06/11/2017 Beyond 100 Days

You're watching Beyond 100 Days -

more revelations from

the Paradise Papers on how

the rich and famous avoid taxes.

Actors, multinationals sports stars,

all manner of people mentioned

in the leaked papers, which show how

they invest their money offshore.

British Formula One driver

Lewis Hamilton saved millions in VAT

when he bought this private jet

using the Isle of Man tax haven.

In an interview with the BBC,

President Trump's Commerce Secretary

denies misleading Congress

after the leaked documents

exposed his involvement in a company

with links to the Kremlin.

Did a row with his mother in law

lead a shooter in Texas to kill 26

people in a small town church.

The youngest was just a baby.

Also on the programme...

Donald Trump tells Japan

the best way to protect itself

from a nuclear-armed North Korea

is to buy billions of dollars

of American military equipment.

In Germany the latest round

of climate talks gets under way -

chaired by Fiji, the pacific island

that is already paying the price

of rising global temperatures.

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Hello and welcome -

I'm Katty Kay in Washington

and Christian Fraser is in London.

They are the revelations

from millions of leaked documents -

dubbed the Paradise Papers -

which show how the rich and powerful

try to avoid paying taxes.

Whether it's a multi-national

corporation

or household names around the world,

they are all accused of using

tax havens to dodge paying

their fair share to tax authorities.

The papers were obtained

by the German newspaper

Sud-deutsche Zeitung and shared

with the International Consortium

of Investigative Journalists.

Richard Bilton, from the BBC's

Panorama programme, has been

poring through the documents -

here's his special report.

When you hear tax haven

you might think palm trees.

They're and not all like that.

We have arrived in a little

place between Belfast and

Liverpool, this is the Isle of Man,

it is a British Crown dependency

and it's an important tax haven.

We have found that

the island offers

a special service that

the rich and famous love.

Take Formula 1 world

champion Lewis Hamilton.

In 2013 he made a dream

purchase, a £16 million jet.

The Isle of Man gave him back

3.3 million as a VAT refund.

Lewis Hamilton had

to fly his jet here to

the Isle of Man just once.

He came here in 2012

with his then girlfriend,

pop star Nicole Scherzinger.

Documents show that Customs

and Excise here were happy to come

in early at 6am in the morning

to sign off on the deal.

There are nearly

1000 jets registered here.

We believe they come

here because the

Isle of Man don't properly apply

the European Union and UK rules.

Now, those rules

are very complicated.

But if you use your plane for fun

you can't get VAT refunds.

I can't believe I have

my own plane still

after all these years.

Look at this post,

Lewis Hamilton is open about

using it for fun.

He shouldn't have got a full refund.

If they are using it

for private purposes, the fact

that all this money is being

refunded is quite shocking.

You should not be

getting VAT back

if it is private usage.

Lewis Hamilton's lawyers

told us he had a set of

professionals in place who run most

aspects of his business operations.

They said Isle of Man customs gave

informed approval to the scheme.

In total

the Isle of Man has handed out

more than £790 million in VAT

refunds to jet leasing companies.

Isle of Man customs has admitted it

has given refunds for personal use

of jets as long as it's

mainly used for business.

That shouldn't happen.

As a result of our investigation

they have called in the British

government to review its procedures.

The Paradise Papers show there

are other secrets on this island.

We have found evidence that shows

just how far the Isle of Man

government has been prepared to go

to help tax dodgers.

The European savings

directive was an attempt to

stop tax evasion across Europe.

We have found evidence

that the Isle of

Man changed one of their laws

to help people dodge the new tax.

Now, you might think

getting approval for

something that could help tax

evaders would prove difficult

but not on the Isle of Man.

We have letters from lawyers

to the island's regulator.

If you believe it would be helpful

for us to provide you

with ideas as to how

to amend the regulations,

please let Simon and myself no.

In Switzerland I tracked down

the man who drew up that scheme

to help tax dodgers.

I want to show you something.

The one that needed the

Isle of Man to change the law.

It's actually changing the laws,

the Isle of Man changing their own

laws so this scheme

to help tax evaders

can work, isn't it?

I would agree with you, yes.

That is amazing to me,

that's amazing.

The Isle of Man's

top politician, the chief

minister, promised to investigate

allegations and apologised if the

law was changed for tax dodgers.

But what about

the regulator himself?

Did you change the law

to help tax dodgers?

He is retired now,

I tracked him down.

No, I think you should help us

with this, it was the

European Savings Directive

and you changed the law.

