this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. uk conservative party chairman nadhim zahawi says an error in his tax affairs was accepted by authorities as having been "careless and not deliberate". thousands of israelis take to the streets against benjamin netanyahu's right wing coalition in what could be the biggest anti—government protests in a decade. president zelensky says he'll keep asking western allies to send modern tanks to ukraine, after a meeting of more than 50 countries ended without agreement. translation: 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.

and protests take place at one of the uk's biggest national parks — in the form of a mass camp out. 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. 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 own financial affairs and claims he tried to avoid tax. over the summer, he dismissed claims that hmrc was investigating him as inaccurate smears. this morning, a cabinet colleague defended him. i don't know about nadhim's personal tax affairs — i wouldn't know personally, they're private to him — but he's been very clear that he's paid all his tax due in the uk, that his tax accounts are up—to—date and, of course, he's engaged with hmrc, so that's the position and i think he has been very transparent about this. if he needs to answer any further questions, i'm sure he'll do so. mr zahawi has now confirmed he did pay money to settle a disagreement with hmrc.

he said it related to shares in the polling company yougov, which he set up in 2000. he said his dad gave him money to do it and got some shares in return as a founder. in a statement issued this afternoon, mr zahawi said that hmrc had. ..and that he had chosen to. he said hmrc had concluded this was a. labour says there are still things he needs to explain, and earlier the shadow chancellor was scathing. when the prime minister came into office, he said that he would run a government that would have honesty, integrity and professionalism at its heart. none of those three things are happening today. mr zahawi said the matter was resolved and all his tax affairs were up—to—date when prime minister rishi sunak appointed him as the party chairman. anything you want to say, mr zahawi? he has now given some explanation. the question will be if it's enough.

so, there is no obligation on politicians to make their tax affairs public, but by allowing this to drag on — with questions for several days — it has been damaging for the government. it's put the focus on the complicated tax affairs of a wealthy minister at a time when many people are struggling with the cost of living. and it's been a distraction for the government when it's trying to get its own messages out. now, mr zahawi has given some explanation now about what happened, but there are things which remain unclear — most notably the timeline, when this was paid, and, crucially, what stage it was at when mr zahawi was the chancellor and in charge of the country's finances. a senior labour mp has accused the prime minister of failing to deliver the integrity and professionalism he promised, after he was fined for not wearing a seat—belt. sir chris bryant, who chairs the commons standards committtee, said rishi sunak had shown a "pattern of misjudgement."

lancashire police issued a fixed penalty notice after mr sunak posted a video shot in the backseat of a car. thousands of israelis have packed the streets of several cities in the second weekend of large scale demonstrations against benjamin netanyahu's right wing coalition. this was the scene in tel aviv in what organisers believe could be one of the biggest anti—government protests in a decade. with banners and israeli flags the demonstrators say they want to stop a coup being carried out. they accuse mr netanyahu of threatening democracy with the most radically nationalist and religious coalition the country's ever known. already, plans for legal reforms have sparked an unprecedented clash between the government and thejudges, while the prime minister himself is on trial for corruption. the bbc�*s tom bateman is in tel aviv. these protesters say they believe there is achoo going on to try to dismantle israel's system of

government by netanyahu, by this coalition, it is the most radically nationalist right—wing religious government in israel's history. it has brought all these people out onto the streets of tel aviv tonight. i wasjust onto the streets of tel aviv tonight. i was just chatting to one woman who is here with her baby son that said she was so concerned about the direction of the country that she was considering leaving it and that she didn't want her son to serve in the army. for something like that for israel is that is a profound point reason they are allowed here is that coalition being into its third week. they've talked about their believe that benjamin netanyahu about their believe that benjamin neta nyahu wants to about their believe that benjamin netanyahu wants to water down the independence of the courts. they see that as an attack on israeli democracy. mr netanyahu has been dismissive throughout these protests, they say they are effectively denying the will of the people and said there was much bigger demonstration, that was the election took place in november and

