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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 nadim zahawi to resign. here s our political correspondent helen catt. do you have anything - you want to say, mr zahawi? nadim zahawi was out and about this morning, although not to talk to the press. instead, it was a cabinet colleague who defended him to the cameras, against claims he tried to avoid tax. i don t know about nadhim s personal tax affairs, i wouldn t know them, they are personal and pr ....
the biggest tax cuts in half a century in a bid to kickstart growth. more than seventy people die after a migrant boat sinks off the coast of syria. a new type of cancer therapy shows promising results in early human trials. we hear from the study leader. and the first woman to win the booker prize twice the celebrated author dame hilary mantel dies at the age of seventy. officials in four russian occupied regions of ukraine have been holding self declared referendums on whether to become part of the russian federation. the kremlin supports the votes just as it did after the annexation of crimea the ukrainian territory which was invaded in 2014. but the government in kyiv and western countries have condemned the referendums saying they are just a sham, and that they will never be recognised. these are the four areas where voting is being held. they include occupied parts of luhansk and donetsk in the east, and zaporizhzhia and kherson, in the south a ....
hello and welcome. let s start with the war in ukraine, because the conflict has left millions stuck inside their homes without many crucial supplies. as a potential solution to the humanitarian crisis, uber has teamed up with the united nations world food programme to help it deliver emergency food and water supplies in war torn cities across ukraine. it s built the organisation a free version of the software it uses to co ordinate its own delivery services, and it s being trialled in the city of dnipro. the bbc s tech editor zoe kleinman reports. in some parts of ukraine, it s getting harder and harder to access food and water, but in a war zone, big delivery trucks can also be big targets, so now, the united nations world food programme is trying out a new way of delivering emergency supplies using a fleet of smaller vehicles. it s building its own delivery network using uber software and even some of its drivers. they can designate vehicles that they on board to the ....