I have nothing to say.

What would you say to our

viewers who pay their tax?

You should contact

the Financial Services Authority.

But the Paradise Papers

have more than faceless

financial deals.

Hello, love, do you

want a cup of tea?

We think three actors

in Mrs Brown's Boys are

involved in a tax dodge.

I could do with some

money to get as a place.

Patrick Hoolahan who plays

Mrs Brown's son Dermot.

Could have stayed

in bed a bit longer?

Fiona Delaney,

the real-life daughter of

Mrs Brown star Brendan O'Carroll.

Good morning, Trevor.

And her husband, Martin Delaney.

The dodge involves

their wages, or fees,

going from the production company

to a UK company, then offshore to

accompany each has in Mauritius.

Those companies then loaned money

to the actors'

personal accounts tax-free.

Take Fiona Delaney.

In 16 months

her Mauritian company

lent her over £360,000.

None of the actors

answered our questions.

I caught up with Fiona Delaney.

It is Richard Bilton

from Panorama, can I grab a

quick word?

She arrived for filming in Glasgow.

You get paid

in Mauritius, don't you?

What is that all about?

And do you pay the loans back?

I don't think you pay them back,

are you a tax dodger?

I don't know who you are.

I am from Panorama,

you are from Mrs Brown's

Boys and you are a tax dodger,

that's not very funny, is it?

More names from

the Paradise Papers, more

revelations still to come.

Richard Bilton, BBC News.

Apple is the world's

most valuable company -

it has a stash of profits worth

hundreds of billions of pounds.

Yet the leaked documents show

how hard the tech giant works

to keep its tax bill

as low as possible.

After Ireland banned an arrangement

which meant it paid very little tax

Apple has moved billions to Jersey.

What it's done is legal.

Our Business Editor

Simon Jack reports.

A rapturous reception

for the latest iPhone.

It's the most popular and profitable

consumer product of all time.

It's generated hundreds of billions

in profits for Apple

since it was introduced

ten years ago.

What these papers show is just how

determined Apple has been to keep

the tax on those profits

as low as possible.

And how keen some governments,

lawyers, and advisers

have been to help them do it.

For many years, Apple sent profits

made outside the Americas to Ireland

where an elaborate corporate

structure meant it paid nearly no

tax on the billions it was making.

Taxes that would have been due

to the United States

where politicians started

applying pressure to

a defiant Apple CEO Tim Cook.

We pay all the taxes we owe,

every single dollar.

We not only comply with

the laws but we comply

with the spirit of the laws.

We don't depend on tax gimmicks.

So, no more fiendishly complicated

tax arrangements, right?

Wrong.

Documents obtained from

the law firm Appleby

show that

when Ireland shut that scheme

down, the company went

shopping for a new way

to keep their tax bills low.

A questionnaire was sent

to Appleby's offices

in seven tax havens,

all British, including questions

that made their intention clear.

Can you confirm that

an Irish company, meaning

an Apple subsidiary,

can conduct management activities

without being subject to taxation

in your jurisdiction?

After this offshore beauty parade,

Apple plumped for Jersey

and company accounts published

since show there's been no

discernible increase in the rate

of tax paid worldwide.

Now, let's be clear,

Apple has done nothing illegal

but hundreds of billions of dollars

remain tangled in a web

of low tax jurisdictions,

seemingly beyond the reach

of any government.

The tax equivalent of outer space.

And, as these documents show,

this is a system that has

continually eluded international

attempts to reform it.

The boss of the international

organisation trying to fix this

problem admits

it's a work in progress.

Changing the rules that make it

legal means that very of these

companies today pay very little

or no tax at all.

This is what it's about.

This is what is happening and this

is what we're working on.

Apple actually pays a lot of tax,

more than any other company

in the world, but not as much

as many think it should.

It's also not alone.

Other multinationals use similar

structures and US companies alone

are estimated to have over

$2 trillion stashed offshore.

The Paradise Papers show the lengths

to which they and their

advisers are prepared to go

to keep their tax bills low.

Simon Jack, BBC News.

And you saw Angel Gurria,

the secretary-general

of the Organisation

for Economic Development,

Simon's report - we'll get

more of his thoughts

on the Paradise Papers,

in just over 20 minutes' time.

The Paradise Papers also

include revelations that

President Trump's commerce

secretary, Wilbur Ross,

has business links to Russian

figures who are currently

under US sanctions.

Mr Ross said there was nothing

improper about his investments.