led to the formation of his coalition. bullies are estimating numbers that were greater than last week when they released 80,000 —— police are estimating. that would make this certainly the biggest antigovernment demonstration in israel recent years. president zelensky and the first lady have been taking part in a memorial in kyiv for interior minister denys monastyrsky and 13 other people killed following a helicopter crash. the accident happened earlier this week in a suburb of kyiv, and set a kindergarten on fire. president zelensky says he'll keep asking western allies to send modern tanks to ukraine, after a meeting of allied nations in germany on friday ended without an agreement to provide them. protests have taken place in berlin to demand the approval of german—made tanks to be sent to kyiv. i'm joined now by elisabeth braw, a senior fellow with the american enterprise institute, a conservative

think tank in washington. welcome to the program. what do you think the reservations of germany are here and how might they be unlocked? ., are here and how might they be unlocked? . , ., ., unlocked? the initial reservation in this german _ unlocked? the initial reservation in this german government _ unlocked? the initial reservation in this german government as - unlocked? the initial reservation in this german government as i - unlocked? the initial reservation in this german government as i think| this german government as i think any german government would have been is that germany is just not a country that sends heavy weaponry to other countries. it has a strong passiveness tradition since the end of world war ii. but the more recent is that i think once germany took that position that it wasn't going to save him heavy weaponry and its allies began pushing, it was very difficult of the german government to say, i guess you're right, we will send heavy weaponry now. the german government has sent some weaponry in increased volume of weaponry in increased volume of weaponry but battle tanks are such an iconic piece of weaponry and the

chancellor has said the germany won't be sending. if you the united states, the uk and international commentators if you say whether we should, it's a very difficult position to change if you are a proud leader of a sovereign country and personally opposed to sending them. ., , and personally opposed to sending them. . , ., ., , �* them. that is the quandary we're in now. but president _ them. that is the quandary we're in now. but president zelensky - them. that is the quandary we're in now. but president zelensky says l now. but president zelensky says time is of the essence and this is exactly what is needed to push through front lines and reclaim ukrainian territory. that through front lines and reclaim ukrainian territory.— through front lines and reclaim ukrainian territory. that is indeed the case for _ ukrainian territory. that is indeed the case for that _ ukrainian territory. that is indeed the case for that we _ ukrainian territory. that is indeed the case for that we should - ukrainian territory. that is indeed - the case for that we should remember also that the tanks we're talking about, the leopard tanks are in germany, made in germany and used by are considered extremely good and good that another of other countries have them for the bat is seen as a potential opening that other countries such as finland and poland could send the leopard to use that they had to ukraine in the meantime. but that requires the consent of the

german government. any german government has given no such consent. i think that may be the first breakthrough that we get that the germany government says 0k, first breakthrough that we get that the germany government says ok, you poland and finland go ahead and sell yours. and possibly other countries have leopard to tanks as well. —— send yours. it is an extremely unfortunate situation for the every day additional ukrainian lives are lost in this war. you day additional ukrainian lives are lost in this war.— day additional ukrainian lives are lost in this war. you suggest there ma be lost in this war. you suggest there may be some _ lost in this war. you suggest there may be some choreography - lost in this war. you suggest there l may be some choreography required lost in this war. you suggest there - may be some choreography required in order to unlock this, the poland and finland might make their own decision, which should not be happening. what could the us do? this is where it gets really complicated. the german chancellor has said that germany will send leopard to tanks if the us agrees to send tanks to ukraine it would be very complicated to send abrams

tanks from the us stockpiles to ukraine. also they are a bit harder to operate, to learn how to operate and to operate. it seems like for germany to say well, if you america send yours then we will send hours. it gives the impression that it's an argument put forward by the chancellor so as to never have to send leopard twos from germany to ukraine. but if america miraculously agrees to send abrams tanks then germany will send its leopard twos and ukraine will be a whole lot better supplied than it is today. i think there will be some serious conversations happening in washington and indeed between washington and indeed between washington and indeed between washington and berlin. in the first instance i think we should be looking at finland and poland to see what they are able to do.— what they are able to do. thank you very much- — the chief executive of nhs england says the ongoing

