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[00:00:14] Life in London. This is BBC
[00:00:16] News. I'm Mark Logan. Ukraine accuses
[00:00:24] accuses Russia of ongoing deadly deadly attacks. Despite the so-called
[00:00:27] so-called energy ceasefire announced announced by President Trump. Two
[00:00:31] Two missile strikes on the international international airport in Riyadh within
[00:00:34] within two days as Yemen's Houthis Houthis escalate their attacks on
[00:00:38] on Saudi Arabia. I'm Sally Bundock
[00:00:41] Bundock coming later in business, business, energy chiefs pull out
[00:00:44] out of a major gathering in Riyadh
[00:00:46] Riyadh as the Houthi attacks intensify.
[00:00:50] intensify. Big night planned. And And Robert Pattinson tells the BBC
[00:00:54] BBC why he took on the role of a
[00:00:56] a journalist who helps expose child
[00:00:58] child predators in his new film Primetime.
[00:01:02] Primetime. It's both the most terrifying terrifying thing that can happen happen to you, whether you're if
[00:01:06] if you're a parent or even if you're
[00:01:07] you're not. It's like the. It's like
[00:01:11] like the most unimaginable sin possible.
[00:01:22] possible. Hello and a very warm welcome welcome to BBC News. I'm Mark Logan.
[00:01:25] Logan. We're beginning in Ukraine Ukraine because Kyiv is accusing
[00:01:29] accusing Russia of ongoing deadly deadly attacks despite a so-called
[00:01:32] so-called energy ceasefire proposed proposed by President Trump. Volodymyr
[00:01:36] Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia struck struck power plants following the
[00:01:39] the announcement and has continued continued to strike civilian areas.
[00:01:42] areas. This footage shows damage damage from an industrial site near
[00:01:45] near Kyiv. Yesterday, President Trump
[00:01:48] Trump posted this, claiming the two two sides agreed to stop attacks
[00:01:52] attacks on energy facilities effective effective immediately. But the Kremlin
[00:01:54] Kremlin has yet to comment. Mr Zelensky Zelensky said the announcement was
[00:01:58] was news to him, but that Ukraine Ukraine would support a ceasefire
[00:02:01] ceasefire if Russia sticks to the the terms. Relations between Mr Zelensky
[00:02:04] Zelensky and Mr Trump have deteriorated deteriorated as the US President
[00:02:08] President tries to get the cost of of oil and diesel down before the
[00:02:12] the US mid-term elections. Here's
[00:02:13] Here's Dan Johnson from Kyiv. On
[00:02:16] On the edge of Kharkiv. Last night.
[00:02:21] night. A reminder Russia has not
[00:02:23] not stopped attacking Ukraine. This
[00:02:27] This woman was filming after the
[00:02:29] the sirens asking where would be
[00:02:32] be hit. She was lucky to survive
[00:02:34] survive a strike on a shop that killed
[00:02:37] killed three people and injured more
[00:02:39] more than 20. This just hours after
[00:02:42] after Donald Trump announced his
[00:02:44] his partial truce on Truth Social.
