:00:07. > :00:11.The Chancellor, George Osborne, calls for a global crackdown on
:00:11. > :00:18.corporate tax avoidance. It comes as Finance Ministers of the G20
:00:18. > :00:20.industrialised nations promise to try to close tax loopholes.
:00:20. > :00:23.South African television airs a reality show featuring the woman
:00:23. > :00:27.allegedly murdered by Oscar Pistorius - it says it's a tribute
:00:27. > :00:30.to her. Rescue workers in the Pakistani
:00:30. > :00:36.city of Quetta search for survivors after a bomb attack that's left
:00:36. > :00:46.scores of people dead. And, in the FA cup, another big
:00:46. > :00:56.
:00:56. > :00:59.upset as Arsenal are dumped out by Good evening. The Chancellor,
:00:59. > :01:03.George Osborne, has called for a global crackdown on tax avoidance
:01:03. > :01:06.by multinational companies. A meeting of G20 finance ministers
:01:06. > :01:12.agreed that new measures are needed to stop big firms shifting profits
:01:12. > :01:15.from one country to another so that they pay less tax. The finance
:01:15. > :01:17.ministers, meeting in Moscow, also promised to refrain from devaluing
:01:17. > :01:22.their currencies to gain an advantage in global trade, amid
:01:22. > :01:29.fears of a so called currency war. This report from Daniel Sandford in
:01:29. > :01:33.Moscow. Beneath the walls of the Kremlin in
:01:33. > :01:39.the depths of a Moscow winter, the world's finance Ministers gathered
:01:39. > :01:43.in search of ideas to unfreeze the world's economy. Among them are
:01:43. > :01:47.joint British, French and German plan to deal with the Starbucks
:01:47. > :01:51.phenomenon, of global companies avoiding tax. The world economy has
:01:51. > :01:54.changed very quickly. The tax laws haven't. This means that
:01:54. > :01:58.international companies don't pay their fair share of taxes and we
:01:58. > :02:04.want to change that. The issue burst into public view in Britain
:02:04. > :02:11.when it emerged that Amazon earned �3.4 billion in the UK last year,
:02:11. > :02:16.but paid just 1.8 million in tax. Similarly, Google earned �386
:02:16. > :02:21.million but paid just �6 million to the Exchequer.
:02:21. > :02:26.Most infamously Starbucks, with a revenue of �398 million, paid not a
:02:26. > :02:31.penny in tax. Starbucks did it by arranging its
:02:31. > :02:35.business so its UK sales generated profits in other countries, where
:02:35. > :02:39.taxes were lower than in Britain. And that's what the G20 has now
:02:40. > :02:44.promised to clamp down on. The finance ministers also addressed
:02:44. > :02:47.head-on the risk of what's been called a currency war n which
:02:47. > :02:51.countries would competetively devalue their own currencies in
:02:51. > :02:55.order to get a bigger slice of the global market.
:02:55. > :03:00.China and Japan have both been accused of doing just that to
:03:00. > :03:06.improve sales overseas, prompting concerns other countries may follow
:03:06. > :03:10.but the IMF said there was and would be no war. Zero currency war,
:03:10. > :03:15.OK, that's very simple. I have to say it again, I will be happy to
:03:15. > :03:20.repeat it as often as necessary. the finance Ministers left Moscow
:03:20. > :03:27.for their own capitals, all were aware that the currency war in the
:03:27. > :03:34.1930s only made a bad global economy worse.
:03:34. > :03:39.Our political correspondent Louise Stewart is with me now. This
:03:39. > :03:43.promise to crack down on tax avoiders plays well with voters.
:03:43. > :03:46.Tax affairs of huge multinationals have been in the press for months
:03:46. > :03:50.now when it was discovered they weren't perhaps paying as much as
:03:50. > :03:54.they might be. In December, the Chancellor said that he would give
:03:54. > :03:57.more funds for the British authorities to tackle this and
:03:57. > :04:02.clamp down on it. There is a limit, though, to what individual
:04:02. > :04:06.governments can do because as you heard there, these large
:04:06. > :04:10.multinationals can simply move their profits to lower tax regimes.
:04:10. > :04:13.So, what George Osborne has done now is - come to some agreement
:04:13. > :04:17.with his French and German counterparts that they'll tackle
:04:17. > :04:22.this on a more global scale. He wants to seize the initiative, be
:04:22. > :04:25.seen to be being tough on the big corporations, clamping down on them
:04:25. > :04:29.perhaps avoiding tax. Now it is a slight gamble because on the one
:04:29. > :04:33.hand as you say, it plays out well with voters, the fact they would
:04:33. > :04:35.pay their fair share. On the other hand, at a time when he needs to
:04:35. > :04:37.promote economic growth it could risk some of those big companies
:04:38. > :04:43.deciding to take their business elsewhere.
