cubans feel betrayed. for them, it was like the soviet government made one concession after another to the americans and never consulted their own cuban allies. >> -christoph -- nikita khrushchev immediately dispatched his most trusted, the deputy premier, to havana. >> he was sent to to vote with the goal of healing the wounds and to influence castro. castro refuses to meet with the premier for several days. he begins to understand the breadth of the humiliation the cubans are experiencing. >> for the premier to rise to the center of government, the request drew on personal trauma. >> on the day of his arrival, his wife died. castro said to him -- "go back to your wife's funeral." with great sadness -- he had been married many years -- since his son back to the soviet union to the funeral. he stays and meets with the cuban leadership. >> 1 finally granted his audience with castro, he found cuba to be a bundle of conspiracy theories. with clear instructions from khrushchev, he conveyed the soviet offer int

scars after the cuban revolution they borrowed that symbol from the new ally the soviet union. the morning lineup in school looks more like a military ritual. cuban school children study the events of the past fifty years that history lessons prata telling them about the revolution itself a teacher shows a selection of black and white archive on a monitor the schoolchildren are shown how americans carelessly spent their time in a pre-revolutionary cuba as if they were the masters of their own destiny. to me fidel is the biggest hero of all heroes whom i know because fidel supported the ideas of our independence as he is a revolutionary oh the only person who had to put up resistance to the united states in the time of neo colonialism. the history of the kievan revolution and details rise to power i described in the memoirs of witnesses and in photographs today one can find these publications at bookstores in the center of havana historian thomas d.s. is a frequent guest here some new books including foreign literature and human history have appeared here more recently. this boo

breeders for decades lopez largo has a big farm by local standards in autumn nine hundred sixty two cuban military men knocked on his doorstep among them was a young officer william rocket almight hello or more hello friend. how are you my friend i haven't seen you for ages. you haven't dropped in for a long time it's been so long since we saw each other how's it going not too bad ok let's go and turn. back in one thousand nine hundred sixty two when i'm our first met the cuban military there wasn't time for idle chit chat. the conversation was short and to the point his family was asked to give away their land for the deployment of military hardware brought in by companeros from the soviet union but abram of a came and said that we should leave the house in the next seventy two hours at that time a construction team was already at work here it took them seventy two hours to build a new home for us. camouflaging the missiles under the trees with tents turned out to be an almost impossible task the pantries grew too far away from each other on october fourteenth one thousand nine hundred s

taking part they are playing a computer game a touch of the caribbean crisis or as its better known the cuban missile crisis the game has a historical setting in in the united states in the former u.s.s.r. of fighting battles at sea in the air and on the ground there we got there but everybody's dead. this video game is based on the actual events of october one thousand nine hundred sixty two a period of confrontation between then u.s. president john kennedy and soviet leader nikita for short in response to the american deployment to ballistic missiles in turkey targeted may just soviet cities the soviet union retaliated the stationing their own missiles in cuba about time the world found itself one step away from the start of global nuclear war. the way of life in this small village never changes that's why the appearance of any newcomer is outskirts is a big event. when the first soviet specialists came to the village in august one nine hundred sixty two the locals were told to keep their mouths shut. a large plot of land in the village outskirts was fenced off with barbed wire what went on

the cubans offer hospitality to general alexander alejandro o'reilly. he rose through the ranks of the spanish army. the spanish sent alexander o'reilly to cuba to form a militia. he was appointed governor of louisiana and head of the army later on. he arrived in august, 1769, and took formal possession of louisiana for spain. think of new orleans and cuba, in particular havana, governors there were also in cuba so there was all this traveling from one city to another because later when i got my ph.d. from tulaine university and i went to the irish channel. it's interesting, the irish history connected with new orleans. so the o'reilly family has been in louisiana for centuries. in cuba, nobody remembers him but it was the street of calle oreilly, famous until the 50's for its banks and bookstores. it was one of the favorite streets of (inaudible) secretary of the spanish count of fernandino, my grandfather, another irish man feeling at home in havana. there, at the busy corner of calle street and oreilly was a cafe bakery owned by a catelan. it was des

that was especially true of the cuban issue. go back to the previous issue, his handling on the bay of pigs, got a boost in the poll, but it was nos a great moment of his presidency to say the least. after the bay of pigs, heading into the elections of 1962, america identified cuba a weakness of kennedy, and it was a campaign strategy, attack the administration on cuba. they had been doing that through the summer. on october 16th, kennedy is on the defensive about cuba. this is not an issue he wants to talk to with the lexes, but talk about medicare, anything other than cuba because he's weak on this, and then by implication thought they would lose more seats, but he was not on the ballot because of the midterm election. republicans had been aiming to use this. senator keating from new york, most vocal, on the senate floor about every day saying, you know, there's missiles going to florida, refugee reports, administration turning a blind eye, attacking them for months on this. the issue had been sort of percolating for a long ti

the cuban subversion could aid cubans the version.e big fear was not so much the cuba was such a threat but a pic that beach spreading to brazil which might become a second cuba. kennedy and his advisers, the tapes he studied so carefully in the aftermath and i should mention that of course david is going to be publishing and it's been editing volumes of these and we will come back to that. never expected khrushchev's public rationale for deploying these weapons which was to deter an american invasion. with american forces, not human -- cuban Émigre's so they are is but the worst-case analysis into why all these materials were there. is it fair to say that few never shifted even though some of them were unaware of the covert american operations against castro and intended to overthrow castro? >> guest: let me get the first part of your question too because i think it's interesting. there is an aspect which is come through and watch alexander for sanko and -- brought out is that we have been talking about the frogs and the luminous. th

even down to the training of the cuban exiles at a military base in guatemala. the united states denied any such involvement in a carefully worded at the same time -- worded statement to the united nations. >> the united states has created no aggression against cuba. >> this was fertile ground for soviet integration. u.s. aerial reconnaissance photos showed approximately 40 soviet offensive nuclear weapons being set up and manned by an estimated 22,000 soviet troops. >> in 1962 there was a missile soviet gap. the soviet union could not afford to build new ones. the solution was to put short range and medium range missiles right in our backyard. the whole world literally was watching to see what president john kennedy would do. >> had kennedy done what the joint chiefs of staff wanted to do which was to invade, that there would have immediately been a nuclear war and it would have started on so called tactical level. at that point in the fall of 1962 them -- then certainly would have spread to all right out nuclear war. >> reporter: president kennedy went on tele

it was october 28, 1962 when the cuban missile crisis threatened to turn the cold war into a hot one. the bbc has gained exclusive access to new information that shows there was the second stage to the crisis. >> the cuban missile crisis did not end on october 28, 1962. cuba was going to become a nuclear power right under the nose of the united states, 90 miles from florida. >> there was a lot of attention for at least another three weeks and until that moment, we were at the highest state of alert short of nuclear war. >> i call upon chairman khrushchev. he has the opportunity to world the world back from the abyss of destruction. >> people around the world. the sigh of relief in october 1962 when soviet president nikita khrushchev agreed to remove nuclear weapons from cuba. but in a total failure of intelligence, the u.s. was blind to the existence of tactical nuclear weapons. meanwhile, negotiations -- castro began to see some cooperation with the soviets. >> castro is very angry at the soviet the trail. it sounds like the soviets made a concession after concession to the americans

this week david coleman and his latest book the 14th day jfk and the aftermath of the cuban missile crisis. in a director of the mother center presidential recordings program distills the days following october 28, 1962 and shows that both the public believed the cuban missile crisis that ended president kennedy continued to walk a fine diplomatic line to secure the removal of the nuclear weaponry from cuba. >> host: as you know there's a ton of literature about the cuban missile crisis most of it focusing on 13 days has bobby kennedy's memoir was called in 1969 in the version with kevin costner. what made you decide to focus on the aftermath in this crisis? >> guest: there's two things a lot to talk about in the tracks the end of dovetailing in the end. first of all most of the books that cover the missile crisis and on the 13th day and october 28, the had decided he was going to back down and he had agreed to have a message to withdraw the message from cuba. the question was now what, what happened. interestingly in this is back to what usually happens we know what happens in the weeks a

cubans were not involved at all. they became angrier and angrier that the two superpowers would make a decision over their heads. so whatever castro's basic revolutionary, there is no doubt that the warrior castro comes out because he's really angry. he's been insulted. primarily by his ally, the soviet union. i was going to make a point about the two adults. it's very important to understand at least -- let me try to persuade you to understand. both kennedy and khrushchev wanted to demilitarize the cold war. both of them for different reasons felt the militaries had played too large a role in the cold war to that point. kennedy had a problem with the joint chiefs of staff. you saw some of that played out. this is a very deep problem. there is an assumption sometimes in american history that military leaders know best on what to do. i can't comment on the the current military leaders of the united states. i can tell you that if either dwight eisenhower or john f. kennedy followed advice of the joint chiefs of staff a

