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from our correspondent also coming up millions of documents are leaked to report to show how widespread tax avoidance is among big companies and the wealthy find out once in a so-called paradise papers coming up. and sarah harmon welcome to the program we begin with some breaking news reports say more than twenty people have been killed in a church shooting in the united states the incident happened in the u.s. state of texas in the town of sutherland springs which is west of houston the gunman reportedly opened fire inside the church before he was shot himself. jenny hoff is a reporter in the texas state capital of austin jenny welcome doing you know anything else about the shooter right now. well we're getting some new information

via local news agencies that are saying that the shooter after the shooting was actually confronted by a citizen he then took off in his vehicle and he was later found in a ditch by investigators with a gunshot wound and he was dead now of course we do have some conflicting reports some say that possibly he was shot by deputies other that it was might have been self-inflicted so we still need to get that information confirmed but that's a new bit of information that's come out recently on the shooter we still don't know his name we don't know the motive we don't know if he knew people at the church or if this was something that was random that information still needs to come out ok we can confirm now that the shooter is dead is that correct that's correct so we've had numerous law enforcement officials say that the shooter is dead again we don't know if he was killed by police or if he killed himself but we've had numerous law enforcement officials now apparently the texas rangers are now in charge of this investigation and they will be getting more information as it

comes out in court for those of us who've never been to texas tell us a little bit about the town of sutherland springs. well sutherland springs is a small kind of country community a very tight knit community just east of san antonio area which is a more major city and not very far from where we are right now in the capital of texas in austin and it's a very small country community where everybody knows everybody there's about four hundred people who live there and this church had about fifteen parishioners there so you can just imagine this is a place where everybody knew everybody in fact i was listening to an interview from another pastor from a church down the street and as soon as they got the news many of the people at his church immediately left to find out if their relatives or their friends had been injured or killed we did get information though that the pastor and his wife of this specific church wretch lee out of town during the shooting but their fourteen year old daughter was there and the wife of that pastor did confirm earlier to a news organization that her daughter that fourteen year old was among one of the victims who was killed in this shooting so of course we're going to find out more

about the victims as that information comes out but we're told that several children are in critical condition and of course children there were probably also victims of the shooting and are deceased today heartbreaking situation in that small town in texas jenny how is the community reacting. well there's a nearby community center right next door and that's where hundreds least one hundred relatives and friends have gathered to get information as it comes out on the injury is and on the victims and what happened so there are a lot of people gathering in there showing their support there's people you know praying for the victims and they're really depending on the pastors and their church and their faith in order to get through this right now but it's certainly something that is shaken this entire community at four hundred people and in fifty of them or in some way either dead or injured victims it's it's certainly something that it is going to shake them for a very long time and so they're gathering together and they're supporting each other and they're really just waiting to find out the latest information because

there's still so much unknown and a very sad sunday in sutherland springs texas that's reporter jenny hoff in the texas state capital austin jenny thank you so much. over reactions to the shooting are pouring in on social media including from u.s. president trump who's currently on a tour of asia here's what may god be with the people of sutherland springs texas the f.b.i. and law enforcement are on the scene i'm monitoring the situation from japan texas governor greg abbott was on his way to southern springs earlier he tweeted our prayers are with all who were harmed find this evil act our thanks to law enforcement for their response more details from the department of public safety soon. on other big news today a massive new link of files from an offshore law firm that shows just how widespread tax avoidance is among big companies and the super rich it's been released by a german newspaper working with an international consortium of news outlets for

thirteen million documents reveal how politicians celebrities and corporations have placed their money in secret tax havens. bermuda is a well known tax haven the appleby law firm is based here its offshore experts advise clients in tax avoidance and shielding business from the public it's among the companies exposed by this massive data leak over four hundred reporters from a consortium of news organizations spearheaded by germany's that site on have spent months sifting through the data uncovering a complex corporate web aimed at hiding money. u.s. commerce secretary wilbur ross is among those implicated. according to the paradise paper's ross had secret business contacts from congress. the new data shows he's tied to a shipping firm through a series of dummy corporations and this company has ties to russian company

z.b. or energy. a major shareholder is a sanctioned russian oligarch with close ties to russian president vladimir putin as well as putin son in law. that suggests ross has profited from this company with close ties to the kremlin. sports label nike and u.s. tech giant apple also featured prominently in the paradise papers apple apparently sent secret e-mails inquiring about tax friendly domiciles for their head offices a blatant effort to avoid taxation but not illegal. just because it is legal does not mean for us that it is legitimate or morally ok we're taking a close look and we're seeing the billions that should rightly be going to taxes are disappearing so. now that the paradise papers have been

released the journalists involved hope even more light can be shed on these offshore havens. our political correspondent simon young joins me now in the studio for more simon what else can you tell us about these paradise papers big bombshell today indeed sara just to give you a scale of this sense of the scale is a huge jump of sensitive financial information said to comprise thirteen point four million documents from nineteen different tax havens in the data is said to refer to more than one hundred twenty senior global political figures from fifty different countries so those are just some of the some of the numbers around this is a huge revelation and people are going to be trawling through it the material comes from a leak possibly a computer hack from a basic law firm called apple bay and this information was passed to

a major german paper the zip tortured site and it's been passed on to ninety other media organizations around the world they spent a year would you believe sorting through this before releasing these details tonight or tremendous amount of information i can guess that journalists are going to be sorting through this and parsing the details for days and weeks to come one thing that does seem to be clear though is that trumps commerce secretary bob or ross is reportedly involved in this how exactly yeah wilbur ross the claim is that he has a close confident of president trump has been profiting as a private citizen from his business dealings with a firm that has ties with all belongs to the son in law of vladimir putin the russian president and also is also owned by other people with close links to the kremlin now we don't know many more the details at this stage but clearly in view of the investigation into links between donald trump's election campaign in

last year's presidential election and russia that's something that's going to put even more pressure on donald trump has these details to emerge most. our viewers will remember the panama papers coming out a few years ago is this leak bigger put it in context for us yeah it is similar it's a leak of information from off shore banks and investment firms you know it implicates notable political figures in the panama papers led to changes of political leadership in countries like iceland and pakistan and many other examples of fallout from there so there is a similarity that was eleven and a half million documents i think so this is slightly bigger in that sense one interesting thing sara some insiders say that applebee the firm here is much cleaner than second which is the firm at the heart of the panama scandal in that sense you know some people saying if this was at the heart of wrongdoing if the

shown to be wrongdoing we should say not all the activity described here is illegal but if there is wrongdoing then it could be that you know there's a lot bigger problem in this area of offshore investments than was previously even realized it sounds like we're going to be learning a lot more very soon simon young our political correspondent thanks for your insight. saudi arabia has arrested dozens of princes and government ministers and a high level purge and news conference a spokesman for the brussels prosecutor said the five will now appear before a judge among those arrested billionaire friends i don't need forbes named him the richest man in the arab world there were us have been sanctioned by king solomon under a new anti corruption body that he's put his son in charge of the movie is seen as cementing crown prince muhammad's power in the kingdom. on the studio with me now is daniel garrulous he's the editor in chief of the magazine zenith which focuses

on middle eastern affairs daniel welcome this feels unprecedented dozens of arrests at the very top is this really just about corruption i don't think so i think it is popular to fight corruption and it is necessary to fight corruption and also the idea that members of the royal family and there are thousands of them in saudi arabia would be immune to penalties if that is over and that is a positive signal to many but i think what is really happening here is is mama been some on the crown prince is preparing take over of power and i think we will soon in the next couple of months see that and so this night of the long knives that happened yesterday was also intended to silence those in the palace with the royal family that might be able to counter such of such a move or that might even be able to a little stage a coup against it and is because this is not the only reason that saudi arabia has been in the news this weekend because saudis foreign tires are coming into sharper focus yesterday we saw the lebanese prime minister resign and announcement he made

from riyadh where he's now fled in exile put this in context for us what are the broader implications for the region lebanese prime minister saad how d.d. was somehow saudi arabia's man in lebanon as was his father who was assassinated spectacularly i think everybody all the viewers of this program know of saudi arabia. how they need to step down because i think what. we are looking at is preparations for another military conflict for another war in the middle east i think saudi arabia's gamble is that they think israel in the united states may be in a position to attack hezbollah in lebanon and saudi arabia would obviously support such a move because hezbollah is the proxy of iran of its archrival in lebanon and i think my speculation i cannot of course i have no no evidence of that at the moment but i think that saudi cannot be member of a government that would need to defy or attack such such a military move cannot be

a member of a government in union with hezbollah and at the same time know about this this military move of the saudi government i think that's why he stepped down that's why the saudis convinced him to step down and i think they will bail him out because they also knew that he was in a deep financial crisis he has business not going well and i think saudi arabia will support him financially that is again my speculation but i think it is permitted speculation on this that's why we invited you here daniel gary locke from the magazines thanks for being with us today thank you. our minds are of our top stories this hour on g.w. us media report more than twenty people are dead in a mass shooting in the u.s. state of texas that number is not yet confirmed witnesses say the gunman opened fire inside a church in the town of southern springs the shooter is reportedly dead. belgian media say cataloguing leader carlos first in law and four allies have been conditionally released from jail they had turned themselves in to authorities there

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