Somalias president says his country will not be demoralised after a bomb attack kills more than 70 people. Translation you will never succeed in discouraging the Somali People and their government and you will never stop us from achieving our goals in developing and rebuilding our country. Democratic president ial contender joe biden says theres no legal basis to force him to testify at Donald Trumps impeachment trial. Hello and welcome to bbc news. The president of somalia has blamed al sha baab militants for a deadly bomb attack but said they wouldnt succeed in demoralising the Somali People. 70 people died and many more were injured in the capital mogadishu. Our africa correspondent Andrew Harding reports moments after the blast, an eyewitness films the scene. Smoke still billowing from a vehicle, the remains of what is thought to have been a massive car bomb. Shocked civilians move in to look for survivors. The attack was timed to catch the morning rush hour in mogadishu. Many stud
The president of somalia has blamed al shabaab militants for a deadly bomb attack that killed about 70 people. But Mohamed Abdullahi farmajo said they wouldnt succeed in demoralising the somali people. The explosion took place at a security checkpoint in the south west of the capital mogadishu. Its being reported that at least 16 of those killed were university students. Our africa correspondent Andrew Harding reports. Moments after the blast, an eyewitness films the scene. Smoke still billowing from a vehicle, the remains of what is thought to have been a massive car bomb. Shocked civilians move in to look for survivors. The attack was timed to catch the morning rush hour in mogadishu. Many students had been heading to classes. Dozens were killed when the bomb exploded at a busy intersection in the somali capital. Attacks like this are not unusual here, but they are seldom so deadly. This man said the blast caught him as he was getting out of a minibus heading to work, his leg injured
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Figures in iraq. Weve just heard from various sources from the largest political bloc within parliament that there has been an attempt on the life of the cleric shia cleric coveralls father his compound in the holy city of najaf was apparently attacked by an armed drone overnight in that city you know we dont know if there were any injuries or casualties in his in that compound and we dont know who could have been responsible for that attack but we have heard from various sources saying that there was an attempt on his life that is because there are some other the shia cleric in najaf now this happened after many of those demonstrators who were attacked just behind me here. In the square overnight they were demanding protection from Government Forces and there were no effort there was no Government Security to protect these protesters and that is when most other us souther called on has military wing of his party to come to the rescue of these protesters that is what theyve been tellin
Still a bigger club than reigning champions manchester city. There has been a dramatic escalation of violence in iraq in what is of course already been a chaotic 2 months of antigovernment wrist 1st an attack by unidentified gunmen on protesters in baghdad that killed at least 23 people and of course raise new security concerns they stormed past one of the main protest sites in Killarney Square on friday night no less than 24 hours after that gunfire is again been heard in the capital on saturday sending people running for cover and in what appears to be a related event sources close to the prominent shia cleric thought there say a drone dropped a bomb on his home in jaffna his party says he wasnt there at the time he has been back over all of the antigovernment protests which have swept across the country lets check in with hes in baghdad for us on this news 1st of all the attack on his house is there any new information coming out. Well we heard from a source close to the influential