the british public will be invited to swear allegiance to king charles during his coronation on saturday. the mainly christian service will also see religious leaders from otherfaiths play a part for the first time. now on bbc news. the media show: inside the pentagon leak investigation. hello. investigation. two very different pieces of investigative journalism today. we re looking at the big new york times scoop into the identity of the suspected pentagon leaker and a new bbc podcast that tries to solve the cold case of a boy from london who went missing more than a0 years ago. so, digitalsleuthing and old school reporting. we re joined by the journalist behind both stories to hear about their sources and the techniques they use to get them over the line. jack teixeira is a 21 year old us airman from massachusetts and he s currently facing 15 years in jail. he s been charged with leaking classified documents that he s alleged to have posted on the online chat forum discord
hello and welcome to bbc news. police in the us city of nashville say a former student who killed three children and three staff at a private school, had carefully planned the attack. they said the 28 year old who was later killed by officers had left behind a manifesto which suggested there were also going to be shootings at other locations. this cctv footage has emerged of the attacker named as 28 year old audrey hale arriving at the school, and then entering by shooting through one of the security doors. the footage then shows hale walking into the school, armed with several weapons. not long after this, they started shooting. among the victims three children, aged eight and nine. and three adults, all in their 60s. this footage emerged of children being led to safety shortly after the shooting. the covenant school is a private christian school for children, aged between 3 and 11. police say that hale had no previous criminal record. they were carrying two assaul
the british prime minister has sacked the chairman of his party, nadhim zahawi, following an investigation into his tax affairs. mr zahawi says he ll continue to support the prime minister from the backbenches, and criticised journalists for the way they reported his tax affairs. here s our political correspondent david wallace lockhart he arrived in the uk as a young refugee before becoming a successful businessman. he served as the vaccines minister, rising to become chancellor, this morning he was chairman of the conservative party but his ministerial career now lies in tatters. he had faced questions for some time about his previous tax affairs and the fact he paid a penalty to hmrc while he was in charge of the treasury. he insisted he acted appropriately throughout. the prime minister had asked his ethics adviser to investigate. sir laurie magnus reported back this morning. his findings were highly critical. in a letter to rishi sunak he said from april 2021 nadhim zaha
to share details of his tax affairs that are normally shrouded in confidentiality, because that s the way it works in the uk. that is why apparently the prime minister didn t know anything about this. ..with the ethics adviser to the prime minister, who is crawling all over some elements of this to work out if nadhim zahawi, as the conservative party chairman and minister without portfolio, has broken the rule book, the ministerial code. so, mr zahawi clearly thinks that this detail from the tax man will help corroborate his argument that says, look, yeah, there is a conversation with hmrc and i did get clobbered for a massive tax bill, and the penalty for being careless but not deliberate in how he handled his tax affairs. the prime minister is still saying, let s wait ethics adviser to do his work, some in government saying hope he gets a move on, because meanwhile you ve basically got a party chairman who is kind of padlocked in his office, because he can t really s
of that, and no demands in the settlement for fox to retract what they had said. so what sort of precedent does that set. we will discuss tonight with paul waugh chief political commentator of the i paper and also with us former spokesperson for the republican national committee doug heye. talking of record pay outs, how much higher will interest rates have to go, before we put a meaningful dent in the march inflation figures. and as we stumble from one crisis to another, can we be confident that congress will avoid a damaging default. there is rancour in republican circles, and no sign of compromise from the white house. but let us start tonight with the story that affects all of us. inflation stickier than an overpriced hot cross bun. it is resolutely high in spite of the fact our interest rates continue to climb. and we know what effect that has on the broader economy. it is putting pressure on wages, its fuelling the unrest, growth is aneamic, there is less and less