:00:00. > :00:07.Tonight at Ten - the tax haven scandal has claimed its first
:00:08. > :00:16.He's the Icelandic prime minister, who's resigned after being accused
:00:17. > :00:25.of hiding millions of dollars in an offshore company.
:00:26. > :00:28.shedding light on the tax affairs of many rich and powerful
:00:29. > :00:33.I'm severely offended by how our politicians
:00:34. > :00:41.It is not enough that the prime minister has resigned.
:00:42. > :00:43.David Cameron, whose late father is named in some
:00:44. > :00:45.of the leaked papers, denied benefitting from
:00:46. > :00:49.I have no shares, no offshore trusts, no offshore funds,
:00:50. > :00:55.And tonight, the new boss of world football, the president of Fifa,
:00:56. > :00:58.is the latest big name to emerge from the leaked papers.
:00:59. > :01:04.The First Minister of Wales visits Number Ten to try to find a solution
:01:05. > :01:08.to the steel crisis threatening thousands of jobs.
:01:09. > :01:11.This woman was tortured and killed at her home in Hartlepool -
:01:12. > :01:15.two teenage girls have been found guilty of murder.
:01:16. > :01:18.Following the theft of millions of pounds' worth of Chinese
:01:19. > :01:21.treasures from British museums, a criminal gang is jailed
:01:22. > :01:26.And Glasgow Rangers celebrate a win and a return
:01:27. > :01:33.Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: England's Joe Marler banned for two
:01:34. > :01:37.matches and giving a ?20,000 fine following the racially-charged
:01:38. > :02:06.The first major political casualty of the leaked Panama Papers
:02:07. > :02:09.is the prime minister of Iceland, who resigned today after being
:02:10. > :02:12.accused of hiding millions of dollars of assets
:02:13. > :02:15.The claims were based on papers leaked from a law
:02:16. > :02:21.Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson is one of dozens of high-profile figures
:02:22. > :02:23.around the world who are mentioned in the papers.
:02:24. > :02:26.Mr Gunnlaugsson says he sold his shares to his wife
:02:27. > :02:32.For the latest, let's join our chief correspondent,
:02:33. > :02:40.Even after the prime minister had resigned,
:02:41. > :02:42.protesters were beating the fence outside the parliament,
:02:43. > :02:49.They didn't want a prime minister or a government with
:02:50. > :02:51.links to hidden wealth and interests undeclared.
:02:52. > :02:55.I don't want criminals to run the country.
:02:56. > :03:00.I want something drastically different.
:03:01. > :03:04.Prime Minister Gunnlaugsson had denied any wrongdoing in the face
:03:05. > :03:08.of revelations that he had an undeclared interest in his wife's
:03:09. > :03:15.secretive offshore company registered in Panama.
:03:16. > :03:18.But he was under pressure from his colleagues.
:03:19. > :03:22.He described the meeting as exciting, but shortly
:03:23. > :03:30.Outside, on the streets, the mood had turned against him.
:03:31. > :03:35.This is a country that had almost been brought down by failed banks.
:03:36. > :03:38.I'm severely offended by how our politicians are behaving
:03:39. > :03:43.It is not enough that the prime minister has resigned.
:03:44. > :03:46.The protesters are demanding new elections, rather than another
:03:47. > :03:50.member of the government taking over as prime minister.
:03:51. > :03:56.Anger and frustration with the continued corruption.
:03:57. > :04:01.The corruption has become so systematic that it doesn't
:04:02. > :04:05.There are two different sets of people.
:04:06. > :04:08.Those that can do whatever they want and then the public that has
:04:09. > :04:15.The context to all of this is the financial crash in 2008.
:04:16. > :04:18.Some of the failed banks here were using shell companies
:04:19. > :04:23.in offshore havens and what happened nearly brought down this economy
:04:24. > :04:29.and that is why the mood here is for a clean-out of the government.
:04:30. > :04:32.There are indications here, as elsewhere in Europe,
:04:33. > :04:37.that the financial crash and its aftermath has changed politics.
