, said police stopped trucks before they left its printing centre to check its content. It comes after the paper chose to print a few of the Charlie Hebdo cartoons.

Today's Zaman reports the newspaper said the distribution was allowed to proceed "after verifying that the satirical French newspaper's controversial cover featuring the Prophet Muhammad was not published".

Security at the daily - which published four pages of some of the cartoons to show its support - has been increased at its headquarters and printing centre.

A woman working at a kiosk in Gambetta metro station in Paris told AFP how quickly copies sold out - 450 within 15 minutes.

"It was incredible. I had a queue of 60-70 people waiting for me when I opened at 5.45 am. I've never seen anything like it. All my 450 copies were sold out in 15 minutes."

07.46 The Telegraph's Henry Samuel says today 500,000 copies will be published in France and there will be another batch on sale this Friday. The total run will be three million.

Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, told Fairfax radio's 3AW he "rather likes" the cartoon depiction of the Prophet Mohammed on Charlie Hebdo's latest cover, adding that it represented a "spirit of forgiveness".

Quote Now, I rather like that cartoon. I'm not sure that I would have liked everything that Charlie Hebdo produced but this is a cartoon of the prophet with a tear streaming down his face saying all is forgiven.

"That spirit of forgiveness is what we need more and more in this rancorous modern world."
07.30 There are currently some eBay listings for the magazine in the UK. One copy appears to be on sale for £49 while another, with 31 bids, is on sale for £122. A quick search suggests another is also on sale for £100 and one more for £101 with 13 bids already.

One edition is on sale for £511 with 32 bids already.
07.22 Parisians queue at a newspaper kiosk to get their copies of the latest edition of Charlie Hebdo magazineGood morning and welcome to our live coverage on the day Charlie Hebdo's new issue will be published across the world. It is the first edition of the French satirical magazine since gunmen stormed their Paris headquarters last Wednesday, killing 12.