Taylor trial: the defence commences
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Starting today, the former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, will get the chance to put his case to the Special Court for Sierra leone, sitting in The Hague.
Mr Taylor has been on trial since his arrest in January 2008, on eleven charges including murder, rape and conscripting child soldiers - crimes which are all related to his involvement in the brutal civil war in Sierra Leone.
Josephine Hazeley is at the Hague and has more on the proceedings.
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