sonangol is the lifeline of angola. over 90% of angola's exports come from oil, sonangol.ntially the heart that pumps blood to our vessels. rafael marquez is a campaigning journalist who has been exposing corruption in angola for decades. essentially the way isabel dos santos built her fortune was by using herfather‘s position. and by using also sonangol as her cash cow and private bank to finance her activities. 0ne extraordinary scheme made her hundreds of millions. sonangol gave her a very good deal and a very valuable asset. angola's state oil company agreed to sell 40% of its stake in a lucrative portuguese energy company called galp. the price for the galp share was 75 million euros. but, like the land, that is not what isabel dos santos handed over. 0ur documents have never been published before and they show she only had to pay 15% of the price upfront. the remaining 85%, or 63 million euros, was deferred and turned into a loan from the state oil company. the investment was incredibly profitable and her bargain buy is now worth three quarters of a billion euros. th

sonangol is the country's state oicompany. >> sonangol is the leline of angola.xports come from oil, sonangol. so it's essentially the het that pumps blood to our vessels. ♪ >> narrator: rafael marquez is a journalist who's been porting on ibel dos santos for more than a decade. >> essentially the way isabel dos santos built her fortune was by using her father's sition, and by using also sonangol as her cash cow and private bank to finance her activities. >> narrator: in 2006, isabel dos antos and her husband mad crative deal with sonangol. sonangol owned a stake in the profitable portuguese energy company galp and agreed to sell them 40 percent of it. the documents reveal that the terms of the deal were highly favorable to the daughter of the president. the price for the galp share was 75 million euros. but isabelos santos paid just 11.2 million euros, or 15 percent, up front. the remaining 63 million wasrr defeed-- in effect, a loan from the state oil company. financial crime, hmined in the icij documents. >> so, you look at any transaction and the first questi

the president later made his daughter head of sonangol. she says it was a sensible move.d me and asked if i would consider a position to become sonangol‘s chairperson. isabel dos santos's lawyers deny all the bbc‘s allegations and say she's been involved in no wrongdoing. they say it's a politically motivated witch hunt by the angolan government — and the deal with the energy company earned sonangol money. but her father is no longer president, and angola wants answers. these documents tell the story of where isabel dos santos's fortune really comes from. richard bilton, bbc news, angola. and you can watch more on that story in panorama: the corrupt billionaire — which is on bbc one tomorrow night at 8.30pm. the areas of australia worst hit by bushfires are now at risk of flash flooding and power cuts as a result of rainstorms. in the state of victoria, many fires have been put out by the storms but giant hailstones have also damaged property. john donnison reports. in a year of extreme weather, for australians, it doesn't just rain, it pours. hailstones the size of golf

the president later made his daughter head of sonangol. she says it was a sensible move.vited me and asked if i would consider a position to become sonangol‘s chairperson. isabel dos santos's lawyers deny all the bbc‘s allegations, and say she's been involved in no wrongdoing. they say it's a politically motivated witch hunt by the angolan government and the deal with the energy company earned sonangol money. but her father is no longer president, and angola wants answers. these documents tell the story of where isabel dos santos's fortune really comes from. richard bilton, bbc news, angola. and you can watch more on that story in ‘panorama: the corrupt billionaire' which is on bbc one tomorrow night at 8.30. china is banning plastic bags in its main cities by the end of the year as well as single use straws in restaurants. smaller cities and towns will have until 2022 to implement the new rules. china will also phase out plastic utensils from the take away food industry. and plastic waste imports will be outlawed, as part of a plan to tackle the country's huge pollution

nuno ribeiro da cunha managed the account of oil firm sonangol, formerly chaired by ms dos santos, at small portuguese lender eurobic. and finally, does worrying too much really turn your hair white? in the independent, scientists are claiming new evidence has been discovered showing how acute stress can lead to hair going grey prematurely. the discovery was made after experiments studying the effects of stress on mice showed how hair can turn grey at an accelerated rate. it is hard to imagine what george clooney has got to worry about. i think he has got it made, has he not? with me isjoel kibazo, partner atjk associates, and a former director of communications at africa development bank. let's start with the daily mail and the coronavirus here. big headline, you know, big picture of a lady here in glasgow, actually, protecting herself with a face here, and the words taking their chances on the streets of written. let's just try and put this into context. i mean, a british man in wuhan, which is where we understand this virus started from, has described the city as being under a blan

the president later made his daughter head of sonangol. she says it was a sensible move.s a consultant. then after i finished my consultancy work, they invited me and said, would i consider the position to become sonangol‘s chairperson? isabel dos santos' lawyers deny all the bbc‘s allegations, and say she has been involved in no wrongdoing. they say it is a politically motivated witch hunt by the angolan government and the deal with the energy company earned sonangol money. but her father is no longer president and angola wants answers. these documents tell the story of where isabel dos santos' fortune really comes from. richard bilton, bbc news, angola. you can see panorama: the corrupt billionaire on bbc one tomorrow night at 8.30. most immigrants to the uk don't feel they're discriminated against, according to new research based on survey data. but those from non—eu countries were twice as likely as eu migrants to say they felt they were treated differently because of their ethnicity, nationality or religion. it comes ahead of a report from government advisers that's

and the deal with the energy company earned sonangol money.y of where isabel dos santos's fortune really comes from. richard bilton, bbc news, angola. and you can watch more on that story in panorama: the corrupt billionaire — which is on bbc one tomorrow night at 8.30pm. now, time for a look at the weather with stav danaos. hello there. largely sunny days some of the weekend very nicely indeed as we head on into the new working week. i pressure holding onto a lot of dry weather with variable clubs also some good spots of sunshine and it will remain on the cold side. here it is, this big, very strong area of high pressure dominating the scene as we head through sunday night. more weatherfronts, more isobars across the north of the country, so north and western scotland breezier, cloudier and less cold to start monday morning. further south, under those clearer skies, it's going to be another cold one, and even frost and fog patches around, too. high pressure with us as we head through monday. these weather fronts encroaching into the north and

angola isabeau dos santos is being investigated for embezzlement while chair of state oil company sonangol the daughter of angola's former president denies transferring millions of dollars of government money into her offshore accounts at a bank implicated in money laundering has been found dead in portugal water mahler's new government says it will keep to a so-called safe 3rd country agreement for asylum status said from the united states the us has deported around 230 central american asylum seekers to guatemala in the past 3 months but rights groups say guatemala is unsafe because of crime and drug trafficking. that is why it has one of the world's highest murder rates new report by the venezuela observatory on violence found that many of them extra due judicial killings by police it is accusing an elite special forces unit of being given the freedom to kill indiscriminately he is out latin america editor lucy newman in the capital caracas. nothing strikes more fear among venezuelans been seeing this special action force or fire on patrol in low income neighborhoods armed with assault