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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaEndangered California condor chicks hatched in LAThis video can not be playedTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.Endangered California condor chicks hatched in LACloseEndangered California condors are part of a recovery program that aims to release them into the wild.Zoos in the state work closely with the US Fish and Wildlife Service as part of the California Condor Recovery Program after the species almost went extinct in the 80s.Now every condor chick born in captivity starts a process of adaptation towards release in a protected area.SubsectionUS & CanadaPublished30 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRead descriptionExplore moreEndangered California condor chicks hatched in LA. Video, 00:01:28Endangered California condor chicks hatched in LASubsectionUS & CanadaPublished30 minutes ago1:28Up Next. Watch: Zoo welcomes birth of southern white rhino. Video, 00:00:30Watch: Zoo welcomes birth of southern white rhinoSubsectionBeds, Herts & BucksPublished15 MarchUp Next0:30Zoo shares first images of ocelot born this year. Video, 00:00:54Zoo shares first images of ocelot born this yearSubsectionUS & CanadaPublished15 December 20230:54Editor’s recommendationsWheelie bins fly and a caravan overturns in strong wind. Video, 00:00:24Wheelie bins fly and a caravan overturns in strong windSubsectionStoke & StaffordshirePublished4 hours ago0:24Hannah Waddingham calls out demanding paparazzi. Video, 00:00:28Hannah Waddingham calls out demanding paparazziSubsectionEntertainment & ArtsPublished8 hours ago0:28BBC Verify examines video from Iran’s attack on Israel. Video, 00:01:09BBC Verify examines video from Iran’s attack on IsraelSubsectionMiddle EastPublished22 hours ago1:09’A very long night for Israel and a dangerous moment’ Video, 00:00:58’A very long night for Israel and a dangerous moment’SubsectionMiddle EastPublished1 day ago0:58The view from Israel as Iran launches dozens of missiles. Video, 00:00:30The view from Israel as Iran launches dozens of missilesSubsectionMiddle EastPublished1 day ago0:30Tel Aviv residents unfazed by Iran attack threat. Video, 00:00:35Tel Aviv residents unfazed by Iran attack threatSubsectionMiddle EastPublished1 day ago0:35Sydney attack: What’s known about how it unfolded? Video, 00:00:55Sydney attack: What’s known about how it unfolded?SubsectionAustraliaPublished1 day ago0:55Watch: ‘Someone took my car, and my 89-year-old mum’ Video, 00:01:26Watch: ‘Someone took my car, and my 89-year-old mum’SubsectionUKPublished2 days ago1:26Watch: Moment man rescued from Turkey cable car. Video, 00:00:30Watch: Moment man rescued from Turkey cable carSubsectionEuropePublished2 days ago0:30

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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityAsiaChinaIndiaTruong My Lan: Vietnamese billionaire sentenced to death for $44bn fraudPublished29 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Truong My Lan is accused of looting one of Vietnam’s largest banks over a period of 11 yearsBy Jonathan Head & Thu BuiIn BangkokIt was the most spectacular trial ever held in Vietnam, befitting one of the greatest bank frauds the world has ever seen. Behind the stately yellow portico of the colonial-era courthouse in Ho Chi Minh City, a 67-year-old Vietnamese property developer was sentenced to death on Thursday for looting one of the country’s largest banks over a period of 11 years.The numbers involved are dizzying. Truong My Lan was convicted for taking out $44bn (£35bn) in loans from the Saigon Commercial Bank. Prosecutors said $27bn may never be recovered.The habitually secretive communist authorities were uncharacteristically forthright about this case, going into minute detail for the media. They said 2,700 people were summoned to testify, while 10 state prosecutors and around 200 lawyers were involved. The evidence was in 104 boxes weighing a total of six tonnes. Eighty-five defendants were tried with Truong My Lan, who denied the charges. “There has never been a show trial like this, I think, in the communist era,” says David Brown, a retired US state department official with long experience in Vietnam. “There has certainly been nothing on this scale.”The trial was the most dramatic chapter so far in the “Blazing Furnaces” anti-corruption campaign led by the Communist Party Secretary-General, Nguyen Phu Trong. A conservative ideologue steeped in Marxist theory, Nguyen Phu Trong believes that popular anger over untamed corruption poses an existential threat to the Communist Party’s monopoly on power. He began the campaign in earnest in 2016 after out-manoeuvring the then pro-business prime minister to retain the top job in the party. Image source, Getty ImagesThe campaign has seen two presidents and two deputy prime ministers forced to resign, and hundreds of officials disciplined or jailed. Now one of the country’s richest women has joined their ranks. Truong My Lan comes