A man injured in an incident at an Aberdeen flat has died in hospital.

Police were called to reports of a disturbance at the property on King Street at about 22:10 on Sunday.
A 42-year-old man, Aleksejus Zarskus, was found with serious injuries and taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
Police have confirmed that Mr Zarskus died of his injuries on Thursday evening. Officers have renewed their appeal for information about the disturbance.
Two men, aged 30 and 32, were detained at the scene of the incident and appeared in court on Tuesday.
Det Insp Gary Winter said: "This was an isolated and contained incident and at no point was there any threat to any other member of the public.
"Our thoughts are with Mr Zarskus's family and friends at this difficult time.
"We would like to hear from anyone who knew Aleksejus Zarskus or anyone who was aware of a disturbance at 684 King Street, Aberdeen, just after 10pm on Sunday night."


Bird strikes with aircraft and other man-made structures are on the increase, experts have warned.

Academics from Swansea University and Argentina's National University of Comahue said more than 200 people have died in aircraft collisions with birds.
They call for better management of "crowded" airspace and creating "airspace reserves" to protect birds.
Damaged aircraft from bird strikes costs the US aviation industry $900m (Â£580m) annually, said the experts.
The study published in Science said that the increasing using of airspace for transportation, energy generation such as power lines and turbines as well as surveillance was in conflict with wildlife.
Prof Rory Wilson and Dr Emily Shepard from Swansea University's Department of Biosciences said disturbances to airflow has an impact on the distribution of birds and affects aerial micro-organisms which could, in turn, have an effect on the climate.
Prof Wilson said: "It is interesting to note that more is known about the routes of migrating animals that cross continents than those taken by animals in parks or towns.
"But detailed data on how animals use space is now needed which can help guide local planning decisions, building designs and measures that protect our wildlife."


British number one Heather Watson says she is aiming to become the number one tennis player in the world.

The 22-year-old from Guernsey ended the season ranked 49th after  when she had reached a career-high 39 in the world.
Watson won two singles and two doubles events this year and reached the second round at  and the
"I definitely want to go all the way. I wouldn't be playing if I didn't think I could," she told BBC Radio Guernsey.
"I'm not thinking about number one right now. I set my mini goals, but I believe in myself, my team believes in me and we're doing everything we can to get there."
Watson's last singles tournament victory came in the  while she partnered Alexandra Panova to her most recent  in July.
"My ranking dropped all the way to 160 in the world," said Watson, who was forced to miss two months of tennis last year because of her illness.
"So for me this year was about getting my ranking back up to where it was before I got ill.
"That's what I've done. I've climbed up the rankings slowly and I'm now back in the top 50 so now I want to start making big steps and climbing the rankings again.
"It gives me a good start. For the first few months of next year I'll be in the main draws and it gives me the confidence to work hard through my off season. It puts me in a good place mentally and physically."


Thousands of people have demonstrated in the northern Moroccan city of Al-Hoceima, demanding the release of a well-known activist.

Reports say riot police were involved in a tense stand-off with protesters, but later retreated.
Protesters rallied after Nasser Zefzafi was arrested on Monday charged with threatening national security.
Mr Zefzafi has organised months of protests against unemployment and corruption.
Morocco has been gripped by demonstration since the death of a fishmonger in Al-Hoceima in October.
According to AFP news agency, protesters chanting "We are all Zefzafi" filled streets in Al-Hoceima on Tuesday evening and riot police were deployed in a square to stop their advance.
A stand-off ensued but police eventually backed down without incident.
Marches have also taken place in Casablanca and in the capital, Rabat, AFP reports.
The mass protests were triggered last October by the death of fishmonger Mouhcine Fikri, who was crushed to death by a rubbish truck as he tried to rescue his stock that had been confiscated by the police.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets accusing the authorities of corruption, abuse and injustice.
His death drew parallels to that of a Tunisian fruit seller in 2010 which helped spark the Arab Spring uprisings.


A curler convicted of sexually assaulting the wife of a rival player has been placed under social work supervision for six months.

George Elder, 63, of Brodie in Moray, was accused of grabbing the woman's breast at Inverness Ice Centre.
It was claimed that he did this to distract the woman's husband from his last shot in a curling bonspiel.
He denied the assault, which happened last February, but was convicted after a trial at Inverness Sheriff Court.
Sentencing Elder, Sheriff Chris Dickson said: "This must have been an unpleasant and upsetting experience for your victim.
"But I am pleased to see from the background report that you have expressed regret.
"In view of the fact that it is unlikely you will re-offend, I can deal with it by a community payback order whereby you will remain under supervision to promote your rehabilitation."


Theresa May can be confident that her name is going to be on the Conservative leadership ballot, with two names going out to party members around the country.

The home secretary sailed further ahead than her camp predicted, and with the backing of Liam Fox and Stephen Crabb, she's secured the support of more than half of all Tory MPs.
The Westminster race is now between energy minister Andrea Leadsom and Justice Secretary Michael Gove.
They both campaigned vigorously to leave the EU, and that contest could become nasty. One minister predicted "the Brexiteers might end up eating themselves".
But once that is settled, in an MPs' vote on Thursday, Theresa May can be less confident in the race around the country.
She is widely respected and admired by activists, but they are broadly a Eurosceptic bunch.
Her team is buoyant tonight, but she is by nature a careful and cautious politician. She'll be resisting the temptation to believe the result is anything like a foregone conclusion.


Oxford United winger Callum O'Dowda says his senior international debut for the Republic of Ireland has capped off "an incredible season".

The 21-year-old played 15 minutes as a second-half substitute in a 2-1 defeat against Belarus on Tuesday.
Oxford-born O'Dowda was left out of Martin O'Neill's final 23-man squad for Euro 2016 but is continuing to train with them before they head to France.
"To be a part of the squad has been incredible," he told BBC Radio Oxford.
O'Dowda's campaign in League Two as part of his club's promotion triumph saw him score 10 goals from midfield and make an initial impression with the Republic's Under-21 squad.
His performances for club and country led to a surprise inclusion in the senior preliminary squad.
But he could not prevent his country from suffering defeat in their final warm-up match - a performance assistant manager Roy Keane called "a reality check".
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"It was a big moment for me," O'Dowda added. "Getting promotion from League Two and then making my senior international debut this season, it's a dream come true really.
"Obviously you see those people on television and I've been asking for loads of advice.
"I think I did alright on my performance. I obviously only had 15 minutes, but they (Martin O'Neill and Roy Keane) said to me before I went on just to do what I normally do.
"Get the ball, play with no fear and be comfortable with it - very similar to what I do at Oxford really."
Meanwhile, O'Dowda says he is remaining focused on his future with Oxford despite speculation linking him with a potential move.
"At the moment, I've still got two years left on my contract," he said.
"I've got my agent and my dad who are looking after me, so I don't really want to know what's going on.
"It (the speculation) is obviously around you, on your phone and people ask the question, but I just let them deal with it."


Conservationists in Alderney are planning to tag 15 gannets over concerns about the effects of renewable energy projects on the birds.