[00:02:48] Social. He wrote effective immediately, immediately, there is an energy ceasefire
[00:02:50] ceasefire in the war between Russia Russia and Ukraine. Both parties
[00:02:54] parties have agreed. Do not break
[00:02:58] break it. Ukraine's been targeting
[00:03:01] targeting Russian oil refineries refineries in response to attacks
[00:03:03] attacks on its own power grid. Ukraine Ukraine said it was ready to cease
[00:03:07] cease if Russia did the same. But But Donald Trump's announcement appeared
[00:03:10] appeared to come as a surprise to
[00:03:13] to President Zelensky. Ukraine is
[00:03:16] is ready to refrain from striking striking Russia's energy infrastructure,
[00:03:20] infrastructure, and we expect Russia Russia to show the same readiness
[00:03:23] readiness and honour the agreement agreement reached with the President
[00:03:26] President of the United States. He
[00:03:29] He better damn well stop. It was
[00:03:31] was a tense weekend of fractured fractured US Ukraine relations. I
[00:03:35] I suggest they get a new leader who
[00:03:37] who can make a deal. The row started
[00:03:40] started when Donald Trump lifted lifted export restrictions on Russian
[00:03:43] Russian diesel. Many believe to ease
[00:03:45] ease fuel prices driven up by the
[00:03:48] the war in Iran. In Kyiv, the streets
[00:03:53] streets have fallen dark and quiet
[00:03:55] quiet as its power network has been
[00:03:57] been pounded. Many people here are are without light, heat or water
[00:04:01] water because electricity is needed needed to pump it. Ukrainians were
[00:04:04] were braced for a very difficult difficult few months ahead into the
[00:04:08] the winter. So there's a lot riding riding on this ceasefire. But even
[00:04:11] even if it holds, the war is not
[00:04:14] not over. That was hammered home
[00:04:18] home with more drones heading for
[00:04:20] for the capital. And within two hours
[00:04:25] hours this was Kharkiv's main power power station, leaving Ukrainians
[00:04:29] Ukrainians questioning what impact impact this ceasefire will have.
[00:04:32] have. Dan Johnson, BBC News in Kyiv. Kyiv. And we'll be speaking to Dan
[00:04:35] Dan in Kyiv in just a few moments.
[00:04:37] moments. So do stay with us for that.
[00:04:40] that. Now Yemen's Houthi rebels have
[00:04:43] have renewed their warnings against against using Saudi airports after
[00:04:46] after two deadly strikes on Riyadh's Riyadh's main international airport
[00:04:49] airport in as many days. Saudi officials officials say one person was killed
[00:04:53] killed and 11 were wounded in an an attack on King Khalid International
[00:04:57] International Airport on Sunday. Sunday. That came a day after 13
[00:04:59] 13 people were killed and more than than 300 injured in a missile strike,
[00:05:03] strike, the deadliest attack on Saudi Saudi soil in more than a decade.
[00:05:06] decade. We've received CCTV pictures pictures of the moment of Saturday's
[00:05:10] Saturday's attack. We're choosing choosing not to show you some of
[00:05:12] of these as they're too distressing. distressing. But in this footage
[00:05:15] footage from Saudi state television, television, all the passengers seen seen waiting for their flights do
[00:05:19] do manage to get up and escape after after the bright orange flash of
[00:05:22] of the missile tearing through the
[00:05:24] the building. The Iran-backed Houthis Houthis have said they're targeting
[00:05:28] targeting Saudi Arabia over its support support for government forces in
[00:05:31] in Yemen's civil war. In a post on
[00:05:33] on X Britain's embassy in Saudi Arabia
[00:05:36] Arabia advises British citizens against against all but essential travel
[00:05:39] travel to Jeddah, Dammam and all all airports in the kingdom except
[00:05:42] except for Medina. Here's our world
[00:05:43] world news correspondent Joe Inwood.
[00:05:46] Inwood. Saturday morning, one. Of Of Saudi Arabia's busiest airports.
[00:05:50] airports. Hundreds of people from from all over the world waiting for
[00:05:54] for their flight. Then this a missile
[00:05:57] missile hitting a crowded terminal, terminal, killing more than a dozen
[00:06:00] dozen people, wounding over 300.
[00:06:03] 300. Emergency services were said said to be overwhelmed late last
[00:06:07] last night. A group called the Houthis Houthis claim responsibility not
[00:06:11] not just for Saturday's attack but but for this one. Last Thursday at
[00:06:14] at the same airport, another one
[00:06:17] one yesterday, as well as one at at a state run gas plant with the
[00:06:21] the help of Almighty God, the armed
[00:06:22] armed forces carried out for qualitative
[00:06:25] qualitative operations over the past past 24 hours using a number of ballistic
[00:06:29] ballistic and winged missiles as as well as drones. The first operation
[00:06:32] operation targeted King Khalid Airport Airport in Riyadh. The second operation
[00:06:35] operation targeted an Aramco gas
[00:06:38] gas plant. The Houthis are a group
[00:06:40] group that control large parts of of Yemen just to the south of Saudi
[00:06:44] Saudi Arabia. For more than a decade, decade, there's been a brutal civil
[00:06:47] civil war there. The Houthis on one
[00:06:50] one side, the internationally recognised recognised government, which is backed
[00:06:53] backed by Saudi Arabia, on the other. other. For the last couple of years
[00:06:56] years there's been an uneasy truce. truce. But that's been shattered.