:04:38. > :04:41.Offshore havens are being squeezed, some of the walls of banks'
:04:42. > :04:46.Politically, revelations about hidden accounts
:04:47. > :04:57.of the elite have become toxic in mainstream politics.
:04:58. > :05:04.The Prime Minister hasn't been accused of breaking any Icelandic
:05:05. > :05:09.law. It was the mere appearance of a conflict of interest and a lack of
:05:10. > :05:14.transparency that proved sufficient to bring him down and to make it
:05:15. > :05:19.impossible for him to remain as Prime Minister.
:05:20. > :05:21.STUDIO: Gavin, thank you very much. Gavin Hewitt, our chief
:05:22. > :05:23.correspondent. There should be an independent
:05:24. > :05:25.inquiry into tax havens in British overseas territories such
:05:26. > :05:27.as the British Virgin Islands and into the tax affairs of every
:05:28. > :05:30.British person linked to the Panama Papers,
:05:31. > :05:33.according to the Labour He said that should include
:05:34. > :05:37.the Cameron family following news that the Prime Minister's late
:05:38. > :05:39.father had set up an Downing Street said that
:05:40. > :05:44.David Cameron, his wife and children did not benefit
:05:45. > :05:48.from any offshore funds. Our economics editor,
:05:49. > :05:51.Kamal Ahmed, has more details. Please would you welcome
:05:52. > :05:53.the Prime Minister? Bounding on to stage,
:05:54. > :05:55.attempting to bound away David Cameron was asked today
:05:56. > :06:00.about an investment fund set up by his late father in the tax
:06:01. > :06:04.haven of the Bahamas. Did the Prime Minister,
:06:05. > :06:06.or his family, gain anything In terms of my own financial
:06:07. > :06:12.affairs, I own no shares. And I have some savings,
:06:13. > :06:20.which I get some interest from. And I have a house which we used
:06:21. > :06:23.to live in, which we now let out while we are
:06:24. > :06:25.living in Downing Street. I have no shares, no offshore
:06:26. > :06:29.trusts, no offshore funds, Ian Cameron set up the Blairmore
:06:30. > :06:35.Fund in the 1980s and there is no Downing Street said the Fund's
:06:36. > :06:40.operation was a private matter and that no Government had done more
:06:41. > :06:43.to clamp down on abuses We have now got country
:06:44. > :06:48.after country sharing tax information, committing
:06:49. > :06:51.to beneficial ownership registers, That was not enough to satisfy
:06:52. > :07:02.the Leader of the Opposition, who called for an inquiry
:07:03. > :07:05.into the Prime Minister and any British person named
:07:06. > :07:08.in the Panama Papers. Jeremy Corbyn said he would publish
:07:09. > :07:11.his own tax returns and said it was time to get tough
:07:12. > :07:14.on tax havens. Britain has a huge responsibility
:07:15. > :07:17.because many of those tax havens are in British Overseas Territories
:07:18. > :07:23.or Crown dependencies. The leaked documents show tax havens
:07:24. > :07:27.have become honeypots of international corruption,
:07:28. > :07:32.tax avoidance and tax evasion. ADVERT: What is it that makes
:07:33. > :07:36.a secret worth keeping? In the spotlight today,
:07:37. > :07:38.one of those territories, the British Virgin Islands,
:07:39. > :07:42.which has been accused of helping Mr Corbyn even raised
:07:43. > :07:46.the possibility of direct rule from the UK if Britain's tax havens
:07:47. > :07:51.did not follow Britain's tax rules. ADVERT: These are the kinds
:07:52. > :07:56.of secrets worth having. This is the headquarters
:07:57. > :07:59.of the British Virgin Islands It's actually remarkably easy to set
:08:00. > :08:05.up a business in the country. There are websites offering
:08:06. > :08:08.off-the-shelf company names which say that you can set up
:08:09. > :08:12.a business overnight for as little as $1,500, that's about ?1,000 -
:08:13. > :08:17.small change for any wealthy That small change has made
:08:18. > :08:24.the British Virgin Islands Some 452,000 international
:08:25. > :08:30.businesses are registered on the island, making the BVI
:08:31. > :08:33.the second largest home to international
:08:34. > :08:37.businesses behind Hong Kong. The tax regime for those businesses
:08:38. > :08:40.is certainly light touch. There is no income tax,
:08:41. > :08:44.no capital gains tax, The BVI said it had robust controls
:08:45. > :08:53.and was strengthening them, an opinion backed by a senior figure
