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criminal court. refugees from lesbos will be returned to turkey. u.s. president barack obama right now is holding talks with his cuban opposite, raul castro, on his second day of his historic visit to cuba. first visit from a sitting american president in nearly 90 years. there have been decades of mistrust. they're meeting in havana's palace of the revolution and there, president obama was dwroategreeted by an honor guar, before being introduced with members much his team from the united states. one of obama's first engagements of the day was laying a wreath

at the tomb of the memorial jose martin. let's go to patty culhane who is our white house correspondent who gets out and about once that while. it happens to be to cuba patty. i imagine a lot of people traveling with you thought this could never happen, would never happen. >> i think pretty much everyone in the country both i this cuba and the united states didn't see this on their radar. it didn't come to light until around 14 months ago, when the president announced opening of diplomatic relations. there has been a lot going back and forth between the united states and the cuban government. we still don't know if they're

going to take questions from the press. the white house has been very openly saying they be are pushing the cubans to take question. they still have no idea what's going to happen. this is a very unusual trip. i can't ever remember being on a foreign trip with this president where we didn't see some kind of press conference after their meeting. back and fort slights that we're seeing by the government, shows you that everything is fine and it's a normal relation, when the president websit went to that m, the person who greeted him happened to be one of the key people repelling the ill fated bay of pigs, operation, when the u.s. trained compile exiles, cad were repelled and arrested. memorial to a revolutionary leader, the person who helped is

attributed with helping them get independence from spain. this is what the president wrote. his passion for liberty, freedom and self determination lives on in the cuban people today. you could read that a couple of different ways but obviously sending a message to the castro government. things are not quite there. >> absolutely, even though there's a host of american businessmen traveling with mr. obama and his entourage knowledge, certainly not a done-deal that the relationship is going to be normalized totally. >> no. no. and that's exactly why the president is here. i mean he has just a few months left, what ten months left and he's bringing business leaders down here because he knows the embargo is still in place. this is a very limited things that americans can do here, agriculture, cargo,

communications, those are still pretty sever severe restriction. congress is the only one that can lift the embargo. the anti-cuba lobby is pretty critical in florida. here is what the president is doing, he knows the anti-castro lobby is pretty critical in washington. he needs to form acoalition of american companies that are more powerful than that group, and that momentum be part of the group, american airlines, ups, and the next time the administration comes in they are going to fight hard to make sure the united states can't throw out that policy. >> patty, thank you very much indeed. lucia newman our latin american editor still there. the zetant, we have to keep you

two apart, only joking lucia, but i wonder if the distance is still greater than what binds them together. >> reporter: i would say that it depends on who you ask land you're talking about ordinary cubans or the policies, the vision of what is democracy, what isn't. this is a one-party communist state. president raul castro has maid it absolutely clear there will be no concessions about the way this country is run. his vision is to have a country that more or less works like vietnam and china, economic openness every day more so but controlled by one party. the united states says they don't agree with that but very key that obama said earlier today: that is that the united states hopes this new position that it is taking with cuba will promote change. one thing is to promote it and another to oppose it which has been the policy up until now.

so it is a generational issue as well, little by little the idea is to break down barriers but also to bring about change in this country, not only economically, the things patty was talking about but politically. there is a cuban party communist congress taking place just in a few weeks and we're expecting perhaps some very important announcements then. and in that sense president obama's visit there, could have a big impact, david. >> lucia, i don't know how many years it has been since i spoke to you first in cuba. it is a few. in the time we have been broadcasting on al jazeera english how much of the feeling have you noticed going there? >> reporter: it's -- you know there are some things that haven't changed at all. in all the years that i've been coming to cuba. and others that are changing so quickly i just can't keep up with them. for example president obama yesterday went to a private

restaurant just behind me. and just a couple of years ago, you were only allowed to with h2 seats. it was the largest version of an entrepreneurial venture that cubans could have. now there are mansion he, huge houses that are being turned into restaurants. the cuban government is slowly letting go of control of certainly areas. but in others, the political sphere, it is complete control. the access to the media is still very limited, internet access has increased but it is still horrible. very slow. one important thing that is going to be announced here we understand in the next few hours is that google has been allowed to operate now in cuba to provide broadband internet services which should be a big help. so little by little we're seeing some competition. although all these limitations that patty just explained are still in place, little avenues

