:00:15. > :00:21.Making history, President Obama arrives in Cuba. He's the first US
:00:22. > :00:25.President to visit for nearly 90 years. Turkey says it's identified
:00:26. > :00:32.the suicide bomber responsible for Saturday's attack in Istanbul and he
:00:33. > :00:35.had links to Islamic state. Boat-loads of migrant continue to
:00:36. > :00:36.arrive in Greece despite an agreement to send them back to
:00:37. > :01:01.Turkey. A very warm welcome to you.
:01:02. > :01:05.We are taking you straight to Cuba where President Obama has arrived on
:01:06. > :01:09.what is being termed an historic visit, the first to the island by a
:01:10. > :01:15.sitting President for nearly 90 years. He'll be there for two days
:01:16. > :01:21.and will meet President Raul Castro where the pair will discuss trade
:01:22. > :01:25.and political reform. Well, Dr Helen Yaffi is economic history fellow at
:01:26. > :01:29.the London School of Economics and the author of Che Guevara; the
:01:30. > :01:34.Economics of the Revolution. Welcome. You and I were watching the
:01:35. > :01:39.arrival of the first family of the United States arriving en mass OK on
:01:40. > :01:44.the tarmac in Havana just about 15 minutes ago now. The term historic
:01:45. > :01:49.is often overused by us journalists, we are horribly guilty of it but in
:01:50. > :01:54.this instance it's justified? Absolutely. If you think these are
:01:55. > :02:00.two countries who brought the world to the brink of a nuclear war in
:02:01. > :02:04.1962 and who would have thought this just a few years ago when the
:02:05. > :02:09.relationship between the countries seemed to be at crisis point. So
:02:10. > :02:15.yes, since the announcement in December 2014 that the countries had
:02:16. > :02:22.re-established diplomatic relations, and that was the result of 18 months
:02:23. > :02:27.of secret talks which really took the world by surprise. There's been
:02:28. > :02:33.a sort of positive spiral between the two countries and there are many
:02:34. > :02:37.issues still to be resolved but the first steps are being taken.
:02:38. > :02:41.The first important steps being taken. Dr Helen please stick around
:02:42. > :02:47.because we have a lot to talk about over the next half hour. Right now,
:02:48. > :02:52.I want to check in with Barbara Plett-usher who is on the streets of
:02:53. > :02:56.Havana for us. We were talking earlier about the slight make-over
:02:57. > :03:00.that the central states of old Havana have undertake none the
:03:01. > :03:06.run-up to this visit by President Obama, the smell of paint still
:03:07. > :03:11.wafting about in the air? Yes. The Cubans have done as much as
:03:12. > :03:16.they can to make the city look good for President Obama. Not only in old
:03:17. > :03:19.Havana where he'll be going on a walkabout shortly if the weather
:03:20. > :03:23.clears, but in other parts of the city, the streets he'll drive on,
:03:24. > :03:30.the streets from the airport and in the city on which he'll drive. They
:03:31. > :03:34.haven painted buildings, repaired the pavement and put up some bill
:03:35. > :03:41.boards. Posters have been put up of President Obama himself, including
:03:42. > :03:47.one of Obama and Raul Castro, things that you wouldn't have believed you
:03:48. > :03:50.would have seen just 18 months ago. The city has been undergoing a
:03:51. > :03:54.make-over for President Obama and the people themselves have been
:03:55. > :03:59.eagerly looking forward to his visit. I think many are fairly
:04:00. > :04:04.understanding that him actually stepping on to Cuban soil isn't
:04:05. > :04:11.going to radically thing their lives right away.
:04:12. > :04:16.The reproachment happened and Cubans' lives haven't changed right
:04:17. > :04:25.away. But they understand the symbolic importance of Mr Obama.
