:00:00. > :00:08.International pressure grows on Russia to abandon its support
:00:09. > :00:12.for Syria's president after last week's chemical attack.
:00:13. > :00:15.Foreign ministers from the G7 nations are in Italy to decide
:00:16. > :00:24.Boris Johnson says Putin faces a stark choice.
:00:25. > :00:26.Stick with that guy, stick with that tyrant, or work
:00:27. > :00:35.Tonight Theresa May spoke on the phone to president, about the war in
:00:36. > :00:41.Syria. -- to President Trump. Thousands of police line
:00:42. > :00:44.the streets of London for the funeral of PC Keith Palmer,
:00:45. > :00:47.killed in the Westminster attack. The Spice drug that leaves users
:00:48. > :00:49.hallucinating like zombies - police in Manchester say it's become
:00:50. > :00:51.an epidemic there. The oil giant Shell admits dealing
:00:52. > :00:54.with a convicted money-launderer to negotiate access to a vast
:00:55. > :00:58.off-shore oil field in Nigeria. And on his 74th attempt
:00:59. > :01:02.at winning a major title, Spain's Sergio Garcia finally pulls
:01:03. > :01:05.it off at the Masters And coming up in Sportsday later
:01:06. > :01:14.in the hour on BBC News, Crystal Palace have already uspet
:01:15. > :01:17.the leaders, Chelsea, this month - International pressure is growing
:01:18. > :01:45.on Russia to abandon its support for Syria's President Assad
:01:46. > :01:48.in the wake of last week's chemical Tonight foreign ministers
:01:49. > :01:53.from the G7 group of industrialised nations have been meeting
:01:54. > :01:56.in Northern Italy to consider a coordinated response
:01:57. > :01:58.which could include support for new sanctions on
:01:59. > :02:01.Moscow and Damascus. The US Secretary of State,
:02:02. > :02:04.Rex Tillerson, said America would hold to account those
:02:05. > :02:06.who committed crimes against "innocents"
:02:07. > :02:07.anywhere in the world. From Lucca, our Diplomatic
:02:08. > :02:24.Correspondent James Robbins reports. Contemplating Italy's past glory and
:02:25. > :02:28.Syria's president horror -- present horror, Boris Johnson and Rex
:02:29. > :02:33.Tillerson were entered on up the international heat on President
:02:34. > :02:38.Assad and his Russian backers. This morning Rex Tillerson deliberately
:02:39. > :02:42.started his day at a memorial to not the atrocity in 1944, the massacre
:02:43. > :02:46.of local villagers, and drew a direct parallel to the gas attack
:02:47. > :02:52.last week. We will rededicate ourselves to holding to account any
:02:53. > :02:57.and all who commit crimes against the innocents anywhere in the world.
:02:58. > :03:01.When I didn't Trump's Foreign Minister, who will speak to the
:03:02. > :03:04.Russians this week, sat down with the Foreign Secretary who cancelled
:03:05. > :03:09.his visit to Moscow to be here instead, they talked of ways to win
:03:10. > :03:17.the widest possible international support against blood amid Britain's
:03:18. > :03:23.present path. -- against Vladimir Putin's path. We will be discussing
:03:24. > :03:28.the possibility of further sanctions on some of the Syrian military
:03:29. > :03:33.figures and on some of the Russian military figures who have been
:03:34. > :03:40.involved in coordinating the Syrian military efforts and of course you
:03:41. > :03:44.are thereby contaminated by the appalling behaviour of the Assad
:03:45. > :03:47.regime. The Russians are mocking you for not going to Moscow, Rex
:03:48. > :03:52.Tillerson apparently was happy for you to go, why did the Prime
:03:53. > :03:55.Minister asked you not to? It is very important in these
:03:56. > :04:00.circumstances for the world to present a united front and for there
:04:01. > :04:03.to be absolutely no ambiguity about the message and the message we are
:04:04. > :04:10.sending to the Russians is very clear. Do they want to stick with a
:04:11. > :04:15.toxic regime, do they want to be eternally associated with a guy who
:04:16. > :04:20.gasses his own people? Or do they want to work with the Americans and
:04:21. > :04:25.the rest of the G-7 and the like-minded countries for a new
:04:26. > :04:30.future for Syria? That President Assad's major backers of Iran and
:04:31. > :04:34.Russia, have warned of the military retaliation if President Trump
