the coming hours here on al-jazeera let's just remind you once again that spain's prime minister mario hoyer has announced that his government has begun the process of suspending catalonia as autonomy invoking article one five five of the spanish constitution he says that the quote separatists in catalonia had forced madrid to take these unprecedented actions. now we'll move on to work the other news for a while at least fifty five police officers have been killed and six others wounded in an ambush in egypt it happened in the back area oasis in the western desert the security forces were targeted on the road around two hundred kilometers southeast of cairo they were carrying out a raid on a suspected hideout for armed fighters al jazeera. is with us he's our middle east analyst. this is a lot of people killed in one single attack what happened here and who was behind it. yes but let me just add to the news that you just broke is the fact that there are reports that some of the offices are being held hostages by terrorists ok so the surviving offices of it being held his jacket well from wha