:00:24. > :00:41.In the last few minutes, he has rescinded the deal which was set up
:00:42. > :00:46.with Cuba by President Obama. The president has also said
:00:47. > :00:48.that he is being investigated for obstruction of justice,
:00:49. > :00:51.by the man who told him Frustration and anger
:00:52. > :00:54.following the tower block fire in west London,as crowds
:00:55. > :01:09.gather to add their voice The Prime Minister, criticised for
:01:10. > :01:16.her response, visit some in hospital and has announced a ?5 million
:01:17. > :01:20.relief fund. We want to ensure that people immediately have the support
:01:21. > :01:24.the need for them to be able to help deal with terrible and horrific
:01:25. > :01:27.circumstances. And he was Germany's
:01:28. > :01:28.longest-serving Chancellor, presiding over German re-unification
:01:29. > :01:30.and a driving force behind Hello and welcome
:01:31. > :02:00.to World News Today. President Trump has just cancelled
:02:01. > :02:11.his predecessor 's agreement with Cuba. He said the agreement only
:02:12. > :02:16.hilt the rich and Cuba did nothing to help the American people.
:02:17. > :02:20.This is the scene live in Miami where the President is speaking.
:02:21. > :02:33.It was a great day. It was a very important moment, just like this is
:02:34. > :02:42.no. This is a very important moment for Cuba. America will always stand
:02:43. > :02:49.for everything and we will always cheer for the freedom of the people
:02:50. > :02:56.of Cuba. That little boy whose story I just talked, the one who played
:02:57. > :03:07.the violin so beautifully so many years ago, is here with us today in
:03:08. > :03:15.our fact an extremely warm auditorium. Of course, he is no
:03:16. > :03:23.longer a little boy, but the world renowned violinist. Today, he will
:03:24. > :03:32.once again playing his violin and fill the hearts of all of those who
:03:33. > :03:44.cherish Cuba, the United States and freedom. I would like to invite him
:03:45. > :03:53.to the stage. This is President Trump live addressing the Cuban-
:03:54. > :03:59.American community in Miami. He has within the past half-hour reversed
:04:00. > :04:06.the three years of United States policy which with Cuba. President
:04:07. > :04:11.Trump talking about the human rights record in Cuba and said he is not
:04:12. > :04:17.going to the ease the travel restrictions until Cuba holds fear
:04:18. > :04:25.and free elections. The profits from investment and tourism flow directly
:04:26. > :04:31.to the military. The regime takes the money and owns the industry. The
:04:32. > :04:42.outcome of the last administration executive action has only been more
:04:43. > :04:46.repression and a move to crush the peaceful, democratic movement,
:04:47. > :04:49.therefore, effective immediately, I am cancelling the last
:04:50. > :04:57.administration is completely one-sided deal with Cuba. I am
:04:58. > :05:05.announcing today a new policy. Just as I promised during the campaign. I
:05:06. > :05:18.will be signing the contract rate at that table in just a moment. Our
:05:19. > :05:25.policy will seek a much better deal for the people of Cuba and for the
:05:26. > :05:32.United States of America. We do not want US dollars to prop up a
:05:33. > :05:38.military monopoly which exploits the citizens of Cuba. Our new policy
:05:39. > :05:46.begins strictly enforcing United States law. We will not lift
:05:47. > :05:53.sanctions on the Cuban regime until all political prisoners are freed
:05:54. > :06:07.from prison. Freedom of assembly and expression are respected, all
:06:08. > :06:23.political parties are legalised, and three and internationally supervised
:06:24. > :06:31.elections are scheduled. We will finish strongly restrict American
:06:32. > :06:36.dollars for falling to the military, security and intelligence services
:06:37. > :06:44.that are at the heart of the Castro regime. We will be restricted. --
:06:45. > :06:49.they will be restricted. We will enforce the ban on tourism. We will
:06:50. > :06:55.enforce the embargo. We will take concrete steps to ensure that
:06:56. > :07:02.investments fall directly to the people, so they can open private
:07:03. > :07:09.businesses and begin to build their countries great, great future. A
:07:10. > :07:14.country of great potential. President Trump speaking with the
:07:15. > :07:18.last 30 minutes. He is still speaking at the moment. Speaking to
:07:19. > :07:29.the large Cuban - American community in Miami.