:04:35. > :04:38.repeat the cruise missile strikes of last Friday ordered the Iranian
:04:39. > :04:42.president, seen as a moderate, seems to contradict his own hard-liners
:04:43. > :04:48.today, saying change in the Assad regime should go hand-in-hand with
:04:49. > :04:51.fighting his opponents. TRANSLATION: Terrorism in Syria should be
:04:52. > :04:57.eradicated and some reforms should be implemented within Syria are
:04:58. > :05:01.within the regime. This evening G-7 ministers, all but one of them Nato
:05:02. > :05:05.members as well, are starting to explore new pressures they could
:05:06. > :05:07.apply, knowing full well that Russia has so far stuck firmly with
:05:08. > :05:09.President Assad and his regime. Let's speak to James Robbins
:05:10. > :05:12.who's at the talks in Support for new sanctions
:05:13. > :05:25.has been discussed - They could take the form as the
:05:26. > :05:30.Foreign Secretary was telling me of targeting individual Syrian and
:05:31. > :05:35.Russian high-ranking officers, who are put to be collaborating most
:05:36. > :05:39.closely on the campaign against civilians in Syria. Of course the
:05:40. > :05:44.Russians deny any knowledge or indeed the fact that the Syrian
:05:45. > :05:48.regime was behind last week's chemical gas attack. The Americans
:05:49. > :05:52.believe differently. They have not accused the Russians of direct
:05:53. > :05:56.complicity but have come post to it and they and the British think they
:05:57. > :06:00.can identify a targeted list of people who should be named and
:06:01. > :06:04.subject to all sort of asset freezes and travel bans and the advantage of
:06:05. > :06:08.that is that many other countries are often reluctant to go down the
:06:09. > :06:12.road a broad sanctions but might favour close the targeted ones.
:06:13. > :06:16.Theresa May has been speaking to President Trump on the telephone
:06:17. > :06:20.this evening and a Downing Street spokesman said the Prime Minister
:06:21. > :06:24.and President agreed that a window of opportunity exists in which to
:06:25. > :06:29.persuade Russia that its alliance with Assad is no longer in its
:06:30. > :06:33.strategic interest. That is the hope and the message that Rex Tillerson
:06:34. > :06:39.will be taking from here to Moscow as he leaves tomorrow. The problem
:06:40. > :06:42.is that in the past President Putin has always shown himself absolutely
:06:43. > :06:44.resistant and there is no sign yet he will buckle under this sort of
:06:45. > :06:47.pressure. Thank you. The funeral of PC Keith Palmer,
:06:48. > :06:50.who was killed in last month's Westminster attack,
:06:51. > :06:52.has been held at London's Thousands of police officers
:06:53. > :06:55.from all over the country lined the route of the funeral cortege
:06:56. > :06:58.which set off from the PC Palmer, who was married
:06:59. > :07:02.with a five-year-old daughter, was guarding the Houses
:07:03. > :07:04.of Parliament when he was At the gates of the Palace
:07:05. > :07:14.of Westminster, Police Constable Keith Palmer's coffin paused,
:07:15. > :07:16.at the very spot where The place where, unarmed,
:07:17. > :07:25.he moved towards a man brandishing two knives,
:07:26. > :07:29.where he put himself in harm's way, to protect Parliament
:07:30. > :07:36.to protect our democracy. Police officers from every force
:07:37. > :07:41.in the country lined the route. Thousands of men and women
:07:42. > :07:43.who did not know Keith Palmer, but know what it means
:07:44. > :07:47.to wear the badge. You never really know what you're
:07:48. > :07:50.going to face when you go out there. So it is with incredible
:07:51. > :07:54.bravery that he did that. I think it brings home
:07:55. > :07:56.what the job is about, It shows what a family we are,
:07:57. > :08:03.really, that we all look out for one another and we all do the same thing
:08:04. > :08:07.at the end of the day. The global police family came
:08:08. > :08:10.together in London today, including officers from New York's Police
:08:11. > :08:15.Department. We have had so much support
:08:16. > :08:18.from officers around the country, around the United States,
:08:19. > :08:20.as well as from other places in the world when we have had
:08:21. > :08:23.officers die in the line of duty, so we have feel a need
