this is the news live from berlin tonight cuba has a new president is it a change in name only cuba swears enid's a new president miguel diaz canel the hand-picked successor to raul castro the new leader emphasizing the word continuity today vowing to continue the revolution led by fidel castro more than sixty years ago also coming up eyewitnesses and a viral video now of the suspect in an alleged anti-semitic attack has handed himself in to berlin police he's

a teenage asylum seeker who arrived in germany from syria in twenty fifteen plus israel turns seventy as the nation's hell breaks its founding the prime minister calls on israelis to make sacrifices to ensure their country's future safety. off it's good to have you with us tonight cuba has a new president and his name is not castro president. was sworn in today and he promised to uphold the legacy of the country's revolution which was first led by fidel castro six decades ago. is the hand-picked successor to outgoing leader raul castro and critics are warning that any change beyond the name of the president looks tonight very unlikely. handing over the

presidency but not complete power after almost sixty years of rule by the castro brothers cuba has a new leader mikhail diaz can now promised outgoing president raul castro and the national assembly that he would carry on the socialist revolution. i assume the responsibility for which i have been elected with the conviction that all the cuban revolutionaries from whichever position we hold we will be faithful to the legacy of the commander in chief fidel castro ruz historic leader of the revolution and also to the values and teachings of general castro ruz. the outgoing president will remain head of the communist party for another three years consolidating his own power but the eighty six year old told the party faithful that he sees d.s. canel as his eventual successor. through the years on. once

his ten year presidential term is over and the three years remaining until the congress he will become the first secretary of the communist party. watching the presidential handover at their home in havana these cubans believe the fifty seven year old diaz can now is what the country needs. it was a good choice he's young and innovative with a different perspective but on the streets of cuba not everyone is convinced much will change. all the same to me who have a good for the country in the people. negan diaz canal is a ponty know at least a cautious choice for a cautious country and that's a piece to be exactly what the own months. are you to think of this story now i'm joined by john as far as he is in miami florida tonight john it's good to have you

on the show you are a human rights activists an advocate and i'm wondering what are you thinking when you see what is happening today in havana are we witnessing a transition of power or just more of the same more of the same and take a president may get this canal out his words let me repeat what he said in his first speech and i quote i hear from to this is somebody that conrad raul will lead the decisions for the present in the future of the nation. remains at the front of the political vanguard and that's true as the head of the communist party he is the guiding light in society but beyond being head of the communist party. role caster also has his son who oversees the intelligence apparatus handle castro who's a colonel in the intelligence service who was the point person in the negotiations between the united states and cuba during the normalization efforts back during the obama administration secondly he has his son in law general slope this guy

a house who runs the economy with the conglomerate known as gaius at the controls a good eighty five percent of the cuban economy and he also has his daughter who's in a key position by the other castro within the national assembly so it remains a family enterprise so you're saying what we saw today it is not the castro giving up or ceding power at all. it is not and it's not the first time between one thousand nine hundred fifty nine and one nine hundred seventy six cuba had a president that wasn't named castro's then was to close and that did not in any way limit the absolute power of the castro brothers to do what they wanted to do in cuba yeah i mean let me play devil's advocate here with you you know per perhaps and from where you're sitting in miami you know you were at the epicenter of the cuban diaspora where all the exiles many of them are still to this day we know that

they are not a friend of the castro regime but perhaps mr diaz can now perhaps he is the trigger that is needed to take power away from the castro's and to bring in some type of democratic if not a revolution an evolution do you think that's possible well sadly we've seen in the past when other outside experts have thought that a young new figure in the cuban regime could be a potential change maker we saw that with roy daughter i was a past foreign minister with a previous vice president and in both those cases when they were viewed by the castros as possibly being a changemaker other gotten rid of they were purged mr owen who is a young man what missing from his post was foreign minister and when people asked they said he'd gone back to school in a few years later he appeared at his home as a painter and had them of that wife so do you think do you think john that that

