[01:07.01]Lawyers from Mr. Kenyatta have asked the ICC to postpone his trial

[01:11.26]for crimes against humanity saying that he’s needed at home to deal with the aftermath of last month militant attack on a Nairobi shopping center.

[01:19.23]The hearing is due to begin next month.

[01:21.20]The United States has promised that it’ll not spy on the United Nations.

[01:25.87]The pledge follows a report that the US national security agency had cracked UN encryption codes last year intercepting confidential communications.

[01:35.67]Nick Bryant reports.

[01:36.81]The United Nations first contact to the United States after reports appeared in the German magazine Der Spiegel in August claiming that the national security

[01:44.76]agency had been eavesdropping on its secret communications.

[01:47.77]Reaching back to the days of the Cold War, the UN headquarters in New York has long been the target of American surveillance

[01:54.63]partly to identify possible foreign spies who may be posing as diplomats.

[01:59.59]But President Obama recently ordered the NSA to curtail its electronic surveillance on the organization itself as part of a wider review of its spy activities.

[02:09.64]The president elected of Georgia has told the BBC he will work to improve relations with Russia despite the legacy of his country’s disastrous war with its neighbor five years ago.