:04:26. > :04:28.Visiting with his entire family, Malia, Sasha and Michelle. We won't
:04:29. > :04:46.see the streets swamped. Cubans have been encouraged to stay
:04:47. > :04:50.home during this visit. The weather is not so great at the
:04:51. > :04:55.moment. The images of endless sunshine here, but you get,
:04:56. > :04:58.especially at this time of year what they call cold fronts and rain
:04:59. > :05:03.sweeping in, which is bad timing unfortunately. So less people on the
:05:04. > :05:05.street for this reason. Also, as you said, the Cubans government have
:05:06. > :05:09.been telling people it would be better for them if they didn't come
:05:10. > :05:13.out on the street. There'll be street closures for security
:05:14. > :05:27.reasons. They wouldn't get a close look at the President anyway.
:05:28. > :05:31.Anything else President Obama does during this trip, the emphasis of
:05:32. > :05:34.the trip has been on the Cuban people. President Obama will be
:05:35. > :05:38.meeting President Castro and there'll be press conferences and
:05:39. > :05:42.pomp and ceremony around that. The Obama administration's always said
:05:43. > :05:48.its policy is aimed at engaging the Cuban people and hoping that will
:05:49. > :05:54.bring change about, rather than isolating the leadership.
:05:55. > :06:00.Stimulating the private sector is a big part of the American approach.
:06:01. > :06:04.He'll go to a baseball game. Again, something common between Cuba and
:06:05. > :06:07.the United States. They all love baseball and a lot of the American
:06:08. > :06:13.leagues are Cuban. He's also going to address the nation, he'll be
:06:14. > :06:17.speaking at a famous theatre down town.
:06:18. > :06:21.Remarks will be broadcast on state television which would be
:06:22. > :06:25.unprecedented. It's an amazing thing that this is something they plan to
:06:26. > :06:30.do, meaning all Cubans will be able to hear his message. He'll be
:06:31. > :06:34.meeting with the dissidents that the Americans have been backing all
:06:35. > :06:40.along, saying this is an issue of human rights to stand up against an
:06:41. > :06:44.authoritarian regime, something the government said they wouldn't want
:06:45. > :06:52.interference on but it's something Mr Obama is going to be raising with
:06:53. > :07:00.President Raul Castro, that is the area of his visit.
:07:01. > :07:08.Really gad to check in with you Barbara. For now, thank you.
:07:09. > :07:12.Dr Helen, who is still hear with me in the studio from the London school
:07:13. > :07:17.of economics, Barbara touched on it at the end there that President
:07:18. > :07:21.Obama will be meeting with political dissidents during this visit,
:07:22. > :07:25.including this group that was demonstrating a few hours before his
:07:26. > :07:28.arrival the ladies in white. Could you explain who they are and the
:07:29. > :07:34.significance of that? The ladies many white got set up as
:07:35. > :07:40.the wives and sisters of a group of people who were arrested a few years
:07:41. > :07:45.ago and accused by the Cuban government of receiving money from
:07:46. > :07:52.the US or through agencies funded by the US to break the laws in Cuba
:07:53. > :08:00.through various means of promoting regime change. The interesting thing
:08:01. > :08:04.is that all those prisoners have subsequently been released in Cuba,
:08:05. > :08:08.they have had an amnesty. But the ladies in white have continued
:08:09. > :08:14.protesting, they are free to do so, they have a protest every week and
:08:15. > :08:20.obviously for them, the opportunity provided by Obama's visit to draw a
:08:21. > :08:23.bit of the Spotlight to themselves, is something that wouldn't be
:08:24. > :08:29.missed. They are a controversial group, they don't have much
:08:30. > :08:31.following, hardly any among the Cuban people, not least because they
:08:32. > :08:35.receive payment for their activism. So the payment they receive for
:08:36. > :08:41.attending one march is almost the same as a monthly average monthly
:08:42. > :08:46.salary of a Cuban. That is interesting. Yes. Important to
:08:47. > :08:51.remember that although there's been so many steps taken in the lead up
:08:52. > :08:54.to this visit in terms of the thawing of relations, including
:08:55. > :08:59.economic relations between the two, this visit does not mark the
:09:00. > :09:03.complete normalisation of a relationship between Cuba and the US
:09:04. > :09:10.because that 54-year-old economic embargo, that's still in place isn't
:09:11. > :09:16.it? Absolutely. It's codified in law through congress so it would require