from a Sino-Vietnamese family in Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon. It has long been the commercial engine of the Vietnamese economy, dating well back to its days as the anti-communist capital of South Vietnam, with a large, ethnic Chinese community. She started as a market stall vendor, selling cosmetics with her mother, but began buying land and property after the Communist Party ushered in a period of economic reform, known as Doi Moi, in 1986. By the 1990s, she owned a large portfolio of hotels and restaurants.Although Vietnam is best known outside the country for its fast-growing manufacturing sector, as an alternative supply chain to China, most wealthy Vietnamese made their money developing and speculating in property. All land is officially state-owned. Getting access to it often relies on personal relationships with state officials. Corruption escalated as the economy grew, and became endemic. By 2011, Truong My Lan was a well-known business figure in Ho Chi Minh City, and she was allowed to arrange the merger of three smaller, cash-strapped banks into a larger entity: Saigon Commercial Bank. Vietnamese law prohibits any individual from holding more than 5% of the shares in any bank. But prosecutors say that through hundreds of shell companies and people acting as her proxies, Truong My Lan actually owned more than 90% of Saigon Commercial. They accused her of using that power to appoint her own people as managers, and then ordering them to approve hundreds of loans to the network of shell companies she controlled.The amounts taken out are staggering. Her loans made up 93% of all the bank’s lending. Vietnam secret document warns of ‘hostile forces’Xi in Vietnam to rekindle a love-hate relationshipUS denies Cold War with China in historic Vietnam visitAccording to prosecutors, over a period of three years from February 2019, she ordered her driver to withdraw 108 trillion Vietnamese dong, more than $4bn (£2.3bn) in cash from the bank, and store it in her basement. That much cash, even if all of it was in Vietnam’s largest denomination banknotes, would weigh two tonnes. She was also accused of bribing generously to ensure her loans were never scrutinised. One of those who was tried used to be a chief inspector at the central bank, who was accused of accepting a $5m bribe.The mass of officially sanctioned publicity about the case channelled public anger over corruption against Truong My Lan, whose haggard, unmade-up appearance in court was in stark contrast to the glamorous publicity photos people had seen of her in the past. But questions are also being asked about why she was able to keep on with the alleged fraud for so long.Image source, Getty Images”I am puzzled,” says Le Hong Hiep who runs the Vietnam Studies Programme at the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore. “Because it wasn’t a secret. It was well known in the market that Truong My Lan and her Van Thinh Phat group were using SCB as their own piggy bank to fund the mass acquisition of real estate in the most prime locations. “It was obvious that she had to get the money from somewhere. But then it is such a common practice. SCB is not the only bank that is used like this. So perhaps the government lost sight because there are so many similar cases in the market.”David Brown believes she was protected by powerful figures who have dominated business and politics in Ho Chi Minh City for decades. And he sees a bigger factor in play in the way this trial is being run: a bid to reassert the authority of the Communist Party over the free-wheeling business culture of the south.”What Nguyen Phu Trong and his allies in the party are trying to do is to regain control of Saigon, or at least stop it from slipping away. “Up until 2016 the party in Hanoi pretty much let this Sino-Vietnamese mafia run the place. They would make all the right noises that local communist leaders are supposed to make, but at the same time they were milking the city for a substantial cut of the money that was being made down there.”At 79 years old, party chief Nguyen Phu Trong is in shaky health, and will almost certainly have to retire at the next Communist Party Congress in 2026, when new leaders will be chosen. He has been one of the longest-serving and most consequential secretary-generals, restoring the authority of the party’s conservative wing to a level not seen since the reforms of the 1980s. He clearly does not want to risk permitting enough openness to undermine the party’s hold on political power. But he is trapped in a contradiction. Under his leadership the party has set an ambitious goal of reaching rich country status by 2045, with a technology and knowledge-based economy. This is what is driving the ever-closer partnership with the United States. Yet faster growth in Vietnam almost inevitably means more corruption. Fight corruption too much, and you risk extinguishing a lot of economic activity. Already there are complaints that bureaucracy has slowed down, as officials shy away from