:00:00. > :00:00.This is BBC World News Today with me Tim Willcox.
:00:07. > :00:14.The first big political casualty of the Panama Papers.
:00:15. > :00:16.Iceland's Prime Minister resigns after allegations he concealed
:00:17. > :00:21.millions of dollars worth of investments in an offshore company.
:00:22. > :00:26.In other revelations from the Panama papers,
:00:27. > :00:29.Fifa's new president Gianni Infantino signed off on a contract
:00:30. > :00:35.with two businessmen who have since been accused of bribery
:00:36. > :00:41.Wooing voters in Wisconsin - Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are under
:00:42. > :00:44.pressure, as opinion polls say they're both trailing their rivals
:00:45. > :00:47.in the latest US presidential primary.
:00:48. > :00:50.Also coming up, as part of the US Marine force in Afghanistan, Lucca
:00:51. > :00:52.served hundreds of missions before being injured.
:00:53. > :01:09.Now Britain is bestowing her with one of its highest honours.
:01:10. > :01:13.It's being seen as the first big political casualty of the leak
:01:14. > :01:16.of millions of documents from a Panamanian law firm about
:01:17. > :01:22.The fallout from the huge data leak from the company Mossack Fonseca has
:01:23. > :01:27.Now Iceland's Prime Minister has been forced to resign
:01:28. > :01:32.after documents appear to reveal he and his wife concealed millions
:01:33. > :01:34.of dollars worth of investments in an offshore company.
:01:35. > :01:43.Our diplomatic correspondent James Robbins has the latest.
:01:44. > :01:49.The Prime Minister of Iceland is the first major casualty
:01:50. > :01:57.of the massive Panama Papers leaks which have shone a powerful
:01:58. > :02:05.spotlight on the secret world of offshore finance.
:02:06. > :02:06.Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson was accused of concealing millions
:02:07. > :02:09.He insists he has done nothing wrong.
:02:10. > :02:11.But huge crowds in front of the Icelandic parliament
:02:12. > :02:14.disagreed, some estimates say one tenth of the population took
:02:15. > :02:16.This is where the global scandal originated.
:02:17. > :02:18.A Panama-based law firm, Mossack Fonseca.
:02:19. > :02:21.11 million documents held here are passed to a German
:02:22. > :02:24.newspaper which shared them with over 100 media organisations,
:02:25. > :02:39.They show how the company helped clients launder money,
:02:40. > :02:42.Mossack Fonseca says it has never been charged
:02:43. > :02:46.When the Prime Minister sat down for a series of interviews,
:02:47. > :02:48.he was challenged about allegations that he was involved
:02:49. > :02:57.Now, he has walked from high office and tonight the journalist who got
:02:58. > :03:03.the interview told the BBC he is stunned and said
:03:04. > :03:04.the crisis goes far wider in Iceland.
:03:05. > :03:08.The population of Iceland is around 330,000.
:03:09. > :03:10.So far we have found around 800 offshore companies
:03:11. > :03:24.I think we are setting another world record here!
:03:25. > :03:26.Tonight, the Icelandic president rejected the calls
:03:27. > :03:29.for a snap election, saying he needs to consult
:03:30. > :03:37.Mr Gunnlaugsson might be going, but the government of Iceland
:03:38. > :03:43.is in turmoil as the fallout from the Panama Papers spreads.
:03:44. > :03:46.Let's cross now to Reykjavik to talk to the journalist you saw in that
:03:47. > :03:48.report, Johannes Kristjansson, who directly confronted
:03:49. > :03:50.the Prime Minister over his family's connection with
:03:51. > :04:06.we saw a dramatic interview. Are you surprised how quickly this is moving
:04:07. > :04:09.now? Yes, the till you the truth, bash back to tell you the truth, I
:04:10. > :04:16.have only been thinking about working on this story for ten months
:04:17. > :04:23.with other media partners. I was just doing my work. I didn't think
:04:24. > :04:30.so much about the consequences. This story is huge, and the fact that the
:04:31. > :04:37.Prime Minister walked out of the interview, it made the story they go
:04:38. > :04:45.because of that. -- bigger because of that. He didn't know that you are
:04:46. > :04:49.going to ask about that. Did he deny everything or did he say there was
:04:50. > :04:58.no trust? What exactly did he say when he was walking out? He didn't
:04:59. > :05:07.deny all of it. But he didn't tell us much. He said he had to go
:05:08. > :05:12.through some files to remember, and he got angry and he walked out of
:05:13. > :05:22.the interview. We invited him for another interview, to talk about
:05:23. > :05:33.this company. We did it not once, not twice, but three or four times.