Island leaders believe the sea around Alderney could generate up to 3GW of tidal energy - as much as a nuclear power station.
Alderney Wildlife Trust said not enough was known about how tidal power generation could affect bird life.
It is opening a gannet adoption scheme to help pay for the Â£300 GPS trackers.
The island is home to about 16,000 gannets.
Holly Marshall, of the trust, said: "We want to find out where our birds are foraging.
"There might be a negative impact when all these new renewable energy developments occur.
"We don't actually have any evidence. That's why we want to find out."
In 2008, Alderney Renewable Energy (ARE) secured a 65-year licence to install tidal turbines in the island's 48 square miles of territorial waters.
ARE has not yet responded to requests for comment but on its website, the company says every proposed energy project will be subject to a range of environmental assessments.
The first tidal turbines are due to be installed by 2019 and ARE claims Alderney could eventually produce enough power for 1.8 million homes.


A man who found the body of his murdered brother 30 years ago has called for an inquiry into the original police probe, after it emerged evidence was destroyed just seven years later.

Peter Miller, 24, was found stabbed in Camden Place, Great Yarmouth, in 1984.
His brother Tony, now 53, said the case was "flawed" and has met MP Brandon Lewis, who has pledged to help him.
Norfolk Police said forensic review opportunities had been limited by the destruction, but the case remains open.
Mr Miller was found stabbed on the kitchen floor of the family home on Sunday, 9 December, 1984.
He had last been seen by a neighbour in the afternoon,
His brother Tony, a plumber in Gorleston, was originally arrested over the death, but released soon afterwards.
Investigations then led to a number of other arrests, but no-one was ever charged.
Fresh information in 2013 led to a "sharp implement" being uncovered and officers re-appealed to find a woman who called police soon after the killing. However, the case has failed to be taken forward.
Mr Miller said the investigation initially moved at a fast pace, but slowed significantly after the town was rocked 10 months later, by the abduction and murder of three-year-old Leoni Keating. Her killer was jailed in 1986.
Mr Miller claims he has been "fobbed off" by police for many years and recently discovered some of case's evidence was destroyed in 1991.
He believes there were many "missed opportunities", with neighbours telling him officers did not collect formal statements from them in the 1980s, despite pledges they would.
The only way anyone will ever be convicted is if they confess, Mr Miller claims.
"It's left me angry, frustrated, I've pushed and pushed on my own most of the time to get this case recognised," he said.
"You stay as open-minded as possible, but it does become difficult.
"You get your hopes up, but then you stay back from it because you have to prepare yourself, because I've been let down so many times.
"I just want closure for my mum, who's now in her mid-80s. I need to get it cleared up because it's also affecting my health.
"The biggest problem is to get police to admit to their faults."
In a statement, Norfolk Police said: "Case evidence and papers including all statements and the full inquest papers for the murder of Peter Miller are still held by the unsolved case inquiry team and the inquiry remains open.
"However, the exhibits held in the investigation were either returned to their respective owners, or destroyed by the end of 1991.
"The circumstances behind this fact are not clear as records do not provide any details of any decisions taken at that time.
"However, whilst this may have limited the forensic review opportunities, it has not prevented the unsolved case team from progressing any new information with a view to bringing a resolution to the case."
Great Yarmouth Conservative MP Brandon Lewis said he would look into the case, adding: "I can't imagine what it's like for Tony and his family 30 years on to not have any answers, so I'll do whatever I can to help them."


Five senior members of the World Cup-winning US football team have filed a complaint against the national federation for wage discrimination.

Alex Morgan, Carli Lloyd, Megan Rapinoe, Becky Sauerbrunn and Hope Solo say they are paid less than half of what the male USA players receive.
"The numbers speak for themselves," said goalkeeper Solo in a statement.
The US Soccer Federation said it was disappointed, given the work it had done in building the women's game.
American women's football has dominated the international game in recent decades, with a string of titles.
"We are the best in the world, have three World Cup Championships, four Olympic Championships, and the USMNT [men's team] get paid more just to show up than we get paid to win major championships," said Solo.
Her team-mate Lloyd, who was named the best player at last year's World Cup, said they had been patient over the years in waiting for action to deliver fair pay.
Former Everton and LA Galaxy winger Landon Donovan - who won 157 caps for the US men's team - tweeted his support for the women's team's cause.
"#USWNT absolutely deserve to be treated fairly in all ways," he said.
"Important to remember that these issues are/can be collectively bargained."
US Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said: "Wouldn't want to face these women on the field or in the courtroom. Every woman deserves equal pay."
The complaint against the US Soccer Federation was filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Thursday morning.
One of the lawyers representing the players, Jeffrey Kessler, said the women's game generated more income for US Soccer than the men's and it was time to address the "discriminatory and unfair treatment'' they have endured for years.
The five players were acting on behalf of all the players, he said.
There has been an ongoing legal battle between the federation and the players' union over collective bargaining.
A statement from US Soccer said it had not yet seen the complaint.
But it added: "We have been a world leader in women's soccer and are proud of the commitment we have made to building the women's game in the United States over the past 30 years."
Clarification: An earlier version of this story said the women players filed a lawsuit against the US Soccer Federation. They have actually filed a wage-discrimination action against USSF with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.


The Dunfermline Building Society is to be merged into its parent company, the Nationwide, with the closure of 25 branches across Scotland.

It has looked at duplication where branches are very near each other, and 19 are to be closed for that reason.
A further six branches without a nearby alternative will shut.
The lender said the change, by next summer, will mean about 90 fewer staff - about a third of the branch workforce.
It said it was seeking to avoid redundancies by redeployment.
Tony Prestedge, Nationwide's chief operating officer, said: "We have made considerable improvements to our range of products and services, and are now in a position to ensure our members under the Dunfermline brand can have full access to the benefits our other members already enjoy.
"It is a logical step to integrate our businesses under one unified, strong, and nationally recognisable brand.
"The strength of the Nationwide brand is increasingly compelling and we will offer customers of the Dunfermline a vastly improved proposition.
"As well as benefiting from access to our full suite of products and market leading customer service, more people will have access to our strong branch network than at present."
The rebranding will take place over one weekend, expected to be in Summer 2014.
From the following Monday morning, customers will be able to access their accounts from any Nationwide branded branch and Nationwide's online bank if they have already registered.
It has retained Caledonia House, the former headquarters of the Dunfermline Building Society, as a customer service administration and telephone channel centre, for customers across the Nationwide Group.
About 300 jobs are to be based at this site.
The Dunfermline branches that will be integrating with nearby Nationwide branches are: Ayr, Coatbridge, Dundee, East Kilbride, Falkirk, Glasgow (Hope St), Glenrothes, Inverness, Kirkcaldy, Leven, Livingston, Montrose, Paisley, Perth, Shawlands and Stirling.
The Nationwide branches that will integrate with nearby Dunfermline branches are: Cupar, Dunfermline and Hamilton.
The Dunfermline branches that will be rebranded Nationwide are: Aberdeen, Anniesland, Edinburgh, Kirkwall, Peebles, Petreavie and St Andrews.
The Dunfermline branches that will close are: Castle Douglas, Cowdenbeath, Johnstone, Largs, Rosyth and Tranent.


More money will be made available to council's hit by recent floods, Finance Secretary John Swinney has said.