decisions which might implicate them in a corruption case.”That’s the paradox,” says Le Hong Hiep. “Their growth model has been reliant on corrupt practices for so long. Corruption has been the grease that that kept the machinery working. If they stop the grease, things may not work any more.”Related TopicsVietnamAsiaMore on this storyVietnam’s president out after just year in officePublished21 MarchPower shift in Vietnam as president quitsPublished17 January 2023Top StoriesBiden vows ‘ironclad’ support for Israel amid Iran attack fearsPublished10 minutes agoDazzling artwork found at ancient city of PompeiiPublished3 hours agoPressure grows to rethink rough sleeping clampdownPublished9 hours agoFeaturesHow gang violence gripped a tourist havenWhat is the minimum salary UK visa applicants need?Arizona pushes abortion to centre stage of 2024The Papers: ‘Iron clad’ Biden support and ‘radical NHS plan’All you need to know for tonight’s Bafta Games AwardsListen: How will Labour plug the gap in NHS funding?AttributionSoundsWas South Korea’s president thwarted by a spring onion?The Indian men traumatised by fighting for RussiaLocal elections 2024: Is there an election in my area?Elsewhere on the BBCA man from 1979 takes on the modern worldSurely things can’t have changed that much? 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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaLet individual states decide abortion rights, Trump saysPublished25 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsUS abortion debateImage source, Getty ImagesBy James FitzGerald & Sam CabralBBC NewsDonald Trump has said decisions about abortion rights should be left to the states, releasing a statement on the contentious election issue on Monday.Many in his Republican Party had wanted him to back a nationwide ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.But Mr Trump said policies should be set by individual states – as they have been since the Supreme Court overturned the Roe v Wade decision in 2022.Since then, preserving abortion rights has become a top issue for many voters.Some states have been tightening restrictions on abortion, while others have moved to widen access. President Joe Biden, responding to Mr Trump’s statement, said his rival in November’s election was worried voters would punish him on the issue at the polls.In his video, Mr Trump declared: “My view is now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint; the states will determine by vote or legislation, or perhaps both.”Mr Trump also said he was “proudly the person responsible” for the change brought about by the US Supreme Court two years ago, when it overturned the longstanding Roe v Wade decision that a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy was protected by the US constitution.In 2016, Mr Trump campaigned on appointing justices who would overturn Roe v Wade – and went on to put three conservatives on the court during his presidency.In his statement, he acknowledged this would create a piecemeal situation: “Many states will be different. Many will have a different number of weeks or some will have more conservative than others. But he said it came down to “the will of the people”, adding: “You must follow your heart or in many cases, your religion or your faith.” Mr Trump added that he was in favour of exceptions when rape or incest were involved, or the life of the mother was in danger. Four ways the end of Roe v Wade has changed AmericaFlorida takes centre stage in US abortion battle19th Century law fires up anti-abortion pushHe also reiterated he was in favour of fertility treatments including in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), a reference to the Alabama supreme court ruling that opened a new front in the battle over reproductive rights.The former president also falsely claimed that national Democratic leaders have a “radical” abortion position that includes “execution after birth”.Mr Trump, who is all but certain to be the Republican presidential candidate, acknowledged that the abortion issue has caused major problems for his party in elections held since 2022. Voters angry at the Supreme Court decision have showed up at the polls to support Democratic candidates, as well as ballot measures intended to preserve access to abortion. Democrats have seized on the issue as a way to help re-elect Mr Biden in November.On Monday the president sent out a lengthy response to the Trump statement, saying his rival was “scrambling”.”Having created the chaos of overturning Roe, he’s trying to say, ‘Oh, never mind. Don’t punish me for that. I just want to win,'” Mr Biden wrote.He also alleged that Mr Trump would sign off on a federal abortion ban proposed by congressional Republicans if he returned to the White House.Mr Biden has made universal access to abortion a central campaign issue and pledged that he will work to create a federal law based on the Roe decision.Conservative reaction to Mr Trump’s message was largely negative, with the conservative Susan B Anthony Pro-Life