we are looking at raila 0dinga her l looking at raila 0dinga her infield has around forever, from anng of the president. it felt like all the odds were in his place? it it felt like all the odds were in his place?— in his place? it did but this is a reason _ in his place? it did but this is a reason that _ in his place? it did but this is a reason that democracy in his place? it did but this i is a reason that democracy is awoken, the effect the outcome was not preordained. particularly with the systems they have in place, they should be able to really confirm the results and verify them clearly because of some situations that they changed under the constitution in 2007 after the most violent elections can you has had. —— kenya. how raila 0dinga came across as the establishment whereas william ruto campaigned as the everyman and it was really an interesting campaign to watch. i think the outcome, if it is confirmed that william ruto succeeded and will be president, is an indictment under the last administration and an illustration that president uhuru kenyatta was enough to bring rai

he went around. —— thousands of people got into the stadium _ now, this is the fifth time that raila 0dingaacking of his long—time rival, kenya's president, uhuru kenyatta. this is also 0dinga's final chance to seek to be elected as the fifth president by the 22.1 million kenyans will go to the polls on tuesday to elect the country's fifth president. if elected, raila promises to, among other things, deal with the high cost of living within the first 100 days, and also deal with corruption. —— andjump—start —— and jump—start the economy within the first— —— and jump—start the economy within the first 100 _ —— and jump—start the economy within the first 100 days. these are the two huge issues in kenya right now. on thursday, the white house announced a nationwide state of emergency in response to the growing number of monkeypox cases in the us. the disease is rarely fatal, but can cause extreme pain — and in america, it's concentrated in gay communities. san francisco has one of the highest rates of infection — from there, james clayton has more. we are at a very scary place. we have seen th

it's a very tight race, as i would say, because as at yesterday we saw veteran politician raila 0dingang to the preliminary results. and today we are seeing outgoing deputy president william ruto is still, you know, leading something very marginal. yeah, so it's a very tight race. we've never witnessed anything like this before, a very closely contested, you know, presidential race than we have seen in recent history. let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines. syrian state media say israel has carried out an air attack on targets in the coastal province of tartus. they said three soldiers had been killed. the syrian 0bservatory for human rights said several missiles hit the vicinity of a village where iranian militias allied with the assad regime are located. the saudi state—owned oil giant aramco has announced record profits of more than $48 billion for the second quarter of this year. the world's biggest oil producer's net income has almost doubled year—on—year. oil prices are up because of russia's attack on ukraine and increasing demand after the pandemic. and a trop

raila 0dinga is the son of the country's first five president and is running for the fifth time.ars. canyons are struggling to cope with inflation and unemployment. both candidates have been accused of historical corruption. whoever wins, there's little hope here for significant change. akisa wandera, bbc news, central kenya. they've gathered from the evidence the un says there's growing evidence in myanmar of crimes power in a coup last year. un investigators say they've gathered growing evidence of crimes against humanity there, and are calling the abuses a systematic attack against a civilian population. in february last year, the country's military seized power, ousted the civilian government and arrested its de facto leader, aung san suu kyi. a state of emergency was declared. six months later, thejunta tightened its grip as min aung hlaing appointed himself prime minister of a "caretaker government" and repeated a pledge to hold elections by 2023. since then, opposition and protests have been brutally crushed. according to local monitoring groups, more than 2,000 people hav

it�*s the first time we�*ve heard from him since his rival, raila 0dinga, rejected the results.ing any time. i want to urge you, all of us, we need all hands on deck, and we don�*t have time to waste. these were the celebrations after william ruto was declared the winner. and these were the results. it was a tight race, william ruto 50.a9% of the vote and mr 0dinga a8.85%. four out of seven kenyan electoral commissioners have rejected the result, and so has mr 0dinga. i repeat, the figures are null and void, and must be quashed by a court of law. and void, and must be applause and void, and must be in our view, there is neither a legally—declared winner, nor a president—elect. this isn�*t the first time something like this has happened. in 2017, the election result was successfully overturned by the supreme court because of "widespread discrepancies". kenya then held a second vote. this is a constitutional lawyer, who directed one of the petitions in 2017, on whether that could happen again. it seems that the main| contention will be what happened during the tally. i have my own

