we're in havana's rumba palace.>> marsalis: cuba, that's like one of your cousins. they do their thing, they have their way of dancing, their way of cooking-- you know, red beans and rice, the kind of food that we have. >> safer: the great cuban musician compay segundo once said it all-- "cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music." their moves aren't so bad, either. ♪ ♪ the rumba palace crowd partied long into the night. soon, it would be the americans' turn to show their stuff... ...with an old-fashioned new orleans street parade, with a gaggle of music students in tow. spreading that timeless new orleans rule of life-- let the good times roll. >> marsalis: the music touches people, the students. if you're receptive to it and you have a little bit of it, you want it. ♪ ♪ >> safer: havana, of course, is the city of the brothers castro; of che, the cha-cha-cha, and the classic chevys, a city still off limits to most americans. but a city where cubans nearly broke down the doors to hear the american music

from havana, michael reports. >> cruising the caribbean. every winter, tens of thousands of tourists island-hop on these luxury floating hotels. for several years now, cuba has been virtually out of bounds. this is the first british liner to visit here in least five years. under the u.s. trade embargo, and the vessel who traveled to cuba cannot enter american ports for six months. this ship is not allowed to pick up passengers in miami. european ships sailing out of barbados or the bahamas used to come here regularly. these visits all but dried out after cuba's former leader fidel castro decided he did not approve of the business. he said cruise liners like these left rubbish and empty cans, but generated little income. now it seems there will come again. -- they are welcome again. over the past few months, norwegian and spanish miners have returned, but with 1500 passengers, this is by far the largest cruise ship ever to have been in havana. they may not be spending money on hotel rooms and restaurants. they are still providing a major boo

over 1500 passengers were on the largest cruise ship to ever docca in havana.hey may not be spending money on hotel rooms and restaurants. they're still providing a major boost to the local tourist industry in -- industry. >> very good. everybody is very happy. >> why did you pick that particular one? >> it is something different. it is something different. some more i have never been to, really. >> [inaudible] >> the cubans have managed to persuade the cruise liners to return. now, the really big challenge is to get the u.s. to lift its travel ban on american tourists visiting the island. bbc news, havana. >> our top story, england has retained the ashes and won the series in sydney. they won the fifth protest australia 3-1. "bbc news." >> hello and welcome. >> see the news unfold, get the top stories from around the globe and click-to-play video reports. go to bbc.com/news to experience the in-depth, expert reporting of "bbc world news" online. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own found

there's developments fear is present in the streets of havana. the daughter of the former officer of the cuban army william rocky is about to get married william shows old photos to his future son in law as it tells him about his family one of them features an old friend alexander markov a soviet pilot who took part in the events of the cuban missile crisis. the two offices correspondent for years before the internet came to cuba then they switched to skype. believe yirrkala alex alex how you doing the. hello william how's your family how's life. mine is ok how's your family. we're ok. visit us some time. motion you know alex i might come to moscow soon. yeah looking forward to seeing you in my home village. nothing any by by. today the caribbean or cuban missile crisis computer games is popular among those who could be the sons of the real participants of the one nine hundred sixty two events now with the help of computer graphics it's possible to imagine how the events could have turned out if the soviet union and the us didn't find a compromis

here is our havana correspondent. >> there was a run on the ration shops on the buildup to the new year as cubans stocked up on soap, toothpaste and detergent. all these items shot up in price on january 1. part of the move to do away with expensive universal subsidies. >> they should not get rid of them. some people have access to dollars. that their relatives sent from abroad. other people do not have it that easy, like the elderly and they need to be able to wash and maintain hygiene. >> providing we can get these items, we will not have to buy them on the black market. people can afford it by the subsidized so. instead of using it, they sell it for profit. >> potatoes and cigarettes and chickpeas were removed last year. rice, beans, eggs, and small quantities of meat remained. rationing was introduced almost half a century ago by fidel castro. insuring that no one went hungry after u.s.-imposed trade embargoes. his brother has tried to win the nation of unaffordable handouts and subsidies which he claims discourage people from working harder. plans to replace -- he plans to replace