:05:34. > :05:40.So he had in the world to explain. -- he had all the time in the world.
:05:41. > :05:47.What precisely has the Prime Minister done wrong? Has he done
:05:48. > :05:53.anything illegal? It is not about illegal. It is about the ethical
:05:54. > :06:03.standard of the most powerful man in Iceland. It is not about the legal
:06:04. > :06:09.aspect of the story. People here in Iceland are thinking about the moral
:06:10. > :06:13.and ethical. Because he stands to benefit from the banking system
:06:14. > :06:20.because of his investment. Can you explain that? He and his wife owned
:06:21. > :06:28.the company together until the last day of December 2009, when he sold
:06:29. > :06:37.his 60% to his wife for $1. And when he was negotiating with the
:06:38. > :06:48.president of the S manic banks -- the Icelandic banks, so, he was on
:06:49. > :06:57.both sides, or the negotiating table.
:06:58. > :07:00.The new Fifa Presidential Award and is the latest name to come out of
:07:01. > :07:08.the Panama papers. He
:07:09. > :07:09.signed off on a contract with two
:07:10. > :07:11.businessmen who have since been
:07:12. > :07:34.accused of bribery. It was meant to be a new start
:07:35. > :07:37.heralding a new era for Fifa. Everyone in the world will applaud
:07:38. > :07:42.us and we will applaud all of you with what we will do with Fifa in
:07:43. > :07:46.future. At just five weeks since Gianni Infantino's election, it is
:07:47. > :07:51.the past that threatens to cast an early shadow over his new rain. The
:07:52. > :07:55.Panama Papers have already implicated world leaders. Now the
:07:56. > :07:58.most powerful man input all has been dragged into the scandal. Among
:07:59. > :08:04.millions of leaked documents is this 2006 contract, a deal signed off by
:08:05. > :08:13.Gianni Infantino when he was a director at Uefa with an offshore
:08:14. > :08:18.company might want to stop it paid ?60 million for three rights of
:08:19. > :08:22.broadcast rights in Ecuador, then sold it on to a TV company for
:08:23. > :08:29.almost three times the price. Cross Trading was own by these two men.
:08:30. > :08:32.They were invited by US prosecutors last year as part of an FBI- let
:08:33. > :08:36.corruption investigation. The authorities allege that as the
:08:37. > :08:41.owners of Cross Trading, they paid millions of dollars in bribes over
:08:42. > :08:44.several years to South American football officials to secure TV
:08:45. > :08:50.rights to regional soccer tournaments. In a statement Uefa Mac
:08:51. > :09:11.said... According to Fifa, this is a matter
:09:12. > :09:15.for Uefa. But the problem facing Gianni Infantino as he settles into
:09:16. > :09:20.light in syrup is that it turns out, initially, Uefa then I is doing
:09:21. > :09:26.business with any of those individuals indicted last year when
:09:27. > :09:31.asked by a German newspaper. But the Panama Papers reveal that denial to
:09:32. > :09:36.be false. It is more damaging revelations for Fifa and Uefa. And
:09:37. > :09:40.again it begs the question, how many more transactions are there like
:09:41. > :09:43.this that we don't know about? What sort of checks to be ball in
:09:44. > :09:48.football do about the countries with which they have transactions and who
:09:49. > :09:53.audits those deals after they have been completed? Uefa says that it
:09:54. > :10:03.will cooperate with the FBI if asked to do so, and there is no suggestion
:10:04. > :10:05.that Gianni Infantino or TeleAmazonas is guilty of any
:10:06. > :10:10.wrongdoing, but the step was to be another setback for Fifa.
