08/04/2016 World News Today

The headlines: a key suspect in the Paris terror attacks,

and possibly the Brussels bombings too, is arrested.

Within the last hour Belgium prosecutors have confirmed

Mohamed Abrini was among a number of people seized

They're still investigating whether he is the man in the hat

At the moment the investigators are are fine weather Mohamed Abrini

Company identified as the third person present during the attacks in

Brussels Airport as the so-called man in the hat.

The pragmatic Pope - Francis tells the world's billion

Catholics it's time to adapt to the realities

After a week dominated by revelations about tax havens

following leaks from a Panamanian law firm - we speak to one

Belgian prosecutors have just confirmed the key remaining suspects

in November's Paris terror attacks have been arrested. Mohamed Abrini

is one of a number of people who had been seized in a Elgin police

operation today. Investigators are still looking into whether he was

the man in the hat seen in CCTV footage before the blast in Brussels

Airport in March. He is what a spokesperson for the Belgian

prosecutors office had to say. In connection with the investigation of

the terror attacks on March 22 at their Brussels Airport and the

subway station, this morning Mohamed Abrini was arrested in Brussels. The

investigation into the Paris attacks has shown that his car was picked up

in Germany and brought to Belgium on October three 2015 with a rental car

hired by Salah Abdeslam. The investigations have identified him

as the second person present at the time of the --. This second person

was seen in the company of another bomber in the subway. This second

person was filmed at the shopping mall in Brussels buying bags that

were used in the --. -- the attack. Mohamed Abrini was arrested at the

same time as two other versions. Fingerprints and DNA were retrieved

in the safe houses and also in difficult that was used during the

Paris attacks. Some time ago a look warning was issued in connection

with the investigation concerning the attacks in November 2015. He was

seen in the company of Salah Abdeslam on November 11. Moreover,

the investigation into the Paris attacks has shown that Mohamed

Abrini and Salah Abdeslam rented an apartment sometime before the

attacks, where the Swiss side bombers stayed just before the

attacks in Paris. -- suicide bombers. Investigators are now

verifying whether Mohamed Abrini ten the positively identified as the

third person present during the attacks at Brussels National

airport, the so-called man in the hat. The investigation continues, in

the interest of the investigation and no further details can be given.