kenyans are eagerly waiting to find out if the next leader is the former prime minister, raila 0dingaiam ruto. police in new mexico have arrested a �*primary suspect�* in the killings of four muslim men. muhammad syed was held on monday and is charged with the murders of two of the men. police say they are working with investigators to charge the afghan with the other two deaths. president zelensky says ukraine will eventually recapture the russian—controlled crimean peninsula but is not taking responsibility for a series of explosions that killed at least one person there on tuesday. moscow says the blasts came from detonations of stored ammunition at a russian military airfield in western crimea, close to seaside resorts, as mark lobel reports. explosions running for cover in russian—controlled crimea. children nervously urging their mother to flee the area. homes were hit in novofedorivka, which neighbours a russian airbase where the blasts occurred. translation: when the explosions happened we were hiding behind garages. we didn't know where to go. we abandoned the apartment immed

fell out with the current leader uhuru kenyatta is going up against a long—standing politician raila 0dinga and they also want corruption to be tackled. the bbc�*s senior africa correspondent anne soy reports from nairobi. flaunting financial mice on the campaign trail, here politicians pull out all stops together and show of the largest crowds. hardly any questions are asked about its cost and how politicians can pull huge crowds every day of the week for once, if not longer. that politicians pay people for attend the rallies is a foregone conclusion, but they all promised to fight corruption should they get elected. ., ,., , corruption should they get elected. ., , , elected. nobody is indispensable, - elected. nobody is j indispensable, and elected. nobody is - indispensable, and this is a war against corruption. when ou are war against corruption. when you are in — war against corruption. when you are in government, - war against corruption. when you are in government, the l you are in government, the office of the prime minister was investigated over some corruption scandals. it was in

he said mr ruto gotjust over 50% of the votes, narrowly ahead of the opposition leader, raila 0dinga.t couldn't be more true. here in kisumu, the third largest city, demonstrators hurled stones and started fires in protest at the result of the presidential election. but in the rift valley, jubilant celebrations following the proclamation of william ruto as the country's next leader. we have devoted our time and devoted our commitment and our emotions, and we thank god, we have something to thank god because eventually he has emerged the winner. we are very confident that under his leadership this country is going to gain a lot of mileage in terms of development, in terms of education, in terms of peace and tranquillity between all the tribes of kenya. the public reaction followed a very public scuffle as supporters of the opposition candidate raila 0dinga clashed with election officials amid allegations of vote rigging, four of the seven members of the electoral commission refused to endorse the results, saying it was opaque. but despite those claims and queries over his victory, will

in kenya there's a growing political crisis as raila 0dinga — the losing candidate in the presidentialult in court. the former prime minister said, the results were �*null and void'. on monday — william ruto was declared the winner, in last week's tightly contested poll. more than half the election commission's members have also rejected the official results. here's mr 0dinga making that announcement. the figures are null and void. and there is neither illegal or validly declared winner nor a president—elect. but i want to repeat that we totally reject the presidential results announced yesterday. i want to commend our supporters for remaining calm and achieving the piece that allowed them to continue to do so. let's speak to elizabeth shackelford now, a former us diplomat based in kenya in 2016—19. thank you very much forjoining us. i wonder what you may have the situation as it stands now? the chair of the electoral commission has said it is fine and good and we have a new president. the vice—chair and more than half the members of the commission say this is too opaque. it the commis

with just over a quarter of the ballots tallied, the veteran opposition leader, raila 0dinga, has 54%urrent deputy president william ruto. earlier, we heard from elvis 0ndieki, a reporter at the daily nation newspaper based in nairobi. he began by updating us on where we are with the vote count. so far, they have counted 96. can you works with 291 constituencies. each of those contributes to the presidential tally, and for this to be an official results or the results that were posted in the polling station have to be taken to nairobi. the physicalform has to be compared with the form that was sent on election day electronically. and once the process has satisfied that the headquarter is the form is sent, it is verified. so it's been painfully slow, especially in other parts of kenya, the forms keep coming one by one by the officers who are bringing them, so the process is going slowly and we hope to have our results in the next two or three days. canyons have this sort of when there is a transfer of power, they have been waiting all over social media because the results keep changing

mr kenyatta is supporting his longtime political rival, the former prime minister, raila 0dinga, against end at the spectacular closing ceremony of the commonwealth games in birmingham. the big crowds became bigger as the time of the funeral approached. as the lines of fans became longer, the police prepared for a huge job of crowd control. idi amin, uganda's brutal former dictator, has died at the age of 80. he's been buried in saudi arabia where he lived in exile since being overthrown in 1979. 2 billion people. around the world have seen the last - total eclipse of the sun to take place - in this millennium. it began itsjourney- off the coast of canada, ending three hours later, when the sun set - over the bay of bengal. this is bbc news. the latest headlines — federal agents search the florida home of donald trump — his son says they were looking for presidential documents wanted by the national archive. wendy 0lson is a former us district attorney for idaho. she also worked as a trial attorney at the us department ofjustice in washington. she's now a partner in a boisey idaho law fi

