This is al jazeera these are the top stories 2 men have been found guilty over their role in a Shopping Center attack in kenya 7 years ago dozens of people were killed when a gunman besieged the Westgate Mall in nairobi a 3rd man who was charged in the kenya anti terror laws has been acquitted Catherine Sawyer was outside the court she sent us this update. The prosecution had 44 witnesses and the case was really heavily hinged on telephone conversations that the prosecution says the accused hired with the attackers were killed in that siege that took 4 days. So the prosecution saying that for example one of the sas one of the accused spoke 109 times we thought one of the attackers between june 28th and september he said the other 2 accused also interacted with with the attackers leaders of the greek far right Golden Dawn Party had been found guilty of running a criminal Organization Thousands of protesters gathered at the court to hear the verdict. To break up the demonstration. There
Election in its favor protesters freed former president back at them by and other senior officials from jail the countrys Election Commission as an old early results from the vote a car bomb at a bus stop in syria has killed at least 21 people children are among at least 40 others injured in albab the city is in a part of aleppo province controlled by Turkish Backed armed groups no claim of responsibility has been made. As u. S. President donald trump says hes ready for next weeks president ial debates the corona Virus Outbreak has reached the pentagon a top military official is tested positive and several others are in quarantine but trump insists people should not fear the virus. Apologies we dont seem to have any sound at all in a vat a clip from the president will of course bring it to you in the upcoming news programs now an International Chemicals watchdog has confirmed germanys findings that russian opposition figure. Was poisoned by the soviet era nerve agent of the chalk the o
A new zealand recorded 0 new code 1000 infections on tuesday there are now only 61. 00 registered active cases in the country. If youre just joining us youre watching to debut new special coverage as we track the opening of the general debate at the u. N. General Assembly Meeting in new york and we have some live pictures of whats happening at the moment coming up in the next 15 to 20 minutes were expecting the head of the state head of state of the host country of course u. S. President donald trump who will be delivering a video message President Trump is a harsh critic of the United Nations so bill will be watching to see what he has to say this is a very different u. N. General assembly this year around the World Leaders to live delivering their message via video because of coronavirus restrictions as we said we will return to the u. N. When it is time for President Trumps speech. That was the one from london with a chair of the European Parliament Justice Committee meanwhile the r
Steven miller whos a very close advisor of the president has now tested positive for the coronavirus has been in close proximity of the president for a long period of time he was also in close proximity to some of the other assistance to the president to have tested positive in recent days and certainly that list is growing and growing indeed a large number of members of the president s staff have tested positive and number of journalists who work there as well as a number of military aides it is said who are also working at the white house donald trump has called off negotiations with democrats over a new coronavirus stimulus package until after the election u. S. Stock markets fell on the news House Democrats had passed a 2. 00 trillion dollar relief bill on thursday but Senate Republicans rejected it. Its kind of fortunate the concierge abandon our children we had such great provisions in the deal not that they agree to all of them yet but on a path out workers we need to do for ame
A number of which. Members of the set up yesterday and all as i said i guess they called the Coordination Council which represents around 8 Political Parties and theyve been making for pretty fiery speeches this morning so far theyre demanding hold it theyre demanding that the president is impeached there demanding that. All parliamentary members come together for a meeting a session we had a parliamentary session yesterday but it was we understand only around 20 employees took part in that emergency session. White house adviser Stephen Miller has become the latest Trump Administration official to test positive that 19 run a dozen white house officials have now tested positive including the president a number of senior u. S. Defense command has also in isolation. Fighting is continuing between armenia and azerbaijan over the disputed nagornokarabakh region people in the territories main cities remain and shelters off the shelling overnight by sides accuse each other of launching attack