:07:30. > :07:36.He is making good on a lot of these campaign promises? Yes, although he
:07:37. > :07:45.said it was a terrible deal that President Obama mean, he is not
:07:46. > :07:53.doing a complete turnaround. President Obama Normalised
:07:54. > :07:57.diplomatic relations. The first United States Embassy in Havana was
:07:58. > :08:00.opened at couple of years ago. He has brought in tougher restrictions
:08:01. > :08:07.when it comes to things like travel restrictions banning business with
:08:08. > :08:16.the new Cuban military, which could affect the Cuban economy. It is not
:08:17. > :08:23.a complete rule back. This will be popular with his base. You can see
:08:24. > :08:33.the code around him. In Florida, he won 54% of the vote of Cuban-
:08:34. > :08:40.Americans. It was a vote winner. We will talk to you slightly later in
:08:41. > :08:50.the programme. Staying with this issue of Cuba. We can no speak to.
:08:51. > :08:54.the Washington Office of Latin America.
:08:55. > :08:56.She worked with the Obama administration and opposes
:08:57. > :09:10.I am assuming you are disappointed but not surprised by what you hear
:09:11. > :09:18.unknowns. That is exactly right. I am surprised. Any step back from
:09:19. > :09:27.normalisation is bad for America and bad for Cuba. The only people at
:09:28. > :09:34.benefits as a small minority of focal Cuban- Americans in Florida. A
:09:35. > :09:40.lot of people did vote for him in the campaign and what he said it did
:09:41. > :09:45.prove popular. That is what these people wanted. Absolutely. They are
:09:46. > :09:53.a small minority who wonders. The overwhelming majority of Cuban-
:09:54. > :09:59.Americans favour lifting the embargo. This policy is not only
:10:00. > :10:03.unpopular amongst Americans, it will be unpopular amongst Cuban-
:10:04. > :10:12.Americans. We were expecting him to focus on the human rights record in
:10:13. > :10:18.Cuba. He was talking about encouraging political transparency.
:10:19. > :10:23.That is not unreasonable. The question is not if it is
:10:24. > :10:29.unreasonable, but how best to go about promoting that. We believe the
:10:30. > :10:38.best way to go about doing that is to get more engagement, not less. In
:10:39. > :10:41.terms of the practicalities, what with the embassy, the first United
:10:42. > :10:50.States Embassy, it would remain open. But practically, how will this
:10:51. > :10:57.affect the community? In terms of the community on the island? In
:10:58. > :11:06.terms of travel both ways. This makes it harder for Americans to
:11:07. > :11:12.travel. This punishes the private sector, the very people that
:11:13. > :11:22.President Trump wants to hilt. The notion that travel only hilt the
:11:23. > :11:29.Cuban military is simply not true. $40 million have gone to private
:11:30. > :11:34.homeowners in Cuba through travel. That has definitely been an obvious
:11:35. > :11:37.benefit of the lifting of the travel ban. Thank you very much for joining
:11:38. > :11:42.us. Donald Trump has taken to Twitter,
:11:43. > :11:45.to confirm he is being investigated for obstruction of justice
:11:46. > :11:47.in connection with the firing He said: "I am being investigated
:11:48. > :11:53.for firing the FBI Director "by the man who told me
:11:54. > :11:57.to fire the FBI Director!" Once again, he called
:11:58. > :12:00.it a "witch hunt." He also insisted that, "After seven
:12:01. > :12:02.months of investigations and committee hearings
:12:03. > :12:04.about my alleged collusion with the Russians, nobody has been
:12:05. > :12:09.able to show any proof." As a result, sources close to the US
:12:10. > :12:15.Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein, say he may have
:12:16. > :12:17.to recuse himself from the inquiry, as he may now be
:12:18. > :12:41.a potential witness. This gets more and more complicated.