He also said he was optimistic

about a post-Brexit free trade deal

between the UK and the US.

He was speaking to our

Economics Editor Kamal Ahmed.

He has friends in high places.

The highest in fact.

The President of the United States

considers Wilbur Ross

one of his closest allies.

Today in London and defending

allegations that his links to Russia

were uncomfortably close.

I asked him whether a connection

to the Russian oil

firm Sibur created a conflict.

Our government has not thus far made

the determination to sanction them

so there is nothing wrong.

The fact that it happens

to be called

a Russian company does not mean

that there is any evil in it.

Where there is evil

is the mis-statement that I did not

disclose those holdings.

Mr Ross said he had fully notified

the office of government ethics

about his business interests.

I asked him whether it was time for

all major companies to pay more tax.

The right way to deal with it

I think is to provide incentives

that make the US the attractive

place to domicile.

The President's idea is buy America,

hire America, be American.

And therefore pay

more tax in America.

Yes.

If we could move on to Europe,

what type of relationship

would be most advantageous to the UK

in terms of its relationship

to the US post-Brexit?

Well, the UK right now inadvertently

has much higher taxes on imports

from the US than the US

has on imports from the UK.

That's because the UK

is bound by the EU system.

So we would like to see

those barriers come down,

come closer to free trade.

The EU talks a good job of free

trade but in fact it practises

extreme protectionism.

Mr Ross was in London selling

a positive vision of a post-Brexit

Britain with a free-trade

deal with the US.

He said he was optimistic that such

a deal would be signed.

Kamal Ahmed, BBC News.

Richard Bloom et al has been

tweeting about this relationship.

This is what he said...

Those tweets were posted before

Wilbur Ross spoke to the BBC. Maybe

it is all secondary to the politics

of having these business links with

Russia.

And we haven't heard from

Senator Bluementhal since the

response from Wilbur Ross. This

story hasn't got a huge amount of

attention in the United States today

apart from this angle of the Russia

ties. For an administration already

under several investigations for

links to Moscow, the fact that this

is not Brazil, China, or India which

is named as the country here, that

makes it more tricky for the

administration. It is yet another

member of the Trump administration

who seems to have ties to Russia

will stop Wilbur Ross points out

there is nothing illegal with these

ties but the perception is tricky

for an administration already under

investigation.

Plenty more to come

from the Paradise Papers.

You can find much more analysis

of the Paradise Papers online -

and you can watch Panorama:

Britain's Offshore Secrets Exposed

tonight at nine o'clock,

on the BBC News Channel and BBC One.

Viewers outside of the UK will be

able to watch it this coming

weekend on BBC World News,

at the times listed on your

screen - they are GMT.

What does it say about American

society when the senseless

murder of 26 people,

in a church,

becomes just another statistic?

We have become almost inured

to the brutality of mass shootings.

The definition of a mass shooting

is four or more people killed -

and Sunday's one in Texas brings

this year's total to 307 - so far.

It may have been something

as mundane as a row with his in-laws

that led a former air force man

to open fire on the church.

His mother in law worshipped

within the Baptist community

in Sutherland Spring and he'd

already sent her threatening texts.

She wasn't at the service yesterday.

From Texas James Cook reports.

Yet again it is a time

for mourning in America.

The masked gunmen was inside

the church for a long time,

say police.

Moving around freely,

firing with an assault rifle.

Once he started firing

rounds on the outside,

what could people inside do?

Are there too many guns in the US?

Guns don't kill people,

it is the people

that kill people.

Among the dead was

an 18-month-old child.

Annabel the 14-year-old

daughter of the church

pastor also died and one family

alone lost at least five people

leaving their neighbour in shock.

I have heard two

different stories, I

heard that dad was killed and that

the mom and daughters were killed.

Nobody has come to the house

yet since last night.

Police say the killer

Devin Kelley had set

threatening texts

to his mother-in-law.

He had been thrown out

of the US Air Force for

assaulting his wife and child.

Very deranged individual,

a lot of problems.

We have a lot of mental health

problems in our country,

as do other countries.

But this is not a guns situation.

The killer was tackled

by a citizen with a gun

who jumped in this man's

truck to give chase.

I did what I thought I needed to do

which was they said there was

a shooting, I pursued and I just did

what I thought was the right thing.

Nowhere it seems are

Americans safe from bullets.

The answer?

Here they say it is

more prayer and more weapons.

Guns and God.

Well among those who can provide

insight into the many questions now

being asked is Ron Hosko.