:09:17. > :09:20.a vote. However, the Cubans have been very clear in laying out the
:09:21. > :09:25.aspects that could be removed very quickly by executive degree. Obama
:09:26. > :09:29.took some measures, or rather his administration did, which were
:09:30. > :09:33.announced a couple of days ago. Among these measures, it gives you
:09:34. > :09:38.an idea, I don't think people realise the extent of the blockade,
:09:39. > :09:44.so one of the measures that's just been removed was that US citizens
:09:45. > :09:50.visiting any country in Europe would have been breaking the law to drink
:09:51. > :09:54.any drink that had a Cuban product in, so if they'd gone to a bar, I'm
:09:55. > :09:57.thinking about my students at the London School of Economics, there
:09:58. > :10:03.are many from the US, if they went to the student bar and had a Cuba
:10:04. > :10:09.drink, they would have been violating the US blockade. So there
:10:10. > :10:16.are some quite absurd measures which are thankfully being removed. But
:10:17. > :10:22.it's interesting that all this sort of apparatus or infrastructure
:10:23. > :10:28.that's impeding the relationship is on the US side so the onus is really
:10:29. > :10:31.on the United States administration and Obama has shown, particularly
:10:32. > :10:36.with the announcement a couple of days ago, that he is serious. There
:10:37. > :10:40.are many more measures he can take using his presidential privilege.
:10:41. > :10:44.What a wonderful first step to have been taken today, the first of many
:10:45. > :10:50.perhaps. Dr Helen from the London school of economics, many thanks.
:10:51. > :10:59.We are following this historic visit on BBC News, by not only President
:11:00. > :11:02.Barack Obama but also his wife Michelle, their daughters Sasha and
:11:03. > :11:08.Malia having touched down in the last half hour or so on the runway
:11:09. > :11:14.in Havana in Cuba, the first visit by a sitting US President in 88
:11:15. > :11:17.years. More on the BBC website and we'll be returning to this, our top
:11:18. > :11:21.story here on BBC News throughout the hour.
:11:22. > :11:25.There is some other news happening in the world, including officials in
:11:26. > :11:29.Turkey, saying that the suicide bomber behind an attack in Istanbul
:11:30. > :11:33.on Saturday has been identified as a member of the Islamic state militant
:11:34. > :11:38.group. The Interior Minister announced the findings of their
:11:39. > :11:45.investigation, referring to Islamic state as Daesh.
:11:46. > :11:53.Our findings though the terrorist is afilliated with the terrorists of
:11:54. > :11:57.Daesh. We investigated whether there are other connections to others
:11:58. > :12:04.behind the attack. The information I received was there was no warrant
:12:05. > :12:08.issued so far. Fever people have been detained. -- five people have
:12:09. > :12:10.been detained. Five people were killed
:12:11. > :12:13.and more than 30 wounded And the city remains on edge today
:12:14. > :12:18.as officials postponed a football match earlier, citing
:12:19. > :12:20.an unspecified threat. Daniel Boettcher has
:12:21. > :12:28.the latest from Istanbul. This is the heart of Istanbul, its
:12:29. > :12:31.most popular shopping street. This is where the suicide bombing
:12:32. > :12:34.happened yesterday. Last night this area was emptied. People are coming
:12:35. > :12:38.back out on to the streets here. The authorities say they have now
:12:39. > :12:45.formally identified the suicide bomber who they say was linked to
:12:46. > :12:50.Islamic state. This is the site of the bombing and people have put up
:12:51. > :12:54.banners saying "we are not afraid, we are not going away". There's
:12:55. > :12:58.carnations that have been set on the ground there. There's a mood of
:12:59. > :13:05.defiance. Some people are staying away. This area would normally be
:13:06. > :13:09.even busier on a weekend. Some embassies have been warning
:13:10. > :13:14.visitors, tourists, to stay away from crowded areas and from the main
:13:15. > :13:17.tourist sites. There is a sense here of a city on
:13:18. > :13:21.edge and while the main concerns are of course about safety and security,
:13:22. > :13:25.people are also beginning to wonder what all of this will mean for
:13:26. > :13:29.businesses like these for shops, restaurants, cafes and also for
:13:30. > :13:37.Turkey's tourism. I'm a restaurant owner so I know
:13:38. > :13:41.that it's going to a risk. For a couple of months actually, there's a
:13:42. > :13:45.huge decrease in the number of people coming to the restaurant. How
:13:46. > :13:49.would you judge the mood amongst people in Istanbul at the moment?
:13:50. > :13:58.It's the first time that we are living in that kind of mood that any
:13:59. > :14:02.time, anywhere, there could be blast bombings. This has been the fourth
:14:03. > :14:09.suicide bombing in Turkey's two main cities this year and, although there
:14:10. > :14:16.isn't a visible presence, there is a heightened state of security as
:14:17. > :14:23.Turkey faces threats from Kurdish militants. Some other news: The
:14:24. > :14:29.lawyer for Paris attack suspect says he's planning legal action against a
:14:30. > :14:34.French prosecutor for revealing details of his first interrogation
:14:35. > :14:38.to journalists. The prosecutor told reporters that he admitted backing
:14:39. > :14:46.out of blowing himself up during the November attacks.
:14:47. > :14:48.The European Union's new rules for migrants crossing from Turkey
:14:49. > :14:52.From today, all migrants who don't prove a case for asylum in Europe
:14:53. > :14:54.can expect to be sent back to Turkey.
:14:55. > :14:57.But the new rules haven't stopped people from making the short
:14:58. > :15:00.but dangerous trip from Turkey to the Greek Island of Lesbos.
:15:01. > :15:03.It's emerged it could take months to decode the flight data recorders
:15:04. > :15:06.from a plane that crashed while trying to land at Rostov
:15:07. > :15:11.It happened in the early hours of Saturday killing all 62
:15:12. > :15:18.The chief executive of FlyDubai made an appeal not to speculate
:15:19. > :15:27.A top Rwandan genocide suspect has been sent
:15:28. > :15:30.from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Rwanda where
:15:31. > :15:33.Ladislas Ntaganzwa is accused of organising the killing and sexual
:15:34. > :15:36.abuse of tens of thousands of ethnic Tutsis in 1994.
:15:37. > :15:38.The US had placed a five-million-dollar bounty
:15:39. > :15:54.Do stay with us. Still to come from Rome to deal, famous landmarks
:15:55. > :16:04.around the world go dark as part of a huge campaign to these awareness
:16:05. > :16:08.of environmental issues. Here in the UK the fallout has continued from
:16:09. > :16:12.the dramatic resignation from the government of Iain Duncan Smith, the
:16:13. > :16:18.Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. Today, in his first
:16:19. > :16:22.interview since stepping down on Friday, Mr Duncan Smith repeated his
:16:23. > :16:26.criticisms of the government planned cuts to disability announced by
:16:27. > :16:34.Chancellor George Osborne earlier this week. He is Mr Duncan Smith
:16:35. > :16:38.speaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr. ?33 billion a year out of working
:16:39. > :16:45.age benefits. My argument now is we cannot on doing this. Too far now,
:16:46. > :16:49.the straw that broke the back? I care for my countrymen and women, I
:16:50. > :16:52.am resigning because I want my government to think again about this
:16:53. > :16:57.and get back to that position which I believe is about an a one nation.
:16:58. > :17:01.This is not some second attempt to attack the Prime Minister or
:17:02. > :17:11.anything about Europe. It is nothing to do with that at all. This is ABC
:17:12. > :17:19.world News today. The latest headlines: Michael making history,
:17:20. > :17:26.President Obama arrives in Cuba. He is the first US president to visit
:17:27. > :17:28.for nearly 90 years. Now, in us carrying foreign students has
:17:29. > :17:33.crashed in Spain cooling at least 13 people. The accident happened early
:17:34. > :17:40.in the morning on the highway between Valencia and worse alone.
