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:00:00. > :00:09.Hello, I'm Karin Giannone, welcome to BBC World News Today.

:00:10. > :00:12.The fall out from the Panama Papers continue - now more top politicians

:00:13. > :00:15.here in the UK go public with their earnings.

:00:16. > :00:17.After a week of pressure the British Prime Minister

:00:18. > :00:25.defended his financial affairs in Parliament.

:00:26. > :00:31.The publication of a prime ministers tax information in this way is

:00:32. > :00:35.unprecedented but I think it is the right thing to do. Ordinarily people

:00:36. > :00:39.in the country will not stand by this anymore. They want real

:00:40. > :00:41.justice. They want the wealthy to pay their share of tax like they pay

:00:42. > :00:43.when they work hard all the time. of fighting in Yemen,

:00:44. > :00:47.a ceasefire is in place - Some rare good news

:00:48. > :00:50.on wild tiger numbers - they are going up for the first time

:00:51. > :01:10.in modern history. The British Prime Minister has faced

:01:11. > :01:15.MPs for the first time since the row over his investment in his late

:01:16. > :01:17.father's offshore fund, details of which emerged in a leak

:01:18. > :01:41.of documents from Panama. Additional measures to make it

:01:42. > :01:46.harder to hide the proceeds of corruption offshore, to make sure

:01:47. > :01:51.that they can no longer get away with it and to investigate wrong

:01:52. > :02:00.doing. First let me deal with those places that function as tax centres.

:02:01. > :02:05.They will begin to share information from this September. That had never

:02:06. > :02:12.happened before I became Prime Minister and said this must happen.

:02:13. > :02:16.But we need to go further. We have now agreed that today will provide

:02:17. > :02:20.UK law enforcement and tax agencies with complete access to information

:02:21. > :02:26.on the beneficial ownership of companies. We have finalised

:02:27. > :02:31.arrangements of all of them except to, both of which we believe will

:02:32. > :02:36.follow in the coming months. For the first time UK police and law

:02:37. > :02:42.enforcement will be able to see who owns and controls every company

:02:43. > :02:53.incorporated in these territories. Isle of Man, Jersey, the lot.

:02:54. > :02:55.The Leader of the Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn has also published

:02:56. > :02:59.He accused David Cameron of not understanding how angry the public

:03:00. > :03:05.are about the revelations in the Panama Papers.

:03:06. > :03:13.The public no longer has trust in him to deal with these matters. Does

:03:14. > :03:18.he realise why people are so angry? Do members opposite realise? We have

:03:19. > :03:26.gone through six years of crushing austerity. Families lining up at

:03:27. > :03:30.food banks to feed their children. Disabled people losing their

:03:31. > :03:37.benefits. Elderly care reduced. Living standards going down. Much of

:03:38. > :03:41.this could have been avoided if our country had not been ripped off by

:03:42. > :03:49.the super rich refusing to pay their taxes. I say this to the Prime

:03:50. > :03:53.Minister. Ordinarily people in the country simply will not stand for

:03:54. > :03:58.this anymore. They want real justice. They want the wealthy to

:03:59. > :04:01.pay their share of tax like BP when they work hard all the time.

:04:02. > :04:07.Our political correspondent Rob Watson is in Westminster.

:04:08. > :04:12.A very lively afternoon in parliament but did the opposition

:04:13. > :04:17.land any heavy blows? I am not sure that the dead. It is

:04:18. > :04:23.always difficult to deal with these things. The last seven days has been

:04:24. > :04:27.a battlefield of insinuation and allegations flying this way or the

:04:28. > :04:33.other. Now the dust is beginning to settle. In a week David Cameron

:04:34. > :04:38.managed to take a lot of the heat out of it. The opposition Labour

:04:39. > :04:42.Party will say we got in our pennies worth and that they were able to get

:04:43. > :04:46.out that line which they like and which has been used by opposition

:04:47. > :04:50.across the Western world since the 2008 crash, that is there is an

:04:51. > :04:54.appearance of their being one rule for the rich and one rule for the

:04:55. > :04:57.rest. We heard David Cameron saying he has

:04:58. > :05:03.admitted he has handled this badly, you could have done better.