:04:43. > :04:46.Thank you. A television channel in South
:04:46. > :04:49.Africa has aired a reality show featuring Reeva Steenkamp - the
:04:49. > :04:52.girlfriend of Oscar Pistorius, who's acccused of murdering her on
:04:52. > :04:56.Valentine's Day. Her family are understood to have agreed the
:04:56. > :04:59.programme should be shown. It comes as Pistorius's uncle has said the
:04:59. > :05:06.Paralympic champion is numb with shock and grief at his girlfriend's
:05:06. > :05:11.death. Our Africa correspondent Andrew Harding reports.
:05:11. > :05:17.In tears today, Oscar Pistorius's sister, the family insisting that
:05:17. > :05:25.the world famous athlete is not guilty of murder. We deeply regret
:05:25. > :05:29.the allegations of premeditated murder. We have no doubt here is no
:05:30. > :05:34.substance for the allegations. court yesterday, Pistorius broke
:05:34. > :05:37.down when formally accused of murdering his girlfriend Reeva
:05:37. > :05:41.Steenkamp. Today, his family fighting to have him released on
:05:41. > :05:49.bail, spoke of the couple's blossoming relationship and
:05:49. > :05:58.Pistorius's trauma. Oscar, as you can imagine, is also numb with
:05:58. > :06:02.shock and grief. In total pain. Tonight, a controversial broadcast
:06:02. > :06:11.in South Africa of Reeva Steenkamp starring in a reality television
:06:11. > :06:14.show, filmed shortly before her death. I am Her family approved the
:06:14. > :06:19.broadcast but others feel it's in poor taste. She obviously enjoyed
:06:19. > :06:25.it while shaefs making -- she was making it, so why not show it.
:06:25. > :06:30.way of of celebrating her life? why not. It shows that we don't
:06:30. > :06:33.care. Whoever is producing it doesn't care about Reeva Steenkamp
:06:33. > :06:36.and her family. For all the feverish speculation it's much too
:06:36. > :06:40.Earl throeu draw any conclusions -- too early to draw any conclusions
:06:40. > :06:44.about the death of Reeva Steenkamp and yet South Africa is a country
:06:44. > :06:48.plagued by extraordinary levels of violence against women and that is
:06:48. > :06:53.what many people here are starting to focus on. It is very, very
:06:53. > :06:57.difficult to separate Reeva's murder from a larger problem of
:06:57. > :07:02.violence. It's a huge problem in South Africa? Well, at the moment
:07:02. > :07:11.we are talking about an epidemic. Reeva Steenkamp will be buried next
:07:11. > :07:14.Tuesday. Oscar Pistorius is due back in court the same day.
:07:14. > :07:17.At least 79 people have been killed in a sectarian bomb attack in the
:07:17. > :07:20.Pakistani city of Quetta - the second major attack there in weeks.
:07:20. > :07:29.About 200 others were injured when the bomb went off in a crowded
:07:29. > :07:34.market. Orla Guerin has the latest. Smoke filling the sky after another
:07:34. > :07:39.devastating attack on the Shia minority in Quetta. They're
:07:39. > :07:44.targeted regularly by Sunni extremists who view them as non-
:07:44. > :07:49.Muslims. The massive blast tore through this marketplace and there
:07:49. > :07:55.are fears that some are still buried in the wreckage. Local
:07:55. > :08:04.hospitals filled with casualties of this latest sectarian attack. Many
:08:05. > :08:13.of them women and children, innocent victims of mass slaughter.
:08:13. > :08:18.I was there, too many people dead and too many people injured.
:08:18. > :08:22.attack, which killed scores, was claimed by the Sunni militant group
:08:22. > :08:28.Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. It's supposed to be banned but operates relatively
:08:28. > :08:35.openly here. The bereaved wonder if anyone will be held to account.