:08:54. > :08:56.from another British Overseas The Cayman Islands and the other
:08:57. > :09:01.Overseas Territories display the highest
:09:02. > :09:04.standards of transparency. Clearly the British Government,
:09:05. > :09:07.whether Mr Corbyn is a part of it or not, cannot go around imposing
:09:08. > :09:14.colonial rule without substantial Tonight, President Barack Obama
:09:15. > :09:21.called on Congress to act, to prevent the wealthy basing
:09:22. > :09:25.themselves offshore for tax reasons. A lot of it's legal,
:09:26. > :09:30.but that's exactly the problem. It is not that they are breaking
:09:31. > :09:34.the laws, the laws are so poorly designed that they allow people
:09:35. > :09:36.if they have got enough lawyers and enough accountants to wriggle
:09:37. > :09:39.out of responsibilities that ordinary citizens are having
:09:40. > :09:44.to abide by. David Cameron would like to drive
:09:45. > :09:48.towards the same solution, Next month's corruption summit
:09:49. > :09:52.in London will be his opportunity to prove to the public
:09:53. > :09:55.that he takes the issue Quite a few demands directed at Mr
:09:56. > :10:10.Cameron today. Our political correspondent, Eleanor
:10:11. > :10:20.Garnier, is in Downing Street. What is the pressure on Mr Cameron
:10:21. > :10:26.now? No doubt, Downing Street was thrown on the defensive today and
:10:27. > :10:30.pretty furious too. The Labour Leader heaped pressure on the Prime
:10:31. > :10:33.Minister, not just on the issue of tackling tax abuse, but on the
:10:34. > :10:37.personal tax affairs of the Prime Minister and his family. Now, a
:10:38. > :10:41.Labour source I spoke to said they didn't set out today to turn this
:10:42. > :10:45.into a personal attack. Nevertheless, it is no surprise they
:10:46. > :10:49.are pretty pleased with the way things have turned out. The
:10:50. > :10:54.Government is attacking Labour saying that during its 13 years in
:10:55. > :10:59.power it didn't tackle tax abuse. And I think in a sign of how much
:11:00. > :11:04.pressure they felt under, Number Ten released a statement quite late on
:11:05. > :11:09.today, stressing that neither Mr Cameron nor his wife, or their
:11:10. > :11:14.children, benefit from any offshore funds. And a Downing Street source I
:11:15. > :11:18.spoke to told me those making these accusations about the Prime Minister
:11:19. > :11:24.and his family need to come forward with evidence. They said they need
:11:25. > :11:25.to put up or shut up. Eleanor Garnier for us with the latest in
:11:26. > :11:27.Downing Street. The new president of Fifa,
:11:28. > :11:29.Gianni Infantino, is the latest prominent name to emerge
:11:30. > :11:31.from the Panama Papers. He's said to have approved
:11:32. > :11:33.a contract for television rights a decade ago,
:11:34. > :11:37.while at Uefa, with two businessmen, who've since been indicted
:11:38. > :11:40.on corruption charges. Uefa - European football's
:11:41. > :11:42.governing body - says From Zurich, our sports editor,
:11:43. > :11:55.Dan Roan, has the story. It was meant to be Fifa's fresh
:11:56. > :12:00.start, a new president hailing a new era. We will restore the image of
:12:01. > :12:05.Fifa and the respect of Fifa and everyone in the world will applaud
:12:06. > :12:11.us and will applaud all of you for what we will do in Fifa in the
:12:12. > :12:15.future. But five weeks since Gianni Infantino's election, it is the past
:12:16. > :12:19.that threatens to cast an early shadow over his new reign. The
:12:20. > :12:23.Panama Papers have implicated world leaders, now the most powerful man
:12:24. > :12:30.in football has been dragged into the scandal. Among the millions of
:12:31. > :12:35.leaked documents is this 2006 contract, a deal signed off by
:12:36. > :12:41.Gianni Infantino when he was a director at European football's
:12:42. > :12:45.governing body, Uefa, with an offshore company called Cross
:12:46. > :12:48.Trading. It paid ?60,000 for three years of broadcast rights for the
:12:49. > :12:54.Champions League in Ecuador and then sold it on to a TV company from the
:12:55. > :13:00.country for almost three times the price. Cross-trading was owned by
:13:01. > :13:07.Hugo and Mariano Jinkis Mariano Jinkis. The pair were indicted by US
:13:08. > :13:10.prosecutors last year as part of an FBI-led corruption investigation.
