:00:00. > :00:12.America's man in Havana, Barack Obama, tells Cubans
:00:13. > :00:19.History in Havana, President Obama and President Raul Castro meet
:00:20. > :00:31.at the Revolutionary Palace, the seat of the Cuban government.
:00:32. > :00:37.This is a new day between our two countries.
:00:38. > :00:41.This is the scene live in Havana, where we're expecting
:00:42. > :00:56.Presidents Obama and Castro to deliver statements shortly.
:00:57. > :01:00.They will be celebrating that historic event.
:01:01. > :01:01.The International Criminal Court finds former Congolese vice
:01:02. > :01:03.president Jean-Pierre Bemba guilty of war crimes
:01:04. > :01:06.As the British Parliament debates whether the atrocities committed
:01:07. > :01:10.against Middle East religious minorities are a genocide,
:01:11. > :01:19.we hear from a Yazidi survivor of Islamic State.
:01:20. > :01:24.They ruined our lives. They raped us, they left us with nothing, they
:01:25. > :01:26.took everything. It's never made a profit,
:01:27. > :01:30.so what does the future hold In an historic moment,
:01:31. > :01:54.US President Obama has held talks with his Cuban counterpart,
:01:55. > :01:56.Raul Castro, on the second day Speaking a short time ago,
:01:57. > :02:02.Raul Castro said he welcomed Obama's commitment to end the trade embargo
:02:03. > :02:09.imposed by the US 54 years ago, but said more restrictions needed
:02:10. > :02:22.to be lifted. The blockade stands as the most
:02:23. > :02:34.important obstacle to our economic development. That's why its removal
:02:35. > :02:39.will be of the of the essence to normalise relations. The road ahead
:02:40. > :02:43.will not be easy, as you indicated. Fortunately, we don't have to swim
:02:44. > :02:52.with sharks in order to achieve the goals we have set forth. As you say
:02:53. > :02:53.here in Cuba, despite the difficulties, we will continue to
:02:54. > :02:55.move forward. US President Barack Obama insisted
:02:56. > :02:57.that the differences between their two governments won't
:02:58. > :03:04.be a barrier to future cooperation. And we can cross live to Havana now
:03:05. > :03:17.and the BBC's Laura Trevelyan. What did you make of the two
:03:18. > :03:20.Presidents? Well, wasn't it fascinating, that even though both
:03:21. > :03:25.men talked about how their countries were working together, they both
:03:26. > :03:29.talked about what Raul Castro called the profound differences between the
:03:30. > :03:32.two countries, chiefly on human rights and democracy. Just as
:03:33. > :03:37.President Castro was taking a final question from an American journalist
:03:38. > :03:40.just a few moments ago, he said, for example, "I think human rights
:03:41. > :03:46.should not be politicised. If that is the purpose, we will stay the
:03:47. > :03:53.same." He also said, "Is there any sacred right than the right to
:03:54. > :03:57.health? " The difference between the health care systems. The Americans
:03:58. > :04:00.want to focus on the fact that the Cubans crackdown on dissidents and
:04:01. > :04:05.political activists. President Obama talking about this being a major
:04:06. > :04:09.irritant, the Cuban record on human rights and democracy. And the Cubans
:04:10. > :04:14.coming right back at them with President Castro being very testy on
:04:15. > :04:19.the issue of political prisoners. Clearly, the tension is there, but
:04:20. > :04:25.also both countries and men talking about the need to work together. The
:04:26. > :04:29.question of political prisoners, that was something that came up from
:04:30. > :04:35.the floor. My understanding of the tone and the mood of that... Of the
:04:36. > :04:40.press conference, once it was open to the journalist is, is that the
:04:41. > :04:45.questions focused on the issue of the embargo, that was raised at
:04:46. > :04:54.least four or five times, and that issue of political prisoners. Sadly,
:04:55. > :05:00.I think we have lost the line to our correspondent. She was listening in
:05:01. > :05:04.to that press conference for us, those joint statements between
:05:05. > :05:09.President Erica Balmer and Raul Castro on the second day of this
:05:10. > :05:13.historic visit by a sitting US President, the first time that has
:05:14. > :05:21.happened in 88 years. As Laura was saying, fascinating as to what both
:05:22. > :05:25.Presidents had to say, both focusing on the positive steps that have been
:05:26. > :05:31.taken in bringing these two nations closer together, but, a central
:05:32. > :05:35.theme, the embargo that he has been in place the 54 years is still in
:05:36. > :05:39.place. It requires a vote by Congress in order to lift. We will
:05:40. > :05:43.hopefully get Laura back later on for a bit more analysis. Let's have
:05:44. > :05:45.a look at some of the day's other news.
