Video shows Stefanovic recording live to camera outside Le Carillon bar, where more than a dozen people were killed in the Paris attacks in November

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Nine Network footage of Today show host Karl Stefanovic has featured in an Islamic State propaganda video which urges followers of the extremist group to emigrate and appeals for new recruits.

The slick 12-minute video, released overnight via an Isis channel on the encrypted communication service Telegram, begins with scenes of heavily armed police and armoured vehicles mobilising as the December 2015 attack in San Bernardino, California unfolds.

The video, titled “So we will give him a good life”, then cuts to Stefanovic as he was recording a piece live to camera from outside Le Carillon bar, where more than a dozen people were killed in the assault on Paris in November.

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Stefanovic is seen reacting as heavily armed police swarm the scene and crowds flee after hearing a series of loud bangs, which at the time were mistaken for gunshots.

The video then immediately cuts to still shots of US President Barack Obama and French President Francois Hollande, followed by pictures of bodies, on stretchers and covered in sheets, in the streets of Paris.

The video includes a narrator praising the attacks in San Bernardino and Paris.

It includes footage of fighters training, and holding weapons and children in their arms, as well as interviews with people painting an idyllic picture of life under the Islamic State.

Children are seen building sandcastles, while men snorkel and catch fish in front of a picturesque backdrop.

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However, residents of the extremist group’s self-declared capital of Raqqa in Syria have painted a very different picture, pointing to a failing regime that is struggling to provide even basic services and food, and describing Raqqa as a giant prison.

The US-led coalition in recent weeks reported that Isis’s territory shrank by 40% in Iraq and 20% in Syria last year.

Nine Network declined to comment, but Stefanovic posted a response on Twitter: