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00:00:13Live from London. This is BBC
00:00:15News. I'm Mark Lowen. Ukraine accuses
00:00:23accuses Russia of ongoing deadly deadly attacks. Despite the so-called
00:00:26so-called energy ceasefire announced announced by President Trump. Two
00:00:30Two missile strikes on the international international airport in Riyadh within
00:00:34within two days as Yemen's Houthis Houthis escalate their attacks on
00:00:37on Saudi Arabia. A BBC investigation
00:00:40investigation finds the world's biggest biggest accountancy firm helped in
00:00:43in falsifying documents to hide the the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich's
00:00:47Abramovich's wealth and evade tax.
00:00:50tax. I'm Sally Bundock coming up up in business, energy chiefs pull
00:00:54pull out of a major gathering in
00:00:56in Riyadh as the Houthi attacks intensify.
00:01:01intensify. Big night planned. And And Robert Pattinson tells the BBC
00:01:05BBC why he took on the role of a a journalist who helps expose child
00:01:09child predators in his new film Primetime.
00:01:21Primetime. Hello and a very warm warm welcome to BBC News. I'm Mark Mark Logan. We're beginning this
00:01:25this hour in Ukraine because Kyiv Kyiv says Russia has continued carrying
00:01:28carrying out deadly attacks despite despite a so-called energy ceasefire
00:01:32ceasefire proposed by President Trump. Trump. Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia
00:01:35Russia hit power plants and civilian civilian areas following the announcement.
00:01:39announcement. This footage shows shows damage from an industrial site
00:01:41site near Kyiv. Yesterday, President President Trump posted this, claiming
00:01:45claiming the two sides had agreed agreed to stop attacks on energy
00:01:48energy facilities effective immediately. immediately. But the Kremlin has
00:01:50has yet to comment. Mr Zelensky said
00:01:53said the announcement was news to to him, but that Ukraine would support
00:01:56support a ceasefire if Russia sticks sticks to the terms. Relations between
00:02:00between Mr Zelensky and Mr Trump Trump have deteriorated again as
00:02:04as the US President tries to get get the cost of oil and diesel down
00:02:07down before the US mid-term elections. elections. Dan Johnson reports from
00:02:10from Kyiv. On the edge of Kharkiv
00:02:15Kharkiv last night. A reminder Russia
00:02:18Russia has not stopped attacking
00:02:22attacking Ukraine. This woman was
00:02:25was filming after the sirens. Asking
00:02:26Asking where would be hit. She was
00:02:30was lucky to survive a strike on on a shop that killed three people
00:02:33people and injured more than 20.
00:02:3720. This just hours after Donald
00:02:39Donald Trump announced his partial
00:02:42partial truce on Truth Social, he he wrote effective immediately, there
00:02:46there is an energy ceasefire in the the war between Russia and Ukraine.
00:02:50Ukraine. Both parties have agreed
00:02:52agreed do not break it. Ukraine's
00:02:56Ukraine's been targeting Russian Russian oil refineries in response
00:02:59response to attacks on its own power power grid. Ukraine said it was ready
00:03:03ready to cease if Russia did the the same. But Donald Trump's announcement
00:03:07announcement appeared to come as
00:03:07as a surprise to President Zelensky.
00:03:12Zelensky. Ukraine is ready to refrain
00:03:14refrain from striking Russia's energy energy infrastructure, and we expect
00:03:17expect Russia to show the same readiness readiness and honour. The agreement
00:03:21agreement reached with the President President of the United States. He
00:03:25He better damn well stop. It was
00:03:27was a tense weekend of fractured fractured US Ukraine relations. I
00:03:31I suggest they get a new leader who
00:03:34who can make a deal. The row started
00:03:37started when Donald Trump lifted lifted export restrictions on Russian
00:03:40Russian diesel. Many believe to ease
00:03:42ease fuel prices driven up by the
00:03:45the war in Iran. In Kyiv, the streets
00:03:49streets have fallen dark and quiet
00:03:52quiet as its power network has been
00:03:54been pounded. Many people here are are without light, heat or water
00:03:57water because electricity is needed needed to pump it. Ukrainians were
00:04:01were braced for a very difficult difficult few months ahead into the
00:04:04the winter. So there's a lot riding riding on this cease fire. But even
00:04:07even if it holds, the war is not
00:04:10not over. That was hammered home
00:04:15home with more drones heading for
00:04:16for the capital. And within two hours
00:04:21hours this was Kharkiv's main power power station, leaving Ukrainians
00:04:25Ukrainians questioning what impact impact this cease fire will have.
