Paul Kagame

President Kagame has dismissed the allegations made by the French.

Stephen Sackur talks to Rwanda's president, Paul Kagame.

In the spring of 1994 up to one million Rwandans were slaughtered in a modern day genocide.

Twelve years on, Rwanda's president, Paul Kagame, is in London on a mission to tell the world that his country has overcome its terrible past.

But President Kagame is, himself, dogged by that past.

A controversial report by an internationally respected judge has accused him of the political assassination which triggered the genocide.

How can he deliver in the face of such allegations?

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