irish that went to cuba, in particular to havana. i want you to know that on the left side of the entrance to the havana harbor, there is a well-known fortress, el moro. there is a lighthouse there and the moro has become a image of cuban nationality and in particular havana. in that lighthouse you find, you read an -- when you enter the havana harbor, you find an irish name. that lighthouse was known for many years as the odono lighthouse. who was this person, odono the man that oversaw the project of the lighthouse in 1844 and he was a governor of cuba from 1843 to 48, but he was a spanish man of irish origin and irish ancestry, a descendant of the -- chieftan of the ticanelles. he is spanish and irish together. if we look at the history of the irish in cuba, most of the irish to went to cuba in the 18th and 19th centuries arrived from spain, some of them with the spanish royal armies; other irish influx arrived from the u.s. for the construction of railroads used to transport sugar cane to the sugar plantations. that was at the en

there's developments there is present in the streets of havana around. the daughter of the former officer of the cuban army william rock it 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. martin you know alex i might come to moscow soon. yeah looking forward to seeing you in my home village. nothing anywhere 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 compro

give us an update. >> havana got off pretty lightly. most of the impact was in the eastern part of the country, as you said in your introduction. 1 million people in santiago de cubs, tens of thousands of people evacuated by emergency authorities. rain has caused flash floods and rivers have broken their banks. a pretty serious situation. it is still very early in the morning, so we are waiting for confirmation on exactly how much damage has been caused. authorities were very concerned last night as hurricane sandy was approaching from jamaica. >> will, this is a region accustomed to hurricanes. how prepared are the cuban authorities? >> all the countries in the caribbean are very used to this. this is the intense hurricane of the season so far. -- the 10th hurricane. they aren't mostly prepared. in the case of cuba, there's a tight state control of everything including information on such events as this. in this case they were particularly concerned about the more rural communities, the livestock in those places, too, so it would not h

> -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 intended to placate castro. you can keep the tactical nuclear weapons. just don't tell the americans. >> it was the same promise, which is we promised kennedy we were removing them. but cuban descent was very strong. everything else we have in cuba

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 raids were shocked. >> this woman said she'd seen policemen knocking down walls to enter premises and make arrests. >> more footage without sound shows a business being raided and the safe broken open. it followed a two-year investigation. suspects have been rounded up. with so much money at stake the chinese have sent a clear signal to bring all those involved to justice. james kell yes, "bbc news." >> the australian prime minister took a tumble. jul

a few people -- few people call this part in havana by its real name. instead, they refer to it as the park between life and death because on one side, a funeral parlor and on the other, the united states intersection. the government of fidel's brother just announced changes to cuban law that could finally mean greater freedom to travel which will mean cubans would no longer need a government exit visa to finally leave the island or an invitation from someone in the country. just a passport. doctors and military officials still face restrictions because of their value to cuban society but most cubans will be able to stay abroad for up to two years without losing the right to return. and for the first time, to take young children with them. reforms that were welcomed outside this have an immigration office. >> this is good. they should have done it years ago, but at least now things will be easier, i suppose. >> i sincerely think raul is doing things better than his brother. and that a u.s. state department spokeswoman said officials are reserving judgme

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sides agree to keep on talking and to stop the fast, substantive round of peace talks next month in havana, cuba. >> in other news, micro blogging site twitter has blocked an account held by a neo-nazi group in germany in an unprecedented move. >> the company said it had closed down the side after being asked to do so by the german police. this is the first time twitter has used a new function allowing it to block content in certain countries if asked to do so by the government. the account is still available in other countries. a bangladeshi man is being held without bail in new york after his arrest for allegedly plotting to blow up the federal reserve bank. >> fbi agents are accusing the 21-year-old student of trying to detonate what he thought was a car bomb he parked outside the federal reserve. >> but the whole operation was actually a sting. the man he conspired with were informants, and there was no bomb at all -- not a real one, anyway. >> the federal reserve building in new york -- it was here that the men allegedly planned to set off a car bomb. what he did not know was that the

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door former cuban president fidel castro appeared in a photograph that was shown to journalists in havana today by a visiting venezuelan politician. he said castro, quote, had the court see of bringing me back to the hotel and added that the 86-year-old castro looked very well. whoever wins the american presidency this year will likely oversee the end of the longest war in american history. afghanistan. as of this month 11 years and counting. here's our national security correspondent david martin. >> reporter: it took just five weeks for american precision guided bombs and special forces on horseback to chase the taliban from power. so thoroughly was the taliban dismantled, that in february 2003 afghan president karzai skofd at the possibility of a taliban spring offensive. >> i don't think that is going to happen. these guys are on the run. they're hiding. >> reporter: but not defeated. taliban leaders retreat mood pakistan where they regrouped. and in 2006 launched a spring offensive which ronald newmann then the person ambassador in afghanistan described in this cable. >> we were surp