:17:41. > :17:44.Most of the 57 people on board the bus where international students on
:17:45. > :17:49.an EU exchange programme returning to Barcelona after a fireworks
:17:50. > :17:54.festival. I have been speaking to our reporter in Madrid who has more
:17:55. > :17:59.details on this terrible crash. Well, we have heard from both the
:18:00. > :18:03.regional government of Catalonia with this accident happened and from
:18:04. > :18:09.the central government in Spain but they believe that this was human
:18:10. > :18:12.error, this accident was caused by human error, the driver certainly
:18:13. > :18:17.seems to have lost control of the bus in the early hours of this
:18:18. > :18:21.morning. It appeared across the road heading a barrier then veered into
:18:22. > :18:26.the middle of the road and turned over on its side and a car coming in
:18:27. > :18:32.the other direction then struck the bus and 13 people were killed on the
:18:33. > :18:37.bus in that accident. Other people have an taken to hospital throat the
:18:38. > :18:42.day. Many of them have been discharged throughout the day but
:18:43. > :18:46.the investigators at this moment are still looking into exactly what
:18:47. > :18:51.happened and they are trying to identify the bodies. The
:18:52. > :18:56.nationalities and identities of the 13 people who were killed, all of
:18:57. > :19:03.whom were young women. Let's catch up with all the latest sports news
:19:04. > :19:08.now. I am Jessica Crichton and I have the latest in the sports news.
:19:09. > :19:13.Marco Fu Ashford scored the only goal of the game as Manchester
:19:14. > :19:18.United week rivals Manchester City in the Derby. The 18-year-old coolly
:19:19. > :19:22.slotted home in the 15th minute and now just a point between fourth
:19:23. > :19:27.placed city who also lost Raheem Sterling and Joe Hart to injury. We
:19:28. > :19:33.have to fight to the end because we were tired. We have played Thursday
:19:34. > :19:39.and they have pleased Tuesday or Wednesday, I don't know but one day
:19:40. > :19:46.more and that is very important. We did it also against Arsenal. If you
:19:47. > :19:54.weeks ago. Now again against Manchester City so, here you are
:19:55. > :20:01.seeing a very road manager. We dominated the game from the first
:20:02. > :20:07.minute. We mist three or four chances to score. He scored the goal
:20:08. > :20:13.in a mistake we made defending and that was the thing. Every player
:20:14. > :20:19.makes mistakes but Martin Demichelis did not have a great day today.
:20:20. > :20:24.Every player has a bad day, I think he was nervous and it was not good
:20:25. > :20:29.for him to continue but we didn't score a goal and that is not his
:20:30. > :20:34.fault. Also in the English Premier League Tottenham have cut Leicester
:20:35. > :20:39.City's read at the top 25 points after a win against Bournemouth, two
:20:40. > :20:43.goals from Harry Kane and one from Christain Eriksen shows the title
:20:44. > :20:46.race is not over yet. Leicester played before us and most of the
:20:47. > :20:51.games coming up so we know what we have to do but it is still a long
:20:52. > :20:55.way to go. A lot of points up for grabs but we go away now in the
:20:56. > :21:01.National break and we focus on that and when we come back it is a game
:21:02. > :21:06.away from then and we have to focus. Two other results to tell you about
:21:07. > :21:09.from England's top-flight. The result in the north-east derby
:21:10. > :21:18.leaves both in the relegation zone. Liverpool lost 3-2 to Southampton.
:21:19. > :21:22.Nico Rosberg has won the first race of the Formula 1 season in
:21:23. > :21:30.Australia. He finished ahead of Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel
:21:31. > :21:36.came third. After 17 yards it was halted after this man hit the
:21:37. > :21:42.concrete wall but was able to walk away seemingly unhurt. The Moto GP
:21:43. > :21:51.season is underway in Qatar. Jorge Lorenzo took the win. And as the
:21:52. > :21:56.world T20 tournament South Africa have winds back from their opening
:21:57. > :22:01.game defeat to England by beating Afghanistan by 37 runs. South Africa
:22:02. > :22:07.made 209 from the 20 overs, the sixth highest total ever. AB de
:22:08. > :22:13.Villiers made 64 including 29 off just one over. Afghanistan is
:22:14. > :22:17.Mohammed Shazad made 20 overs of 19 balls but it was not enough to win
:22:18. > :22:22.the game the other light for 172. The Indies have listed their chances
:22:23. > :22:28.of regressing from the same group. Chris Gayle did not bat for the West
:22:29. > :22:35.Indies because of injury, Sri Lanka were reduced to 120 949. The West
:22:36. > :22:40.Indies not that off with almost two overs to spare. Serena Williams has
:22:41. > :22:45.been beaten. The world number one went down in straight sets to the
:22:46. > :22:54.fact teens seed six -- four, 6-4. The men's final is underway now.