:05:46. > :05:48.The head of the Syrian government delegation at the Geneva talks has
:05:49. > :05:50.again ruled out any discussion about the future of President Assad.
:05:51. > :05:53.Bashar Ja'afari also said progress was slow at the talks.
:05:54. > :05:59.He was speaking after meeting UN envoy Staffan de Mistura.
:06:00. > :06:01.Migrants stranded at the Greece-Macedonia border
:06:02. > :06:05.in appalling conditions have staged a protest,
:06:06. > :06:11.Men, women and children took part, chanting "Open the border."
:06:12. > :06:13.Around 12,000 people have stayed put there,
:06:14. > :06:17.despite the Balkan migrant route towards Germany being closed.
:06:18. > :06:21.According to new Greek government figures, 50,000 migrants
:06:22. > :06:26.are currently trapped in the country.
:06:27. > :06:28.Israel says it has rescued some of the last remaining Jews
:06:29. > :06:34.19 people from Sanaa and the town of Raydah were flown to Israel
:06:35. > :06:40.They include a rabbi who brought an ancient Torah scroll with him.
:06:41. > :06:43.An Israeli minister said their lives were threatened by Shia Houthi
:06:44. > :06:49.rebels who are fighting a Saudi-led coalition.
:06:50. > :06:51.The Islamist group Al Shabaab has attacked an army base
:06:52. > :06:58.The militant group says it killed 73 Somali soldiers at the base
:06:59. > :07:02.at Laanta Buuro, and seized seven military vehicles.
:07:03. > :07:04.That's contradicted by the Somali army, which says one soldier
:07:05. > :07:16.Former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba has been found
:07:17. > :07:20.guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
:07:21. > :07:24.The International Criminal Court in the Hague has ruled
:07:25. > :07:49.that he was responsible for murders and rapes carried out by his troops
:07:50. > :08:34.It is alleged that the troops went on a rampage, killing and raping
:08:35. > :08:37.hundreds of civilians, as well as looting.
:08:38. > :08:41.MSC members and former collaborators of Jean-Pierre Bemba travelled
:08:42. > :08:52.to the Hague to show their support on a day of verdict.
:08:53. > :08:55.TRANSLATION: The court recognised there were unnamed protagonists
:08:56. > :08:58.like Francois Bozize and Patasse, with allies on both sides.
:08:59. > :09:12.He's very confident he has nothing to feel guilty about.
:09:13. > :09:18.TRANSLATION: Today is the big day for the victims,
:09:19. > :09:22.and for myself, as their representative.
:09:23. > :09:25.Because today the international justice recognises their
:09:26. > :09:32.This is the first case and the International Criminal Court
:09:33. > :09:38.to have primarily focused on rape as a weapon of war.
:09:39. > :09:44.of military commanders who overlook such crimes.
:09:45. > :09:57.His lawyers are expected to appeal today's verdict.
:09:58. > :09:59.Belgium's federal prosecutor says investigators are far from solving
:10:00. > :10:06.what he described as "the puzzle of the Paris attacks."
:10:07. > :10:11.pieces of the puzzle have fallen into place in the past few days.
:10:12. > :10:14.New video has emerged showing the moment that Abdeslam was shot
:10:15. > :10:25.during the raid in Brussels on Friday.
:10:26. > :10:39.Belgian investigators have also named a suspected accomplice
:10:40. > :10:42.TRANSLATION: We know that the inquiry isn't over
:10:43. > :10:46.and there are other individuals who must still be found so they can
:10:47. > :10:51.I would like to acknowledge the huge work done by all our teams on both
:10:52. > :10:54.sides of the border and to express my condolences to all victims
:10:55. > :11:05.On Thursday, we reported a decision of US Secretary of State,
:11:06. > :11:08.John Kerry, to recognise atrocities committed by so-called Islamic State
:11:09. > :11:15.as genocide against religious minorities in the Middle East.
:11:16. > :11:18.In the British Parliament, a cross-party group in the House
:11:19. > :11:22.of Lords wants a similar declaration by the UK government.
:11:23. > :11:24.There was a unanimous vote along similar lines
:11:25. > :11:27.in the European Parliament last month.
:11:28. > :11:30.However, the British government has refused to make such a declaration,
:11:31. > :11:39.insisting it is a matter for international judicial bodies.
