
Donald Trump confronts South Africa's Ramaphosa
Cyril Ramaphosa travelled to the US hoping for a reset in relations with the US.
The South African President Cyril Ramaphosa travelled to the US hoping for a reset in relations with President Donald Trump. Instead, in an extraordinary, televised meeting at the White House. Mr Trump repeated his discredited claims that a genocide against white farmers was happening in South Africa. We hear from somebody who was in the room.
The United Nations says it's been able to dispatch ninety trucks carrying vitally needed food aid into the Gaza strip from a holding position just across the southern border of the enclave. The food supplies - a tiny proportion of what the UN says is needed after Israel's eleven week blockade - have reached their distribution locations. We'll speak to a representative of the United Nations.
And we look at the detention of East African activists in Tanzania, the Kenyan Boniface Mwangi and Ugandan Agather Atuhaire. It's led to widespread concern both in the outside the country about civil rights and political freedoms.
Presenters: James Copnall and Catherine Byaruhanga
(Photo: U.S. President Donald Trump hands over to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa copies of articles that he said showed white South Africans who had been killed, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Credit: Kevin Lmarque/Reuters).
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