i'm ray suarez. for people who have been waiting to see this trip for decades, it's the culmination of a strong desire to get on with writing the final chapters of the cold war story. for people who have noted how little the castro regimes have done to meet the u.s. halfway in return for reopening relations, this is another step down the path of 9 naive you tai. naivete. the administration says it has insisted on meeting with cuban dissidents when the president is in cuba. and wreath laying at a monument, obama on havana. lucia newman has a preview of the president's visit. >> reporter: it stills looks like the havana of the pre-cold war era. like most visitors president barack obama will likely be thrust back into the 1950s when he sees havana's art deco architecture and cars, before the 1559 revolution still working against all odds. he will tour old havana and perhaps eat one of the scores of privately new restaurants. nonstate sector in havana. >> part of this magic and new moment is precisely be

slammed into a police truck. 3 (vanessa fox-13's ken suarez is on the story for us... ken, we understand the driver is in bad shape... and some of the passengers are teenagers... any officers hurt? 3 3 3 (vanessa fox-13's ken suarez, thanks. 3 3 3 3 no closed captioning is available for traffic. 3 3 (walter 3 after a wild night at the donald trump rally in chicago, the campaign trail was calm over the weekend. and city leaders are hoping for that in tampa today, as trump... holds his latest event *here. 3 ((walter fox-13's kellie cowan is at the tampa convention center this morning... kellie, trump won't speak until two this afternoon... are you noticing any extra security? 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 ((vanessa/live)) an argument between adults got *physical this weekend in riverview.. but it was a toddler that paid the price.. hillsborough deputies say, five or six family members got into a fight.. one person picked up a baseball bat and swung it at another adult.. but hit a two year old instead.. this happened on louise street in riverview.. the child was taken by helicopter to th

i'm ray suarez. the state department has already declassified more than 4,000 documents from the dirty war era. most of them underscore a deep divide among senior u.s. officials about how to respond to the military regime that took over in argentina in 1976. at the center of the controversy, the former secretary of state, henry kissinger, who met with the leaders shortly after the coup. now president obama is promising to take another step to tans appearance, by declassifying more documents detailing america's involvement in the conflict. the president saying "democracies have to have the currently when we don't live up to the ideals this we stand for when we have been slow to speak up for human rights." >> there has been controversy about the policies of the united states early in those dark days ago. >> reporter: president obama's visit last week coincided with the 40th anniversary of argentina's coup de ta, when the argentinian president was overthrown. obama on the banks of the rio de la plassa.

i'm ray suarez. remember those cliff hanger negotiations in switzerland last spring and summer. china, russia, the u.s., and america's big european allies, france, germany, britain, struck a deal with iran over its ongoing enrichment of nuclear materials. they wanted to make sure iran weapon. iran wanted to assert his national sef earnty, keep refining nuclear materials and get out from under crippling sanctions. while president obama applauded the handiwork of his secretary of state john kerry, congressional republicans deplored it with slashing rhetoric that suggested the obama administration had been duped, was enabling terrorism, funding a renegade government, and endangering israel. 47 republican senate remembers sent a letter to iran's leader promising no support. the deal went on to become a talk point in stump speeches and candidate's debates in the republican presidential primary with a unanimous conclusion. >> i have been doing deals for a long time. i have been making lots of wonderful dea

i'm ray suarez. design failures of the nuclear power plant at fukushima are well-known and japan will be living with them for a lightning sometime. the area of so radio active five years after the tsunami that robots sent in to do work too dangerous for humans failed and decide soon after they entered the contaminated zones. register as radioactive on store shelves at the other end of the country. japan marked the anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami this week, al jazeera's harry fawcett reports. >> reporter: in natarie, this is the closest thing ohigh ground. a mound built 96 years ago so the residents of this town could look out to sea. five years on from the tsunami, it is a place of remembrance. broadcast live it first showed the scale of disaster unfolding in japan. 950 people died here. nearly 18 and a half thousand across the country. all that's left of the densely packed houses are these walls. the wave came through this neighborhood scrubbing it out entirety. at its height, it was about

