Man shot dead outside US Capitol

Police guarding the US Capitol building in Washington DC have shot a man dead after he ran over two police officers with his car, killing one of them; they say he also lunged at them with a knife. Dozens of National Guard troops, who have been stationed in the area since Donald Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building in January, were also deployed.

Also in the programme: We hear the latest from the UN in Myanmar on the anti-coup protests; and the latest on an Islamist insurgency in northern Mozambique.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other stories are Barnaby Phillips, former BBC and Al Jazeera correspondent, who is now with the Elephant Protection Initiative; and Noga Tarnopolsky, a journalist in Jerusalem who writes on the Middle East for the US media.

(Picture: National Guard at the scene after a vehicle rammed a barricade outside the US Capitol in Washington DC. Credit: EPA/WILL OLIVER)