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International pressure grows on Russia to abandon its support

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for Syria's president after last week's chemical attack.

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Foreign ministers from the G7 nations are in Italy to decide

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Boris Johnson says Putin faces a stark choice.

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Stick with that guy, stick with that tyrant, or work

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Tonight Theresa May spoke on the phone to president, about the war in

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Syria. -- to President Trump. Thousands of police line

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the streets of London for the funeral of PC Keith Palmer,

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killed in the Westminster attack. The Spice drug that leaves users

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hallucinating like zombies - police in Manchester say it's become

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an epidemic there. The oil giant Shell admits dealing

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with a convicted money-launderer to negotiate access to a vast

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off-shore oil field in Nigeria. And on his 74th attempt

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at winning a major title, Spain's Sergio Garcia finally pulls

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it off at the Masters And coming up in Sportsday later

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in the hour on BBC News, Crystal Palace have already uspet

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the leaders, Chelsea, this month - International pressure is growing

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on Russia to abandon its support for Syria's President Assad

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in the wake of last week's chemical Tonight foreign ministers

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from the G7 group of industrialised nations have been meeting

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in Northern Italy to consider a coordinated response

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which could include support for new sanctions on

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Moscow and Damascus. The US Secretary of State,

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Rex Tillerson, said America would hold to account those

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who committed crimes against "innocents"

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anywhere in the world. From Lucca, our Diplomatic

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Correspondent James Robbins reports. Contemplating Italy's past glory and

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Syria's president horror -- present horror, Boris Johnson and Rex

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Tillerson were entered on up the international heat on President

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Assad and his Russian backers. This morning Rex Tillerson deliberately

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started his day at a memorial to not the atrocity in 1944, the massacre

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of local villagers, and drew a direct parallel to the gas attack

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last week. We will rededicate ourselves to holding to account any

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and all who commit crimes against the innocents anywhere in the world.

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When I didn't Trump's Foreign Minister, who will speak to the

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Russians this week, sat down with the Foreign Secretary who cancelled

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his visit to Moscow to be here instead, they talked of ways to win

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the widest possible international support against blood amid Britain's

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present path. -- against Vladimir Putin's path. We will be discussing

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the possibility of further sanctions on some of the Syrian military

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figures and on some of the Russian military figures who have been

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involved in coordinating the Syrian military efforts and of course you

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are thereby contaminated by the appalling behaviour of the Assad

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regime. The Russians are mocking you for not going to Moscow, Rex

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Tillerson apparently was happy for you to go, why did the Prime

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Minister asked you not to? It is very important in these

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circumstances for the world to present a united front and for there

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to be absolutely no ambiguity about the message and the message we are

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sending to the Russians is very clear. Do they want to stick with a

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toxic regime, do they want to be eternally associated with a guy who

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gasses his own people? Or do they want to work with the Americans and

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the rest of the G-7 and the like-minded countries for a new

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future for Syria? That President Assad's major backers of Iran and

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Russia, have warned of the military retaliation if President Trump

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repeat the cruise missile strikes of last Friday ordered the Iranian

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president, seen as a moderate, seems to contradict his own hard-liners

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today, saying change in the Assad regime should go hand-in-hand with

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fighting his opponents. TRANSLATION: Terrorism in Syria should be

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eradicated and some reforms should be implemented within Syria are

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within the regime. This evening G-7 ministers, all but one of them Nato

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members as well, are starting to explore new pressures they could

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apply, knowing full well that Russia has so far stuck firmly with

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President Assad and his regime. Let's speak to James Robbins

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who's at the talks in Support for new sanctions

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has been discussed - They could take the form as the

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Foreign Secretary was telling me of targeting individual Syrian and

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Russian high-ranking officers, who are put to be collaborating most

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closely on the campaign against civilians in Syria. Of course the

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Russians deny any knowledge or indeed the fact that the Syrian

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regime was behind last week's chemical gas attack. The Americans

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believe differently. They have not accused the Russians of direct

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complicity but have come post to it and they and the British think they

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can identify a targeted list of people who should be named and

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subject to all sort of asset freezes and travel bans and the advantage of

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that is that many other countries are often reluctant to go down the

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road a broad sanctions but might favour close the targeted ones.