industrial action is making workloads more challenging. amanda pritchard says the ongoing industrial action is clearly having an impact but that all sides want to try and reach a solution. nurses in england and ambulance staff in england, wales and northern ireland are planning more strike days in february and march. we will go back now to the story concerning nadhim zahawi and the question of tax and the penalty concerning tax and the relationship with a company he set up for the up and the fact that this was resolved during the time that he was chancellor of the exchequer with the hmrc. a short time ago my colleague kasia madera spoke to rebecca benneyworth, a chartered accountant who writes on tax issues. she also advices the tax authorities here in the uk and is the former chair of the tax faculty at the institute of chartered accountants. she says... hmrc has got a very sophisticated

computer system, which goes off and gets data from all sorts of places and marries that data up and spot anomalies that they are concerned about. but in fact, what we're led to believe in mr zahawi's case is that wasn't how all of this started. the suggestion is that nadhim zahawi went to hmrc, once he realised that there was a problem with his tax and came forward. and the rate of penalty and some of the information that is in the public domain suggests that that is true. he actually went to hmrc, approached them and said, "look, i need to come clean, i need to tell you about it. when you say the rate of penalty for us to understand, in that case would he pay a higher penalty? we can't verify the exact figures but the guardian is reporting it was a penalty of 30%. yes. that report is consistent

with what nadhim zahawi said in his statement this afternoon. hmrc have agreed that his behaviour was careless and not deliberate. what the penalty legislation does, once you have a tax inquiry where you have come forward and said, i got a problem, right at the end of it hmrc have to go into a bit of a look and see were you careless in underpaying your tax. how the penalty legislation works is fairly straightforward. you send a document to hmrc, which is inaccurate, as a result of that inaccuracy you've underpaid your tax. the legislation then says we need to look at how this happened. were you careless, was it deliberate, did you send or even worse did you deliberately misstate your tax and then try and cover

it up afterwards? those of the sort of levels of penalty, obviously much higher penalty for deliberate and what they call deliberate and concealed. careless is what has been agreed. if it was just simply to do with the uk the maximum penalty is 30%. then you get a reduction, the law says for what they call disclosure. that involves you coming forward or maybe hmrc asking you about it and you put your hands up. also how you work with hmrc while you are sorting it out. did you give them all the information needed, did you let them see all of your information so that you could arrive at the right amount of tax? the slight difference here with nadhim zahawi is that the yougov shares, if that's what the taxes in relation to, they were in

an offshore structure in gibraltar. when the inaccuracy relates to something that happens offshore the penalty legislation are a little bit more aggressive. they'll say i don't like this at all. the starting point goes up to 45%. gibraltar is what's called a category two territory so it's the middle range of penalties. it starts off at 45%, if you come forward without being asked about it then you can reduce that penalty. the minimum you will get it down to is %22.5. if i announce it is right and i think this all seems to stack up with what's in the public domain, he did come forward voluntarily the because of penalty for what they call prompted disclosure, so after hmrc had said, "what is going on here?" that is much higher. it's likely he came forward voluntarily, he was moderately cooperative, not 100% cooperative, otherwise the penalty

would've been 22.5%, the minimum level. slightly less then overly enthusiastic to get hmrc sorted and get the whole thing resolved. but they've got a good reduction. whoever was negotiating for him and dealing with hmrc, they've come outwith, given the circumstances i think a lot of people are commenting today not a bad outcome in penalty terms 30%. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's lizzie greenwod—hughes. pressure is mounting for everton manager frank lampard after his side lost to fellow strugglers west ham. jarrod bowen scored both goals in the 2—nil win at the london stadium. david moyes�* side climb—out of the relegation zone leaving everton second from bottom of the table.