:05:04. > :05:07.Has done lasting damage? It is extraordinary when one her to make a

:05:08. > :05:11.statement. A lot of MPs were thinking why did he not make that

:05:12. > :05:15.one week ago. There is no evidence to suggest he has done anything

:05:16. > :05:19.wrong. It is all was difficult to answer those questions. In the

:05:20. > :05:22.short-term it is difficult for David Cameron and the Conservative Party

:05:23. > :05:26.because it does remind the country that other time in the Government is

:05:27. > :05:30.trying to reduce spending, a lot of senior ministers and the Government

:05:31. > :05:32.are wealthy people. David Cameron says he can't make no apology for

:05:33. > :05:52.that. To his authority? Probably not.

:05:53. > :05:55.People outside the UK might be wondering how has this become such a

:05:56. > :06:00.big story when David Cameron has not actually been accused of beating any

:06:01. > :06:08.rules, breaking any laws. The media will need to look at itself and who

:06:09. > :06:11.fear it has been in its coverage. The other reason writers such a hot

:06:12. > :06:16.issue is that in Britain we are quite funny about money and wealth

:06:17. > :06:19.and that kind of thing. I have spent a lot of my life in the United

:06:20. > :06:23.States where people have a more robust attitude towards people who

:06:24. > :06:27.are wealthy. In Britain there is a certain amount of resentment about

:06:28. > :06:30.tax and about the rich. All of that was fuelling it. All of it at a time

:06:31. > :06:38.of hostility. Why did a fireworks display go

:06:39. > :06:44.ahead, at a Hindu temple in Kerala, And what is being done to help

:06:45. > :06:49.the hundreds of families affected? All questions the authorities

:06:50. > :06:51.hope will be answered, by the criminal investigation

:06:52. > :06:53.and now the judicial inquiry, A parent who has lost her child

:06:54. > :07:03.and children who have lost their 14-year-old Krishna and her brother

:07:04. > :07:09.were at the fireworks display along with their mother

:07:10. > :07:18.and father on Saturday night. Their parents had set up a temporary

:07:19. > :07:20.tea The children escaped

:07:21. > :07:23.but the parents succumbed to Behind their home they

:07:24. > :07:32.were cremated on Sunday. TRANSLATION: My daughter

:07:33. > :07:34.and son-in-law were just trying to make some extra money

:07:35. > :07:37.for their children when all this We don't have the means

:07:38. > :07:41.to support the Traces of the disaster still visible

:07:42. > :07:48.on the ground where it This is the concrete structure

:07:49. > :07:58.where the fireworks were stored While there was a big blaze

:07:59. > :08:05.it's also pieces of this concrete that flew far and wide

:08:06. > :08:08.which caused many of the deaths and In one corner of the ground

:08:09. > :08:13.there are still a few stacks Local authorities have said

:08:14. > :08:16.there was no permission to Hence a firework display of this

:08:17. > :08:34.magnitude is dangerous. Police are now questioning

:08:35. > :08:42.the management of this temple to find out

:08:43. > :08:50.how that happened. A truce in Yemen is largely intact

:08:51. > :08:52.despite reports of ongoing A UN-brokered cessation

:08:53. > :08:56.of hostilities began It follows more than a year

:08:57. > :09:02.of fighting between forces loyal to the Government,

:09:03. > :09:06.who are backed by a Saudi-led Coalition, and Houthi rebels

:09:07. > :09:11.who're supported by Iran. Our correspondent

:09:12. > :09:19.Richard Galpin reports. Could this latest ceasefire in Yemen

:09:20. > :09:22.finally bring peace to the country after more than 18

:09:23. > :09:24.months of conflict? Here in the southern city of Aden

:09:25. > :09:27.the mood is not particularly This man, a local journalist,

:09:28. > :09:37.believes the truce is a positive move but is convinced

:09:38. > :09:40.that the Shi'ite Houthi rebels The fighting which continued right