America group saying it was “deeply disappointed”.Some took issue with him not saying at what number of weeks he supports a ban – despite previously signalling support for a 15-week limit – and many also said abortion policy should be set by the federal government.South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, a key Trump ally who has proposed a 15-week abortion ban, said he “respectfully [disagrees]” that abortion should be decided by individual states.”The pro-life movement has always been about the wellbeing of the unborn child – not geography,” he wrote on X (formerly Twitter).The head of the Students for Life of America reaffirmed her support for Mr Trump but said the group would keep pushing.”We clearly have some work to do to educate President Trump in the many ways that abortion has been made federal,” Kristan Hawkins wrote on X.While conservative states have moved to limit abortion access over the last two years, other states have passed laws to enshrine abortion rights in law. Last week, Florida became the latest state to chart its own course – setting up perhaps the highest-stakes political showdown on the issue so far. First, the state’s supreme court upheld the state’s right to prohibit abortion, giving the green light for a six-week ban to take effect on 1 May. This amounts to a near-total ban, given that many women do not realise they are pregnant at six weeks.But the court is also allowing Floridians to vote in November on whether abortion rights should be protected in the state constitution.Mr Trump, who resides in Florida, won the state in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections – but the Biden campaign says the abortion debate has made the state “winnable” in November.Related TopicsAbortionFloridaIVFDonald TrumpUS abortion debateMore on this storyFlorida voters to have say on six-week abortion banPublished6 days agoTop StoriesLive. Crowds in Mexico and Texas see partial solar eclipseLive. 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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaMoscow concert attack: Relatives of missing desperately seek answersPublished22 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, ShutterstockImage caption, People gathered outside the Crocus venue to pay their respects to the victims of the attack on 22 MarchBy Victoria Safronova and Ido VockBBC NewsDozens of people are still missing following the attack on the Crocus City Hall music venue in Moscow, raising fears that the death toll could rise higher than the current 143.Some relatives of the missing have been attempting to track down their loved ones in hospitals around the capital. The fire which destroyed much of the venue is believed to have made many victims’ remains unrecognisable.143 people are still missing, Russian investigators said on Wednesday.42-year-old Oleg Shikhovtsev from Lyubertsy, near Moscow, was at the concert by the band Picnic with his wife and 19-year-old daughter. The family was sitting towards the front of the venue when the attack began. Mr Shikhovtsev protected his wife, who was wounded in the back. His daughter was also injured.Mr Shikhovtsev’s wife was able to get her daughter out of the hall. On the street, they were picked up by strangers passing by Crocus by car and taken to the hospital. Doctors operated on his daughter, pulling a bullet out of her body. But since the attack, Oleg’s relatives have not been able to reach him, they told the BBC. Calls to his phone have gone unanswered. In the process of trying to find out what happened to Oleg, his relatives found a man who helped to carry the wounded out of the concert hall while it was on fire. He said that he also carried out a man who looked similar to Oleg. But calls and visits to hospitals around Moscow have not been successful in locating him. Several people sent a graphic video published by the Islamic State group, the militant organisation which claimed responsibility for the attack, suggesting Oleg may be seen in it. But his relatives told the BBC they don’t believe he is.Russian officials have not contacted Oleg Shikhovtsev’s relatives with information about his fate.”There is still hope,” a friend told the BBC. “Maybe by some miracle they missed someone. Maybe they aren’t telling us because he is in serious condition.”The Russian Investigative Committee said in a statement on Wednesday that genetic examinations were being carried out on remains found in the hall in order to identify victims of the attack. Four citizens of Tajikistan accused of being the gunmen who perpetrated the attack – named as Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev, Saidakrami Murodali Rachabalizoda, Shamsidin Fariduni and Muhammadsobir Fayzov – appeared in court on Sunday. All showed signs of severe torture. 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[ad_1] 42-year-old Oleg Shikhovtsev from Lyubertsy, near Moscow, was at the concert by the band Picnic with his wife and 19-year-old daughter. The family was sitting towards the front of…