He's the former assistant

director of the FBI -

and is now President of the law

enforcement legal defense fund.

Thank you very much for coming in to

join me. If you would like to see

one thing changing America that

might stop others from having quite

so many of these mass killings, 307

already this year, what would it be?

A couple of things. One, most

certainly there is a connection

between these active shooters and

mental illness, serious depression.

And I don't think there is adequate

connectivity between the FBI, their

database, that would make someone a

prohibited possessor of a weapon and

the data from doctors and mental

health situations that say someone

is seriously ill and should not

possess a weapon. There is not

enough connectivity.

This person was

prevented from owning a weapon by

the state of Texas.

Someone who has

shown a propensity for violence and

violence to a child and we are

hearing more today about a

propensity to violence.

So more

enforcement of the existing rules

rather than numerals. So in a

country where there are £270

million, has Congress accepted that

this is the cost of living in

American society?

Congress should be

doing more to push the mental health

professionals and the states to

collect that data and push it to the

FBI so that their database has the

maximum potential impact. That would

ideally prevent somebody from like

this purchase is guns. There are

certainly other holes in the system.

One is the gun show loophole. I

think it is outside of a gun show

where I can sell Katty a gun and

there would be no record of it.

A

lot of people say there is always

policy when it is somebody like a an

Uzbek who most are people in New

York but we never have policy when

people are white and middle-aged.

Any time one of these events

happens, you start having a

conversation about gun control. One

way of controlling prohibited

offenders from having a gun is by

having robust data and having the

gunshot data and others saying there

is no good for you. There is a lot

of other ways to kill people, we saw

one of those in New York recently so

there is a lot of work to do in

America. A lot of

a lot of people in

America have mental health problems

and yet do not kill people. Isn't

the issue still that if you have

access to guns, if you have mental

health, you might shoot somebody but

if there is the gun, it is is the

problem?

I think part of the issue

is the lack of broad-based mental

health care that results in so many

people being institutionalised, not

in a mental health treatment

facility but in prison. That has to

be resolved. We are never going to

get the system perfect but we have

to start taking steps in the right

direction. One of the things that

you see over and over again is that

there are almost always pre-event

indicators. The immediate family and

close friends, those people who

observe every day can say something

is changing, something is

contextually inappropriate, the

focus on weapons, threatening text,

we are hearing evidence of it in

this case. We are not that good

about seeing something and saying

something.

I can very much indeed.

Very interesting. We will see what

Donald Trump says when he is about

it. He is in Japan at the moment.

Just before we go to the break, we

have got some nice pictures of him

and Prime Minister Abe in Japan. A

great photo opportunity. They have a

box of coy carp food and spoons. You

get the sense that after five or six

throws, they get a bit bored of

this. Mr Abe does. He chucks his in

and Donald Trump falls follow suit.

Somehow feeding fish has got onto

the agenda when they are on the

trip. You can just think of them

thinking, this wasn't one of the

things we should be doing on the

world stage. Prime Minister Abe

taking the lead. A whole lot of

people are saying they have given

too much food to the fish. One new

line on the harassment story in the

UK. We've been following it over the

last week. The Prime Minister has

sent out an announcement and she has

said there is a completely new

grievance procedure for parliament

that will come into effect in the

New Year. She has been meeting with

the party leaders today and they

have agreed that there should be a

completely new grievance procedure

for staff working here. If there has

been sexual harassment or bullying

of any sort employees should feel

comfortable that they are able to

come forward. Meanwhile, a man has

been charged with assault after

attacking US Senator Rand Paul. It's

not known what prompted the attack.

A judge in Belgium has ordered the

release of the Catalan leader Carles

Puigdemont. He is wanted on charges

including rebellion and sedition.

Extradition proceedings could begin

within two weeks. Catalonia made a

unilateral declaration of

Independence, you may remember, last

month. Plenty more to come. We will

be hearing from the head of the

OECD. You are watching 100 days from

the BBC.

Coming up for viewers on the BBC

News Channel and BBC World News -

as climate change talks begin

in Germany, we go live to Fiji

where the race to stop rising sea

levels gets more frantic by the day.

And next stop Seoul -

as President Trump leaves Tokyo

to continue his Asian tour,

what advice did he have

for the Japanese when it comes

to containing North Korea?

for the Japanese when it comes

to containing North Korea?

That's still to come.

