05/04/2016 BBC News at Six

Tonight - the first big political casualty from the mass leak

of documents about secret companies and tax havens.

The Prime Minister of Iceland is forced to resign after leaked

documents appear to show he and his wife hid

It follows protests outside the parliament building,

increasing the pressure on him to stand down.

Here, David Cameron is forced to deny he or his immediate family

I have no shares, no offshore trusts, no offshore funds.

The Labour leader calls for every Briton named in the leaked documents

about money hidden in tax havens to be investigated.

Two 15-year-old girls who battered and tortured a woman to death

in her own home are found guilty of murder.

A flurry of talks to try to rescue the Tata steel plant at Port Talbot.

One potential buyer raises hopes jobs could be saved.

And the military hero awarded the highest honour for saving

Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News...

The England prop Joe Marler faces a World Rugby disciplinary

hearing over the potentially racist comment he made to Wales player in

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

Tonight has seen the first big political casualty of the leak

of millions of documents from a Panamanian law firm

about secret companies and tax havens.

The fallout from the huge data leak from the company Mossack Fonseca has

Now Iceland's Prime Minister has been forced to resign

after documents appear to reveal he and his wife concealed millions

of dollars' worth of investments in an offshore company.

Our diplomatic correspondent, James Robbins, has the latest.

The Prime Minister of Iceland is the first major casualty of the massive

Panama Papers Lakes which have shone a powerful Spotlight on the secret

world of offshore finance. Sigmund Gunnlaugsson was accused of

concealing millions of dollars of family assets. He insists he has

done nothing wrong. But huge crowds in front of the Icelandic parliament

disagreed, some estimates say one tenth of the population took to the

streets. This is where the global scandal originated. A Panama -based

law firm, Mossack Fonseca. 11 million documents held here are

passed to a German newspaper which shared them with over 100 media

organisations, including the BBC. They shall have the company helped

clients want money, dodge shank and evade tax. Mossack Fonseca says it

has never been charged with criminal wrongdoing. When the Prime Minister

sat down for a series of interviews, he was challenged about allegations

that he was involved in financial concealment. Then, his response was

to walk out. Now, he has walked from high office and tonight the

journalist who got the interview told the BBC here stand and said the

crisis goes far wider. The publishing of Icelandic is around

330,000. -- published. So far we have fined around 800 offshore

companies linked to a slant in the data. And some 600 Icelandic names.

We are setting another world record here. Tonight, the Icelandic

president rejected the calls for a snap election, saying he needs to

consult other party leaders. Sigmund Gunnlaugsson might be going but the

government of Icelanders in turmoil as the fallout from the Panama

Papers spreads. -- I slant is in. Here, the Prime Minister has been

forced to lift the lid on his personal finances as Labour

calls for an investigation into all British people linked

to millions of leaked documents from Mossack Fonseca, including

David Cameron's own family. The Prime Minister insists no

government has done more to crack down on tax evasion

and that he personally has no savings off shore

or any shares at all. Here's our Economics Editor,

Kamal Ahmed. But come the Prime Minister. Binding

onto the stage, attempting to bind away from the tax controversy, David

Cameron was asked about an investment fund set up by his late

father in the tax haven of the Bahamas. Did the Prime Minister or

his family gain anything from the fund, nine or in the past? In terms

of my own financial affairs, I have no shares, I had a salary as Prime

Minister, and I have some savings. Which I get interest from and I have

a high is, which used to live in and we let out while living in Downing

Street and that is all I have, no shares, offshore trusts or funds,

nothing like that. Ian Cameron said at the fund in the 1980s and is no

suggestion he broke any rules. Downing Street said the fund 's

operation was a private matter and no government had done more to clamp

down on abuses of tax haven status. We have now got country after

country sharing text information, committing to beneficial ownership

registers which we never had before. Is there more to do? Absolutely. Am

I committed? Absolutely. That was not enough to satisfy the Leader of

the Opposition, the call for an enquiry into the Prime Minister and

any British person named in the Panama Papers. Jeremy Corbyn said he

would publish his own tax returns and said it was time to get tough on

tax havens. Britain has a huge responsibility because many of those

tax havens are in British overseas Territories or Crown dependencies.

The leaked documents show that tax havens have become honeypots of

international corruption, tax avoidance and tax evasion. What is

it that makes a secret worth keeping? In the spotlight today, one

of those territories, the British Virgin Islands, accused of helping

the wealthy avoid tax. Esther Corbyn even raised the possibility of

direct rule from the UK if Britain's tax havens did not follow the rules.

