03/04/2016 World News Today

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A massive leak of confidential data from a law firm in Panama reveals

how the world's richest use tax havens to hide their wealth.

The secret papers reveal how a close friend of Vladimir Putin owned

companies that benefited from suspicious deals.

Staff at Brussels airport applaud the first flight to take off from

the airport since suicide bombers destroyed the departure hall and

killed 16 people 12 days ago. And in cricket, the West Indies men

and women are champions A leak of 11 million confidential

documents from a Panamanian law firm have revealed the extent

to which the world's rich and powerful use tax havens

to hide their wealth. The documents - which the BBC

has had access to - show how a law firm helped

clients launder money, Among the papers, suspicious deals

involving a close friend The firm - called Mossack Fonseca -

says it's operated beyond reproach for 40 years, and has never been

accused or charged with wrong-doing. Here's our Special

Correspondent Richard Bilton. Panama's carnival attracts visitors

from around the world. But away from the lights this place

is a thriving tax haven. Investors come to

Panama for secrecy. You can go to Panama and you can get

a foundation or a trust or a tobacco company and you can use those

complex, strange structures to hide or disguise ownership

or control of assets. An enormous leak of files

from the company Mossack Fonseca From outside it looks

like a respectable company, but this is a business which has

helped people from around The documents were leaked to German

newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung with the international consortium

of investigative journalists. Panorama has been

analysing the documents. We found links to 72 current

or former heads of state. Like the Icelandic Prime Minister

Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson. He had a secret stake

in an offshore company. The company held his wife's

interests in Iceland's banks worth Nobody knew that, when her husband

was dealing with the Icelandic banks Including the British demands

for compensation Gunnlaugsson is today facing calls

for his resignation, He walked out when questioned by an

Icelandic reporter. Gunnlaugsson is today facing calls

for his resignation, but he says he has not broken any

rules and his wife did not benefit Mossack Fonseca said the services

they provide are commonly used worldwide and they are responsible

members of the global financial But some of the deals

in the files are extraordinary. We believe we have found

a billion-dollar laundering This man, cellist Sergei Roldugin,

close friend of President Putin, was officially the owner of two

secretive companies which benefited For example, an offshore company

borrows $6 million. Three months later the loan

is written off, for just $1. Why would anyone want to give

all this cash to a cellist? There is nothing I've seen

which would make me do anything other than say stop,

we need to investigate very To you, does it look

like money-laundering? Sergei Roldugin has not

answered our questions, and Mossack Fonseca say they have

a strong compliance record. Through the leak, the world can now

see more clearly how the wealthy can Earlier I spoke to Gerard Ryle,

from the International Consortium He led the investigation so I asked

him how it was undertaken. The revelations here are global.

What we have done is pulled together a global team of journalists, more

than 370 journalists from more than 70 countries. We have had more than

100 media organisations join us. As we have gone through, we all help

each other put together the pieces. Everything we are seeing has major

public interest. How long did it take you? It has been more than a

year since we first got word from the German newspaper, Suddeutsche

Zeitung, that first got hold of these documents. They contacted us

to put together the international team. We have been working together

for more than a year now. How do you begin deciphering the information

you are looking at? It's piecemeal. You have to look at what sat public

interest and what's not of public interest. We focused on, is the

public interest things we seemed in the documents, and we have applied

that tests to everything we have done. Can you talk about the process

of looking through very completed information. What we are doing and

specialising in in the last couple of years is using technology in ways

that have never been used before in journalism. We have about half of my

staff, they are computer engineers and data specialists, and we are

pulling together tools that help journalists analyse very complicated

structures and documents like this. In the big issue of offshore

banking, is this about secrecy? For me, the whole offshore world

basically has one product, and that is secrecy. When you have secrecy,

you have the potential for wrongdoing. I should point out that

not everyone who uses the offshore world is engaged in wrongdoing, but

where you have secrecy you have that potential. Do you expect this

investigation to lead to any changes? What we are seeing in the

documents is the offshore world is reacting to crack downs on secrecy.

