And investigators find possible migrant seal fragments in the wreckage of the malaysia jet that crashed in ukraine last year. Retesting some 28 athletes are suspended for suspected doping. So we with begin this news hour, where 47 people are thought so have been killed in a bomb blast in the northeast. The explosion happened in a market in born know state, according to witnesses and the military. Lets join al jazeera on the phone lines and what more do you know about this . Well, actually, the suicide bomber targeted a market, in an area the area used to be a flash point, where bomb caha ram had launched several attacks. Now local sources in that area, are talking about 47, and because of the damage of this attack, people are talking about possible more fatalities in the state. They say of course, very much used to violence, what does the security situation like there . Well, basically, the last two months in particular, have seen a decrease in the number of direct attacks. The fighter
Ussr to rush at the beginning. No one knows. There is a lot of love and hate. Cubans have one of the highest awareness is of u. S. Brands in the world and one of the highest preferences in the world so if u. S. Companies launching into cuba comes with less cost than some other marketplace that makes it attractive so and thats because the folks do have, the people of cuba many of them have access. We saw what no one expected with fidel. Most people, most of the modeling done in the u. S. Government was fidels speaking, he drops dead worries in his office and people drop dead and people know where they dont know but no one expected a succession and then a transition from brother to brother. I would say dont expect raul dies and its a switch. Its going to be more of a wave. Thank you. Bill lane. Good morning. Bill lane with caterpillar and first of all i want to thank you for a Great Program and great timing particularly the fact that this is two days away from the big anniversary. Some o
U. S. Cuba relations and wonder how much of the ideas heard the word thought id never thought it would be a good place to be. [laughter] but were glad you are here. But it is consistent with the other cuba related events but over the years cuba has captures the imagination i remember back when we were trying to get support for the west colombia Free Trade Agreement that enjoys a lot of support from clocks on this panel with columbia represented the generating interest now in that was limited compared to cuba which seems to capture the imagination and. Is not on the politics of the u. S. Cuba relations we dont have time to go through the long history but it is an emotional issue. There are families to have the property confiscated whose families were attended and have strong views with the current government in cuba but today we will focus on the president s announcement and what the perspectives are from the legal and Business Community i want to mention in that category of great timin
People will benefit more from this and the government will. Thats not the question whether you think and whether we think it. Do you think the cuban people are going to be working for these companies and now we have been permitted to go into cuba and the cuban people want their government to take their pay . Im sure they dont. Whose side are we on . Are there going to be opposition parties new opposition parties . We will continue to support those who want to have their voices heard. But there have been no concessions on their part so we have changed five decades of u. S. Policy and they still wont have any independent unions opposition parties. I can imagine they are going to have opposition newspapers and the rallies, this is a regime that the castro brothers came in and once they were in power they murdered the patriots who overthrew the regime, they personally did. The putt fellow that we were negotiating with ticket pistol and took these patriots out and shot them in the head by t
And that is that we went in with zero investment. And now, if you fast forward to where we are today, we actually cargo has a very robust animal feed business. We import u. S. Products into the vietnamese market. And, over that course of time weve also through our investments and through working in those communities, weve actually built our nearly our 70th school on the ground in vietnam. And so what we can say is that theres not only the power of trade, but theres the power of u. S. ÷uf of businesses to engage in whats known as commercial day diplomacy. so, in the case of cuba, cuba is alkx i ratjt when we normalize relations, we would have to ensure that we would gain the same access in cuba that the other wto members have. We would also have the pntr as part of that, as well. I would say two things about vietnam on the hill. That, to make it different from cuba, one is there was not an active proembargo vietnamese lobby, unlike cuba. fb secondly, the senators brought in their desir