:08:24. > :08:27.to be supportive back. As the cortege headed
:08:28. > :08:30.across the river, police officers paid tribute in the air,
:08:31. > :08:33.on the water, and along the route. Two of PC Palmer's colleagues spoke
:08:34. > :08:41.of the friend they so admired. If you could paint a picture
:08:42. > :08:43.of a perfect policeman, you would be painting a picture
:08:44. > :08:45.of Keith Palmer. He sounds like a pretty
:08:46. > :08:48.extraordinary man. He was, he was so
:08:49. > :08:50.down-to-earth and so normal. He came to work because he had
:08:51. > :08:54.a family to support. He was a fantastic dad
:08:55. > :08:57.and a fantastic husband. As the coffin passed
:08:58. > :09:09.through the capital, London stopped what it was doing
:09:10. > :09:12.to remember all those who lost their lives
:09:13. > :09:14.on that appalling day, PC Palmer and the four men and women
:09:15. > :09:18.killed on Westminster Bridge. PC Palmer symbolises the public
:09:19. > :09:21.service and sacrifice that underpins our society,
:09:22. > :09:24.the debt we owe to all those who put their lives on the line
:09:25. > :09:27.defending our freedoms. But he was also a husband,
:09:28. > :09:31.a father, a family man, and so today is about both national
:09:32. > :09:39.reflection and private grief. PC Palmer's wife asked
:09:40. > :09:41.that the family's privacy be respected inside Southwark
:09:42. > :09:44.Cathedral. But the sound of the service
:09:45. > :09:49.was relayed to the streets outside. Keith laid down his life
:09:50. > :09:55.for each one of us here. Each one of you who have lined
:09:56. > :09:58.the streets and filled In her first public engagement
:09:59. > :10:06.in her new role, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick honoured
:10:07. > :10:10.a fallen colleague. He was clearly very kind,
:10:11. > :10:16.very good-hearted, very hard-working, a very,
:10:17. > :10:22.very talented police officer. Police Constable Keith Palmer's
:10:23. > :10:24.name has been added to His bravery will endure
:10:25. > :10:32.for generations to come. The head of Barclays is expected
:10:33. > :10:40.to be stripped of his million-pound annual bonus for attempting
:10:41. > :10:42.to uncover the identity of a whistle-blower who'd raised
:10:43. > :10:45.concerns about a senior member Jes Staley could lose
:10:46. > :10:48.up to ?1.3 million. He's also been issued
:10:49. > :10:50.with a formal reprimand, and is subject to an investigation
:10:51. > :10:52.by the financial regulators. Here's our Economics
:10:53. > :10:57.Editor Kamal Ahmed. When Jes Staley joined
:10:58. > :10:59.Barclays in 2015, he had a straightforward message -
:11:00. > :11:01.make the bank simpler The board and shareholders
:11:02. > :11:07.were delighted when he appeared There was the third issue
:11:08. > :11:12.he wanted the tackle, one he outlined to me
:11:13. > :11:15.in his first broadcast interview. I do believe the banks
:11:16. > :11:18.lost their way, ten or 15 years ago, and we lost a lot of trust
:11:19. > :11:21.through the financial crisis. We have an obligation
:11:22. > :11:26.to return that. That obligation was undermined today
:11:27. > :11:29.after it was revealed the chief executive had tried,
:11:30. > :11:31.not once but twice, to find out In June last year, the board
:11:32. > :11:40.of Barclays received an anonymous letter raising concerns
:11:41. > :11:42.about the recruitment of a senior employee by Mr Staley who had
:11:43. > :11:44.suffered personal problems Jes Staley found out
:11:45. > :11:53.about the letter, felt it was a malicious attack,
:11:54. > :11:56.and asked Barclays' internal security to find
:11:57. > :11:58.the whistle-blower's identity but was told his request
:11:59. > :12:02.was not appropriate. The next month, after Barclays
:12:03. > :12:04.investigated the allegations and said they were without
:12:05. > :12:06.substance, Mr Staley tried again Barclays even approached US law
:12:07. > :12:17.enforcement agencies to help. The Barclays board only became aware
:12:18. > :12:19.of Jes Staley's attempted intervention when it received
:12:20. > :12:21.a second whistle-blower It will now be for the
:12:22. > :12:28.regulators to decide - is this a yellow card offence,
