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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityAsiaChinaIndiaLionel Messi defends HK absence as China backlash continuesPublished21 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingThis video can not be playedTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.Media caption, Watch: Messi responds to ‘false stories’ amid China backlashBy Nicholas YongBBC News, SingaporeLionel Messi has highlighted his “special” ties with China, as he continues to face anger from Chinese fans for missing a game in Hong Kong.In a video on social media site Weibo, Messi maintained an injury had led him to sit out the match on 4 February.Messi played in Japan just days after that Hong Kong friendly, enraging fans in China, where he is hugely popular.The backlash against the 36-year-old Argentine superstar has dragged on for weeks.Chinese officials have cancelled two Argentina friendlies due to take place in the country in March.The world champions were set to face Nigeria in Hangzhou and Ivory Coast in Beijing. But football authorities in the Chinese capital said: “Beijing does not plan, for the moment, to organise the match in which Lionel Messi was to participate,” The Hangzhou sports bureau also said the match it was hosting had been called off for “the reasons that everyone knows”.Messi mania grips crowd at China’s Workers’ StadiumMessi remained on the bench throughout the match held in Hong Kong, citing injury. State media outlet Global Times accused the footballer and his club Inter Miami of “political motives” with the aim of “embarrassing” the Chinese Special Administrative Region.But in the Weibo video posted on Monday, the Argentine rejected claims that he skipped play for “political reasons” as “totally untrue”. Stressing his “special affection” for the people of China, he added: “Had that been the case, I wouldn’t have even travelled to Japan or visited China as many times as I have.”He repeated his claim that he could not play in Hong Kong due to an inflamed adductor muscle. “I tried to train and made an effort for all those who’d come to watch training,” he said. “I did all I could. I also went along to the football clinic with all the kids. But I really couldn’t play. I felt discomfort and there was a risk it’d get worse.”Messi’s Weibo post, his second attempt at explaining his absence from the match, has so far attracted some 55,000 comments. Some were sceptical. One comment read: “Sorry is indeed a very difficult word to say”.Still some were supportive. One comment read: “I know you love China, I will always support you for what you have done for us”.Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Messi enraged Chinese fans when he failed to take to the field during a friendly in Hong KongSome 38,000 fans at the Hong Kong Stadium booed and demanded refunds when Inter Miami co-owner David Beckham addressed the crowd at the end of the match. They had paid up to HK$4,880 (£494; $624) to watch Messi. They have since been promised a 50% refund by match organisers Tatler Asia.The territory’s chief executive John Lee said he was extremely disappointed by Messi’s absence and called for an explanation from match organisers. Other officials like Hong Kong lawmaker Regina Ip also reacted with fury, claiming that “Hong Kong people hate Messi, Inter-Miami, and the black hand behind them” for the “deliberate and calculated snub”.Just last year, Messi received a rock star welcome in Beijing when he played for his country in a friendly against Australia. Some 68,000 fans paid up to $680 for the chance to see him in action. He is also a spokesperson for big Chinese brands such as Huawei, Chery, Tencent, Mengniu, Chishui River Wine and J&T Express.Related TopicsAsiaChinaHong KongMore on this storyChina cancels Argentina games amid Messi backlashAttributionSportPublished10 FebruaryChina fury as Messi plays after missing Hong Kong gamePublished8 FebruaryTop StoriesCameron government knew Post Office ditched Horizon IT investigationPublished5 hours agoRussia accused of executing prisoners of war in AvdiivkaPublished4 hours agoNavalny’s body ‘to be held for two weeks’Published5 hours agoFeaturesThe Papers: Navalny wife blames Putin and US’s move to block Rafah offensiveLyse Doucet: Rafah deadline raises stakes as Ramadan nearsThe unprecedented case of a migrant manslaughter trialWatch Baftas 2024 best bits… in two minutes. 