few people call this park in havana by its real name.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. they should have done it years ago, but at least now, things will be easier, i suppose. >> translator: i sincerely think rule is doing things better than his brother but they left him a lot of problems to fix. >> reporter: cubans will still need visa

particularly rich dog whistle to be blown by john sununu who himself is a naturalized american, born in havana, neither of his parents are american. barack obama has more roots in the united states of america than john sununu does. >> by the way, one of the great ironies of our lives living in america, this country means so much to me, our history is so rich and ironic. african-americans were here for 250 years working for nothing. >> long before some of us came. >> i'm not asking for reparations necessarily, but i have to tell you something, they're there, they were here long before most of us. let me go to this point here about the people speak for romney when he doesn't want to do it. they used to say mickey cohen, the gangster, said if you have a dog, you don't have to bark. look at all these dogs he has out there. trumpy, amazingly successful almost like a figure out of a comic book. guy, downtown business developer in a batman movie. he's an incredibly big shot, so a lot of little guys out there, this makes i think joy's point. a lot of little guys out there, that big shot says he's from

embassy in havana. the u.s. after the failure of the bay of pig hs done its best to isolate cuba diplomatically through the american states, imposed economic blockade and yet there was fitful communications. all through the 13 days there is the idea f we can get word to fidel, if you could kick the soviets out, everything else can flow from that in terms of being we will komd back into the hemisphere. and the whole story climaxed on that same october 27th. the u.s. passed a message, approved by excomm to brazilian government, on blank stationery, no letterhead, typed in portuguese saying type this personally, not because the cia is intercepting all of your cables but if you could send an emissary to fidel, present this as your proposal, we will back it up. it so happened the emissary was sent. met with fidel, came to the brazilian embassy but he didn't understand those words were approved by john f. kennedy. it shows how desperate kennedy was, at the same time he was plotting for an invasion, sending the message

for cbs "this morning," portia siegelbaum, havana, cuba. >> david bernard is chief meteorologist for our miami station cbs 4 and he's watching sandy. david, talk about the size and the strength of this storm. >> well, norah overnight this storm got really strong. the pictures from the caribbean and cuba just prove that. here's the latest information we have this morning. we're talking about a category 2 storm. it's emerging from the cuban coastline now. about 185 miles south of the central bahamas and the thinking is today, tonight and tomorrow the storm is going to maintain hurricane intense egypt as it moves through the bahamas that's why we could see these tropical storm force conditions in south florida, but beyond that as we go into the weekend we'll look for this storm to continue to parallel the east coast and possibly be somewhere off of the new england or northeast coastline maybe just east of the delmarva as well sunday night into monday and that's when things could definitely get tricky. >> david how bad could it get? >> well, charlie, we're talking about a confluence of e

the photo of castro was said to have been taken in havana on saturday.ear-old castro looks relaxed and well. speculation has been surging in recent weeks about his health, most of it came after castro failed to publicly congratulate his closest ally hugo chavez on his election victory. those are your headlines this hour. i'm don lemon keeping you informed. cnn, the most trusted name in news. >>> we've explored a number of ways to create cheaper, greener energy. but experts often cite a fifth fuel as being just as important, efficiency. what if we could get more mileage, more bang for our buck for every kilowatt of energy we used? one man shows us how we can save energy and money all from his banana farm. welcome to the jungle. but we're not in the tropics, we're more than 1,000 miles north in the rocky mountains of western colorado. >> we have a tropical jungle in the middle that's just hatched its 43rd banana crop, avocado. >> here near aspen physicist and environmentalist emery levins cure rates tropical flora and fauna. >> there's another passive sola

you're seeing the rain in havana, cuba, last night. the hurricane's killed two people, in haiti and jamaica. meteorologist bob van dillen is tracking the storm. >> we've had a lot of rain, a lot of wave action across southern cuba. came ashore overnight last night. let me show you what it's looking like right now. got the numbers at 5:00 this morning. it's down a little bit simply because of the land interaction here. category 2. it's moving to the north at 18 heading towards the bahamas. we have hurricane warnings for eastern parts of cuba. tropical storm warnings in blue. bahama is hurricane warnings up the chain. south of miami beach, areas here, tropical storm warning, tropical storm watches are in yellow. where does it go? next couple days it continues to press up to the north. category 2 now, through the bahamas. edges closer to the u.s. out to the east a little farther. heads up and might round the horn near cape hatteras. where does it go from here? we could see two scenarios. one where it jives into the northeast or one where

