[03:36.03]Human rights groups say this only a start, they are calling for a complete ban.

[03:40.21]From Geneva Imogen Foulkes.

[03:42.47]The UN process to limits some conventional weapons does not have a record of acting swiftly.

[03:48.48]Such slow progress was made over banning landmines that eventually some countries negotiated a separate agreement outside the UN system.

[03:58.17]It became the auto a man banned treaty.

[04:01.32]The same happened with class exterminations, a separate convention was agreed in Oslo.

[04:06.96]But some of the World's biggest military powers, the United States, Russia and China have signed neither.

[04:14.66]The United Nations Security Council has rejected an African bid to postpone the trial at the International Criminal Court of the Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto.

[04:26.65]They have been charged with committing crimes against humanity during post-election violence in 2008.

[04:33.20]The African Union wanted to delay the trial by a year said the two men could deal with the aftermath of the attack on the Westgate mall in Nairobi in September.

[04:42.25]A former Cyprus President Glafcos Clerides has died, he was 94. Mr. Clerides served as president for 10 years leaving office in 2003,

[04:52.30]he guided Cyprus into the European Union but failed in his attempts to unify the divided Island.