16/06/2017 World News Today

In the last few minutes, he has rescinded the deal which was set up

with Cuba by President Obama. The president has also said

that he is being investigated for obstruction of justice,

by the man who told him Frustration and anger

following the tower block fire in west London,as crowds

gather to add their voice The Prime Minister, criticised for

her response, visit some in hospital and has announced a ?5 million

relief fund. We want to ensure that people immediately have the support

the need for them to be able to help deal with terrible and horrific

circumstances. And he was Germany's

longest-serving Chancellor, presiding over German re-unification

and a driving force behind Hello and welcome

to World News Today. President Trump has just cancelled

his predecessor 's agreement with Cuba. He said the agreement only

hilt the rich and Cuba did nothing to help the American people.

This is the scene live in Miami where the President is speaking.

It was a great day. It was a very important moment, just like this is

no. This is a very important moment for Cuba. America will always stand

for everything and we will always cheer for the freedom of the people

of Cuba. That little boy whose story I just talked, the one who played

the violin so beautifully so many years ago, is here with us today in

our fact an extremely warm auditorium. Of course, he is no

longer a little boy, but the world renowned violinist. Today, he will

once again playing his violin and fill the hearts of all of those who

cherish Cuba, the United States and freedom. I would like to invite him

to the stage. This is President Trump live addressing the Cuban-

American community in Miami. He has within the past half-hour reversed

the three years of United States policy which with Cuba. President

Trump talking about the human rights record in Cuba and said he is not

going to the ease the travel restrictions until Cuba holds fear

and free elections. The profits from investment and tourism flow directly

to the military. The regime takes the money and owns the industry. The

outcome of the last administration executive action has only been more

repression and a move to crush the peaceful, democratic movement,

therefore, effective immediately, I am cancelling the last

administration is completely one-sided deal with Cuba. I am

announcing today a new policy. Just as I promised during the campaign. I

will be signing the contract rate at that table in just a moment. Our

policy will seek a much better deal for the people of Cuba and for the

United States of America. We do not want US dollars to prop up a

military monopoly which exploits the citizens of Cuba. Our new policy

begins strictly enforcing United States law. We will not lift

sanctions on the Cuban regime until all political prisoners are freed

from prison. Freedom of assembly and expression are respected, all

political parties are legalised, and three and internationally supervised

elections are scheduled. We will finish strongly restrict American

dollars for falling to the military, security and intelligence services

that are at the heart of the Castro regime. We will be restricted. --

they will be restricted. We will enforce the ban on tourism. We will

enforce the embargo. We will take concrete steps to ensure that

investments fall directly to the people, so they can open private

businesses and begin to build their countries great, great future. A

country of great potential. President Trump speaking with the

last 30 minutes. He is still speaking at the moment. Speaking to

the large Cuban - American community in Miami.

He is making good on a lot of these campaign promises? Yes, although he

said it was a terrible deal that President Obama mean, he is not

doing a complete turnaround. President Obama Normalised

diplomatic relations. The first United States Embassy in Havana was

opened at couple of years ago. He has brought in tougher restrictions

when it comes to things like travel restrictions banning business with

the new Cuban military, which could affect the Cuban economy. It is not

a complete rule back. This will be popular with his base. You can see

the code around him. In Florida, he won 54% of the vote of Cuban-

Americans. It was a vote winner. We will talk to you slightly later in

the programme. Staying with this issue of Cuba. We can no speak to.

the Washington Office of Latin America.

She worked with the Obama administration and opposes

I am assuming you are disappointed but not surprised by what you hear

unknowns. That is exactly right. I am surprised. Any step back from

normalisation is bad for America and bad for Cuba. The only people at

benefits as a small minority of focal Cuban- Americans in Florida. A

lot of people did vote for him in the campaign and what he said it did

prove popular. That is what these people wanted. Absolutely. They are

a small minority who wonders. The overwhelming majority of Cuban-

Americans favour lifting the embargo. This policy is not only

unpopular amongst Americans, it will be unpopular amongst Cuban-

Americans. We were expecting him to focus on the human rights record in

Cuba. He was talking about encouraging political transparency.

