t w. this is d. w. news live from berlin tonight the trump administration cracking down on cuba the white house announcing fresh measures designed to choke off the flow of cash and travel to the country the move could dry up foreign investment in cuba but is washington also targeting those nicolas maduro also coming up tonight across france church bells ringing out in tribute. as the nation pauses to remember what was lost in the blaze and there are plans to

rebuild and firefighters rejecting places that they responded too slowly plus a new mistress of turkish president ever was takes control of turkey's largest city he's the new mayor but is the political battle really. i'm off to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all the round the world welcome we start with breaking news coming in from portugal at least twenty eight people have reportedly died in a bus crash on the portuguese island of madeira there are reports state that they were in a tourist bus which overturned near the coastal town of santa cruz the. the tale

is reportedly said that most of the tourists who were on the bus are germans we also understand that many ambulances are at the scene and again that is breaking news a bus accident on the portuguese island of madeira we are hearing reports that dozens of people have died through most of the german citizens we'll bring you more information as it becomes available we're now to the u.s. and its target sheba the trouble because ration has announced a new measures aimed at drawing up the flow of cash to cuba washington says it will limit the amount of money that families can send to relatives in cuba as well as curbing travel to the country by u.s. citizens the restrictions come just a day after the white house lifted a longstanding ban on wall street against foreign companies who use property that was confiscated by cuba following the nine hundred fifty nine communist revolution

cuba's president has said no one will be allowed to take the island away from the cuban people. the new u.s. restrictions on cuba are set to effectively keep foreign investors out of the communist country today we are holding the cuban government accountable for seizing american assets we are helping those in the regime is rob get compensation for their rightful property and we're vets and given rights and democracy on behalf of the cuban people. the cuban people are already struggling with a range of economic and social problems the country desperately needs foreign currency to pay for imports the crisis and then israel is spilling over every day supplies are becoming scarce or supermarket shelves are empty and people face long lines for basic supplies like chicken cooking oil and eggs. but things could get even worse when. cuban communist party leader raul castro in

a speech to the national assembly last week he said his country would never give up its solidarity with them as a way something which has prompted the u.s. to tighten its restrictions on cuba. should the u.s. decide to sanction companies doing business with the caribbean island it would affect thousands of european investors the e.u. envoy in havana protested it was you know we believe that this will homosexuals it will be self-defeating obviously this will create even more confusion modi terence and all confusion for foreign investments or just. for the e.u. the change to u.s. policy on cuba comes at an awkward moment just as brussels prepares to negotiate a trade agreement with washington spain which is heavily invested in cuba says it wants the e.u. to challenge the u.s. move at the world trade organization. or for more of this we go to washington our correspondent all over salad is on the story boards good evening to you all over

you know we've been seeing the u.s. tighten the screws more and more on hugh but what does washington hope to achieve by this latest measure. well basically the united states are trying to stop the flow of money into cuba and also to punish those companies who are doing business with cuba but perhaps the most important. action basically to look at today is the reimposing all of this so-called helms burton act that had already existed since one thousand nine hundred six but was suspended since then and essentially what this house burton act allows us citizens who had property confiscated that they were given the right to file a lawsuit against those who are trafficked in these in these properties and that was suspended in order to protect the european partners for instance who were doing

business with cuba but now the descendants and the relatives of those people who were whose whose property was confiscated are able to to get compensated for that and that is certainly a gift for a lot of cuban exiles in the united states who are now able to get money out of this definitely generate positive reactions in miami for the trumpet ministration what about the timing of this there are some who are suggesting that all of this is a response to the cuban government's support of venezuela and its president nicolas maduro. well certainly the dura regime is a very close ally of the cuban government and in turn cuba is one of the strongest supporters so the idea behind it is pretty behind it is pretty clear it is basically it will be less attractive to invest in cuba and as a result of that less money for cuba would mean less support for venezuela in the