That was the Delta and federal roster tutor speaking in the last

half-hour. Let's cross now to an area of Brussels, and elect, which

is near Mullen back, where the arrests took place. The prosecutor

confirmed four men have been arrested in that area in connection

with those terrorist attacks and one of them has been named as Mohamed

Abrini but still the prosecutor unable to confirm whether Mohamed

Abrini is also the man in the hat, the CCTV image which we saw so

prominently after the attack on the Brussels Airport, so this is the

area in Brussels, it is near the area which was the scene of so much

activity earlier, where those terror arrests were made. The Ela Jones

federal prosecutor in the last half hour gave us a press conference,

confirming four men have been arrested in connection with the

terror attacks at Brussels Airport and on the Metro system two weeks

ago. Two of the men have been named as Mohamed Abrini and also as a

Samak K. Both were already wanted in connection with the terror attacks

in Paris in November. Belgian authorities say they are now

investigating if Mohamed Abrini is the missing suspect in the attack at

Brussels Airport who has been identified as the man with the hat,

but we did not have that confirmed during that press conference, at

which Gavin Lee was listening in. He joins us live from Brussels. We

still have that question are both that I did the tape of the man in

the hat. -- about that identity. The difficulty is that the prosecutors

believe it is credible this could be the man. They are going through

images comparing Mohamed Abrini, this 31-year-old who was already

wanted in connection with the Paris attacks, he was seen two days

beforehand with Salah Abdeslam, who was arrested three weeks ago and is

awaiting extradition from French police, they were on the way to

Paris to gather. He was on Europe all's top 50 most wanted men in

Europe and potentially the most wanted man if he is connected with

the man missing yesterday. This footage was emerging of the fact

this missing man walked from the airport or ran for a short while

past other passengers as they fled the scene, walk through the airport

hotel into the air -- the car park, and books ten kilometres. This

second person, four people arrested today, two other men who have not

been named work arrested alongside Mohamed Abrini, this other man named

only as Samak K. He was connected with the Brussels attacks and Paris

he also was connected to Salah Abdeslam. He was picked up in the

police check up the Belgian city of bomb, two months before the Paris

attacks, he is believed to have travelled among refugees into

Europe. They are investigating whether this was the man picked up

at the tube station near for I am talking to you now, he was seen

talking to a suspected suicide bomber. Investigators are also

checking if the same image of a man two days before buying the sports

bags apparently used to hide the ball in the airport and at the tube

station, the same man in both images. They are looking at whether

this man was Osama K, from this CDs the Aviva did. -- the CCTV. In terms

of four men having been arrested, we have details about two of the men,

Mohamed Abrini and Osama K, what about the two other men? No details

about these two men. Looking at details from the prosecutor now, we

know separately to the investigation and what has come out from Belgian

media on Osama K, he has been named locally as a man who was said to be

of Swedish nationality who fought in Syria, one of the first fighters

from Sweden who fought for Islamic State. He was a top in a random

police check and was seen to be associated with Salah Abdeslam. His

fingerprints were seen at the property used by the three suspected

suicide bombers at the airport when the taxi driver who put them up from

this pretty near the hot said they were, so he seemed to be linked not

just to Brussels and Paris, and to give you a sense of what the police

authorities are hoping, it closes the circle in terms of the people we

have seen on CCTV, visual people connected with these attacks. If

they are confirmed, those have all been rounded up. In terms of the

network, French and Belgian prosecutors said it is larger than

they thought, something like 62 separate terror cells that are being

monitored in Belgium and in France over 100 since the start of the

year, so that gives a scale of the operation that both countries'

security services have to look at. Gavin, thank you for bringing us up

to date, that press conference taking place in the last half an

hour. Now let's bring up to date some other news.

Pope Francis has called for the Catholic Church to recognise

He says bishops and priests should be free to interpret doctrine

in ways that suit their own cultures in their own countries,

particularly in relation to marriage and divorce.

Our religious affairs correspondent Caroline Wyatt reports from Rome.

Father Rocco D'Ambrosio is a Professor at the Gregorian

University in the Vatican, which is the Jesuit college that

trains priests and a high percentage of all Catholic bishops globally.

He joins us live via Skype from his home in Southern Italy.

Thank you for joining us. What do you make of these new guidelines?

One of the most important things in the document is to put on one side

love and tenderness, the Pope says, and on the other side the defence of

a dry and lifeless doctrine, and this is quite interesting. The

airport of that hope is to invite the church to discover the love and

rediscover the love and tenderness of people, of a family, of a couple,

so first of all it is a document welcoming people, not condemning

people but welcoming, and doing with them aid dialogue. The most quoted

word in the document is discernment. It is interesting, discernment is

quoted more than the word divorce and discernment is to be with

people, especially with eight couple in difficulties, and to distinguish

elements in their lives and to help them to grow in the light of a

faith, the Christian faith from and even in human growth. That is a lot

of scope for interpretation, isn't there, because you'd talk about the

love the Pope is requesting and yet different countries and cultures are

allowed to interpret this in their own ways. Not everyone will get the

same kind of love, perhaps. You were right, but we must be honest, this

problem has been the problem of all the history of the church, all the

centuries long, so when we say discernment, that Pope says that

local communities, the local priests and bishops, must study this

evaluations, must interpret the problems of the couple and their

families. If I could enter chat, I apologise, but you say countries

like Poland, where you have people leaving churches while they discuss

abortion laws and tightening them. It is very up to the priests

themselves to interpret, so there will be a lot of discrepancies

across cultures. It depends on the skills of the priests and it depends

on the mentality of the priests and bishops. If the mentality is to

preach something, without lessening, the problems of people, it is quite

impossible, but if the approach is first of all to listen, to

understand the problems, and two together to find a way to be

faithful to the gospel I am not saying it is easy, it is quite

difficult, but otherwise the Pope is completely right, if we don't do

this work of discernment, Ardboe in of marriage becomes dry and lifeless

bashing our doctrine -- our doctrine of marriage becomes dry and lifeless

with no meaning for common people. We have to leave it there but we

thank you for your time. Stay with us here on BBC News. We will look

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You are watching BBC world use today. The headlines... A key

suspect in the Paris terror attacks and possibly the Brussels bombings

is arrested. Prosecutors have confirmed that Mohamed Abrini was

among a number of people seized. And Pope Francis tells the world's

billion Catholics it is time to adapt to the realities of the modern

family. I stand, the UK and Argentina may

not have much in common but all three countries have shared the

Spotlight after the release of the Panama Papers. Iceland's Prime

Minister was the first casualty, resigning as he had not declared his

offshore dealings, while David Cameron admitted he sold shares in

an offshore fund before he came to office. The firm mentioned in the

papers was set up why his late father, who passed on the shares in

his will. Mr Cameron says he paid all due taxes on the holding. In

Argentina a federal prosecutor has opened an investigation into the

financial affairs of the president, who denies accusations he failed to

properly declared at director shot in an offshore company. These are

just a few games caught up in the leak of documents. From politics to

sport and business to Fulham, the names kept coming.