:10:11. > :10:14.With me now is our Sports News Correspondent, Richard Conway.
:10:15. > :10:21.How common is it for middlemen to act as brokers for TV rights? It is
:10:22. > :10:26.not uncommon for this to happen, but in this instance, what the Panama
:10:27. > :10:31.Papers have revealed as the details behind this. What we know from
:10:32. > :10:38.partners and sources are the numbers involved. We know that Cross
:10:39. > :10:44.Trading, this company, as Dan Rowan explained in his report, paid
:10:45. > :10:48.$111,000 for these rights but then sold them on an Ecuadorian TV
:10:49. > :10:53.company for triple that price. So they made a lot of money. And the
:10:54. > :10:57.Ecuadorian TV company feel as if they were effectively done out of
:10:58. > :11:02.this money because they were acting as the middleman on this. So it
:11:03. > :11:06.doesn't uncommon, but as you said before, there was no allegation of
:11:07. > :11:18.wrongdoing on the part of Gianni Infantino. But on that point, you
:11:19. > :11:24.said that he has done nothing wrong. But it is embarrassing for him. When
:11:25. > :11:27.this was put to Uefa last year, about, have you had any dealings
:11:28. > :11:32.with any of the people or companies involved in the big US corruption
:11:33. > :11:37.probe that we saw last year, with dawn raids, people indicted in May
:11:38. > :11:40.2015, they came back on two occasions and said no, we have had
:11:41. > :11:44.no dealings with them. Now, they have said that there were dealings
:11:45. > :11:49.but it was an open and competitive process that happened and this was
:11:50. > :11:54.one of many thousands of deals done over Champions League rights. Will
:11:55. > :11:58.the ethics committee get involved now, or what is the procedure? It'll
:11:59. > :12:04.be interesting see how this develops. One very senior source at
:12:05. > :12:07.Fifa said that in the interest of transparency this matter should be
:12:08. > :12:11.seen by the ethics committee because if there is nothing to hide, then
:12:12. > :12:18.there is no problem and it can be examined and dealt with fairly
:12:19. > :12:22.quickly. Where is Fifa in terms of the restructuring that means today
:12:23. > :12:28.please? It is five months since Gianni Infantino was elected as Fifa
:12:29. > :12:33.president. He was introduced as a break from the old regime. He
:12:34. > :12:36.introduced a package of reforms. This Congress in Mexico in a few
:12:37. > :12:40.weeks is about consolidating those reforms and looking to the future.
:12:41. > :12:44.They wanted to restore trust within three years. That was their aim.
:12:45. > :12:46.Thousands of migrants being held in camps in Greece
:12:47. > :12:49.That could slow the rate of returns to Turkey under
:12:50. > :12:57.The European Asylum Office says more than 60 of its officers will arrive
:12:58. > :12:59.on the island of Lesbos tomorrow to begin "admissibility
:13:00. > :13:05.The BBC's Sarah Rainsford is in Lesbos.
:13:06. > :13:08.This is the main detention camp here on Lesbos for migrants arriving
:13:09. > :13:13.here now and we've just come up here to find a big group of men
:13:14. > :13:16.mainly behind the main fence here who have been protesting.
:13:17. > :13:19.Some of their signs and say, "If you deport us, we die".
:13:20. > :13:22.Others are just saying, "Freedom".
:13:23. > :13:23.They've been shouting as well, "Freedom",
:13:24. > :13:28.We understand that most the people here taking part in this
:13:29. > :13:32.process are Pakistanis, although I have seen
:13:33. > :13:38.I've spoken to a volunteer who's been working in the migrant camps
:13:39. > :13:41.here on Lesbos who says that she knows many of these men
:13:42. > :13:44.and she says they do have legitimate claims for asylum.
:13:45. > :13:52.The problem is, they are worried those claims will not be considered
:13:53. > :13:55.and that they may be deported on the next ferries
:13:56. > :13:58.They've just darted shouting "freedom" again.
:13:59. > :14:04.This is the a peaceful protest for now, the right
:14:05. > :14:08.For the moment, it seems fairly calm.
:14:09. > :14:10.This is about people trying to express their fear and worries.