i think there realists they watch the team, they watch the history, they grew up in history, i grew up on the history very aware of it. history moves and there's nothing that gives you in this legal right to do anything for that we've seen huge football clubs go down, come back out, stay in the lead. it's all about the moment and how you try to move forward as a club with them if you don't do that then you will come into tough times for them at the minute were in tough times. it affects everybody at the club and everybody has to try to stick together and move forward. elsewhere plenty of draws in the premier league today — bournemouth conceded a late equaliser to nottingham forest it ended i all, brighton salvaged a point at leicester — finishing up 2—all and it was goalless in this evening's late kick off between crystal palace and newcastle. it is neil neil at newcastle. frankfurt in union berlin both earned valuable wins in their suit of bayern munich in the top of the bundesliga for the athletic coma madrid are still forth have to win over by 0'donnell. no backtrack vick

has reached the last round of the open but there he is battling with his own fitness as well as his opponent. he won the opening set with a tie—break but needed a medical timeout on the injury he's been carrying since before the tournament. despite that he still managed to put off these kinder shots. novak chaka fix won the set 6-3 shots. novak chaka fix won the set 6—3 and was an pain throughout the third which he took sick — four. he will face the australian as he hopes to win a record equalling 22nd grand slam titles. every season counts when you come to probably the last quarter of your career. 0bviously, use start appreciating and valuing every single tournament more. because you know that you might not have too many left. i've been very fortunate

to do what i love i truly love the sport, love competing. it's been almost 20 years of professional sport. i can't be more grateful than i am. throughput old beau andy murray is out of the tournament. his throughput old beau andy murray is out of the tournament.— throughput old beau andy murray is out of the tournament. his run ended u . out of the tournament. his run ended u- with a out of the tournament. his run ended up with a murray _ out of the tournament. his run ended up with a murray the _ out of the tournament. his run ended up with a murray the former- out of the tournament. his run ended up with a murray the former world . up with a murray the former world level one and three—time grand slam winner looked to be feeling the effects of his previous five setter for the p lost the first at 6—1. he somehow found the result to claim the second on a tiebreak. this was a big moment. the crowd firmly behind him. he wasjust big moment. the crowd firmly behind him. he was just too strong in the end winning the third and fourth 6-3- 6-4. that is end winning the third and fourth 6—3— 6—4. that is all the sport for now. hundreds of people have been protesting for the right to wild camp in dartmoor national park — in the south west of england. last week the uk's high court

ruled that the permission of landowners was required before camping on dartmoor. the national park's authority has now struck a deal to pay landowners to allow wild camping in some areas. but as claire marshall reports many are still unhappy about the access. this is a battle bus rolling into the village square. we're here today to summon up a spirit, to defend dartmoor and its wild camping rights. the organisers of this rally, the right to roam, say they are at war for the right to sleep under the stars. let's go and summon up the spirit of dartmoor. cheering. how do you feel about the level of support? it's amazing. amazing to see so many people come out together, to show that this is a huge issue for people. it feels like it's a real visceral feeling of, like, "this is something that we really care about."

they marched towards the southern slopes of the moor. 4,000 acres of it is owned by a hedge fund manager, alexander darwall. his legal action saw the high court rule there is no intrinsic right to wild camp on the moor, something that's been done for decades. i cut my football match to come here. did you? more important! it's more important than a football match? yeah! a lot of people here today spoken to me about power and about how it's tipped away from the ability of people to camp out here on the moor, in favour of the few people who own this land. but there is a darker side — the damage that can be done by people camping out. cans, foil, condoms, syringes sometimes... russell ashford owns buckfastleigh common. he was born here. at the end of the day, it is a fantastic, big, open wild space, but it is a wild

space, and we surely don't want to visit it so much that it's damaged through that. a deal has been done — land owners will be paid and people can wild camp. the area is smaller, though, and the right can be revoked at any time. what everyone has in common is the desire for humans to leave no trace and to preserve the dwindling wild spaces of england. claire marshall, bbc news on dartmoor. tens of millions of people are on the move in china in preparation for the start of the lunar new year tomorrow. it's the first spring festival in china in four years without any covid travel restrictions, as michael bristow reports. there's excitement, and relief, as china begins celebrating its first lunar new year since the lifting of covid restrictions. not surprisingly, there are more travellers than last year. there are expected to be 2 billion individualjourneys in china over the whole holiday,

