cuba is an economic black hold. the soviet union was pouring a million bucks into cuba. a million a day. >> a million a day. >> uh-huh. >> yes. >> a million a day into cuba. >> i sort of disagree. i mean, i could go either way. but let's look for a moment. russia has now provided two tanker loads of oil to cuba. >> true. >> and russia has taken over the petroleum refinery that venezuela used to be running. so russia is clearly interested. china is the major trading partner, investor in cuba. more than the eu combined. and the critical thing here is both russia and china are the major source of military equipment mentoring for the cuban military, which is good. and the russians have talked about it. but i haven't heard whether they've done it to reopen the satellite interception communications base at san antonio de los spanos. but here i think is what is going on. it's always nice to have a foot hold for russia and china in the western hemisphere. and that was certainly proven to be true during the missile crisis. because in essence, the end of the missile crisis came ab

cuba has no oil. cuba -- >> but it should have and it's still not -- >> they been talking about that for generations. [inaudible conversations] >> but the chinese stepping into [inaudible] >> their deeply embedded in venezuela. what pronoun should i use? >> we both have mentioned senator marco rubio and with the way you are describing us policy now is if as you do in your book were c in the 1990s and 2000 and when the hardliners in miami and the cuban american national foundation and others are essentially controlling us foreign policy towards cuba but this is 20 years later and the demographics have changed and have the politics changed? >> yes, they have changed but unfortunately the conservativeco portion of the republican party that is the cuban-american wealthy people belong to in miami have enough clout that they went to canada in canada trump and said we will support you if you support us and for a republican in general it is best to be a hardliner on cuba in florida and certainly in south flor

i was born in cuba. prominent schools when i made a joke about president fidel castro. i was a teenager. the kid that slept on the bunk bed on top of me recorded our conversation and i was expelled from school. my mom said the only choice is for us to leave cuba. i'm a business man. i've lived in miami for 35 years. it's my home base. i come back and forth to cuba. i've been coming to cuba for over 20 years. i mean, cuba is a communist country in economic transition. fidel castro allowed cubans to establish more businesses. there are people that are making money. there are people that have created a tremendous amount of wealth. >> anthony: people with family connections to the states, people tied to the exploding tourist industry, small business owners, taxi drivers, people operating in ever-changing gray areas of what is permissible. how's it work right now? if you're cuban, you can sell your property to -- >> hugo: another cuban from cuba. and that's what's happening right now. a lot of cuban-americans

and cuba. and that started an exodus of particularly poor cubans trying to get out of the country. >> tell me about the family that you focussed on. the young woman, the husband, named peter, he's a fisherman and we see from the very beginning that it is not easy that sometimes he can't even catch his daily bread, for instance. much less be able to sell and make money off it. s she, we can see, is kind of thinking about leaving. i'm going to show the first clip. a couple discussing whether they should leave. you see the argument between them. i'm going to show the first . >>> it is incredibly poignant, isn't it. i called it an argument but it's a discussion of what to do. and the families, certainly this one, seems to be stuck in limbo. and you hear throughout the government is not providing for the poorest of the poor. >> i think it's pragmatic. it's the elephant in the room in that particular scene. >> the elephant being? >> the elephant being the american dream. and i think, you know, she is

. >> i went to cuba as a tourist last year, so what i saw was somewhat controlled and more managed as part of a tour group, but i left with the belief the military really controls cubit and sort of the leaders of the military control all of industry and major hotels and tumors unpick the reality is it doesn't matter whether it's any of the castro's because the leadership so comes from the military ultimately so not sure many of the policies we have had with embargo or lack of embargo will change that much as long as the military still controls the money. >> it is the castro's that control the military, i mean, raul retains his commander of the armed forces. the guy who runs the military sort of corporate industrial complex, is the ex- son-in-law with whom he's very close. this is-- interestingly and i have frequently told people that brought rule castro is sort of cuba's ceo because the military runs a so much stuff you don't imagine the military runs. they run hotels and cars, restaurants. they run everything. >> here is the thing. there's one really strong institution in cuban as a

that our cuba policy was working. even if you think that we should apply maximum pressure on the castro regime, it's not like the embargo had worked the last 50 years. part of of what we had to do was they're going to criticize us no matter what we, do so we're going to doo what we want to do.