:14:11. > :14:13.Apart from these Pakistanis and Afghans, there are also a lot
:14:14. > :14:16.of people from Syria in this camp, people who have applied for asylum
:14:17. > :14:18.and who expect those applications to be considered.
:14:19. > :14:21.The problem is that that seems to be a very slow process.
:14:22. > :14:23.It seems that there aren't at this point enough officials,
:14:24. > :14:26.enough asylum experts, to consider those claims fully.
:14:27. > :14:29.We are expecting many experts, many assistants, to come
:14:30. > :14:32.from the EU to help with that process, but for the moment
:14:33. > :14:41.Of course, not just this crowd here, but everybody inside this camp
:14:42. > :14:44.is very concerned about one thing - they say they don't want to be
:14:45. > :14:47.sent back to Turkey, they want to stay here in Europe.
:14:48. > :14:49.The Swiss government has criticised a decision by a school to exempt
:14:50. > :14:53.male Muslim students from shaking hands with female teachers.
:14:54. > :14:57.Two students argued that Islam limits physical contact
:14:58. > :15:06.The Justice Minister says shaking hands is part of Swiss culture.
:15:07. > :15:11.Americans in the state of Wisconsin are heading to the polls today
:15:12. > :15:13.in the latest round of the US Presidential Election primary race.
:15:14. > :15:15.The most recent opinion polls for the Republicans put
:15:16. > :15:20.He says he could easily win the Republican nomination
:15:21. > :15:24.if the third candidate, John Kasich, drops out.
:15:25. > :15:26.For the Democrats, Bernie Sanders currently has a small lead
:15:27. > :15:35.There was high turnout from early hours
:15:36. > :15:40.Wisconsin plays an important role with both of the presidential
:15:41. > :15:49.On the Republican side, Donald Trump was stumping hard for votes
:15:50. > :15:53.But he's behind in the polls and if he loses here,
:15:54. > :15:54.winning the nomination will become a tougher battle.
:15:55. > :16:03.He even brought his wife out to try and sweeten his message,
:16:04. > :16:06.hoping to recover from a week of missteps that played
:16:07. > :16:10.70% of women now give him a thumbs down.
:16:11. > :16:12.Something he dismisses, along with any other evidence
:16:13. > :16:18.I think that I'm going to do very well with women.
:16:19. > :16:22.We just had a big meeting, many women at the meeting,
:16:23. > :16:25.and they liked me best because they say I'm best
:16:26. > :16:27.with the military, best with the borders, best
:16:28. > :16:29.for security and I'd said, I'm going to be best
:16:30. > :16:31.for women's health issues, much better than Hillary,
:16:32. > :16:36.Donald Trump's main rival, the Texan Senator Ted Cruz,
:16:37. > :16:39.sees a chance to make up for lost ground.
:16:40. > :16:41.He can't beat the front runner by winning this state alone,
:16:42. > :16:45.but it would give him crucial momentum, especially
:16:46. > :16:49.as the party's heavyweights also want to sink Trump's chances.
:16:50. > :16:53.I don't care what he says any more, I don't care what he tweets,
:16:54. > :16:55.what I'm focused on is how do we solve the real
:16:56. > :17:01.America has real challenges, and these are serious times.
:17:02. > :17:03.This is not the time for a circus sideshow.
:17:04. > :17:05.On the Democratic side, Senator Bernie Sanders is also
:17:06. > :17:08.looking to keep up momentum after a string of recent victories.
:17:09. > :17:16.Wisconsin looks good for him, but he did need to wind big and keep
:17:17. > :17:18.winning big to catch up with Hillary Clinton.
:17:19. > :17:20.That looks almost impossible, but Mr Sanders's strong showings
:17:21. > :17:24.and ferocious fundraising are making life tough for her.
:17:25. > :17:31.Now a look at some of the day's other news.
:17:32. > :17:33.Groups campaigning for a change to the abortion law
:17:34. > :17:35.in Northern Ireland have criticised the prosecution of a woman
:17:36. > :17:37.who bought drugs online to induce a miscarriage.