[00:07:00] shattered. The Houthis made lightning lightning advances down the coast
[00:07:04] coast last month, allowing them to to threaten Saudi shipping in the
[00:07:07] the Red Sea. Saudi Arabia responded
[00:07:10] responded with air strikes. The Houthis Houthis have been firing back. As
[00:07:13] As we've seen this weekend, President
[00:07:16] President Trump is an ally of the the Saudis. He condemned the attack
[00:07:19] attack on Riyadh airport but did
[00:07:21] did not say he would get involved. involved. I think it's terrible,
[00:07:24] terrible, terrible. The Saudis able able to defend themselves. Well.
[00:07:28] Well. They're able to defend look, look, the Saudis are good fighters.
[00:07:32] fighters. But I think the attack attack was a terrible thing. This
[00:07:35] This attack was the most severe on on Saudi soil in over a decade. Some
[00:07:39] Some of those killed are now being
[00:07:41] being identified. One of them, Buthaina Buthaina Awada, was a mother of four
[00:07:45] four from Syria. She was a victim victim of a conflict that she had
[00:07:48] had no part in. But that seems to
[00:07:51] to be escalating dangerously. Joe
[00:07:54] Joe Inwood, BBC News. Let's bring bring in our Middle East correspondent correspondent Yolande Knell live
[00:07:58] live with us from Jerusalem. Hi Yolande. Yolande. Two serious attacks in,
[00:08:02] in, in within two days. How serious
[00:08:03] serious an escalation is this? It's
[00:08:07] It's a very serious escalation, Mark. Mark. I mean, this is the deadliest
[00:08:10] deadliest single attack that there's there's been on any Gulf Arab countries
[00:08:14] countries since the US and Israel Israel started their attacks on Iran,
[00:08:18] Iran, triggering the Iran war at at the very end of February. It's It's the deadliest attack there's
[00:08:22] there's been on Saudi Arabia in more
[00:08:24] more than a decade. And it's really
[00:08:27] really worrying other Gulf Arab countries countries as well. With the United
[00:08:30] United Arab Emirates presidential presidential adviser commenting on
[00:08:34] on that earlier. The big question question now is about whether other
[00:08:38] other allies of Saudi Arabia are are ready to get more involved. It
[00:08:41] It has asked countries the UK, France,
[00:08:44] France, Egypt, Pakistan to help out
[00:08:46] out with its air defences because because although it does have advanced
[00:08:50] advanced air defence systems, you you know, there are questions being being raised about how it did not
[00:08:53] not manage to intercept these attacks
[00:08:55] attacks on its airports hitting terminal terminal three and four over the
[00:08:59] the past couple of days, stopping
[00:09:01] stopping flights going in and out
[00:09:03] out of Riyadh. We'll of course, President President Trump get more involved.
[00:09:07] involved. He's indicated that he he is weighing up his options, but but there's been nothing new from
[00:09:11] from the White House in the past past day on this. And Yolande, you
[00:09:14] you mentioned the most serious attacks attacks in the Gulf since the Iran
[00:09:17] Iran war began. It is relatively relatively quiet at the moment inside
[00:09:21] inside Iran. But this, I suppose suppose is is a continuation of the
[00:09:24] the Iran war, albeit by proxy with
[00:09:27] with Iran arming and backing the
[00:09:29] the Houthis. And of course, Saudis Saudis being the key ally of the
[00:09:33] the Americans in the region. Yes.