:12:42. > :12:47.Starting from the beginning, we heard from the president that he is
:12:48. > :12:56.not being investigated. He is now being investigated. What do we make
:12:57. > :13:00.of this? James Comey testified before the Senate last week. He was
:13:01. > :13:08.fired by the president at the beginning of last month. He said the
:13:09. > :13:12.president was not the subject of the investigation as to whether his
:13:13. > :13:24.campaign colluded with the Russians. James Comey Was then fire. The
:13:25. > :13:32.investigation was then taken over by a special counsel. He has broadened
:13:33. > :13:36.the scope of the enquiry and is now investigating president Trump. With
:13:37. > :13:44.a naughty obstructed justice by filing James Comey. It sounds rather
:13:45. > :13:54.complicated. He was not been investigated before but he is no.
:13:55. > :14:04.What happens if Rosenstein recuse as himself? He is the deputy Attorney
:14:05. > :14:08.General. He is the most senior person investigating the Russian
:14:09. > :14:13.investigation. The Attorney General had to take himself off the case
:14:14. > :14:20.because he was a former senator who was a key surrogate for the Trump
:14:21. > :14:23.campaign. There was a potential conflict of interest for him. The
:14:24. > :14:33.deputy general was no overseeing this. It was him who authored the
:14:34. > :14:37.letter setting out why James Comey was fired. He has now been
:14:38. > :14:41.criticised by the President this morning and it looks like he himself
:14:42. > :14:45.may have to take himself off the investigation because he could no be
:14:46. > :14:54.a witness perhaps because of that letter which set out why James Comey
:14:55. > :14:59.was fired. James Comey Says he believes he was fired because of his
:15:00. > :15:01.involvement with the Russian enquiry. Thank you for clarifying
:15:02. > :15:24.Oliver. There has been growing anger in
:15:25. > :15:25.London about the situation surrounding the major tour block
:15:26. > :15:29.blaze. The BBC's Dan Johnson
:15:30. > :15:34.gave us the latest from I'd say at the height of this
:15:35. > :15:45.protest there was probably 4-500, maybe more, people here and some
:15:46. > :15:48.of them decided that it wasn't enough just to stand outside
:15:49. > :15:50.and chant their message to make their demands plain,
:15:51. > :15:53.they decided that they were actually going to take that message
:15:54. > :15:55.inside the council offices. They went in through the front
:15:56. > :15:58.doors, they were in the foyer The police have arrived and heard
:15:59. > :16:02.most of those people away. They are now, most of them,
:16:03. > :16:04.still gathered here. Some have left but there
:16:05. > :16:07.are still a couple of hundred They are now just been reading
:16:08. > :16:11.through a list of the names of those people that are known to have died
:16:12. > :16:14.in this fire. They say that they just haven't been
:16:15. > :16:16.getting enough information quickly They say that at this point,
:16:17. > :16:20.two or three days on, just isn't going quickly
:16:21. > :16:22.enough, they say. They say they know people have been
:16:23. > :16:24.missing since the fire happened. They strongly suspect they have
:16:25. > :16:27.lost their lives and want that official confirmation
:16:28. > :16:29.so that they can move At the moment, they also
:16:30. > :16:32.have the demands that they want the council to meet,
:16:33. > :16:34.more funding for those who have been left homeless
:16:35. > :16:36.because of this disaster, they want to know that everyone
:16:37. > :16:39.will be re-homed as quickly That is one of their
:16:40. > :16:45.immediate priorities. They say temporary accommodation has
:16:46. > :16:48.also got to be of a better standard There is understandably a lot
:16:49. > :16:57.of anger and emotion in this crowd. People are really upset
:16:58. > :17:00.and frustrated by the response from They feel it hasn't been good enough
:17:01. > :17:05.and hasn't addressed They say the council hasn't
:17:06. > :17:10.been accountable to them and they want to council officials
:17:11. > :17:14.to come out and actually be to them, They have had a written response