long run so the u.s. government is trying to tackle everyone cooperating with venezuela in latin america right now but you can also consider this an election stunt in some way donald trump in order to be reelected in two thousand and twenty is heavily dependent on supporters beyond his loyal fan base and he's now a has been looking at the let's you know community for quite a while now he's getting a lot of support from the venezuelan community in the united states and he's now looking at the cubans as well it is that what is going on to be looking at it from here in europe the reaction here in europe has been very negative to what the job of ministration is doing with the cuba what about the among the u.s. population is trump is he getting brownie points beyond his base as you said for what he's doing. well it really depends who you speak to if you talk to those whose

property was confiscated or their ancestors before the cuban revolution in fifty nine and those people would be certainly happy to be able to file a lawsuit now and get compensated and say that but of course it also targets those who would just like to travel to cuba normal tourists and that will be a lot more difficult right now but perhaps most importantly it would also target cuban exiles who would just send would just want to send money back home to their relatives and that is i have to remind you that is one of the most important reasons for cubans to have to migrate to the united states to be able to help their families back home an economy where people are heavily dependent on the u.s. dollar they have two currencies there right so it will be more difficult now for them to send money back home and that will certainly increase the suffering of many people in cuba was definitely generating headlines interesting that it's true that

on the eve of the release of the redacted mobile report to congress to maybe there's a connection of course by the overselling in washington over thank you. well former peruvian president alan garcia has died after shooting himself in the head just before he was due to be detained by police in the capital lima the sixty nine year old underwent emergency surgery at a local hospital. he was being investigated for allegedly taking illegal payments from a major brazilian construction company garcia led peru's once powerful opera pardon for decades he served two five year terms as president the first starting in plan to get inside that again in two thousand and six he always maintained that he was innocent. all right this is definitely a shocking story for more we want to go now to see me on tago he's a journalist based in lima. facing arrest alan garcia takes

a gun and kills himself. is that the connection there i mean what more do we know about this the suicide. yes no that's absolutely what happened he did it off the police offices arrived at his home here in lima at six thirty this morning with an arrest warrants in relation to the scandal brecht is a brazilian construction company the largest construction company in latin america and has been at the middle of this huge corruption scandal the company has admitted paying nearly one billion dollars in braai to politicians from argentina to mexico in return for public contracts alan garcia was at the center of that investigation in peru and his arrest actually been anticipated for a long time. but anyway police showed up this morning at six thirty at his home to

arrest him he hasta to go to his bedroom to call his lawyer he don't at all and offer a few moments there was a sound like gunshots police force their way in found him sitting with a single wound to the head really have you heard did the police the authorities did they have any reason to suspect that alan garcia would try to harm himself i mean you could argue that they should not have let him go into a room by himself knowing that he was about to be taken into custody. that's that's a good point i guess the question would be was he a safe president given a different treatment than an ordinary. prison all suspect would have been would they have allowed. any other suspect to have gone off on observed to a room like that having said that i mean people get arrested all the time and it's

pretty unusual that they take their own life at that point in time. it's a very important point and this is the a bizarre turn a tragic turn if they're. reporting from lima thank you thank you. here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the first iranian woman to read an international boxing match has canceled plans to return home after the reigning authorities allegedly issued an arrest warrant for set off. a french boxer on saturday in france a female boxing is allowed in iran for vide that women to. dress codes and that the matches are. read by women. all the once once india's largest airline jet airways says it is suspending operations from wednesday night after failing to find linders to keep it in business the airline is sitting on more

than a billion dollars in debt jet airways pilot say they haven't been paid in four months twenty thousand jobs are now at stake the teenage environmental activist gratitude . has met the pope she brought her campaign to tackle climate change to the vatican today the sixteen year old who has inspired weekly student protests against global warming spoke briefly with pope francis we understand the pope urged her to continue doing what she's doing. when france and the countries struggle to move forward after monday's devastating fire at notre dame earlier today president convened a special cabinet meeting to discuss restoring the cathedral where then as you may know five years france also plans to hold an architectural contest to design a new spire for the church but emotions across the country where they remain high people are still thinking about what they lost this evening the nation paused to