Monday has allowed Autumn to show a

variety of faces across the British

Isles. It depended way you spend the

day. In the north-west, cloudy, wet

and windy. After a chilly start

further south, a glorious sort of a

day. Sunshine for the greater part

of the day. Cloud eventually

tempering the sunshine if not

robbing you of it altogether. That

cloud is going to be quite

important. That will help to keep

temperatures up. Slow progress on

this weather front. Cloudy, wet, and

windy weather already over the North

West of Scotland. Gradually it moves

to other northern and western parts

of the British Isles. Temperatures

will be closer towards the front but

behind it they may dip away. So,

little bit of sunshine north of the

great Glen, perhaps. Everywhere

south, from the West through to

Wales and the south-west, a

combination of wet and windy

weather. Another cloud for the odd

showery burst ahead of that through

the south-west. Further east, some

sunshine to start of the day. You

may hang onto it for a few hours.

This frontal system only moving very

slowly indeed. It will be well into

the afternoon before it shows its

hand down towards the wash and into

Sussex. A combination of sunny

spells and showers. Those clouds

wanting to clear again. So into

Wednesday we might have a widespread

frost. Particularly in rural areas

and in western Britain. Don't be

surprised if the morning looks like

that. Wednesday, giving me the sense

that it might look just a little bit

like Monday with a eventually more

cloud and wind and rain showing its

hand through the North West of

Scotland.

This is Beyond One Hundred Days,

with me Katty Kay in Washington -

Christian Fraser's in London.

President Trump's Commerce Secretary

denies misleading Congress

after leaked documents,

known as the Paradise Papers,

exposed his involvement in a company

with links to Russia.

The papers also reveal tech giant

Apple has a pile of cash worth tens

of billions of dollars in Jersey

where it pays no tax

Coming up in the next half hour -

President Trump continues his tour

of Asia and tells Tokyo to buy

more American weapons,

to shoot down North

Korean missiles.

We report live from the Fijian

island where climate

change is forcing families

from their homes.

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Most people don't understand

the complexities of offshore tax.

They have no need to -

they don't have enough money

to consider the schemes

and arrangements on offer.

But the Paradise Papers provide us

with a unique insight into how some

of our biggest organisations,

and the super rich, do it -

to avoid the taxes they might pay.

It's legal but it certainly

doesn't feel fair.

For years the OECD has been looking

at the tapestry of schemes

and networks that exist and trying

to find ways to close the loop

holes, for the benefit of cash

strapped governments.

Today the OECD Secretary-General

Angel Gurria was in London -

so I asked him, what has changed.

Isn't it still one rule for the rich

and another for everyone else?

You are talking about legacy, the

past, this is the way it used to be,

the past that is haunting us, we are

dismantling these structures. The

Panama papers and the Paradise

papers show some accounts which may

be in the taxman or tax woman's desk

in the next few months. There is now

automatic exchange of tax

information, which there was not in

the past. We are moving along

because they came politically

impossible and intolerable to

continue to have the situation.

You

stated in the past, the files reveal

America's most profitable company,

Apple, shopped around Europe and the

Caribbean for a new tax scheme after

Senate enquiry found they had moved

tens of billions of dollars. Even

after they had been found out they

were looking for ways to shelter the

money.

Well, of course they will

probably always continue to do that.

The question is how to convince them

there is nowhere to hide. What

happens now Apple has been fined 13

billion figures they were found to

have received state aid, the

equivalent of these tax facilities.

Now they have to pay this, it even

to Ireland or somebody. I believe

this belongs mostly to the United

States. When the United States

changes their tax laws and they

allow for the repatriation of these

profits, that are parked abroad.

Important to point out these

companies have not done anything

illegal. They are bending the rules?

Listen, what they are doing is using

the rules to their advantage.

Therefore what we should do is

change the rules.

Donald Trump at

the moment slashing corporate tax

rates, maybe people are saying if we

had to pay tax move to the countries

where there is a low corporate tax

rates. A race to the bottom.

If a

country can lower its tax rates and

still make ends meet, and have sound

public finances, well, so much the

better? The only question is you

have a tax rate, high or low, do not

give sweet are deals to any

particular company, do not give

privileges or prerogatives to any

company tax wise, so they will come

and establishing your company. If

you have lower overall tax rates,

companies come because they feel

attracted by that, that is it, there

will be other elements, like

productivity, the overall loss to do

business. The skill centre.

Can we

get you said reversing a decision on

Brexit would benefit the UK economy.

The Prime Minister has been

addressing the CBI, she says we

should go forward with rational

optimism.