:17:15. > :17:18.from a council official but that, they say, is not satisfactory,
:17:19. > :17:22.so quite a big crowd still here trying to get
:17:23. > :17:25.the message through. They are deciding what
:17:26. > :17:27.they need to do next. Certainly, there are wider
:17:28. > :17:32.issues at play here. You might be able to see
:17:33. > :17:35.that there are political posters now Certainly, this disaster has sparked
:17:36. > :17:40.a wider sense of unease and feelings of inequality in this
:17:41. > :17:42.borough and beyond. Issues they want to be addressed
:17:43. > :17:59.as quickly as possible. In the last hour, the Prime Minister
:18:00. > :18:01.Theresa May has offered a ?5 million relief fund for those
:18:02. > :18:04.affected by the fire. A short while ago, she spoke
:18:05. > :18:07.to my colleague Emily Maitliss and insisted the government
:18:08. > :18:10.was doing everything it could. We are committed to
:18:11. > :18:11.ensuring that people are rehoused, as far as possible,
:18:12. > :18:13.within the borough. Some people may actually
:18:14. > :18:17.want to go to another part of London where perhaps
:18:18. > :18:20.they have a greater support network, where they have
:18:21. > :18:23.friends and relatives. We are ensuring that within three
:18:24. > :18:26.weeks people will be rehoused so they have
:18:27. > :18:30.a home to go to. I ask you again, do you accept that
:18:31. > :18:33.you misread the public mood, You didn't go and meet
:18:34. > :18:36.residents and they really This was a terrible
:18:37. > :18:47.tragedy that took place. All their possessions,
:18:48. > :18:50.their home and everything. What we are doing is
:18:51. > :18:53.putting in place the I have heard horrifying
:18:54. > :18:59.stories from the fire brigade, police, victims themselves,
:19:00. > :19:01.that were in the tower. Some of them, of course,
:19:02. > :19:05.have not been able to go What I'm now what
:19:06. > :19:13.absolutely focused on is ensuring that we get that
:19:14. > :19:15.support on the ground. Government is making
:19:16. > :19:18.money available. We are ensuring that we
:19:19. > :19:20.are going to get to the bottom of what has happened
:19:21. > :19:23.and we will ensure that people are We need to make sure that actually
:19:24. > :19:40.happens. The BBC's deputy political editor
:19:41. > :19:42.John Pienaar in Westminster. He gave us the latest
:19:43. > :19:45.on the Prime Minister's reaction The Prime Minister's having to show
:19:46. > :19:55.some of the empathy and the agility that some of critics say
:19:56. > :19:58.she was lacking when she made her I saw the truly inspiring sight
:19:59. > :20:04.of people of all communities, all social classes, coming together,
:20:05. > :20:06.offering clothing by way of donations, too much
:20:07. > :20:09.for the volunteers on the ground to deal with, and just
:20:10. > :20:12.about everyone I spoke to spoke of the lack of leadership at local
:20:13. > :20:14.and national level. We've heard from Theresa May today,
:20:15. > :20:16.she made the announcement She is under pressure,
:20:17. > :20:20.she'll need to see that those coming public enquiry is set up quickly,
:20:21. > :20:22.that it makes effective recommendations, that they
:20:23. > :20:24.are acted upon quickly. The roots of this goes
:20:25. > :20:27.beyond the last two Tory administrations, back
:20:28. > :20:29.through the time of the last Labour administration,
:20:30. > :20:31.but inevitably the buck stops on the desk of the serving
:20:32. > :20:34.Prime Minister, and this is a defining test of Theresa May's
:20:35. > :20:36.authority, weakened as it is since the election,
:20:37. > :20:39.and that test has come far more quickly than Theresa May
:20:40. > :21:02.could possibly have imagined. We have a special section on our
:21:03. > :21:10.website done it dedicated to the Grenfell Tower disaster.
:21:11. > :21:13.Let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news.
:21:14. > :21:16.The United Nations says so-called Islamic State may be holding more
:21:17. > :21:18.than 100,000 civilians in Mosul as human shields.
:21:19. > :21:20.It says these people are surrounded by fighting,
:21:21. > :21:22.with hardly any food, water, electricity or fuel.
