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hello and welcome to bbc news. we'll start in somalia, where security forces say they're 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 under attack after it was stormed by an islamist militant group on friday night. al shabaab attac...

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 latvia's 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 latvia's history. this ghost town was a soviet base on the edge of europe, and now it's being used to prepare the next generation of european soldiers. but many latvians who ident...

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 africa's corresponded, thank you. back here in the uk. almost 2,000 workers at the uk's busiest container port, felixstowe, are set to go on strike this morning in...