:13:11. > :13:14.The authorities allege that as the owners they paid millions of dollars
:13:15. > :13:18.in bribes over several years to South American football officials to
:13:19. > :13:23.secure TV rights for regional football tournaments. In a
:13:24. > :13:30.statement, Uefa said, the TV rights were sold pursuant to an open
:13:31. > :13:35.competitive tender process and were awarded to Cross Trading. There is
:13:36. > :13:38.no suggestion whatsoever of any Uefa official or marketing partner taking
:13:39. > :13:42.any form of bribe. This evening, Infantino has said, "I never
:13:43. > :13:46.personally dealt with Cross Trading nor their owners as the tender
:13:47. > :13:50.process was conducted by Team Markets on behalf of Uefa. Neither
:13:51. > :13:55.Uefa or I have ever been contacted by any authorities in relation to
:13:56. > :13:58.these particular contracts." Today, Infantino was busy with his
:13:59. > :14:03.presidential duties, watching youngsters play a match on the
:14:04. > :14:08.grounds of Fifa's headquarters. This is a matter for Uefa. But the
:14:09. > :14:13.problem facing Gianni Infantino, as he settles into life here in Zurich,
:14:14. > :14:17.is that it turns out initially Uefa denied doing business with any of
:14:18. > :14:22.those individuals indicted last year when asked by a German newspaper.
:14:23. > :14:27.The Panama Papers now reveal that denial to be false.
:14:28. > :14:31.It is more damaging I think revelations for Fifa and Uefa and
:14:32. > :14:34.again it begs the question, how many more transactions are there like
:14:35. > :14:40.this that we don't know about? What sort of checks do people in football
:14:41. > :14:43.do about the companies with which they have transactions and who
:14:44. > :14:47.audits what happens to those deals after they are completed? Uefa says
:14:48. > :14:52.it will co-operate with the FBI over the contracts if asked to do so and
:14:53. > :14:56.there is no suggestion Infantino or the television company is guilty of
:14:57. > :15:00.any wrongdoing. Just as football's new leader looks to build trust in
:15:01. > :15:05.the organisation he now rules, this threatens to be an early set-back.
:15:06. > :15:08.Tonight, Infantino expressed his display that his integrity may have
:15:09. > :15:14.been called into question. But the Fifa President is all too aware that
:15:15. > :15:18.the organisation he now leads, its existence depends on being able not
:15:19. > :15:23.to be shown to be whiter than white after the Sepp Blatter era. Tonight,
:15:24. > :15:27.one unnamed source told us that they expected this may warrant an ethics
:15:28. > :15:31.committee inquiry and if that is the case, it is easy to see why some
:15:32. > :15:38.critics will say this new Fifa feels like the old one already.
:15:39. > :15:40.If you want to find out more about the Panama Papers -
:15:41. > :15:43.and the reaction - have a look at our website.