[00:09:35] Yes. I mean, this is a war that predates
[00:09:39] predates the one with Iran goes back
[00:09:42] back to 2015, but then really, you
[00:09:44] you know, when there was in 2022 2022 a ceasefire that was brokered
[00:09:48] brokered that pretty much froze the the front lines. But that cease fire
[00:09:52] fire could not stand up under the
[00:09:54] the pressure this summer as the regional
[00:09:56] regional war with Iran was really really escalating, the Houthis starting
[00:09:59] starting to get more involved. Then, Then, of course, last month, what
[00:10:01] what we saw is those major territorial
[00:10:05] territorial gains of theirs, particularly particularly along the Red Sea coast.
[00:10:08] coast. And then this month, the Saudi
[00:10:10] Saudi backed, internationally recognised recognised government has really
[00:10:14] really launched its counter-offensive counter-offensive against that. So So there have been these fierce battles
[00:10:17] battles that have been going on inside
[00:10:21] inside Yemen, alongside the attacks attacks that the Houthis have been
[00:10:23] been launching on the Saudis. Now, Now, what is important here is that
[00:10:26] that although the Houthis are considered
[00:10:28] considered to be a proxy of Iran,
[00:10:31] Iran, they do have, of course, their
[00:10:33] their own agenda. And we have had
[00:10:35] had experts commenting clearly that
[00:10:37] that while Iran, of course, has considerable considerable influence, it has been
[00:10:40] been arming the Houthis. It does does not call the shots here. You
[00:10:43] You land in Jerusalem. Thanks very
[00:10:46] very much. Let's go back to our top
[00:10:48] top story. The aftermath of that that so-called energy cease fire
[00:10:52] fire announcement in Ukraine by President President Trump. Let's go live to
[00:10:55] to Kyiv and speak to Dan Johnson. Johnson. Who's there? Hi, Dan. How
[00:10:59] How has the night been? Yeah, there
[00:11:04] there were further attacks on the the energy network across Ukraine
[00:11:08] Ukraine and on other targets too. too. So the early signs for this
[00:11:11] this cease fire are not good. Ukrainians Ukrainians were doubtful. They seem
[00:11:13] seem to have been taken by surprise surprise by Donald Trump's announcement.
[00:11:17] announcement. They will have hoped hoped that this can have an effect
[00:11:20] effect because they're feeling the the impact of power cuts already
[00:11:23] already and were braced for a very very difficult winter if Russia continued
[00:11:27] continued hitting the energy network. network. So in the best scenario,
[00:11:30] scenario, Donald Trump has announced announced something here, perhaps perhaps prematurely, but may be able
[00:11:34] able to will it into existence the the sort of way he's done diplomacy
[00:11:38] diplomacy in the past. If it doesn't doesn't work, it will be embarrassing embarrassing for Donald Trump and
[00:11:42] and presumably he'll need to find find someone to blame. And the Ukrainians
[00:11:44] Ukrainians fear that it'll be them
[00:11:46] them who get that blame. Now, whether whether this can actually come into
[00:11:50] into existence, be a reality and and have an impact is all down to
[00:11:53] to the Russians and what they decide decide to do. They've made no comment comment on this deal at all, and
[00:11:57] and we have very little detail. The The fact that they attacked at least
[00:12:00] least two more power stations in in the early hours of this cease cease fire. It's not a good sign,
[00:12:05] sign, but after that it's been a a reasonably quiet night, although although there have been further
[00:12:08] further Russian attacks on other other targets. Even if this does
[00:12:12] does work out, it doesn't mean the the war is over. Russia presumably
[00:12:15] presumably will continue firing drones drones and missiles at other targets,
[00:12:18] targets, and we'll have more of them them to use at whatever it chooses
[00:12:21] chooses to aim at next. Dan, you you talk about President Trump blaming
[00:12:24] blaming Ukraine. He did plenty of
[00:12:26] of that in the last 48 hours, hitting
[00:12:29] hitting out at Ukraine's president, president, talking about time for
[00:12:32] for a new leader because of Zelensky's
[00:12:34] Zelensky's condemnation of that diesel diesel deal with Russia. Just give