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![BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaAvdiivka: Russia accused of executing prisoners of war after Ukraine withdrawsPublished17 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsWar in UkraineImage source, Cultural ForcesImage caption, The body of Andriy Dubnytsky was later identified in a video posted online by RussiansBy Abdujalil Abdurasulov BBC News, KyivLast week, Ukrainian forces surrendered the eastern city of Avdiivka, which they had for months been desperately defending against a brutal Russian onslaught. The conquest of Avdiivka represents a strategic and symbolic victory for Russia, strengthening its defence of the regional capital, Donetsk, and potentially opening up avenues for further offensives against Ukrainian-held territory. Ukrainian commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi says he ordered a retreat from the city in order to save soldiers’ lives. Is Russia turning the tide in Ukraine?Now evidence of possible war crimes has emerged, as relatives of six soldiers found dead following the takeover of the city say they were executed after surrendering. Ukrainian authorities are investigating. Moscow has not yet commented.The BBC has spoken to Ukrainian soldiers who withdrew from Avdiivka. Their testimony paints a picture of unresponsive commanders who refused their troops’ desperate pleas to retreat as they were encircled by Russian troops.When the order finally came, they say, it was too late and and they were completely surrounded. ‘We don’t know what to do’A video posted by Russian military bloggers following the capture of Avdiivka appears to show the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers believed to have surrendered after Russian troops captured their position.Ivan Zhytnyk, Andriy Dubnytsky and Georgiy Pavlov have been identified by relatives as the dead soldiers in the video. The BBC has spoken to them and to other soldiers who were at the base – named “Zenith”, on the south-eastern outskirts of Avdiivka – in order to reconstruct the chaotic events which led to their deaths.For weeks, the fighters at the position had been waging an increasingly desperate battle to hold their position.They had repeatedly asked their commanders to pull them out, fearing a full encirclement was imminent. But their requests were denied and they were told to wait.On 13 February, the defenders of Zenith were finally ordered to withdraw to another position in Avdiivka but by then it was too late.Image source, KaterynaImage caption, Ivan Zhytnyk on the phone with his relatives just hours before Russians took their positionWhen the order to leave came, Ivan Zhyntyk, a paramedic, messaged his brother-in-law Dmitriy. “We were told to retreat and fight our way back. But behind us are [Russians]. I don’t know what to do,” he wrote.Ivan and nine other men were tasked with attacking Russian positions and opening up a safe passage for the others. “They were the bravest ones,” says Viktor Bilyak, a soldier from the 110th brigade who was in Zenith.But the group was confronted by Russian artillery and forced to turn back. Only three managed to return to base.Ivan was among them, but he was badly injured and collapsed in a field before reaching the base. Hours later, his comrades from the Zenith base tried to rescue him.Viktor Bilyak and three others put him on a stretcher and started carrying him out, under relentless Russian mortar fire. One of the shells landed nearby. Viktor, wounded, was forced to return to the base. Georgiy Pavlov came out to replace him.Viktor says the group was then attacked by two kamikaze drones. “Instead of one wounded, we got five more.”‘Leave them behind’The soldiers eventually made it back to Zenith. Viktor and the soldiers’ relatives say they were promised evacuation by their superiors, but it never arrived.Later, Ivan called his commander to learn about evacuation. The voice on the radio told him to get out of Zenith on their own, as sending a rescue team was too risky.”What about the wounded?” he asked. “Leave them behind,” the voice instructed him. “Everyone heard this conversation on radio and froze,” Viktor recalls.Those who could walk, including Viktor, left the base at night without their wounded brothers-in-arms.”Under relentless fire, carrying the wounded in the darkness was not possible,” he says.Image source, Inna PavlovaImage caption, Georgiy Pavlov was among six men left behindThey retreated in small groups. “The enemy opened fire with mortars, tanks, artillery, night kamikaze drones – all at once,” said Viktor. A group walking behind him was hit by an artillery shell. None of them survived.While Viktor and others were