[01:01.08]"Seleka occupies all strategic points and has taken control of the capital.

[01:13.79]The chairman of the Seleka will make a statement to the nation in the coming hours.

[01:17.58]Our priorities for now, to reinstall security throughout the national territory,

[01:22.49]we called on all forces of the nation to unite, to rebuild the country." President Francois Bozize has fled the city.

[01:29.52]Government officials in the neighbouring Democratic Republican of Congo said the president and his family had arrived there.

[01:35.49]A humanitarian worker in Banqui described the situation as chaotic.

[01:39.90]More than 120 prisoners in eastern Nigeria have escaped after armed men tore down the gate of the jail and forces the cells open.

[01:48.23]The prison was one of the several locations targeted in the town of Ganye near the border with Cameroon.

[01:53.86]A bank and at least one bar were also hit.

[01:56.44]The militant Islamist group Boko Haram is suspected of carrying out the simultaneous attacks, which police say, killed 25 people.

[02:03.90]Hundreds of thousands people have demonstrated in Paris against plans to legalize gay marriage and adoption.

[02:11.58]Police fired tear gas to stop sections of the crowd breaking through into the Champs Elysees.

[02:16.42]Hugh Schofield reports from Paris.