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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 th...

Prices have been rocketing in china. Is that suddenly we should be concerned about . Rico hizon will make sense of that for you in a moment. But we start in seoul, where the trial of the century is getting started. The head of the biggest company, samsung, is on trialfor bribery. Samsung might be a household name, globally, but his bossis household name, globally, but his boss is not. So what we know about him . He is the boss of the company, jay y lee, but is known by south korean media as the ...

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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 really important to me, and clearly in this case there are questions that need answering. that is why i have asked our independent adviser to get to the bottom of everything, to investigate the matter fully, and establish all the facts and provide...

Why steve bannon was drawn to donald trump. give me a brief explainer for our audience. >> well, bannon basically was this outsider, populist. he worked at breitbart news. very passionate taker of sides who was never taken seriously by anybody in washington because as chairman of breitbart, he attacked politicians in both paerts and nobody really liked him. but for trump, who was this outsider and a punch line early on in this campaign cycle, he didnt really have a lot of people to choose from w...

Agent which is what the court found, they know when their communications with him -- to him were discovered by u.s. law enforcement. >> and chuck rosenberg, im guessing that you either turned in fisa applications or you helped submit the kind of intelligence that would have gone on an application. can you just do a brief explainer, what is the fisa court, what is the bar for surveilling a u.s. citizen, and why would someone want to continue to listen to someone like carter page? >> well, nicolle...

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