millions of people around the world prepare for lunar new year. and britain s andy murray is out of the australian open. he lost to spain s roberto bautista agut in four sets in what could be his last time at the tournament. the uk conservative party chairman, nadhim zahawi, has responded to reports that he had to pay a penalty as part of a multi million pound tax settlement. in a statement, the former chancellor said the tax office had disagreed about the exact allocation of shares his father had in the polling company yougov, which mr zahawi founded. he said hmrc, which is the uk s tax authority, had concluded it was a careless and not deliberate error, and that he had paid what was due. labour had earlier called for mr zahawi to resign over the matter. let s go through all of this, there is a lot of detail here. reminders to the background of all of this. for almost a week, nadhim zahawi has been under pressure to give more detail about his tax affairs. there is one centr
has responded to reports that he had to pay a penalty as part of a multi million pound tax settlement. in a statement, the former chancellor said the tax office had disagreed about the exact allocation of shares his father had in the polling company yougov, which mr zahawi founded. he said hmrc, which is the uk s tax authority, had concluded it was a careless and not deliberate error, and that he had paid what was due. labour had earlier called for mr zahawi to resign over the matter. our political correspondent, jonathan blake, has more on today s statement. for almost a week, nadhim zahawi has been under pressure to give more detail about his tax affairs. there is one central question at the heart of this scrutiny and that is whether he used an offshore entity to hold shares in the polling company yougov which he set up before he came to politics back in the year 2000, and also whether subsequently he has paid a settlement to hmrc for tax that he owed as a result of potenti
kennedy and the cuban missile crisis, i don t think there s anything as the ability of using a nuclear tact cal weapon and not end up with armageddon. this is stark language and comes as the u.s. considers how to respond to a range of potential scenarios. let s bring in white house correspondent jeremy diamond for more. reporter: u.s. officials say there s been no change in russia s nuclear posture. one senior u.s. official telling cnn that the u.s. didn t detect anything yesterday that would indicate an escalation in russia s nuclear posture, that s why it s striking to hear the language that president biden used last night talking about the prospect of armageddon should putin use nuclear weapons and making clear he doesn t believe the russian leader is bluffing. here s a snippet of the president s comments from the fund-raiser in new york last night, off camera. saying, quote, we have a guy i know fairly well within he s not joking when he talks about potential use of t
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