Mr Swinney told MSPs the funding would be in addition to the Â£4m announced in his draft budget in December.
He said the money could be used by councils to relieve council tax and business rates for flood victims.
Earlier he insisted a 6% cut to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) budget would not affect the flood forecasting service.
Flood waters are receding and the clean-up has begun in many areas but homes and travel routes are still feeling the impact of the recent severe weather.
Mr Swinney was answering MSPs' questions on the day the Met Office confirmed it was the wettest December since records began in 1910  with 351mm of rainfall recorded and temperatures 2.7C above the average.
2015 was also the second wettest year in Scotland, with only 2011 being wetter.
Mr Swinney told Holyrood that a Â£4m allocation to help the Scottish Borders, Perth and Kinross and Dumfries and Galloway after Storm Desmond would now be extended in light of the devastation wreaked by Storm Frank.
He said the damage inflicted upon the Aberdeenshire village of Ballater in particular was "incomprehensible", and he paid tribute to local firefighters who helped others while their own homes were being flooded.
Mr Swinney said: "In the light of the events of the last couple of weeks, I intend to provide a further allocation in relation to the cost that will be involved in localities.
"That will inevitably have some additional consequences for Dumfries and Galloway and I'll make announcements in due course once I've had due opportunity to have discussions with the local authority about how that can be taken forward."
He added: "I intend to make a further financial allocation from which I would expect Aberdeenshire Council to relieve council tax payers of their council tax bills, to relieve business rate payers of their business rate bills and then also to contribute towards some of the regeneration that will clearly be required to recover the situation in Deeside."
Earlier, Mr Swinney had defended a 6% cut to Sepa's funding announced in his December draft budget.
He said the flood forecasting role of Sepa had been protected from cutbacks and it was right the agency made efficiencies.
He said: "What Sepa is responsible for is a range of different measures - but as a public body we have to expect Sepa, like every other public body in the country, in the constrained  financial environment in which we operate to take decisions that will ensure we can deliver greater impact and value from the use of a smaller amount of resources."
Scottish Labour has called for a review of the country's preparedness to deal with flooding in future.
The party's environment spokesperson Sarah Boyack said: "There are 100,000 houses across Scotland at risk and some of those houses have been built since 2009.
"So we have some tough question to ask about where we're putting new houses, where our flooding investment goes in terms of new defences.
"Because of climate change, this is not going to be one-off experiences. That's why I'm saying it needs a proper review. It needs local authorities working with the Scottish government."
But Mr Swinney said flood prevention work was ongoing and such a review was unnecessary.
He told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: "We have done that. We passed the Flood Management Act in 2009 in parliament and one of the requirements was to produce flood risk management strategies around the country.
"And we now have 14 of them just published in December by Sepa."
Mr Swinney said 42 formal flood protection schemes had been proposed for 2016 - 2021, costing an estimated Â£235m.
"There is funding within the local government settlement for the years going forward to adequately provide for all of those schemes," he said.
The local government umbrella organisation Cosla later expressed puzzlement at his comments, saying it was unaware of any promise of funding beyond the next financial year.
A spokesman said: "We are somewhat bemused by this statement from the Scottish government on funding for flooding.
"The position clearly set out in the deputy first minister's budget is that we only have funding for one year - for 2016/17 - and nothing beyond that."
Sepa said the worst of the current flooding appeared to be over, with river levels now falling.
But it warned that transport disruption, especially on the roads was likely to continue for some time.
A Met Office yellow warning for rain is in place in Aberdeenshire for throughout Wednesday and Thursday but the local council said river levels had peaked and were slowly falling.
Aberdeenshire Council chief executive Jim Savege said: "We've had positive discussions with the Scottish government over access to funding to help us progress repairs, and we will be having ongoing conversations about how we can help minimise flood risk in a number of communities in the future."
Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) chief officer Alasdair Hay praised crews, volunteers and communities for their response to devastation caused by Storm Frank.
SFRS received 350 flooding-related calls between Wednesday 30 December and Tuesday.
Mr Hay said: "Alongside our communities many agencies and volunteers have worked tirelessly to help and support those affected. I want to pay tribute to all those who have worked so hard to support their communities.
"However, I want to pay particular tribute to all our SFRS staff right across the country as their efforts have been, and continue to be, extraordinary."


Fifa's report into World Cup corruption has come under fresh fire - from two whistleblowers who gave evidence.

Phaedra Al Majid and Bonita Mersiades have complained to football's world governing body that promises of confidentiality were breached.
Fifa says its disciplinary committee will investigate the claims.
Hans-Joachim Eckert's report into the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups was published last week.
But the document has already been criticised by Michael Garcia, the man who investigated claims of wrongdoing.
The American lawyer said Eckert's 42-page report contained "numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations".
That prompted some leading football figures to call for Garcia's own report, which runs to hundreds of pages, to be published in full.
Eckert has said he was "surprised" by Garcia's criticism, arguing that "a lot of my report was word for word" from the American's findings.
Garcia spent two years investigating the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups after claims of corruption surfaced.
But Eckert's report cleared Russia and Qatar, who will stage the 2018 and 2022 events respectively, of wrongdoing and instead was critical of rival bidders England and Australia.
Al Majid worked as an international media officer for the Qatar 2022 bid team before losing her job in 2010, while Mersiades was the head of communications for Australia's 2022 bid before leaving in 2010.
They issued a joint statement criticising Eckert.
"Although not named in the report, we were clearly identifiable and within hours of its publication had been widely unmasked as the 'whistleblowers' in German, British and Australian media," it read.
Al Majid and Mersiades have also complained that Eckert used his report to question their credibility.
They argue that this is "particularly puzzling" as his report "simultaneously uses the same information we provided to form significant parts of his inquiry in respect of the Australian and Qatar World Cup bids".
However, Al Majid has admitted lying about Qatar's bid in the past.
She claimed three members of Fifa's executive committee were paid $1.5m to vote for the Gulf state, only to retract those allegations in a sworn statement. The allegations were also denied by the three accused.
She then subsequently changed her mind again, telling the Mail on Sunday newspaper this weekend that she only signed the retraction to avoid being sued by Qatar 2022 bid executives.
Garcia has already stated he intends to appeal against Eckert's report to Fifa. Garcia and Eckert are due to meet on Thursday.


Transport bosses in Liverpool are to ask news vendors to stop selling the Sun after backing a campaign to eradicate the paper from the city.