That is not unreasonable. The question is not if it is

unreasonable, but how best to go about promoting that. We believe the

best way to go about doing that is to get more engagement, not less. In

terms of the practicalities, what with the embassy, the first United

States Embassy, it would remain open. But practically, how will this

affect the community? In terms of the community on the island? In

terms of travel both ways. This makes it harder for Americans to

travel. This punishes the private sector, the very people that

President Trump wants to hilt. The notion that travel only hilt the

Cuban military is simply not true. $40 million have gone to private

homeowners in Cuba through travel. That has definitely been an obvious

benefit of the lifting of the travel ban. Thank you very much for joining

us. Donald Trump has taken to Twitter,

to confirm he is being investigated for obstruction of justice

in connection with the firing He said: "I am being investigated

for firing the FBI Director "by the man who told me

to fire the FBI Director!" Once again, he called

it a "witch hunt." He also insisted that, "After seven

months of investigations and committee hearings

about my alleged collusion with the Russians, nobody has been

able to show any proof." As a result, sources close to the US

Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein, say he may have

to recuse himself from the inquiry, as he may now be

a potential witness. This gets more and more complicated.

Starting from the beginning, we heard from the president that he is

not being investigated. He is now being investigated. What do we make

of this? James Comey testified before the Senate last week. He was

fired by the president at the beginning of last month. He said the

president was not the subject of the investigation as to whether his

campaign colluded with the Russians. James Comey Was then fire. The

investigation was then taken over by a special counsel. He has broadened

the scope of the enquiry and is now investigating president Trump. With

a naughty obstructed justice by filing James Comey. It sounds rather

complicated. He was not been investigated before but he is no.