[00:12:37] give us a sense of the reaction in
[00:12:39] in Ukraine to Donald Trump's latest
[00:12:43] latest outburst. Yeah, it was a pretty
[00:12:46] pretty ugly weekend of tit-for-tat tit-for-tat back and forth between
[00:12:49] between the two presidents Zelensky Zelensky calling Donald Trump weak
[00:12:52] weak for the deal that he did with
[00:12:54] with Vladimir Putin to lift the restrictions
[00:12:56] restrictions on Russian diesel. President President Trump then calling for
[00:12:59] for elections for President Zelensky Zelensky to go for Ukraine to have
[00:13:02] have a new leader. It sounds like like behind the scenes there was was pressure being applied on Ukrainians
[00:13:06] Ukrainians to go along with this this deal even before they'd properly
[00:13:09] properly signed up to it. There were were threats, apparently, that America
[00:13:12] America would stop their access to to intelligence and weapons if they
[00:13:16] they didn't cease their attacks on
[00:13:17] on Russia's oil refineries and energy
[00:13:21] energy infrastructure. Whenever Donald Donald Trump has that sort of row
[00:13:23] row and slaps down President Zelensky, Zelensky, it tends to unite Ukrainians
[00:13:27] Ukrainians behind him. And we've we've seen that again. They were
[00:13:30] were all aware of how difficult the the winter could be. So I think the
[00:13:34] the Ukrainians have taken a sensible sensible position that this is what
[00:13:36] what they'd been calling for. It's It's what they wanted, and there's
[00:13:39] there's a small chance that it may may work out. But that is all in
[00:13:42] in the hands of Vladimir Putin and and the Russians to see what they
[00:13:46] they do next in terms of which targets targets they now focus on. Dan Johnson
[00:13:49] Johnson in Kyiv. Thanks very much.
[00:13:52] much. We're going to take a short
[00:13:53] short break back in a moment or two.
[00:14:56] On notice. How far might Putin go to test Nato? And is Europe ready? ready? The Security Brief live with
[00:14:59] with an audience here on BBC News.
[00:15:07] News. Welcome back to BBC News. Nato
[00:15:10] Nato Supreme Allied commander for for Europe is due to set out the
[00:15:13] the alliance's new strategy for combating combating ongoing Russian aggression
[00:15:16] aggression in Poland in the coming coming hours. Speaking to the BBC's
[00:15:19] BBC's Security Brief, the general's general's deputy Air Chief Marshal
[00:15:23] Marshal Sir Johnny Stringer, said said the so-called theory of victory
[00:15:26] victory strategy would aim to streamline streamline operations across land,
[00:15:29] land, sea, air, space and cyber in
[00:15:32] in order to outthink and outact against
[00:15:35] against Nato's adversaries. He's He's been speaking to the security
[00:15:39] security briefs Christian Fraser Fraser and Mikey Kay about the significance
[00:15:42] significance of the new strategy.
[00:15:45] strategy. And the concept that the the title of Theory of Victory goes
[00:15:48] goes goes back in military thinking
[00:15:50] thinking many, many decades. It kind
[00:15:52] kind of set out the main tenets of
[00:15:55] of how a commander would see him
[00:15:58] him using his forces, most obviously
[00:16:02] obviously for General Grinkevich Grinkevich in the defensive alliance
[00:16:05] alliance that is Nato in the deterrent
[00:16:07] deterrent sense. But make no mistake,
[00:16:10] mistake, if we had to fight any adversary,
[00:16:12] adversary, we fight to win and we we fight to restore deterrence. So
[00:16:16] So the tenets of a theory of victory victory and what I think you will
[00:16:20] will see my boss having set out is
[00:16:23] is integrating effects across what what we would call the domains. So
[00:16:27] So the traditional of air, land and
[00:16:31] and maritime, but increasingly important important of course, space and cyber
[00:16:35] cyber almost to underpin all. So
[00:16:37] So Johnny, I want to I want to hit
[00:16:40] hit the drone threat question on on the nose. We know that we know
[00:16:44] know that Russia is capable of putting
[00:16:46] putting 1500 drones into Ukraine Ukraine in a 24 hour period. If that
[00:16:50] that same number of drones came over
[00:16:52] over the border tonight into Nato
[00:16:55] Nato territory, could Nato stop them?
