US prosecutors are seeking permission to provide people from 21 countries access to a phone line allowing them to listen live to the second Lockerbie bombing trial.
A Libyan man, Abu Agila Masud, is accused of making the device that destroyed Pan Am 103 in 1988. Of the 270 victims, 190 were from the US, and the rest were from 19 other nations.
Prosecutors argue that many relatives of the victims are too old or infirm to travel to Washington for the trial, and they want statutory authority to allow "remote video and telephone access" to preliminary hearings and the trial itself.