pay tribute to the damaged gothic church. six fifty pm the time when the fire at notre dame broke out on monday bells of commemoration in paris. and beyond. and in sunday any. the country took a moment to pause the shock still lingers but there's also some measure of relief despite the destruction much of the cathedral could be saved. that includes its horgan from the seven hundred thirty s. . the instrument has been saved. obviously for me you just can't imagine the evening and tonight that i had when i watched this. because i thought that if the organ was destroyed when

a part of me would be destroyed. the tweet this instrument is a part of my life. as a city talking maybe but it could be years before the organ is heard again for now the church is being secured ships it would just sit bolt the lead which covered the entirety of this vault melted completely so we have to continue monitoring the building and its hotspots as well as a third area is the scaffolding. it's still us it's surrounded the spire before it collapsed inside the cathedral he said to fully. the planned reconstruction will bring huge expense but around a billion euros have already been donated. french officials are vowing that the money is in good hands so. we will present draft legislation next week that will ensure transparency and proper oversight of the donations. shock every year zero that was given for the reconstruction of notre dumb will be used for that purpose

and for nothing else. the french deserve to know everything that happens with. the b.s. their opinion we leave the rebuilding of not true dom to the experts the goal is for it to be even more beautiful than it used to be. one thing is clear the collapsed spire will be recreated france is launching an international competition to replace it and entrants will have to act quickly the aim is to have work completed on the new notre dame in time for paris the summer olympics in two thousand and twenty four and now we want to go to paris our correspondent lisa lewis is on the story for us again this evening good evening to you lisa it's been forty eight hours and since the blaze today for the first time we heard from firefighters and they have to answer some uncomfortable questions about why they perhaps were too late or too slow to respond or did they have to say today.

while they were first talking about what was actually going on that not for them right now that they were sixty five itis still at the site to make sure that they would know it would be no new fire and that they were still looking at some weeks off the shelf the monument to make sure that it wouldn't crumble in the following day so they obviously also as you said address that controversy apparently they're right about after ten days ten minutes after the alarm went off after they were caught but they said you know ten minutes is actually quite fast in paris and lisa are there any new leads into that investigation into what calls the falling. well i've just heard back from the paris prosecutor's office they still working on the case with about fifty investigators the parents brothers who the parents trust prosecutor's office told me that this would be a very long and complicated investigation that for now they didn't have any

preferred late they seem to be quite sure that this was an accident and also they said that there was he kept at the beginning you know when the fire first started found me that was the first alarm that went off and then the security personnel went to have a look they couldn't find the fire and then only twenty minutes later when a second alarm went off actually they went again and had a look and the flames were already quite high and that's when they called the fire brigade yeah and as we've heard from fire experts you know twenty minutes twenty one minutes can be an attorney when you're talking about a fire spreading let's talk about the pledges the money that is being pledged to rebuild the we're talking about more than half a billion euro already coming from a lot of france's richest people how was that going on with the public in for.

what people are people out here i'll be very happy that they so much money going into that will go to the reconstruction of not saddam but there are a few controversies basically two kinds of controversies controversies on the one hand they're saying if you make a large donation you get a tax reduction of sixty percent now the government has said for small donations it would be even seventy five percent so people are arguing well these people come up with the money but actually the government is pushing parts of the bill and on the other hand you've got the second quite large controversy here is that people say you know. if they's when there is a cathedral and there has been no doubt about that it has been burned and they had lots of lots of damage actually then you can come up with the money but what about the other cool is for the many homeless people here in france why can't you come up money with money for that it's a good point the question would these

a bit of factors would they be so generous if there were no tax credits in return lisa was reporting tonight from paris as always lisa thank you. a volatile political battle with turkey appears to be over at least for now turkey's main opposition candidate has finally been declared mayor of istanbul after a disputed vote tally and retail for a crowd of supporters for the new mayor mr jim i'm one of the flocked to the justice palace to greet him as he took office today in istanbul all of this despite an appeal still pending by president everyone's a k party the party wants a new election. victory is twenty five years of control with its job or by air to one's governing a case for. all right let's go to our correspondent dorian jones he is following

