and allow his country to export 1a leopard ii battle tanks to ukraine. a scandal of abuse and neglect at three children s homes in doncaster. the regulator rated the homes as good even though there had been many warnings about ill treatment and this year s oscar nominees have been announced. those up for best picture include everything everywhere all at once, avatar, and elvis. the chairman of the bbc has been ordered to give evidence to mps on the digital, culture, media and sport select committee on the 7th of february to answer questions on his alleged involvment in a loan to former prime minister, borisjohnson. richard sharp says he has no plans to step aside or resign over the row, and believes he has done nothing wrong. richard sharp is accused of helping to facilitate a loan to the then prime minister, when he was applying to be bbc chairman. his appointment is now under review by the commissioner of public appointments. our media editor katie razzall has been speaking
tonight, bringing us the context are stefanie brown james, co founder of collective pac, the group campaigning for equal representation in american politics, and former ukjustice secretary and chief secretary to the treasury david gauke. welcome to the programme. for several days now western leaders have been providing political cover for the german chancellor, while privately venting frustration at his reluctance to send the leopard tanks to ukraine. according to german newspapers his refusal to approve the deliveries on friday, at a meeting of nato defence ministers, led to sharp words between him and the us secretary of defence lloyd austin. olaf schulz s office deny that, saying neither the tone nor content of the reports were true. but certainly there was frustration, and you could hear it when the bbc spoke, earliertoday, to the polish prime minister, who has decided to go it alone. let me put it this way, poland and the free world cannot afford not to send leopard ta
Through the Olive Branches . Theyre hard to avoid in puglia, a region thats home to 60 million olive trees. Thats one olive tree for every italian in italy. This region is italy at its most elemental simple fresh cuisine thats grown and produced here. Fragrant olive oil, beautiful vegetables, cheeses renowned the world over. Hello. Hello. One focaccia. And durum wheat for pasta and bread. Grazie. Look at that. Im stanley tucci. Im fascinated by my italian heritage, so im traveling across italy to discover how the food in each of this countrys 20 regions is as unique as the people and their past. You really want it to be like that . Need to be like this. Despite being such a fertile region, puglia is also one of italys poorest. It was nicknamed the shame of italy. Located in the south, a place the italians call il mezzogiorno, or high noon, because of the intensity of the midday sun, poverty and hardship are very much a recent memory in this part of the world. Get out of here. But today
i am in the west. i m mehdi hassan filling in for my good friend ali velshi. i want to start this morning with a little bit of a quiz for you. do you know where and when he went to college? do you know if you attended college? do you know where he worked? do you know if you are jewish or not? of course, you know all the answers to those questions. for republican congressman elect george santos, there have been tough questions, we really tough questions. over the past couple of weeks, he s been caught lying in spectacular and fantastical fashion about each and every one of those things and more. george santos did not attend or graduate from any institute of higher education. he did not previously work for citigroup or goldman sachs. he did not found an animal rights charity. he tweeted that, quote, 9/11 claimed my mother s life. five months later he, tweeted a conflicting statement saying his mother died only five years ago in 2016. we don t know when exactly george santos s m
have improved touch. but making ends meet still the biggest for families and firms. i can t give them the things you would like to give them, like the new books. i can t afford to do it any more. with a new promise from labour to help keep a lid on bills, we have one big question this morning is rishi sunak keeping his promise to run a professional government for us all? to answer that, james cleverly, the foreign secretary. the woman who d be your chancellor if labour win the next election rachel reeves is here. and the latest of our leaders interviews for 2023 we ll hearfrom nicola sturgeon, scotland s first minister. with me at the desk to help make sense of what that lot of have to say, the chair of tesco and imperial college, john allan, the lbc presenter and journalist, racheljohnson, and iain duncan smith tory mp who used to lead his party. good morning, thanks for being with us. it s not been a great week for the government, with a feeling that rishi sunak ca