:15:44. > :15:47.That's at bbc.co.uk/panamapapers for the very latest
:15:48. > :15:56.The Business Secretary Sajid Javid is on his way to Mumbai tonight
:15:57. > :15:59.to meet the chairman of the Tata Group, which is planning
:16:00. > :16:02.to sell its steel business in the UK, putting thousands of jobs
:16:03. > :16:07.Mr Javid has met one potential buyer today,
:16:08. > :16:10.and he's also held talks with union leaders about the future
:16:11. > :16:13.of Britain's biggest steel plant at Port Talbot in South Wales.
:16:14. > :16:16.Our Wales correspondent, Hywel Griffith, has the latest.
:16:17. > :16:19.Dominating this landscape for decades, Port Talbot's blast
:16:20. > :16:23.furnaces form what is known as the heavy end of
:16:24. > :16:29.So the idea that they could be taken down is unsettling.
:16:30. > :16:33.Mark and Kate both know their jobs are on the line, as Tata puts this
:16:34. > :16:35.place up for sale, but they aren't convinced different
:16:36. > :16:41.If they were to disappear from the skyline, then
:16:42. > :16:43.the heartbeat, the dragon's breath of Port Talbot, will be taken away.
:16:44. > :16:47.We will be looking for somebody to take on the business as it is.
:16:48. > :16:50.We can't reject any offers of interest.
:16:51. > :16:57.Liberty says it would want to replace these with electric arc
:16:58. > :17:01.furnaces that melt scrap steel instead of using raw ingredients.
:17:02. > :17:05.It says it is a greener, more flexible way of working.
:17:06. > :17:09.The company's clear this is where Port Talbot's problems are.
:17:10. > :17:11.Upstream is where the challenge lies.
:17:12. > :17:14.There is a solution, even though it's a challenging solution,
:17:15. > :17:17.and the solution is to change from making new steel
:17:18. > :17:24.Liberty does already have a small stake in steel making here.
:17:25. > :17:27.In 2013 it took over this plant in Newport,
:17:28. > :17:30.keeping workers on half pay for 18 months until
:17:31. > :17:37.Ricky says workers in Port Talbot have nothing to fear.
:17:38. > :17:41.You've got to take the lesser of the two evils.
:17:42. > :17:44.Hopefully, Port Talbot will come through.
:17:45. > :17:48.At the end of the day, it is all the steel industry.
:17:49. > :17:51.This place may be big, but it is nowhere near as vast
:17:52. > :18:01.And, vitally, Liberty would want to change the way
:18:02. > :18:08.So will any other buyer come forward?
:18:09. > :18:14.The Business Secretary says another company may be interested.
:18:15. > :18:21.I want to make sure that when this documentation for that is issued,
:18:22. > :18:24.that it is clear that the UK Government understands it's got
:18:25. > :18:27.a role to every potential buyer and that we are well
:18:28. > :18:33.For now, negotiations are producing more heat than light.
:18:34. > :18:36.Any buyer may need the Government to help on power costs
:18:37. > :18:40.and pensions liability, whilst staying within EU rules.
:18:41. > :18:47.Any deal is still a long way down the line.
:18:48. > :18:50.Two teenage girls have been convicted of murdering a vulnerable
:18:51. > :18:55.Leeds Crown Court heard that the girls, who were 13 and 14
:18:56. > :18:58.at the time of the attack, battered and tortured
:18:59. > :19:01.Angela Wrightson to death over a three-hour period.
:19:02. > :19:05.Our correspondent, Danny Savage, reports.
:19:06. > :19:08.Angela Wrightson was well liked in her local community.
:19:09. > :19:11.They knew she was an alcoholic and looked out for her.
:19:12. > :19:14.But her weakness was exploited by local children, who would get her
:19:15. > :19:21.And it was two vulnerable children who murdered this vulnerable woman.
:19:22. > :19:25.A horrific, prolonged attack, using household implements,
:19:26. > :19:32.A murder carried out by two girls aged 13 and 14.
:19:33. > :19:35.Throughout almost 25 years of service, I've never come
:19:36. > :19:38.across such a brutal murder committed by such young girls.