a similar fate could wait mr d.s. canel if he gets out of line i mean you know we i will admit to you i was researching him a lot yesterday because up until yesterday or day before yesterday i've never heard of the man i mean do you think his future is one that if he gets out of line that he could also be punished. well it looks like we're review laast the signal there john can you can you hear me still i can hear you i just want to say that as far as i'm concerned which is in the area of human rights we don't see on a weekly basis the ladies in white group of women demanding the release of political prisoners beaten down harassed in the streets of cuba who still have persons of conscience and we do see that the cuban people are backing some of these

political prisoners like eduardo cadet who is the national coordinator of the christian liberation movement and he's been in prison since the over thirty of the two thousand and sixteen for advocating one man one vote in cuba and for giving a critical assessment of the castro legacy in cuba ten thousand cuban signed a petition requesting his release just in the past month that petition was grabbed up by state security along with the two that went to presented to the cuban government yeah but there is that desire to see an improvement on the human rights situation and greater political freedoms in cuba by cubans in the island and john quickly before we run out of time in the future for this new president i mean i was asking earlier before the connection was lost do you think mr diaz canel do you think he should be fearful for his future if he dares to get out of line politically with the castros. yes and he knows that very well there's

a long history of littered careers of people who fought or started to think they potentially could do something and were usually gotten rid of before they had a chance to do that ok all right keeping human rights activists john suarez joining us tonight from miami john thank you very much we appreciate your insights tonight thank you. well here in berlin one of the suspects in an alleged anti-semitic attack has turned himself in to police he was filmed attacking two young men who wore jewish style skull caps now those men yesterday told the news that they were wearing the campus because they wanted to show an israeli friend that it is safe to do so here in berlin but a teenage asylum seeker from syria he had other ideas. with this video of the alleged attacker address the outcry a friend announced that kanneh wants to turn himself into the police it comes after the one thousand year old suspect was filmed apparently assaulting an israeli arab

on the streets of berlin he yelled yahoo to jews in arabic the alleged attacker came to germany from syria and twenty fifteen and lives in a refugee center in the past year berlin has seen several anti-semitic incidents like this one on al quds day when palestinians and their supporters demonstrate against israel protesters made anti-semitic statements and burned an israeli flag. the berlin based kreisberg initiative against anti-semitism visit schools to explain the subject including to students with immigrant backgrounds they warn against seeing anti-semitic attacks as specifically muslim. there is a specific group among muslims who are anti semitic. much more sometimes like in the present case they act in a particularly hateful way but i think that we should not stigmatize muslims. rather we should try to convince them to fight against anti-semitism everything

else is counterproductive. berlin has one of the largest arab and muslim populations in germany you found mixed reactions among the community. as a human being i'm happy to live with christians and jews and muslims together but the jews in palestine are occupiers. not all jews occupy palestine so what does a boy who was born a jew have to do with it and the menace that they know. we can't trust social media if you have there has to be an investigation and if they find that palestinians did this then i reject that as a muslim. the case has left many jews wondering whether they're safe in berlin. well here's a look at some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world a parliamentary debate in synagogue descended into chaos today take a look at these pictures amid agere over proposed changes to the country's

electoral wall opposition lawmakers say that the changes will make it impossible for little known candidates to run for president they were also protests outside police fired tear gas and arrested several people including a former prime minister. french president emanuel micron in german chancellor angela merkel have held talks in berlin over reforming the euro zone mccrone is pushing for greater economic integration but merkel is skeptical of some of his proposals they're hoping to reach a compromise ahead of an e.u. summit scheduled for june. no criminal charges will be filed in the death of pop star prince following a two year investigation prosecutors in minnesota say there's new evidence that the pills which killed friends were prescribed by a doctor he died in two thousand and sixteen of an accidental opioid over them. remember that sad day are telling is here now global bankers tipping the economy

is what headed for some strong growth theory well in fine form spring is in the average in washington which doesn't necessarily mean cherry rawson what it does mean is the annual meeting of the international monetary fund and the wild bank they've been holding at this spring meeting in d.c. and both organizations are predicting strong growth for the global economy this year i.m.f. head christine legarde predicted growth of three point nine percent that's the false just rate in eight years while the short term outlook is upbeat that often dangerous on the horizon. recent it was a case of good cop bad cop i.m.f. chief christine legarde focusing on crumbling business confidence and gloomy projections while world bank president jim yong kim saw the current climate as an opportunity to spread the money around. the challenge now is to ensure that strong growth will translate into inclusive growth so that the benefits of global economic integration are enjoyed by all members of society but the ongoing china u.s. trade and lackluster productivity could ruin the upswing by as soon as twenty