burma but cuba and burma, i think cuba has been changed.i think the difference in 2013 s was enormous. by u.s. standards it wasn't. . . >> the difference which was a human entrepreneur to say when they knocked on my door tuesday be at the communist party rally tomorrow i would swallow and now i go but know i have my own business but according to i'm busy and by cuban standards it was an opening do have more power to be more connected to the world. it is significant. even with trump rolling things back it will lead more but this is the key point that americans are so impatient but in my wildest dreams i would not have thought cuba would somehow be a democracy in any way shape or form within five years or maybe even ten but the lives of cuban people would be better with more access and you would begin that evolution so part of that is having the patience to stick with the policy it was a much more complicated issue because on the one hand did have a significant transformation there was a democratic election but a partial transition the milita

but with maduro's half idea, is that economic change in cuba could produce political change in cuba. different from venezuela. in venezuela, only the economic change could produce freedom, is the only way around. right now in their heads, their minds only to receive -- they don't want to change the system, they don't want to change the economy, they just want to consolidate cuba's system in order to be empowered. then, regarding a position, i would like to be very clear that in this recent years, we have done almost everything. we went to the parliament election in 2015. we won. and the government shut down the parliament. and we used our mechanism in the constitution to call for referendum. the government has stopped the call for referendum. then we went to the street and had 130 days of registration. reportedly, with an actual number of people who die for the violence of the government. then we went to the regional elections then to a dialogue, the chief of the organization for the position of dialogue and they were a closed door in our face. so, we have done everything, elections,

and backup policy and policy toward cuba and orchestrated the president's trips to cuba and argentina. and also the development of the peace initiative. and an advance that deepened the u.s. cooperation between mexico and canada. very full background on the whole region, mark. you consulted with and serves as a senior adviser. thank you, mark, for being with us. you had julio's remarks. we're all curious to get your thoughts and reaction. >> well, first, thank you very much for the invitation and an honor to join julio and you, moises. it's always a task to follow julio, for smianyone who is mor than informed than julio. i k him for many years, we met 15 years ago, i was a consultant for rcb which is the radio and tv network shut down over time. dr. hamre spoke earlierbout how courageous julio is. and in my 35-plus years of working around the region and the world, i've met many people who are followed to democracy rights. i've never known anybody as personal as anyone. he has a beautiful family. and i'm confident when the history of this period in the final chapter will be a good one.

we as a family in cuba want justice. so. in the one nine hundred eighty s. the number of contract workers brought in to help the failing economy rose rapidly in one thousand nine hundred one there were twenty four thousand of the men exterminate by nine hundred eighty nine that number had almost quadrupled the conflicts came to a head in light of the worsening supply situation foreign contract workers were suspected of hoarding goods and smuggling them back to their home countries. the writer land of shots and the form of mozambique and contract work i believe no massive ear witness how the state old dame solidarity became nothing but an empty slogan shop so was doing research for a book on mozambique and workers in a vehicle and rifle factory at the time. because with the year. before i asked the people of east germany the party secretary and many others the party secretary said our contract workers were our class brothers workers. and i went there with my five x. i weighed out that some of the glass and he said all that while the tape was running on us and

of course we felt insulted by that and there were many insults about fidel and cuba . in the lead up to. the family of the contract worker i will gothia who was killed in massive bergen nine hundred seventy nine live in very modest conditions in santa clara a three hour drive from havana his mother still deeply feels the pain of his death even thirty eight years later. when. he was a good decent boy always cheerful he had a good heart. you got to work because. it's the first time the family have heard about what the stars the files had to say about the death of their son and brother they're horrified and shocked they were left in the dark about the exact circumstances of his death all these years up until now they believed it had been an accident or something to go. with. mom and dad or they sent us a telegram that we were to see the dog didn't have ana i wanted to go because i wanted to know what had happened and whether he was to blame for a fight. i knew he wasn't and that it was wrong that he died a good decent boy. that was everything my. troubles mother and his s

thousands of workers from non european countries came to east germany first from algeria then from cuba mozambique vietnam and angola according to the official message the citizens of east germany in the foreign contract workers were building the socialist state together that was cultural exchange and meetings on an equal footing with the newcomers became members of the socialist workers collective the two groups also spent their leisure time together at least according to the party line. up the eighteen cubans have found friends here friends who will still be there for them when they're no longer with them they'll do it through the experiences the cubans have shared with them a connectedness with the pioneers of socialism on the american continent. but outside the state ordained friendship meetings the dominant reaction to the new arrivals was rejection. as last march up the aadhaar and there was a defensive attitude in all areas of everyday life. they could take something away from us girls or to dance for example the hostility came from them being foreigners but also because the stat