i'm ray suarez. big retirement account holder vanguard calculates that as of last year, the average worker between 45 and 54 years old, had less than $50,000 in a 401k retirement plan. think about that. about 15 years away from retirement and enough saved to withdrew just a few thousand dollars a year from savings. half of workers earning the minimum wage haveless than $10,000 saved up total, and you are not going to retire for very long on that meager amount of money. during the good old days the company made pension contributions, you might have bumped them up, and you got a fixed amount per month, but fewer people work for companies that provided defined benefit pensions. these days you are encouraged to take care of this for yourself, millions using a devise originally meant for high-paid executives in place of an old fashioned pension. how is it worked out? in an era in which inflation is low, raises are tiny, and middle class families are working hard to pay college expense mortgages and retire

i'm ray suarez. most of the time to most americans i think it's fair to say puerto rico is not on their radar screen. it makes the evening weather forecast, the baseball players have made the past time a more exciting game, you will see occasionally see or at least you used to see an ad reminding you of how easy it is to travel to the country without a passport. many american s are still unaware or at least unclear on the fact that the people there are american citizens and have been for almost a century. there are federal courts, military bases, and the best known names in american retail from one corner of the island to another. the country is in deep economic trouble. it has borrowed heavily and finding it impossible to pay all its debts in full or on time. al jazeera's robert ray spoke to one of the commonwealth senators just after the new year. >> reporter: the island paradise here kicked off the new year by payments. >> the debt is unpayable. some of us here in the senate were saying that since

i'm ray suarez. heading for a brexit. looking at the debate over whether britain is to remain in the e.u. after 40 years membership. we will be talking american interests concerning a long time ally. my guest are still here. during recent but not just in the last couple of months trip to britain the country was a flooder over having to change the portions in the way it was selling meat. they had interviews with butcherers from all over the country who had sold the sunday roast and pork cops and lamb chops a certain way forever and now with brussels ramming these new standards down their throat would have to sell in hectograms and so on instead of pounds. it was fascinating because there was real upset about in as if buying 400 grams of lamb was going to be remarkably different from being six ounces, but there we were anyway. it was just another moment to rag on the e.u. and say they're forcing us to not be ourselves any more. along with the real things that matter about trade and money and london as

i'm ray suarez. the united states shares a long border with mexico. the country is one of america's most important trading partners. there are unfinished controversies over the illicit drug trade, immigration, trucking and other items. tens of millions of americans trace their family's heritage to mexico. it is, by any definition, an important ambassador post to the united states. at a time in political transition in both countries. yet, the senate has not given the president's nominee hearings, in some cases a committee vote, or in some cases, a courtroom ac confirmatn the whole senate. maria everybod eveste. she withdrew her name from consideration the next year, never got a hearing, and then the president nominated the current stint secretary of state from western hem fear affairs to the post. she got a hearing, her nomination was approve bid the senate foreign relations committee. and negotiated the reopening of the relations with cuba, but the nomination has been stuck in limbo. senator had marco rubio, presidential candidate and foreign relation

only on al jazeera america. >> you're watching "inside story," i'm ray suarez. latino voters have historically been concentrated in a handful of states, illinois, texas, and the response is muted because everybody knows that the republicans are going to win in texas and a democrat is going to win in california. but now that there are 55 million latinos in the united states and hundreds of thousands of perspective voters every year, not only in the big states, but in colorado, arizona, north carolina and virginia, might we see the early glimmerings of a new map? an electoral map transformed by new voters? had latinos? 2016 on the program. my guests are with me, and it's not just about california, texas and florida anymore. >> no, and areas that latinos are moving now, in the west and the south and non-traditional parts of the country, and because they're the largest increase of new voters in the state, they're having an impact on what used to be the politics in the state. so that's something to watch very closely. this is not just latino states anymore that are i

i'm ray suarez. republican party started its nominating process with some 17th candidates. the parties held 15 primaries and caucus he and one candidate has won ten of them. the bill field gave wide choice of tendencies and thraifers and th flavors andthe guy who's won por weeks has never run for office and has what one might generously call an eclectic standpoint. republicans say they wouldn't be happy for donald trump to be the nominee but after waiting for weeks for donald trump to collapse of his own weight, the road from novelty act to favorite is paved with a lot of misescalation. here we are -- miscalculation, now the nontrump activists office holders and donors are saying, what do we do now? presidential candidate and new jersey governor chris christie got out of the race and threw his support behind the front runner. >> the single most important thing for republican party is to nominate the candidate that has the best to hundred against hillary clinton, i can guarantee you the one person hil

i'm ray suarez. bursting of the real estate bubble and the great recession sent shocks into the housing market that are still with us today. owners who lost their houses become renters by the thousands. owners trying to sell and recover their equity, found markets frozen, and started renting their properties because they couldn't unload them. incomes grew grudgingly in the years of the slow recovery of the job market, so people reaching ages where they might have imagined buying homes are still renting. buying a home felt risky. that's one set of variables. in specific markets the number of young people grew faster than the population over all. and in someplace where new units were coming online they catered heavily to one end of the market, high-end renters looking for luxury units. and all of those variables hitting different metropolitan areas in different ways, and you get a mess. in the eight years from 2005 to 2013 the percentage of people in their 30s who are renters soared. in these same year