00:04:29have. Dan Johnson, BBC News in Kyiv.
00:04:31Kyiv. And Dan has this very latest
00:04:33latest update from Kyiv. Yeah. There
00:04:36There were further attacks on the the energy network across Ukraine
00:04:39Ukraine and on other targets too. too. So the early signs for this
00:04:42this cease fire are not good. Ukrainians Ukrainians were doubtful. They seem
00:04:45seem to have been taken by surprise surprise by Donald Trump's announcement.
00:04:48announcement. They will have hoped hoped that this can have an effect
00:04:51effect because they're feeling the the impact of power cuts already
00:04:54already and were braced for a very very difficult winter if Russia continued
00:04:58continued hitting the energy network. network. So in the best scenario.
00:05:02scenario. Donald Trump has announced announced something here, perhaps perhaps prematurely, but may be able
00:05:06able to will it into existence to to sort of way. He's done diplomacy
00:05:09diplomacy in the past. If it doesn't doesn't work, it'll be embarrassing embarrassing for Donald Trump. And
00:05:13And presumably he'll need to find find someone to blame. And the Ukrainians
00:05:16Ukrainians fear that it'll be them them who get that blame. Now, whether
00:05:20whether this can actually come into into existence, be a reality and
00:05:23and have an impact is all down to to the Russians and what they decide
00:05:26decide to do. They've made no comment comment on this deal at all, and
00:05:28and we have very little detail. The The fact that they attacked at least
00:05:32least two more power stations in in the early hours of this cease
00:05:35cease fire. It's not a good sign, sign, but after that it's been a a reasonably quiet night, although
00:05:39although there have been further further Russian attacks on other
00:05:41other targets. Even if this does does work out, it doesn't mean the
00:05:45the war is over. Russia presumably presumably will continue firing drones
00:05:48drones and missiles at other targets targets and will have more of them
00:05:51them to use at whatever it chooses chooses to aim at next. Dan, you
00:05:54you talk about President Trump blaming blaming Ukraine. He did plenty of
00:05:58of that in the last 48 hours, hitting hitting out at Ukraine's president,
00:06:02president, talking about time for
00:06:03for a new leader because of Zelensky's
00:06:06Zelensky's condemnation of that diesel diesel deal with Russia. Just give
00:06:08give us a sense of the reaction in
00:06:10in Ukraine to Donald Trump's latest
00:06:13latest outburst. Yeah, it was a pretty
00:06:17pretty ugly weekend of tit-for-tat tit-for-tat back and forth between
00:06:21between the two presidents Zelensky Zelensky calling Donald Trump weak
00:06:23weak for the deal that he did with
00:06:25with Vladimir Putin to lift the restrictions restrictions on Russian diesel. President
00:06:29President Trump then calling for for elections for President Zelensky
00:06:32Zelensky to go for Ukraine to have have a new leader. It sounds like like behind the scenes there was
00:06:36was pressure being applied on the the Ukrainians to go along with this
00:06:39this deal even before they'd properly properly signed up to it. There were
00:06:42were threats, apparently, that America America would stop their access to
00:06:46to intelligence and weapons if they they didn't cease their attacks on
00:06:49on Russia's oil refineries and energy
00:06:52energy infrastructure. Whenever Donald Donald Trump has that sort of row
00:06:55row and slaps down President Zelensky, Zelensky, it tends to unite Ukrainians
00:06:59Ukrainians behind him. And we've we've seen that again. They were
00:07:02were all aware of how difficult the the winter could be. So I think the
00:07:05the Ukrainians have taken a sensible sensible position that this is what
00:07:08what they'd been calling for. It's It's what they wanted. And there's
00:07:11there's a small chance that it may may work out. But that is all in
00:07:14in the hands of Vladimir Putin and and the Russians to see what they
00:07:17they do next in terms of which targets targets they now focus on. Dan Johnson