a number of people declared his arrival for the death of 26 patients in a psychiatric hospital in havana. and that includes the hospital director and several doctors among the accused. the health care system is what the communist government declares as one of its major achievements. the opposition leader has been a restaurant. she is quoted as saying for a popular uprising is popular. a former ally of the sheer, he has been in prison several times during an -- of al bashir, he has been in prison several times. and the man widely recognized has lost the elections. he has proposed a meeting with the man internationally it knowledge as the election in winner. international human rights groups have called for the prosecution of john claude duvalier as he returns after 25 years of exile. human rights watch say that he should be held accountable for the alleged torture and killing of thousands of people. >> baby doc duvalier comes back to haiti 25 years after he fled. he says he came back to show solidarity with the people. it is a measure of how tired of the conditions are in haiti that even

police opened fire to break of the attack, and the death of 26 patients in havana a year ago. the deaths from hypothermia exposed failings in the public health system which the communist government hailed as one of its main achievements. the african union's mediator says he has made progress in what he calls discussions. he said he proposed a meeting. international human rights groups are calling for the prosecution of duvalier, who returns to his homeland after exiled. they say he should be held accountable for the torture and killing of thousands of people. >> duvalier comes back to haiti from afar, 25 years after he fled. the once shobi playboy claims he came back to show solidarity with the people. even this divided figure is welcomed by hundreds. >> since he left the city, we never had a good president. there are always problems, so he is welcome. >> this comes at a time of problems in haiti. the earthquake created an atmosphere of nervous uncertainty. when lies behind his dramatic disappearance? >> he says he has come back with concern for haiti. maybe he perceived a pol

several hundred thousand cuban-americans flew to havana last year to visit cuban-americans after americaifted travel restrictions. and they began discussionings on the re-- resumption of mail services, but these talks have dissolved. >> there is a great deal of excitement surrounding the wedding between prince william and kate middleton. our correspondent has been talk to go a group of americans living here in london. ♪ >> the house of wind so brand has had some recent ups and downs. at the top remains a c.e.o., stable and revered. below those, there have been problems. reputations dent, deals broken. now a new partnership has emerged. perhaps even a chance for a rebrand. this family has been reduced to the basest of all creatures. we have become actors. we are not a family. >> the film has opened in london, the film about a reluctant king struggling to communicate. it resonates today, a royal family trying to connect with the public, trying to get its message across. that distant thaurt is very british. we are schizophrenic. are we too harsh? in a completely unscientific survey, we wond

nine men were detained in the western ukrainian city of havana from calls for an alleged assassination attempt of the crimean president viktor yanukovych which these men identified themselves as members of the radical nationalist organization called the local police reports that in the house which these men were renting just ten kilometers from the airport they managed to find a whole stockpile of weaponry including explosives grenades kalashnikov assault rifles guns and never gave systems and even make up for disguise this according to the local authorities makes them believe that these men were plotting an assassination attempt of the president viktor yanukovych who is now on visit in the west of ukraine along with the parliament speaker of the libyan who was also threatened to be assassinated according to the local authorities experts are now speculating as to whether it was possible for the man to gun down the airplane from the ground because they had no rocket launchers in the stockpile of weaponry only sniper rifles and this is now being discussed whether it was possible to gun a

american presence there follows a deal struck over sentry go but calls are growing stronger from havana that the u.s. is vonnie to cuba sovereignty. as this report. it's a place forever immortalized by images of torture known by its abbreviation get america's notorious detention facility in guantanamo bay cuba has been the source of world condemnation abuse lack of legal recourse and indefinite detention is the norm it's also been the subject of decades of strife with cuban authorities who argue the forty five square mile military base violates cuban sovereignty and amounts to a military occupation the agreement under which u.s. has to be on cuban soil the kuantan a moment let's hear a piece. from earlier earliest years of the twentieth century the plot amendment was imposed following the u.s. occupation of cuba after the spanish american war in one thousand nine hundred three was extracted from the bench you've been governing under under threat under duress and in clear contravention of international laws like the vienna convention the u.s. government threatened to continue its occupat

stands a good chance to be taken seriously because though it talks about the effect of separation of havana state in reality it implies how to separate the united states from afghanistan and to minimize the afghan exposure to the us foreign policy well it's another issue where the white house will accept this idea but for the time being the reason no other better option or solution under the current circumstances for the u.s. policymakers in afghanistan well that was all he. can know you've got the same set of now free speech and things been on trial and done while critical remarks he made about islam has been acquitted had to go the president of the danish free press could have faced up to two years in prison if found guilty the act of instance prosecuting comments about domestic violence within islamic found any cold although he may said miss it and claim what aimed at the time is the population painful feelings to drop the case. well i had all. managed to catch up with lars had a guy want to talk about his views on immigration and multiculturalism in europe that interview coming up in ju