It is inconsistent to say

we believe it cost something to go

through Brexit, that not going

through Brexit would save you money.

We continue to believe that. We are

now of course working with the UK,

for the UK, to make the process as

smooth and seamless as possible.

Do

you believe the Europeans are doing

that in an honest manner? Extending

the negotiating position is a

political decision?

It took 40 years

to create the Common Market, and the

European Union. There is absolutely

no reason why you should try to do

it in two years, because it is

written on some piece of paper. The

transitions that you need, you

should take, the terms you should

take. That goes for the Europeans,

who want a good deal, as much as for

the UK, who want a good deal.

Therefore, if you have both of the

parties involved wanting an

efficient, least disruptive deal

possible, then of course take as

much time as you need.

2017 is amongst the most warm on

record according to the Royal meet a

radical society. -- meter logical

society. The research was presented

on the opening day of the UN climate

talks Gerry change talks. The first

major summit of the international

community is President Trump took

the US out of the Paris agreement.

Climate change talks may be taking

place in Germany, but they are

hosted by Fiji, already feeling the

impact of rising sea levels.

Starting to relocate low-lying

coastal towns, with significant

human and financial costs. Let's get

more from a correspondent in Fiji.

Thank you for joining us. Tell us

the situation in Fiji making it the

host of these climate change talks.

How bad is it being felt there?

The

Fiji government has identified 68

coastal communities, little villages

which need to be relocated. They are

going to feel the impact of climate

change. Four those villages,

including one we had just been to,

they have already been evacuated and

moved to higher ground. The coastal

areas around her, trees, exposed

roots, it is more the human cost

that the Fiji government knows its

people are feeling.

Is Fiji

confident that hosting this

conference is going to give them an

opportunity to put their case to

developed countries? Basically

developing countries like Fiji are

paying the price of the excesses of

the developed countries?

Yes, indeed

they are. Also taking not just

Fiji's case, but also their Pacific

island neighbours. Fiji is one of

the lucky ones. There are coastal

communities having to relocate,

Kitty Vass does not have the luxury.

Two, three metres higher. They have

nowhere to go to. That is why the

government has bought five and a

half thousand acres of Fijian man.

They are planning to grow produce on

that land. Fiji is hoping that by

taking their neighbours and their

own cases to the world stage, people

will wake up and realise there are

real people affected.

Barbara what's

happening if the predictions are

correct? The sea may rise by up to

18 centimetres by 2030. Does not

sound a lot, but a low-lying land,

that will be quite devastating?

Absolutely. Already in the village

we went to yesterday, which has been

abandoned because of rising sea

levels, what would happen the higher

tides will just keep getting higher,

storm surges would increasingly

sweep through the village. Became

very unsafe for the people there.

They had to move. It is no easy

task. Costing around £300,000 just

to move that land. If there is

another 67 communities that has seen

move, that is a big costs. Also it

is the emotional cost. If you can

imagine having to leave behind the

graves of Iran censors, loved ones,

parents. It has been a huge

emotional ride for the people who

have had to be relocated, and there

are many more to come.

Thank you

very much. Christian and I tried to

promote the whole programme from

Fiji. Somehow our paymasters decided

that stretch the budget.

The 32-year-old Crown Prince

of Saudi Arabia is making

a huge power grab -

with the surprise arrests of dozens

of the most influential figures

in the Kingdom this weekend

and officials say

there are more to come.

Mohammed Bin Salman,

rounded up ministers,

businessmen and 11 of his own Royal

cousin.

The arrests were presented

as a crackdown on corruption.

But to many this looked

like the Crown Prince

consolidating his own position.

Among those detained,

one of the world's richest investors

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal,

and Prince Mutaib bin Abdullah,

a key rival to the crown prince.

Frank Gardner has spent

years reporting in Saudi

Arabia is with us.

What do you think is going on?

These

are absolutely seismic changes for

Saudi Arabia. A country not used to

sudden and big change, they're

getting it in the space of 48 hours,

a missile attack on Riyadh airport.

Helicopter crash where Prince 's

eye. This extraordinary public

humiliating round-up of

establishment figures. People right

at the top of Saudi society. They

are people who stand in the way the

Prince 's total mass mentor power

for himself. In terms of business,

the most important person, whose

wealth is estimated at $25 billion,

he is now reportedly being detained

in great comfort, it has to be said

at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh,

alongside 30 others. The most

important political figure Prince

Abdullah, heading the National Guard

in Saudi Arabia. The National Guard

is almost like a third force. It is

the praetorian guard, that offends

the interest of the ruling family.

