Newshour Trump ambushes South African president with 'white persecution' claims
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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