:19:39. > :19:41.Angela was subjected to a prolonged, sustained attack and the pathologist
:19:42. > :19:45.identified a significant number of injuries to her body,
:19:46. > :19:49.caused by at least 25 blows with weapons.
:19:50. > :19:51.The young killers even took selfies in the hours
:19:52. > :19:56.Their victim was still conscious at this point.
:19:57. > :19:59.The girls' identities have been obscured because of their age.
:20:00. > :20:02.The violence started here at nine o'clock in the evening.
:20:03. > :20:05.By ten o'clock, the house was trashed.
:20:06. > :20:10.At 11, the two killers left. But they returned a few hours later.
:20:11. > :20:13.Then, at 4.20 the next morning, they called police
:20:14. > :20:18.They were both in care and were used to officers
:20:19. > :20:23.In the back of the police van, they took more selfies
:20:24. > :20:28."On the bizzie van again" - they wrote as a caption.
:20:29. > :20:31.Their crime has left people here disgusted.
:20:32. > :20:39.You can't imagine two young girls doing that to another human being.
:20:40. > :20:43.I went round her house a few times and just sat with her.
:20:44. > :20:48.Especially in the street where she lived, everybody
:20:49. > :20:51.knew her and everybody looked out for her because they knew
:20:52. > :20:56.The two killers of this woman wept as they were found guilty today,
:20:57. > :21:08.Groups campaigning for abortion to be made legal in Northern Ireland
:21:09. > :21:10.have criticised the prosecution of a woman who took drugs
:21:11. > :21:22.A judge at Belfast Crown Court handed down a three-month suspended
:21:23. > :21:25.From tomorrow, every bookmaker, casino, amusement arcade
:21:26. > :21:28.and bingo hall in England, Wales and Scotland will have
:21:29. > :21:31.to carry out a risk assessment to try to reduce the extent
:21:32. > :21:35.of gambling addiction, especially among children.
:21:36. > :21:37.The new regulations are meant to allow staff to identify problem
:21:38. > :21:41.gamblers, but some campaigners say it's unlikely to work,
:21:42. > :21:49.as our correspondent Dan Johnson reports.
:21:50. > :21:55.Despite the surge in online gambling, going down to the bookies,
:21:56. > :22:15.So it was ?4,100 in the space of, his job and his marriage.
:22:16. > :22:20.And I just sat down and I thought to myself, you know,
:22:21. > :22:26.And actually, I did contemplate, you know, doing myself in.
:22:27. > :22:30.This addiction just completely takes over your life.
:22:31. > :22:34.My son isn't having the upbringing that I would want for him.
:22:35. > :22:37.I think my wife has reached the limit of what she can take
:22:38. > :22:50.That hurts more than anything - that I can't provide for my child.
:22:51. > :22:56.So these assessments offer an extra layer of protection.
:22:57. > :22:59.It's another form to fill in, will it make a real difference?
:23:00. > :23:01.It will make a difference because it will get businesses to really focus
:23:02. > :23:07.It will also help local authorities, who are there to license those
:23:08. > :23:10.premises, understand what actions the operators are taking.
:23:11. > :23:13.Some areas have already gone further.
:23:14. > :23:16.In Manchester, this map combines all the risks, to show
:23:17. > :23:21.This is Cheetham Hill, where there are plenty of
:23:22. > :23:25.Bookmakers here, another one on the corner,
:23:26. > :23:31.And if you need access to quick cash, there's one, two, three,
:23:32. > :23:38.Just along here, another betting shop and the amusement arcade too.
:23:39. > :23:41.The map also shows schools, homeless hostels, and drug
:23:42. > :23:45.and alcohol treatment centres, all adding to the risk.
:23:46. > :23:48.So I've now taken the steps of getting myself banned from every
:23:49. > :23:54.But not before Tony had piled up debts across three countries.
:23:55. > :23:56.The risk assessments, would they have made any difference?
:23:57. > :23:59.Would they have stopped you losing that much money?