:11:40. > :11:45.These are live pictures we are looking at right now of the House of
:11:46. > :11:48.Lords where that amendment to the bill is going to be debated.
:11:49. > :11:50.Before the American administration reached a determination of genocide,
:11:51. > :11:54.the US Congress first took evidence from a range of human rights
:11:55. > :11:59.Jacqueline Isaac is a lawyer from California, who recorded
:12:00. > :12:02.witness statements of survivors from the Christian and Yazidi
:12:03. > :12:07.She spoke to Ekhlas, a Yazidi survivor who has found
:12:08. > :12:14.In a recording made by Jacqueline, she described how her family
:12:15. > :12:18.was kidnapped on the Sinjar Plain in Iraq and what then happened
:12:19. > :12:22.to them, and to her, aged just 15 years old.
:12:23. > :12:26.A warning, her evidence is disturbing.
:12:27. > :12:31.They kidnapped and killed my father and my two brothers.
:12:32. > :12:40.Yes, I saw my father killed in front of my eyes.
:12:41. > :12:46.I was gripping my brother's hand and told him,
:12:47. > :12:54.Yet, he let me go because they killed him.
:12:55. > :12:58.The sounds of the gunshots, they will never leave my ears.
:12:59. > :13:15.They took over the government prison and put you in it?
:13:16. > :13:18.Yes. All of us.
:13:19. > :13:26.Boys, girls, children, women, all of us.
:13:27. > :13:28.How did you feel when you were in prison?
:13:29. > :13:35.I always asked myself, why did this happen?
:13:36. > :13:54.Did we deserve to be orphanes with no family,
:13:55. > :14:01.I saw with my own eyes a man over 40 years old,
:14:02. > :14:06.maybe 42 or 45, he took a girl ten years old,
:14:07. > :14:13.What law would allow a man to use the name Allah to call on Allah
:14:14. > :14:16.and then kill the men and rape the women?
:14:17. > :14:18.What law? What religion?
:14:19. > :14:31.What religion would allow that? They don't have a religion.
:14:32. > :14:35.A survivor talking to the lawyer, Jaclyn Isaacs.
:14:36. > :14:37.Congressman Chris Smith is a Republican who sits
:14:38. > :14:38.on the Congressional Foreign Affairs Committee.
:14:39. > :14:53.Really good to talk to you. Thank you. I know you listen to that
:14:54. > :14:58.testimony from the girl when Jack clean first put it before Congress.
:14:59. > :15:04.I know you've also been instrumental in pushing for this declaration of
:15:05. > :15:10.genocide. On Thursday, John Kerry deemed the actions of Isis against
:15:11. > :15:14.the Yazidis and other minorities in Iraqi and Syria as genocide. What
:15:15. > :15:18.does that mean? What is going to happen in practical terms? It a
:15:19. > :15:24.great question, and I've been pushing, chairing five congressional
:15:25. > :15:29.hearings, going back to 2013, asking that such it is ignition be made. We
:15:30. > :15:35.missed it on Rwanda and Srebrenica which came later, and I've been to
:15:36. > :15:40.those places, and the international community needs to rally, and we
:15:41. > :15:44.welcome Secretary Carey's statement on Thursday which followed, as you
:15:45. > :15:47.pointed out, a unanimous vote, Republicans and Democrats alike in
:15:48. > :15:53.the House of Representatives. There are a number of things. The genocide
:15:54. > :15:57.couldn't be clearer. Those who are responsible for these crimes of
:15:58. > :16:05.genocide need to be held personally responsible. There needs to be a
:16:06. > :16:09.prosecution. The ICC is one venue. I think, and I have held hearings on
:16:10. > :16:16.this as well, and a resolution passed on Monday, the same day the
:16:17. > :16:26.genocide designation past was my resolution calling for a tribunal
:16:27. > :16:31.similar to Yugoslavia, so we can get convictions. It is hard work,
:16:32. > :16:35.building a case against these individuals, doing it aggressively,
:16:36. > :16:39.having the nimbleness that these ad hoc courts have shown, and I think
:16:40. > :16:44.that'll make a difference. And we will be looking at those. We have
:16:45. > :16:52.now been designated as targeted genocide. Get them to a place where
:16:53. > :16:59.they can continue living without rape. It is a great symbolic step
:17:00. > :17:04.getting John Kerry to use the word genocide, the last time the US used
:17:05. > :17:10.it was in 2004 when colon Powell referred to doff or as a genocide.