Merseytravel said people were "very offended" by the newspaper's coverage of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, in which 96 football fans died.
The Sun reported Liverpool fans had "picked the pockets of victims" and "urinated" on police officers.
The Society of Editors said the motion was "stretching towards censorship".
Merseytravel chairman Liam Robinson said the transport authority agreed the move in support of The Total Eclipse of the S*n campaign which claims to have taken the paper out of more than 150 shops across the region.
"Lots and lots of people in this city get offended by this newspaper, they are offended to see it on sale," he said.
"People who have to sell it are offended to touch it.
"We are here to represent the travelling public and local people. [This motion] was backed unanimously by all political parties."
A letter is being drafted to call on vendors across the Liverpool City Region's transport network to stop selling the newspaper following the conclusion of the Hillsborough inquests earlier this year.
Merseytravel provides transport advice to the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and is responsible for bus, rail and ferry services.
It operates Merseyrail, which does not sell the Sun in nine of its 16 stations.
All 96 fans who died as a result of a crush at Hillsborough were unlawfully killed, the inquests concluded in April.
Four days after the 1989 disaster, the Sun newspaper published its now infamous front page under the headline "The Truth".
Other regional and national newspapers published similar allegations, although less prominently.
In 2012, the former Sun editor Kelvin McKenzie apologised to the people of Liverpool for The Truth headline, saying he had been "misled".
In a statement, he said: "These allegations were wholly untrue and were part of a concerted plot by police officers to discredit the supporters, thereby shifting the blame for the tragedy from themselves.
"It would have been far more accurate had I written the headline The Lies rather than The Truth."
Paul Collins, from the Total Eclipse of the S*n campaign, said the newspaper had "slandered the dead, it slandered the city with lies. It upsets decent people."
Bob Satchwell, from the Society of Editors which represents about 400 media outlets, said: "I think the issue is beginning to stretch towards censorship.
"No public organisation should be seeking to restrict a perfectly legitimate newspaper."
"[Merseytravel] should not be trying to influence newsagents handling the best-selling newspaper in the land."
Mr Satchwell said the Sun's current staff were not involved at the time of Hillsborough, the newspaper had reported what was being said by local police and it had apologised.


More than 3,200 US prisoners have been released early because of a software glitch.

The bug miscalculated the sentence reductions prisoners in Washington state had received for good behaviour.
It was introduced in 2002 as part of an update that followed a court ruling about applying good behaviour credits.
State officials said that many early-release prisoners would have to return to jail to finish their sentences.
"That this problem was allowed to continue for 13 years is deeply disappointing to me, totally unacceptable and, frankly, maddening," said Washington's governor Jay Inslee at a press conference.
The Washington Department of Corrections (DoC) added that it was made aware of the problem in 2012 when the family of one victim found out that the offender was getting out too early.
Despite this, the faulty software was not corrected until a new IT boss for the DoC was appointed, who realised how serious the problem had become.
The manager then informed senior staff at the DoC and the governor's office.
Analysis of the errors showed that, on average, prisoners whose sentences were wrongly calculated got out 49 days early. One prisoner had his sentence cut by 600 days. It is not known if any offender committed further crimes after being released prematurely.
Local police are now helping to round up those who still need to spend time in jail. Five people have already been returned to cells.
Mr Inslee said he had ordered the DoC to fix the software as quickly as possible.
An update that applies the correct formula for calculating sentence cuts is due to be in place by 7 January. Until then the DoC has been ordered not to release any prisoner without checking manually that they should be released.
An independent investigation has also been started to find out how the mistake was left uncorrected for so long.


Tom Ince scored a superb free-kick as Championship side Derby came from a goal down to knock Premier League West Brom out of the FA Cup.

Albion went ahead 10 minutes before half-time when Matt Phillips curled a shot past goalkeeper Scott Carson.
But the visitors equalised after the break as Darren Bent found the top corner from 25 yards.
Ince then bent a free-kick between Boaz Myhill and his near post to delight the 5,300 travelling fans.
Derby goalkeeper Carson's career has been packed with ups and downs, as his manager Steve McClaren knows only too well.
McClaren's last match in charge of England saw Carson let in a soft shot from Niko Kranjcar in what turned out to be a costly Euro 2008 qualifying defeat by Croatia almost a decade ago.
He produced both the best and worst of his game as he faced one of his former clubs at The Hawthorns.
A casual pass out in the opening moments gifted a chance to Salomon Rondon, whose shot beat the keeper - only for a superb Richard Keogh clearance to prevent a goal.
Carson, though, more than redeemed himself with an outstanding save in the closing moments, tipping over Rondon's header from substitute Nacer Chadli's cross to preserve Derby's advantage.
More to follow.
Match ends, West Bromwich Albion 1, Derby County 2.
Second Half ends, West Bromwich Albion 1, Derby County 2.
Tom Ince (Derby County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Hand ball by Hal Robson-Kanu (West Bromwich Albion).
Attempt missed. James McClean (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left following a corner.
Corner,  West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Scott Carson.
Attempt saved. Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Bradley Johnson (Derby County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Matt Phillips (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Bradley Johnson (Derby County).
Attempt missed. Darren Fletcher (West Bromwich Albion) header from outside the box misses to the right.
Corner,  West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Richard Keogh.
Substitution, Derby County. Charles Vernam replaces Craig Bryson.
Attempt missed. Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion) header from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Derby County. Matej Vydra replaces Abdoul Camara.
Corner,  West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Scott Carson.
Attempt saved. Nacer Chadli (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. James Morrison (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Nacer Chadli (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Matt Phillips (West Bromwich Albion) header from a difficult angle on the right misses to the right.
Substitution, Derby County. Alex Pearce replaces Jamie Hanson.
Foul by Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion).
Jason Shackell (Derby County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Nacer Chadli replaces Jonas Olsson.
Attempt missed. Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion) header from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Darren Bent (Derby County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Hal Robson-Kanu (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Corner,  West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Richard Keogh.
Attempt blocked. Matt Phillips (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Hal Robson-Kanu replaces Brendan Galloway.
Corner,  Derby County. Conceded by Boaz Myhill.
Attempt saved. Tom Ince (Derby County) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Corner,  West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Richard Keogh.
Craig Dawson (West Bromwich Albion) hits the left post with a header from very close range following a corner.
Corner,  West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Chris Baird.
Attempt blocked. Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Claudio Yacob (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Craig Bryson (Derby County).
Hand ball by Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion).


A new site is being sought for an anti-Nato "peace camp" in Newport during the summit of world leaders in September after an outcry from local residents.

People in the Pill area of the city were angry at protesters' plans to use playing fields near a community centre.
The No Nato Newport campaign group will now discuss possible alternative sites with Newport council.
The authority had said it recognised the group's right to protest and was taking steps to mitigate disruption.
More than 100 people attended a public meeting on Tuesday to voice objections to the proposed use of the green space.
The No Nato Newport group had wanted to gather on council-owned land next to Pill Millennium Centre from 27 August.
The peace camp had been expected to run until the weekend after the conference at the Celtic Manor Resort from 3-5 September.
Newport council had agreed to organise toilets, water, waste and cleaning supplies, but it was not clear who would have paid for them.
Council representatives had met protesters and residents to discuss what might have been provided at the camp, although the authority said it had not given the group permission to use the fields.
Tracey Holyoake, chair of the Pill Millennium Centre's trust told Tuesday's meeting that the original booking to use the site's facilities made no mention of camping in the field and she would not allow the booking to go ahead.
Gwent Police have said they will be ready to deal with any impromptu protests that take place during the summit but were not expecting any trouble.


Swansea City are close to securing the return of striker Wilfried Bony from Manchester City.