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Theresa May has been speaking to President Trump on the telephone

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this evening and a Downing Street spokesman said the Prime Minister

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and President agreed that a window of opportunity exists in which to

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persuade Russia that its alliance with Assad is no longer in its

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strategic interest. That is the hope and the message that Rex Tillerson

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will be taking from here to Moscow as he leaves tomorrow. The problem

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is that in the past President Putin has always shown himself absolutely

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resistant and there is no sign yet he will buckle under this sort of

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pressure. Thank you. The funeral of PC Keith Palmer,

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who was killed in last month's Westminster attack,

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has been held at London's Thousands of police officers

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from all over the country lined the route of the funeral cortege

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which set off from the PC Palmer, who was married

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with a five-year-old daughter, was guarding the Houses

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of Parliament when he was At the gates of the Palace

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of Westminster, Police Constable Keith Palmer's coffin paused,

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at the very spot where The place where, unarmed,

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he moved towards a man brandishing two knives,

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where he put himself in harm's way, to protect Parliament

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to protect our democracy. Police officers from every force

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in the country lined the route. Thousands of men and women

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who did not know Keith Palmer, but know what it means

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to wear the badge. You never really know what you're

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going to face when you go out there. So it is with incredible

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bravery that he did that. I think it brings home

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what the job is about, It shows what a family we are,

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really, that we all look out for one another and we all do the same thing

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at the end of the day. The global police family came

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together in London today, including officers from New York's Police

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Department. We have had so much support

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from officers around the country, around the United States,

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as well as from other places in the world when we have had

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officers die in the line of duty, so we have feel a need

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to be supportive back. As the cortege headed

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across the river, police officers paid tribute in the air,

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on the water, and along the route. Two of PC Palmer's colleagues spoke

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of the friend they so admired. If you could paint a picture

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of a perfect policeman, you would be painting a picture

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of Keith Palmer. He sounds like a pretty

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extraordinary man. He was, he was so

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down-to-earth and so normal. He came to work because he had

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a family to support. He was a fantastic dad

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and a fantastic husband. As the coffin passed

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through the capital, London stopped what it was doing

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to remember all those who lost their lives

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on that appalling day, PC Palmer and the four men and women

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killed on Westminster Bridge. PC Palmer symbolises the public

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service and sacrifice that underpins our society,

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the debt we owe to all those who put their lives on the line

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defending our freedoms. But he was also a husband,

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a father, a family man, and so today is about both national

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reflection and private grief. PC Palmer's wife asked

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that the family's privacy be respected inside Southwark

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Cathedral. But the sound of the service

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was relayed to the streets outside. Keith laid down his life

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for each one of us here. Each one of you who have lined

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the streets and filled In her first public engagement

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in her new role, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick honoured

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a fallen colleague. He was clearly very kind,

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very good-hearted, very hard-working, a very,

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very talented police officer. Police Constable Keith Palmer's

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name has been added to His bravery will endure

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for generations to come. The head of Barclays is expected

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to be stripped of his million-pound annual bonus for attempting

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to uncover the identity of a whistle-blower who'd raised

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concerns about a senior member Jes Staley could lose

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up to ?1.3 million. He's also been issued

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with a formal reprimand, and is subject to an investigation

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by the financial regulators. Here's our Economics

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Editor Kamal Ahmed. When Jes Staley joined

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Barclays in 2015, he had a straightforward message -

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make the bank simpler The board and shareholders

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were delighted when he appeared There was the third issue

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he wanted the tackle, one he outlined to me

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in his first broadcast interview. I do believe the banks

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lost their way, ten or 15 years ago, and we lost a lot of trust

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through the financial crisis. We have an obligation

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to return that. That obligation was undermined today

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after it was revealed the chief executive had tried,

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not once but twice, to find out In June last year, the board

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of Barclays received an anonymous letter raising concerns

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about the recruitment of a senior employee by Mr Staley who had

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suffered personal problems Jes Staley found out

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about the letter, felt it was a malicious attack,

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and asked Barclays' internal security to find

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the whistle-blower's identity but was told his request

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was not appropriate. The next month, after Barclays

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investigated the allegations and said they were without