two other men brought knives and pistols on a flight and forced the pilots to divert the plane to havana the two other men were sentenced in the 70s but it wasn't until 2009, pena soltren returned to the u.s. to face charges. >>> today the navy permenantly removed the captain of the u.s.s. enterprise because of his role in some controversial videos that she shot on board the ship. >> because there's a really good chance you're going to be offended. the videos were shot four years ago when captain owen honors was the commander on the ship. he played the video's ship right on the ship. honors has been relieved of his duties tonight. >> he's been held accountable for the inappropriate actions repeatedly demonstrated on those videos. as naval officers we are held, indeed we must be held to higher standards of performance and conduct. >> some sailors who served on the enterprise have started a support page for honors on face book says his movies help boost moral. honors has been reassigned to officer duty. navy officials say they will include looking into actions of other officers who knew ab

down a cuban airliner and killed over seventy people when he did it the man who blew up a hotel in havana and killed an italian citizen he's walking the streets of miami free we're harboring a terrorist he's on trial right now as we speak actually started yesterday but not on trial here not because there are minor minor infractions that i think it's a very quickly when are we going to see guantanamo close are we ever i don't think we're going to see a close in my lifetime i hope i'm wrong but i don't think we're going to see it close in my lifetime and i plan to live at least another decade or two but i held the i hope you're not wrong in the sense of loss and the clothes are that you are wrong thank you so much life for being here thanks for having me. what each year a group of activists comes to washington d.c. to protest guantanamo bay and the use of torture in front of the white house many of them dressed in orange jumpsuits to represent the one hundred seventy three detainees that are still being held there but after nine years to these activists still have hope that one day this per

ti one time the previous year i flew over havana during a flow flotilla that was taking place there as a demonstration in solidarity for the cuban people. democracy flotilla, it was called. but that day, nothing. and we, of course, we had dropped leaflets from international air space to cubay this may be hard to comprehend for somebody that is not an engineer or a pilot, but when the air are in favorable conditions and you identify those conditions, you can put leaflets on the other side of cuba if you want from international air space on this side of the island. >> host: lily prellezo, how did you find this story?or >> guest: well, the story was always there. it's how the story found me is how it happened. a mutual friend introduced me to jose, and i found out that he had been looking for somebody to write the story of brothers to the rescue, but he never felti comfortable with anyone. i interviewed over 100 people ts try to tell their version of hov it was like to be a brother or a sister to the rescue. many people were>> lost in this rescue operation? >> >> guest: wow. you mean -- >

travel restrictions is a positive step but well below what havana hoped for.ministration made it easier for students and religious groups to visit cuba and for americans to send money there. >>> while a new miss america was being crowned in las vegas this weekend, israel was hosting the annual big and beautiful pageant. contestants modeled casual wear and evening gowns to prove that beauty is about self-confidence, no matter what the scale or the fashion magazines have to say. it is now 8:03. now back to ann and matt on the plaza. >> all right. thank you very much. ann's making her way back from se selling some peace seeds. >> sunflower seeds, yes. >> let's go back to los angeles where al and natalie have been. al has a check of the weather right now. >> thanks so much, matt and ann. we are here in the "access hollywood" studios. the original "tonight show" studio where johnny carson worked that magic. it really is a beautiful space. i have been able to go through billy bush's dressing room. you wouldn't believe what we found besides the block and tackle and t

one time the previous year, i flew over havana and there was a demonstration for the cuban people, but that day, nothing, and we were forced or would have dropped leaflets there from international air space to cuba. this may be hard to come prehepped to someone who is not a pilot, but when the air is in favorable conditions, you can put leaflets on the other side of cuba from international air space. >> how did you find this story, lily prellezo? >> well, the story was always there. it's how the story found me is how it happened. a mu chiewl friend introduced me to jose, and he wanted someone to write the story, but never felt comfortable with anyone, so i feel honored i was chosen to write the story and i interviewed a hundred people to tell what it was like to be a brother or sister to the rescue. >> how many people were lost in this rescue operation? >> you mean? >> brothers to the rescue? >> four people were murdered when the planes were shot down. four men lost their lives. >> how many rafters do you estimate that you helped? >> by 1994, we had already rescued 4200 rafters running