Whoever controls that is really in

charge of the internal power base.

He has basically brought that under

his control. He has the whole lot of

the Army, the Ministry of interior

and the National Guard. No one left

with a power base to challenging.

Younger Saudis are welcoming this.

Fed up with seeing their country's

Wealth squandered. Enormous

disparity is well. There are a

number of poor Saudis. The young

guard see him as the future. The old

guard are not happy.

I bet they are

not, even if they are put up at the

Ritz-Carlton. I live in Saudi Arabia

in the 1970s. There were still

stories of brothers deposing

brothers, multiple coups. I guess we

thought those days were over. When

one member of the Royal family tried

to grab power in this way. Does this

suggest it is not?

I'm amazed you

were alive in the 1970s.

You can

come on any time.

Not that kind of

come on. In all seriousness, this

has been described by Bruce Reidel,

at the Brookings Institute, the most

volatile period in Saudi Arabia's is

to be in 50 years. King Faisal was

assassinated in 1975. They have had

up evils, the oil shock of the

invasion of Kuwait. Nothing quite

like this. Always been enormous

respect, a toe curling deference to

these unelected super-rich Princes.

To be taken down publicly like this

is really quite unprecedented. As I

said just now to Christian, there

will be people in the old guard

Conservative people who do not like

the direction he is going to. The

bigger backdrop, President Trump

came to Saudi Arabia in May, I cover

the trip, a huge success. Many

Saudis consider he gave the green

light to Crown Prince Mohammed Bin

Salman to do what he wants. That is

the view in Saudi Arabia.

So

interesting.

The President Trump make progress in

his trade trip to Japan.

A man has been convicted

of murdering his toddler

daughter in Cardiff,

just two weeks after

formally adopting her.

Matthew Scully-Hicks, who's 31,

inflicted numerous injuries

on 18-month-old Elsie over

an eight-month period.

Here's our Wales

Correspondent Sian Lloyd.

Baby Elsie, Matthew Scully-Hicks

found guilty of murder. The fitness

instructor has been covering up

months of abuse to social services

and key workers. This was the

recording of the moment.

Her injuries included a fractured

skull, several broken ribs and a

broken leg. There was evidence of

recent and Oldham bleeding in her

brain.

Consistent with having been struck

by hard object. The prosecution said

Matthew Scully-Hicks were struggling

to cope with her. In text to his

husband working your way, he called

a psycho, and Satan dressed up to

baby grow. Matthew Scully-Hicks had

applied to a doctor through the Vale

of Glamorgan Council. He had been

abusing the girl while social

services were supervising the

adoption process. The actions of

social workers, together with the

other agencies involved with the

family will now be scrutinised by an

independent review. Matthew

Scully-Hicks will be brought back to

court tomorrow, to be sentenced for

the murder of his adopted daughter.

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Beyond One Hundred Days.

Golf,

burgers and North Korea

were on the menu for

President Trump in Japan today.

The US President celebrated

his strong relationship

with Prime Minister Abe and pushed

for a robust response

to Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions.

The two leaders said

they would work together to 'stand

against the North Korean menace'.

Long ago on a trip to Tokyo, Donald

Trump is reported to have called the

Imperial Palace and the Martyn Day

meeting with the Emperor. Today he

finally got his wish. He also got a

much grander welcome Dan is normal,

for what is not a state visit. In

deeper rock courtyard of the Palace,

he got the full treatment. Prime

Minister Scully-Hicks at his side.

-- Prime Minister Abe by his side.

Japan is running at the red carpet,

showing that the US is their best

friend in Asia. It also presents

nervousness about President Trump's

intentions. For one, the US

president is no fan of imported

Japanese cars. Today he told

business leaders here he would not

allow them to continue flooding into

the United States.

Right now, our

trade with Japan is not fair, and it

is not open. I know it will be soon.

We won three and reciprocal trade.

But right now our trade with Japan

is not three and it is not

reciprocal.

As they met for lunch,

the biggest concern for both leaders

was North Korea and its missile. Two

which recently have flown over

Japan. Mr Abe was asked if he agreed

with President Trump that they

should start shooting them down.

TRANSLATION: As far as shooting down

missiles, we will shoot them down if

necessary. We will coordinate

closely with the United States.

At

that President Trump appeared to

swat away reducing Japan's huge

trade surplus with United States.