being explored and pressure by the american lobbyists, especially the big companies, hotel chains, et cetera, that could make a difference so that this embargo will slowly begin to peel away like an onion. that is the expectation of ordinary cuban people, certainly, so american money can come here and help to rebuild so much of cuba which is still falling apart after 50 years o f economic embargo. >> lucia newman, overlook a very stormy sea in havana. former congolese vice president has been quiment qui f

murder rape and pillage. he will stay in custody awaiting sentencing. my colleague paul brennan has more from thawing. >> from 2002 to spring of 2003 was chilling indeed. john pierre benba's personal military 1500 of them were be dispatched to help suppress an attempted koppu agains coup. war crimes essentially. but how much control did jean pierre benba had over his trips? 70 people gave evidence at the icc. small platoons went from house to house, stealing whatever they could carry, sexually be

humiliating and mistreating women and men. the question was whether he knew about this and whether he had control over his troops and the court here decided that he did. they found that he had direct contact and direct lines of communication with his generals. that he even on occasion meted out. disciplinardisciplinary actionst his troops. it could be as much as life in prison if the judges decide the gravity of the crimes warrant it. ben jan officials are looking for a associate of be

shah abdeslasalahabdeslam. belgian officials appealing for public information. >> translator: the latest news that our collaboration has been intensified over the past few months. investigation team became more important as we were aware that we were dealing with a group who does not know the borders. >> reporter: the belgian prosecutor's office say they are looking for public's help in identifying a possible associate in the last surviving suspect in the paris attack, salah abdeslam. nahjeee sarawi, this individual

traveled to syria in 2013 before making his way back through europe. according to investigators he may have traveled from hungary with salah abdeslam, stopping at the austrian border before allowing to carry on. according to investigators he is identified by dna and along with dna evidence found in explosives used in the paris tacks. it is down to belgian investigators to look for whereabouts of the individual, asking the public to be veg land. >> thank you. in yemen there could well be

signs they're heading towards peace talks and perhaps a ceasefire. north denice sanctions again and launches what are called project i'llprojectiles into th.

>> global headlines, presidents barack obama and raul castro of cuba are meeting in havana, signaling closer relations between u.s. and cuba. international criminal court

found congo least vice president jeanne pierre benba guilty of crimes against humidity more than 10 years ago. >> najeem sarawi conspired ewith be shapped. salah abdeslam. >> we have given mr. admi de mia

a paper, we haven't received rations from the othereaction f. we believe week and a half wasted without responding to a paper is pretext for wasting time. a number of votes were intercementivinterceptive. back to turkey in exchange for increased financial aid and relaxed visa restrictions for turkish citizens traveling oeurope. despite the deal which was meant to come into effect on sunday, housing them in temporary refugee camps. turkish officials have arrived on the greek island of

lesbos to help put this all into effect. there have been problems from the beginning. zeina khodr traveled to lesbos. this is what she saw. >> reporter: salina's requests for asylum, he hopes will be accepted. but now, there is an agreement that will make it even more harder for migrants and refugees to stay. >> at 3:00 a.m. march 20th they took us and registered. we can't go back to syria because of the war and in turkey we couldn't make ends meet.

>> saliem with was taken to the camp. and monitors are there to help negotiate the deal. >> there is a lot of confusion for the refugees that arrive, there are people that still think after the registrations rn they can have a permit to travel in greece and to try to cross the border with macedonia, so on. that is absolutely not the case anymore. the hot spot has been emptied of the ancient population, the refugees that arrived before. >> these people are being sent to mainland greece. authorities are clearly trying to separate the old from the new arrivals. wait to see if they are eligible for the relocation program. but for now, they are stuck in

greece. because routes and borders to other eu countries north have been closed. under the agreement, the migrants and refugees that arrive on greece's ielt greece'm march 20th onward will not be allowed to travel onward. they will stale until their processing is completed and there is a deal that they may be sent back to turkey. greek officials say there haven't been any significant changes in the number of arrivals. there is concern of mass deportations. they say the majorities of arrivals are from countries in conflict and the majority would? for asylum. zeina khodr, al jazeera, lesbos. >> you announcement was made

