hello, welcome. we start in the uk. the chair of the conservative party, nadim zahawi, has confirmed that he made a payment to the tax office to settle a disagreement about his tax affairs. mr zahawi said hmrc accepted that an error concerning shares he gave to his father for help in setting up the polling company yougov in 2000 had been careless and not deliberate. it comes after newspaper reports that he d paid a seven figure sum and been subject to a penalty. it s understood the dispute over mr zahawi s taxes was resolved while he was serving as chancellor of the exchequer. earlier, labour had called on nadhim zahawi to resign. here s our political correspondent helen catt. nadhim zahawi is a seniorfigure in the government, the chairman of the conservative party, who sits in the cabinet. last year, he was for a few months borisjohnson s chancellor, in charge of the country s finances. is the hmrc still after you, sir? but since then, he s faced questions about his
President zelensky there today. we saw president zelensky making an appeal yes yesterday to the international community for tanks. germany not moving on that at the moment. just explain to us the frustration must be across ukraine in terms of that lack of decision. it was quite interesting, because ukrainian media, when they were reporting about the ram stein meeting, they were almost certain that the tanks would be approved, and those in the ukrainian media and the country, they thought the text would be given. it came as quite a surprise to the craning people it was not approved, and when we heard yesterday the us defence minister speaking, when he was asked about why the tanks were not approved, you could look at his face and also make some kind of assumption of what he thought about it, so there was a feeling among the journalists,
Are key to holding back russia s expansion plans. translation: the partners are firm in their attitude. i they will support ukraine as much as necessary for our victory. yes, we will still have to fight for the supply of modern tanks, but every day we make it more obvious there is no alternative to making the decision on tanks. president zelensky has made his appeal to this meeting of defence chiefs at ramstein airbase. poland has agreed to train ukrainian soldiers in using the leopard 2s, but berlin gets to decide where the leopard tanks are deployed. the us is also under pressure to make its abrams tanks available to ukrainian forces. it has not said yes yet, but is offering other support. until putin ends this war, his war of choice, the nations of this contact group will continue to support the defence of ukraine in order to uphold the rules based