Images are now coming through of armed police in the Saint Denis area.

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According to one report, roads have been blocked off around Place Jean Jaures, in Saint Denis. Amateur video aired by TV stations BFMTV and iTele cited witnesses saying sporadic gunfire had rung out since around 04:30 local time (03:30 GMT).

A French journalist in St-Denis, Djamel Mazi, is reporting that two or three men have barricaded themselves into an apartment in the centre of the suburb. He also says people are being evacuated from the local area.

Good morning as we resume our live coverage of events in Paris, where heavy gunfire has been heard in the northern suburb of Saint Denis in the last few minutes. Police sources have said the shooting was connected to the hunt for fugitives following Friday's attacks.

We are now taking a break in our live coverage of events following Friday's attacks in Paris and will resume early on Wednesday morning.

German interior minister Thomas de Maiziere has said that the evacuation of the football stadium in Hanover should not deter people from attending public events. "We are agreed, especially after this evening, that we are not prepared to fundamentally change our way of life," he told a news conference.

"We want to meet at large events, we want to go to Bundesliga [German football league] stadiums, to Christmas markets, to the theatre, we want to meet in marketplaces, we want to celebrate carnivals. And that will stay the same. Nevertheless, in individual cases, that has to be weighed up against people's safety."

The grand mufti of Australia, Ibrahim Abu Mohammed, has clarified a statement after he was accused of linking the Paris attacks to racism and Islamophobia. The country's most senior Muslim cleric, together with the Australian National Imams Council, said in a joint statement, external that they had "consistently and unequivocally condemned all forms of terrorist violence". An earlier statement said current strategies against terrorism had failed and it was "therefore imperative that all causative factors" such as racism and Islamophobia be addressed. Critics said it could be interpreted as a justification for the Paris attacks.

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Damien McGuinness
BBC News, Berlin

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel had been due to attend the match in Hanover on Tuesday evening, together with numerous cabinet ministers. Initially the German team's players did not want to go ahead with the game, having already experienced the trauma of being in the Paris stadium on Friday when it was hit in a wave of terror attacks. But the team had then decided to play as a sign of solidarity with France, until the game was called off because of the security threat.

Jonathan Marcus
BBC world affairs correspondent

For the third night running, France has been carrying out air strikes against targets of the so-called Islamic State (IS) in the group's stronghold of Raqqa, Syria. Speaking on French TV, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said 10 planes had been in action. He said the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle would leave for the eastern Mediterranean on Wednesday to continue strikes on specific targets, in particular around Raqqa and Deir ez-Zour. 

These France and England football fans made a show of unity outside London's Wembley Stadium ahead of tonight's international friendly match. Security has been stepped up for the game.

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BBC Newsbeat

A Radio 1 Newsbeat audience is debating the aftermath of the Paris attacks and why some young Muslims want to join Islamic State (IS). They've been hearing the story of Omar, a 27-year-old from High Wycombe who is now fighting for IS after "blagging" his way to Syria.

Read more here: Young, British and radicalised: Why people want to join Islamic State

You can listen live on Radio 1 now. And you can add your voice using the hashtag #newsbeat. 

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The ninth suspect was part of the group in the Seat car which carried out the attacks at the terraces of cafes in the east of Paris, Le Figaro newspaper reports, external, quoting police sources.

A video has confirmed the existence of a ninth attacker, the AFP news agency reports, citing police sources. There were previously thought to be eight involved in Friday's attacks.

German officials say no explosives have been found and no arrests made in Hanover, Reuters reports. Earlier, a football match there between Germany and the Netherlands was cancelled because of a "concrete threat".

BBC Newsbeat

After the terrorist attacks in Paris, an audience of young people is debating what it's like being a young Muslim in the UK right now - and what drives a few to become radicalised. 

They will also be talking about the UK's role in trying to prevent attacks.

Listen live online and on BBC Radio 1 from 2100 GMT. Add your voice on Twitter using the hashtag #newsbeat.

Richard Conway
BBC Radio 5 live sports news correspondent

"It was a spine-tingling moment as fans within Wembley rose as one to sing La Marseillaise. Big screens inside the stadium showed the lyrics to the anthem and both sets of supporters united in a display of solidarity. A mosaic of cards was held aloft to display a giant Tricolour flag at one end of the ground. Some of the French players were close to being overwhelmed with emotion. Both squads then stood together, as a group, while the crowd applauded. A minute's silence was then observed. Following such devastation and grief, this was a poignant - and beautifully observed - occasion as football reflected, remembered and ultimately stood defiant against terrorism."

Here's an excerpt added to the match programme at Wembley: "We fully respect the decision of the French Football Federation to be here tonight and hopefully the occasion will show that the football world is united against these atrocities."

It is believed that the Paris terror attacks were planned in Molenbeek, a district of Brussels. What is it like to live there? BBC World Have Your Say spoke to some of its residents, including Belgian writer Bleri Lleshi: "We need to develop self-value in the youth... Someone who has self-value will not go to Syria."