this story for us in istanbul good evening to you dorian i mean there are a lot of people on the move it is tim bor right now what kind of change are they hoping for. well i think firstly they want an end to twenty five years of parties affiliated with president one on top of that i think people did it come in. to out this campaign he said that he would work for everybody in the city and he distinctly avoided getting gauge with president politics a polarized nation and fahri rhetoric which has very well in the past he said no i don't want to get involved with this politics of polarization i want to work for all the people and in fact is it true speech today he said i thanked turks greeks armenians laws all of turkey's vast and stumbles vast diverse population a message of inclusive ety and democracy that is what people will be looking for.

that there will be no more challenge to the legitimacy of the new mayor and. has been challenged by the. democracy in turkey. well absolutely there is he's not guaranteed to stay in power in fact pro-government media commentators all throughout the day have been saying he better he may to enjoy the next few days as he won't be in power for much longer and that's because they ruling a.k.p. have filed months of the vote we've turkey's supreme electoral board and now they are considering something original five suitcases of evidence presented to them claiming that the vote the vote was fraudulent was filled irregularities and they are calling on the vote to be re held now it's far from clear what the outcome is but there have been concerns about the electoral bull given that most of its members are appointed by the president and he's government and in the past the stations have been accused of being impartial but in two relation to the istanbul

vote broadly speaking days only from the city from the opposition that they have behaved fairly and they will be hoping that that will continue but for democracy there will be concerns if this vote is on now because and i think also questions for one because once electoral success for the last fifteen years has been built on electoral success at the ballot box he says whatever you say about me i wouldn't elections now he has been defeated the key thing is will he accept that if it's reversed this will pose big questions over once legitimacy and it's very troubling if this vote were to be challenged yet again especially considering that the country has you know had what two or three years of this crackdown under. looking at it from outside you would think that the country would be firmly in the grip of the party and that vote rigging or any type of miscalculations would be practically impossible. well indeed and in fact i mean in speaking to analysts i think that there is almost disbelief from the opposition party that they

could even win istanbul given the eyeing on crippen controlled has over the media i'm very struck just the whole the elections the fact that the opposition has won they have hold on to these folks he's given major hope to the opposition going forward that they ultimately can challenge power himself and that is why the ruling a.k. party and want are so concerned about losing istanbul. as always doria thank you will probably result in these election point to a victory for the incumbent president djoko we don't know he's on course to win fifty five percent of the vote against his rival the former general. they pulled out all the stops to get voters an election officials dressed as superheroes in the hope of maximizing turnout. it's all about this man sitting president joko widodo comfortably on course to be

reelected as leader of the world's third largest democracy. let us united game as a nation as brothers and sisters who share the same motherland. after these elections let us develop and nurture harmony and brotherhood as one nation and motherland. but. the main challenger firebrand former general prabhu vesuvio antonio claimed there were irregularities in the voting setup insisting many polling stations opened late. i urge my supporters to remain calm everyone should stay calm and refrain from hasty action focus on safeguarding the ballot boxes because they hold the key to our victory. the election was on a vast scale with one hundred ninety million potential voters across three time zones but just seemed happy to participate that you know the funny thing is this

case i think. the fair very have either they have because it's my first time through their faces and. i'm very proud and i was so i did and at this very fine and it decided to put. a series of so-called quick counts by posters give the incumbent we do do a clear lead these have proved reliable in previous elections but official results are not due until next month. are men's tennis now at the monte carlo masters and several of the world's top players featured in the second round on wednesday and there was one surprising upset. rafael nadal was at his dominant best on his favored surface the so-called clay king eased his way past fellow spaniard roberto bucked his style goops. by playing the crowd on his way to a straight sets victory. joining him in the third round will be world number three

alexander who beat eighteen year old philippe seem but the german had encouraging words chris young opponents off to the match. the biggest shock of the day so world number six kane is she corrie knocked out by the blue clad piano. ranked forty nine from the world the frenchman breaking sound off to serve to knock out japan's top player and secure passage into the last sixteen. watching t w news the day is next.

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