:12:29. > :12:31.a warning for a stupid mistake or is it a straight red for a chief
:12:32. > :12:35.executive whose very temperament In a statement, Mr Staley admitted
:12:36. > :12:55.he had made mistakes. The regulators could go as far
:12:56. > :12:58.as banning Mr Staley from working in banking -
:12:59. > :13:01.its ultimate sanction - Whistle-blowing is about trust
:13:02. > :13:07.and part of that trust is protecting the identity of the whistle-blower
:13:08. > :13:09.and if you've got a senior person looking for the messenger rather
:13:10. > :13:12.than listening to the message, He was very close to
:13:13. > :13:21.the person he hired. The man hired to reset Barclays'
:13:22. > :13:28.position on trust knows his bank is back in the headlines
:13:29. > :13:30.for all the wrong reasons. A brief look at some of the day's
:13:31. > :13:40.other other news stories. A drug called Prep, which
:13:41. > :13:43.dramatically reduces the chances of being infected by HIV, is to be
:13:44. > :13:46.offered as a preventative medicine It costs ?450 a month and isn't
:13:47. > :13:52.currently offered by the NHS England because of concerns about the cost,
:13:53. > :13:55.but medical trials are being A Londonderry teenager,
:13:56. > :14:02.who was shot dead by the Army almost 45 years ago,
:14:03. > :14:04.was totally innocent and did not pose a threat to anyone,
:14:05. > :14:08.a coroner has said. 15-year-old Manus Deery was with
:14:09. > :14:11.a group of friends when he was shot The fashion chain, Jaeger,
:14:12. > :14:18.has gone into administration, The brand was founded in 1884
:14:19. > :14:24.and once dressed Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe but has struggled
:14:25. > :14:26.on the increasingly competitive The business, which has 46 stores,
:14:27. > :14:34.had failed to find a buyer. Police in Manchester say the number
:14:35. > :14:38.of people abusing a drug called Spice has reached epidemic
:14:39. > :14:40.proportions and it's putting They say they had to deal
:14:41. > :14:44.with around 60 Spice-related incidents over the weekend and have
:14:45. > :14:47.now launched extra patrols Slumped, zombie-like
:14:48. > :14:57.and barely conscious. Another man metres away
:14:58. > :15:05.with similar symptoms. And everyone we speak to on the
:15:06. > :15:08.streets knows where to get it. Around the central area,
:15:09. > :15:10.just round anywhere, really. Some in this drop-in centre
:15:11. > :15:16.for homeless people say Just like chill but, like,
:15:17. > :15:25.you're in space and then one minute you're taking it and the next
:15:26. > :15:31.you get hooked and lose control. And others say the problem's
:15:32. > :15:34.not going away. It's a lot worse now
:15:35. > :15:37.than it was before, a lot worse. The reason why they're on this Spice
:15:38. > :15:40.is because it is cheap. It is only ?5 bag, weed
:15:41. > :15:43.is ?10 a bag, so they're all going for the Spice
:15:44. > :15:45.because it's cheaper. The drug is a synthetic form
:15:46. > :15:49.of cannabis but can be much more After being made illegal last year
:15:50. > :15:56.it is now sold on the streets. Spice is a drug often associated
:15:57. > :16:00.with people sleeping rough. But police tell me it affects people
:16:01. > :16:05.of all ages all over the city The force says it received nearly 60
:16:06. > :16:13.Spice-related calls over the weekend There was a number of areas
:16:14. > :16:19.round here such as Primark, the fast-food outlets
:16:20. > :16:22.like Burger King, round here McDonald's, and Morrisons
:16:23. > :16:25.where there were groups that had congregated and participated
:16:26. > :16:27.in Spice and the reactions At the moment our attention
:16:28. > :16:32.is being focused on the safeguarding Where actually we want to be doing
:16:33. > :16:37.more work against the dealers, and that's where our focus will be
:16:38. > :16:40.over the coming weeks. I spoke to one paramedic
:16:41. > :16:51.who confirmed the symptoms People becoming very spaced out,
:16:52. > :16:57.very odd behaviour, collapsing to the floor or being stuck in one
:16:58. > :16:59.position. What we're seeing is someone's behaviour getting to such
:17:00. > :17:12.a level that they are physically trying to attack our staff.
