Charles Taylor takes the stand
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The former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, has spoken for the first time from the witness box at his trial in the Hague.
He is the first former African president to be tried by an international court.
Charles Taylor has to answer to 11 charges relating to the civil war in neighbouring Sierra Leone - including murder, rape and terrorism.
Today he denied all the accusations made against him, as Josephine Hazeley reports from the Hague.
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