Every time a new rule is brought in, for instance in Europe or the UK,

the world is changing and adapting, and people are doing it in different

ways and by staying in the law. Flights have resumed from Brussels

airport is two weeks after suicide bombers killed 16 people. Staff

applauded the first of three fights to take off today but authorities

have warned it could be months before services are fully restored.

James Reynolds is in Brussels and gave us more details. It was a

symbolic moment and there was a moment of silence before the airport

reopens to remember the victims. When the first flight took off, a

flight to Portugal run by Brussels airlines, there was even scattered

applause on the ground, people happy to see the airport reopened. The

first flight left 25 minutes early. Only two more flights scheduled from

the airport and they also left early, to Italy and Greece. That's

it for the first day of operations, but there are plenty of new security

measures here. When you drive up to the airport you are now met by

soldiers and police officers. They are armed, they look at the cars,

and cameras check the license plates. If they are happy because

can proceed to the terminal building along the road. There is then a new

ID security check for passengers and then they will be allowed into the

terminal building. Those procedures have been put in place since the

attacks on March 22. Do we know when the airport will fully reopen after

the extensive damage done during attacks? It will be a gradual

process. Three flights took off today. We understand more than 20

flights are scheduled on Monday. The airport hopes to get back to full

capacity of operating more than 500 flights in and out every day by the

end of June when there is the huge rush for school holidays. It was ill

have to sort out some of the damage in the building and test some of its

procedures, that it will try to get back to where it was by the end of

June. -- it will still have to do. The captain and crew of the EgyptAir

flight which was hijacked and diverted to Cyrpus last month,

have spoken out about their ordeal. Flight 181 was forced to land

in Larnaca in Cyprus when Egyptian national Seif al-Din Mustafa

allegedly threatened to blow It later transpired that he was

wearing a fake explosives belt. All passengers and crew

were released unharmed Authorities say the hijacker

was motivated by a feud with his former wife, rather

than anything terrorism related. Crew member Hazim Nagi has described

the moment the hijacker TRANSLATION: The hijacker came

to the back of the plane He opened his shirt

and showed me the belt. He showed me a button and said

if he pushed it the whole plane would explode

with everyone on it. The crew knew something was up

when I went to talk to the pilot To be honest, the crew

gave me strength And here's what the captain

on the plane had to say TRANSLATION: You have to always

think of every eventuality I don't want to make

myself out to be a hero, but our training, which was given

to us by EgyptAir through the International Aviation

Authority, is what we were able to apply to a great extent

through the situation. The World Anti-Doping Agency,

has described newspaper allegations of drug-taking among elite

British sports stars, The comments come after a doctor's

been filmed claiming to have provided performance enhancing drugs

to top sports stars, including players at three

Premier league clubs Dr Mark Bonar has denied any

wrongdoing, but it's emerged tonight that he currently doesn't

have a licence to practice medicine The football clubs say the claims

are completely unfounded, and have no knowledge of any

of their players being involved. Obviously, some of these

treatments used are banned Having said that, I have worked

with lots of professional athletes Dr Mark Bonar, caught claiming

to have helped scores of sports Secretly filmed by the Sunday Times

last year, the London-based medic prescribes banned performance

enhancing drugs to an athlete posing If somebody came into me and said

why are you giving me BLEEP I can say, look, his testosterone

level is 15. The normal range is for - 30, and he has symptoms of

testosterone deficiency syndrome. His levels are suboptimal and I have

topped him up. The reason is to

improve performance. Bonar says he has worked with 150

elite sports people, including boxers, an England

cricketer, tennis players, Britsh cyclists and Premier

League footballers. If you are a footballer in your 30s,

how are you going to keep up There is no suggestion that any