:17:13. > :17:14.Here in Manchester, as another man collapsed, there's little sign that
:17:15. > :17:18.this problem is going away. The BBC has uncovered more
:17:19. > :17:22.allegations of abuse carried out by a leading barrister,
:17:23. > :17:24.who ran Christian summer camps John Smyth is accused of a series
:17:25. > :17:29.of brutal assaults on pupils The BBC has now been told that Smyth
:17:30. > :17:34.also recruited one of his victims and asked him to administer further
:17:35. > :17:38.beating to his friends. That pupil is now the head teacher
:17:39. > :17:42.of a prep school in Buckinghamshire. This report from Fiona Lamdin
:17:43. > :17:48.contains some graphic content. I think I was probably beaten
:17:49. > :17:53.about 3,000 times by John Smyth It was only when he actually hit me
:17:54. > :18:03.that I suddenly realised 22 young men, brainwashed and then
:18:04. > :18:16.beaten, in what victims now describe John Smyth, a leading QC,
:18:17. > :18:22.infiltrated Britain's oldest public school,
:18:23. > :18:25.persuading teenage boys that his violent beatings
:18:26. > :18:29.could purge them of their sins. I'm John Smyth, and the director
:18:30. > :18:33.of Jasa, as we call Andy Morse was only 14,
:18:34. > :18:42.a pupil at Winchester College Less than two years later
:18:43. > :18:49.he was accepting regular and violent So John Smyth had every single
:18:50. > :18:59.bandage, dressing, iodine, anything that had been invented,
:19:00. > :19:02.but even though he had all that equipment and I
:19:03. > :19:08.call it paraphernalia, Even with these dressings on,
:19:09. > :19:15.wearing these adult nappies, As the years went by,
:19:16. > :19:24.these schoolboys became young men and moved on to university
:19:25. > :19:28.but the beatings continued. Now too physical for one man
:19:29. > :19:31.on his own, Smyth needed to recruit a right-hand man
:19:32. > :19:35.from within the group. He asked Simon Doggart,
:19:36. > :19:38.one of his victims, to start One of their victims did not
:19:39. > :19:44.want to speak on camera but told John Smyth beat me first,
:19:45. > :19:50.appallingly with his usual force, then Simon Doggart took over
:19:51. > :19:53.while John watched. I recall immediately the absolute
:19:54. > :19:57.brutality of his beating, far, There was no discussion,
:19:58. > :20:02.no emotion that I recall, just a fit sportsman
:20:03. > :20:05.using all his force. The BBC has been handed nine hours
:20:06. > :20:12.of recordings left unheard for 20 years which reveal the full extent
:20:13. > :20:16.of the abuse. On one occasion, a victim
:20:17. > :20:21.was subjected to 800 lashes The victims were left disfigured
:20:22. > :20:30.with blood running down their legs. I can't really remember
:20:31. > :20:34.but it went on all day. A decade after the beatings
:20:35. > :20:37.finished, three of the victims In the afternoon, I was allowed
:20:38. > :20:42.a sort of sleep, then John Smyth beat me for maybe 50
:20:43. > :20:57.strokes and then he would be exhausted and at that point
:20:58. > :21:05.Simon Doggart beat me for I don't Andy remembers every
:21:06. > :21:12.last detail of the shed. The strokes he gave me
:21:13. > :21:18.were probably the equivalent I think even then I sensed that it
:21:19. > :21:28.wasn't my friend beating me, that it was actually John Smyth
:21:29. > :21:34.beating me using my friend Simon Doggart is the headmaster
:21:35. > :21:44.of Caldicott Prep School in Buckinghamshire where he has been
:21:45. > :21:48.in charge for nearly 20 years. He has told us he is now critically
:21:49. > :21:53.ill and is unable to respond. There is no suggestion he has ever
:21:54. > :21:58.harmed any of his pupils. But Simon DOggart was not the only
:21:59. > :22:01.one John Smyth tried to recruit. He tried to persuade me
:22:02. > :22:07.to beat other people. You know, I told him
:22:08. > :22:10.I couldn't do that. He was asking lots of people
:22:11. > :22:13.to beat other people. He said, Andy, this is, you know,
:22:14. > :22:20.this is talking about steps, about going from 30 beatings to 50
:22:21. > :22:24.beatings to 100. The next step is, you need
:22:25. > :22:31.to start beating people. They had two canes and when John
:22:32. > :22:36.was getting tired he motioned for Simon to come in and Simon came
:22:37. > :22:39.in on the side sort Tonight, police tell us
:22:40. > :22:45.they are investigating but John Smyth is still a free man
:22:46. > :22:49.living in South Africa and Simon Doggart a headmaster now
:22:50. > :22:53.critically ill, yet to give Fiona Lamdin with that report
:22:54. > :23:11.on allegations of abuse in the 1980s Police in California say a teacher
:23:12. > :23:15.has been killed and two children wounded during a shooting in a
:23:16. > :23:23.primary school classroom. The gunman is also dead. Police in the city of
:23:24. > :23:30.San Bernardino say the teacher was known to the gunman.
