"People need to feel able to feel secure, that is absolutely right. but there has to be a political settlement in [Syria and] the Middle East," Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said on Sky News on the prospect of Labour support for air strikes against so-called Islamic State targets in Syria.

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Away from the events in Paris, the Commons Transport Select Committee has become the latest committee of MPs to launch an inquiry into the system used to approve vehicles, including their emissions levels, in the wake of the diesel engines scandal engulfing Volkswagen.

The committee will seek evidence on the effectiveness of current arrangements, which involve the testing of aspects such as performance, noise and emissions by national agencies to see if they meet detailed EU standards. 

Belgian police have reportedly arrested at least one person after a four-hour siege at a house in the Brussels district of Molenbeek but failed to find a man wanted in connection with the Paris attacks. Molenbeek mayor Francoise Schepmans told broadcaster RTBF that the operation was over with no-one injured and that "arrests" had been made. 

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Harriet Harman also has some broader political advice for her successor as Labour leader. She tells the World at One that Labour can only make a difference if it is "in power", able to change the country's laws, and achieving "doctrinal purity" and protesting about the government's record is not necessarily going to help achieve that aim. 

All of Mr Corbyn's energies, she says, should be directed on getting Labour "nearer to power". Labour, she adds, needs to reflect on why it lost the election, pointing out succinctly that the reason for this is not enough people voted for the party.

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Harriet Harman has criticised Jeremy Corbyn for failing to appoint women to any of the most senior jobs in the shadow cabinet. Speaking at a conference in London, Labour's former acting leader said Mr Corbyn needed to think about how the lack of women in the most senior roles was "perceived". 

The Labour leader, she suggested, came from a political tradition and generation where the fight for gender equality was regarded as something of a "distraction" from the traditional left-right political struggle. 

She has called for the party to create a new post of second deputy leader, to be filled by a woman, to redress the current imbalance. 

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"We haven’t been completely successful in preventing terror attacks" on UK soil, Colonel Richard Kemp -  who sat on the Joint Intelligence Committee - tells the World at One. But, he says, Britain's security services are "second to none" at stopping most attacks getting through. 

The issue is one of resources, he says. The "really serious threat" to the UK might come from those who have left the UK to fight in Syria and have possibly now returned because they have been “blooded”, are trained and maybe under direction. 

Had the UK suffered an attack like that in Paris on Friday, it would have been likely that the SAS, which would have heavier weapons at their disposal, would have been drafted in. 

Moreover, he says, the police force would probably themselves feel as if that type of attack would be better dealt with by the army.

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Asked about whether Labour MPs would ask for a free vote on air strikes in Syria, Labour MP Chris Matheson says "I suspect a lot of MPs will vote with their conscience any way".

He says until there was a clear strategy he says he wouldn't vote for military intervention in Syria. 

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Labour MP Chris Matheson says Islamic State "is a fascist group" it is not a "Muslim issue". He says it can be separated entirely from mainstream "Muslim thought".

He says there are huge majorities of Muslims who are also horrified by the events that happened. He adds there is a responsibility on Muslim leaders to report those who are at risk or acting strangely. 

Haras Rafiq says many of those convicted of Islamist terrorism have had higher education so the idea these people are vulnerable is a "fallacy". 

He says "Muslims, people like me, I'm a Muslim, need to play our part more as well and get over this victim mentality".

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Oliver Dowden, Conservative MP says "clearly there is a threat here" and he says the security services need to give them power to do their jobs.

However Labour MP Chris Matheson says terrorist attacks "cannot dictate our long term policies in these areas". He adds there is a need to bring up to date the powers the security services have.

Haras Rafiq, Quilliam Foundation, says we are at risk from the ideology that is "brainwashing" young people. He says there hasn't been enough done to tackle this ideology which needs to be "deconstructed".

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Tim Marshall, foreign affairs analyst, says the once "outlandish" idea of working with Russia is actually coming into the centre". 

Crispin Blunt, Conservative MP, says he thinks the UK  needs to talk to Putin in order to defeat so-called Islamic State. 

He says there will "have to have ground troops" in order to defeat IS, adding it would be better if those troops came from the surrounding Sunni states such as Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. 

"We shouldn't play their ideological game," says Mr Blunt referring to the idea of putting Western ground troops in and therefore reinforcing the idea of the West interfering in the Middle East.

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Mike Hookem, UKIP spokesman for defence, says the Schengen agreement is dead. He says "border checks should be strengthened" as terrorists are taking advantage of the migrant crisis.

The lack of security, he says, was helped by the lack of security checks and border control entering the European Union.

He called the attacks a "tragedy" and "absolutely shocking" and added this was about a small group of people "who have warped sense of Islam".

Responding to comments by UKIP's deputy chairman, Suzanne Evans, Mr Hookem says "I'm not going to defend Suzanne Evans" after Ms Evans' comments in the wake of the terror attacks: "Suzanne will have to defend herself." 

He also thought NATO would need to get involved as the attacks were an act of war.

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Agnes Poirier, a French journalist says since the January terror attacks there was the "new normal", now there is the "new, new normal".

She says nobody could have foreseen the target of the Bataclan theatre. She said they thought the next target would be the Eiffel Tower, adding that the French government cannot send troops everywhere.

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Discussing the attacks on Paris Tim Marshall, a foreign affairs analyst, says he could see what was "germinating" in Paris and Brussels when he lived in these cities as a correspondent. He says the ideology, which he says is present in every single European capital, needs to be combated.

Crispin Blunt, Conservative MP and chairman of the foreign affairs select committee says people are relatively "lucky" in the UK because the country is outside the Schengen area, but adds the country is not "immune" to attacks like those seen in Paris. If terrorists had the capability they would try something against an iconic area, he adds.