[00:16:58] them? And if they can, with what?
[00:17:00] what? So I think your question goes
[00:17:03] goes to two points of, if I may.
[00:17:05] may. The first, obviously on uncrewed uncrewed systems and maybe we'll
[00:17:09] we'll return to that, which is a
[00:17:11] a truism across all domains and has
[00:17:14] has been apparent for at least 20
[00:17:16] 20 years, even if the scale has differed
[00:17:19] differed to the particular question question on air defence. And it comes
[00:17:22] comes back to what I said about that that period of peace. We were able
[00:17:26] able to think of the employment of, of, in this case, most obviously
[00:17:30] obviously fighter jets in the role
[00:17:32] role of air policing. It almost had
[00:17:34] had that constabulary comfortable
[00:17:36] comfortable feel about it. What Ukraine
[00:17:40] Ukraine sadly has shown is. And Russian
[00:17:43] Russian aggression is that actually actually we need to re adopt an air
[00:17:46] air defence mindset. So to your point,
[00:17:50] point, one of the things that you you are already seeing is how we
[00:17:54] we are re posturing the forces that
[00:17:56] that we've got bringing in new systems
[00:17:58] systems to augment them because we've we've got to recognise that a threat
[00:18:02] threat that people would have been
[00:18:04] been comfortable with even maybe
[00:18:06] maybe five years ago in terms of
[00:18:08] of the capability that an adversary
[00:18:10] adversary had and all the scale at
[00:18:13] at which they could employ it now now ranges down to incredibly cheap
[00:18:16] cheap drones. At one end of the spectrum spectrum to ballistic missiles at
[00:18:20] at the other, and pretty much to
[00:18:21] to all points in between. So there's
[00:18:25] there's been significant work that's that's gone on in my part of Nato
[00:18:28] Nato and allied command operations
[00:18:31] operations to bring forces in all
[00:18:33] all of the domains back to those
[00:18:36] those five warfighting domains that that Nato recognises to make sure
[00:18:40] sure that the capability we put up
[00:18:41] up is as strong as it can be. And
[00:18:45] And remember, tomorrow is going to to be better than today. So this
[00:18:48] this doesn't stop that thinking applied
[00:18:51] applied to bringing in capability capability to the operational concepts
[00:18:54] concepts to make sure that we can can meet and beat any threat that
[00:18:58] that comes at us. And there's more more of that interview on the BBC
[00:19:02] BBC News YouTube channel and a reminder reminder that the Security Brief
[00:19:04] Brief is going live in front of a a studio audience tonight. You can
[00:19:08] can watch that here on BBC News, News, BBC iPlayer and the BBC News
[00:19:11] News YouTube channel today at 7:30pm
[00:19:14] 7:30pm UK time. Christine and Mikey Mikey will be taking you inside the
[00:19:17] the war in Ukraine with live analysis
[00:19:20] analysis and a panel of guests. Now
[00:19:24] Now a BBC investigation has revealed revealed that the world's biggest
[00:19:27] biggest accountancy firm helped falsify falsify documents that allowed the
[00:19:30] the former Chelsea Football Club
[00:19:32] Club owner Roman Abramovich to hide
[00:19:34] hide his wealth and evade tax. BBC BBC Panorama has uncovered hundreds
[00:19:38] hundreds of documents that were backdated backdated by the Russian billionaires
[00:19:41] billionaires advisers. Many were were drawn up with the help of Deloitte
[00:19:44] Deloitte Deloitte. Roman Abramovich Abramovich denies any wrongdoing
[00:19:47] wrongdoing and Deloitte says it complies
[00:19:49] complies with applicable laws. Richard
[00:19:51] Richard Bilton has this report. Things
[00:19:55] Things have changed for Roman Abramovich. Abramovich. He has been sanctioned
[00:19:59] sanctioned because of his links to to Vladimir Putin. He's been forced
[00:20:02] forced to sell his beloved Chelsea
[00:20:05] Chelsea and now revelations from from inside his financial empire.