This is the headquarters of the British Virgin Islands government in

London. It is actually remarkably easy to set up a business in the

country. There are websites offering off-the-shelf company names which

say that you can set up a business overnight. For as little as $1500,

say that you can set up a business small change has made the British

Virgin Islands are leading tax haven. Some 432,000 international

businesses are registered there, making it the second-largest to

international businesses behind Hong Kong. The tax regime for those

countries is certainly light touch. There is no income tax, no capital

gains tax and no inheritance tax. There is also no public record of

any owners of the business and no accounts are published, injuring

secrecy and those operating there. The BVI said it had robust controls

and was strengthening them. An opinion backed by a senior figure

from another British overseas territory, the Cayman Islands. The

Cayman Islands and other territories display the highest standards of

transparency. Clearly, the British Government, whether Jeremy Corbyn is

a part of this or not, cannot go around imposing colonial rule

without substantial justification for doing so. David Cameron

certainly like to leave any personal controversy behind and next month's

corruption summit in London will be his opportunity to prove to the

public that he takes the issue of the wealthy and tax seriously. Kamal

Ahmed, BC news. Gavin Hewitt is in Reykjavik.

Ahmed, BC news. Gavin Hewitt is in around the

Ahmed, BC news. Gavin Hewitt is in political scalp claimed tonight

Ahmed, BC news. Gavin Hewitt is in and I slant? -- is in I slant?

Absolutely. He might be able to and I slant? -- is in I slant?

the protesters are back on the streets, kicking the fences of

Parliament and banging drums. They want a wider clean-out beyond that

of the Prime Minister resigning. And to understand this, you must go back

to 2008 and the collapse of three banks, it nearly brought down the

economy and they were involved in offshore dealings involving some

very precarious a natural products. The fact that the Prime Minister

here did not declare an interest in his wife's offshore company was a

failure of transparency and on top of that, and this is very important,

in other areas as well, they saw a conflict of interest because the

Prime Minister was involved in negotiations with creditors over

those failed banks and his wife stood to gain from that. His

position was almost impossible. The other key factor is, the mood

generally is different from 2008 after the financial crisis and the

people here certainly want to live in an atmosphere of absolute

transparency. Gavin Hewitt, thank you.

Other news now and two 15-year-old girls have been found guilty

of battering and torturing to death a woman in her home in Hartlepool.

Leeds Crown Court heard Angela Wrightson, who was 39,

died after a sustained and brutal attack which left her

The teenagers were 13 and 14 at the time.

Angela Wrightson was well liked in her local community.

They knew she was an alcoholic and looked out for her.

But her weakness was exploited by local children who would get her

And it was two vulnerable children who murdered this vulnerable woman.

A horrific, prolonged attack using household

A murder carried out by two girls, aged 13 and 14.

Throughout almost 25 years of service, I have never come

across such a brutal murder committed by such young girls.

Angela was subjected to a long and sustained attack

and the pathologist identified a significant number of injuries

to her body caused by at least 25 blows with weapons.

The young killers even took selfies in the hours

Their victim was still conscious at this point.

The girls' identities have been obscured because of their age.

The violence started here at 9pm in the evening.

At 11pm, the two killers left, but they returned a few hours later.

Then at 4.20am the next morning, they called police

They were both in care and were used to officers

In the back of the police van, they took more selfies

"On the busy van again" they wrote as a caption.

Their crime has left people here disgusted.

You cannot imagine two young girls doing that to another human being.

I went round to the house a few times and just sat with her.

Especially in the street where she lived, everybody

knew her in the street and everybody looked out

for her because they knew she was vulnerable.

The two killers of this woman wept as they were found guilty today.

Convicted of murder, aged just 15.

The Business Secretary, Sajid Javid, is on his way to India for talks

with the chairman of Tata Steel as efforts continue to find a buyer

The Welsh government has held its own talks with ministers.

Thousands of jobs in South Wales are under threat

Our Wales Correspondent, Hywel Griffith, is in Newport.

Hywel, is it looking more hopeful at all today?