:09:41. > :09:48.up to the start of the ceasefire on Sunday night has not

:09:49. > :09:49.stopped completely. Both the forces of the exiled

:09:50. > :09:52.government and the Houthi rebels have accused each other

:09:53. > :09:55.of violations in at least three Speaking last month, the Houthi

:09:56. > :10:01.leader said he was in favour TRANSLATION: We said at the very

:10:02. > :10:12.beginning the war cannot If there are solutions,

:10:13. > :10:15.it must be from dialogue, Already one of the

:10:16. > :10:20.Middle East's poorest countries, the civil war has killed

:10:21. > :10:23.thousands of people and forced more Much of the destruction is the

:10:24. > :10:34.result of a year-long campaign of air strikes by a Saudi led coalition

:10:35. > :10:37.in support of the exiled Yemeni The threat of famine now hangs over

:10:38. > :10:44.half of the country and the United Nations

:10:45. > :10:46.is calling on the two warring sides to respect

:10:47. > :10:48.the ceasefire so that peace

:10:49. > :10:54.talks, due to start next Now a look at some of

:10:55. > :11:06.the day's other news. An indigenous community in Canada

:11:07. > :11:08.has declared a state of emergency after 11 people tried to kill

:11:09. > :11:11.themselves in a single day. The chief of the Cree community says

:11:12. > :11:14.they have been overwhelmed Thousands of German steelworkers

:11:15. > :11:17.have staged demonstrations across the country to demand action

:11:18. > :11:20.to prevent China from dumping cheap The workers fear for their future

:11:21. > :11:26.because they say that European firms cannot compete with a flood

:11:27. > :11:32.of subsidised steel from China. China has unveiled an ambitious plan

:11:33. > :11:35.to become a world football A Government report sets out

:11:36. > :11:40.a detailed programme for the next three decades, beginning with a big

:11:41. > :11:43.push to get 50 million children Mind boggling - that's

:11:44. > :11:54.what the English golfer Danny Willett has called

:11:55. > :11:58.his victory at the US Masters in Augusta -

:11:59. > :12:00.one of the sport's most prestigious He is the first British player

:12:01. > :12:04.to win since Sir Nick Faldo 20 years ago and the first

:12:05. > :12:07.European player to win He made the win after world number

:12:08. > :12:11.one Jordan Speith took seven Willett, who also became a father

:12:12. > :12:17.for the first time just days before the tournament,

:12:18. > :12:19.said it had been a fantastic But it wasn't just him

:12:20. > :12:26.who made the headlines. His brother Pete drew in a lot

:12:27. > :12:29.of attention on Twitter for his running commentary

:12:30. > :12:31.during the last few hours - and here are some of the ones we can

:12:32. > :12:50.show you. This is what he had to say about how

:12:51. > :12:53.the night unfolded for him From seven o'clock onwards

:12:54. > :12:57.we were having a quiet drink looking forward to Danny hopefully finishing

:12:58. > :13:00.top Then on the 12th when

:13:01. > :13:07.Jordan Spieth did what he Me and my wife, we got

:13:08. > :13:16.a drink, an extra drink. Willett's win isn't the first

:13:17. > :13:20.unexpected victory to take In football, Leicester

:13:21. > :13:24.City looks set to win This time last year the Foxes

:13:25. > :13:29.were fighting relegation from England's top flight but now

:13:30. > :13:32.they are seven points ahead of their closest

:13:33. > :13:37.rival Tottenham. The horse Rule the World won

:13:38. > :13:40.at the Grand National race. The nine-year old horse

:13:41. > :13:41.had never previously won a steeplechase,

:13:42. > :13:43.while his 19-year-old jockey had not The win's being described

:13:44. > :13:49.as a fairytale. Meanwhile the West Indies cricket

:13:50. > :13:52.teams won both in the men's and women's at the ICC's World

:13:53. > :13:54.Twenty20. but especially the women who beat

:13:55. > :13:58.Australia in the final. It was the first time

:13:59. > :14:01.the West Indies women's team had won the tournament,

:14:02. > :14:02.with the Australians And what does it mean

:14:03. > :14:08.for the bookies? To find out I'm joined by Joe Crilly

:14:09. > :14:22.of the booking agent William Hill. On something like the Augusta