:08:35. > :08:39.Usually those who target Shias get off scot-free. In this besieged
:08:39. > :08:45.community there is growing anger tonight at the continuing failure
:08:45. > :08:50.of the Government to keep the killers away. This is the second
:08:50. > :08:54.major attack on Shi'ites in Quetta this year. Many say the Government
:08:54. > :08:58.has done nothing to protect them in spite of its promises. Human rights
:08:58. > :09:06.campaigners claim the authorities are either incompetent, or
:09:06. > :09:09.colluding with the extremists. The Health Secretary has written to
:09:09. > :09:12.NHS managers in England urging them not to prevent staff from speaking
:09:13. > :09:15.out about issues affecting patient care. It comes after a former chief
:09:15. > :09:23.executive of a hospital Trust in Lincolnshire broke a gagging order
:09:23. > :09:28.to speak to the BBC about his concerns. Here's Tom Barton.
:09:28. > :09:32.The NHS and how it looks after patients is under profound scrutiny.
:09:32. > :09:36.When staff at Stafford Hospital struggled to be heard, tragedy
:09:36. > :09:42.followed. Now, ten days after a report which warned the culture
:09:42. > :09:47.needs to change, there are fears that some managers are still banned
:09:47. > :09:51.from speaking out altogether. Writing to every hospital Trust in
:09:52. > :09:56.England, the Health Secretary has warned that fostering a culture of
:09:56. > :10:00.openness and transparency is essential to never repeat the
:10:00. > :10:05.mistakes of Mid-Staffs. The letter has been welcomed by one of those
:10:05. > :10:09.who says he was banned from speaking out. Gary Walker this week
:10:09. > :10:13.broke a confidentiality agreement with his former employer to speak
:10:13. > :10:17.to the BBC. He says Jeremy Hunt must carry out a thorough
:10:17. > :10:21.investigation. It's very important that he looks at the entire chain
:10:21. > :10:27.of command from the Department of Health to the Health Authority and
:10:27. > :10:30.the reason for that is that the threat that I received from the
:10:30. > :10:34.Lincolnshire Trust was clearly - had information that could have
:10:34. > :10:38.only come from the Department of Health. Ministers insist the
:10:38. > :10:43.investigation will be thorough. last thing anyone wants is
:10:43. > :10:51.accusations of a cover-up yet again. That's the whole thing that we are
:10:51. > :10:56.trying to avoid and to break any kind of culture of secrecy and lack
:10:56. > :11:03.of transparency. The hope is that by encouraging staff to speak out,
:11:03. > :11:06.healthcare will improve in the future.
:11:06. > :11:09.Police have named the woman who died after a car collided with
:11:09. > :11:12.spectators at a rally in the Scottish Highlands. She was 50-
:11:12. > :11:15.year-old Joy Robson from the Isle of Skye. An eight-year-old boy was
:11:15. > :11:20.also injured in the collision but his injuries are not thought to be
:11:20. > :11:23.life-threatening. The rally was abandoned.
:11:23. > :11:26.The Irish Prime Minister has met 17 survivors of the country's infamous
:11:26. > :11:29.Magdalene Laundries - workhouses in Ireland where thousands of women
:11:30. > :11:34.and girls were locked up. Enda Kenny met the women, who now live
:11:34. > :11:41.in Britain, at the Irish Embassy in London. As Sophie Hutchinson
:11:41. > :11:45.reports, he's expected to issue a full apology in the next few days.
:11:45. > :11:48.The Irish Prime Minister, Enda Kenny, arriving at the country's
:11:48. > :11:53.Embassy in London today. He came to meet more than a dozen women who
:11:53. > :11:57.had been forced to work in the Magdalene laundries in Ireland and
:11:57. > :12:01.to hear their accounts of the suffering they experienced. The
:12:01. > :12:05.Magdalene laundries, run by nuns, were harsh places. For more than 70
:12:05. > :12:10.years, some 10,000 women and girls were incarcerated and forced to
:12:10. > :12:14.work there without pay. They included unmarried mothers, women
:12:14. > :12:19.guilty of petty crimes, or simply girls from broken homes. The women
:12:19. > :12:23.who came to meet the Irish Prime Minister here today now all live in
:12:23. > :12:29.the UK. Last week's report said after being released from the
:12:29. > :12:34.laundries, some of the women feared reimprisonment and fled abroad to
:12:34. > :12:38.places like Britain for safety. Today's meeting was one of a series
:12:38. > :12:42.the Irish Prime Minister is conducting with women here and back
:12:42. > :12:48.in Ireland. Afterwards, these women gave their reaction to his visit.
:12:48. > :12:53.It was a very warm meeting, it was really significant for us. Last
:12:53. > :12:56.week a report found the Irish state complicit in the running of the
:12:56. > :13:01.laundries. Today, the women described what had happened and
:13:01. > :13:08.what they wanted. The nuns, it's them that should be apologising to
:13:08. > :13:12.us, nobody else. Because they put us through hell. They starved us.
