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 the uk s tax authority, hmrc, 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
business every day and come out and do their business every day to make sure they are ready to play so it has been a good week of practice, we ve got to finish it up. that s all the sport for now. i ll have more for you in the next hour. turkey has cancelled the swedish defence minister s upcoming trip to the capital ankara, saying sweden was allowing demonstrations outside the turkish embassy in stockholm. turkey says authorities in sweden gave permission for a protest by a far right politician to burn the quran outside the embassy. pro turkish and pro kurdish groups are also planning demonstrations there. the ministers had been due to discuss ankara s objections to sweden s bid tojoin the nato military alliance. bbc s berza simsek is following the developments for us. she joins us from london. she has been following develops developments for us. let s start with why turkey is calling for the swedish defence minister, why they
SOHR reported that preparation is underway in the northern Aleppo countryside, which is controlled by Turkish forces and their gangs to send a new batch of mercenaries to Libya.
putin able to have an out. or are the proturkish rebels slightly out of control. could they continue to keep fighting? all eyes on that and the fact that president erdogan says he will up his campaign more if he doesn t get what i wants by 10:00 local time tomorrow. what is the strategy of the oilfields. for the united states, none. i think there are some analysts you think are those in the pentagon who knew they needed to keep a presence in ear ya, some that persuaded president trump that oil was worth fighting for. the south is always the through right. also it inables them to keep troops on the ground two
the morning. i hope you caught our report from richard engel and what he s seen on the ground. i know where your views are philosophically, and i want to get to that in a minute, but are you concerned this decision was too hasty, and it sort of created a more chaotic situation than necessary? well, i think one of the things about the arab militias that turkey is using that your reporter reported on, it s interesting that some of them are from the free syrian army, which was our ally for seven years, which shows how messy this is. turkey is an ally, the free army was an ally, and the kurds have been allies. it s a complicated, messy situation, but a lot of people are not acknowledgic turkey was coming in one way or another, and 50 soldiers would simply be in the way and be a trip wire to a much worse outcome, so i think the president was right in moving 50 soldiers out of the way of an onslaught of tens of thousands of turkish troops. why are you so convinced of that? i m not going