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substance, Mr Staley tried again Barclays even approached US law

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enforcement agencies to help. The Barclays board only became aware

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of Jes Staley's attempted intervention when it received

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a second whistle-blower It will now be for the

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regulators to decide - is this a yellow card offence,

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a warning for a stupid mistake or is it a straight red for a chief

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executive whose very temperament In a statement, Mr Staley admitted

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he had made mistakes. The regulators could go as far

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as banning Mr Staley from working in banking -

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its ultimate sanction - Whistle-blowing is about trust

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and part of that trust is protecting the identity of the whistle-blower

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and if you've got a senior person looking for the messenger rather

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than listening to the message, He was very close to

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the person he hired. The man hired to reset Barclays'

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position on trust knows his bank is back in the headlines

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for all the wrong reasons. A brief look at some of the day's

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other other news stories. A drug called Prep, which

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dramatically reduces the chances of being infected by HIV, is to be

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offered as a preventative medicine It costs ?450 a month and isn't

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currently offered by the NHS England because of concerns about the cost,

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but medical trials are being A Londonderry teenager,

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who was shot dead by the Army almost 45 years ago,

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was totally innocent and did not pose a threat to anyone,

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a coroner has said. 15-year-old Manus Deery was with

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a group of friends when he was shot The fashion chain, Jaeger,

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has gone into administration, The brand was founded in 1884

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and once dressed Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe but has struggled

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on the increasingly competitive The business, which has 46 stores,

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had failed to find a buyer. Police in Manchester say the number

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of people abusing a drug called Spice has reached epidemic

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proportions and it's putting They say they had to deal

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with around 60 Spice-related incidents over the weekend and have

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now launched extra patrols Slumped, zombie-like

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and barely conscious. Another man metres away

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with similar symptoms. And everyone we speak to on the

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streets knows where to get it. Around the central area,

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just round anywhere, really. Some in this drop-in centre

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for homeless people say Just like chill but, like,

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you're in space and then one minute you're taking it and the next

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you get hooked and lose control. And others say the problem's

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not going away. It's a lot worse now

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than it was before, a lot worse. The reason why they're on this Spice

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is because it is cheap. It is only ?5 bag, weed

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is ?10 a bag, so they're all going for the Spice

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because it's cheaper. The drug is a synthetic form

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of cannabis but can be much more After being made illegal last year

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it is now sold on the streets. Spice is a drug often associated

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with people sleeping rough. But police tell me it affects people

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of all ages all over the city The force says it received nearly 60

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Spice-related calls over the weekend There was a number of areas

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round here such as Primark, the fast-food outlets

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like Burger King, round here McDonald's, and Morrisons

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where there were groups that had congregated and participated

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in Spice and the reactions At the moment our attention

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is being focused on the safeguarding Where actually we want to be doing

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more work against the dealers, and that's where our focus will be

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over the coming weeks. I spoke to one paramedic

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who confirmed the symptoms People becoming very spaced out,

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very odd behaviour, collapsing to the floor or being stuck in one

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position. What we're seeing is someone's behaviour getting to such

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a level that they are physically trying to attack our staff.

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Here in Manchester, as another man collapsed, there's little sign that

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this problem is going away. The BBC has uncovered more

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allegations of abuse carried out by a leading barrister,

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who ran Christian summer camps John Smyth is accused of a series

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of brutal assaults on pupils The BBC has now been told that Smyth

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also recruited one of his victims and asked him to administer further

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beating to his friends. That pupil is now the head teacher

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of a prep school in Buckinghamshire. This report from Fiona Lamdin

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contains some graphic content. I think I was probably beaten

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about 3,000 times by John Smyth It was only when he actually hit me

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that I suddenly realised 22 young men, brainwashed and then

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beaten, in what victims now describe John Smyth, a leading QC,

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infiltrated Britain's oldest public school,

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persuading teenage boys that his violent beatings

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could purge them of their sins. I'm John Smyth, and the director

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of Jasa, as we call Andy Morse was only 14,

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a pupil at Winchester College Less than two years later

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he was accepting regular and violent So John Smyth had every single

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bandage, dressing, iodine, anything that had been invented,

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but even though he had all that equipment and I

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call it paraphernalia, Even with these dressings on,

