BBC news with David Austin.

A powerful cyclone has hit the east coast of India, forcing half a million people to flee their homes. Cyclone Phailiin is devastating Orissa state with winds of up to 200 kilometers an hour. So far at least five people have died. Our correspondent Sanjoy Majumder is in the region, he described the intensity of the storm.

We stepped out for a brief moment can we could barely stand in our feet and we have to come back right in, and it has been accompanied with very very heavy rain. In the distance, we frequently hear sounds of bangs of things coming down,of windows being smashed. And already we are getting reports of power lines which are coming down, of trees that being brought down, of houses with their roof blown off.

The Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has lambasted the International Criminal Court where he faces trial for crimes against humanity as races biased and means for western government to interfere in Africa. Addressing African leaders in the Ethiopia capital Addis Ababa, Mr Kenyatta said the ICC had become the toy of declining imperial powers. The African Union has passed a resolution that no sitting African head of state should appear before any international court. Gabriel Gatehouse reports.

The Kenyan President has repeatedly sought to deferral of his tribal by the International Criminal Court which is due to start in exactly one month's time. Their request has been repeated rebuffed. Now the African Union says Uhuru Kenyatta should not attend the trial unless the court agrees to postpone proceedings. The pan African body accused the international court of bias for his current crimes related to alleged crimes committed in Africa. President Kenyatta has always maintained he would cooperate fully with the ICC, diplomats in Kenya say failure to do so would have consequences.