A National Emergency. Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us we start with the United Nations at the hague and the International Court of justice where myanmars leader on sun suu kyi will defend her country against charges of genocide brought by the african state of the gambia myanmars military had run a Deadly Campaign in 2017 that led to the exodus of more than 700000 range refugees now the Nobel Peace Prize recipient and long time human rights advocate will defend what many say is indefensible she will speak tomorrow this is day one of whats expected to be 3 days of testimony. So all the big on the us is that you tell me and mine. To stop these senseless killings to stop this out of barbarity and brutality that has shocked and continue to shock our collective conscience. To stop this genocide of its own people. Cynics say one motivation for on town suchi is appearance she was not obligated to personally appear at the hague is next years elections back home in
One person and leaving 60000 households without power was also hit some people were injured flights and Ferry Services were disrupt. Still to come for you here on aljazeera hes ready to talk after 20 years in jail a potential breakthrough in the wall between turkey and the kurds. And from one crisis to another how the drugs trade in colombia is ensnaring venezuelans seeking an escape. So money usually wet and windy weather piling into the north west of here we dont normally see systems like this this time of year this is more than all some feature its a perry fly pressure rolling in from the atlantic the trees of course fall in late we are lots to say some destruction as a result of that and also a fair bit of wet weather is the system makes its way in this really wet windy weather there as we go through friday driving its way further north where its truth be known the windiest weather will actually come friday into saturday so you have a system makes its way further eastward struck by
At epsteins manhattan mansion in 2010 that prompted the palace to issue the extraordinary statement. His Royal Highness deplores the exploitation of any human being and the suggestion he would condone, participate in or encourage any such behavior is abhorrent. Yet, hes been accused of exactly such behavior, despite repeated denials. A court photo from 2001 shows the duke of york with his arm around virginia giuffre, just 17 at the time. She claims epstein paid her to have sex with Prince Andrew on three occasions. Before you know it, im being lent out to politicians and to academics and to people that you royalty. Reporter royal correspondent roy anika said the palace had to break its silence. The palace has to be confident that no further evidence is going to come forward further implicating the duke of york and his connection with Jeffrey Epstein. Reporter while the palace says the prince is appalled by these allegations, they dont explain what he was doing at epsteins house two yea
Instead to come to a larks itself and the surrounding area to carry out the prayers the main prayers for eat have been delayed from sunrise to the 2nd pres of the day at 730 local time in the morning presumably to maximize the number of people who can attend them and also that coincides with the time that usually the site would be open from the other side to non muslims now there are right wing and religious nationalist jewish groups that are calling for access on this day despite the fact its a major it was them 1st or because it also falls on the same day that jews mark to shut down of that as a commemoration of the falling of the 1st and 2nd temples and the jewish exile the background to this is that there has been a wide ranging political effort by the right wing in israel and the religious nationalists to get more access to x. The mosque compound site known as the temple mount to jews a lot of what happens next will depend on the actions of Israeli Security forces and police there
San jose camera and you can see the clouds in the sky. 62 in concord and oakland and 60 in downtown San Francisco was santa rosa at 57. Below average temperatures through the afternoon was San Francisco a high of 67 in oakland, 71 and 78 for san jose and daytime highs are 15 degrees below average for this time of year but a warmup is coming. Details coming up. Looking at the travel times from your Realtime Traffic Center, looking good for the most part with the exception of the Altamont Pass in pretty good for this time of morning. We are at a 33 minute ride, only yellow travel time and in the green on the eastshore freeway and highway 4 and 101 out of the south bay. The Golden Gate Bridge, all lanes are open and the lane closures are approaching. The bay bridge metering lights are not yet on and its getting slower in the fast track lanes with an issue on the approach to the toll plaza and the Center Divider is blocked with chp saying there is something going on in the parking lot and