What happens if Rosenstein recuse as himself? He is the deputy Attorney

General. He is the most senior person investigating the Russian

investigation. The Attorney General had to take himself off the case

because he was a former senator who was a key surrogate for the Trump

campaign. There was a potential conflict of interest for him. The

deputy general was no overseeing this. It was him who authored the

letter setting out why James Comey was fired. He has now been

criticised by the President this morning and it looks like he himself

may have to take himself off the investigation because he could no be

a witness perhaps because of that letter which set out why James Comey

was fired. James Comey Says he believes he was fired because of his

involvement with the Russian enquiry. Thank you for clarifying

Oliver. There has been growing anger in

London about the situation surrounding the major tour block

blaze. The BBC's Dan Johnson

gave us the latest from I'd say at the height of this

protest there was probably 4-500, maybe more, people here and some

of them decided that it wasn't enough just to stand outside

and chant their message to make their demands plain,

they decided that they were actually going to take that message

inside the council offices. They went in through the front

doors, they were in the foyer The police have arrived and heard

most of those people away. They are now, most of them,

still gathered here. Some have left but there

are still a couple of hundred They are now just been reading

through a list of the names of those people that are known to have died

in this fire. They say that they just haven't been

getting enough information quickly They say that at this point,

two or three days on, just isn't going quickly

enough, they say. They say they know people have been

missing since the fire happened. They strongly suspect they have

lost their lives and want that official confirmation

so that they can move At the moment, they also

have the demands that they want the council to meet,

more funding for those who have been left homeless

because of this disaster, they want to know that everyone

will be re-homed as quickly That is one of their

immediate priorities. They say temporary accommodation has

also got to be of a better standard There is understandably a lot

of anger and emotion in this crowd. People are really upset

and frustrated by the response from They feel it hasn't been good enough

and hasn't addressed They say the council hasn't

been accountable to them and they want to council officials

to come out and actually be to them, They have had a written response

from a council official but that, they say, is not satisfactory,

so quite a big crowd still here trying to get

the message through. They are deciding what

they need to do next. Certainly, there are wider

issues at play here. You might be able to see

that there are political posters now Certainly, this disaster has sparked

a wider sense of unease and feelings of inequality in this

borough and beyond. Issues they want to be addressed

as quickly as possible. In the last hour, the Prime Minister

Theresa May has offered a ?5 million relief fund for those

affected by the fire. A short while ago, she spoke

to my colleague Emily Maitliss and insisted the government

was doing everything it could. We are committed to

ensuring that people are rehoused, as far as possible,

within the borough. Some people may actually

want to go to another part of London where perhaps

they have a greater support network, where they have

friends and relatives. We are ensuring that within three

weeks people will be rehoused so they have

a home to go to. I ask you again, do you accept that

you misread the public mood, You didn't go and meet

residents and they really This was a terrible

tragedy that took place. All their possessions,

their home and everything. What we are doing is

putting in place the I have heard horrifying

stories from the fire brigade, police, victims themselves,

that were in the tower. Some of them, of course,

have not been able to go What I'm now what

absolutely focused on is ensuring that we get that

support on the ground. Government is making

money available. We are ensuring that we

are going to get to the bottom of what has happened

and we will ensure that people are We need to make sure that actually

happens. The BBC's deputy political editor

John Pienaar in Westminster. He gave us the latest

on the Prime Minister's reaction The Prime Minister's having to show

some of the empathy and the agility that some of critics say

she was lacking when she made her I saw the truly inspiring sight

of people of all communities, all social classes, coming together,

offering clothing by way of donations, too much

for the volunteers on the ground to deal with, and just

about everyone I spoke to spoke of the lack of leadership at local

and national level. We've heard from Theresa May today,

she made the announcement She is under pressure,

she'll need to see that those coming public enquiry is set up quickly,

that it makes effective recommendations, that they

are acted upon quickly. The roots of this goes

beyond the last two Tory administrations, back

through the time of the last Labour administration,

but inevitably the buck stops on the desk of the serving

Prime Minister, and this is a defining test of Theresa May's

authority, weakened as it is since the election,

and that test has come far more quickly than Theresa May

could possibly have imagined. We have a special section on our

website done it dedicated to the Grenfell Tower disaster.

Let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news.

The United Nations says so-called Islamic State may be holding more

than 100,000 civilians in Mosul as human shields.

It says these people are surrounded by fighting,

with hardly any food, water, electricity or fuel.

An operation to retake the city, led by Iraqi government forces,

Russia's Foreign Minister says he cannot confirm that his country's

warplanes killed the chief of so-called Islamic State,

The night-time raid targeted the group's leaders last month.

Earlier, the Syrian government said al-Baghdadi was killed in an air

strike, but did not say who carried it out, nor provided any evidence

A judge in Massachusetts has ruled that a 20-year-old American woman

who encouraged her boyfriend to kill himself is guilty of his death.

Michelle Carter faces up to 20 years in prison

18-year-old Conrad Roy was found dead from carbon monoxide poisoning

The court, near Boston, heard that Carter had urged him,

in text messages, to follow through on his plan to kill himself.

The former German Chancellor, who presided over the fall of the Berlin

Wall and the reunion unification of the country has died, at the age of

87. He was Germany's longest serving post-war leader, leading the country

for 16 years from 1972-1988. He led the country through unification

after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The French president has paid

tribute to Helmut Kohl. Our Berlin correspondent said that the

international reaction to the death of Helmut Kohl was announced.

Tributes were pouring in. He is revered here in Germany as the

father of reunification, but Helmut Kohl is one of the political giants

of modern European history. He saw the coming together of East and West

Germany but then there was the introduction of the euro. He very

much pushed that project through along with the French president. The

German public were initially very sceptic. In later life, it has

worked out very well for them and that something Germany is very

popular -- grateful for. He was the longest serving Chancellor.

Popularity did that for numerous reasons. He promised Germany that

they would see looming landscapes following unification. It took a

long time for these landscapes to flourish. He was later bought by a

donations scandal which dogged his Conservative Party. He has gone to

his grave refusing to name any of those people behind illegal payments

to the party. But I think he will be remembered for his political

accomplishments but on the European stage, as well. There are many

Reports from Spain say the Real Madrid football star,

Cristiano Ronaldo, says he is "sad" and "upset" after being accused

of tax fraud and wants to the leave the club.

A source close to the player has told the BBC that Ronaldo believes

he has done everything by the rules and that he is an honest man.

David Orstein told us the latest from the BBC Sport Centre.

What we know is what we've been told by sources close to Cristiano

They say he's very sad and really upset.

He doesn't want to stay in Spain and feels he's honest,

has good character and did everything OK.

He doesn't understand. At this moment he wants to leave.

The sole release to taxation charges against him. He denies the

allegations. We do not know if this is a threat to the Spanish

authorities to say that he will leave the club if they do not drop

the case. The story emerged in a Spanish newspaper and says it is an

irreversible decision. They say he has already informed his team-mates

that he is going to be leaving. Thank you very much for watching.