00:07:21Johnson in Kyiv. Well, Kaja Kallas Kallas is the European Union's high
00:07:25high representative for foreign affairs affairs and security. She gave a
00:07:28a cautious response to the so-called
00:07:30so-called energy ceasefire. We welcome
00:07:34welcome the energy ceasefire when when it holds. We haven't yet seen
00:07:37seen that. That also Russia will
00:07:40will stick to it, of course. Personally, Personally, I would also welcome
00:07:44welcome that the ceasefire would would include people not being killed,
00:07:47killed, not only energy but also
00:07:49also energy is extremely important
00:07:52important because the winter is going
00:07:54going to be cold and so it's important
00:07:56important that it doesn't only apply
00:07:59apply to the refineries where, you you know, Ukraine has one and Russia
00:08:02Russia has plenty. So it's definitely
00:08:04definitely in the benefit of the
00:08:07the Russians. Kaja Kallas EU foreign foreign policy chief there to the
00:08:11the Middle East. Now Yemen's Houthi Houthi rebels have renewed their
00:08:14their warnings against using airports airports in Saudi Arabia. It comes
00:08:17comes after two deadly strikes on on Riyadh's main international airport
00:08:20airport in as many days. Saudi officials officials say one person was killed
00:08:24killed and 11 wounded in an attack attack on King Khalid International
00:08:27International Airport on Sunday, Sunday, the day before 13 people people were killed and more than
00:08:31than 300 injured in a missile strike. strike. That was the deadliest attack
00:08:34attack on Saudi soil in more than
00:08:36than a decade. Well, we've had these
00:08:39these CCTV pictures in of the moment moment of Saturday's attack. We're
00:08:41We're choosing not to show you some some of these as they're too distressing.
00:08:45distressing. But in this footage footage from Saudi state TV, all
00:08:48all the passengers seen waiting for for their flights do manage to get
00:08:51get up and escape after the bright bright orange flash of the missile
00:08:55missile tearing through the building, building, the Iran-backed Houthis Houthis say they're targeting Saudi
00:08:59Saudi Arabia over its support for for government forces in Yemen's
00:09:02Yemen's civil war. In a post on X,
00:09:04X, the British Embassy in Saudi Arabia Arabia advises British citizens against
00:09:08against all but essential travel travel to Jeddah, Dammam and all
00:09:12all airports in the kingdom except except for Medina. Here's our world
00:09:15world news correspondent Joe Inwood.
00:09:18Inwood. Saturday morning, one of of Saudi Arabia's busiest airports.
00:09:21airports. Hundreds of people from from all over the world waiting for
00:09:24for their flight. Then this a missile
00:09:28missile hitting a crowded terminal, terminal, killing more than a dozen
00:09:31dozen people, wounding over 300.
00:09:34300. The emergency services were were said to be overwhelmed. Late
00:09:38Late last night, a group called the the Houthis claimed responsibility
00:09:41responsibility not just for Saturday's Saturday's attack but for this one.
00:09:44one. Last Thursday at the same airport,
00:09:47airport, another one yesterday, as as well as one at a state run gas
00:09:51gas plant with the help of Almighty Almighty God, the armed forces carried
00:09:55carried out for qualitative operations operations over the past 24 hours
00:09:58hours using a number of ballistic ballistic and winged missiles as
00:10:02as well as drones. The first operation operation targeted King Khalid Airport
00:10:04Airport in Riyadh. The second operation
00:10:07operation targeted an Aramco gas
00:10:09gas plant. The Houthis are a group group that control large parts of
00:10:13of Yemen just to the south of Saudi
00:10:15Saudi Arabia. For more than a decade, decade, there's been a brutal civil
00:10:18civil war there. The Houthis on one
00:10:21one side, the internationally recognised recognised government, which is backed
00:10:24backed by Saudi Arabia, on the other, other, for the last couple of years
00:10:28years there's been an uneasy truce. truce. But that's been shattered.