City paid their Premier League counterparts £25m for the Ivory Coast forward two and a half years ago.
No fee has been agreed as yet and talks may continue into next week but it is anticipated Bony will return to south Wales for less than half that sum.
Bony made 46 appearances in his first 18 months as a City player, scoring 10 goals.
But 26 of those appearances were as a substitute and he was loaned to Stoke by manager Pep Guardiola last season.
Bony joined Swansea from Vitesse in 2013 and scored 25 goals in 54 games before joining City in January 2015.


Too many British pupils are trying to learn in classrooms which are damaging their health and education, say architects.

And too many teachers are quitting, blaming stressful and overcrowded working conditions, says the Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba).
It blames rising pupil numbers and government cuts to capital funding.
England's Department for Education says it will invest £23bn in school buildings over the next five years.
The report comes weeks after 17 schools in Edinburgh schools were forced to close due to concern over the standard of construction.
The newly-constructed schools had all been built under the same public private partnership contract.
According to Riba's analysis of government figures published last year, only 5% of 60,000 buildings in 18,000 schools surveyed in England were in top condition, performing as intended and operating efficiently.
The report also highlights separate figures published by a construction journal in 2014 which suggested almost a quarter (23%) of councils in England rated the condition of school buildings in their areas as "extremely poor" or "very poor".
"From damp, leaky buildings to serious issues like exposure to asbestos, too many pupils are trying to learn in classrooms that are damaging to their health - and their education," says the report.
And an overwhelming majority (90%) of 500 teachers surveyed by ComRes for the report said good school buildings were crucial to improving children's learning and behaviour.
But almost half said their schools were too small for the number of pupils, and a quarter rated the buildings as poor or very poor.
Twenty-five said they had left jobs because of stressful, cramped working conditions, while 100 said they had considered quitting.
Under Labour, spending on school buildings in England rose from a low of £600m in 1996 to a peak of £7.6bn in 2010, says the report.
But the coalition government oversaw a 60% cut with more than 700 projects axed.
Many schools which had been promised new or refurbished buildings had not carried out essential maintenance on buildings scheduled for demolition so when their schemes were cancelled they faced huge bills to bring dilapidated buildings back into use.
It also meant that the more economical Priority School Building Programme attracted almost three times as many applications as it could fund when it was introduced in 2011, says the report.
"Broadly speaking, the minimum standards for PSPB schools represent a return to the standards of 15 years ago," say the authors, adding that the new buildings had been hugely variable.
This may not be a problem in itself, they say, but in the worst cases, schools have had to find an extra £500,000 to make buildings fit for purpose.
Some of the specified designs, such as narrow corridors and cramped toilet blocks, increase behaviour problems like bullying, and boost maintenance costs, they add.
The report recommends:
Riba president Jane Duncan urged the government to review its school building programme.
"How can we expect our children to compete with the world's best when too many of our school buildings are sub-standard?" asked Ms Duncan.
Head teachers' leader Russell Hobby confirmed that many buildings were in very poor condition, with schools "forced to dip into reserves to carry our emergency repairs that act as mere sticking plasters".
A Department for Education spokeswoman said the Priority School Building Programme was "transforming run-down buildings to state-of-the-art facilities, targeting funding at those school buildings in the worst condition."
She said the scheme was cheaper and quicker to operate than the previous programme, with designs developed in consultation with experts "giving young people across the country the modern learning environment they need to unlock their potential".


The deaths of five babies are among 11 under investigation at the Northern Health Trust.

The health minister told the Northern Ireland Assembly that he had been made aware of 20 cases in which the trust's response was said to be below standard.
The patients were seen in the emergency, obstetrics, gynaecology or X ray departments.
It is not clear whether the deaths were avoidable. Edwin Poots said the trust's response should have been better.
He said this was especially true, where cases were not identified as "serious adverse incidents".
It is understood the babies were either born prematurely or were less than a month old.
The trust is also completing a review of about 35,000 X rays taken at the Causeway Hospital, Coleraine, County Londonderry, between 2011 and 2012.
Nine patients have been recalled. That review is now being extended across the entire health trust, involving 48,000 X rays.
Health Minister Edwin Poots said the cases, which date from 2008 until the present, were discovered by a "turnaround team" he had sent to the trust.
"I wasn't happy with the Northern Trust, I wasn't happy with the way things were being done there and that's why I put a turnaround team in," he said.
"We do need to offset that  with the fact that the Northern Trust was dealing with tens of thousands of cases.
"The Northern Trust is in a considerably better place than when I inherited it in 2011."
Mr Poots said Northern Ireland's hospitals "are safe places", but added: "Do we run perfect hospitals? We don't."
Maeve McLaughlin, the chair of the assembly's health committee, said the the news of the cases was "quite alarming".
"I think there are very serious questions [to answer]," she said.
In a statement, the trust said it recognised that on certain occasions it had "fallen short of the standards the public should expect from us".
"More critically, we failed to learn from these incidents. To those people affected we apologise," the statement said.
"We have identified 20 separate incidents over a five-year period where the response by the trust was below standard. We have advised the department and welcome the minster's statement today and his continued support."
The statement said patients and their families had been let down.
It said it would work to try and prevent that happening in the future and was committed to "a culture of openness and transparency".
The trust said that changing the culture was the key to turning the organisation around.


It feels like the day after a general election.

Russians now know the name of their next president - Vladimir Putin.
They know who their prime minister is going to be - Dmitry Medvedev.
They have a pretty good idea which political party will have the majority in parliament - United Russia.
They know all this, even though parliamentary elections are still two-and-a-half months away. And the next presidential election will not be until March 2012.
The results are already clear. When Dmitry Medvedev took the stage at a party conference on Saturday and backed Vladimir Putin for president, he effectively handed back the keys to the Kremlin. Job done.
The presidential election will be little more than a referendum on what has already been agreed behind closed doors - that Mr Putin will return to the presidency.
It is unthinkable that Vladimir Putin could lose that election. He remains the most popular politician in Russia.
That is partly because of his strongman image, that goes down well with the public.
And it is partly because the political system he has created prevents any potential rivals from appearing on the scene, from getting air time on national TV, and from gaining authority.
It is the same with Russia's political parties. In December's Duma election, only those parties approved or tolerated by the Kremlin will have the opportunity to contest the poll.
Experience shows that opposition parties viewed by the authorities as anti-Kremlin or anti-Putin, and which openly criticise the Russian prime minister, normally struggle to receive official registration.
So, what do Russians make of this pre-ordained transfer of power?
Judging from some of Monday's Russian papers, there is a degree of anger.
The popular tabloid Moskovsky Komsomolets has a cartoon on its front page. It shows a ballot box with a heart-shaped slot for the ballot papers. It is a sign that, in Russia, elections have become little more than a plebiscite on the nation's love of one man.
The paper accuses Vladimir Putin of wanting more than just 12 more years - two terms - in power.
"You seek eternal power," it says. "You're counting on medical progress. You hope to buy yourself eternal life. Then the questions of elections and successors will flake away naturally like crumbling plaster."
According to the broadsheet Vedomosti, Saturday's announcement shows that Dmitry Medvedev's time in the Kremlin was merely "camouflage" for a third Putin presidential term. It likens Russia to the Titanic, heading for a disaster.
Some of President Medvedev's own advisers are deflated, too.
Last week Medvedev adviser Igor Yurgens told me he was sure that the president would seek a second term. Today he admitted defeat.
"I feel disappointment bordering on anger," Mr Yurgens told me at his Modernisation think-tank in Moscow. "Their smiling announcement that they already had it in their heads for a long time was humiliating. The rational explanation is that Medvedev was under pressure and the stronger and more influential Putin got the upper hand. "
On Saturday the Russian president's economic advisor Arkady Dvorkovich tweeted simply: "There's no cause for rejoicing."
But on the streets of Moscow, I found people less pessimistic.
"Putin has the experience, he's the best candidate for president," Vladimir told me. "I don't see anyone else who could do the job."
I asked Vladimir whether he would bother voting in the presidential election, now that the result seemed clear.
"Yes, I will vote," he replied. "It's my duty as a citizen."
Olga, too, will cast her ballot in March. "If nobody votes, then elections will cease to exist," she told me.
"From the point of view of democracy, it is not good that we have such a small choice. But at least we know Putin. He's been president before. I'm not against him."