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wearing these adult nappies, As the years went by,

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these schoolboys became young men and moved on to university

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but the beatings continued. Now too physical for one man

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on his own, Smyth needed to recruit a right-hand man

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from within the group. He asked Simon Doggart,

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one of his victims, to start One of their victims did not

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want to speak on camera but told John Smyth beat me first,

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appallingly with his usual force, then Simon Doggart took over

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while John watched. I recall immediately the absolute

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brutality of his beating, far, There was no discussion,

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no emotion that I recall, just a fit sportsman

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using all his force. The BBC has been handed nine hours

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of recordings left unheard for 20 years which reveal the full extent

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of the abuse. On one occasion, a victim

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was subjected to 800 lashes The victims were left disfigured

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with blood running down their legs. I can't really remember

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but it went on all day. A decade after the beatings

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finished, three of the victims In the afternoon, I was allowed

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a sort of sleep, then John Smyth beat me for maybe 50

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strokes and then he would be exhausted and at that point

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Simon Doggart beat me for I don't Andy remembers every

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last detail of the shed. The strokes he gave me

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were probably the equivalent I think even then I sensed that it

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wasn't my friend beating me, that it was actually John Smyth

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beating me using my friend Simon Doggart is the headmaster

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of Caldicott Prep School in Buckinghamshire where he has been

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in charge for nearly 20 years. He has told us he is now critically

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ill and is unable to respond. There is no suggestion he has ever

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harmed any of his pupils. But Simon DOggart was not the only

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one John Smyth tried to recruit. He tried to persuade me

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to beat other people. You know, I told him

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I couldn't do that. He was asking lots of people

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to beat other people. He said, Andy, this is, you know,

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this is talking about steps, about going from 30 beatings to 50

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beatings to 100. The next step is, you need

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to start beating people. They had two canes and when John

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was getting tired he motioned for Simon to come in and Simon came

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in on the side sort Tonight, police tell us

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they are investigating but John Smyth is still a free man

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living in South Africa and Simon Doggart a headmaster now

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critically ill, yet to give Fiona Lamdin with that report

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on allegations of abuse in the 1980s Police in California say a teacher

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has been killed and two children wounded during a shooting in a

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primary school classroom. The gunman is also dead. Police in the city of

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San Bernardino say the teacher was known to the gunman.

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They added that two students had also been injured,

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but they didn't think they'd been targeted by the shooter.

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The American carrier, United Airlines, has

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been heavily criticised, after one of its passengers

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The airline had overbooked the plane, and when no-one

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volunteered to leave, they selected the man and his

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When he refused to get off the flight, he was dragged down

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the aisle by security guards, as our correspondent

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These are the disturbing moments that have now travelled around the

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world. Several smartphones record as three police hover over a man,

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forced to exit the aircraft. The situation quickly escalates, after

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one officer man handles him out of his chair. Oh, my God. All three

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officers then drag him bloodied and injured from the cabin. No, this is

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wrong. Oh, my God. Look at what you did to him.

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The incident began when United Airlines asked for volunteers to

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give up their seats for additional crew members. When none were found,

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they chose passengers at random, but this man refused. One passenger said

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he claimed to be a Doctor Who had patients he needed to see. Good

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work, way to go. Ten minutes later, in unexplained circumstances, the

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man shaken, runs back on the plane. United Airlines in a statement,

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said: That's what makes the world's

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leading airline. The airline has been criticised for its handling of

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the situation that some say clearly contrasts with its claim to fly the

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friendly skies. The oil company Shell has today

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admitted that they dealt with a convicted money-launderer,

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when negotiating access to a vast oil field off

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the coast of Nigeria in 2011. Shell went ahead with the deal

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even though they were on probation, after being involved in a separate

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corruption case in Nigeria. Our business editor,

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Simon Jack, has this report. Nine billion barrels of oil the

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prize for the company who could secure the rights to a lucrative

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field, but doing deals in Nigeria is one of the toughest challenges in

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the oil business. The building behind me is Shell's UK

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headquarters. It's the most valuable company on the London Stock

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Exchange. If you have a pension, you almost certainly own some shares in

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Shell. They've been operating in Nigeria for nearly 60 years, so they

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have the size and the expertise to meet that challenge. In the way was

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this man, who acquired the field while he was oil minister. For the

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first time tonight, Shell acknowledges they did engage with

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him to do the deal. Shell and the Italian oil company acquired the

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field in 2011, paying 1. $1.3 billion to the Nigerian government.

