but president putin is certain to win six more years in office. the uk s jobs problem: why more than one in five working age adults aren t looking for work. we ll have a special report from our analysis editor ros atkins. and the story of the viral hanging granny. she became an internet sensation and we ll meet the man who s immortalised the moment in paint. all that to come on the programme tonight. we start with the war in ukraine. but at a meeting that took place thousands of kilometres from the front line. the gathering today of three european leaders could have major implications for the conflict. but there is a dilemma among the three leading military powers of mainland europe just how to maintain a unified response, when there s growing differences on what that response looks like. french president emmanuel macron, german chancellor olaf scholz, and polish prime minister donald tusk met in berlin today amid rumours of a rift between the french and german leaders. it
millions of people around the world prepare for lunar new year. 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 hmrc, which is the uk s tax authority, 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. let s go through all of this, there is a lot of detail here. reminders to the background of all of this. for almost a week, nadhim zahawi has been under pressure to give more detail about his tax affairs. there is one centr
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 hmrc, which is the uk s tax authority, 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 in the polling company yougov which he set up before he came to politics back in the year 2000, and also whether subsequently he has paid a settlement to hmrc for tax that he owed as a result of potenti
and the economy is also a key issue for us voters three weeks out from the crucial midterm elections as inflation continues to rise. tonight with the context, paul waugh, chief political commentator for the i newspaper, and democratic strategist mary anne marsh. as government u turns go, and there have been a few of late, this was a big one. britain s new chancellor, jeremy hunt, has dumped nearly all of the flagship economic policies of the liz truss government in an attempt to end weeks of financial turmoil. it has left the prime minister fighting for her political survival with a few mps openly calling for her to quit, and more doing anonymously. this gives you an idea of the scale of how much has been dropped from the pm s plan for growth last month which the then chancellor kwasi kwarteng announced in parliament, and how little now remains. the 1p cut in the basic rate of income tax has been dropped indefinitely. it will remain at 20p. the 2 year cap on energy prices h
mugabe refused to be cowed by house arrest or a resignation speech, so why on earth does zanu pf think they can impeach him in two days? we ll ask them if the game plan has gone wrong. pure evil, pure fantascist, orjust a dull man whom america tried to make into a celebrity. we look at the death of serial killer charles manson. will his cult carry on without him? and an effusive apology from paperchase after advertising in the daily mail. why are activists claiming this as a victory? and what should customers do now? good evening. it wasn t so long ago the superlatives abounded: the world s most powerful woman, the mother of europe, or simply, in her mother tongue. mutti. tonight germany s chancellor angela merkel is looking unusually vulnerable after a collapse of coalition talks aimed at forming her next government. the decision by the pro business party the free democrats to walk out on the process has left merkel isolated. unclear whether she can find another coalit