:22:55. > :23:03.That is all the sport for now. Many thanks. Let's go back now to have
:23:04. > :23:09.banner and our correspondence I will ask on what has been an historic day
:23:10. > :23:13.the first visit of the US president to due in nearly 90 years. We were
:23:14. > :23:17.talking earlier about the significance of this visit and also
:23:18. > :23:21.what is on the agenda because it sounds like nothing is off the table
:23:22. > :23:25.when it comes to the discussions that will take least not only
:23:26. > :23:31.between President Obama and his counterpart role Haass talks but
:23:32. > :23:38.also the ordinary people of Cuba. -- Raul Castro. Yes, a lot to talk
:23:39. > :23:41.about. On the agenda for the official talks what the Americans
:23:42. > :23:46.would like to see particularly from an economic point of view is for the
:23:47. > :23:50.Cuban government to respond to the steps the US has been taking. The US
:23:51. > :23:55.has eased some of the sanctions, allowed more trade and some
:23:56. > :23:59.interaction but it needs steps on the Cuban side for that to move
:24:00. > :24:01.ahead and the Cubans have been reluctant. They have economic
:24:02. > :24:08.reforms that they have been working on that have an slow in general but
:24:09. > :24:12.on top of that I think he would also want to be moving quite cautiously
:24:13. > :24:16.when it comes to the US because of their very fraught history. They do
:24:17. > :24:22.not trust the US is stored at the Andy moving slowly possibly for that
:24:23. > :24:27.reason. The Americans will possibly bring up democracy and human rights.
:24:28. > :24:31.They have do because that has been the centre point of their policy
:24:32. > :24:35.towards Cuba for the last few years. Something critics back home will be
:24:36. > :24:39.looking for. The Cubans said we will talk about anything but we will not
:24:40. > :24:43.be negotiating, we have our own system of government. Evidence we
:24:44. > :24:48.think are mercenaries underfunded ride the US out against state. Those
:24:49. > :24:52.positions which have an like that for years are not going to change
:24:53. > :24:56.and I do not think the Americans expect that to change but the issue
:24:57. > :25:00.will be raised. President Obama has a full agenda of meeting Cuban
:25:01. > :25:06.people in various settings one of which will be to meet entrepreneurs
:25:07. > :25:09.because a big part of the policy is to try to stimulate the private
:25:10. > :25:13.sector. He will also attend a baseball game and meet with some
:25:14. > :25:18.dissidents at the embassy, some of whom support what he is doing and
:25:19. > :25:21.say the best way to do with our problems is to have a more open
:25:22. > :25:27.environment between the US and Cuba and some new say he is selling them
:25:28. > :25:29.out because he is giving the Cuban government legitimacy when it has
:25:30. > :25:36.not changed its authoritarian policies. Good to talk to you. On
:25:37. > :25:43.the streets of the rainy Habana awaiting the arrival of President
:25:44. > :25:48.Barack Obama and the entire first family from the United States.
:25:49. > :25:53.Barack Obama touched down on the runway in Havana about 40 minutes
:25:54. > :25:58.ago with his wife and daughters marking the significance of what is
:25:59. > :26:09.a truly historic visit. From all of us here at BBC News, fax for
:26:10. > :26:13.watching. -- thank you for watching. Hello again we are expecting a big
:26:14. > :26:18.change in the weather pattern later this week. Or the moment it is as
:26:19. > :26:19.you wear, high-pressure sitting close to the