:17:11. > :17:15.Is going to mean further feet on the ground? Is it going to mean the
:17:16. > :17:19.victims of this genocide are given asylum in the States? What does it
:17:20. > :17:26.mean? That is a great question. It means we need to provide asylum for
:17:27. > :17:30.those. If this isn't a well founded fear of persecution, the definition
:17:31. > :17:33.of asylum, I don't know what is. It needs all of us, the whole
:17:34. > :17:42.international committee, including the US, needs to step up. Even for
:17:43. > :17:47.the ICC designation, has it happened? It would be a flawed
:17:48. > :17:50.approach but at least it would be something. I think the regional
:17:51. > :17:55.courts are one way of going. We need to look at a safe haven, not like
:17:56. > :18:01.Srebrenica, and the UN safe havens joined the Bosnian war, which turned
:18:02. > :18:05.out to be areas where people were slaughtered. We need to double down.
:18:06. > :18:12.Of course, there is a ceasefire in effect against Al-Nusra Front and
:18:13. > :18:16.Isis. And that is a good thing, and I'm glad that was brokered. But
:18:17. > :18:21.there is much more needs to be done. We are talking about 470,000 people
:18:22. > :18:27.dead high-end estimate. The UN doesn't count anymore, they felt it
:18:28. > :18:31.was too unreliable. But needs to be done and humanitarian access, there
:18:32. > :18:35.are a number of areas where that access hasn't been provided. Russia
:18:36. > :18:39.needs to be put on the Assad government. Most of the killings in
:18:40. > :18:46.Syria are the result of his barrel bombing and killing, his troops. So,
:18:47. > :18:51.a tribunal would include all players, just as we did in
:18:52. > :18:54.Yugoslavia, just as we did in Sierra Leone and everywhere else. I'm
:18:55. > :18:59.afraid we will have to leave it there. Thank you for joining us live
:19:00. > :19:03.from Washington. I should also mention that last month the Council
:19:04. > :19:08.of Europe and the EU Parliament also deemed these similar offences as
:19:09. > :19:10.genocide. And this amendment to a bill currently debated in the House
:19:11. > :19:14.of Lords hearing the today as well. Now, believe it or not,
:19:15. > :19:17.it's ten years since the first The 140 character limit tweet has
:19:18. > :19:21.become a feature of millions of people's lives, with 500 million
:19:22. > :19:24.tweets now sent every day. But some have stood
:19:25. > :19:27.out more than others. And others that have produced iconic
:19:28. > :19:32.images of our time. Well, that came from Twitter
:19:33. > :19:37.co-founder Jack Dorsey, Those missing vowels would come
:19:38. > :19:45.a few months later. But what about the humble hashtag,
:19:46. > :19:48.something we now use to group tweets Well, the very first pound sign
:19:49. > :19:54.was used by Chris Mosina, a technology expert,
:19:55. > :19:58.over a year later, in August 2007. The platform really took off
:19:59. > :20:01.as a medium for breaking news in 2009, when a ferry passenger
:20:02. > :20:06.on the Hudson River in New York sent It's of US Airways Flight 1549 just
:20:07. > :20:14.after it touched down in the frigid But for some time news hasn't been
:20:15. > :20:22.restricted to our planet earth. So, in 2010, NASA astronaut
:20:23. > :20:26.Timothy Creamer became the first person to tweet live
:20:27. > :20:28.from the International The power of Twitter
:20:29. > :20:34.hasn't gone unnoticed. Many of the world's most powerful
:20:35. > :20:36.and prominent leaders have taken British Prime Minister David Cameron
:20:37. > :20:40.is on there, as is Iran's Supreme So, in December 2012,
:20:41. > :20:50.the Pope joined, sending this tweet. Other high profile users include
:20:51. > :20:52.Indian Prime minister Narendra Modi, They used Twitter in 2013
:20:53. > :20:58.to announce the birth of the third in line to the British throne,
:20:59. > :21:02.Prince George. One of the most popular public
:21:03. > :21:06.figures remains the US President. He celebrated the win of his second
:21:07. > :21:10.term by tweeting this picture At the time of the 2012 elections,
:21:11. > :21:18.they just numbered over 16 million. He now has over 70
:21:19. > :21:22.million followers. But one of the most retweeted
:21:23. > :21:24.images, with over three million retweets to date, was the Hollywood
:21:25. > :21:30.superstar selfie, taken at the Oscar ceremony in March 2014,
