>> i look at aerica when i look at this. i have been ked why the topicality a the edginess, however they frameit. this is amecan li living the problems as i have se them. that i all we were doing. when we came togher, writers d producers, to talk abouthe next episode, we were used to eading newspers and payi attenti to th ns and the famils. what our kids and wives were going tough. we wer scrapin the barrel of oru experie-- our experiees. >>as mode as you are, the time, this was t writin -- risky, and you look back on this, i is ahead of its time. there are mor blac folk on tevision then then there are now. you were risky and you re ahad of your time. >> younow what i thought of, speing of black folks on television. they were the first families. the audiences became black aslo. -- also just as in black crches, and i love to go there on a sunday morning. the reaction is dierent than in a white church. this is a celebration of le and is very fferent. that is the w that the audience as t cave. you can hear them reacting, audibl

elcome to bbc rld news, broadcast on pbs in aerica and aroundhe globe. coming up later a succeful mission to mars, so how com the stronauts and never left ear? d anotherovie you might say about the warn iraq, but is this one with a differenc >> for the first time, an african leaderas had to awer in courto charges of crimes against humanity. in thewitness sta at the inrnational criminal court, charles taylor has presented -- arles tayr has prevented -- has prested his defense. he has admitted that things ppened in sierra leone, murder, rape, the usef child soldiers, but he insts he plays noart. we have been wching the trial unfolds. >> when charles tlor sto to swear the kirk -- where the oath, it marked the firs time a former african head of ste had been called to answer charges of crimes againsmanatee. chaes taylor has spent many months in the pastwo years while the trial has been underway sitting impassively, listening to the ctalog of atrocities committed in sierra leone. he repeatedly denied any involveme. >> i and a father 14 children. grdchildren,it

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