:17:38. > :17:40.Unlike the rest of the UK, abortion is only allowed
:17:41. > :17:43.in Northern Ireland if a woman's life is at risk or there
:17:44. > :17:46.is a permanent or serious risk to her mental or physical health.
:17:47. > :17:54.The woman was given a suspended prison sentence.
:17:55. > :17:57.Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces have agreed on an immediate
:17:58. > :17:59.ceasefire after nearly four days of fighting in the disputed
:18:00. > :18:02.Ethnic Armenians have controlled the mountainous enclave
:18:03. > :18:14.The conflict, which ended in 1994, flared up again on Saturday.
:18:15. > :18:16.South Africa's president Jacob Zuma has survived an opposition
:18:17. > :18:19.The motion was tabled after the country's highest court
:18:20. > :18:21.ruled he had violated the constitution by refusing
:18:22. > :18:24.to repay some of the millions of dollars of public funds
:18:25. > :18:34.The International Criminal Court has thrown out charges
:18:35. > :18:35.against Kenya's deputy president, William Ruto, over
:18:36. > :18:39.post-election violence, but stopped short of acquitting him.
:18:40. > :18:42.It leaves the way open for a possible future prosecution.
:18:43. > :18:47.Both men denied charges of crimes against humanity in connection
:18:48. > :18:49.with the deaths of more than 1,000 people in violence
:18:50. > :18:52.Our correspondent in The Hague, Anna Holligan,
:18:53. > :18:59.It's been a busy three years since the Kenyan deputy president,
:19:00. > :19:01.William Ruto, and his coaccused, the radio presenter Joshua
:19:02. > :19:08.They have both denied three charges of crimes against humanity,
:19:09. > :19:14.murder, forcible deportation and persecution.
:19:15. > :19:20.The violence erupted in late 2007, following a disputed election.
:19:21. > :19:22.And soon, what began as political riots quickly turned
:19:23. > :19:37.The Kenyan opposition leader accused the then-president
:19:38. > :19:43.More than 1,300 people were murdered.
:19:44. > :19:45.Approximately 600,000 were left homeless, too afraid
:19:46. > :19:51.It was Kenya's worst wave of violence since independence.
:19:52. > :19:57.Mr Ruto's defence team argued the charges against him
:19:58. > :20:05.The ICC prosecutor withdrew similar charges against the president
:20:06. > :20:09.in 2014 in connection with the same post-election violence.
:20:10. > :20:13.This case has led to a high-profile campaign
:20:14. > :20:16.against the ICC amongst some African nations,
:20:17. > :20:18.who accuse the court of demonstrating bias
:20:19. > :20:32.A criminal gang has been jailed for stealing rhino horn and Chinese
:20:33. > :20:37.antiques worth almost ?60 million from museums around the UK.
:20:38. > :20:41.The 14 men were said to have caused significant cultural loss
:20:42. > :20:43.to Britain, and the value of what they stole
:20:44. > :20:45.dwarfs the robbery last year in Hatton Garden.
:20:46. > :20:53.Our correspondent Robert Hall has more.
:20:54. > :20:56.They were dubbed "the Rathkeale Rovers", after the Irish town where
:20:57. > :21:03.Six of the key players were family. John and Richard O'Brien,
:21:04. > :21:04.their uncle Daniel O'Brien and their brother-in-law
:21:05. > :21:17.Their targets were collections of high-value Chinese artefacts and,
:21:18. > :21:21.Some of these people were experts in their own rights.
:21:22. > :21:23.They would often attend antique fairs and auction houses,
:21:24. > :21:26.so they have a really clear understanding of what's desirable,
:21:27. > :21:27.what's selling and what's high-value.
:21:28. > :21:30.Some of them were experts and they knew they could sell the items with
:21:31. > :21:34.This series of crimes took place over four months and involved more
:21:35. > :21:38.The men at the top, the planners, didn't take part in the actual
:21:39. > :21:40.break-ins, so mobile phone tracking was crucial in establishing links
:21:41. > :21:43.with other gang members and putting callers in the right place,
:21:44. > :21:48.Two gang members who snatched a Ming dynasty vase at Durham's
:21:49. > :21:50.Oriental Museum were tackled before they could escape.