:21:31. > :21:35.featuring such silver screen luminaries as Brad Pitt
:21:36. > :21:37.and Kevin Spacey, and taken by that Rupert Goodwins is a technology
:21:38. > :21:58.journalist and he joins me now So, do you have 70 million
:21:59. > :22:03.followers? No, I have 4800 but I love them all dearly. That is better
:22:04. > :22:14.than most! Do you remember sending your first week? I don't but I can
:22:15. > :22:19.look it up. It says twittering, the deepest thought I had that day. Ten
:22:20. > :22:24.years on, do you think Twitter is where it wants to be? It wants to be
:22:25. > :22:31.making money, which it isn't doing. It is turning over $2 million a year
:22:32. > :22:36.or so, which isn't bad, but it is losing 40 million. So it isn't
:22:37. > :22:42.making money. It's place in the heart of the online world is
:22:43. > :22:46.assured. People are using it to talk back to customer service people, and
:22:47. > :22:50.President Obama. We wait to see whether President Obama and the Pope
:22:51. > :22:55.and the Ayatollah Khamenei will talk to each other. That might happen
:22:56. > :23:00.yet. Is that the appeal of Twitter, the fact that you can have immediate
:23:01. > :23:04.interaction with these incredibly high profile figures? I could send a
:23:05. > :23:06.tweet right now to the Ayatollah Khamenei, I could tweak the
:23:07. > :23:13.president of the alert states, I could tweak the prime Minister. -- I
:23:14. > :23:18.could tweet the prime Minister. Is that the appeal? Stephen Fry is off
:23:19. > :23:24.Twitter at the moment but he will probably be back soon. They will
:23:25. > :23:28.either come back to you or re-tweet your tweet. In terms of delivering
:23:29. > :23:32.news quickly, there is nothing like it. When the plane landed in the
:23:33. > :23:35.Hudson River, everybody could see it faster than any new service could
:23:36. > :23:40.deliver it. It has the leading edge of news, it is unparalleled. Where
:23:41. > :23:44.do they go from here? They need to start turning a profit. Their
:23:45. > :23:49.revenues are rising but they are making money. How do they crack that
:23:50. > :23:56.conundrum of successfully monetising the site? If I knew that, I probably
:23:57. > :23:59.wouldn't be sitting here now. They've got this 300 million users
:24:00. > :24:03.using it every month at least. They've got a lot of money coming
:24:04. > :24:06.in. They are cutting their costs, and the making better and better
:24:07. > :24:11.advertising deals. The trick is they've got to do that alienating
:24:12. > :24:15.people. Twitter is personal. They don't like being poisoned by adverts
:24:16. > :24:21.or fiddled with. It is a delicate dance. It is a brand-new medium. It
:24:22. > :24:24.is one of the most rare brand-new mediums we have had in the very
:24:25. > :24:28.first century. They are finding out what happens, we are all there for
:24:29. > :24:34.the ride. It's not just the lack of money they are making but also the
:24:35. > :24:41.number of monthly users signing up. There was this huge growth we saw.
:24:42. > :24:48.Hazard plateaued? Are there still untapped markets? They've saturated
:24:49. > :24:50.one particular market. The trouble is Wall Street and venture
:24:51. > :24:53.capitalists see growth as the most important thing. They are not
:24:54. > :24:57.comfortable with something being static even though it is evolving so
:24:58. > :25:02.Twitter has to concentrate now not on finding new people but on making
:25:03. > :25:05.better use of the people they have. And new markets will arrive as
:25:06. > :25:10.perhaps new services are invented. The hash tag was invented by the
:25:11. > :25:15.users. So, with Twitter, new things pop up from anywhere, they have to
:25:16. > :25:21.keep refining it, making us use it more. OK, I will treat you, you can
:25:22. > :25:26.tweet me back. Good to talk to you. Talking to us about Twitter and
:25:27. > :25:29.their ten year anniversary. Happy birthday, Twitter.
:25:30. > :25:33.President Obama is holding talks with his Cuban counterpart,
:25:34. > :25:35.Raul Castro, on the second day of a historic visit
:25:36. > :25:38.They are meeting at the Revolutionary Palace,
:25:39. > :25:44.Earlier, Mr Obama laid a wreath at a monument to the country's
:25:45. > :26:07.But, for now, from me and the rest of the team, goodbye.
:26:08. > :26:11.Good evening. With Easter on the rise, it is perhaps inevitable it
:26:12. > :26:13.would be a week