after the country's warring parties had a meeting with u.n. envoy ishmael. hoda abdel hamid reports. hhashem ahelbarra reports. >> houthi rebels say they are a legitimate authority. but the government backed by a saudi led coalition asserts the war will continue until the shia rebels disarm. but on the ground hopes for peace are overshadowed 50 fighting. this is a district in the oil-rich province of mareb close to the capital. it's been retain by

pro-government troops. the army says it is waiting for orders to go into sanaa. >> national army has only been formed nine months ago but it's been expand he, we are make major gains. >> the army backed by tribesmen is on the offensive in shebwa, yobut the houthis have put up a strong resistance. hundreds of their fighters are holding ground in the mountainous region. >> my unit is advancing, we have retain and broke through enemy lines. >> fighting also continues in the city of ta'izz. the government is trying to retake yemen's third largest city on the main highway that links the south to the capital. hundreds of soldiers and civilians have been killed here. all of this is a reminder that

challenging task facing the united nations envoy, hashem ahelbarra, al jazeera. >> well, yemen's foreign minister says it could well be a pivotal moment for his country. >> translator: and if you will, nothing can be achieved without settlement. wars begin with dilution delusi. i can say this is a beginning of a defining moment, not the defining moment itself. i believe we stilt neat or require sometime before an entire lasting peace is achieved. >> russian judge says a ukrainian pilot is complicit in the killing of russian journalists. accused of directing mortar fire that killed the journalists in

eastern crane in 2014. the judge said she was driven by political hatred, captured by pro-russian separatists and should have been treated as a prisoner of war. north korea has fired what have been described as five project isles intprojectiles inf japan. before landing in waters off north korea's east coast. just three days ago, pyongyang field firefired a medium rage bc missile into the sea. adrian brown has the story. >> a big controversy as to what north korea did or didn't fire into the sea. military projectiles or shells.

on friday, north korea said it carried out two ballistic missile tests roughly in the same area, and a few days before that, the north korean leader warned it was ready for a nuclear warhead test. we know that the north koreans have launched 15 projectiles and missiles of varying sizes. is this is deeply unsettling for china. china is the only friend that north korea has, practically. and sanction he are being imposed on north korea because about 70% of what that country receives passes through china. but of course, implementation is going to be issue. is china really going to be able to inspect every container and shipment bound for north korea? china says it doesn't believe that sanctions in themselves will bring the north koreans

round. it says it wants to return to negotiation. but for the moment, the north koreans are simply ignoring those comments and continuing to dephi the international community. >> ten years ago today a software developer in the united states sent out a message that millions around the world had never gotten before. our tech editor tarek bailey tellbaizbazleybazleytells us. >> pushing out around 6,000 tweets every second, 500 million tweets every day. the trouble is these figures appear to have stalled. twitter's share price hit $69. after it went public now it's

sitting at around $17. and twitter is believed to be struggling to attract new users as be facebook and google become increasingly more dominant. during the arab spring five years ago it was widely used to help protesters organize but since then it has been used to launch often vicious attacks. >> it's become a space where people experience really, really challenging personal invasion for what for many is a work face by people have particular sort of one-sided interests. >> if an account is being creepy -- >> it has set up a reporting system but for some the public platform is too risky. >> we have all heard the stories

where people have been burned by tweets misconstrued or said in the spur of the moment. more control over individual tweets might get people back to the platform. >> twitter has struggled to earn the kind of money that google and facebook have earned online. increasing concerns about using this for monday tieing you, a lucrative business. the but the commercialization is against the people who use the platform who just want a quick means of communicating. >> twitter has been making changes including last year's launch of its live video site periscope. the possibility to connect and

communicate in realtime, with an unprecedented number of people, tarek bazley, al jazeera. >> there will be news hour from me in 30 minutes. all the rest, at al jazeera, 126 characters. >> history in the making. president obama is in havana sitting down for talks with cuban president raul castro. >> if you see violence, condemn it. if you see a bully stand up to him! >> tough talks from candidates trying to move pro-israeli