elections were supposed to take place before the president's 4 year term expired on monday but mohamad abdalla a far module is in dispute with regional leaders over how to hold the vote talks between the central government in mogadishu and somalia's 5 federal states collapsed on friday for macho says the leaders of jubilant and point lead are scuttling a deal to hold indirect parliamentary elections but they accuse far motto of trying to remove power from them opposition parties say a council of politicians and civil society groups should govern for now our diplomatic editor james bays has more. it was supposed to be presidential election day in somalia but following a dispute over the way the poll was to be organized it hasn't happened instead a coalition of opposition candidates have now declared the government of president from a show illegitimate in an interview to be broadcast on talk to al-jazeera the foreign minister mohammed abdul razak told me that's wrong the government will stay in office until an election can be held well after that time after that 4 years he is no longer legitimat

party's missed december's deadline to hold parliamentary elections the mandate for president mohamad abdalla him homage also known as expired nearly a week nearly 2 weeks ago his opponents no longer recognize him as president under demanding that he hand power to a transitional government how does he risk catherine soyuz following developments for us from neighboring kenya. about this incident at the airport we have spoken to people in or around the airport who have told us that operations in the airport have been suspended and it follows this dramatic since we've been seeing that played out this morning we saw an exchange of gunfire intense an exchange of gunfire between government forces and propositioned forces those also a huge explosion i have a little more detail on that we have spoken to some opposition leaders who are saying that it was a rocket propelled grenade that was launched and inside the airport and the building was destroyed we've also spoken to the government spokesman who has confirmed there was an incident but wouldn't give us more details so this all happened at the star