deputy president william ruto must attend his crimes trial at the international court in the hague andhey reversed an earlier decision in june excusing him from attending much of the trial before the tribunal. peter has been monitoring the court ruling and has more for us now from the kenyan capitol nairo nairobi. >> reporter: they had to deal with when the trial judges have the authority in principle to give the accused the rights to be excused from part of their trial. on that score they found the appeal, the trial judges were right to consider his request to be excused but that they overstepped the authority and granting what amounted to a blanket excusel. the trial judges said that he could be excused from appearing throughout most of the trial apart from certain key parts of it but the appeals judges say that was too much and said that, in fact, the trial judges should be allowed to adjust their court calendars and should be allowed to grant adjourn ms for brief periods for specific circumstances when william ruto has to come back to kenya to deal with certain crisis and certain o

i think there is now enormous pressure on both william ruto and kinyata to somehow withdraw from thethey have a difficult line because they want to be seen cooperating with the court. they don't want to be seen to be evading justice and they said they believe in justice and they are not -- they want to clear their names in the court. but at the same time if they do continue with their corporation with the court it will put pressure on other african leaders trying to distance the continent from the icc so it's a difficult moment and they are walking and this decision will put a lot more pressure on that relationship. >> reporter: very interesting to see what happens next too and peter thank you for talking to us and we are in the kenya capitol nairobi. and they appears to have made a peace offering to the southern neighborhood ner a rare move and it released six south korean citizens who crossed the border illegally and the men age between 27-67 were handed over at a mutual border crossing in the border town of pammoonjon. he was tipped for the top but his spectacular fall from grace