Officials said four gunmen began firing on saturday evening, shooting at staff and guests. Translation at first i heard some gunfire and after 15 minutes, a worker from the hotel approached and said suicide attackers entered the hotel. Local media reports say several people have been killed. Its unclear how many, yet it is believed the security guards at the entrance to the hotel may be among those injured. The Intercontinental Hotel in kabul is popular with foreign guests, situated on a hilltop outside the city and has been the target of an attack before in 2011 when 21 people died. Security forces said two of the gunman had been shot and killed. Two more are thought to be hiding in the building with reports they had taken hostages on the upper floors. The attack comes days after the us embassy in kabul issued a warning about hotels in the city, saying extremist groups may be planning an attack and saying hotels as well as public gatherings could be potential targets. It is still not
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And welcome to aljazeera life for my headquarters in doha with me and of the parana im also ahead Turkish Forces move into the northern syrian on play off and warned that the largest city of man bush is next but u. S. Vice president arrives in jordan as part of his controversial middle east oil. And refugee said theyre feeling pressure to return to me to soothe. The taliban has claimed responsibility for an overnight attack and the Intercontinental Hotel in kabul gunfire and explosions can still be heard outside the hotel despite the interior minister earlier declaring the siege over. One hundred sixty people including forty one foreigners have been. Rescues lets go to accost on jennifer glass now she is joining us live from kabul has the security operation ended or is the siege ongoing jennifer what are you hearing. Elizabeth we think it is all over now just a few minutes ago we saw a long line of Afghan Security vehicles run down this road you can see behind me the Intercontinental H
Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The Us National Government has officially shut down after senators failed to agree a stop gap budget. It follows a bitter row between President Trumps republicans and the opposition democrats over immigration and border security. Senators are tonight trying to broker a deal to get the Us Government working again. It comes as thousands of women joined protest marches across the country on the First Anniversary of President Trumps inauguration. David willis reports from washington. Marking the First Anniversary of President Trumps inauguration, protesters took to the streets here in washington and across the country, as the government of the largest economy in the world went into shutdown. The yays are 50, and the nays are 49. Last night, a stopgap funding measure came up ten votes short. That after the democrat leader in the senate, chuck schumer, met with President Trump at the white house. Progress was made, he said, before the dealmaker in chief
Blogs in iran and you want to be al jazeera news our life my headquarters in doha in this sixty minutes we have teens in kabul on the turkey syria border also reporters everybody germany and in harare zimbabwe also escaping the gunfire at a luxury hotel in kabul six civilians are dead the taliban has claimed responsibility. Also turkish troops launching air and ground attacks against kurdish fighters in northern syria. And defending Donald Trumps israel policy shift the u. S. Vice president is in jordan on the second stop of his middle east. And our top story in force rappler a taliban says to the quarter finals of the australian it was straight forward for the brown family. Good to have you with us welcome to the news hour we start in south asia where the taliban has claimed responsibility for an overnight attack at the Intercontinental Hotel in the capital kabul the siege began when a gunman stormed the building on saturday night six civilians were killed along with five attackers du