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i'm ray suarez. jim wallace is with me, pastor and theologian. we're looking at the race in america and the future of what he calls america's original sin in his new book. white privilege, just the use of the phrase, white privilege, and trying to discuss if such a thing exists, and you get into a fight. especially at a time of severe economic distress for millions of white americans. the very suggestion that they enjoy any kind of privilege just drives them crazy, and i can understand that. >> sure, you have a lot of white working class people feeling marginalized. they have lost incomes and jobs, and homes, and even their families. in the past, we have seen movements that are populist, bringing people together with common interests and problems, and others who use these problems to divide to make people afraid of the others. the others are to blame. the immigrants are to blame for the lack of jobs, and even though it's not true, it's a fear that's easily used. so how do we bring people together for

i'm ray suarez. from the olster hen and women of the 18th century, to the germans and austrians of the 19th, to the asians, southeastern european jews and italians of the 19th and 20th centuries, lots of people professing many things, they had to make a journey from being them to being us. millions of american muslims are still on that road for reasons involving culture, religion, national it security, and the obsessions of an anxious age. as they are a religious group rather than a national, racial or ethnic one, muslims defy easy caggization. they trace their heritage from dozens of countries. they are every race that come on this country from every corner of the globe. what they have in common is islam. and you have to go back to panics over roman agent lick immigration in the 16th century to find a similar hostility in american life. a front running presidential candidate is suggesting barring muslims from entry into the country, and others rejection, mosques, and outlawing the muslim legal tradi

i'm ray suarez. it's international women's day. it's a celebration more than a century old, begun by trade unionists, socialist work parties, and women struggling for the right to vote. the world of women in the 21st century will be unrecognizable for a young adult of a century ago. women around the world enjoy the same legal status as children in many places. can't inherit or own property. couldn't testify in courts of law, spent much of their adult lives pregnant and dying more often in childbirth or suffering the long-term effects of frequent childbirth. undervalued. and the profits they created throwed into the hands of men. today, things are undoubtedly better. women vote, lead countries, run businesses, earn advanced°, divorce, control their fertility, things that would have been stunning to women when international women's day began. that's something, but today, it's far from equality. whether you're hauling water back to your home in east africa, planting rice patties in china, convening a meeting in latin america, or runni

welcome to "inside story," i'm ray suarez. there's a lot more clarity in both major parties today. donald trump is halfway to getting the delegates that he needs to becoming the republican nominee for president. hillary clinton is more like two-thirds of the bay there. as they turn their attention to the general election in november, they will start to do the math. how do you assemble the winning coalition for the fall? both sides will vie for the latino vote, a larger and larger share of the electorate. that's our focus today on the program. and we'll begin with a recap of last night's results with aljazeera's john henry. >> reporter: in florida, favorite sons go down fast. >> while it's not god's plan that i become president in 2016 or maybe ever, and while today my campaign is suspended, the fact that i have even come this far is evidence of how special america truly is. >> reporter: republican, donald trump, delivered a crushing defeat to florida's own marco rubio. >> it the fact is we have to bring our party together. we have to bring it together. >> then there were three, nar

it's foggy out make the commute a little 3 ((vanessa fox-13's ken suarez is on the south side of the sunshine skyway bridge... for *hours yesterday... and we dave says conditions are already deteroating this morning. 3 roll to vo: 3 3 "i hit traffic right before the bridge and sat there for about 2 hours before i finally got off and i've been sitting here ever since" 3 ((vanessa thanks, ken. 3 no closed 3 captioning is available for traffic. 3 3 dense coastal fog 3 3 3 3 (walter it was neat... and clean... and over quickly... a big night for hillary clinton and donald trump... who won just about *everything in the latest round of primaries, including: *florida. our state was a *huge prize for both of the frontrunners... and a massive disappointment for florida senator marco rubio. 3 (walter) now, it's still too close to call in *missouri... for both parties... and both decisions will likely prompt recounts... (vanessa) but there's no going back for senator rubio... he's out of the race, after not being able to clinch his homestate... fox's caroline shively has the rest for the latest