twenty legard warned earlier and then there's this. global that is at an all time high it's turned it's tons of one hundred and sixty four trillion dollars which is two hundred and twenty five percent of g.d.p. of which the private sector accounts for two third public debt in advanced economies is at levels not seen since the second world war the two lenders are clear short term the global economy is looking up but without immediate action stagnation and instability like i had the on the next couple of years. now resistance to u.s. tariffs on steel then at a minimum appears to be growing now russia's joint china and the e.u. and challenging them at the world trade organization and it's using the same strategy as the e.u. by invoking the w t o's safeguards agreement this requires the country to

compensate other countries by granting them lower tariffs on other exports the u.s. ministration claims its tariffs and needed on national security grounds. well facebook wants to put the data of one and a half billion users out of the scope of the e.u.'s planned privacy law the legislation designed to restrict what companies can do with other people's data and at the moment facebook members outside the us in canada are governed by terms agreed with its headquarters in ireland that's where european uses data will remain but not those from africa asia australia and latin america social network is keen to reduce exposure to the law which allows european regulators to fine companies for collecting data without user consent. drought has been a serious problem for years in south africa so much so that in recent months cape town to a state of emergency there activities like watering the lawn washing cars or even

filling swimming pools of banned they can lead to hefty fines should people do so but it's not only the cities this suffering as a result of the lack of water agriculture is particularly hard hit. martin used colors q sorrows rise as he privacy through citrus plantation that hasn't seen proper rain for quite some time all twenty seven thousand five hundred trees on his fields need water otherwise they're dry up. if that happens cholesky will go bankrupt that's why he's invested in new ideas to save water we've approached the pools below the trees so it. gives the soil more east you can see the in my fingers going in. it's nice in a week. but when i do it yet stuart the line with these very good underneath the chips was in then you save

a lot of water you don't have to take much but that's not enough he's bought more than two hundred kilometers of drip irrigation tubes so that all of his trees can get at least some water a large citrus tree needs up to one hundred liters per day what you're going to lose is saudi's because there's not enough water so the. c.t.'s will be smaller and if if they smaller your volume the smaller and then your loses on profit so it makes a big difference. the western cape region is especially affected by the drought flood this season experts estimate losses of almost five hundred million dollars in the agricultural sector the vegetable harvest almost half of them more than fifty thousand farm workers have lost their jobs many fields are lying fallow martin years cholesky vegetable harvest almost completely fell true so it's

a matter of. song you've been said when it gets too out and doesn't have enough water a song. and then you can use it the night. that i was there why we gave it to the peaks the dam is up in the valley it supplies the whole region with water. it's only at the eleven percent mark now if it doesn't rain soon there won't be enough water for crops that would be a catastrophe mark ten years cholesky carries on as well as he can for now he has not let go of any of his farm workers yet because those who work for him other cell providers for their families it's harvest time at the moment but the packaging building is not busy. we are you taking what we have when we couldn't belong to any more. they just so when you know we start i don't even move the cheese

this season he has lost fifty thousand u.s. dollars in revenues from vegetables alone he hopes that the coming winter will finally bring rain. back to print now a big dale and it's a big day in israel rather i tell him that israel is celebrating its seventieth anniversary of independence with events across the country prime minister benjamin netanyahu began the day by inspecting this honor guard and he praised his country's achievements but also said israelis will need to make sacrifices to ensure their security in the future festivities began at sundown yesterday with a lavish show in jerusalem. well as the nation unites to mark this milestone sharp divisions remain in israeli society disagreement is perhaps deepest over the issue of settlements in the occupied west bank w's tanya kramer traveled to the west bank to the settlement of