00:10:31shattered. The Houthis made lightning lightning advances down the coast
00:10:35coast last month, allowing them to to threaten Saudi shipping in the
00:10:38the Red Sea. Saudi Arabia responded
00:10:41responded with air strikes. The Houthis Houthis have been firing back. As
00:10:45As we've seen this weekend, President
00:10:47President Trump is an ally of the the Saudis. He condemned the attack
00:10:50attack on Riyadh airport but did did not say he would get involved.
00:10:54involved. I think it's terrible, terrible, terrible. The Saudis able
00:10:58able to defend themselves. Us well well they're able to defend. The
00:11:01The Saudis are good fighters. But But I think the attack was a terrible
00:11:05terrible thing. This attack was the the most severe on Saudi soil in
00:11:09in over a decade. Some of those killed killed are now being identified.
00:11:13identified. One of them, Buthaina Buthaina Awada, was a mother of four
00:11:16four from Syria. She was a victim victim of a conflict that she had
00:11:19had no part in. But that seems to
00:11:22to be escalating dangerously. Joe
00:11:25Joe Inwood, BBC News. Our Middle Middle East correspondent Yolande
00:11:27Yolande Knell gave us this update
00:11:30update from Jerusalem. It's a very very serious escalation, Mark. I
00:11:34I mean, this is the deadliest single single attack that there's been on
00:11:36on any Gulf Arab country since the
00:11:39the US and Israel started their attacks
00:11:41attacks on Iran, triggering the Iran Iran war at the very end of February.
00:11:45February. It's the deadliest attack attack there's been on Saudi Arabia
00:11:48Arabia in more than a decade. And
00:11:50And it's really worrying other Gulf Gulf Arab countries as well. With
00:11:54With the United Arab Emirates presidential presidential adviser commenting on
00:11:58on that earlier, the big question
00:12:00question now is about whether other other allies of Saudi Arabia are
00:12:04are ready to get more involved. It It has asked countries the UK, France,
00:12:08France, Egypt, Pakistan to help out
00:12:10out with its air defences because because although it does have advanced
00:12:14advanced air defence systems, you you know, there are questions being being raised about how it did not
00:12:17not manage to intercept these attacks
00:12:20attacks on its airports hitting terminal terminal three and four over the
00:12:23the past couple of days, stopping
00:12:25stopping flights going in and out
00:12:27out of Riyadh. Well, of course, President President Trump get more involved.
00:12:31involved. He's indicated that he he is weighing up his options, but
00:12:33but there's been nothing new from from the White House in the past
00:12:36past day on this. And Yolande, you you mentioned the most serious attacks
00:12:40attacks in the Gulf since the Iraq Iraq War began. It is relatively
00:12:44relatively quiet at the moment inside inside Iran. But this, I suppose,
00:12:47suppose, is is a continuation of
00:12:48of the Iran war, albeit by proxy
00:12:51proxy with Iran arming and backing
00:12:53backing the Houthis. And of course, course, Saudis being the key ally
00:12:57ally of the Americans in the region.
00:12:59region. Yes. I mean, this is a war
00:13:02war that predates the one with Iran
00:13:05Iran goes back to 2015, but then
00:13:08then really, you know, when there there was in 2022 a ceasefire that
00:13:11that was brokered that pretty much
00:13:14much froze the front lines. But that that ceasefire could not stand up
00:13:18up under the pressure this summer
00:13:19summer as the regional war with Iran Iran was really escalating, the Houthis
00:13:23Houthis starting to get more involved. involved. Then, of course, last month,
00:13:25month, what we saw is those major
00:13:27major territorial gains of theirs, theirs, particularly along the Red
00:13:31Red Sea coast. And then this month,
00:13:34month, the Saudi backed, internationally internationally recognised government
00:13:37government has really launched its its counter-offensive against that. that. So there have been these fierce
00:13:41fierce battles that have been going
00:13:44going on inside Yemen alongside the the attacks that the Houthis have
00:13:47have been launching on the Saudis. Saudis. Now, what is important here here is that although the Houthis
00:13:51Houthis are considered to be a proxy
00:13:54proxy of Iran, they do have, of course,
00:13:57course, their own agenda. And we
00:13:59we have had experts commenting clearly clearly that while Iran, of course,
00:14:02course, has considerable influence, influence, it has been arming the the Houthis. It does not call the
00:14:06the shots here. Yolande Knell in in Jerusalem. Let's bring in Doctor
