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.
Baroness Manningham Buller
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.
Read Matthew's full report here.
10.37 Belgium will be getting their delivery of Charlie Hebdo tomorrow, Bruno Waterfield reports
10.36 Newsagents across London are still waiting delivery of copies of the latest edition of the Charlie Hebdo magazine as copies sold out in shops across France, writes Nicola Harley.
Many had expected to received copies on Wednesday but distributors told them it would be delayed until Friday.
Queues of people had been waiting outside venues across London to purchase a copy.
The French Bookshop in South Kensington, West London, warned customers that it will not receive copies until Friday morning but urged them to check its Facebook page for updates.
More than 10 people were waiting outside for the store to open.
Other stores expecting deliveries on Friday include M2 in Covent Garden and Good News in Berwick Street in Soho.
10.17 More information coming out about the the video purporting to show al-Qaeda claiming responsibility for the Charlie Hebdo attack.
It is said the attack was ordered by Ayman Zawahiri, the network's global chief.
"The leadership of (AQAP) was the party that chose the target and plotted and financed the plan... It was following orders by our general chief Ayman al-Zawahiri," Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi, of the Yemeni branch of al-Qaeda (AQAP), says in the recording.
"The heroes were chosen and they answered the call," he said.
10.15 Marine Le Pen is already using the attacks to vindicate her divisive approach to immigration, writes Cathy Newman.
Urging the west to “eradicate the cancerous cell that Islamic fundamentalism represents”, she pointed the finger of blame for France’s current predicament, firmly at her opponents.
“When we fought Islamic fundamentalism, when we denounced it, they dismissed us as Muslim haters. It is those people who dismissed us as Muslim haters who have created the confusion – not us,” she told Channel 4 News.
Of course, the blame for the country’s “confusion”, as she puts it, lies squarely at the feet of the extremists who massacred the staff of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and rampaged round a kosher supermarket.
You can read Cathy's full piece here.
09.57 News agencies are reporting of a video on YouTube in which al-Qaeda in Yemen are claiming responsibility for last Wednesday's attack.
"As for the blessed Battle of Paris, we, the Organisation of al Qaeda al Jihad in the Arabian Peninsula, claim responsibility for this operation as vengeance for the Messenger of God," said Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi of the Yemeni branch of al-Qaeda (AQAP) in the recording.
Last week's attack saw 12 people killed on Wednesday at the Charlie Hebdo magazine offices by the brothers, Said and Cherif Kouachi. The day after, Amedy Coulibaly, murdered a policewoman - he is believed to have also shot a jogger during the Hebdo attack.
The Kouachi brothers
As the Kouachi brothers tried to escape police, they held one hostage and Coulibaly held several hostages in a Jewish supermarket on Friday.
Police stormed both sites killing the Kouachis and Coulibaly but the latter had already murdered four hostages. Hayat Boumeddiene, Coulibaly's wife, is believed to be in Syria after travelling earlier this month to the country via Turkey.
09.45 France's national printing union, UNDP, said that all copies of Charlie Hebdo had been sold in its 27,000 outlets around the country, Henry Samuel reports.
Besieged newsagents will be restocked later today, meaning that the total sale could reach a million copies by the end of Wednesday, with another 500,000 due tomorrow and the coming days to reach five million in all.
In front of a kiosk in Gambetta, in Paris' 20th arrondissement, Marco, 43, a heating technician, was looking for two copies for his sister in Portugal but was told to come back tomorrow.
"To buy Charlie this morning is the best response to what's happened," he told NouvelObs. "It symoblises resistance, the desire for it to continue and develop. Everyone must buy it. They touched something fundamental in the French and in the whole of Europe regarding freedom of expression, freedom. The front page is pretty mild. It is more touching than provocative."
09.31 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.
09.09 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".
08.20 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.
07.59 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.
07.41 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".
"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 magazine
07.21 Up to three million copies of the first issue of Charlie Hebdo since the Paris attacks, which features Prophet Mohammed on the front cover, will be distributed across France today.
07.19 According to Sky News, the issue has already sold out in some newsstands in Paris.
07.15 Good 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.
In the UK, Smiths News and Menzies were yesterday expected to be buying up to a 2,000 copies to supply the magazine to stores in the UK.
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