I

will say, if I can take a piece of

the Prime Minister'sanswer. He will

shoot them out of the sky when you

complete the purchase of a lot of

additional military equipment from

the United States. Will easily shoot

them at the sky.

For President Trump

this visit has been a success.

Avoiding any serious gaffes, and in

Prime Minister Abe, he has found a

kindred spirit. He should not expect

the same as his next up, in South

Korea.

And with me now is Sheila Smith

a senior fellow for Japan

studies at the Council

on Foreign Relations.

First of all explained in relations

between Abe and Donald Trump. They

do not seem like natural bedfellows?

You are right. Prime Minister Abe

may be a mature to President-elect

Trump before he was in office. He

did not know him, never met him. A

new phase in American politics. The

alliance is very important to Japan.

Prime Minister Abe has encouraged

the personal relationship. They have

met five times including this visit.

Speaking on the phone 16 times over

the course of the year.

What Donald

Trump seems to be doing is pushing

Prime Minister Abe to take more

robust response to North Korea. If

you buy American weaponry you can

shoot down North Korean missiles. Is

he encouraging Japan to be more

militarised?

I think so, he made a

comment that China better watch out,

if they do not cooperate over North

Korea they will have a warrior Japan

to deal with. He's playing with the

threat of a more militarised Japan

to emphasise the Chinese

responsibility for the problem. Abe

wants to buy more capabilities,

Japan need them because of the

missile threat. This is a question

that will be a deeply troubling one

inside Japan. The Japanese people

may not appreciate the pace the

president is encouraging the premise

that.

A lot of leaders in Europe

will not see IT why would Donald

Trump. Waiting for the time he's not

there. Is it different for Prime

Minister Abe? He watches the United

States and gets nervous Donald Trump

may not be there for the duration?

Two things are important here. The

Japanese, the Liberal Democrats, his

party are a Conservative Party.

There has been a traditional

sympathy for the Republican Party in

the United States. The other piece,

the personal piece is important. Mr

Abe has avoided chastising Mr Trump,

taking him on in terms of the issues

relating to democratic practice.

What many of the European leaders

worry about. On the reverse side

President Trump has not put the same

kind of pressure on Japan he has put

on the trade front on his European

allies. Chancellor angular Merkel,

or even South Korea. He basically

lay down the law in the middle of

the North Korean crisis, the trade

agreement with soul had to be

renegotiated. He has not done that

to Prime Minister Abe. The Prime

Minister encouraging a more private

negotiation on economics.

We talked

before about the misconception that

Japan is a pacifist nation. It does

not want to become a militarised

nation. Has the debate changed, and

they may react differently to

shooting down missiles?

I think you

are both right. I am working on a

book actually addressing this

question. Japan has been rearmed for

decades. It has one of the most

professional and competent

militaries. Technologically advanced

militaries in Asia. What is

different, the Japanese are hesitant

about the use of force. The

conditions in which they are

permitted under the current Gaza

Jewish and to use force. In the

public domain there is a very strong

consensus that Japan should use

force only in self-defence. Not for

offensive purposes. As Japan's

neighbours get more lethal in their

military capabilities, the Japanese

will have to think carefully about

how this question on the use of

force affects their posture.

I know this seems crazy, it is

election day in United States again.

A view races that are important. One

of which in Virginia. I will head

down to Richmond Virginia, the

capital, about two hours south of

Washington, DC. A world away from

the nation's capital. Feeling very

southern. We will report on the

Governor's race. A bellwether proxy

for the bigger debate between

Democrats and Republicans. We will

be in Richmond Virginia. In what

sense, a bellwether? Are they voting

on Trump, all issues closer to home?

Virginia has been a swing state, a

state traditionally Southern. Areas

very conservative. A big influx of

immigrants. Becoming more

democratic. This particular race is

interesting. The Republican

candidate has not allowed Donald

Trump to come and campaign for him.

He has adopted a lot of the

anti-immigrant, more hardline

message is, what we may call Donald

Trump's policy. The Democratic

candidate, he has been trying to put

over Aymore Moreira, classic

century, democratic message. The

question about Virginia, can all of

the anti-Trump feeling amongst

Democrats, the base being riled up,

the anger you feel in the resistant

movement, does it translate into

votes and a winning? That is the big

question in Virginia? Can Democrats

feel they can actually win with his

opposition to Donald Trump? That

will be the interesting question.

Plus Richmond is really nice. Who is

coming to keep the company? My son.

Who is studying. And