:24:00. > :24:01.I personally don't believe that they will make
:24:02. > :24:06.Bookmakers say they need support from the local council and police
:24:07. > :24:09.to make this work, but they welcome a further step
:24:10. > :24:17.In America, voters in the state of Wisconsin are choosing
:24:18. > :24:19.the candidates they'd like to see contesting the presidency
:24:20. > :24:25.Much of the attention has focused on the Republican contest,
:24:26. > :24:29.as Donald Trump now faces a strong challenge from Senator Ted Cruz.
:24:30. > :24:36.Our North America editor Jon Sopel is in Milwaukee.
:24:37. > :24:44.Some people are saying the Trump campaign is hitting the buffers. How
:24:45. > :24:48.do you see it? Well, it was all looking so good for Donald Trump,
:24:49. > :24:53.and this is exactly the fertile soil he has done so well on. A lot of
:24:54. > :24:57.blue collar workers, a lot of independents able to vote in the
:24:58. > :25:03.primary. A couple of weeks ago, he was well in front. Not any more. So
:25:04. > :25:07.yes, the wheels coming off? Not quite, but the wagon is skewing all
:25:08. > :25:11.over the road as he tries to put it back together. He has had a whole
:25:12. > :25:15.series of disasters in the past couple of weeks that have all come
:25:16. > :25:22.together, with people questioning Donald Trump's personality. He
:25:23. > :25:27.insulted Ted Cruz's wife, breeding a photo. His campaign manager has been
:25:28. > :25:32.indicted for manhandling a female reporter. And his controversial
:25:33. > :25:37.views on abortion managed to unite the pro-life and pro-choice people
:25:38. > :25:41.alike. All that has left Donald Trump looking very vulnerable. If he
:25:42. > :25:47.does lose, it is worth saying he will still be well out in front, but
:25:48. > :25:52.it's hard to see how he gets to the magic number 1237, a majority that
:25:53. > :25:56.automatically means he becomes the Republican nominee. If he doesn't do
:25:57. > :26:03.that, all bets are off, and it could be a bloody and the module is
:26:04. > :26:08.convention in July. -- a bloody convention in July. Thank you.
:26:09. > :26:11.Members of a criminal gang who stole Chinese antiques and other
:26:12. > :26:13.treasures from museums and galleries across Britain have been jailed
:26:14. > :26:19.The judge said the men had been engaged in a sophisticated,
:26:20. > :26:21.skilled conspiracy, which had involved significant cultural loss
:26:22. > :26:26.Our correspondent Robert Hall has more details.
:26:27. > :26:30.They were dubbed the Rathkeale Rovers, after the Irish town where
:26:31. > :26:36.Six of the key players were members of the same family.
:26:37. > :26:39.The gang's targets were collections of rhino horn and high-value
:26:40. > :26:46.Some of these people are experts at antiques in their own right,
:26:47. > :26:49.and they knew the value, and they knew that they could get
:26:50. > :26:51.hold of them and sell them with the network of people
:26:52. > :26:56.The men at the top, the planners, didn't take part in the actual
:26:57. > :26:59.break-ins, so mobile-phone tracking was crucial in establishing links
:27:00. > :27:03.with other gang members and putting callers in the right place,
:27:04. > :27:11.Two gang members who snatched a Ming dynasty vase at Durham's
:27:12. > :27:15.Oriental Museum were tackled before they could escape.
:27:16. > :27:19.In Norwich, another raid verging on incompetent.
:27:20. > :27:23.When four of the gang tried to steal a rhino head during opening hours,
:27:24. > :27:28.One of my staff kicked the man who was holding the head,
:27:29. > :27:32.The other member of staff immediately grabbed it
:27:33. > :27:37.A month later, gang members spotted a ?60,000 rhino horn cup
:27:38. > :27:42.But when their latest recruit strolled through the front door,
:27:43. > :27:46.they made for the wrong cup and they were grabbed by staff.
:27:47. > :27:50.Foiled again, the gang returned to Durham Oriental Museum,
:27:51. > :27:56.checking out the galleries, then smashing their way in.