:21:23. > :21:24.An operation to retake the city, led by Iraqi government forces,
:21:25. > :21:28.Russia's Foreign Minister says he cannot confirm that his country's
:21:29. > :21:30.warplanes killed the chief of so-called Islamic State,
:21:31. > :21:33.The night-time raid targeted the group's leaders last month.
:21:34. > :21:35.Earlier, the Syrian government said al-Baghdadi was killed in an air
:21:36. > :21:39.strike, but did not say who carried it out, nor provided any evidence
:21:40. > :21:48.A judge in Massachusetts has ruled that a 20-year-old American woman
:21:49. > :21:51.who encouraged her boyfriend to kill himself is guilty of his death.
:21:52. > :21:53.Michelle Carter faces up to 20 years in prison
:21:54. > :21:57.18-year-old Conrad Roy was found dead from carbon monoxide poisoning
:21:58. > :22:01.The court, near Boston, heard that Carter had urged him,
:22:02. > :22:24.in text messages, to follow through on his plan to kill himself.
:22:25. > :22:33.The former German Chancellor, who presided over the fall of the Berlin
:22:34. > :22:38.Wall and the reunion unification of the country has died, at the age of
:22:39. > :22:51.87. He was Germany's longest serving post-war leader, leading the country
:22:52. > :22:54.for 16 years from 1972-1988. He led the country through unification
:22:55. > :23:11.after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The French president has paid
:23:12. > :23:13.tribute to Helmut Kohl. Our Berlin correspondent said that the
:23:14. > :23:22.international reaction to the death of Helmut Kohl was announced.
:23:23. > :23:29.Tributes were pouring in. He is revered here in Germany as the
:23:30. > :23:34.father of reunification, but Helmut Kohl is one of the political giants
:23:35. > :23:37.of modern European history. He saw the coming together of East and West
:23:38. > :23:45.Germany but then there was the introduction of the euro. He very
:23:46. > :23:51.much pushed that project through along with the French president. The
:23:52. > :23:57.German public were initially very sceptic. In later life, it has
:23:58. > :24:04.worked out very well for them and that something Germany is very
:24:05. > :24:08.popular -- grateful for. He was the longest serving Chancellor.
:24:09. > :24:15.Popularity did that for numerous reasons. He promised Germany that
:24:16. > :24:18.they would see looming landscapes following unification. It took a
:24:19. > :24:28.long time for these landscapes to flourish. He was later bought by a
:24:29. > :24:34.donations scandal which dogged his Conservative Party. He has gone to
:24:35. > :24:39.his grave refusing to name any of those people behind illegal payments
:24:40. > :24:44.to the party. But I think he will be remembered for his political
:24:45. > :24:53.accomplishments but on the European stage, as well. There are many
:24:54. > :24:57.Reports from Spain say the Real Madrid football star,
:24:58. > :25:00.Cristiano Ronaldo, says he is "sad" and "upset" after being accused
:25:01. > :25:02.of tax fraud and wants to the leave the club.
:25:03. > :25:06.A source close to the player has told the BBC that Ronaldo believes
:25:07. > :25:09.he has done everything by the rules and that he is an honest man.
:25:10. > :25:12.David Orstein told us the latest from the BBC Sport Centre.
:25:13. > :25:15.What we know is what we've been told by sources close to Cristiano
:25:16. > :25:19.They say he's very sad and really upset.
:25:20. > :25:22.He doesn't want to stay in Spain and feels he's honest,
:25:23. > :25:24.has good character and did everything OK.
:25:25. > :25:29.He doesn't understand. At this moment he wants to leave.
:25:30. > :25:41.The sole release to taxation charges against him. He denies the
:25:42. > :25:44.allegations. We do not know if this is a threat to the Spanish
:25:45. > :25:52.authorities to say that he will leave the club if they do not drop
:25:53. > :25:58.the case. The story emerged in a Spanish newspaper and says it is an
:25:59. > :26:00.irreversible decision. They say he has already informed his team-mates
:26:01. > :26:10.that he is going to be leaving. Thank you very much for watching.