County champions Yorkshire have re-signed New Zealand batsman Kane Williamson for part of the 2016 season.

He will be available for three Championship games, eight in the T20 Blast and three in the One-Day Cup between 9 June and 18 July.
The 25-year-old scored 2,633 runs for New Zealand in 2015 across all formats, including eight centuries.
"His value as a player is beyond question," said Yorkshire head coach Jason Gillespie.
"His attitude, work ethic and leadership as an overseas player is brilliant."
Williamson and England's Joe Root, a Yorkshire team-mate, are currently joint second in the International Cricket Council Test batting rankings behind Australia captain Steve Smith.
The White Rose county have won the Championship title for the past two seasons and are looking to become the first side to do so three times in a row since their Yorkshire predecessors from 1966-1968.
"I am looking forward to joining the team for a third term this summer," Williamson told the Yorkshire website.
"It is enjoyable being part of a successful team that are hungry for ongoing success."


Protests have spread in central Athens, amid anger over austerity measures being debated by parliament.

Protesters threw stones and petrol bombs, and police fired tear gas. A number of people were injured and at least 10 buildings were set on fire.
PM Lucas Papademos urged calm, saying violence had no place in a democracy.
MPs are voting on a bill to introduce the measures, which are being demanded in return for a 130bn-euro ($170bn; Â£110bn) bailout to avoid default.
The BBC's Mark Lowen in Athens says the violence is the worst the city has seen for many months.
Protesters hurled flares and chunks of marble torn up from the square. Some tried to break through a cordon of riot police around the parliament.
Several historic buildings, including cafes and cinemas, were in flames.
Syntagma Square - in the heart of Athens - is cloaked in a hail of tear gas, our correspondent adds.
Ioannis Simantiras, 34, said the protesters were boxed in by the police.
"Nobody could get away from the gas," he told the BBC.
"When it engulfed everybody, and everybody was choking the police drew back and opened up a corridor for us away from the parliament - that's when everybody made a run for it."
In pictures: Greek protests
Mr Papademos said Greece did not have the luxury of such protests in such difficult times.
"Vandalisms, violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country and won't be tolerated," he said in a speech in parliament before the vote.
Running battles with police are still continuing in parts of the capital.
Earlier, tens of thousands of people voiced their anger over the proposed bill in what was the second consecutive day of mass protests.
Some reports say as many as 80,000 people joined the demonstration in Athens, with another 20,000 protesting in Thessaloniki.
A number of lawmakers have threatened to vote against the bill, but analysts say it should still have enough support in parliament to pass.
Pasok, the largest party, and its coalition ally New Democracy - which have both backed the bill - account for more than 230 deputies out of a total of 300.
Lawmakers are also due to vote on a deal with private banks which could see 100bn euros of Greek debt written off.
If the measures are not approved, other eurozone nations and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) say Greece will get no money from them and will face bankruptcy in March.
Athens has to repay nearly 14.5bn euros in maturing debt on 20 March.
The debate began in the early afternoon on Sunday, but the vote did not begin until after midnight (22:00 GMT).
In a TV address on Saturday, Mr Papademos warned that Greece was "just a breath away from Ground Zero".
"The social cost of this programme is limited in comparison with the economic and social catastrophe that would follow if we didn't adopt it," he said.
Savings would be lost, the government would be unable to pay wages or salaries, and imports of fuel, medicine and machinery would be disrupted, he added.
The austerity measures include:
They were presented to eurozone ministers in Brussels on Thursday evening.
The Greek cabinet has approved the measures but five government ministers resigned.
The eurozone bloc wants a further 325m euros in savings for this year and also insists that Greek leaders give "strong political assurances" on the implementation of the packages.
Greece cannot service its huge debt, and there are fears that a default could endanger Europe's financial stability and even lead to a break-up of the eurozone.
But many Greeks feel they are already squeezed almost to breaking point and cannot take any more cuts, our correspondent says.
Some are even saying Greece should leave the eurozone to be able to devalue its former currency, the drachma, and ease the debt stranglehold.


A rapist has been found guilty after "horrific" attacks on women in Oxford.

Catalin Horhota, 42, of no fixed abode, was found unanimously guilty of nine counts including rape and sexual assault.
The Oxford Crown Court jury heard he raped one woman inside a property and returned an hour later to again sexually assault her, having stolen a pair of keys.
Horhota will be sentenced by Judge Peter Ross on 9 October.
He was found guilty on Tuesday of one count of burglary, two counts of attempted rape, three counts of sexual assault, one count of assault by penetration, one count of rape and one count of exposure.
Horhota burgled a property in Morrell Avenue, opposite South Park in Oxford, on 17 September last year and stole food.
Two days later he raped a woman at a nearby address in Headington. About an hour later he returned and sexually assaulted the victim again.
He then sexually assaulted another woman at the same address.
On 20 September Horhota sexually assaulted a woman in South Park by touching her inappropriately.
The final offence took place on 22 September when Horhota exposed himself in Abingdon.
Following Horhota's conviction, Det Con David Rogers said: "I would like to thank the victims for coming forward and reporting these serious offences to Thames Valley Police.
"Although horrific, I would like to reassure members of the public the offences carried out by Horhota are rare."


There were 4,280 beekeepers in Wales in 2016 producing 307 tonnes of honey worth £3m, the National Bee Unit said.

