Ex-Haiti rebel leader wanted in US arrested during radio talkshow

A former rebel leader who is wanted on US drug charges, and was recently elected to the Haitian Senate, has been arrested as he appeared on a live radio talk show.

Guy Philippe was being interviewed on the show with another recently elected politician on Thursday when the host abruptly announced that police were outside the studio in the Petionville district of the capital Port-Au-Prince to arrest him. The host came back on air and said he had been taken away.