00:14:10Doctor Elisabeth Kendall, president president of Girton College at the
00:14:14the University of Cambridge and a a Yemen and Middle East expert. Hello,
00:14:16Hello, Liz. Good to see you. The
00:14:19The Houthis were long underestimated, underestimated, sort of dismissed dismissed as a sort of ragtag army
00:14:23army in flip flops. How have they
00:14:26they managed to build themselves themselves up in the last couple
00:14:29couple of years, to the point that that they can strike Riyadh airport
00:14:32airport with such deadly
00:14:36efficiency? The Houthis have benefited benefited over the last four years
00:14:39years from a truce that they had had reached with Saudi Arabia that
00:14:43that was backing the internationally internationally recognised government government of Yemen. They've taken
00:14:47taken that opportunity to increase
00:14:50increase the supply of weaponry and and also the sophistication and accuracy
00:14:53accuracy of what they have. So they're they're a very different group now
00:14:57now from the group that launched launched into this civil war back
00:15:00back in 2014, and indeed from the the group that was first at war in
00:15:04in Yemen way back in 2004. They now
00:15:08now have significant forces at their their disposal because they control
00:15:11control territory in which around
00:15:14around about 28 to 30 million people people live and they've got stockpiles
00:15:17stockpiles and they're hardened fighters fighters with lots of experience.
00:15:21experience. And of course they have have zeal and they genuinely believe
00:15:24believe that God is on their side. side. So they have a lot going for
00:15:27for them. We've just had a line from
00:15:28from the Saudi energy minister, Prince Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, that
00:15:32that has come in to us here, saying saying the events of recent weeks
00:15:35weeks were serious and the kingdom's kingdom's response must be equally
00:15:38equally serious. What do you expect
00:15:41expect in terms of the response now now from Saudi Arabia, but also a
00:15:45a potential regional involvement involvement of other powers, potentially
00:15:48potentially even actually an involvement
00:15:50involvement of Donald Trump? Yes.
00:15:53Yes. This is a step change for Saudi Saudi Arabia. It has not faced this
00:15:57this level of attack before, even
00:15:59even though the Houthis had previously previously launched over a thousand
00:16:02thousand drones and missiles at Saudi Saudi Arabia between 2015 and 2022,
00:16:062022, they were much less costly costly for Saudi than these recent
00:16:09recent attacks. So it will need to
00:16:11to take serious action. So far in
00:16:14in its conflict in Yemen, Saudi Arabia
00:16:17Arabia has had two methods of operation.
00:16:20operation. One has been containment containment and concessions, and
00:16:23and that has been what it's been been practising over the past four four years. And prior to that, it
00:16:26it was much more kinetic action. action. Now, however, it will need
00:16:30need to refocus again on the kinetic kinetic action on direct military
00:16:33military action, and it will need need to mobilise allies in a much
00:16:36much more major way. I think that
00:16:39that it will be hoping that recently recently signed agreements like the
00:16:42the Mecca pact with Pakistan and
00:16:44and Turkey will come into their own, own, although it's not clear that
00:16:48that those allies will want to get
00:16:50get involved on the ground in Yemen, Yemen, they may stick to defensive
00:16:54defensive agreements and support
00:16:57support agreements with Saudi Arabia, Arabia, inside Saudi Arabia. And
00:17:00And as for the last part of your your question about America and Donald
00:17:03Donald Trump's involvement, well,
00:17:04well, of course, Trump has refused
00:17:07refused several requests by the Saudi Saudi de facto leader, Mohammed bin
00:17:11bin Salman to get involved in a direct direct way and to help with air campaigns.
00:17:15campaigns. And that has been for for three reasons. Number one, it
00:17:18it doesn't want another war in the the Middle East so close to the mid-terms.
00:17:22mid-terms. Number two, its munitions munitions are running low. And number
00:17:26number three, it has bad experience experience of this because it launched
00:17:29launched into an air campaign against against the Houthis last year for
00:17:31for around seven weeks. And it didn't
00:17:33didn't win. So even though and US
00:17:37US citizen has been killed inside inside Saudi Arabia in the latest
00:17:40latest rounds of Houthi attacks, attacks, I think it's unlikely that
00:17:43that Donald Trump will want to enter
00:17:45enter a broader campaign, although although he may launch limited strikes.