although that's still fewer than before the outbreak began. for some, it's a first get—together since the start of the pandemic. translation: i'm very happy to see my son and his family. | this is ourfirst reunion in three years. but covid is casting a shadow over the new year. many are still cautious about travelling. people fear they could be taking disease home with them. translation: although we have opened up, i still have concerns. _ everyone needs to take measures to protect themselves. and for parents and the elderly, who have not got covid yet, we still need to be careful for them. in a new year address china's leader xijinping promised glories and dreams in the upcoming year of the rabbit. in perhaps a veiled reference to china's current covid crisis, he said this passing year's achievements had not come easy. chinese officials are trying to convince the public

that the worst is over, but there are fears that such a huge movement of people across china over the lunar new year could fuel further covid infections, and deaths. michael bristow, bbc news. the former us astronaut — and the second person to walk on the moon — buzz aldrin — has got married for the fourth time — coinciding with his 93rd birthday. pictures from their private los angeles ceremony were shared by buzz aldrin on social media. the former pilot said that he and new wife anca faur were as "excited as eloping teenagers". uk conservative party chairman nadhim zahawi says an error in his tax affairs was accepted

by authorities as having been "careless and not deliberate". hello there. it's been cold again today across england and wales, even if you did have the sunshine. some areas, though, it's been a real struggle with this mist and fog — across parts of northern england, east wales, the west midlands and the west country. towards the north—west of the uk, things are looking very different. we're getting atlantic air and a lot of cloud coming in, bringing in some milder conditions. still going to be quite windy for scotland and northern ireland into the night. some more rain coming in from the atlantic as well. some of that cloud just could edge into western—most parts of england and wales. but on the whole, we've got clearer skies. that's going to lead to some more fog, particularly across some eastern parts of england. it'll be dense, it'll be freezing as well.

there'll be a widespread frost for england and wales. could be as low as —7. bit chilly, i think, for south—east scotland. the rest of scotland, northern ireland should see temperatures above freezing. we've got milder atlantic air here, but that's really, really struggling to arrive across south—eastern parts of the uk, where we've got this blocking area of high pressure keeping it cold, but keeping us with some sunshine as well. there will be some fog around, then, as we move into tomorrow morning, especially for eastern england, only very slowly lifting. one or two patches could linger into the afternoon. western parts of england and into wales will see more clouds, slightly higher temperatures. we've got cloud for scotland and northern ireland, a bit of rain and drizzle from time to time. could get some sunshine, though, around the moray firth — temperatures making 10 degrees in western scotland and northern ireland. but across the midlands, eastern england, could be only 3 or 4 degrees — and if the fog does linger, it'll be even colder than that. the weather front in the north—west weakens as high pressure builds across it in time for monday, keeping it cold for much of england and wales. some morning fog across eastern parts of england, again slowly lifting. some sunshine. we've still got cloudier skies

across western parts of england and wales, and more especially in scotland and northern ireland, where it's still mild — temperatures again 9 or 10 degrees. but quite a contrast across the uk. we're still in that colder, generally sunny air through the midlands, towards the south—east and east anglia. we have to see this weather front actually coming in from the northwest to give us more of a definite change around the middle part of the week. but tuesday still looks cold across south—eastern areas, some sunshine and some fog. it's not until wednesday we see milder air pushing down across the whole of the country. and with that milder air, looks like there's going to be a lot of cloud.

this is bbc news, the headlines 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. it's understood the dispute over mr zahawi's taxes was resolved while he was serving as chancellor of the exchequer. president zelensky says he'll keep asking western allies to send modern tanks to ukraine, after a meeting of more than 50 countries ended without agreement. hundreds of people have been protesting for the right to wild camp in dartmoor national park in the uk. last week the uk's high court ruled that the permission of landowners was required before camping on dartmoor. millions of people around the world are preparing for the start of the lunar new year.