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
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
pulling within the margin of error. it money and it s a panic move. deep left field. and jeremy pena sends one out of here. you dance, dance, dance. creeping up on you so just, dance, dance, dance. all those things i should do but dance, dance, dance. ain t answer beautiful shot of new york city? what is that in the distance? looks like a ferris wheel that circle. steve: is that coney island? brian: a rainbow. looks like a rainbow is that a rainbow or my monitor? steve: we re back together. welcome back. ainsley: thank you. took a few days off. so glad to be back. thank you for waking up with us. i watched all three of your shows. brian: vhs copy i couldn t get it was this song you were dancing to club last night. so many songs i dance to at the end ends up being bump-in music. ainsley: this actually is a song from trolls. you know this song very well. brian: as justin timberlake ever written a song that meant anything? steve: you would have
steve: good morning, everybody, it s thursday, december 14th, 2023. we start this 6:00 hour with a fox news alert. the house of representatives yesterday voted to formaize an impeachment inquiry into the current president, joe biden. brian: president biden is now one of six presidents in u.s. history to face an impeachment inquiry in the house. lawrence: now his son hunter could be held in contempt of congress for skipping a closed door deposition on capitol hill yesterday. that s right. brooke singman is here with the latest. good morning. good morning. this is a huge step for house republicans who argue that a formal inquiry is the only way to get the white house to actually comply with their investigation. they are accusing president biden of influence peddling during his time as vice president. and they say they are collecting evidence that shows he was involved in his son s foreign business dealings. but, president biden is writing the whole thing off saying in
talks in washington, i spoke to our north america correspondent peter bowes. these are very wide ranging discussions. mr galante is on a several day visit to the united states meeting his us counterpart in about 2k hours time. in the last few hours, focusing on his meeting with antony blinken. this issue of trying to avoid further escalation has certainly been uppermost in their discussions. and really avoiding escalation on two fronts, escalation of the war in gaza between israel and hamas, but also concern about the skirmishes that we have seen on the northern border with lebanon with his brother over the last few days. and there is very real concern that those skirmishes could turn into something more serious and escalate into a wider middle east conflict. we understand that antony blinken has been putting some pressure on mr gallant to seek some sort of diplomatic resolution to that situation on the northern border to see the return home of lebanese families. so concerns