to share details of his tax affairs that are normally shrouded in confidentiality, because that s the way it works in the uk. that is why apparently the prime minister didn t know anything about this. ..with the ethics adviser to the prime minister, who is crawling all over some elements of this to work out if nadhim zahawi, as the conservative party chairman and minister without portfolio, has broken the rule book, the ministerial code. so, mr zahawi clearly thinks that this detail from the tax man will help corroborate his argument that says, look, yeah, there is a conversation with hmrc and i did get clobbered for a massive tax bill, and the penalty for being careless but not deliberate in how he handled his tax affairs. the prime minister is still saying, let s wait ethics adviser to do his work, some in government saying hope he gets a move on, because meanwhile you ve basically got a party chairman who is kind of padlocked in his office, because he can t really s
of the liberation of the auschwitz birkenau death camp, the day honours all those murdered by the nazis during the second world war. you re watching bbc news. now it is time for newscast. newscast. newscast from the bbc. hello, it s adam in the studio. and chris in the studio. and we re going to bejoined in the studio by lots of interesting guests on this episode of newscast. but first of all, chris, give us an update on what is happening with the tax affairs of nadhim zahawi, the tory party chairman, who was chancellor, of course. yeah, so he has now said that he is willing for revenue and customs, the tax people, to share details of his tax affairs that are normally shrouded in confidentiality, because that s the way it works in the uk. that is why apparently the prime minister didn t know anything about this. ..with the ethics adviser to the prime minister, who is crawling all over some elements of this to work out if nadhim zahawi, as the conservative party chairman and m
an ad hoc arrangement. the big foreign policy security challenge this week was a load of countries trying to convince germany and the us to send tanks to ukraine and then, once the usjumped, germany jumped, too. that all happened without a security partnership with the eu. hang on there was another story this week? there was a story this week about sanctions in the uk, enforcement, and the head of wagner basically being able to use money. that russian mercenary group. ..you know, to access a lawyer to challenge journalists questioning him. so, sanctions policy is beyond the remit of nato, cyber terrorism is beyond the remit of nato. there are procurement issues beyond the conventional military arsenal that s beyond beyond nato. so, that s why the security pact is so important and by the way, there are issues around organised crime and other things that you would wrap up into a security deal as well. when you talked about fixing
a security partnership with the eu. hang on, there was another story this week. there was a story this week about sanctions in the uk, enforcement, and the head of wagner basically being able to use money. that russian mercenary group. ..you know, to access a lawyer to challenge journalists questioning him. so sanctions policy is beyond the remit of nato. cyber terrorism is beyond the remit of nato. there are procurement issues beyond the conventional military arsenal that s beyond beyond nato. so that s why the security pact is so important. and by the way, there are issues around organised crime and other things that you would wrap up into a security deal as well. when you talked about fixing the northern ireland protocol, to use your words for it, are you on the same page as the government when it comes to there should be no checks at all on some goods going to northern ireland , or would you accept that there will be some checks on everything? when i was in northern ireland
he s been visiting both countries which are considering nato membership in the face of president putin s decision to invade ukraine. we can now speak to michael o hanlon, who s a senior fellow and director of research in foreign policy at the brookings institution, where he specialises in us defence strategy. you are busy man these days, michael. thank you so much for joining us. i was taking a look back ati of joining us. i was taking a look back at i of your books from 2017, beyond nato. talking about a concept of permanent neutrality mentioning finland and sweden, i imagine perhaps you are thinking differently today? you are thinking differently toda ? , , ., ., today? greetings. you are ri . ht. today? greetings. you are riuht. i today? greetings. you are right. ithink today? greetings. you are right. | think that - today? greetings. you are right. i think that any - today? greetings. you are | right. i think that any hope that we could prevent this kind of crisis by thinking abou