. now for the israeli political right such outposts are achievements for the left they are a blight on the nation's conch. and squatters lies deep in the occupied west bank sixty families live in this illegal israeli outpost near the settlement of she to iran cuts have moved to s. codice than years ago with his family it's situated in the middle of an area where palestinians want to establish this state ten years ago there's nothing here it's not it was empty it's a real symbol for israel. these great friends right here it's you know it shows belief shows that we're back where we're coming home we are home. or more come home every year for growing cutoffs conviction made him come here because this land today and some area as it was known in the bible and claims are just jewish land

according to international law though the settlements here in the occupied territories are illegal they're said to be one of the main obstacles to a two state solution. in the center of tel aviv dawn that is taking part in a demonstration against the israeli government's occupation policy. leftist organizations called for the protest. they're also protesting the use of snipers and recent demonstrations at the gaza border at the beginning of april there is a lot of fear. in london and really they are hearing from now from this live enough to say they think that they're now harmonizer an ergonomic delete it. i think they're there on the other side of the street a few members of the ultra right movement tried to disturb the protest. in the past few years israel has seen a significant move to the political right cause has

a left leaning activist and says it's not cool to be on the left anymore she'd like to keep the public debate alive on issues regarding peace with the palestinians and a two state solution the message we found on these demonstrations is that we must have peace we need to fight for this peace this situation that does not serve us. don posted activities on social media and internet platforms in the hope it will have some influence on other israelis. young is very it is like alan cuts off i'm not interested in a two state solution he's convinced that the settlements have to security of it's fan. over the. military school you learn that if you sitting on a mountain you're protecting the valley this whole area is huge in some areas the mountain the whole area of tel aviv is the valley anybody knows if you sit here you're protecting the cities in the valley if you don't sit here you're not

protecting a new settlement to speak not far from here officially sanctioned by the government for settlers who were forced to leave the outpost to defend realities two points a few seventy years after the phoning of the state of israel the visions for the future could hardly be more different. and so the conversation continues tonight i'm joined by rabbi marvin hier he is the founder and dean of one of the world's foremost jewish human rights agencies the simon wiesenthal center in los angeles rabbi hier it's good to have you on the program seventy years of israeli independence what does this anniversary mean to you. oh it means. it means the world but you remember seventy is ago out of the camps with no place to go. perish. no family today we celebrate the seventieth

anniversary of the creation of the state of israel. i had there been a state of israel during the hitler regime it would never have gotten away with the privilege or because the state of israel would have followed the tracks our flits which the allies did not bought and today let me make your comment i watched carefully your broadcasts yes at the state solution i believe that two state solution. but the world as full the self we all know before us right now is a three state solution the calloused indians of gaza doto up and agree with the palestinians are about israel would have to be abnormal and committed for psychiatric treatment to agree to a three state solution will never be peace the greatest mistake made in the middle

east was when bishop tutu and jimmy carter supervised the election in gaza what did we get in return how mosques was shot of corals for the total destruction of israel hamas this bias is mamma not bots the two of them will never reach an agreement so you are two separate college students states israel in the middle like an accordion rabbi hier his room rabbi lead was greeted with what is a solution the i mean we know we know what the problem is on the ground there what is the solution a solution is the fall here is the solution and international condemnation of croats calling for the total removal of crab ice from ramallah from the gaza immediately once promised so vacates the government

of gaza they disappear because the international community forces them out by force then you out in the glow she is the israeli right they will be forced to accept a viable two state solution. with one palestinian state and a jewish state so long gets up my ass is in gaza we will be talking about this for another century well rabbi hier before we run out of time i want to ask you this this this solution this approach you're talking about do you see the trump administration being the catalyst to make that a reality that you're describing well frankly yes but frankly where is europe why doesn't your say listen here come on us your shot across the destruction

of israel we won't stand for it and europe together with the united states said. you must leave gaza if you're not leave gaza we agree with the state of israel that they have till they remove you by for us. your us your could leave the structure of the state of israel are unfortunate we are out of time but please come back on the show and talk with us again rabbi hier joining us tonight from a simon wiesenthal center as always a pleasure talking with the rabbi thank you and after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day.

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it should be. written. and often. bangladesh the dawn of islam as a and exclusive c.w. report starting april twenty first. for the first time in six decades a man with the name castro is in charge of the island nation of cuba tonight history in the making but just how much new history is about to be written does miguel diaz canel does he represent change in cuba or change in name only i broke off in berlin this is the day.