An organisation called Cywain Bee was set up in 2014 to get more people involved in the resurgent industry.
Keepers in Wales range from those making honey and beauty products to those educating people about hives and even helping ex-servicemen with PTSD.
On Thursday, keepers gather for a conference in Machynlleth on the native Welsh bee.
Even though he has been keeping them for more than 50 years having learnt from his father, Peter Jenkins said he is "no expert".
The engineer from Lampeter, who has 48 colonies, said: "The more you do it, the more you realise how little you know.
"They were on the planet for millions of years before man walked the earth in the fully evolved state they're in today and I feel we are only dabbling at it."
He told BBC Radio Wales' Country Focus that in the 1980s, Welsh bees could produce at least £50 worth of honey per colony per year, with very little input from him.
But then varroa - a parasite that lives on the back of a bee and "sucks its blood" - arrived.
While this had a devastating effect after being brought from India, a new challenge facing producers comes from China.
Mr Jenkins added: "Heather honey, I could sell 10 times as much as I make, it is very popular.
"It is industrially produced in China where it is heated and becomes very thin, which kills enzymes and goodness.
"We take longer and while we can't compete on price, we can on quality."
Mr Jenkins' production is focused on "the Welsh native bee" - which he describes as being "a stronger flyer, which will fly in colder weather, but is slower" and is able to survive through winter with few food stores.
Cywain Bee was set up to get more people involved in beekeeping and development manager, Haf Wyn Hughes, said all people need to be is "very patient and passionate".
She described the benefits to the environment of beekeeping by citing the example of an orchard in north Wales that had a very low yield of crops.
By putting 14 hives on the land, bees helped increase the harvest by about 40%.
"With beekeeping, I always say the difference between try and triumph is that little oomph," she said.
This same passion is felt by Katie Hayward of Anglesey-based Felin Honey Bees, who has 527 hives which produced four tonnes of honey last year.
She uses Google Earth to find woodlands and shelter belts suitable for honey bees, before approaching farmers and landowners to get permission to place them there.
"Beekeeping was a huge part of farming history and only in the last few years has it (changed to) become a higher-class hobby," she said.
"I want it back. But pesticides are a huge challenge. A farmer sprayed his field and we saw the hives dying in front of us.
"He was devastated, but it wasn't his fault. He didn't know."
Ms Hayward's love of bees is shared by Samantha Evans of Maentwrog in Gwynedd, who uses bees wax and honey to make skin care products.
"I always talk to my bees. It used to be called 'the telling of the bees' where they were informed of births, deaths and marriages," she said.
"I've told my husband that if I die, he needs to put black shrouds on my hives."
Richard Jones of Llangennech, Carmarthenshire, went one step further and suggested beekeeping helped to save him.
He suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after working for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan.
As well as winning a gold star at the Great Taste Awards in 2016, his honey is helping others affected by the condition.
"It has a lasting impact. One in three people who have been in a war will experience mental health problems," he said.
"Beekeeping is a good way of developing coping methods as you do it methodically and need to concentrate.
"Ex-servicemen and women are also outdoorsy, so it is really helpful."


On Tuesday, US President Barack Obama met several prominent Cuban dissidents, including Berta Soler, who is part of a group known as Ladies in White, at the US embassy in Havana.

It was a dramatic moment and gave Mr Obama a chance to highlight the issue of international human rights in Cuba.
He has brought the subject up several times during his trip.
Cuban President Raul Castro has responded by denying that Cuba has political prisoners. Besides that, Castro says, Americans violate human rights of people at Guantanamo and in other places.
Many Cubans agree with him.
"Give back Guantanamo," said Albino Moldes, a Cuban-born photographer who was waiting at the Havana airport on Sunday for President Obama to arrive. "And then we talk."
President Obama and his aides said they are happy to talk about problems in the US and in Cuba. But they will not return control of the military base at Guantanamo to Cubans.
"We've made it very clear that's not on the table," said Ben Rhodes, Obama's deputy National Security Adviser, at a news conference in Havana on Monday.
In other words, it's business as usual - for US and Cuban officials.
Over the weekend dozens of people were arrested at a demonstration staged by the Ladies in White, including Ms Soler.
And another dissident, Elizardo Sanchez, was detained at Jose Marti airport on the day a group of US journalists arrived. He was released shortly afterwards. By the time the journalists got there, things looked calm - as if nothing had happened.
Cuba experts said there is a reason for the arrests.
"There's a string of people - the old guard - who are not really thrilled about the opening," said Eric Olson, a director at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, describing the new relationship between the US and Cuba.
"How do you control it? Some of it is done by exerting their power," Mr Olson said, explaining these officials try to show that they are still in control by arresting the activists.
At times, though, it seems like "shadow boxing", a term that Mr Obama has used to describe the relationship between the two countries.
Six sticking points to better relations - Guantanamo Bay, human rights and media freedoms are among the unresolved issues
In Pictures: Obama's trip to Cuba - The historic visit to Havana in photos
Internet access still restricted in Cuba - Only about 5% of Cubans have web access at home
US officials tell me privately they knew beforehand that the activists would be arrested. The activists themselves had told the Americans what they planned to do - and that they would be arrested for it.
Still Obama administration officials say things have improved, despite these setbacks. Detentions for activists are shorter than they were in the past. People talk on the streets openly, and they have better access to the internet.
The history of US-Cuba relations has been intricately intertwined with the story of human rights. For years Americans have invested on average about $20m annually in a variety of programmes in Cuba, according to a congressional staffer, including those that support civil society.
Cuban officials portray the US aid as a "regime-change programme", a sneaky way for Americans to infiltrate Cuba and control its people.
In a similar vein dissidents are cast as US-funded actors.
"The Cuban government has been very effective in saying they're paid mercenaries of the US," says the Brookings Institution's Ted Piccone, who studies Latin America.
Obama administration officials have been trying to soften these accusations by approaching the subject of human rights differently. They try to promote freedom and democracy in a more inclusive way, embracing civil society as a whole rather than focusing on a small group of dissidents.
In a speech about Cuba before Obama left for Havana, National Security Adviser Susan Rice used the word "dissident" once - at the end of her remarks. She spoke instead about activists and civil society.
It's an important distinction, Mr Olson said, because the term "dissident" means "a very clear set of 200 people", a group that includes Ms Soler and others who are politically engaged and are arrested on a regular basis.
"I think the administration would like to think more broadly," he said. Instead of working only with dissidents, US officials support those who work in non-governmental organisations, journalism, as well as ordinary Cubans who are working for change.
(One official says they use the terms "dissident" and "activists" interchangeably, while another says Rice's speech underscores the point - they'd rather talk about civil society than just dissidents. It shows that even the people who work on US policy disagree about what Americans should do to help Cubans.)
Still language isn't the most important thing. The real issue, Mr Olson, said is freedom, democracy and human rights for people in Cuba.
"Is that going to happen?" he asked.
The matter will be decided not by US officials, though, but by Cubans themselves. For them, it's a tricky - and long-term - project.


The number of people killed by a blast in Mexico City at the headquarters of the state oil company, Pemex, has risen to 25, the interior minister has said.

