the british prime minister has sacked the chairman of his party, nadhim zahawi, following an investigation into his tax affairs. mr zahawi says he ll continue to support the prime minister from the backbenches, and criticised journalists for the way they reported his tax affairs. here s our political correspondent david wallace lockhart he arrived in the uk as a young refugee before becoming a successful businessman. he served as the vaccines minister, rising to become chancellor, this morning he was chairman of the conservative party but his ministerial career now lies in tatters. he had faced questions for some time about his previous tax affairs and the fact he paid a penalty to hmrc while he was in charge of the treasury. he insisted he acted appropriately throughout. the prime minister had asked his ethics adviser to investigate. sir laurie magnus reported back this morning. his findings were highly critical. in a letter to rishi sunak he said from april 2021 nadhim zaha
Park here are the thoughts of Newcastle Legend and Match Of The Day analyst alan shearer who played the last time the magpies payed in the Champins League against barcelona back in 2003. Iam i am excited and i cant wait for tonight, like everyone else in newcastle, the stadium will be rocking tonight. These were the nights at stjamess park we were thinking of, 20 years, such a long time and the fans have had some real ups and downs over the years. Bear in mind two years ago we were still thinking is the takeover going to happen . To be this far ahead already and having nights like this already is an incredible achievement and that tells you how well eddie and the players have done. I have been lucky enough to travel all over and i have never seen anywhere like newcastle than in terms of the mums or dad and the nanas boyfriends or girlfriends with the newcastle tops on. Stjamess park on girlfriends with the newcastle tops on. St jamess park on saturday whether newcastle win or not, it m
Through which is now over germany. In the wake of this we have westerly winds off the atlantic and it has brought us sunny spells and scattered showers, showers possible anywhere but more frequent across scotland and Northern Ireland and temperatures between around 14 and 18. This is the Weather Front i alluded to, just to the north of ireland, but this area of western scotland, dumfries and galloway, Central Lowlands into central scotland, the rain will not necessarily be heavy all the time that it will be very persistent as the Weather Front to get stuck along the Weather Front to get stuck along the flow of winter. It will be pushed into this area like a conveyor belt, a bit of flash flooding possible but this one is just to the north of the region, perhaps over the next day also. South of art, across england and wales, tomorrow the weather looks fine with sunny spells, developing a south south westerly breeze south of that. That will bring in another area of low pressure on thursda
Was delayed by five hours because of bad weather. The high profile new arrivals at the Saudi Pro League teams mean there are perhaps more eyes on the asian version of the Champions League than ever before. But also because of a recent agreement saudi clubs are playing matches in iran this season for the First Time Since 2016. On monday, though, al ittihads match against iranian club sepahan was cancelled at the last minute. The stadium In The City Of Isfahan was packed with 60 thousand fans, but the saudi team featuring the likes of Karim Benzema and ngolo kante never came out of the dressing room. The club were opposed to a statue of an iranian general assassinated in 2020 being placed at the entrance to the pitch. The Asian Football Confederation said the game had been cancelled due to unanticipated and unforeseen circumstances. Its the final round of Cricket World Cup warm ups in india today, but the host nations match against The Netherlands has been abandoned because of the weathe
The Kennedy Family despite the fact that their own relative is running against him. President biden will hold events in washington d. C. And in florida where he will deliver a speech on tuesday focused on reproductive rights, one week before a 6 week abortion ban takes effect in that state. That was in biden world. Entrump world, the only Campaign Stop he was able to make this week was at a Bodega In Manhattan which is a county where democrats outnumber republicans 10 to 1 and he continued to spread false claims about rising crime. Otherwise the former president spent most of his week like this, in a courtroom, sometimes nodding off, a preview of what the next 7 weeks of his life will be like as the trial proceeds. It is only the first week and candidate trump is focused on how much of his legal obligations are campaigning his campaign plans. During remarks outside of the courtroom, he complained multiple times about how he should be out on the Campaign Trail instead. To be fair, the f