:14:23. > :14:28.Masters happens? Yesterday after the first nine of the final round Danny

:14:29. > :14:33.Willett was still 20-1 to win. He was 66 at the start. A result like

:14:34. > :14:39.that is a good thing for us. Jordan Spieth was massively on song. If it

:14:40. > :14:43.is good for outsiders, we see all these surprise wins, generally for

:14:44. > :14:47.bookmakers that is good news? It is because more people will back the

:14:48. > :14:51.favourites. We have placed them up because we think they are likely to

:14:52. > :14:55.win an event. There is an exception to this and I am fascinated because

:14:56. > :14:59.Leicester City being top of the Premier League is actually a bit

:15:00. > :15:02.concerning for you. There is a contingent of people who bet on

:15:03. > :15:03.their beloved football team regardless of the odds. That is

:15:04. > :15:30.right. At the start of the season? 5000-1.

:15:31. > :15:33.People placed tiny bit. The small spec was just 5p. The biggest was

:15:34. > :15:35.?20. If you take into account somebody like Chelsea or Manchester

:15:36. > :15:38.City you tend to see people putting down thousands and thousands of

:15:39. > :15:40.pounds at the start of the season because they think they are going to

:15:41. > :15:43.win. But because these people are backing their team at the start of

:15:44. > :15:47.the season we do not think they are grams oing to win it we keep the

:15:48. > :15:49.price at the same we keep the price at the same then we started to get

:15:50. > :15:52.out over ?2 million which would be we could be paying out over ?2

:15:53. > :15:54.million which would be the worst result in football markets. This is

:15:55. > :15:57.worrying and football markets. This is worrying are people manage to

:15:58. > :16:00.put. By huge them are people manage to put their bet on when it was

:16:01. > :16:04.5000-1. That is right. When you take into account the price the pay-out

:16:05. > :16:10.from those 25 bets alone will total more than ?360,000. Aside from that

:16:11. > :16:16.as it always the bookmaker that wins in the end? Do you ever see anything

:16:17. > :16:20.that deviates from that well worn phrase? Favourites tend to win

:16:21. > :16:26.roundabout a quarter of the time. Horse racing, huge sport betting

:16:27. > :16:32.turnover, quarter of the time, 25%, the favourites will win. We are

:16:33. > :16:34.hoping that we see more of the non-favourites, second favourites,

:16:35. > :16:39.third favourites, outsiders winning. It is rare that you get a 100-1

:16:40. > :16:43.winner. You tend to see horses in the middle of the field to provide

:16:44. > :16:47.the best results because people see the big prices and they say they

:16:48. > :16:52.will have a pound on that. They say the favourites and they lump onto

:16:53. > :16:58.the favourites. It is usually a horse that starts off at 33-1. The

:16:59. > :17:03.start of the date was 50-1. It is great with the bookmakers. We were

:17:04. > :17:05.looking at British earlier. We saw Jeremy Corbyn. You had some thing to

:17:06. > :17:10.say about him and Donald Trump and watches with the odds there.

:17:11. > :17:20.Politics is starting to become a little bit more unpredictable.

:17:21. > :17:28.Jeremy Corbyn doom and after Ed Miliband step down. He was 150-1 at

:17:29. > :17:33.the start of the process. Donald Trump was 200-1 at the start of the

:17:34. > :17:37.Republican nominations. Do people bet on politics? Are you still

:17:38. > :17:40.seeing a healthy flow of money? Yes, politics is getting more popular.