At least 100 people were injured and an unknown number are trapped in rubble at the base of the 54-storey tower. The search for survivors continues.
The cause of the blast is under investigation, Pemex says.
Last September, 30 people died in an explosion at a Pemex gas plant in northern Mexico.
Thursday's explosion in the lower floors of the building happened as shifts were changing in the afternoon, making the area particularly crowded.
Television pictures showed debris from the blast spread out on to the street in front of the building, and Red Cross ambulances on the scene attending to the injured.
Hundreds of rescuers helped by dogs are searching the building for around 30 people thought to be trapped inside.
Police have cordoned off the streets around the building, which is located in a busy commercial area of Mexico City.
Pemex says its operations will continue to run normally - and commercial and financial obligations will continue to be met - despite the blast.
The company's chief executive, Emilio Lozoya Austin, cut short a business trip to Asia and was on his way back to Mexico, a Pemex statement said.
Relatives of employees have gathered outside the building in search of information about their loved ones, local media report. Some are said to have tried to reach employees on their mobile phones but have had no reply.
"The place shook, we lost power and suddenly there was debris everywhere. Colleagues were helping us out of the building," eyewitness Cristian Obele said.
"We were talking and all of sudden we heard an explosion with white smoke and glass falling from the windows," another witness said.
"People started running from the building covered in dust. A lot of pieces were flying."
By Will GrantBBC News, Mexico City
The Pemex building in the north of Mexico City is surrounded by large numbers of federal police and paramedics. Sniffer dogs are being used to look for people trapped under the rubble.
Mexico City is used to earthquakes, and the emergency services seem well prepared for this type of disaster.
The skyscraper withstood the blast too, with most of the damage confined to the ground and first floors. But night has set in now in the Mexican capital, further complicating the search.
Some family members of missing workers are gathered outside the Pemex building for news of their loved ones, while others have travelled directly to the hospitals.
The authorities and paramedic teams are releasing information at regular intervals but the exact cause of the blast may still take some time to be confirmed. This is now by far the worst explosion in Mexico City for almost 30 years.
Images of the blast posted on Twitter revealed large clouds of smoke billowing from the building. TV footage showed people being transported from the scene by helicopters.
President Enrique Pena Nieto and Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera headed to the scene of the blast.
Mr Pena said Pemex rescue and security teams were working alongside city authorities to help the injured.
"I am deeply sorry for the deaths of our fellow workers at Pemex. My condolences to their relatives," Mr Pena said on Twitter.
"At the moment, the priority is to help the injured and protect the physical safety of those who work there."
The president said he has ordered an investigation into the causes of the blast.
Earlier on Thursday, Pemex had reported problems with the electricity in the building in a message on Twitter.
It later confirmed that an explosion had taken place "in the B2 building of the administrative centre".
Plaster had fallen from the ceiling of the basement and the situation was "delicate", a spokesman for local emergency services was quoted by the Reuters news agency as saying.
Pemex has experienced a number of fatal accidents in recent years.
Last September's deadly blast at a gas plant near the northern town of Reynosa is thought to have been caused by a build-up of gas.


The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has denied trying to pressurise the Electoral Commission into withholding details of a major donation until after the Northern Ireland Assembly election.

Details of £435,000 the party had been given to campaign for Brexit ahead of last year's EU referendum were revealed by the commission in February.
Emails obtained by The Detail showed that the DUP argued against the publication of its campaign funding.
It wanted a delay until after 2 March.
Speaking on BBC Talkback, the DUP's Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said he and his party were "not seeking to prevent the publication" of the donation details.
"We merely questioned whether it was an appropriate thing to release the information in the middle of an election campaign," he said.
"There is a convention in the UK that this type of material isn't published during an election campaign.
"But it has been in this case, so clearly the precedent has been established.
The Lagan Valley MP added: "There's no doubt that other parties used [the donation] in a negative way to attack the DUP."
In one of the emails to the Electoral Commission, the body that monitors political finances in the UK, Sir Jeffrey said it would be risking "its legitimacy as a regulator" by revealing the donation ahead of the election.
The commission said it had a "statutory responsibility" to publish all spending information received by registered EU referendum campaigners "as soon as is practicable".
The donation was given to the DUP by the Constitutional Research Council, a group of pro-UK businesspeople led by Conservative Party member Richard Cook.
About £425,000 of the total was spent by the DUP on pro-Brexit advertising, with the party keeping the remainder.
During the referendum campaign, it took out a four-page "Vote to leave the EU" advertisement in the Metro newspaper, which is available in London and other cities but not in Northern Ireland.
Sir Jeffrey said the DUP had gone "further than the law required" by revealing the identity of the group that gave his party the money.
"The SDLP have never done that; the UUP have never done that; Sinn Fein have never done that," he added.
"There seems to be an obsession with the DUP and no-one is asking questions of the other parties.
"We have nothing to hide on this - we are proud of the role that we played; we are happy with what we have done.
"I am proud of the role we played in the Brexit campaign."


A senior social worker has admitted that toddler Liam Fee was allowed to drop "off the radar" of her department.

The High Court in Livingston heard that the child's family had no social work involvement for four months after their case worker went off sick.
Rachel Fee, 31, and her partner Nyomi Fee, 28, are accused of murdering two-year-old Liam in March 2014 at a house near Glenrothes, Fife, and ill-treating two other boys.
They deny all the charges against them.
Karen Pedder, 45, a manager with Fife Council, told the High Court in Livingston that a case worker was assigned to the case in January 2013, after they received reports from the toddler's nursery that he had numerous injuries.
A police officer and a social worker visited the family and accepted the "plausible explanation" from Rachel and Nyomi Fee that the youngster had bumped his head.
But when the official concerned went off sick on 1 April 2013, nobody else was assigned to monitor the family.
The court was told there was no further social work involvement until fresh concerns were raised about the child in June 2013.
She said a childminder claimed that Liam had been pinching himself and general concern was expressed about  his development and speech delays
She said: "Again there was call to the social work contact centre from the Sunshine Nursery, which Liam attended. Again we had another interagency referral discussion.
"Again concerns were raised about Liam having numerous bruising to his body. The outcome was to seek medical opinion on Liam's injuries.
"The view of police and social work was they they didn't look like adult marks but there were concerns given the history."
She added: "We know where normal childhood bruising occurs. This was a different kind of bruising."
She said the combination of factors all caused concern, including one previous investigation,  lack of seeking medical attention and social workers who visited the house reporting that Liam was in high chair in front of the TV eating lots of processed food.
Rachel Fee's defence counsel Brian McConnachie said to her: "What seems to have happened here is basically, as far as Liam is concerned, this case just went off the radar."
She replied: "It did. Yes."
She stressed that a case would normally be reviewed after about four weeks but she agreed that from April to June the interval was longer.
Mr McConnachie said: "On one view, who knows when the case would have been looked at again if other information had not come forward?"
Miss Pedder told him: "That's a procedural thing we should consider.  We should look at the cases more regularly."
The jury were shown photographs of  Liam playing at the Sunshine Nursery in Kirkcaldy.
Kimberly Trail, the former manager of the private facility, said the photographs showed how he had lost weight and become pale over a period of a few months.
She said she and her staff catalogued a series of injuries to Liam's ears and fingers, a black eye and bruises to his body over the weeks he attended the nursery.
She related one incident when Liam was not happy to see his mum arrive to collect him.
She said: "When Liam saw Rachel the look on Liam's face was quite frightening."
On another occasion she said Nyomi Fee approached the nursery "really angry" after a call from a health visitor following up concerns raised by the nursery staff.
After a discussion she removed Liam from the nursery.
Rachel Fee and Nyomi Fee, who are originally from Ryton, Tyne and Wear, are accused of murdering Liam in March 2014 and attempting to defeat the ends of justice by blaming the killing on a young boy.
The couple are also charged with a catalogue of allegations that they neglected Liam and abused two other children, one of whom they blame for killing Liam, in their care over a two-year period.
They deny all the charges against them.
The trial at the High Court in Livingston continues.