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hello and welcome to bbc news. well start in somalia, where security forces say theyre searching a hotel in the capital mogadishu for explosives after ending a 30—hour siege by islamist militants. but there has been no independent confirmation. al shabaab militants stormed the hayat hotel on friday. the group said some of its fighters managed to escape. emily brown reports. gunfire. the crackle of gunshots penetrating the mogadishu air. the crumbling hayat hotel in the somali capital...

One in three latvians are russian speakers, but now they are under pressure to abandon their russian heritage. 0ksana antonenko from the bbc�*s russian service is in her hometown of riga and sent this report. the number of civilians signing up to latvias national guard has tripled since the beginning of the war in ukraine. students, artists and engineers are picking up guns. sights like this have been consigned to latvias history. this ghost town was a soviet base on the edge of europe, and no...

It is still very much problematic. somalia has not been stable for several decades now. the last regime was seen as not really capable of dealing with the al—shabab problem, and also within the wider region. al—shabab has carried out attacks in catania, low—level, level, we have seen many attacks, so the capabilities of al—shabab are quite immense, so therefore it will take quite a lot to deal with them. emmanuel igunza, bbc africas corresponded, thank you. back here in the uk. almost 2,...