Raul castro, the president of cuba will also give a News Conference in his country that will happen at noon eastern time. Of course cnn will continue to follow this breaking news throughout the day. Thank you for joining me today, im carol kos toll low. this hour with berman and michaela starts now. Hello, everyone. Im john berman. And. And im michaela pereira. History is being made at this hour after more than a half century of tension and diplomat diplomatic silence between the u. S. Its releasing alan gross from prison after five years. A series of genuinely breathtaking developments. Cuba is also releasing a u. S. Intelligence asset, a spy, whos been locked up in cuba for more than 20 years. In Return Washington is freeing three cuban spies convicted in 2001 of espionage. That is big in and of itself. It all seems part now of something much, much bigger. President obama will announce major changes in u. S. Policy toward cuba. Officials calling them the most sweeping changes since t
Midnight but these sanctions are going to have some impact theyre hitting things like the car industry the ability to buy planes some Financial Transactions the real pain will come in november when iran will be blocked from selling oil and theyll be trying transactions for a Central Baghdad Kid thats when it starts to lose the biggest part of its economic. Industry and thats one move possibly see some of the real playing start of the moment so far its a lot of anxiety a lot of fear its not clear exactly what the Economic Impact will be the best in times ahead for everybody in this country. Eric randolph thank you so much. Another strong earthquake s. Struck the Indonesian Island of lombok Officials Say at least thirty nine people have died and many more were injured the seven Point Zero Magnitude quake struck the northern part of Lombok Early On Sunday evening and earlier Tsunami Warning has
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Talking to you. thanks for talking to me from caracas. thank you very much. it has been a very wetjuly so far. some spots, particularly towards the north and west and across central southern england, have already seen one and a half times thejuly average of rainfall and we are only halfway through the month. there is a lot more month to go and a lot more rainfall, especially over the next couple of days. this is the rainfall accumulation chart. some areas seeing up to 50 millimetres more. very high rainfall totals.
Maria corina machado in caracas, venezuela, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, stephen. it s a pleasure. well, it s great to have you on the show. for years, you have argued that participating in democracy in venezuela under nicolas maduro s rule is a grave mistake because it ends up legitimising maduro. so, how come you ve now decided to put your hat in the ring and seek the nomination from the opposition to fight in next year s presidential election? for years, we, the venezuelan people have been explaining to the world the way nicolas maduro has been rigging elections and the turning down, through control and repression, thejudiciary system, the national assembly, as well as the military and every single democratic institution.
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