Carol White and Mia Farrow give evidence at The Hague. Broadcast subject to a 30 minute delay.

Actress Mia Farrow has testified that model Naomi Campbell said she got a "large diamond" from men sent by ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor.

Linking Mr Taylor to illegal "blood diamonds" is key to the prosecution's case at his war crimes trial at the Hague.

Ms Farrow's testimony directly contradicts Ms Campbell's account that she received two or three stones and did not know who sent them.

Mr Taylor denies all 11 charges.

He is accused of war crimes during Sierra Leone's civil war, including using the diamonds to fund rebels.

Ms Campbell testified last week that she received "dirty looking stones" after a dinner which Mr Taylor attended in 1997.

But she said she was given a pouch containing the stones by two unidentified men who appeared at her door later that evening, and she had no knowledge of who was the ultimate donor.

She told the court she had given the stones to Jeremy Ractliffe of the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund (NMCF) the next morning, because she wanted the stones to go to charity.

Mr Ractliffe has now handed the gems to police, and on Sunday they confirmed the stones were real diamonds.

Mr Taylor, the former warlord and president of Liberia, is accused of using illegally mined diamonds to secure weapons for Sierra Leone's RUF rebels during the 1991-2001 civil war - a charge he denies.

Prosecutors say that from his seat of power in Liberia, Mr Taylor also trained and commanded the rebels.

The rebels were notoriously brutal, frequently hacking off the hands and legs of civilians.