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Until monday morning . Thank you my lady. We shall resume on monday at 9 30. Court is adjourned. As you have just seen, the Oscar Pistorius trial has been adjourned until next monday morning. You are watching gmt on bbc world news with me stephen. We have been again watching developments at the trial of the South African athlete Oscar Pistorius. He faced the third day of crossexamination, intention, detailed crossexamination about precisely what happened on the evening which ended with him shooting his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. Weve seen the prosecuting lawyer nels style as it has been three day, slow, deliberate, relentless as he continued to challenge pistorius version of what happened on that night. It did at times seem to take its toll on Oscar Pistorius. At one point he said he was suffering from fatigue. To sum it up, we can go to karin to sum up outside the courtroom. Over to you. Reporter thanks very much. Weve been surprised by that adjournment for the day. 9 30 monday will
Attacks as president obama convinces turkey to allow its long time enemy to battle the enemy in syria. A sinkhole in hawaii. Some say a Tropical Storm is to blame. Im stephanie sy. Im del walters. This morning, Oscar Pistorius sentenced to five years in prison. He was taken from a holding cell and transferred to a pretoria prison. The olympian was convicted of killing his girlfriend, model reef stein. The prosecution called for a minimum 10 year sentence while it is defense wanted Community Service and house arrest. We are joined live from pretoria, south africa. There are questions regarding how long he is going to serve in prison. What can you tell us . There are absolutely. In fact, his lawyer commented to journalists and the awaiting crowd that he may be out in 10 months. Under South African law, the minimum of the sentence you have to serve for culpable homicide is sixth which that sentence. Its possible also that he could be placed under house arrest for all or a portion of his r
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Indications from the Oscar Pistorius hearing that it may be several more weeks before the judge sentences the athlete. Reporter im Karin Giannone live outside the court in pretoria where reeva steenkamps cousin has said she wants Oscar Pistorius to pay for what hes done. And continuing our series on the u. S. Midterm elections, we take the blues highway to americas poorest state, mississippi. Those blues is what i play and its what im gonna do for the rest of my life. Hello, and welcome to the program. The World Health Organization has said that a major outbreak of ebola in north america and western europe is unlikely given their Strong Health systems. While president obama also said that the risk of americans getting the virus was extremely low, although he ordered a much more aggressive response. The u. S. Is investigating how a nurse infected when treating a victim in texas was then allowed to travel on a plane. From dallas, this report. Reporter americas latest ebola patient being