Kenya Readies For Controversial Repeat Election
COREN: You are looking at the beauty life of Hong Kong as the Camera pans across Victoria Harbour. Welcome back to New Stream live from Hong Kong. Well, several countries have been hit by a major ransomware attack.</s>COREN: It works by locking down your computer and demanding money to free your files. Well this time around, it managed to take hold of computers by posing as an Adobe update called Bad Rabbit struck transit companies in Ukraine and hit Russian media. It's also been detected in the U.S., Germany and Japan. There are some reports of vaccine is already being found. Well, now from a Russian online victim who were accused of being on the offense. In the U.K., law makers are asking Facebook information about ads linked to Russia. They were bought during the last year's Brexit referendum. Officials want information regarding that targeting of these ads and examples of pages said out by Russia linked accounts.</s>COREN: We're now turning to Kenya where controversial -- controversial repayment of its presidential election will go ahead on Thursday and made unusual circumstances.</s>COREN: The Supreme Court put a ruled on an election challenge because not enough justices side up on the session and opposition leaders have called for a boycott of the rerun vote, the main opposition candidate Raila Odinga even withdrew from the race in protest.</s>COREN: Well let's get a look at the tensions around this election. Our Farai Sevenzo joins us from Nairobi with the very latest. Sevenzo, this election is taking place after the filed court been not enough judges turned up to hear it. Is this not fast?</s>FARAI SEVENZO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, you know, Anna, it's a point of contrition here. I mean we woke up this morning expecting a judgment on this emergency petition to delay these elections because no one is very happy with the Electoral Commission. They are saying the Electoral Commission is not ready. They are saying the returning haven't been sanctioned by everybody but of course, as you rightly say, Anna, when the judges announced their decision this morning, it was only to say that they could not reach the majority's decision. There are only two judges out of seven that attended and we had the drama last night of one of the judge's personal driver being shot at and (Inaudible), is now in hospital recovering from that assault. And we can only speculate as to what would've happened if the lady judges all had been in the car -- so at the moment going ahead with these elections, Anna. We are expecting a nonsense from President Kenyatta himself. Meanwhile, Mr. Odinga is heading to rural part -- another rally for his supporters and of course, this election, if it does go ahead tomorrow, Anna, it will have just one candidate and many people, in all the oppositions strongholds consumer in the West and all along the coast, will not be participating in protest.</s>COREN: Well, Farai, protest are already taking place and certainly doesn't vote well for tomorrow's election with the fear that they will turn violent.</s>SEVENZO: Anna, that is the greatest fear. It's a long shadow of expectation about elections in Kenya. Remember, 2007 and 2008, more than 1,000 people died and also remember that there are 44 different tribes in this country. And the country is yearning for some kind of direction. We have been in this impulse now really, I have been covering this election since way back in June. August wasn't out. And now, this election is going ahead without one of the main candidates and that will spark great deal of soul searching amongst Kenyans. But most importantly, even some of the observers who are here in August are not coming because of fear of security. So, this is going to be (Inaudible) few days, Anna, for the nation of Kenya.</s>COREN: Yes, fearful into what will happen tomorrow. Farai Sevenzo, thank you so much for bringing us up to date. Well, still to come on News Stream, the cost of Venezuela's political turmoil is being paid by children and extraordinary report in a desperate situation in a Venezuela hospital.