[00:20:09] empire. If you want to understand understand Roman Abramovich, follow
[00:20:13] follow the money. This is Cyprus,
[00:20:15] Cyprus, home to a web of companies
[00:20:17] companies that were holding his wealth
[00:20:21] wealth working with the Bureau of
[00:20:23] of Investigative Journalism. Panorama Panorama has been investigating a
[00:20:26] a data leak which shows the lengths
[00:20:29] lengths some of his Cypriot advisers
[00:20:31] advisers went to hide his billions.
[00:20:33] billions. They falsified and backdated backdated hundreds of documents.
[00:20:37] documents. It is trying to cover
[00:20:39] cover up something and what we appear
[00:20:41] appear to have here is a fiddle factory
[00:20:44] factory in a fiddle factory you fiddle
[00:20:46] fiddle the transactions, you backdate
[00:20:49] backdate them and that is what appears appears to have been happening here
[00:20:52] here regularly. In 2003, one of Roman
[00:20:55] Roman Abramovich's Cypriot companies
[00:20:58] companies called Kravin Investments Investments had almost $2 billion
[00:21:02] billion of his money in the bank. bank. Deloitte confirmed certain
[00:21:06] certain changes will have to be made
[00:21:08] made to the accounts. That's Deloitte
[00:21:10] Deloitte apparently advising on falsifying
[00:21:13] falsifying financial records by backdating
[00:21:15] backdating them. The evidence suggests
[00:21:17] suggests it allowed Mr Abramovich
[00:21:19] Abramovich to evade millions in tax.
[00:21:23] tax. It's a straightforward and blatant.
[00:21:29] blatant. Move to. Protect from legitimate
[00:21:34] legitimate taxation assets which which should otherwise have been
[00:21:37] been subject to tax. So it's tax tax evasion. Yeah. Straightforward.
[00:21:40] Straightforward. And how serious serious is that? Well again if it
[00:21:43] it happened in England and it was was in the millions His Majesty's
[00:21:47] Majesty's Revenue and Customs would
[00:21:48] would be thinking about a prosecution.
[00:21:52] prosecution. Roman Abramovich's lawyers lawyers say he denies he evaded tax
[00:21:56] tax or concealed his fortune. They
[00:21:59] They say he was not involved in the the day to day operation of the companies,
[00:22:03] companies, and Panorama has provided provided no evidence that he knew
[00:22:07] knew of authorised or directed the
[00:22:10] the falsification or backdating of of any documents. Deloitte Cyprus
[00:22:14] Cyprus says it's unable to comment comment because the documents are
[00:22:17] are more than 20 years old and no
[00:22:20] no longer accessible. Richard Bilton, Bilton, BBC News. And if you're here
[00:22:23] here in the UK, you can watch Panorama, Panorama, Roman Abramovich how he
[00:22:27] he hid his fortune on iPlayer now
[00:22:29] now or on BBC One tonight at 8 pm.
[00:22:34] pm. The actor Robert Pattinson was was in London last night at the premiere
[00:22:38] premiere of his new film Primetime. Primetime. The movie dramatises the
[00:22:42] the production of the American reality reality television series To Catch
[00:22:44] Catch a Predator, which aired between
[00:22:48] between 2004 and 2007. Pattinson
[00:22:49] Pattinson stars as its host Chris
[00:22:52] Chris Hanson, an NBC journalist who who worked with a vigilante group
[00:22:55] group to expose child predators in
[00:22:57] in sting operations. The movie is is getting rave reviews, with many
[00:23:00] many critics saying he's going to to get an Oscar nomination. Let's
[00:23:03] Let's take a look. Are you sure your
[00:23:10] your parents aren't home? I'm sure.
