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Hello, I'm Johnason Izard. Afghan security forces have been fighting floor by floor to gain control of a luxury hotel in Kabul after it was stormed by heavily armed gunmen. An Interior Ministry spokesman said two of the force suspected attackers have been killed. The gunmen burst into the intercontinental hotel on Saturday evening, shooting a guest and staff and detonating grenades. Billon Soary is in the Afghan capital. There are several attackers. They managed to get into the kitchen of the hotel, then to fourth, second and third floor. This is still an ongoing attack. A number of people who are trapped inside the rooms are making contact with their family members. It's a lot of panics. Some people managed to escape this attack and they have told the local media station that their casualties and fatalities. I have not been able to conform that myself.

Turkey says its airforce has hit more than a hundred targets in the first day of a bombing campaign against Kurdish militants in northwest Syria. It's said dozens of warplanes were involved in the attacks of the YPG militia in the Afrin region. A YPG spokesman said at least nine people have been killed, six of them civilians. Mark Lowen is on the Turkey-Syria border. Turkey sees the YPG as a terrorist group links to Turkey's own outlawed Kurdish militants, the PKK. But it is a dangerous operation because the Americans back the YPG in the fight against the Islamic State groups. So, now this operation puts Turkey in direct confrontation with its NATO ally, the US. Americans' supports for the YPG has consistently infuriated the Turkish government. Then the Syria regime has warned that they would shoot down any Turkish jet and see it incursion by Turkey as a violation of Syria's sovereignty.

US Republicans and Democrats have blamed each other for the continued impasse on agreeing a temporary spending bill after senators missed the deadline on Friday night, prompting a shutdown of many government's services. President Trump's spokeswoman says he would not negotiate on immigration until the Democrats reopen the government. But the House Democrats leader Nancy Pelosi said the budget fight was not just about immigrants.

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