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Tonight at 10:00pm, confidential documents leaked from a law firm

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in Panama, reveal how the world's richest use tax havens

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The cache of 11 million documents, some seen by the BBC,

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suggest clients were helped to launder money and evade tax.

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One man alleged to have been involved is a close friend

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of the Russian President, Vladimir Putin.

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We'll have the full details of the secret files.

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One potential buyer has been in contact with the government,

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over the purchase of the Port Talbot steel works.

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The Government orders an investigation into the UK

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Anti-Doping Agency, after claims a doctor supplied performance

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enhancing drugs to British sports stars.

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I must also warn you I'm no public speaker.

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Almost all my life I've spent trying to avoid publicity of any kind.

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Never before seen footage of British double agent Kim Philby -

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That's one. And another.

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And the sixes that sank England - they lose to the West Indies

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The leak of 11 million confidential documents

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from a Panamanian law firm, has revealed the extent

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to which the world's rich and powerful use tax havens

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The documents, some seen by the BBC, show how clients were helped

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to launder money, dodge sanctions, and evade tax.

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One of those mentioned is a close friend of

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the Russian President Vladimir Putin, alleged to be involved

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The law firm at the centre of the revelations,

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Mossack Fonseca, says it's operated beyond reproach for 40 years,

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and has never been accused or charged with wrong-doing.

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Here's our Special Correspondent Richard Bilton.

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Panama's carnival attracts visitors from around the world.

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But, away from the lights, this place is a thriving tax haven.

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Investors come to Panama for secrecy.

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You can go to Panama and you can get a foundation,

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or a trust or a company, and you can use those complicated,

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slightly strange structures to hide and disguise your ownership

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An enormous leak of files from this company, Mossack Fonseca,

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From outside, Mossack Fonseca looks like a perfectly respectable

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company, but this is a business which has helped people from around

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The documents were leaked to the German newspaper

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Suddeutsche Zeitung and shared with the International Consortium

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Panorama has been analysing the documents.

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We found links to 72 current or former heads of state.

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Like the Icelandic Prime Minister, Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson,

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who had a secret stake in an offshore company.

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The company held his wife's interests in Iceland's banks,

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Nobody knew that when her husband was dealing with the Icelandic banks

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after their collapse - including the British

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demands for compensation, which he turned down.

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He walked out when questioned by an Icelandic reporter.

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Mr Gunnlaugsson is today facing calls for his resignation.

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He says he has not broken any rules and his wife did not benefit

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Mossack Fonseca say the services they provide are commonly used

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worldwide and they are responsible members of the global financial

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But some of the deals in the files are extraordinary.

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We believe we have found a billion-dollar laundering

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This man, cellist Sergei Roldugin - close friend of President Putin -

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was officially the owner of two secretive companies which benefited

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For example, an offshore company borrows $6 million.

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Three months later, the loan is written off for just $1.

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Why would anyone want to give all this cash to a cellist?

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There is nothing I've seen which would make me do anything

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other than say stop, we need to investigate very closely

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To you, does it look like money-laundering?

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Yes, it does look like money-laundering to me, for sure.

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Mr Roldugin hasn't answered our questions.

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Mossack Fonseca say they have a strong compliance record.

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Through the leak, the world can now see more clearly how the wealthy can

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And you can see more on Panorama: Tax Havens of the Rich

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and Powerful Exposed, tomorrow night at 7;30pm on BBC One.

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The government says it's ready to offer incentives to secure

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a buyer, for the Port Talbot steelworks to safeguard

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The Business Secretary Sajid Javid, says the plant's costs and pensions,

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It's emerged today that one potential buyer has been in contact

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Here's our Political Correspondent Carole Walker.

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What is the Government prepared to do to save

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The formal bidding process for the Port Talbot plant will open

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this week, and the Business Secretary said the Government

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is prepared to put in money to help clinch a deal.

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Frankly, I don't want to live in a country where we have to import

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That is why we have been clear we will do everything we can to keep

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steel-making at Port Talbot and to help those workers.

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I want to find a buyer for the whole of the business.

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Of course, there will be help that needs to be provided.

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Because we have been working on this for weeks, I have thought carefully

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about the kind of help we can provide.

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I understand the Government has had preliminary talks with a potential

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buyer for Tata's UK business, but a sale might require Government

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investment to modernise Port Talbot, to make it more profitable.

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The Business Secretary said other key issues are the plant,

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what type of steel is made, pensions - though funds have been

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set aside for future liabilities - and power.

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The steel industry wants more relief from energy taxes.

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Ministers have said they do not believe nationalisation is a viable

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But the opposition says it should remain an option.

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If we haven't got that leeway in the timescale, as a fall back,

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yes, nationalise in the short-term to stabilise the situation,

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prepare the sector then for putting it back out to another buyer.

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That will give us the stability we need in the sector.

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If the Government allows our steel sector to close now,

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Port Talbot to close, it could cost us between 1

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and 1.5 billion to keep people on the dole and have economies

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Ministers say they will encourage councils and all other public bodies

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to buy British steel for future building projects,

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but many in the steel industry say the Government has to do more.