[00:23:14] sure. Big night planned. Who are
[00:23:17] are you? Why don't you have a seat
[00:23:20] seat right there? I'm Chris Hansen
[00:23:23] Hansen with Dateline NBC, and we're we're doing a story on adults who
[00:23:26] who try to meet teens online. You
[00:23:30] You see how this looks right? And And our culture correspondent Noor
[00:23:34] Noor Nanji caught up with Robert Robert Pattinson on the red carpet
[00:23:37] carpet and asked him why he took took on the role of Chris Hansen.
[00:23:41] Hansen. I mean, it's both the most
[00:23:44] most terrifying thing that can happen happen to you, whether you're if if you're a parent or even if you're
[00:23:47] you're not. It's like the it's like
[00:23:51] like the most unimaginable sin possible.
[00:23:54] possible. And it's a kind of a it's
[00:23:56] it's like an unknown entity, which which is kind of it's been going
[00:24:00] going on since mediaeval times thinking
[00:24:01] thinking that there's a kind of almost
[00:24:04] almost it can come in this case through through the internet and attack vulnerable
[00:24:08] vulnerable children. And the show
[00:24:11] show was the kind of a microcosm microcosm of saying like, oh, we
[00:24:14] we can do something about it and and we can do something about it it really, really, really quickly.
[00:24:18] quickly. And in some ways that's
[00:24:20] that's correct. But it also makes makes for incredibly powerful TV.
[00:24:24] TV. And that's when it kind of gets gets a slightly dicey territory. territory. Do you think attitudes
[00:24:28] attitudes towards entertainment have
[00:24:30] have changed now? I think on mainstream
[00:24:34] mainstream TV, but then it's just just been replaced. I mean, that's that's kind of why I was interested
[00:24:38] interested in this show because I I could see the beginning of a new new wave of predator catching in
[00:24:42] in pretty much the same format that that it was in the early 2000, and
[00:24:45] and it was really taking off on TikTok. TikTok. And I was just interested
[00:24:48] interested as to why that was happening
[00:24:52] happening and whether it was a algorithmically
[00:24:55] algorithmically based interest or or what. I mean, what was causing
[00:24:58] causing it? And it got bigger and and bigger and bigger. And now it's
[00:25:02] it's one of the most. It's a massive massive thing on social media. So So it's just very interesting to
[00:25:05] to me. Noor Nanji and Robert Pattinson
[00:25:09] Pattinson and Sally Bundock is here here and almost rivalling Robert
[00:25:13] Robert Pattinson in also an Oscar Oscar star future Oscar star. Sally,
[00:25:17] Sally, what's on your agenda for for today? Well, it's a new business
[00:25:20] business week. Markets are open again
[00:25:22] again in Asia and there is just so so much for market watchers to try
[00:25:25] try and get their heads around the
[00:25:29] the intensity of the attacks in Saudi
[00:25:31] Saudi Arabia. Fatal attacks at the
[00:25:34] the airport, which has impacted the the World Petroleum Congress, which
[00:25:38] which was starting their gathering gathering on Sunday. So we'll be be talking about that. What's going
[00:25:42] going on, what it means for Saudi Saudi Arabia also as well. Of course,
[00:25:45] course, that deal struck between
[00:25:47] between President Putin and President President Trump with regards to diesel.
[00:25:50] diesel. So there is a lot happening happening with energy. Oil prices prices are creeping up today and
[00:25:54] and we've got the IMF World Bank Bank meeting going on in Bangkok,
[00:25:57] Bangkok, and we've got lots of earnings earnings news as well. So it's really, really, really busy Mark. So we're
[00:26:01] we're squishing it all in Business Business Today. In the next half
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