Cuban parliament, as well as senator Patrick Leahy Congress Members Raul Grijalava and barbara lee and others who , attended the reopening of the Cuban Embassy in washington. Then the historic trial of former dictator Hissene Habre begin monday but has been postponed for 45 days. We will speak with reed brody of Human Rights Watch. This is the first time anywhere in the world the courts in one country senegal are trying the former leader of another, chad, for human rights abuses. The first time the African Union has established a tribunal. And it is the first time the victims of the dictator in africa have brought the dictator to justice. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The United States and cuba have reopened their embassies in each others capitals, marking another historic step toward the normalization of relations between the two countries. On monday, secretary of state john kerry hosted Cuban
The caribbean. Amy in a historic move, cuba and the United States restore diplomatic relations and reopen embassies shut for over five decades. We will hear from Ricardo Alarcon, the former head of the cuban parliament, as well as senator Patrick Leahy Congress Members Raul Grijalava and barbara lee and others who , attended the reopening of the Cuban Embassy in washington. Then the historic trial of former dictator Hissene Habre begin monday but has been postponed for 45 days. We will speak with reed brody of Human Rights Watch. This is the first time anywhere in the world the courts in one country senegal are trying the former leader of another, chad, for human rights abuses. The first time the African Union has established a tribunal. And it is the first time the victims of the dictator in africa have brought the dictator to justice. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The United States and cuba ha
The caribbean. Amy in a historic move, cuba and the United States restore diplomatic relations and reopen embassies shut for over five decades. We will hear from Ricardo Alarcon, the former head of the cuban parliament, as well as senator Patrick Leahy Congress Members Raul Grijalava and barbara lee and others who , attended the reopening of the Cuban Embassy in washington. Then the historic trial of former dictator Hissene Habre begin monday but has been postponed for 45 days. We will speak with reed brody of Human Rights Watch. This is the first time anywhere in the world the courts in one country senegal are trying the former leader of another, chad, for human rights abuses. The first time the African Union has established a tribunal. And it is the first time the victims of the dictator in africa have brought the dictator to justice. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The United States and cuba ha
Marc train now stopped that hit a csx dump truck. Police tell us the dump truck was on the rail switching over to the road in that intersection and thats when it was hit. The driver of the dump truck was injured but not hospitalized. There are 620 passengers on the train. Only one of them had minor injuries, but that person also declined to be hospitalized. The ntsb is now investigating as well as fires and again passengers should be arriving shortly. Were told that there are some mechanical issues on the train, which is why they cannot move that as well as the ntsb investigation that is now currently pending. Now we are told that people should be here shortly and eventually they would like to clear up the railroad and get it back open so that people can get home sometime relatively soon. Thats the very latest here from the kensington station. Thanks. Well, two months after that horrifying quadruple murder in a d. C. Mansion and the lead investigator told a judge today he thinks some o
On my knees and thank god that Roger Federer and rafael nadal was born. Some tennis officials apologize after outrage from comments about female tennis players. And ten years after twitters very first tweet. The u. S. President barack obama is having talks with his cuban counterpart real castro on the second day of the historic visit to cuba. This is the first visit of a sitting american president to cuba in 90 years after decades of distrust. A symboli symbolic reconciliation meeting of u. S. President and cuba. The u. S. President was greeted by an honor guard. One of his pressing engagements of the day was laying a wreath at the memorial of jose marti. Reporting live for us in havana, lucia new man, the trip has been laidelled with symbolism. What is happening, what is changing . Yes, there has been so am symbolism. U. S. Secretary of state kerry just said shortly before the meeting got under way that it was remarkable to have seen and heard the u. S. National anthem and Cuban Natio