in the conservative leadership race. and supermodel kate moss tells the bbc that being asked to take off her bra during a photoshoot when she was 15 years old opened her eyes to the dangers of the fashion industry. i could feel there was something wrong. so i got my stuff and i ran away. i think it sharpened my instincts, i can kind of tell a wrong un a mile away. the port of dover says work has been continuing around the clock to help holidaymakers and lorries get across the channel, after they faced lengthy waits over the past two days. queues at the port are expected to be reduced to about an hour this afternoon. the port s chief executive, doug bannister, thanked travellers and residents of dover for their understanding during what he described as a challenging period . people using eurotunnel to travel to france have been warned to expect long delays at folkestone. simonjones reports. the not so great getaway continues. the port of dover is expecting another six and a
i have no life, she says. i used to sell our subsidized food, but if i do that now, what will we eat? two of her children were convicted of sedition over the protests that is inciting people to rebel against the state. but elizabeth insists mobile phone footage shows the police simply tore into la guinera, arresting people at random. translation: here in la guinera there wasn t any vandalism. no one destroyed patrol cars or broke up stores. here there was a response to what the police did. they threw stones, fire, shot at us. all those kids did in return was run. ever since the nationwide revolt a year ago, the government has said the protesters were anti revolutionaries backed by washington. the state also insists the jail sentences were proportionate to the alleged crimes. human rights groups and the protesters parents disagree.
police state, it s illegal for the relatives to organise. translation: we ve tried to - organise, but they always stop us. we were going to have a meeting of the affected mothers, - but somehow state security found out and visited us one by one. we don t belong to any group. we re just fighting - for our children s freedom. while things have calmed in cuba. many factors which prompted people to the streets last year grinding poverty, rising inflation and shortages of basic goods remain in place, especially in la guinera. but the state s message to the neighbourhood is clear. anyone even thinking of demonstrating again can expect the harshest of punishments. will grant, bbc news, havana. one of the world s most famous models, kate moss, has revealed how a photoshoot as a teenager opened her eyes to the dangers of the fashion industry. ms moss told the bbc s desert island discs that she was asked to take her bra off at a shoot when she was 15 years old.
wilber aguilar is under such scrutiny from cuban state security. we had to meet on the other side of havana. his son has learning difficulties yet was sentenced to 12 years in what he calls a sham trial. translation: he was convicted of sedition. how can you imagine that a young black man from la guinera who barely graduated the ninth grade at a special school could be guilty of sedition. it s alljust a huge lie. a year on and many here feel that their young people were unfairly targeted, that the full weight of the law in cuba, indeed the full weight of the entire revolution came down on this poor, marginalised and mainly black community to make an example of it to the rest of the island. parents, especially mothers across la guinera, are going through the same thing. confused as to why their children were singled out to spend decades in jail for a collective outburst against the system. but in cuba s tightly controlled
younger people this is the no 1 issue and it should be, because it issue and it should be, because it is about life itself. we are seeing the consequences of not doing it. that was john kerry speaking to the bbc sjim naughtie on radio 4 s the world this weekend. a year ago this month, thousands of cubans turned out in angry anti government protests across the island. the government s response was swift and brutal hundreds faced summary trials and long prison sentences. the one person who was killed by police that day and around 100 of those who went to prison came from the same poor neighbourhood in havana called la guinera. will grant reports. the living conditions in la guinera are among the most precarious in havana. few know that better than elizabeth leon martinez. already struggling, she was plunged into deeper poverty after three of her children were jailed over the anti government uprising a year ago. without their incomes, she can t provide for their children on her own.