:23:31. > :23:32.They added that two students had also been injured,
:23:33. > :23:35.but they didn't think they'd been targeted by the shooter.
:23:36. > :23:36.The American carrier, United Airlines, has
:23:37. > :23:38.been heavily criticised, after one of its passengers
:23:39. > :23:42.The airline had overbooked the plane, and when no-one
:23:43. > :23:44.volunteered to leave, they selected the man and his
:23:45. > :23:48.When he refused to get off the flight, he was dragged down
:23:49. > :23:51.the aisle by security guards, as our correspondent
:23:52. > :24:02.These are the disturbing moments that have now travelled around the
:24:03. > :24:07.world. Several smartphones record as three police hover over a man,
:24:08. > :24:10.forced to exit the aircraft. The situation quickly escalates, after
:24:11. > :24:24.one officer man handles him out of his chair. Oh, my God. All three
:24:25. > :24:29.officers then drag him bloodied and injured from the cabin. No, this is
:24:30. > :24:33.wrong. Oh, my God. Look at what you did to him.
:24:34. > :24:36.The incident began when United Airlines asked for volunteers to
:24:37. > :24:42.give up their seats for additional crew members. When none were found,
:24:43. > :24:46.they chose passengers at random, but this man refused. One passenger said
:24:47. > :24:53.he claimed to be a Doctor Who had patients he needed to see. Good
:24:54. > :24:56.work, way to go. Ten minutes later, in unexplained circumstances, the
:24:57. > :24:58.man shaken, runs back on the plane. United Airlines in a statement,
:24:59. > :25:16.said: That's what makes the world's
:25:17. > :25:20.leading airline. The airline has been criticised for its handling of
:25:21. > :25:21.the situation that some say clearly contrasts with its claim to fly the
:25:22. > :25:27.friendly skies. The oil company Shell has today
:25:28. > :25:29.admitted that they dealt with a convicted money-launderer,
:25:30. > :25:31.when negotiating access to a vast oil field off
:25:32. > :25:35.the coast of Nigeria in 2011. Shell went ahead with the deal
:25:36. > :25:38.even though they were on probation, after being involved in a separate
:25:39. > :25:41.corruption case in Nigeria. Our business editor,
:25:42. > :25:53.Simon Jack, has this report. Nine billion barrels of oil the
:25:54. > :25:57.prize for the company who could secure the rights to a lucrative
:25:58. > :26:00.field, but doing deals in Nigeria is one of the toughest challenges in
:26:01. > :26:04.the oil business. The building behind me is Shell's UK
:26:05. > :26:07.headquarters. It's the most valuable company on the London Stock
:26:08. > :26:11.Exchange. If you have a pension, you almost certainly own some shares in
:26:12. > :26:15.Shell. They've been operating in Nigeria for nearly 60 years, so they
:26:16. > :26:22.have the size and the expertise to meet that challenge. In the way was
:26:23. > :26:26.this man, who acquired the field while he was oil minister. For the
:26:27. > :26:33.first time tonight, Shell acknowledges they did engage with
:26:34. > :26:38.him to do the deal. Shell and the Italian oil company acquired the
:26:39. > :26:44.field in 2011, paying 1. $1.3 billion to the Nigerian government.
:26:45. > :26:48.More than 1 billion of it was passed to another company, controlled by
:26:49. > :26:52.Atete. From there, according to documents filed by Italian
:26:53. > :26:56.prosecutors nearly half was forwarded to the then president and
:26:57. > :27:01.members of his government. Shell have always said they only paid the
:27:02. > :27:06.Nigerian government. Today Shell has changed its tune and they're now
:27:07. > :27:11.saying that they engaged with Danatete, a former oil minister and
:27:12. > :27:21.convicted money lawneder. What prompted Shell to change its
:27:22. > :27:26.position? E-mails uncovered and found show Shell representatives
:27:27. > :27:31.negotiating with Mr Atete a year before the deal was finalised. He
:27:32. > :27:35.can smell the money, if at nearly 70 years old he does turn his nose up
:27:36. > :27:41.at 1. 2 billion he is completely certificate fiebl. That e-mail was
:27:42. > :27:51.forwarded to the chief executive, showing this went right to the top.
