hello, and welcome to bbc news. we begin with some news which has been breaking out of somalia over the last couple of hours, where security forces say they ve ended a siege that had lasted over 30 hours at the hayat hotel in the capital, mogadishu, where islamist gunmen were reported to be holding hostages. there s been no independent verification, and no official statement from the somali government. our reporter emily brown has been following the story and joins me now. emily, what is the latest? we know this first began on friday evening, wendy al shabaab group were known to have detonated at least two bombs outside the hayat hotel in the capital. when the al shabaab. dozens were evacuated from the building, said to be popular with politicians and journalists. we know the siege is said to have lasted 30 hours, with government having held hostages inside. we have some footage in which you can hear the gunshots. frame. this was an intense battle for frame. this was an
because the group still has pledged or kept its allegiance to al-qaeda, and now with the death of eyman hours were hairy, almost a month ago in afghanistan, one can make the argument that al shabaab is one of the more viable pieces of that broader al-qaeda enterprise. death of ayman al zawahiri. because of this place of attacks that they are able to sustain, mostly in somalia. timjuan mata. able to sustain, mostly in somalia. tim juan mata. they seem to be doing well from a financial perspective, they can generate revenue to a variety of schemes, in a controlled territory in various parts of the country. that is not, sometimes, with the full support of the local populations. but this is a group which is really entrenched in the country and they may be able to carry that broaderjihadist momentum forward, even though the core al-qaeda is in a very difficult stage with the death of ayman al zawahiri a few weeks ago. we al-zawahiri a few weeks ago. we will leave it al zawahiri a
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