so feeling somewhat frustrated my -- frustration is when i turned to cuba or vietnam.nd we need to pay attention. we have so much coming out every day that you barack obama need to make cuba a priority. so let me do this. and then to broaden somewhat. >> so you didn't want to that was the george w. bush experiment. but to undergird the iran deal was the notion that if we just open it up and to have the openness that will change the society for the better. and to go into certain middle east countries despite foreign policy is broken. is there too much idealism? >> we have had hundreds of hours of conversations about iran. what was being into us by barack obama was preventing iran from getting a nuclear weapon. and that is why this is about. it's about keeping a bad machine from getting nuclear weapons. but it was more likely that iran could invoke among -- evolve into a different direction? but we did not think that we do the iran deal one or two years later that there is that regime but i do think that if we keep them from getting a nuclear weapon before the sunset pro

as is cuba, and china. similarly, the council failed to respond in december and january when the iranian regime killed and arrested hundreds of citizens simply for expressing their views. when a so-called human rights council cannot bring itself to address the massive abuses in venezuela and iran, and it welcomes the democratic republic of congo as a new member, the council ceases to be worthy of its name. such a council in fact damages the cause of human rights. then of course, there is the matter of the chronic bias against israel. last year, the united states made it clear that the wood not accept the continued existence of agenda item seven, which singles out israel in a way that no other country is singled out. , as it has inear previous years, the human rights council passed five resolutions against israel. more than the number passed against north korea, iran, and syria combined. focus andoportionate unending hostility toward israel is clear proof that the council is motivated by political bias, not

>> guest: cuba was at one time the spear points. they were the most aggressive in spreading communism. for example, nicaragua, bolivia, they sent 16000 troops to angola, they were at the forefront. they were committed , and they provided oil and all sorts of resources to them. when the soviet union collapsed, so did cuba in many respects. their military no longer had provisions by the soviet union. they lost the oil. what save them is that they had to look to venezuela. chavez looked upon the cubans the way -- looked upon the ancient greeks. so, he helped them a great deal. he sent oil and a return cuban set medical doctors and police organizers to venezuela to help chavez. it's another example of how a rogue slips from one great power into the orbits of another. today, i do not consider cuba a rogue state any longer. i think it is a state that is failing in many respects. it is moving away very slowly from a communist ideology and allowing some minor changes in the economy which are more free-market than in the past. >> host: one o

still to come, after decades of communist rule in cuba, could the new president be about to bring inn their royal progress to westminster. the moment of crowning in accordance with the order of service, by a signal given with great guns of the tower shall be shot off. tributes have been paid around the world to muhammad ali, who has died at the age of 7a. outspoken but rarely outfought, ali transcended the sport of boxing, of which he was three times world champion. he was a good fighter and he fought all the way to the end, even through his illness. yes, he did. uefa imposes an indefinite ban on english clubs playing in europe. today is the 20th anniversary of the release of the beatles‘ lp sgt pepper's lonely hearts club band, a record described as the album of the century. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: g7 ministers accuse washington of abandoning its leadership in the global economy and warn of a trade war over new tariffs. eswar prasad, professor of trade policy at cornell university and former head of the international monetary fund's china division. he joins us now fr

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here is how the media though, howard treated president obama's trip to cuba.your reaction to this. watch. >> it is history in the making, president obama is about to land in cuba. >> a historic trip by a u.s. president, all bringing with them hope for a new a changed cuba ahead. >> that other big headline this morning president obama making history becoming the first u.s. president in nearly 90 years to step foot on cuban soil >> the history made here in cuba just this moment of this plane being on the ground and president barack obama on inside is something that people here never imagined. >> it is the way that this administration is trying to show that it will do whatever it can before it leaves office to give the engagement process and to try to make it irreversible. liz: howard cuba has a massive prison system. it really, it tortures people and kills people. it's kind partly behind largely i'd say the collapse of venezuela sounds like the media is pretty happy about president obama's visit to cuba. >> oh, the mainstream media were cheerleading the resumpti

