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New Year's Eve Terror Concerns Prompt New Security

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Spanish policemen patrol at Puerta del Sol square in the centre of Madrid, on December 31, 2015. Madrid City Council has set up today unprecedented security arrangements for the New Year's Eve, for the first time limiting the influx to the Puerta del Sol, where thousands of people come to swallow twelve grapes at the stroke of midnight. (Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP/Getty Images)
Spanish policemen patrol at Puerta del Sol square in the centre of Madrid, on December 31, 2015. Madrid City Council has set up today unprecedented security arrangements for the New Year's Eve, for the first time limiting the influx to the Puerta del Sol, where thousands of people come to swallow twelve grapes at the stroke of midnight. (Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP/Getty Images)

There will be extra security across the country and in Europe for tonight's celebrations because of concerns about possible terrorist attacks. Paris and Brussels canceled fireworks displays and there will unprecedented security in London.

Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd speaks with the BBC's Paul Kirby in London about precautions being taken there and across Europe.

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This segment aired on December 31, 2015.

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