embassy there. what type of resistance are they meeting? this is the kind of pressure china has been putting on, essential as its power has grown over the decades. we know this blew up just last week with this tennis star on the global stage. suddenly this became one of the biggest international sports issues. this is an issue that has been simmering for decades. we can now look at international crises around the world. right now there s one going on in the solomon islands. it has to do with china s control and its attempt to try and control what other countries in the world and their relationships with taiwan. this battle among the citizens of the solomon islands is about their displeasure about the central government s decision a number of years ago to switch
in the fold. reporter: for the first time since the eisenhower era, washington is host to the cuban em embassy embassy. how little the bilateral relationship is changing was clear. translator: only the lifting of the economic commercial and financial blockade which has caused so much harm and suffering to our people the return of the occupied territory guantanamo will lend some meaning to the historic event were witnessing today. reporter: cuba s flag took its alphabetical place. then bruno rodriguez became the first cuban foreign minister welcomed to the state department
know, was signed under extreme duress. indeed, iran had sent a missive to the u.s. government saying that either you release $8 billion to us or we will summarily execute the hostages. the hostages at the time were being held in evan prison, which is where all the political prisoners in iran were held. a number of them were held across the room for the torture room where they could hear the screams of the people as they were being killed, water joses put down their throats to where they couldn t breathe, never taken out. parts of their body chopped up. and they heard the screaming. to where even today tom shafer, who was the top military officer in the em embassy wakes up in the middle of the night his wife has told me many times of how he has wakened, shot up in bed. he s in a pure sweat and he
forces at work in libya, the hard work that this em embassy staff were engaged with and surely will continue to be engaged with is about civil society. libya has never been a functioning society even in the corrupt and dysfunctional ways of the middle east. and the hard worth isn t about toppling the dictator. the hard work begins post regime change, post dictatorship ending and that s what we re seeing today. so it is ripe for misfits to come in and manipulate the situation, stage these fake demonstrations and use them as cover for attacks. there s no reason for the hard work that america has been engaged with to stop. we re looking at live coverage of the scene just outside the american embassy in cairo. the crowd seems to have been largely dispersed at this point. i want to go to jose
them to overturn the dictate orship. so yes, there s clearly some manipulation, there are strange forces at work in libya, the hard work that this em embassy staff were engaged with and surely will continue to be engaged with is about civil society. libya has never been a functioning society even in the corrupt and dysfunctional ways of the middle east. and the hard worth isn t about toppling the dictator. the hard work begins post regime change, post dictatorship ending and that s what we re seeing today. so it is ripe for misfits to come in and manipulate the situation, stage these fake demonstrations and use them as cover for attacks. there s no reason for the hard work that america has been engaged with to stop. we re looking at live coverage of the scene just outside the american embassy in cairo. the crowd seems to have been largely dispersed at this point. i want to go to jose diaz-ballart talking to the