We're joined from Washington by Gerard Ryle, director

of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

What more can we expect? I think did journalists have to continue to look

at documents and bring out the revelations as they find them. It is

important people do not lose sight of the fact we have to do a lot of

work behind-the-scenes to make sure what we are publishing is correct,

and they need to be more patient, but I think the revelations will

continue. In terms of the workload, the amount of documents is

staggering, this is far bigger than WikiLeaks, for example. Yes it is,

but we also have more journalists looking at it than previous

investigations. We are working with 370 reporters from more than 70

countries to you are seeing a range of things coming out. Are you

surprised at how wide scale this is? Not really, we have been living with

it for 12 months so we knew the potential for this story, but what

you saw 12 months ago and the excitement when you first look at it

we are now seeing in the rest of the world, so the work we have been

doing, we are all familiar with the documents so it is no real surprise.

We have had all the revelations I described at the big winning, what

is still to come? How much more do you expect we will hear? I think you

will find out there are more revelations from different kinds of

countries and you will also have the situation you had in Britain, where

politicians will be confronted by revelations and will react, and

those reactions sometimes become the story rather than the original

revelation. In terms of the law firm behind all this, this is just one

firm, could there be others? We know from working in this area for a

while that this is one in 100 firms that do this type of work, so we are

looking at a small fraction of this world, but the bigger implication

here is that we do not know who else will lead more information about

other companies, so this could be the beginning of a torrent. The

documents show that Hong Kong is by far the busiest office of the

company. Why is that? I think it is the ease of setting up companies.

You also see a lot of companies in places like New Zealand and a lot of

it is the fact it is easier for people who want secrecy to work

through certain jurisdictions, so those jurisdictions show up in these

documents. They say they were the victim of a hack. What do you make

of that? We do not know the source of this material. It is clear they

did not want it to come out so it was not the firm giving us the myth

you real, and it is no surprise for them to say this now. Fascinating to

speak to you, thank you very much. Now let's get all the sports news

for us. Let's start at the Masters,

where Jordan Spieth continues his After a flawless opening round 66,

Spieth started his second round in similar fashion,

moving on to 8-under par earlier Hot on his heels Rory McIlroy,

who's just two shots behind. McIlroy has had a mixed

second day, that included a double bogey on the 4th,

but he's gathered some ground, The Masters is the one major

McIlroy hasn't won. There's a group of players

on 2-under par - that include New Zealand's Danny Lee

and England's Paul Casey. The IBF heavyweight title

is on the line in London on Saturday with American belt holder

Charles Martin facing who is the current

Olympic champion. with the challenger,

seen on the right here having knocked out each

of his 15 opponents so far. And how does he feel

about a potential unification fight with Tyson Fury if he wins a 16th

professional contest? I've been training, I've had 12

weeks so if I am not ready, I have no one to blame but myself. We heard

the news today that Tyson Fury has that rematch, does that make you

excited about potential reunification? Not really, I am

excited about a bit heavyweight fight in the UK, I am excited about

his opportunity. Now for there to be a hero,

there often has to be a villain. And the man who was hit for four

consecutive sixes off the last over in the World T20 final has faced

the cameras for the first time. England's Ben Stokes has had less

than a week to come to terms with being the man on the receiving

end of Carlos Brathwaite as West Indies clinched victory

in one of the most dramatic finishes At that time all the emotions and

everything like that were just devastation.

A few days after it I have opened my eyes to the fact that

I represented England in the World Cup final.

Obviously it still hurts not getting over

the line and it still hurts being the guy who bowled the last

There are nine qualifiers ahead of the women's european

Scotland have a 3-1 lead over Belarus in their group 1 match,

thanks to two goals from Jane Ross and a Kim Little penalty.

Kick-off for Northern Ireland's match against the Czech Republic

was delayed due to traffic problems around the ground.

Northern Ireland are saying it's now been postponed to be

Meanwhile England are playing Belgium.

Mark Sampson's side have won their opening two games,

but Belgium are the current group leaders, and they

As always, thank you very much. Lots more on our website but that's bring

you up to date with events in Brussels. The investigation into the

Elton attacks and the Paris attacks is ongoing, within the last hour

Belgian prosecutors have confirmed a key suspect in the Paris terror

attacks, Mohamed Abrini, was among a number of people seized in a police

operation. They are still investigating whether he is the man

in the hat in the CCTV footage which we have been showing from Brussels

Airport, seen here with two other bombers. Let's take you straight to

the area of Brussels. These are live pictures of that operation that

still seems to be ongoing. Earlier today for people were arrested, to

have been named, one as Mohamed Abrini, the other as Osama K, and we

now know there is a link between Brussels and that Paris attacks.

Lots more on our website. From me and the team, thank you for

watching. Time to look at some of the bigger weather stories around

the limit, first India, where it is early to be talking about heat rays