but fortunately that rule only applies going from the us to cuba. you fly out to havana, then to new york, then back home, and you should not encounter any problem. now here's a question from philip gilliam. we are a family of three going to denmark in august. the accommodation seems to be a bit of a nightmare. it seems very expensive in copenhagen, so i was wondering you could help us. we are struggling to get anywhere at a reasonable price. accommodation prices in the danish capital are challenging. i reckon for corresponding prices in other european cities, you typically pay 50% more to stay in copenhagen. fortunately the youth hostel network offers a lower rate and high standards. in general, the lower you go from the city centre, the lower the coast. you might also want to consider spending some of your time across the bridge in malmo in southern sweden, where, in my experience, hotel prices are significantly lower than copenhagen. if i can help you with your travel enquiries, please get in touch. just e—mail thetravelshow@bbc.com. i will do my

you mentioned iran and cuba. it takes a lot of time to plow the ground with a country you have no relations with, like cuba or north korea. i worry they're rushing to get the summit on the books. they haven't been clear about what they're trying to achieve. it's not just your instincts, it's also what you know about treasury sanctions policy, what do you know about diplomatic context in asia, what do you know about the nuclear program? i don't see trump doing that preparation at all. >> what kind of advice would you be giving? >> first of all, i would think you would spend many months in preparatory meetings. you don't put the president in a spot like that unless you've many meetings. secondly, a lot of meetings with a big team. he knew what we need to do application with inspections. we had sanctions experts at the table. they're not bringing that to singapore. talk to folks, fox leek the lead of iran and cuba. do you think there's a double standard of somewhat of a hypocrisy, that he was so -- when he bashed th

after decades of communist rule in cuba, could the new president be about to bring in significant changeso the way the country is run? also in the programme... we travel to the russian city of kazan as it prepares to welcome world cup fans and celebrate ramadan. a very warm welcome. spain's new prime minister, pedro sanchez, has been sworn into office by king felipe. it followed the ousting of the government of mariano rajoy in a parliamentary vote of no confidence after his people's party was embroiled in corruption allegations. a new separatist catalan government was also formally sworn in on saturday, with its regional leader calling for talks with spain's new prime minister. richard galpin reports. the leader of spain's socialist party taking the formal steps to becoming the country's new prime minister. translation: i promise on my conscience and honour to loyally fulfill the responsibilities of prime minister and to be loyal to the king and to safeguard the constitution, as well as keeping the deliberations of the cabinet secret. king felipe the first to congratulate pedro sanchez,

personnel in cuba and china. in cuba they refer to them as attacks. in china, when the same thing seems to have happened they were called incidents. in cuba, a level three travel advisory was triggered. the department issued a health alert and no order departure. you said china was the right cuba they failed to take appropriate steps to protect diplomats. isn't it the same event in china and cuba? sec. pompeo: that is a good question. i don't know if they were the same. the medical condition, the single medical condition to date in china is consistent with what happened in cuba. we are up to two dozen plus in cuba. we don't know the source of either of these. we are continuing to investigate in both places. we have received better initial responses from the chinese government banned the cuban to deal with how them, but neither has led to a satisfactory outcome so we can keep foreign service officers serving in embassies in those two places say. heavily throne chinese diplomats out of the united states as we did cuba's for virtually the same kind of at

unfortunately that rule only applies going from the us who do make to cuba., and you should not encounter any problem. now here's a question from dilip gilliam. we are a family of three go to denmark in august. it seems to be a bit of a nightmare. it is very expensive in copenhagen, so i was wondering you could help us. -- philip. i was wondering you could help us. —— philip. we are struggling to get anywhere and a reasonable price. accommodation prices in the capital are challenging. i think for corresponding prices in european cities, you are typically paid more by that youtube said in copenhagen. fortu nately by that youtube said in copenhagen. fortunately the youth hostel network offers a lower rate and higher standards. —— high standards. —— that you would pay in copenhagen. you might also want to consider spending some of your time across the bridge in southern sweden, where, in my spirits, hotel prices are significantly lower than copenhagen. if i can help you with your travel enquiries, please get in touch. just e—mail the travel show. i will do my ve

including hearing loss north sea and headaches those same diplomats and their families in cuba were later diagnosed with minus signs of brain injury including concussions and china has yet to comment on the latest cases but it had said and this is in relation to the first case offered by the u.s. a u.s. diplomat last month has already been sent home that it had no explanation for the case now these illnesses come at a time when ties between the u.s. and china are becoming increasingly strained for a number of reasons one is trade the u.s. and china are in the midst of trade talks to avert a possible trade war where both are threatening to slap tit for tat tariffs on about one hundred fifty billion dollars worth of goods each and then those job paula takes with the u.s. recently uninvited china from taking part in a naval exercise in the south china sea citing china's militarization of parts of the disputed south china sea and finally you have the upcoming summit in singapore where u.s. president donald trump is due to meet north korean leader kim jong il in just a couple of days the