:17:41. > :17:45.More people have access to the politics on the TV. TV shows become

:17:46. > :17:49.global, people around the world and in the UK as well can watch American

:17:50. > :17:55.politics. They can watch Russian politics. They can watch politics

:17:56. > :17:59.from around the world. There is a real niche of punters that get

:18:00. > :18:04.involved in political betting. What are the odds on Donald Trump

:18:05. > :18:07.becoming Republican nomination. 1-2. The assault on. 6-1 to become

:18:08. > :18:12.President. Macedonian police have

:18:13. > :18:13.come under criticism by both the Greek officials

:18:14. > :18:16.and the United Nation's Refugee Agency - the UNHCR -

:18:17. > :18:19.after they fired tear gas at migrant protesters on the border

:18:20. > :18:21.with Greece yesterday. In a tweet, the agency said,

:18:22. > :18:24.we are very worried about use of tear gas against #refugees

:18:25. > :18:38.on Greece's northern border. Yesterday's unrest reportedly began

:18:39. > :18:40.after a group of migrants approached the fence to ask Macedonian border

:18:41. > :18:44.guards to open it and let them pass. Greece condemned the act -

:18:45. > :18:46.Medical charity Medicins San Frotiers said its staff had

:18:47. > :18:48.suffered from teargas when canisters were fired directly

:18:49. > :18:50.into the camp housing thousands. Conor Kenny, a doctor

:18:51. > :18:52.working with MSF says among The most serious concerns have been

:18:53. > :18:58.fractures and plastic bullet wounds We have had three children

:18:59. > :19:13.under the age of ten who have had a plastic

:19:14. > :19:16.bullet to the head. Other concerns are due

:19:17. > :19:18.to what has happened

:19:19. > :19:20.following a stampede. Many people have had chest injuries

:19:21. > :19:23.or crush injuries as a result of stampede either

:19:24. > :19:25.to or from the border. number of pregnant women who have

:19:26. > :19:29.come in who need assessment and up to 200 people who have been

:19:30. > :19:31.affected by teargas. In Malaysia, a giant reticulated

:19:32. > :19:33.python, thought to be the longest every caught,

:19:34. > :19:36.has died after laying eggs. The snake, which weighs

:19:37. > :19:37.almost 160 kilograms, It was found several days ago

:19:38. > :19:44.on the island of Penang. The snake was found under a fallen

:19:45. > :19:51.tree on a building site. Conservationists say

:19:52. > :19:53.the number of tigers living in the wild has increased,

:19:54. > :19:55.after decades of decline. A new estimate suggests there's been

:19:56. > :19:58.a rise of 700 compared with the last set of figures,

:19:59. > :20:00.six years ago. Our Science Editor David Shukman has

:20:01. > :20:03.been looking at the reasons why there's been this surprise

:20:04. > :20:05.turnaround in the tiger's fortunes. Tigers are among the most

:20:06. > :20:07.spectacular creatures in the natural For all their power and the fear