:27:52. > :28:05.Other I mails showed millions would be paid to the president, in an
:28:06. > :28:09.e-mail from July, the strategy was: a spokesperson for Goodluck Jonathan
:28:10. > :28:17.described this as a false narrative. This deal was done just months after
:28:18. > :28:21.Shell had paid $30 million to the US Department of Justice to settle
:28:22. > :28:25.previous allegations of bribery on condition of future good behaviour.
:28:26. > :28:28.Shell having been investigated over a previous deal you would think they
:28:29. > :28:33.would be cautious. Instead of walking away from a deal that was
:28:34. > :28:36.clearly problematic from a corruption, potentially bribery
:28:37. > :28:40.stand point, they drubbed down and attempted to sanitise the deal.
:28:41. > :28:43.Shell's partners said there was no credible evidence that any of its
:28:44. > :28:47.staff were involved in wrongdoing. Shell still maintain the deal with
:28:48. > :28:51.the Nigerian government was legal and that any political payoffs were
:28:52. > :28:55.done without their knowledge. But today marks an important concession
:28:56. > :29:00.in a huge deal mired in controversy for years.
:29:01. > :29:02.It's taken him 18 years, but Spain's Sergio Garcia has
:29:03. > :29:05.finally won his first major golfing title.
:29:06. > :29:09.He beat England's Justin Rose in a sudden death play-off
:29:10. > :29:14.Garcia triumphed on what would have been the 60th birthday
:29:15. > :29:17.of his fellow countryman - and golfing hero - Seve Ballesteros.
:29:18. > :29:19.Our sports correspondent Katie Gornall has the story -
:29:20. > :29:26.After two decades of near misses and failed attempts,
:29:27. > :29:32.Well done Sergio, you've done it at last!
:29:33. > :29:35.A few years ago, Sergio Garcia claimed he wasn't good
:29:36. > :29:50.I felt today, I felt the calmest I've ever felt on a Major Sunday.
:29:51. > :29:53.And even after making a couple of bogeys,
:29:54. > :29:57.I was still very positive, I still believed that there
:29:58. > :30:02.were a lot of holes that I could get to and I hit some really good shots
:30:03. > :30:08.It had been one of great duels in Masters golf -
:30:09. > :30:11.a two-horse race between Garcia and his friend and Ryder Cup
:30:12. > :30:17.After 13 holes, Garcia was two shots behind.
:30:18. > :30:20.Would he again buckle under the pressure?
:30:21. > :30:23.This was when the doubters became believers.
:30:24. > :30:28.Garcia's finesse on the 15th brought him level and kick-started
:30:29. > :30:35.The tension would become overwhelming and with nothing
:30:36. > :30:38.to separate them after 18 holes, the match went to a
:30:39. > :30:48.Three shots later, Garcia conquered his opponent and his demons.
:30:49. > :30:53.I'm really happy for Sergio, obviously I would love to be
:30:54. > :30:56.wearing the green jacket, but if it wasn't me,
:30:57. > :31:01.As a teenager, Garcia was the best amateur at the 99 Masters.
:31:02. > :31:06.But as the years rolled by, he became known as one of best
:31:07. > :31:12.He had grown up wanting to be like his idol,
:31:13. > :31:15.Seve Ballesteros, a two-time winner of the Masters green jacket.
:31:16. > :31:18.Garcia's breakthrough came on what would have been
:31:19. > :31:22.Ballesteros's 60th birthday - a day when talent and fate came
:31:23. > :31:33.That's almost it from us. Newsnight is coming up on BBC Two. Here's
:31:34. > :31:37.Emily. Tonight, will Russia listen to the
:31:38. > :31:42.West as they plan sanctions over Syria? And we speak to Howard
:31:43. > :31:44.Jakonson on his novel about Donald Trump. Here on BBC One, it's time
:31:45. > :31:47.for the news where you are.