and he wants that reflect that so that perhaps the small business owners that are permitted under cuba of tuition. and there are other things too, particularly term limits on president, on the president, and on other high officials, age limits, too, things that will make a difference to the way that cuba is one but not the underpinning philosophy, the political philosophy, the political philosophy, the political philosophy, the socialist nature of the revolutionaries enshrined in law and obviously they won't be touching up. i mean, it is quite noticeable, you know, the impact it has, i mean, when i was in havana last year, i noticed that small businesses, small restau ra nt noticed that small businesses, small restaurant owners, were really trying to make a go of the opportunities they had and if there a feeling that people are poised to do more of that if these changes come in? yes, i think so. those are some of the kind of businesses that are permitted, whether it is small restau ra nt, are permitted, whether it is small restaurant, small bed and brea kfasts, restaurant, small bed an

and, well, cuba wants to trade, cuba wants investment, cuba wants integration. all right. there's a political negotiation there pending that needs to be faced. the other thing that i think it's extremely important now, i had conversation with a couple of the decision leaders, it's time for the government in exile to be created. europe had during the war, during world war ii european countries, nine european countries had a government -- under occupation. it was also occupied by a series of criminal organizations as we just described, you know, that the table. well, the supreme court in exile, meeting and ruling -- and there needs to be a collegiate executive branch as well in exile. which would be the national -- of foreign governments, wherever they are. they are prominent and political leaders of venezuela, pretty much in every country, columbia, argentina, the u.s. of course, canada, you name it, europe, of course. in italy and in france and in spain, obviously. that would be a way to also, perhaps, have ambassadors in exile many those countries. different interlockters

socially as well, cuba is changing. of the 1070s and 80s. the lbgtq rights lobby led by mr castro's daughter, mariella castro, is hopeful they can overturn the concept of marriage on the island as strictly between a man and a woman. whatever reforms are agreed, there are some fundamentals that won't change in cuba. the socialist character of the political system was enshrined into law several years ago. and with raul castro overseeing the reform committee, no change will be allowed to stray too far from the original concept of a communist—led revolution. will grant, bbc news, havana. a dinosaurfossilfound in the united states is going on sale at the eiffel tower in paris on monday. the skeleton is worth millions of dollars, though experts are still uncertain of its identity. shuba krishnan reports. headed for auction. this dinosaur skeleton is expected to fetch up to $2.2 million. not bad for an unidentified species. translation: until all the bones were discovered, we all thought it was an allosaurus. it was in the lab

the cuba cuba cuba hooked . worried about the danger to the levee quickly spreads. nobody's own a safe now. for . your deck is your word i'm taking my mother and my children to my sister's house and i need to get home to protect everything from the water i'm afraid my house is going to be washed away we're going to be a little late. to new. move. that i'm. being. it's not just to keep those family. the levees ruptured throughout the backwaters last night leaving thirty thousand people homeless. these people are taking their children to live with their relatives. some of them will never return no. place for. her. for . dharavi in mumbai is one of the largest slums in the world. it's home to over a million people. some of them have been here for generations. others have arrived recently from villages like a can see. the met office is issued a severe weather warning and asked people to stay home but today is the festival of the warrior gunners dog. people here look to her for protection if. this. blood sacrifice is in the air like. a girl with a club foot prostrates or

back group of about one thousand five hundred paramilitaries invaded cuba at the bay of pigs. the invasion was a complete failure and even though the operation had been planned during the previous administration kennedy took the blame for it. bobby kennedy felt humiliated it seemed his brother the president in tears as the invasion unraveled now he swore to get even with castro in his own way. kennedy had turned a blind eye as the cia plotted with the math here to assassinate castro the us senate panel determined that the cia tried to kill castro at least eight times between one nine hundred sixty and one nine hundred sixty five. after the botched invasion or castro accepted a soviet offer to secretly deploying nuclear missiles in cuba. on october the fifteenth a cia review of high altitude photographs determined that the missiles had indeed been deployed. as john kennedy faced the greatest test of his presidency to date he came to rely on his brother more than ever the president considered bobby the only person he could trust completely. a different side of bobby's character