00:17:49strikes. I think that's about as as far as he would go. You mentioned mentioned Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed
00:17:53Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto facto leader. He has tried to, of
00:17:55of course, build up Saudi Arabia's Arabia's reputation as a sort of
00:17:59of business hub, major international international player in a number
00:18:02number of domains. How is all of of this going to affect that reputation, reputation, particularly at a time
00:18:06time when Saudi Arabia is hosting
00:18:09hosting various business fora. Badly? Badly? It's going to affect Saudis
00:18:13Saudis reputation badly because this this is a time when Saudi is already
00:18:16already suffering economically from
00:18:19from a lot of pressure on its oil oil exports, its major source of
00:18:22of revenue. If you couple that with
00:18:25with its look ahead to vision 2030
00:18:282030 and economic diversification
00:18:30diversification via Red Sea tourism
00:18:32tourism via attracting foreign investment,
00:18:36investment, via expanding commerce commerce and business, all of that
00:18:39that relies on having reliable logistics
00:18:42logistics hubs like airports. So So if those are now under threat,
00:18:46threat, that is a very significant significant blow because it dents
00:18:49dents Saudi Arabia not just economically, economically, not just in terms of
00:18:53of its infrastructure, not just in in terms of danger to civilians,
00:18:57civilians, but reputationally in in a major way. In addition to that,
00:19:00that, there's also now proof of concept concept because if the Houthis can
00:19:03can be that accurate in targeting targeting airports, what's to say
00:19:08say that they couldn't in future
00:19:10future target hotels or power plants plants or desalination facilities?
00:19:13facilities? This is an existential existential threat. Doctor Elisabeth
00:19:17Elisabeth Kendall, president of Girton Girton College, Cambridge, and a a Yemen expert. Thanks very much
00:19:20much indeed. You're welcome. Back Back in a moment or two.
00:20:23put everyone on notice. How far might might Putin go to test Nato? And And is Europe ready? The security. Brief live with an audience
00:20:27audience here on BBC News. Welcome
00:20:33Welcome back. A BBC investigation investigation has revealed that the
00:20:37the world's biggest accountancy firm firm helped falsify documents that that allowed the former Chelsea Football
00:20:41Football Club owner Roman Abramovich Abramovich to hide his wealth and
00:20:44and evade tax. BBC Panorama has uncovered uncovered hundreds of documents that
00:20:48that were backdated by the Russian Russian billionaires advisers. Many
00:20:50Many were drawn up with the help
00:20:53help of Deloitte. Roman Abramovich Abramovich denies any wrongdoing.
00:20:56wrongdoing. Deloitte says it complies complies with applicable laws. Here's
00:20:59Here's Richard Bilton. Things have
00:21:03have changed for Roman Abramovich. Abramovich. He has been sanctioned
00:21:06sanctioned because of his links to to Vladimir Putin. He's been forced
00:21:09forced to sell his beloved Chelsea
00:21:12Chelsea and now revelations from from inside his financial empire.
00:21:16empire. If you want to understand understand Roman Abramovich, follow
00:21:20follow the money. This is Cyprus,
00:21:22Cyprus, home to a web of companies
00:21:24companies that were holding his wealth
00:21:28wealth working with the Bureau of
00:21:30of Investigative Journalism. Panorama Panorama has been investigating a
00:21:33a data leak which shows the lengths
00:21:36lengths some of his Cypriot advisers advisers went to hide his billions.
00:21:40billions. They falsified and backdated backdated hundreds of documents.
00:21:44documents. It is trying to cover
00:21:46cover up something. And what we appear
00:21:49appear to have here is a fiddle factory
00:21:51factory in a fiddle factory you fiddle
00:21:53fiddle the transactions, you backdate
00:21:56backdate them and that is what appears appears to have been happening here
00:21:59here regularly. In 2003, one of Roman
00:22:03Roman Abramovich's Cypriot companies
00:22:05companies called Kravin Investments, Investments, had almost $2 billion
00:22:09billion of his money in the bank.
