Trump ambushes South African president with 'white persecution' claims
Trump confronts South Africa's leader over discredited claims of a white genocide in South Africa.
In an extraordinary Oval Office meeting, President Trump ambushes the South African president with claims of white farmers being persecuted.
We hear a response from Mzwanele Nyhontso, the Minister of Land Reform and Rural Development for South Africa.
Also on the programme: how the Italian authorities dealt a blow to a powerful international arm of the mafia – the 'Ndrangheta; and a conservation success story from India, saving the Asiatic Lion.
(Photo: US President Donald Trump shows a copy of an article that he said it’s about white South Africans who had been killed in the Oval Office. Credit: Reuters)
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