-suarez will replace todd frazier at third base and he's shown he can hit. this was the third inning with men on base. this double ran to the wall....two guys came home...the reds win their cactus league opener. the reds and the indians start the cactus league with a three game series. they play again wednesday at 3:05 the yankees won't have aroldis chapman for the first 30 games of 2016 regular season. he's accepted a penalty for a domestic incident that involved his girlfriend in miami. he doesn't plan to appeal over the weekend the st x aquabombers won another state title with a vengence. this is how they got it started in canton...seting a new state record in the 200 yard medley. today the student body got on its feet in the berning gym.... -and cheered on the state the 8th straight championship trophy... their 37th overall...they've won the title 17 of the last 18 years.- looks like they're going to need a bigger banner.....the bombers dominated...they scord the most points in state championship history. it's an annual event at st x.....and right now it

i'm ray suarez. the gat, the wto, nafta, cafta, now the tpp. the united states has had leaders from both parties who told the people of this country that free trade creates american jobs. but yes, there would be some job losses over time. but those were jobs that were going to be lost anyway in an increasingly competitive global marketplace, and those who lost jobs would get new ones. fast forward 25 years from the nafta negotiations, and the leading candidate for president, donald trump, is insisting to loud and sustained applause, that american workers got snookred. and in the democratic party, the surging campaign of bernie sanders also cast out on the free trade creed that sent the american policy since ronald reagan. when the candidates claim that free trade has been a loser for the american worker can they make the case? did the reassurances given to workers in pennsylvania, ohio, wisconsin, that manufacturing jobs lost to mexico, china, malaysia, would return in the form of other jobs, making new things, thanks to increased demand ever c

i'm ray suarez. don't blame the other guys.his time hillary clinton and bernie sanders are working hard to attract working class democrats. do they have to work hard because those voters are not necessarily a natural constituency anymore. thomas frank is here with me in washington. and you were just about to talk about the new democrats. the people who value technocrats, who love experts, who actually care what college is written on your resume. not necessarily your gpa, but where you went. what happened? >> it's funny, because we're doing this city in washington, d.c. and i live in this town. and everybody that lives in this town carries around the hi high -- hierarchy offal ma maw ders. and these are liberals 245 we're talking about here. >> the new snobs. >> yeah, in a certain way. there are so many fun directions i could have gone in this book. the ways that cities and states reach out to what they call the creative class which is another term for this group that i'm talking about, the processional class, but to reach out a

>> welcome back to "inside story", i'm ray suarez. not today, not tomorrow, and maÑana, we're looking at the inability of president obama to send a ambassador to new york city. my guests are still with me, and michael, i cut you off, is it too hard to get confirmed to a position now, especially in an era of divided government? >> well, you know, ray, i think that i have perspective on this, before i went to the commerce department, i served in the white house as a special respective to the president, and one of my responsibilities was to run the vetting team, in the appointments office to manage the president's appointments to the domestic cabinet. and i will tell you that what maria says about the rigors of the confirmation process are very accurate. our nominees, from day one, have been subjected to, i think an unprecedented standard of scrutiny. not just about their personal conduct and history as one would expect, but also about largely irrelevant things. i for example went through the finance committee as i was confirmed as the a

. >> welcome to "inside story," i'm ray suarez. he says he's going to protect social security from cuts. he says planned parenthood actually has performed vital services for women over the years. he says the iraq war was a mistake. badly fought, baddie ended. he questions whether john mccain is really a war hero. he belittles his opponents, and threatens to turn back 25 years of free trade orthodoxy. and he gets big crowds, garners free votes as people try to search for ways to derail him. the donald, last night's winners and losers at the polls. >> reporter: with the swaggering of a conquering hero, donald trump claimed the mississippi and michigan primaries by digits. >digits. i don't think that be i've ever had so many horrible things said about me in one week. $38 million in horrible lies, it shows you how brilliant the public s >> reporter: trump thanked his supporters who were not swayed by the all-out war against him, including mitt romney. >> every single person. we started out with 17 and went down to four. of the four, th