and the law prevented cubans from returning. initially it was actually 60 days. the 11 months comes much later. but in 1961 if you left for whatever reason and did not return within 60 days, you lost your home, your property, and your right to be returned to your family. so many families really have been divided by this law. now having said this, i think we need to really look at the overall context. perhaps maybe talk about what this law... what this change means and what we could maybe glean in terms of the behind-the-scenes of a cuban government >> suarez: why now? what do you think prompts this change at this very moment? >> i think, ray, that there's a couple of readings of this. one, it is the change in policy itself shows there's a lot of maneuvering behind the scenes. one reading could be that the ministry of the interior, which is the agency and the institution in charge of intelligence, as well as the control of populations coming in and out, is actually losing ground. they will no longer have this power to be able to give exit visas to at least a broad

lead to a new exodus of cubans leaving the country. in 2008, the cuban national assembly had told those who complained of cuba opposing restricted travel laws that they would not much like the world beyond cuban shores. >> i think it would be the end of the ideological battle in this country. >> starting soon, many more cubans may finally get to decide for themselves. >> coming up, president obama and former governor mitt romney are preparing for the foreign policy debate tomorrow. we will preview it for you. everyone knows traffic in >> top stories we're following -- three people were killed and at least four others injured at a mall in a suburb of milwaukee. the bomb squad is on the scene after what is believed to be an ied was discovered at the spa were all this took place. a suspect is on the list, and his father tonight is pleading for his son to turn himself in. former senator and onetime presidential candidate george mcgovern passed away today at a hospice in south dakota. he was 90 years old. the redskins took on an opponent in

the candidates they not only have come from a trip to cuban coffee and sit cuba libre scum indifferent to do a lot more targeting with other hispanic groups. a spicy a lot of conversation about free trade that issues important to the puerto ricans like education and health care. it is why you're saying a lot of

but the most important part is that cubans need an entry visa to another country. the united states will maintain a very restrictive policy. the bottle neck now will be getting an inch tv set into other countries, and the cuban government can now show that they are not restricting travel but the target countries. it is not an avalanche that we will see, and it will not prompt major political crisis. >> thank you so very much. it has been 10 years since an oil spill in the atlantic polluted thousands of kilometers of european coastline and cost hundreds of fishermen their livelihood. the trial to determine responsibility has just begun. >> the greek-operated shipping vessel prestige was transporting thousands of tons of oil when it sprang a leak and began spilling oil off northwestern spain on november 13, 2002. >> it was the worst environmental disaster in spanish history. the oil tanker prestige broke in two and then sank. more than 50,000 tons of oil leaked into the atlantic and polluted the coastline. 250,000 seabirds are thought to have died as a result. 10 yea

mark cuban is still with us. mr.perman, why did you feel a need to pen an op-ed about this topic right now? >> i guess to quote there's an old-timer who headed up the office of mgts and budget by the name of burt lance and he coined the if it ain't broke, don't fix it. if it's broke, fix it. how much incidents does the s.e.c. have to say, they couldn't open their own offering, facebook, 70% of daily volume has nothing to do with research and the slicing and dicing. it has driven the public out of the market and raised the cost of capital to business. the s.e.c. has been very big on competitive markets, narrowing spreads. it's in the s.e.c. and public's interest that the brokerage community have recent property or they'll withdraw from the business and stop providing services. i think the s.e.c. should step forth. the uptick rule was instituted in the '30s as a result of the abuses coming out of the great depression. it serves the markets well for i don't know 70-odd years. we had the problems arise subsequent to remo

cubans hoping to travel abroad need endless patience. to leave, even temporarily, has been complicated and expensive. confronted with so much red tape, many turn to black humor. few people call this park in havana by its real name. instead, they refer to it as the park between life and death, because on one side is a funeral parlor. the other, the united states intersection. but the government of fidel's brother, raul castro, just announced chances to cuban laws that could finally mean a greater freedom to travel. the laws would mean cubans would no longer need a government exit visa each time they leave the island or an invitation from someone in that country, just a passport. sports stars, doctors and military officials still face restrictions because of their value to cuban society. but most cubans now will be able to stay abroad for up to two years without losing the right to return and for the first time, can take young children with them. reforms that were welcomed outside this havana immigration office. >> translator: this is good

