in sport today, delight for scottish side darvel. how the sixth tier side upset all the odds to knock out premiership side aberdeen in what s being called the biggest upset in scottish cup history. 0k, set, and. . .action. and it s one of the biggest hits of the year so far. we go behind the scenes with star of happy valleyjames norton. there s an energy about tommy. there s a kind of animal, vital and unstoppable kind of force. and so when he s allowed to let rip, like he was yesterday, it s so fun. good morning. the northwest, southeast split in the weather once again today. the north and the west and cloudy with some patchy rain, and cloudy with some patchy rain, and the south has patchy fog and frost. it s tuesday 24th january. failings by the probation service left a serial offender free to commit murder, just days after he was released from prison, according to a damning watchdog report. the chief inspector of probation said a catalogue of errors led tojordan mcsweene
allegations are and what questions have yet to be answered. did you switch off your lights in the last hour? up to a million people are paid to use less electricity to avoid blackouts. and manager frank lampard is sacked by everton after just a year as the team faces relegation. and coming up in sport on the bbc news channel. no stopping novak djokovic chasing a record extending tenth title in melbourne he cruises into the quarter finals of the australian open. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. rishi sunak has asked his independent ethics adviser to look into the tax affairs of the conservative party chairman and former chancellor nadhim zahawi. the prime minister has resisted calls to sack mr zahawi but says, clearly, there are questions that need answering. mr zahawi paid a penalty believed to be around £5 million to the tax authority hmrc for unpaid tax while he was chancellor. mr zahawi says he made a careless error and is confident he has acted prop
to south africa. and britain s prime minister orders an investigation into how the chairman of the governing conservative party settled a multi million dollar tax dispute. let s start with the war in ukraine. eu foreign ministers have been meeting in brussels amid an ongoing row about whether to send tanks. member countries are putting pressure on germany to provide some of its leopard two tanks, to help fight off russia s invasion. estonia s foreign minister has been at those talks in brussels he s been speaking to the bbc. decisions need to be implemented and the decisions need to be done and there is a moment of leadership which needs to be created. and my strong message is indeed, to all countries, who have weapons and stockpiles to give them immediately without any political caveats or any further considerations or hesitance of the russian s reaction. so let s take a closer look at germany s role in all this. the leopard 2 is operated by about 20 countries worldwide
everything, to investigate the matter everything, to investigate the matter fully. but labour says mr zahawi s position is untenable and he should be sacked immediately. also tonight. the choice of richard sharp as chairman of the bbc is to be investigated following allegations that he helped organise a loan for borisjohnson shortly before his appointment. alexa, kitchen lights alexa, kitchen li-hts off. alexa, kitchen lights off. a scheme that pays households in england, wales and scotland to cut their electricity use in exchange for discounts on their bills has gone live for the first time. deux, trois, quatre, cinq. and coming up on the bbc news channel: everton s managerial merry go round continues frank lampard is sacked after less than a year in charge of the toffees. good evening. there are clearly questions that need answering about nahim zahawi s conduct. that s the prime minister s view about the colleague he appointed as chairman of the conservative party an
former adviser to george w bush. welcome to the programme. rishi sunak has ordered an inquiry into the tax affairs of nadhim zahawi, the man he appointed as chair of the conservative party. the ethics adviser sir laurie magnus, a former investment banker, has been asked to get to the bottom of everything , following reports mr zahawi was forced to pay a fine and millions of pounds in unpaid taxes to hmrc. it is quite the turn around. on wednesday the prime minister told the commons there was nothing further to investigate. mr speaker, my honourable friend has already addressed this matter in full, and there is nothing more i can add. but there are plenty of questions that remain unanswered. number 10 says, it was only this weekend the prime minister became aware of penalties mr zahawi had paid to the tax office, while serving as chancellor. in that role, mr zahawi was nominally, overseeing the work of the tax office. a complicating factor. integrity and accountability is rea