:13:12. > :13:18.They were eating big turkeys and everything and we had nothing.
:13:18. > :13:24.was locked up in - for six years for doing nothing wrong. They never
:13:24. > :13:30.did tell me why they put me in there. So, closure, there never
:13:30. > :13:33.will be, when I decide maybe. the -- when I die, maybe. The women
:13:33. > :13:43.are seeking compensation. They also say they expect the Irish Prime
:13:43. > :13:45.
:13:45. > :13:55.Minister to make a full apology next week.
:13:55. > :13:57.Sport now. Good evening. Arsenal have been knocked out of the FA Cup
:13:57. > :14:01.by Blackburn. It's the first time during Arsene Wenger's tenure that
:14:01. > :14:03.the Premier League side have made an exit at the hands of lower
:14:03. > :14:06.League opposition. There was another surprise result today when
:14:06. > :14:09.League One's Oldham forced a replay against Everton with a last-minute
:14:09. > :14:11.goal. While Millwall and Barnsley booked their quarter-final places
:14:11. > :14:18.with wins over Luton and MK Dons respectively. Patrick Gearey
:14:18. > :14:21.watched all the action. The Rovers Return, Blackburn lost
:14:21. > :14:25.their place in the spotlight with relegation last season. The Cup is
:14:25. > :14:28.their comeback tour. Now a League below Arsenal they competed with
:14:28. > :14:34.them as equals and ended up more than that. Richards scored the
:14:34. > :14:38.opening goal against the club he grew up supporting. He must be the
:14:38. > :14:44.only Guners fan happy this evening. Now it's just the Champions League
:14:44. > :14:54.and the mood's hardly optimistic. It was more jovial at Oldham.
:14:54. > :14:56.
:14:56. > :15:04.They've made a specialty of making light of liver liverpudlians.
:15:04. > :15:14.Against Everton you can never settle. Everton knew they were in a
:15:14. > :15:15.
:15:15. > :15:25.battle but weren't flinching. No one at Boundary Park was giving
:15:25. > :15:28.up. Oldham's incredible journey was extended for one more game.
:15:28. > :15:33.There was plenty of security around the game with Luton and Millwall
:15:33. > :15:37.and none in the Hatters' back line. They gifted the opening goal for
:15:37. > :15:43.the championship side. Luton had beaten Norwich to get to this point
:15:43. > :15:49.but couldn't deal with Millwall's quality.
:15:49. > :15:55.An unlikely angle. Now a likely result. This was about staying calm
:15:55. > :16:03.and taking chances. They did that with a third.
:16:03. > :16:06.Millwall have safely avoided what could have been a very nasty fright.
:16:06. > :16:09.Celtic remain 18 points clear at the top of the Scottish Premier
:16:09. > :16:11.League table after they thrashed Dundee United 6-2. There were also
:16:11. > :16:14.wins for Kilmarnock, Ross County and Hibernian. Motherwell beat
:16:14. > :16:19.Inverness Caledonian Thistle 3-0 and in doing so leapfrogged over
:16:19. > :16:22.them to move into second place. The pick of Motherwell's goals came in
:16:22. > :16:32.the 56th minute when Michael Higdon volleyed in for his second goal of
:16:32. > :16:35.the day. In today's Aviva Premiership Harlequins won a
:16:35. > :16:38.thrilling game against Leicester. Their 25-21 victory means they move
:16:38. > :16:40.to the top of the table while Leicester drop from first to third
:16:40. > :16:44.place. England scrum-half Danny Care produced an excellent solo
:16:44. > :16:47.effort at the start of the second half as Harlequins came from behind
:16:47. > :16:49.to complete a league double over Leicester. And there were wins for
:16:50. > :16:58.Bath, Northampton and Saracens won the first Premiership match to be
:16:58. > :17:01.played on artificial turf. Double Olympic champion Mo Farah has
:17:01. > :17:04.revealed he will take part in this year's London Marathon but will
:17:05. > :17:07.only run half the course. He may make his debut over the full
:17:08. > :17:10.distance next year. This afternoon, Farah made a winning start to this
:17:11. > :17:17.season taking the 3,000 metres title at the British Grand Prix in
:17:17. > :17:20.Birmingham. And, Britain's Chris Froome has won
:17:20. > :17:24.the Tour of Oman, it's his first major race victor That's all from
:17:24. > :17:27.the Sports Centre. The main news tonight: The