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only if other countries relax their visa laws and only if those cubans can afford the airfare. the government explains the change saying most cubans want to travel for economic reasons not politics seeblinging the work and wealth they struggle to find here. the hope is they will travel and return bringing much-needed money and skills back to the island. opening its borders is a gamble after so many years of tight control, but cuba is changing slowly and this is a much awaited part of that. sarah, "bbc news," havana. >> and still to come on gmt. with violence in serbia strks junior english team accusing the crowd of racial abuse. >> police this spain have arrested scores of people accused of those involved in money laundering. the chinese mafia they claim laundered up to 300 million euros a year and extortion and prostitution were involved. >> this crackdown was swift and unannounced. as this police video shows, suspects were rounded up without ceremony. businesses across the country and 6 million euros in cash and items of jewelry and pieces of artt. >> people who witnessed the

the cuban missile crisis. mission. couldn't take three. three. three. three. three. three. videos for your media projects and free media. tom. thanks for staying with us here on our team thirteen minutes past the hour now russian oil giant rosneft as a step closer toward becoming the world's biggest listed producer the firm's understood to be on the verge of getting the british share of the t.n. k b p joint venture and one of the most expensive industrial deals ever archy's peter all over. it's a deal it's been a long time in the coming it would seem according to the front page of russian newspaper comments on saturday that it was being done now that deal will see sniffed the buyouts b.p.'s fifty percent share of the company. hey b.p. just how much that's going to cost though well initially b.p. had said they wanted twenty eight billion dollars fifty percent share it seems that they've come to an agreement somewhere around the market seventeen billion dollars in cash and to eighty percent of gross net stuff now this is old politics fun to try and take all of ten k. be the i

back in one thousand nine hundred sixty two when i'm our first met the cuban military there wasn't time for idle chit chat. the conversation was short and to the point his family was asked to give away their land for the deployment of military hardware brought in by companeros from the soviet union but abram of a came and said that we should leave the house in the next seventy two hours at that time a construction team was already at work here.

what's a kid supposed to do between mark cuban and t. boone pickens? think you have been around the block a few times, listen >> people know your story. some people don't know this, you were an english major, studied comparative religion. going to be a lawyer. how do you go from that to running a bingo parlor, $300,000 in debts and turning around an entire city. tell me how that came about, and more importantly, how do people take their dreams, make it into a reality and make it real? >> you mentioned i was going to be a lawyer. at the last minute, i turned away from a life of crime. >> that's appropriate after what happened with you today. but tell me. >> how did i get from there to here? my dad taught me you want to stick to simple ideas. i don't know, tony, where or when, but ever since i was a kid, the idea of building something that would make people go wow struck me as just about the coolest thing in the world to do. now, it's not saving lives in the real sense or doing something noteworthy, but it's kept me a happy, happy person. >> a lot of oth

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cubans have hoped for this change.y call the white card the exit visa, incredibly expensive, complicated process to leave their country even for short trips outside to visit family member. there are a million cubans outside of cuba. this comes down to family. it's becoming easier for cuban-americans to visit families here on the island but it remains very difficult until the day for cubans to leave their own country. so starting some of the requirements are going to be removed. what we're talking about is hundreds of dollars for some of the permits. we're talking about months and months of waiting for approvals. that will ago away. for lots of people but not everyone, michael. the cuban government said people they've invested in, people like doctors, perhaps, people like engineers, they made an investment in the people. there might be a slightly different process for them. we haven't heard how that's going to work out. some of the many government critics who over the years complained they're not allowed to leave confer

today marks half a century since the start of the cuban missile crisis. wise -- widely seen as the closest we ever come to nuclear war. they were there because cuba fear that america was planning to invade and topple its socialist revolution. today, the missiles have gone and socialism has not. >> taking a ride back in time on the trail of the cuban missile crisis. i came to the countryside looking for traces of october, 1962 when the world came the closest ever to nuclear war. there were fragments of that passed in strange places here. parts of a concrete silo made to store nuclear warheads. reaching the main site takes a tracreek into the hillside. up here is reappointed missiles at america. but this historian tells me the whole crisis could have been avoided. >> i think the soviets could have disguised missiles with tobacco or chicken. it is one of the incomprehensible aspects of the crisis that they barely took any camouflage measures. >> the military base was spotted by the americans. 50 years ago, this was the silo where they tap 12 nuclear warheads

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