trying to reach their main position in Avdiivka, six people were left behind at Zenith.Five were wounded and couldn’t walk, including paramedic Ivan Zhytnyk, sniper Georgiy Pavlov and anti-tank fighter Andriy Dubnytsky. These men’s bodies were later identified in the video posted by Russian bloggers.One, Mykola Savosik, was not wounded but decided to stay with his comrades. He believed he would be taken as a prisoner of war, Viktor said.The 110th brigade posted a message on their Facebook page saying that because of the full encirclement of Zenith, Ukraine had “contacted organisations that hold talks on prisoner exchanges” to assist their soldiers. The Russian side reportedly agreed to evacuate the Ukrainian wounded and later exchange them.This message was passed on to Ivan and others at Zenith a few hours before Russians arrived. They were instructed not to show any resistance and save their lives. But Ivan told his brother-in-law on the phone that he didn’t believe that Russians would “keep the wounded alive”.’Are they there?’Around 11:15 on 15 February, Inna Pavlova received a message from her son Georgiy. “The Russians know that we are here alone,” he wrote. She hasn’t heard from him since.Around that time, Ivan video-called his brother-in-law Dmitriy. In the middle of the conversation, a Russian soldier entered the building. “Put the gun away,” a voice could be heard in the video, recorded by Dmitriy.”Are they there?” Dmitriy asked Ivan. “Yes,” Ivan quietly replied. At this point, Dmitriy stopped recording video, but the call continued for a couple of minutes longer.”I saw a bearded man,” Dmitriy recalls. “I asked Ivan to give him the phone. I wanted to ask them not to kill them. But I heard the voice say: ‘Switch off the phone’.”Ivan’s relatives were sure that he and other soldiers had been taken prisoner. “They didn’t resist,” says Ivan’s sister.’Our leadership allowed it to happen’On 17 February, Col Gen Syrskyi ordered a full withdrawal from Avdiivka in order to “preserve the lives … of servicemen”. But it was too late for many soldiers, including the six who surrendered.The following day, a video appearing to show their bodies was posted by Russian sources to social media. Relatives of Ivan, Andriy and Georgiy say they have no doubt that they are the men who appear in the video.”They were killed by the Russians,” says Georgiy’s mother, Inna Pavlova. “But our military leadership allowed it to happen.”Determination and despair in Ukraine front-line townFull cemeteries and empty homes: Ukrainians struggle to endureRelated TopicsWar in UkraineRussiaUkraineMore on this storyIs Russia turning the tide in Ukraine?Published2 days agoUkraine troops pull out of key eastern town AvdiivkaPublished2 days agoThe Ukrainians ‘disappearing’ in Russia’s prisonsPublished10 FebruaryFull cemeteries and empty homes: Ukrainians struggle to endurePublished5 days agoTop StoriesGovernment knew Post Office ditched Horizon probePublished53 minutes agoNavalny’s body ‘to be held for two weeks’Published1 hour agoRow deepens between Badenoch and ex-Post Office chairPublished2 hours agoFeaturesThe Papers: Navalny wife blames Putin and US’s move to block Rafah offensiveLyse Doucet: Rafah deadline raises stakes as Ramadan nearsThe unprecedented case of a migrant manslaughter trialWatch Baftas 2024 best bits… in two minutes. 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![BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaIsraeli PM ‘missed chance’ to cut off Hamas cash, says ex-spy chiefPublished6 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsIsrael-Gaza warBy John WareBBC PanoramaIsrael’s prime minister missed the chance to starve Hamas of cash, years before its murderous attack last October, according to a former senior Israeli intelligence officer. Udi Levy has told BBC Panorama he advised Benjamin Netanyahu to target Hamas’s finances. He believes this would have hampered the group’s military build-up, but says the intelligence was not acted upon. The Israeli prime minister’s office has not responded to the allegations. Hamas gunmen killed about 1,200 people and took more than 250 hostages on 7 October last year, when they crossed into southern Israel. One hundred and thirty hostages remain unaccounted for. Israel’s military response has killed 29,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry. Mr Levy – who was head of economic warfare in the Mossad, Israel’s spy agency, until 2016 – says he told Mr Netanyahu many times that Israel had the means to crush Hamas, which controls Gaza, “by using only financial tools”. Mr Levy says he never got a response to his proposal from Mr Netanyahu. When asked if he considered there was a connection between Mr Netanyahu’s alleged reluctance to deal with Hamas’s finances and the 7 October attack, Mr Levy is unequivocal. Image caption, Udi Levy says he alerted Mr Netanyahu to Hamas’s lucrative funding streams “Yes, of course,” he says. “There is a very good chance that… we would [have] prevent[ed] a lot of the money” that had gone into Gaza, and that “the monster that Hamas built probably [wouldn’t be] like the same monster that we faced on October 7th.” Hamas would have needed “billions, not millions” of dollars, says the former spy chief, to build hundreds of kilometres of tunnels underneath Gaza and pay for an estimated 30,000-strong military force. One specific funding stream, which Mr Levy says he raised with Mr Netanyahu in 2014, was an alleged multi-million-dollar investment portfolio which Israeli intelligence said was controlled by Hamas and managed out of Turkey. Mr Levy says that Mr Netanyahu chose not to act on the information. Hamas’s secret financial empireFollowing the attacks of 7 October, Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas. But can it? With access to some of Hamas’s most closely guarded secrets, John Ware investigates its network outside Gaza.Watch on BBC One at 20:00 on Monday 19 February (20:30 in Northern Ireland and 22:40 in Wales) or on BBC iPlayerHamas, which rejects Israel’s right to exist and is committed to its destruction, is much more than just a military force. It’s a political movement with financial support extending well beyond Gaza. “We spoke about Qatar and Iran as the main sponsors,” says Mr Levy of his conversations with Mr Netanyahu. “Turkey is even, in some aspect, more important because it is a critical focal point for Hamas to manage [its] financial infrastructure.” Panorama has been investigating documents, which had been acquired in 2020, said to reveal the extent of Hamas’s investment portfolio. They are a snapshot of an eight-month period that ends in early 2018. Israeli intelligence says they show how Hamas makes some of its money. Some 40 companies across the Middle East and north Africa are believed to be in the portfolio, including Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Sudan, Egypt, the Gulf and also Turkey. The alleged investments include everything from road construction, pharmaceuticals and medical equipment to tourism, mining, gold prospecting and luxury real estate projects. Since 2022, six of the companies listed in the documents have been designated by the US Treasury as being directly or indirectly owned or controlled by Hamas. The US has restricted their ability to trade by sanctioning them. Next to each company listed in the portfolio ledger is what is said to be the value of each Hamas-controlled holding, running into the millions of dollars for some of the companies – and adding up to a total value of $422,573,890 (£335m).Much of that value is said to be tied up in real estate. Property investments, which hold their value and have the potential for rental income, are a “perfect way” for an organisation such as Hamas to manage its finances, says Tom Keatinge, founding director of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies (CFCS) at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi). Image caption, Luxury apartments developed by the Turkish firm Trend GYOOne of the companies sanctioned by the US is Trend GYO – a Turkish real estate firm. In the 2018 document, it is referenced several times as Anda Turk – which documents show was an old trading name, before it was renamed Trend and floated on the Istanbul stock exchange. The 7 October attacks or, as Hamas calls them, “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood”, were recently praised by Trend’s former chairman, Hamid Abdullah al-Ahmar – who stood down in 2022 but remains as the head of Trend’s parent company. Speaking at a conference in Istanbul in January 2024, he was filmed saying: “We meet… while the Aqsa Flood is at its peak, a sweeping and roaring flood that will never stop before the occupation of beloved Palestine is defeated.” He went on to call on the conference to “work to criminalise Zionism as a racist and terrorist movement”. Panorama wrote to Mr al-Ahmar but received no reply. Trend told us that the US Treasury’s allegations of links between the company and Hamas were “unfair and unfounded”. The Turkish authorities have said they have investigated Trend and found “no abuse of our nation’s financial system” and that Turkey abides by international financial rules. Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, From an Israeli prison cell, Yahya Sinwar started to forge links between Hamas and Iran, according to a former Israeli security agency officerHamas, however, has also had a variety of other long-term financial sources. One of its most important early fundraisers was Yahya Sinwar, now the head of Hamas’s political wing in Gaza. According to Israel, he began raising funds for Hamas while he was in an Israeli prison cell. In 1988, Sinwar had been jailed for murdering Palestinians he suspected were spying for Israel. Micha Koubi, a former Israel security agency officer says he interrogated Sinwar for more than 150 hours. He said Sinwar managed to forge links with Iran by sending covert messages from prison. In 2007, a year after Hamas was voted into power, Israel and its neighbour Egypt tightened the blockade on Gaza, both saying they were concerned about their security. Mr Koubi said that Sinwar’s Iranian connections helped him to beat the blockade. “He sent messengers to Iran, to start the contact. He asked them to send… weapons and arms. And they agreed to help [Hamas] with everything that they need. “That was the very beginning.” Cash for Hamas also arrived from the Gulf state of Qatar, both overtly and covertly, according to former Mossad officer, Udi Levy. Israel has acknowledged that some of that money was delivered in cash with its blessing. It was allocated to pay the salaries of officials in the Hamas government and provide humanitarian support for the people of Gaza. “The Qataris [had] a special envoy that came every month, with a private jet to Rafah with a suitcase, enter to Gaza, gave it to Hamas, say hello and go back, that’s it,” says Mr Levy. He has told Panorama he believes “a significant sum of this money” went to “support Hamas’s military arm”. Image caption, Hamas has financed and built hundreds of miles of tunnels under GazaBillions more had been provided by UN agencies, the EU, the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, and numerous charities. All intended for humanitarian purposes. Rusi’s Tom Keatinge calls it a “fair assessment” that this money may have been subsidising Hamas’s military wing. “It is money [Hamas] can use on other issues, like building tunnels, like arming its military,” he says. It is impossible to know how much donor cash – if any – Hamas may have appropriated for military purposes. The group denies diverting any aid money. It told Panorama its military wing had its own sources of income. Israel’s Prime Minister has been clear about his opposition to the creation of a Palestinian state, and how that strategic aim was linked to his position on Hamas funding. In 2019, Mr Netanyahu told colleagues in his ruling Likud party: “Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas… This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.” Keeping Hamas strong enough to be an effective rival to Fatah – its West Bank rival – would prevent the possibility of a “unified Palestinian leadership with whom you would have to negotiate some kind of final settlement”, says Khaled Elgindy, senior fellow on Palestine and Palestinian-Israeli Affairs at the Middle East Institute think tank in Washington DC. Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin NetanyahuMore recently, Mr Netanyahu has denied he wanted to build up Hamas and said he had only allowed Qatari money into Gaza to prevent a humanitarian crisis. Mr Netanyahu has now vowed to destroy Hamas. There will be “no element” in Gaza that finances terrorism, he says. But, by destroying so much of Gaza and killing so many Palestinian, Israel may achieve the opposite effect. “Iran will probably continue to arm and financially support Hamas,” says Mr Elgindy. “But more than that, as long as there is a reason for a group like Hamas to try to acquire those weapons, and those resources, and those capabilities, they will do that. “Because the justification for it, the reasons for it, are still in place.” Related TopicsMiddle EastIsrael & the PalestiniansIsrael-Gaza warIsraelGazaHamasTop StoriesNavalny’s grieving widow vows to continue his workPublished3 hours agoRow deepens between Badenoch and ex-Post Office chairPublished14 minutes agoBaby was among three children found dead Published4 hours agoFeaturesLyse Doucet: Rafah deadline raises stakes as Ramadan nearsThe unprecedented case of a migrant manslaughter trialWatch Baftas 2024 best bits… in two minutes. 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