One week into the crisis, there are still uncertainty, not least for the

tat outworkers in Newport but the city is home to smaller companies

with good ideas. Liberty highs says it could take over all of the

operations of Tata Steel without massive redundancies but wants to

decommission the blast furnaces at Port Talbot, the very centre of the

biggest steelworks in Britain. Dominating this landscape

for decades, Port Talbot's blast furnaces form what's known

as the 'heavy end' of this heavy industry, so the idea

that they could be taken Mark and Kate both know their jobs

are on the line as Tata put this place up for sale,

but they are not convinced different The heartbeat of this whole

community, the whole of the steel If they were to disappear

from the skyline, then the heartbeat, the dragon's breath

of Port Talbot would be taken away. We definitely would be looking

for somebody to take on the business as it is,

but we can't really reject Liberty says it would want

to replace these with electric arc furnaces that melt scrap steel

instead of using raw ingredients. It says it's a greener,

more flexible way of working. The company is clear this

is where Port Talbot's problems are. Upstream is where the challenge

lies. But in the upstream,

there is a solution, even though it is a very challenging

solution, and the solution is to change from making new steel

into recycling steel. Liberty does already have a small

stake in steel making here. In 2013, it took over this plant

in Newport, keeping workers on half pay for 18 months

until they resumed production. Ricky says workers in Port Talbot

have nothing to fear. Half pay or no pay, that's

all it was. You have to take the

lesser of two evils. Hopefully, Port Talbot

will come through. At the end of the day,

it's all the steel industry. This place may be big,

but it's nowhere near as vast But are Liberty the only

company coming forward? The Business Secretary says

others are interested. After being heavily criticised

for failing to be in Mumbai to talk to Tata last week,

he is heading there tonight. What I want to achieve

is to have a final sales Again, it comes back to our role,

the UK government role. I want to make sure that

when the documentation for that is issued, that it is clear

that the UK government understands it has got a role with every

potential buyer and that we are well For now, negotiations are producing

more heat than light. Any buyer may need the government

to help on power costs, pension liability, whilst

staying within EU rules. Any deal is still a long

way down the line. The Prime Minister of Iceland has

become the first political casualty following the mass leaking

of financial documents. Jail for the criminal gang who stole

artefacts worth millions And coming up in the

Sport on BBC News: It's the first of the Champions

League quarterfinals. Can anyone stop the

Champions, Barcelona? New regulations come into force

tomorrow targeting people who consider themselves

to have a problem with gambling. It affects nearly 300,000 people

in England and Scotland. The clampdown means every bookmaker,

casino, arcade and bingo hall across Britain must carry out a risk

assessment considering how to better protect children and gambling

addicts, and how to stop criminals The spin of the wheel,

the buzz of placing a bet. Despite the surge in online

gambling, going down to the bookies, the arcade or the casino

still appeals, and it's temptation A ruinous addiction saw Tony feed

more than ?1 million With it went his home,

his job and his marriage. So it was ?4,100 in the space of,

well, you can see here... And I just sat down and I thought

to myself, you know, And actually, I did contemplate,

you know, doing myself in. This addiction just completely takes

over your life. My son, you know, isn't

having the upbringing that I think my wife has reached

the limit of what she can take These assessments offer an extra

layer of protection. It's another form to fill in,

will it make a real difference? It will make a difference because it

will get businesses to really focus It will also help local authorities,

who are there to license those premises, understand what actions

the operators are taking. Some areas have

already gone further. In Manchester, this map combines

all the risks, to show There are plenty of

opportunities to win or lose. Bookmakers here, another

one on the corner and And if you need access to quick

cash, there's one, two, three, The map also shows schools,

homeless hostels and drug and alcohol treatment centres,

all adding to the risk. So I've now taken the steps

of getting myself banned from every But not before he'd piled up debts

across three countries. The risk assessments,

would they have made any difference? Would they have stopped you losing

that much money? I personally don't believe

that they will make one Bookmakers say they

welcome a further step A brief look at some

of the day's other news stories. have criticised the prosecution

to be made legal in Northern Ireland A judge at Belfast Crown Court

handed down a three-month suspended prison sentence to the woman,

who bought the drugs online. The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn,

has launched his party's He said the government

was systematically making the wrong choices and had the wrong

priorities, taking money from the very weak to fund tax cuts

for the very wealthiest. Elections will take place

across the UK on May 5th. A file of evidence linking

the serial killer Robert Black to the 1978 murder of the schoolgirl

Genette Tate has been handed to prosecutors by Devon

and Cornwall Police. Officers said they were close

to charging Black with the case, which is believed to be Britain's

longest-running missing person inquiry, when he died

earlier this year. The 13-year-old's body

has never been found. A criminal gang has been jailed

for stealing rhino horn and Chinese antiques worth almost ?60 million

from museums around the UK. The fourteen men were said

to have caused 'significant cultural loss' to Britain,

and the value of what they stole dwarfs the robbery last

year in Hatton Garden. Our correspondent

Robert Hall has more. They were dubbed 'the Rathkeale

Rovers', after the Irish town where Their targets were collections

of high-value Chinese artefacts and, in particular, objects made of rhino

horn, whose price on the black some of them were experts and they

knew they could sell the items with the network available.