the venezuela vice president who happened to be in havana sprilsed reporters with the knowledge he'do but he was doing great. hotel workers at a hotel where a party was taking place confirmed to us. we saw photos, apparently there are many other photos of a smiling fidel castro. one of the women in that photos is his wife, someone we really see here. as we talk to these hotel workers, the venezuelan ex-vice presidents, we got an image very different from the rumor mill. apparently fidel castro, a money with serious health problems in recent years, is doing well, is going to be with us a little bit longer. apparently those obituaries not ready to run just yet. >> patrick opmann, i understand you spoke to people concerning this, let's listen. >> translator: commandant fidel was kind enough to meet with us. yesterday we spoke about five hours, about agriculture, history, and international politics. fidel is doing very well. >> that was a spokesman confirming what you said. thank you, patrick. >>> remembering a staunch liberal who came from republican roots and an amtrak train jumps the

the photo of castro with the former venezuelan vice president was said to have been taken in havana on saturday. in it the 86-year-old castro looks relaxed and well. speculation has been surging in recent weeks about his health. most of it came from -- came after castro failed to publicly congratulate hugo chavez on his election victory. >>> it's never happened before. pope benedict xvi canonized lily of the mohawk. she is credited with the miraculous recovery of a boy whose family parade to her in 2006. the pope also named six other saints. >>> a deadly shooting, a manhunt, it's all over, but the questions in the suburb of milwaukee still remain. here is the chief of police in brookfield, wisconsin, just a short time ago. >> the one suspect we believe is responsible for the shootings today is deceased. we believe it to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. we are not, and i repeat, are not seeking any additional suspects. our community can feel safe. southeastern wisconsin can feel safe in this matter that we are not seeking any additional suspects. >> so here is what we know right now.

at the same time, a whole slew come over from havana and president carter decides to relocate most of the men arkansas and this isn't popular. so even though bill clinton has 57% of the vote and 78 he goes down to d.c. in 1980 and he is dismayed and despondent and suffering incredible depression and hillary stetson and rescues him. she says we will organize the campaign we will create a structure. this political bureau from new york who actually worked in the politics for a while and he pulled the hell out of every question they asked and got all of the right answers how to appeal to the people of arkansas and hillary basically to the campaign together in such a way that it was a streamlined effort that is ultimately a very successful backup to 57, 58% of the vote in 1982. at that moment in time, they are partners in exchange she becomes the most important single person in this administration. he puts her in charge of the education task force in words that are almost exactly the ones he used ten years later in the health care task force. i want the most important reform of my administ

abandonedo's who alec, he says seo's havana that organization in the wake of a controversy lack couraged he has the kind of courage to go forward. this is what they see. in terms of the workplace political intimidation, the kochs are starting the trend. we will see more and more pressure of employees from their bosses and supervisors as more employees or employers catch on to the fact they can do this. >> the largest publicly held coal company and the nation has allegedly coerced its employees into supporting republican candidates. the company murray energy reportedly told workers that attending a pro-romley event would be both mandatory and unpaid. however, murray energy chief financial officer rob moore denied the charges when speaking to radio host with david blomquist. >> were workers forced to attend this event? >> there were no workers forced to attend a bid managers that communicated to our work force the attendants at the romney event was mandatory, but no one was forced to attend the event. we had a ph registration list. employees were asked to put their name on a pre registrat

>> well, i went to cuba in 2005, to havana, and when the guards were not looking, i certain tishesly touched the boat, a moving experience. the boat was dry dock, on a hillside at hemingway's home, and it was in terrible condition. it looked as if it were dying of thirst and only wanted to get into water, but that further convinced me i had a story to tell through the prism of this boat because when hemingway got the boat, he was the reigning monarch of american literature. he was at the very apex, and when he lost the boat, when he lost everything, when he killed himself by shotgun 27 years later, this boat lasted him through three wives, the nobel prize, and all his ruin, which is why it's sub titled everything he loved in life and lost. >> when it was built? >> it was built in a shipyard in brooklyn by the wheeler manufacturing company which in the 1930s was a very, very rep reputable fishing boat, cruiser boat, wooden hold construction boat company, and typical hemingway studied it out and looked for a long time before getting the boat, the exact boat he wanted, and he had it cus

today, after being out of sight since the pope visited havana last march, the 86-year-old castro releasedtaken by his son, alex castro, trying to put to rest internet rumors that he was near death. in an accompanying newspaper article, castro critiqued the international media for spreading lies about his health. he wrote that he could not even remember what a headache felt like. good for him. >>> as the candidates prepare for tonight's foreign policy debate, this is the backdrop to many of the questions still being asked today. what question would they ask? i'm posing that to our foreign policy experts who are joining me now. "new york times" correspondent elizabeth bumiller. nbc's chief foreign correspondent, richard engel and bruce rydell, former long-time cia officer now with the brookings institution. welcome, all. first to you, bruce. what questions would you want asked? i suspect from what you've been writing about that it might be pakistan. >> absolutely. pakistan's the most dangerous country in the world today. it has the fastest growing nuclear arsenal in the world and in many wa