. >> the case has been skwrourped.nusual urb circumstances me hind the security presence you may be able to see across the street. me hind those barriers has been in session the last few hours. but in the absence, many of the defense lawyers and most defendants. there are 680 accused in this case. as with the situation with yesterday's mass trial, most of them are not present. most are being tried in absentia. only 62y r in court. the defense lawyers are not up the road inside the court. they have imposed a boy cast. they are talking about the conduct of yesterday's trial in which the mass death sentences were handed down at extraordinary speed. almost 530 men sentenced to hang on what was the second day of their trial. the lawyers have stayed out of today's proceedings. the judge has gone without them. he has been hearing from eyewitnesses. he has apparently even been questioning some of the locals. this is unprecedented. he has simply never come across anything like it. it will raise renewed concerns about whether or