of the three Premier League clubs implicated were aware

of any of the wrongdoing. They say the claims are false and

without foundation. Leicester City is one

of those clubs, and today, fans at the match against

Southampton gave their reaction. You would not want to be

paying to see a sport There is so much money in the game,

never say never, but as things stand they have not found anything

and we have got to continue and enjoy what we see

in front of us. The newspaper investigation stems

from evidence passed to the UK Anti-Doping Aagency two years ago

by a whistle-blower athlete. It said it failed to act at the time

because Mark Bonar was not governed They decided not to pass the case

on to the General Medical Council. The Culture, Media and Sport

Secretary John Whittingdale said he was shocked and deeply concerned

by these allegations and has asked for an urgent independent

investigation. He added doping could be made

a criminal offence for athletes. I welcome the fact there will be

an investigation into UK anti-doping and the way it operates,

and if that leads to more robust procedures being put in place,

more funding put in place, and hopefully at some stage, maybe

leading towards the criminlisation of steroid use in sports,

all that is positive. His conduct is currently the

investigation of an by the GMC. Today, Mark Bonar's clinic

terminated its agreement with him when it was revealed he does not

currently have a license In response to the

allegations Bonar said... These are

unsubstantiated allegations. Investigators will treat them with

caution until they are presented But they do raise questions

about those tasked with protecting clean sport and the fear will be

that amid a doping crisis, this could just be evidence

that the range of sports afflicted The suspicion currently hanging over

the integrity of sport shows little Stay with us on BBC

World News, still to come: That is it, the moment the West

Indies have won the game. The BBC's Justin Rowlatt will take is through

the fans reaction to the West Indies stunning T20 victory.

Police are investigating death threats made against a human rights

lawyer, who spoke out after the murder

Aamer Anwar who lives in the city, said he received the threats,

after calling for unity within Scotland's Muslim community.

The funeral took place yesterday of Asad Shah,

A man has appeared in court charged with murder.

Eighteen people have been injured after a train that was pulling

into Plymouth station crashed into another train that

Devon and Cornwall police said there had been a "low impact

At least one person has been taken to hospital,

Police are warning people not to use Santander cash machines

in Lancashire, as they say security has been compromised.

In the last few days, customers across the county have

reported seeing suspicious devices on the bank's machines,

which it's feared are used by criminals to steal

The latest headlines... A massively cough confidential data from a law

firm in -- a massive leak of confidential data from a law firm in

Panama has revealed... Greek coastguards have rescued

a boat full of people off the island of Lesbos - less than 24 hours

before Greece is due to begin returning people who have no claim

to asylum back to Turkey. The returns are a key part

of an agreement between the EU and Turkey aimed at stemming

the flow of migrants From Lesbos, Sarah Rainsford

sent this report. Every day hundreds of refugees

and migrants arrive Few know yet that their state

in Europe could be brief. I met Rada and her

family from Damascus. She told me she wants

to join her eldest son in Sweden and she is full

of smiles and hope. But from tomorrow migrants

will be sent back from here across the sea

as the new EU deal with Turkey We have some dreams. Just across the

harbour, a Turkish ferry is already in place for the deportations.

Greece says the first ago will be those who have not claimed asylum.

But at the camp were all migrants are now detained, there is little

information about what is planned, only rumours. Men, women and

children are crammed in here. They are worried and confused. When I

found her again, she was distraught. Her family are sleeping in the open

here, and as for requesting asylum, she doesn't even know what that is.

You don't look so happy as you did yesterday?

Not happy, all the time she's crying.

This morning, though, brought new exhausted arrivals.

Boats like this are still coming in every single day here to Greece.

People being helped to shore by the volunteers.