kenyans are eagerly waiting to find out if the next leader is the former prime minister, raila 0dingaent, william ruto. a grand jury in the us state of mississippi has chosen not to indict a white woman whose accusations of assault against a 14—year—old black boy led to his brutal murder nearly 70 years ago. the lynching of the teenager emmett till galvanised the civil rights movement in the united states in the 1950s. police in new mexico have arrested a primary suspect in the killings of four muslim men. muhammad syed was held on monday and is charged with the murders of two of the men. police say they are working with investigators to charge the afghan with the other two deaths. president zelensky says ukraine will eventually recapture the russian—controlled crimean peninsula but is not taking responsibility for a series of explosions that killed at least one person there on tuesday. moscow says the blasts came from detonations of stored ammunition at a russian military airfield in western crimea, close to seaside resorts, as mark lobel reports. explosions. running for cover in rus

it is a close call between the main contenders, william ruto and raila 0dinga and raila 0dinga voted surrounded him, the queues you see behind me melted and they celebrated this man because this is his home turf in the same happen to william ruto when he went to vote. raila 0dinga has left, he thanked the people and is looking forward to a free and credible election which are the same thing william ruto said. there have been hiccups, places where voting has been postponed because the ballot papers are not right and there are areas where people came in on them at looking and cannot find their names on the register. they still have a few hours to go and we will keep you updated on how everything goes. here in nairobi and also across the whole country. at least 20 children have died in mental health units run by the nhs and private providers in the uk since 2019, according to bbc research. child and adolescent mental health units were established to help patients recover through specialist care but some parents say there's a culture of life—threatening self—harm. adam eley has this repo

confirmed with vice—president william ruto taking a slight lead of 51% — 3% more than his rival, raila 0dingastern city of kisumu. right now we are very tired because we are... people are not going to work. the students are in the house. and, right now, when we cannot go to work to look for men. we are not happy because, number one, all the businesses are stuck. the way that we have been getting money in the normal days has really gone out, so we are suffering. several european countries have seen a wave of deadly wildfires triggered by record temperatures and drought across the continent. here you can see there are currently major fires in much of western europe. officials are concerned that windy conditions could make the situation worse. in france, officials in the south—western gironde region have said a major fire there has been brought under control and 8,000 people can return to their homes, but another wildfire in south—central france has reignited, forcing more than 1,000 people from their homes. 0ur correspondent, bethany bell, is in the gironde region. firefighters have brought the

but most polls predict a two—horse race between former prime minister raila 0dinga on the left, and vice democratic alliance, was prime minister from 2008 to 2013. his key policy promises are double—digit economic growth and affordable healthcare for all. he has the backing of president kenyatta, who fell out with his own deputy, the other frontrunner william ruto. here's what 0dinga said at his last rally. let my people go. free them from thieves. free them from the lies. and free them from the chain links of corruption. let's look at the other frontrunner. william ruto represents the united democratic alliance. he's been deputy president since 2013. he's wealthy, but has styled himself as a champion of the poor due to his modest upbringing. he's pledged subsidised health insurance for all kenyans, and 420 million dollars a year to support small businesses. here's his message to voters. the people of kenya will prevail over the deep state and they will prevail over the system and we are going to have a nation that leaves no canyon behind. no kenyan behind. now lets take a look at the ma

to kenya now, where the former prime minister — raila 0dinga — the losing candidate in the presidential official result. here's mr 0dinga speaking a little earlier. the figures announced by mr chebukati are null and void. applause. i repeat, the figures announced by mr chebukati are null and void, and must be quashed by a court of law. in our view, there's neither a legally and validly declared winner, nor a president elect. well earlier we asked our deputy africa editor anne soy to explain reasons behind the post electoral dispute. he's basing his argument on the fact that four out of the seven commissioners of the electoral commission walked out and disassociated themselves from the results. they spoke yesterday and said the process had been opaque towards the end, and today, shortly before he spoke, he held a press conference at a separate location which was beamed in that room where he was going to speak. 0n the basis of the argument was that the decision, the results were declared unilaterally by the chairman and they say that results from certain constituencies that were meant to