:20:08. > :20:12.they inspire, they are very Some years ago I joined a patrol

:20:13. > :20:18.in Thailand and tried to I felt like part of

:20:19. > :20:23.a military operations. The threat is from well-armed

:20:24. > :20:25.poachers and guards In the markets of Asia,

:20:26. > :20:30.tiger parts fetch high Demand for the animals

:20:31. > :20:35.is relentless. Tigers have been in

:20:36. > :20:42.trouble for decades. The red areas on this map

:20:43. > :20:44.show where they were Now the smaller orange areas

:20:45. > :20:48.are all they have got. There were about 100,000

:20:49. > :20:55.tigers 100 years ago. That collapsed down

:20:56. > :21:03.to Now there are welcomed signs

:21:04. > :21:07.of a slight increase, It has been the result of many

:21:08. > :21:13.decades of hard work. By governments, a lot

:21:14. > :21:15.of partners on the ground, the local communities

:21:16. > :21:17.coming together. The future of tigers

:21:18. > :21:26.still hangs by a thread. Every day the patrols need

:21:27. > :21:28.to keep watch. When guards do well,

:21:29. > :21:35.the numbers of tigers starts rising. Automatic cameras planted

:21:36. > :21:36.in the forest filmed these scenes of the

:21:37. > :21:38.animals passing by. It takes high technology

:21:39. > :21:40.and a large budget to keep

:21:41. > :21:48.the tigers alive. But without this effort,

:21:49. > :21:49.their only sanctuary Even through a thick pane

:21:50. > :21:59.of glass it is quite something to get this

:22:00. > :22:01.close to a tiger. The truth is there are many more

:22:02. > :22:03.of these magnificent animals in For those in the wild

:22:04. > :22:07.it is a constant Only in 13 countries

:22:08. > :22:15.do tigers roam free. In many of the rest,

:22:16. > :22:21.extinction remains Prince William has paid

:22:22. > :22:26.tribute to the Queen describing her as remarkably

:22:27. > :22:28.energetic and a wonderful He was speaking in India,

:22:29. > :22:33.at a party to celebrate the Queen's From there, our royal correspondent

:22:34. > :22:41.Nicholas Witchell reports. It was a grandson's

:22:42. > :22:45.personal tribute. At a reception at the British High

:22:46. > :22:48.Commissioner's residence in Delhi, William spoke of the monarch,

:22:49. > :22:51.his grandmother, who on Thursday of next week will

:22:52. > :22:55.celebrate her 90th birthday. I'm incredibly lucky

:22:56. > :23:00.to have my grandmother in my life. As she turns 90, she is an energetic

:23:01. > :23:03.and dedicated guiding force George and Charlotte too

:23:04. > :23:08.will discover how lucky they are to have such

:23:09. > :23:10.a wonderful great grandmother. A role model for the

:23:11. > :23:15.rest of their lives. And as a role model for her family,

:23:16. > :23:18.the Queen has set The quality most people

:23:19. > :23:22.would associate with the Queen And that has become a slightly

:23:23. > :23:28.sensitive issue for William recently, because there have been

:23:29. > :23:31.questions about his commitment So this visit is a chance

:23:32. > :23:38.to dispel those doubts. There's certainly been

:23:39. > :23:41.no lack of enthusiasm. This was William trying a racing car

:23:42. > :23:47.simulator in Mumbai. And in the serious moments,

:23:48. > :23:54.at the home of Mahatma Gandhi, and laying a wreath to India's war

:23:55. > :23:57.dead, William looks what he is - a future king shaping his own

:23:58. > :24:00.personality to the role from which he knows

:24:01. > :24:21.he cannot escape. Reaching your 100th birthday

:24:22. > :24:26.is a always quite an achievement. 100 years old but Verdun Hayes

:24:27. > :24:29.is not one for sitting still. For his birthday

:24:30. > :24:30.he wanted to skydive. Doing one thing and the other

:24:31. > :24:39.which other people do not Born during the First World War

:24:40. > :24:42.and named after the Battle of Verdun, he fought

:24:43. > :24:44.the Nazis but that was on the ground, and not

:24:45. > :24:46.in the Now a centenarian, he is at 10,000

:24:47. > :24:54.feet and ready to go. I said to them I want to be

:24:55. > :24:56.first out. It is thought he is

:24:57. > :25:28.the UK's oldest ever skydiver and in doing it he has

:25:29. > :25:31.raised money for a local hospice. By then he will be

:25:32. > :25:45.the oldest skydiver in Do get in touch via

:25:46. > :26:14.Twitter - I'm @KarinBBC. And there's a transition and where

:26:15. > :26:22.you can see huge contrast from day-to-day and from place to place.

:26:23. > :26:23.Weather fronts stranded across the heart of the