:27:57. > :27:59.They hid ?2 million worth of Chinese artefacts in a hedge,
:28:00. > :28:01.but one of the burglars forgot where he put them,
:28:02. > :28:07.The gang were now desperate for success, and a new plan took
:28:08. > :28:09.them to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
:28:10. > :28:13.On a spring day in 2012, three gang members came into the museum.
:28:14. > :28:17.They took a particular interest in the Oriental galleries.
:28:18. > :28:22.Just before 7.30 the following evening, the alarms went off.
:28:23. > :28:25.In just a few minutes, the burglars grabbed 18 objects
:28:26. > :28:30.with a market value of ?40 million, which haven't been seen since.
:28:31. > :28:32.It's a sort of betrayal of trust, because these objects actually
:28:33. > :28:39.Their theft by a series of selfish individuals has changed that.
:28:40. > :28:45.One by one, the gang were arrested and charged.
:28:46. > :28:48.A criminal network that's thought to have operated across Europe
:28:49. > :28:51.has been closed down, but the treasures which belong to
:28:52. > :29:00.Football, and Glasgow Rangers have made sure tonight that
:29:01. > :29:02.they'll be returning to the Scottish Premiership
:29:03. > :29:05.next season, after they beat Dumbarton 1-0.
:29:06. > :29:07.It's four years since the club collapsed
:29:08. > :29:17.Our Scotland correspondent Lorna Gordon is in Glasgow.
:29:18. > :29:24.Yes, many years the footballing life of this city was dominated by the
:29:25. > :29:30.old firm rivalry between Rangers and Celtic. But of late, it's been
:29:31. > :29:34.pretty tough for the Ibrox side who were used to playing at the very
:29:35. > :29:37.highest level of football in Scotland. Now, after tonight, they
:29:38. > :29:39.are returning there once again. For four years, they've been
:29:40. > :29:41.out of the top flight It's been a very, very long journey,
:29:42. > :29:50.but we are here now. Fantastic to get back
:29:51. > :29:52.up where we belong. This is a club with
:29:53. > :29:56.an illustrious history. They clinched the Cup Winners' Cup
:29:57. > :29:59.in 1972, and have won more domestic titles than any other team
:30:00. > :30:03.anywhere in the world. Some of the biggest names
:30:04. > :30:05.in European football played for Rangers -
:30:06. > :30:09.amongst them, Paul Gascoigne. But after years of financial
:30:10. > :30:12.mismanagement, in 2012 the company that ran the club went
:30:13. > :30:15.into administration There were protests from the fans,
:30:16. > :30:20.as Rangers had to apply In the end, they were readmitted
:30:21. > :30:25.into the bottom division. They've been working their way
:30:26. > :30:29.back up ever since. It was a triumph against adversity
:30:30. > :30:32.for Rangers and their supporters. They were very loyal
:30:33. > :30:35.and they stayed with them. After the terrible acrimony that
:30:36. > :30:39.existed for four years in Scottish football,
:30:40. > :30:41.that's all behind us now. What we now will have is a more
:30:42. > :30:44.competitive league, because Rangers' presence alone
:30:45. > :30:50.will reenergise the top division. Off the field, there
:30:51. > :30:53.are ongoing court cases. But on the pitch tonight,
:30:54. > :30:55.a chance for celebrations, with the team and the fans
:30:56. > :30:58.relishing Rangers' return to the Scottish Premiership,
:30:59. > :31:01.where their Old Firm Tonight, increasingly loud calls
:31:02. > :31:13.to impose direct rule We'll ask Bermuda's deputy premier
:31:14. > :31:18.what he thinks of that. And the last UK minister to take
:31:19. > :31:23.powers away from an overseas territory tells us how
:31:24. > :31:26.he'd do it this time. Join me now on BBC Two,
:31:27. > :31:29.11.00pm in Scotland. Here on BBC One, it's time
:31:30. > :31:32.for the news where you are.