In the male white belt, over 18 years; Athman Bakari won gold, Twalib Kashid (silver) and Wycliffe Wabukala (Bronze).
The countries participating in the two-day championship include Brazil, Thailand, South Korea, Cote d’Ivoire, The Philippines, Congo Brazzaville, Nigeria, Iran, Turkey and hosts Kenya.
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June Su Juma performs during the 2020 Mombasa Open Tong-Il Moo-Do International Martial Arts Championships. [Omondi Onyango, Standard]
The event was officially opened by the World Tong Il Moo Do Federation President Grandmaster Takamitsu Hoshiko, who lauded Kenyan government for allowing the event to take place. Former Sports Commissioner Gordon Oluoch and African Tong Il Moo Do Federation President Clarence Mwakio were also present.
mean i don t have a duty to protect people s right to be heard. reporter: the mayor brought up ferguson in terms of her defense. she said she learned from ferguson in how overreacting to a situation can make a situation worse. although there was violence on saturday when they saw looting on saturday she said they still felt they had the situation under control. as you know it was only until today when she requested the governor send in the national guard. some people were questioning why that wasn t done earlier. christine. the pictures we re seeing jason, are not of a city or neighborhood under control. what if anything are they doing differently as dawn breaks and they face a curfew tonight? anger still simmering over the death of freddie gray.
happened. ravi we look at buildings that have been pancaked we know the income per person in that country is something like $1,000 a year. it is a poor country. infrastructure is poor. housing construction is poor. do we think that they are still finding survivors in the piles of rubble at this hour? reporter: hard to say, christine. the last person i spoke to on india s national response team they said that you know, they found a few in the last 24 hours, but really that number is really dwindling. it is hard to find anyone anymore. in the rural parts, you need to get there first. whole villages likely wiped out. thank you, ravi from new delhi. a rescue operation at the top of the world is over.
watching his church burn down. public schools in baltimore are closed down today. the mayor announcing a citywide curfew at 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. the defense calling the witnesses in the penalty phase of dzhokhar tsarnaev trial. his attorneys trying to spare his client the death penalty. the convicted bomber was the product of a dysfunctional family and fell under the spell of his brother tamerlan. we get more from deborah feyerick in boston. reporter: christine, dzhokhar tsarnaev s defense team really trying persuade the jury that life in prison is in their words the better choice. they are trying to show the jury that sentencing him to a maximum security facility where he will be with other terrorists well he will become irrelevant. the defense case centered not on dzhokhar tsarnaev so much as his older brother tamerlan.
threat investigating wrongdoing and investigating the violence. correspondent michelle kosinski has more on the reaction to the riots. reporter: christine, so far, we have seen a restrained and low key response from the white house. that is similar to what we have seen in prior incidents where police abuse alleged. in the prior incidents, we heard behind the scenes at the white house, if the president is going to go there and if he will deliver a specific statement. what good would that do at this point and might it even inflate the situation or escalate it. right now, the white house is putting this firmly in the hands of the department of justice. this brand new hours into her swearing in attorney general, loretta lynch. the president met with her. she updated him. they talked about doj resources that could be used there in baltimore. it was loretta lynch who