00:22:11bank. Deloitte confirms certain changes changes will have to be made to the
00:22:15the accounts. That's Deloitte apparently
00:22:19apparently advising on falsifying falsifying financial records by backdating
00:22:22backdating them. The evidence suggests
00:22:24suggests it allowed Mr Abramovich
00:22:26Abramovich to evade millions in tax.
00:22:30tax. It's a straightforward and blatant
00:22:37blatant move to protect from legitimate
00:22:41legitimate taxation assets which which should otherwise have been
00:22:44been subject to tax. So it's tax tax evasion? Yeah. Straightforward.
00:22:47Straightforward. And how serious serious is that? Well, again, if
00:22:50if it happened in England and it it was in the millions His Majesty's
00:22:54Majesty's Revenue and Customs would
00:22:55would be thinking about a prosecution.
00:22:59prosecution. Roman Abramovich's lawyers
00:23:00lawyers say he denies he evaded tax
00:23:03tax or concealed his fortune. They
00:23:06They say he was not involved in the the day to day operation of the companies
00:23:10companies and Panorama has provided provided no evidence that he knew
00:23:13knew of authorised or directed the
00:23:17the falsification or backdating of
00:23:19of any documents. Deloitte Cyprus
00:23:21Cyprus says it's unable to comment comment because the documents are
00:23:24are more than 20 years old and no
00:23:27no longer accessible. Richard Bilton, Bilton, BBC News. And if you're here
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00:23:40pm. Now the actor Robert Pattinson Pattinson was in London last night night at the premiere of his new
00:23:44new film Primetime. The movie dramatises dramatises the production of the
00:23:47the American reality TV series To
00:23:49To Catch a Predator, which aired
00:23:52aired between 2004 and 2007. Pattinson Pattinson stars as its host Chris
00:23:56Chris Hansen, an NBC journalist who who worked with the vigilante group
00:23:59group to expose child predators in in sting operations. The movie is
00:24:03is getting rave reviews, with many many critics saying he's going to
00:24:05to get an Oscar nomination. Let's
00:24:07Let's take a look. Are you sure your
00:24:14your parents aren't home? I'm sure.
00:24:18sure. Big night planned. Well, who who are you? Why don't you. Have
00:24:22Have a seat right there? I'm Chris
00:24:26Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC, and and we're doing a story on adults
00:24:30adults who try to meet teens online.
00:24:33online. You see how this looks right?
00:24:36right? Our culture correspondent correspondent Noor Nanji caught up up with Robert Pattinson on the red
00:24:40red carpet and asked him why he took took on the role of Chris Hansen.
00:24:44Hansen. I mean, it's both the most
00:24:47most terrifying thing that can happen happen to you whether you're if you're you're a parent or even if you're
00:24:51you're not. It's like the it's like
00:24:54like the most unimaginable sin possible.
00:24:57possible. And it's a kind of a it's
00:25:00it's like an unknown entity, which which is kind of it's been going
00:25:03going on since mediaeval times thinking thinking that there's a kind of spirit
00:25:07spirit almost that can come in this this case through the internet and
00:25:10and attack vulnerable children. And
00:25:13And the show was the kind of a microcosm
00:25:16microcosm of saying like, oh, we we can do something about it and and we can do something about it
00:25:20it really, really, really quickly. quickly. And in some ways that's
00:25:24that's correct. But it also makes makes for incredibly powerful TV.
00:25:27TV. And that's when it kind of gets gets a slightly dicey territory. territory. Do you think attitudes
00:25:31attitudes towards entertainment have
00:25:33have changed now? I think on mainstream
00:25:37mainstream TV, but then it's just just been replaced. I mean, that's that's kind of why I was interested
00:25:41interested in this show because I I could see the beginning of a new new wave of predator catching in
00:25:45in pretty much the same format that that it was in the early 2000, and
00:25:48and it was really taking off on Tik Tik Tok. And I was just interested
00:25:52interested as to why that was happening.
00:25:55happening. And whether it was a algorithmically
00:25:58algorithmically based interest or or what. I mean, what was causing
00:26:01causing it? And it got bigger and and bigger and bigger. And now it's
00:26:05it's one of the most it's a massive massive thing on social media. So
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