Starting to smile, some of them, as they finally realise

Whatever the politicians have agreed it's clear there are still plenty

of people willing to make this journey hoping they can move

From tomorrow tough new rules could deter them. The EU says it's about

ensuring safe new ways to ensure asylum. For the people here, the is

slamming shut. A train has derailed near

Philadelphia on the United States east coast, killing two

people and injuring 35. The train, with more than 340

passengers and seven crew members, The train hit something

and there were three or four really big bangs and it threw us off

the chairs, the seats Everybody was yelling

and the train stopped. And then later on everyone

was running to the front. All the conductors, and the people

in the front of the train It's been an exciting day for the

West Indies. There will be wild celebrations for fans of West Indies

cricket as they secured a double at the world Twenty20 in India winning

both the men's and women's competitions. The women were

convincing winners over Australia, but the men's matchup against

England went right down to the wire. England set a rather underwhelming

topics of 156, helped by 54 from Joe Root, but an excellent fielding

session from Eoin Morgan's side left the West Indies with 19 from the

last over. But Carlos Brathwaite hit what role sixes from the last four

balls to leave England with a devastating defeat.

Leicester City went seven points clear at the top

thanks to a 1-0 victory at home to Southampton.

It was a nervy performance after the international break,

with captain Wes Morgan heading the winner in the first-half.

But with six games to go it's Leicester's 4th straight 1-0 win.

It's another good step, another three points and another clean

sheet. One match less until the end. It was a normal match. We waited for

this kind of match, they played five at the back and wanted to close all

the space, but we found the space to score a goal. They had a fantastic

chance in the first half, but we worked so well. We did everything in

the second half. We had the substitutes to play even more

offensively. They have some good chances to kill the game after the

1-0. I think our start of the game was not good enough. That after

that, we came back into the game and had good chances to score. -- but

after that. They had fantastic defending in all the crosses in the

second half. Still, you have some key moments in the game. And it's a

different game then. Louis van Gaal's Manchester United

gave their hopes of Champions League qualification a boost

by beating Everton 1-0 at Old Trafford thanks

to a second-half winner from France It means United are now one point

behind 4th-placed Manchester City. It was very tight. Everton play very

good football and have great quality players in the midfield, quick

wingers and a very good striker. We knew it was difficult to beat them,

but we started very well in the second-half and we scored earlier

than them, and that was the difference. After the goal it's

easier to play because they open up more of the pitch and there are more

spaces to try to create more and we had a few more chances to score. At

the end, 1-0 was enough. Disappointing to come to Old

Trafford and perform in the manner that we did, if you look at the two

teams, the performances were very level. We ended up losing the game.

When you do that, you should never end up losing. If you can't win, you

certainly shouldn't lose. There was another win

for Mercedes in Formula One - and again the driver on top

was Germany's Nico Rosberg. He made it two wins from two this

season at the Bahrain Grand Prix, finishing ahead of Ferarri's Kimi

Raikonnen and team-mate The key was the start. I got a great

getaway. From then on I was trying to control the pace, but very happy

with today. Awesome to get another win.

There were wins for both world champions in cycling's

Slovakia's Peter Sagan took the men's race for the first time

It came right down to the last few metres in the women's race though.

With the chasing pack closing in on them, world champion

Lizzie Armitstead of Britain outsprinted Emma

But there was less than half a wheel in it.

It's her first win here - one better than her second place

More on that stunning win for the West Indies. We were at the stadium

in Kolkata. That's it, the moment the West Indies have won the game,

and what a game. It literally could not have been any closer. Let's see

what the fans think. FIREWORKS I had given up hope in the last

over, I said England have it. I was shaking. I started to congratulate.

He was congratulating them on the win. I reminded him that cricket was

a game of glorious uncertainties, never over until it's over.

Unbelievable emotion at the end, four sixes in a row. England did an

incredible job through the tournament, great young team, credit

to the country, and the West Indies had something incredible they could

pull out of the bag when they needed to. It was crazy. You thought you

had won the game, didn't you. Yes, but in Twenty20 cricket you can

never tell. How did it feel in the final over? It was gutting, to be

honest. It was awesome, very good. Do you think any of the team could

have pulled it out of the bag? Only New Zealand. Apart from New Zealand!

Congratulations to the west Indies team. Goodbye from us on the world

news team.