attack on cuba the kennedys worked out a secret deal with the soviets to diffuse the crisis and allow both sides to save face. meanwhile tensions in black communities across the country were running high. blacks demanded social justice and the legal rights that were guaranteed them under the u.s. constitution. but discrimination was still widespread and racial segregation was still strictly enforced in the deep south. by bobby kennedy took on the seemingly impossible task of trying to improve relations between whites and blacks . wait at that rate and we say that we're going to kill off where we've got to consider where we started out we want your help and it's this anybody that knows that or any of you who are interested in working at that particular welcome. in the autumn of one thousand nine hundred sixty two james meredith became the first black student to enroll at the university of mississippi attorney general robert kennedy had intervened on meredith's behalf with the state's governor ross barnett who had found to keep the university segregated. the kennedys didn't want to alie

secretary state my campaign says it was a result of a sonic attack similar to last year's cases in cubaflorence louis has more from beijing. this could turn out to be more serious than previously thought a u.s. medical team is currently in the southern city of congo conducting medical screenings on u.s. government workers those u.s. diplomats and their families who've already been sent home from china complained about the same symptoms suffered by their colleagues in cuba including hearing loss north sea air and headaches those same diplomats and their families in cuba were later diagnosed with minus signs of brain injury including concussions and china has yet to comment on the latest cases but it had said and this is in relation to the first case offered by the u.s. a u.s. diplomat last month has already been sent home that it had no explanation for the case now and these illnesses come at a time when ties between the u.s. and china are becoming increasingly strained for a number of reasons one is trade the u.s. and china are in the midst of trade talks to avert a possible trade war w

because venezuela is a member of the human rights' counsel as is cuba as is china. the council failed to respond in december and january when the uranium regime -- iranian regime killed hundreds of citizens. when a human rights council cannot bring itself to adjust abuses in venezuela and welcomes the democratic republic of congo as a new member, the council ceases to be worthy of its name. such a council damages the cause of human rights. the biasthe matter of against israel. the united states made it clear we would not accept the continued existence of agenda item seven, which singles out israel in a way no other country is singled out. year, the human rights' counsel passed five resolutions against israel. more than the number passed against north korea, ironic, and syria, combined. this hostility towards israel is is motivatedncil by political bias, not by human rights. for all these reasons, the united states spent the past year engaged in an effort to reform the human rights' counsel. it is worth examining why our efforts did not succeed. there are two reasons

. >> host: the elected government of nicaragua was a proxy of cuba and therefore the ussr and it was they were originally elected in a broad coalition who were democrats and they immediately saw what they were doi in cuba and turning the nicaragua into a communist totalitarian state burning down newspapers and locking up opponents and doing secret tribes and all of those -- whatever you might think about he was a dictator but he was not an agent of our chief enemy and he was not an agent of cuba another chief enemy that wanted the ussr to hit us with nuclear missiles if you call -- wire you so eager to make excuses for a resume like that on the ground that we have so much to be ashamed of? >> guest: i haveeen to nicaragua about five times and they were a lot happier under the sandinistas. >> host: as soon as the got the opportunity they overthrew them. >> guest: no, they did and much people were happier and i'm not calling the sandinistas as the perfect role model for american democracy but think they were better for the nicaraguan people and we had no business trying to overthrow it

after decades of communist rule in cuba, could the new president be about to bring in significant changes to the way the country is run? hello, and welcome to bbc news.

up by a us fishing boat and released to relatives in south florida but his father wanted him back cuba and despite pleas from his extended family and the florida cuban-american community federal agents at gunpoint pool the crying boy from his relatives and sent them back to cuba. the clinton administration said it was following the law but it appears former president clinton is criticizing donald trump for doing the same because as rich lowry pointed out in the "national review," quote, separation happens only if officials find the adult is falsely claiming to be the child's parent or as a threat to the child or is put into criminal proceedings and because of the huge increase in false applications, child smuggling of the trump administration enforcing the law the number of families being separated is skyrocketing and dhs points out families can quickly be reunited by agreeing to go. most are applying for asylum. the losses the government can only hold children for 20 days and the asylum process takes much longer. >> this law does create a glaring conflict in this running. you can rele