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The size of the crisis that we find ourselves in,

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or the severity of it, means that we need direct financial

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Now, that might be only in the short-term, but without it,

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then we have a very uncertain future.

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The formal bidding process for Port Talbot will open this week,

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but time is tight if a buyer is to be found to save the business.

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I understand the steel tycoon Sanjeev Gupta has made initial

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No substantial discussions yet though.

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This will be a complex process, but the pressure is on,

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because Tata has said it wants to find a buyer within weeks,

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and the jobs of thousands of British steel workers are hanging

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Carole Walker, BBC News, Westminster.

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The government has ordered an independent inquiry

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into the UK's Anti-Doping Aagency, after it was accused of failing

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to act over claims a doctor prescribed performance enhancing

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drugs to sports stars, including Premier League footballers.

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Three clubs today described the claims as "false".

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The doctor concerned, Mark Bonar, has denied any wrongdoing.

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The truth of the matter is, drugs are in sport.

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Dr Mark Bonar, caught claiming to have helped scores of sports

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Secretly filmed by the Sunday Times last year, the London-based medic

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prescribes banned performance-enhancing drugs

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If somebody came into me and said why are you giving BLEEP

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testosterone, I would say, look, his testosterone level is 15.

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The normal range is 4-30 and he has symptoms of testosterone

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His levels were sub-optimal, and I've just topped him up.

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The reason is to increase his performance.

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Bonar says he's worked with 150 elite sports people,

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including boxers, tennis players, an England cricketer, cyclists

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If you're a footballer in your 30s, how are you going to keep up

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There is no suggestion that any of the three Premier League clubs

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implicated were aware of any of any alleged wrongdoing.

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They say the claims are false, and without foundation.

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Leicester City is one of those clubs, and today, fans

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at the match against Southampton gave their reaction.

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You wouldn't want to be paying to see a sport which

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As things stand, they said they have not found anything,

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there's nothing to suggest otherwise.

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So I think we've just got to continue and enjoy what we see

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The newspaper investigation stems from evidence passed to the UK

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Anti-Doping Agency two years ago by a whistle-blower athlete.

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It says it failed to act at the time because Bonar was not

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governed by any one sport, but decided not to pass the case

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The Culture, Media and Sport Secretary John Whittingdale said

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he was shocked and deeply concerned by these allegations and has asked

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for an urgent independent investigation.

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He added doping could be made a criminal offence for athletes.

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I think I welcome the fact that there's going to be an investigation

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into UK Anti-doping and the way it operates.

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If that then leads to more robust procedures being put in place,

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more funding being put in place, and hopefully at some stage even

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leading towards the criminalisation of steroid use in sports,

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Bonar's conduct is currently the subject of an investigation

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by the GMC into the treatment of a patient not related to sport.

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Today, his clinic terminated its agreement with him,

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after it was revealed he does not currently have a UK licence

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Tonight, Bonar said the newspaper allegations were false and very

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misleading and he has never had a relationship with any

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Premier League football club or player.

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These are unsubstantiated allegations.

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Investigators will treat them with caution until they are presented

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But they do raise questions about those tasked with protecting

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clean sport and the fear will be that, amid a doping crisis,

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this could just be evidence that the range of sports afflicted

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The suspicion currently hanging over the integrity of sport shows little

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A woman jailed for drug smuggling in Peru in three years ago

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has spoken for the first time about what she called her

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Michaela McCollum, who's from County Tyrone, was arrested

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at Lima Airport with cocaine in her luggage.

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Initially protesting their innocence after their arrest in 2013,

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20-year-old Michaella McCollum - with dark hair - and Melissa Reid

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later admitted trying to smuggle drugs out of Peru.

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There were jailed for six years and eight months,

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Now a very different looking 23-year-old,

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she has given her first TV interview since leaving prison.

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Feels like a dream, feels like it's not real.

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Feels like I'm going to wake up any moment and be back in a nightmare.

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A lot of times, I didn't know how to say no to somebody.

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I kind of just followed along with it.

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I guess part of me kind of wanted to be something that I'm not.

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Seen here, shortly after they were sentenced,

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McCollum and Reid were found with 11 kilograms of cocaine,

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stuffed into food packets in their luggage.

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The drugs were worth more than ?1 million.

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McCollum says she now realises the damage her actions

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Obviously I regret the harm that I've done, so much suffering

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Obviously in the time here, I thought, if the drugs had have got

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I probably would have had a lot of blood my hands.

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The amount of families that would have ruined,

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I did that, I caused destruction to society.

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It's simply that I made a decision in a moment of madness.

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I want to demonstrate that I'm a good person.

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It's understood McCollum will won't be free to leave Peru

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It's understood McCollum won't be free to leave Peru

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for some time, under the conditions of her parole.

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Melissa Reid, who has been seeking to serve what is left

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of her sentence closer to home in Scotland, remains in jail.

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Let's take a look at some of the day's other top stories now.

