a left over from the colonial era from the colonial rule rather than a truly african law and now we have these judges deciding whether or not to decriminalize same sex relations where could this possibly go melanie i mean do we have an indication as to how they might rule. anything could happen really the chances are fifty fifty but the activists i've spoken to are hopeful that course the optimistic because kenya has set precedent in the pots for example last year a court ruled that fullest anal examinations which were used to determine whether a man engaged in sex and no illegal so there is hope and people like mary and the activists here they won't stop fighting until one day they all seeing this as equal citizens and can love whoever they choose to love melanie card to ball joining us from nairobi thank you melanie. today is the second day of the vatican's four day