And americans join cubas famous cigar festival for the first time. The multibillion dollars Corruption Scandal in many brazil surrounding the stateowned oil company pret row brass has now sucked in the former president. Police have raided his home, and he was questioned by police for three hours before being released. Supporters of the former president , who ran brazil from 2003 to 2011 clashed with Police Outside of his house after he was taken away. Brazilian media say a former senator turned whistleblower has implicated the former president and the current president who has consently denied allegations of involvement. Prosecutors allege he received kickbacks from a scheme which involved bribes paid by businessmen in order to get contracts with petrobras. Translator today we are looking at evidence that the former president and his family obtained advantages to eventually perform certain actions within thef government its still a pot sis in our investigation. There is evidence of pay
By its peace keepers in ten Different Countries. And facebook agrees to pay millions more in tax in the u. K. And pandas everywhere but the wild. 1600 sculptures raising awareness of the plight of the species. The former brazilian president da silva has insisted he has nothing to fear after being detained by police for questioning over corruption claims. Police raided his home on friday, and spoke to him for three hours about a multibillion dollars scandal involving the national oil company, petrobras. Brazilian media say a former senator turned whistleblower has implicated the former president as well as the current president who has consistently denied persistent allegations of corruption. Supporters of lula who ran brazil from 2003 to 2011 clashed with Police Outside of his house after he was taken away. Translator im not upset with the journalists, im upset with the behavior of certain media outlets. Today the headlines are what condemns people. They intimidate prosecutors, the pol
Criminal court. Refugees from lesbos will be returned to turkey. U. S. President barack obama right now is holding talks with his cuban opposite, raul castro, on his second day of his historic visit to cuba. First visit from a sitting american president in nearly 90 years. There have been decades of mistrust. Theyre meeting in havanas palace of the revolution and there, president obama was dwroategreeted by an honor guar, before being introduced with members much his team from the United States. One of obamas first engagements of the day was laying a wreath at the tomb of the memorial jose martin. Lets go to Patty Culhane who is our White House Correspondent who gets out and about once that while. It happens to be to cuba patty. I imagine a lot of people traveling with you thought this could never happen, would never happen. I think pretty much everyone in the country both i this cuba and the United States didnt see this on their radar. It didnt come to light until around 14 months ago
And the band has been banned there for half a century, the Rolling Stones get satisfaction in cuba. Nor raids in belgium and in france, as police try to break up the network of attacks in both brussels and paris. Two of those arrested were shot in the leg, during the raids. Frances, officials say, one man was arrest with the t identities of the 31 is still be established. They include u. S. , british, chinese, french and dutch citizens as well as belgians. Dominic cain reports from brussels. Reporter police move no to parenthesis apprehend a suspect. He did not remove his rucksack so they shot him. Those who witnessed the incident gave their reactions. Translator we heard a boom, we thought it might be a car accident. We then heard a second boom and saw a load of heavily armed police. Whether we tried oget close, they told us to get out of the way. Translator we were asked to stay indoors tall time it was going on. Police were worried there might are another shooter. Reporter on thursd
Hello, thank you for joining us, the u. N. s most senior human rights official has issued a scathi scathing response to the European Unions response to the refugee crisis. Five people including a baby have drowned as their boat capsized while trying to make the dangerous crossing from turkey to greece. Topping the agenda, the proposed plan to return refugees and migrants from europe to turkey, and the decision by some European Countries to close their borders to refugees, a decision that has lead to thousands being stranded on the border. Hoda abdel hamid has this update from greece. Reporter the conditions are getting worse by the day. Yesterday we were calling it appalling, today there is no word to describe it. It might look like there are less tents. Actually the tents were sinking in the ground, and they moved the tents and relocated on the gravel. Many people are still trying to figure out what are their options, but after waiting for so long under these very hard conditions, the