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Brussels Airport has partially reopened, after the terror attack

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There were just three flights today, instead of the usual 500,

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with full capacity not returning until the summer.

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16 people were killed when suicide bombers,

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linked to the so-called Islamic State, blew themselves up.

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Greece is preparing to return hundreds of migrants to Turkey,

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The operation will start tomorrow morning on the Island of Lesbos,

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which has serves as a gateway for hundreds of thousands

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of refugees and migrants into Europe.

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In return, EU countries will resettle refugees

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Eight people have been taken to hospital after two passenger

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It happened at low speed but witnesses describe

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hearing a loud bang, and people standing up to get off

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Kim Philby was one of the most notorious British spies

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He rose up the ranks of MI6, while all the while

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passing secrets to the Soviet Union and the KGB.

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He's never been seen talking about his 30 years

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BBC News has unearthed fascinating footage of Philby

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addressing officers of the East German intelligence

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Our Security Correspondent Gordon Corera has this exclusive report.

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I must also warn you that I am no public speaker.

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Almost all my life I have spent trying to avoid publicity

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The BBC unearthed this hour-long video.

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It is 1981 and Philby is addressing the Stasi,

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Never intended for the public, this recording has lain hidden

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Well, now, on looking back on my career in the enemy camp,

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this 30 year career in the enemy camp.

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Philby offers a masterclass in betrayal - from his recruitment

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by Soviet spies after Cambridge, to his joining Britain's secret

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Every evening I left the office with a big briefcase,

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full of reports which I had written myself, full of files taken out

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of the actual documents, out of the archives.

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I would hand them to my Soviet contact in the evening,

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next morning I would get the file back,

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the contents having been photographed, and take them back

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early in the morning and put the files back in their place.

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That I did regularly, year in, year out.

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Mr Harold Philby, on the right, holds a press conference to deny

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charges he was involved in the disappearance

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Until now, this was the only known video of Philby speaking.

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It is 1955, and he was denying reports he was a Communist.

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The last time I spoke to a Communist, knowing him to be

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Eight years later, he fled to Moscow.

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Philby is buried in Kuntsevo Cemetery, on the outskirts

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of the Russian capital, along with other heroes

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Philby died in 1988, 25 years after he came to the Soviet

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Union, a country he regarded as home.

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He was the spy who came into the cold.

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We travelled an hour out of Moscow, to track down a former KGB officer

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He led operations against Britain, and was assigned to look

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after Philby in Moscow, becoming his close friend.

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The setting of the goal and the approach to the gold...

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He decided that Philby should be used to train the young KGB recruits

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This was a way of giving some purpose to a man who felt underused.

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In his heart of hearts, he missed Britain greatly,

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because he was British, he was English, 100%.

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No, I don't think that he regretted it, but he missed Britain.

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He may have been regarded as a hero in the Communist world,

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but Philby admits in his Stasi speech he betrayed a joint CIA-MI6

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operation in Albania, which led to hundreds

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He also talks about the other Cambridge spies he recruited and how

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he outwitted MI6 when he escaped, and he finishes with one piece

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They interrogated me in order to break my nerve and

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My advice to you is to tell all your agents that they

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That advice served Philby well during his career, this secret

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account of his betrayal emerging only decades after his death.

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Gordon Corera, BBC News, Moscow.

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And you can hear more on this tomorrow night,

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on Radio 4's The Philby Tape, at 8:00pm.

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West Indies are the T20 cricket World Champions for a second time,

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after beating England in a sensational final.

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The trophy looked to be heading England's way before an explosive

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last over turned the match on its head.

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The West Indies won the women's competition too, beating Australia.

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Our correspondent Joe Wilson reports from Kolkata.

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You can carry one team in your heart, and wear another

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In truth, most people here had bought tickets for the big occasion

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But now that we're here, you might as well cheer.

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And England have made a big impression, all the way to 40 overs

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It was Joe Root's night, that's the way the early tipsters ran. His 50

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health England to a total of 155, not formidable but respectable. When

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the West Indies batted, England experimented with Joe Root bowling

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the second over. The batsmen couldn't resist. Root landed two

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wickets, both held by Ben Stokes, Chris Grail was the big one. Marlon

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Samuels stood firm building an innings of 85, which just about put

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the West Indies in the game. With one over to come, England were in

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control. West Indies needed 19 to win. Now watch surely the most

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staggering hitting in the most extraordinary circumstances that

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cricket has witnessed. Carlos Brathwaite knocked the first four

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balls of Ben Stokes' Bowling for six. Four in a row. Brathwaite

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couldn't be controlled, Stokes couldn't be consoled. It was after

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midnight local time when England's players finally left the Eden

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Gardens stadium. They will know in their hearts that during this

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tournament they really rescued their international credibility, but in

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sport, credibility will always finish second to trophies. West

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Indies women won the World T20 for the first time earlier in the day

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beating Australia. The men celebrated only after throwing

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criticism at their own board, reminding us this is a tournament

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they almost boycotted. You can see more on all of today's

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stories on the BBC News Channel. But do stay with us on BBC1,

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it's time for the news

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