And the russian attacks are not letting up. Artillery continues to rain down in eastern and southern ukraine with russias president putin maintaining his goal of taking the don bass region. Ukraine, meanwhile, is publicly documenting what it says are war crimes against citizens. All while ramping up its counter offensive. Ukrainian soldiers by the hundreds of thousands are fighting fiercely against the russian invaders, and their resilience has surprised many. But with rushes military might. They have lost significant ground. Ever since heavy weapons began arriving from western allies, though the Ukrainian Army has counter attacked, including in the south with their initial gains in the occupied care. Some region have shown is that this war will be a long and bitter one. Ukrainian forces have dug in deep here in the steps of southern ukraine between mc alive and his son. And they have Russian Forces in their sites since the Ukrainian Government launched its counter offensive. The vikin
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The mor with communicatin difficult. Its hard to tell quite how ma they doing all they can to end this siege. The siege continues in nairobi. What was the initial reaction to this incident. We were speaking about 24 hours ago the initial reports from Kenyan Police was that they stormed the shopping mall. Did they take any of this seriously . Reporter they great numbes and the response was a typical robbery. Thats the local police in the area came to seem. It was very limited response. It was established up to an hour later, the special teams were called in. Armed officers and antiterrorists squad and some time later the army was deployed. In that power, there is no doubt about it, so much ground was lost. If thats the case if they may have contained the attack in a more effective way. What they say right now is confusing. Its because they have said that they have cleared the Security Threat in the second floor and there were people hiding in areas of the under ground basement car park.
Such. National mourning underway in south africa people remembering and celebrating the life of Nelson Mandela. This as the country prepares to host World Leaders friend and ally oh and the owner of the icon seeking shelter from violence residents of Central African Republic Capital height of the airport the sectarian violence among the leaves hundreds of people dead. This as African Leaders continue peace and security talks here in paris french president francois on proposing the creation of a special african Rapid Reaction force. The headline scare off all thank you for joining us. First preparations are underway in south africa this saturday most World Leaders will pay their respects to Nelson Mandela. Us president barack obama and other heads of state will attend a Memorial Service that to be held on tuesday in johannesburg. Well mandelas body will then lie in state to pretoria for three days before he receives a state burial of december fifteen hits in his home in his boyhood home
A lot of crisis from our correspondent in barcelona also coming up. Dozens of people were killed and wounded in the latest attack in the Somali Capital Mogadishu the government has vowed to destroy the terrorist group that claimed responsibility. I my ass waiter thanks for joining us a new opinion poll in catalonia shows Pro Independence parties would lose their majority their parliamentary majority by a razor thin margin in an election the spanish Central Government has called for a regional vote in december after imposing direct rule meanwhile the recently unemployed cuts alone president carlos pushes among has called for Quote Democratic Opposition he says madrids move to dismiss him as illegitimate and is vowing to
pursue his struggle for what he said ought to be a free country madrids actions have left supporters of independence outraged. Colace bustamante has been fired as the head of government in catalonia. But for supporters of Catalan Independence here in the city of jonah he