i think she stood up fairly well to harry nell. because as i say, everything she had to say, he went back at her twice as hard. i don't imagine, though, that that would have swayed judge masipa and that is the person who has to be impressed by whatever harry nell does. >> jean-jacque, thanks very much. and we are going to watch the rest of these witnesses, because we're expecting this mitigation to happen over the forthcoming hours. then that will be followed by aggravation of sentence. the prosecution bringing the witnesses they think will add to that conviction they want to create that oscar pistorius should serve a lengthy jail term. we'll be following the trial from here in pretoria. back to you. >> speak to you soon. if you want to see what karen is saying, she is, of course, on twitter along with our other correspondents in and out of the courtroom. so do keep in touch. more, of course, on the website, too. >>> let's move on to our other top stories today. the ebola outbreak has already brought parts of west africa to its kne

during the summing up of the closing arguments, harry nell, who's known popular as you might know as the pitbull, harry nell, chief prosecutor, did say twice that he felt that the culpable homicide sentence basically was not fair. so i think we cannot -- i think we really can anticipate within the next 14 days that the prosecution, that is the national prosecuting authority, the government authority and nell will come back to a court and will put an appeal in, that they will try and overturn the sentence of couplible homicide, that they will try and have the offense upgraded to murder. now, that is if it goes to appeal, they cannot argue on the facts of the case. they can argue about the judge's interpretation of those facts if you see my point. >> i see your point exactly. >> yes. whether she interpreted case law correctly and indeed, just looking now at the defense attorney, he's been down to the cells. and he's just come up. he's looking really grim faced, actually, shaking his head. he's embracing now carl pistorius, the brother. it's actually the biggest emotion we've seen in th

we have seen a very robust cross-examination from harry nell, the prosecutor we've come to know so well. and the defense presenting their witnesses in mitigation, trying to present a picture of oscar pistorius as a man who should not go to jail for up to 15 years, as this charge of culpable homicide can carry and its maximum. carried on, bringing people to the stand that they thought would prove their case, but harry nell doing his very best, even with the psychologist who's counselled oscar pistorius since the killing of reeva steenkamp, to try to dismantle what they were saying in his favor, in his mitigation. it has raised some eyebrows. some commentators have said it's excessive. let's hear from the first witness for the defense in mitigation. the psychologist who has counselled oscar pistorius throughout the last 18 months, she talked about her therapy sessions with him. >> frequently, he was too emotionally drained for therapy to commence and sessions had to be rescheduled. he frequently spent sessions weeping, and often had to exit or excuse himself from a session due to wretchin

>> reporter: good evening, harris, it looks like nell ps could be out for at least a month and a half, a spokesperson tells us that he is going to enter into an inpatient program that will last for six weeks on

harry nell, the prosecutor dubbed the pit bull in the press and across the world for his very aggressive interviewing tactics has spent a very long time cross-examining each one of these witnesses. he's still in the process when court resumes across sexamining the probation officer who was the second person to argue that pistorius should not serve jail time but should instead serve correctional supervision so house arrest and community service. she, arguing that that was because of his disability and the many problems that he would face in prison. that cross-examination will still go on. then we expect the witnesses for the prosecution to take to the stand. i think we can also expect, given the way the trial has proceeded to date, that harry rue, the defense attorney will probably spend less time cross-examining those witnesses then his adversary for the state has done to date. i still anticipate that this will take a few days yet. we may have a sentence this week, we may not. >> all right. 8:40 in the morning in south africa. outside the courthouse where oscar pistorius is expected to a

>> reporter: good evening, harris, it looks like nell ps could be out for at least a month and a halfspokesperson tells us that he is going to enter into an inpatient program that will last for six weeks on the he'els of his dui arrest ths past tuesday. phelps who's 29 tack to fwiter and facebook today releasing a statement in part that says i'm going to take some time away to attend a program that will provide the help i need to understand myself. swimming is a major part of my life, but right now i need to focus my attention on me as an individual, learn from this experience and make better experiences in the future. we have reached out to spefrl sponsors a and have not received a response from any. >> it has been almost a decade since the first time he had trouble like this? >> that's right, he's definitely been in the negative spotlight several times throughout the course of his career. think back to 2009, that's when he got in trouble for having a picture of him smoking marijuana. harris, the incident you're talking about took place back in 2004, phelps was charged with his first