President Barack Obama has begun a historic three day trip to the Cuban capital Havana in what marks a historic visit that would have been all but unimaginable just a few years ago.
Obama is the first sitting American president to visit Cuba since Calvin Coolidge arrived on a battleship in 1928.
President Barack Obama has made the first US presidential trip to Cuba in 88 years today, ending decades of hostility between the two nations in the wake of the Cuban revolution.
Arriving in Havana for the start of a three-day trip to cement the start of new relations between the two countries Obama publicly shared his excitement at touching down on Cuban soil by tweeting "Que Bola Cuba" which translates as "How's it going Cuba?"
Obama was met by Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on his arrival but is due to be given a formal welcoming ceremony at the presidential palace on Monday where he will meet the country's President Raul Castro.
Video report by ITV News correspondent Juliet Bremner.
A joint news conference for the USA and Cuba ended abruptly as long-standing tensions between the two countries were laid bare.
The US president will hold talks with Raul Castro as part of a trip that would have been all but unimaginable just a few years ago.
Cuba's capital has played host to foreign leaders before, but the US president's visit marks an historic change in US-Cuban relations.