. >> host: the elected government of nicaragua was a proxy of cuba and therefore of the ussr and it was they were originally elected in a broad coalition included [inaudible] who were democrats and they immediately saw what they were doing copying cuba and trying to determine nicaragua into a communist totalitarian state closing down newspapers and locking up opponents and doing secret trials and all of those things whatever you might think about him -- yeah, he was a dictator but he was not an agent of our teeth m&a, the ussr. he was not an agent of cuba, another chief agency that wanted us to hit with nuclear weapons during the cuban missile crisis. why are you so eager to make excuses for the regime like that on the grounds that we have so much to be ashamed of? >> guest: first of all, i've been to nicaragua maybe five times and the people i talked to were a lot happier under [inaudible] then [inaudible] >> host: they voted him out as soon as they got the opportunity but go on. >> guest: they were much happier and -- i'm not holding them up as the perfect role models for american dem

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socially, too, cuba is changing.n a great deal from the repression of the 1970s and 80s. the lgbtq rights lobby, led by mr castro's daughter mariela castro, is hopeful that they can overturn the concept of marriage on the island as strictly between a man and woman. whatever reforms are agreed, there are some fundamentals that won't change in cuba. the socialist character of the political system was enshrined into law several years ago. with raul castro overseeing the reform committee, no change will be allowed to stray too far from the original concept of a communist—led revolution. will grant, bbc news, havana. it's the time of year when thousands of keen ramblers step out to enjoy the stunning scenery of the lake district, but all that walking is taking its toll on the ground beneath their feet. volunteers have employed a traditional source of labour to help restore the routes that are more difficult to reach — fell ponies. dave guest explains. these fell ponies are on a mission — a mission to save the landscape fr

this is what she had to say i think it's important to recognize that there are some limitations in cuba it's not very specific on what steps to sense of unity to achieve. denuclearization of the peninsula but more broadly a peace regime and so it's beholden people workers and the common people of south korea and globally to put forth a vision of what peace really looks like for us that means means obviously the signing of a peace treaty given me means getting rid of not only north korea's nuclear weapons but also the nuclear threat from the united states we hope that that she being denuclearization of the korean peninsula might be the first step towards real nuclear disarmament globally. and then what do you make of what's inside. well i think you know there's some important points in there and the first is that you know it's not just about the threat that north korea's nuclear weapons pose to south korea to the united states into the world but you know that north korea itself is under an axis existential threat and there's a reason why they have built a nuclear arsenal over time and it

of our told fidel what happened and they made that agreement and they said if we succeed in taking cuba we cannot have an open society because of the threat of being overthrown by the u.s. i mean we know there is a history of covert and overt operations and so you know we have to understand that i think to push for a greater freedom and openness with within north korea but we have to start with dialogue and i believe normalization of relations and we have seen progress made on disability rights through respectful engagement with the north korean government you know christine the point you made about still being at war the war having not in did a show that we did recently hear on the stream on twitter brings that up he says korea has been a divided nation for the last seven years in south korea is under x. the threat from nuclear north korea most south koreans hope this summit will be successful in denuclearization of north korea and bring peace to the korean peninsula so it's that idea of denuclearization being something that some koreans want to be at the top of the agenda that's repre

on cuba there was blocking legislation taken by mexico canada and the e.u. took a deal i think. with a blocking statute not only that we went to devon geo and opened a complaint against the u.s. and not only that we put together a list of american companies to be the target of mirror sanctions and believe it don't move it stop and we got an exemption and we traded with cuba all these years we didn't do that for iran and libya and that's why we have this problem today but back in ninety ninety five and you know later part of it in ninety six the station was a little bit different because that act was pushed forth by the republicans president bill clinton was against it he ended up signing a waiver against that law do you think you know the political composition actually compares baghdad and the american president wasn't so sad on you know implementing his vision if i put it politely. yes and no it's more complicated than that because the tendency to use american law is not just on sanction they go and say you know who the moment you start a business in the u.s. we're employing am

that our cuba policy was working. castro regime, it's not like the embargo had worked the last 50 years. part of of what we had to do was they're going to criticize us no matter what we, do so we're going to doo what we want to do. that's how you get a cuba opening and an iran deal and a paris climate agreement because there was not an opportunity to bring them along on military intervention. they were all for intervening in libya until the day barack obama did it zme were all against it. and you just had to realize that we had an opposition party that had no interest in doing anything with barack obama. >> wto you think about watching this administration function? we just got the news that paul manafort is -- robert mueller has filed in court to maybe revoke his braille and put him in jail because they say he's trying to influence witnesses improperly. there's the mueller investigation. there's the russia issue which hangs over everything. what has it been like to process this? >> well, number one, they don't operate