The men at the top, the planners, didn't take part in the actual

break-ins, so mobile phone tracking was crucial in establishing links

with other gang members and putting callers in the right place,

Two gang members who snatched a Ming dynasty vase at Durham's Oriental

Museum were tackled before they could escape. In Norwich, another

raid verging on incompetent when four of the gang tried to steal a

rhino hedge during opening hours, it proved too heavy.

One of my staff kicked the man who was holding

The other member of staff immediately grabbed it

Ramon Fonseca a month later, the gang spotted a rhino horn cup in

Sussex but when the latest recruit strolled through the door, they look

went for the wrong cup and they were grabbed by staff. Foiled again, they

returned to Durham Oriental Museum, checking out the galleries and

smashing their way in. They hit ?2 million worth of Chinese artefacts

in a hedge but one burglar forgot where he put them and they were

recovered. The gang were now desperate for success and a new plan

took them to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Any spring day in

2012, in Cambridge. Any spring day in

the museum. They took a particular interest in the Oriental galleries.

Just before half past seven the following evening, the alarms went

off. In just a couple of minutes, the burglars grabbed objects with a

market value of ?40 million which have not been seen since.

It's a sort of betrayal of trust, because these objects actually

Their theft by a series of selfish individuals

One by one, the gang were arrested and charged, linked by phone

A criminal network that's thought to have operated across Europe

has been closed down, but the treasures that

belong to all of us have yet to be recovered.

A military dog which lost a leg sniffing out a roadside bomb

in Afghanistan has been awarded the animal equivalent

Lucca, a twelve-year-old German Shepherd, took part in more

than 400 missions with the US Marine Corps in Iraq

and Afghanistan, helping protect thousands of troops

Balancing on three paws, Lucca was today recognised

Her handler, Gunnery Sergeant Chris Willingham,

It is the highest honour a military animal can achieve in combat,

It's on missions like this one in Iraq in 2006 that Lucca

worked to keep hundreds of allied troops safe.

Sent out ahead of army patrols, she searched

for and discovered IEDs, arms caches and even insurgents.

She completed over 400 missions with the US Marines,

Not a single human life was lost while she was on patrol.

It's a bond the soldier who trained Lucca says is unbreakable.

And your job is to properly employ the dog and just look out

for her when you're out on patrol, so it's a true team effort.

But it was during the last day of her last mission in Afghanistan

that things went terribly wrong, when she tripped an IED.

The massive explosion severed Lucca's leg and she suffered

She was finally retired and returned to her handler,

who says it is to her that he owes his own life.

She was also there for me during my worst moments in combat

when I lost one of my fellow dog teams in an operation

Lucca's citation describes her as 'A symbol of hope

The soldiers whose lives she saved would certainly agree.

Sangita Myska, BBC News, Wellington Barracks.

A spell of fine weather for most of us today. Certainly competitors

today. It will not last long because tomorrow, we do it all over again

with lots of heavy showers around. This is fair weather clouds

scattered across the country. Chilly in rural areas tonight. But

tomorrow, it is the wind that makes it feel cold. We will see blustery

showers with hail and thunder. The changes already taking shape across

the Atlantic. This weather front, colder air following behind and that

races across the UK during tomorrow. But for the time being, a lot of dry

weather about. Some showers around earlier, but on balance, a dry

evening. Tonight, the rain reaches Northern Ireland and Western and

Northern areas. The selfie should stay dry, clear skies, five, 6

degrees in towns and cities and that chilly air reaches us tomorrow,

blustery winds around the post. And hail and thunder and sleet and snow

across the hills in the North. A blistering, chilly and changeable

day tomorrow with sunshine in between. These are the apparent

temperatures, what it might feel like, one or 2 degrees above

freezing, so you really notice the difference compared to today.

Copycat conditions on Thursday, if anything, across the South, it might

be worse, more cloud around, the rain might come and go. And rain

possible anywhere across the UK. Temperatures, 9 degrees, with a

strong wind, it feels colder. On Friday, another weather front at so

you get the message it is unsettled. This is Friday morning, Friday

afternoon, the rain getting into Northern Ireland, the West and

south-west and showers ahead of it. If you go out for the entire day,

take an umbrella, rain at any time. We want something better!

The Prime Minister of Iceland has become the first political casualty

following the mass leaking of documents about

Here, David Cameron has tonight he or his immediate family hold any

That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me.

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