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More than 1 billion of it was passed to another company, controlled by

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Atete. From there, according to documents filed by Italian

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prosecutors nearly half was forwarded to the then president and

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members of his government. Shell have always said they only paid the

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Nigerian government. Today Shell has changed its tune and they're now

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saying that they engaged with Danatete, a former oil minister and

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convicted money lawneder. What prompted Shell to change its

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position? E-mails uncovered and found show Shell representatives

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negotiating with Mr Atete a year before the deal was finalised. He

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can smell the money, if at nearly 70 years old he does turn his nose up

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at 1. 2 billion he is completely certificate fiebl. That e-mail was

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forwarded to the chief executive, showing this went right to the top.

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Other I mails showed millions would be paid to the president, in an

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e-mail from July, the strategy was: a spokesperson for Goodluck Jonathan

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described this as a false narrative. This deal was done just months after

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Shell had paid $30 million to the US Department of Justice to settle

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previous allegations of bribery on condition of future good behaviour.

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Shell having been investigated over a previous deal you would think they

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would be cautious. Instead of walking away from a deal that was

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clearly problematic from a corruption, potentially bribery

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stand point, they drubbed down and attempted to sanitise the deal.

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Shell's partners said there was no credible evidence that any of its

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staff were involved in wrongdoing. Shell still maintain the deal with

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the Nigerian government was legal and that any political payoffs were

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done without their knowledge. But today marks an important concession

:28:52.:28:55.

in a huge deal mired in controversy for years.

:28:56.:29:00.

It's taken him 18 years, but Spain's Sergio Garcia has

:29:01.:29:02.

finally won his first major golfing title.

:29:03.:29:05.

He beat England's Justin Rose in a sudden death play-off

:29:06.:29:09.

Garcia triumphed on what would have been the 60th birthday

:29:10.:29:14.

of his fellow countryman - and golfing hero - Seve Ballesteros.

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Our sports correspondent Katie Gornall has the story -

:29:18.:29:19.

After two decades of near misses and failed attempts,

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Well done Sergio, you've done it at last!

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A few years ago, Sergio Garcia claimed he wasn't good

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I felt today, I felt the calmest I've ever felt on a Major Sunday.

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And even after making a couple of bogeys,

:29:51.:29:53.

I was still very positive, I still believed that there

:29:54.:29:57.

were a lot of holes that I could get to and I hit some really good shots

:29:58.:30:02.

It had been one of great duels in Masters golf -

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a two-horse race between Garcia and his friend and Ryder Cup

:30:09.:30:11.

After 13 holes, Garcia was two shots behind.

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Would he again buckle under the pressure?

:30:18.:30:20.

This was when the doubters became believers.

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Garcia's finesse on the 15th brought him level and kick-started

:30:24.:30:28.

The tension would become overwhelming and with nothing

:30:29.:30:35.

to separate them after 18 holes, the match went to a

:30:36.:30:38.

Three shots later, Garcia conquered his opponent and his demons.

:30:39.:30:48.

I'm really happy for Sergio, obviously I would love to be

:30:49.:30:53.

wearing the green jacket, but if it wasn't me,

:30:54.:30:56.

As a teenager, Garcia was the best amateur at the 99 Masters.

:30:57.:31:01.

But as the years rolled by, he became known as one of best

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He had grown up wanting to be like his idol,

:31:07.:31:12.

Seve Ballesteros, a two-time winner of the Masters green jacket.

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Garcia's breakthrough came on what would have been

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Ballesteros's 60th birthday - a day when talent and fate came

:31:19.:31:22.

That's almost it from us. Newsnight is coming up on BBC Two. Here's

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Emily. Tonight, will Russia listen to the

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West as they plan sanctions over Syria? And we speak to Howard

:31:38.:31:42.

Jakonson on his novel about Donald Trump. Here on BBC One, it's time

:31:43.:31:44.

for the news where you are.

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