:21:51. > :21:51.In Norwich, another raid verging on incompetent
:21:52. > :21:54.when four of the gang tried to steal a rhino head
:21:55. > :21:55.during opening hours, but it
:21:56. > :22:02.One member of staff kicked the man. Another grabbed their head and run
:22:03. > :22:09.off with it. Ramon Fonseca a month later,
:22:10. > :22:11.the gang spotted a rhino horn cup in Sussex but when the latest
:22:12. > :22:14.recruit strolled through the door, they look went for the wrong cup
:22:15. > :22:17.and they were grabbed by staff. Foiled again, they returned
:22:18. > :22:19.to Durham Oriental Museum, checking out the galleries
:22:20. > :22:22.and smashing their way in. They hid ?2 million worth of Chinese
:22:23. > :22:25.artefacts in a hedge but one burglar forgot where he put them
:22:26. > :22:28.and they were recovered. The gang were now desperate
:22:29. > :22:30.for success and a new plan took them to the Fitzwilliam
:22:31. > :22:37.Museum in Cambridge. On a spring day in 2012,
:22:38. > :22:39.three gang members They took a particular interest
:22:40. > :22:42.in the Oriental galleries. Just before half past seven
:22:43. > :22:44.the following evening, In just a couple of minutes,
:22:45. > :22:54.the burglars grabbed 18 objects with a market value of ?40 million
:22:55. > :23:04.which have not been seen since. It is a betrayal of trust. These
:23:05. > :23:10.objects belong to the public. And their theft by a series of selfish
:23:11. > :23:26.individuals has changed that. They are no longer on display.
:23:27. > :23:28.A criminal network that's thought to have operated across Europe
:23:29. > :23:30.has been closed down, but the treasures that
:23:31. > :23:32.belong to all of us have yet to be recovered.
:23:33. > :23:36.A military dog who lost a leg when sniffing out a roadside bomb in
:23:37. > :23:38.Afghanistan has been honoured at a ceremony in London. Lucca, a
:23:39. > :23:41.12-year-old German shepherd, was employed by the US military. But on
:23:42. > :23:52.Sangita Myska reports. front leg when a bomb went off.
:23:53. > :23:58.Her hand were tied the medal round. It is the highest honour that a
:23:59. > :24:04.military animal can achieve in combat and it is well-deserved. It
:24:05. > :24:10.is on measures like this in a rock in 2006 that Lucca work to keep
:24:11. > :24:11.hundreds of Allied troops say. Sent outside of army patrols, she
:24:12. > :24:15.searched for and discovered IEDs, arms discovered cache
:24:16. > :24:30.and even insurgents. it is a bond that the soldier who
:24:31. > :24:36.trained Lucca says is unbreakable. We treat them just like Marines. And
:24:37. > :24:43.our job is to properly employed a dog and just look out when we are on
:24:44. > :24:47.patrol. It is a true team effort. Was during the last day of
:24:48. > :24:53.everlasting mission in Afghanistan when she tripped and IED. The mashed
:24:54. > :24:56.but -- the massive explosion severed leg and she suffered terrible wounds
:24:57. > :25:00.to her chest. She was finally retired and return to the handler.
:25:01. > :25:07.He says that it is her that he owes his life. In my worst moments in, I
:25:08. > :25:11.lost one of my fellow dog teams in a clean-up operation south of Baghdad.
:25:12. > :25:16.Lucca has been described as a symbol of hope and inspiration. The saw
:25:17. > :25:18.Jaws whose lives she saved would certainly agree. Asch Magbi
:25:19. > :25:36.soldiers. The primers rob Iceland has resigned
:25:37. > :25:40.after allegations that he concealed millions of dollars worth of
:25:41. > :25:46.investments in an offshore Company. Revelations also about the new Fifa
:25:47. > :25:49.president Gianni Infantino, he signed off on a contract with two
:25:50. > :25:53.businessmen who have since been accused of bribery. There is no
:25:54. > :25:56.suggestion that Gianni Infantino has done anything wrong.
:25:57. > :26:10.For now from me and the rest of the team, goodbye.
:26:11. > :26:11.Some sunshine and some water made for a fairly