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5 Things You Need To Know, Today, on Monday 31st January 2022
5. Police in Macau have arrested a leading casino boss amid a crackdown in the world's biggest gambling hub.
On Sunday, authorities said they had arrested two men over alleged money laundering and illegal gambling.
4. Home Secretary Priti Patel has approved the extradition of a British tech tycoon to the US to face criminal fraud charges.
The decision comes after Mike Lynch, the founder of Autonomy, lost a multibillion-dollar fraud action in London on Friday, his firm was sold to US giant Hewlett Packard for $11bn (£8bn) in 2011.
3. The government has set out a plan to overhaul "outdated" EU laws copied over after Brexit - a move it says will cut £1bn of red tape for businesses.
Downing Street said a Brexit Freedoms Bill will change how Parliament can amend or remove thousands of EU-era regulations that remain in force.
2. Spotify says that it is working to add advisory warnings to any podcast on its platform that discusses Covid-19.
The move follows criticism of its work with Joe Rogan, a US podcast host who has interviewed vaccine-sceptics.
1. A planned increase in National Insurance contributions will go ahead in April, Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said, despite calls to scrap the rise due to the strain on household budgets.
With surging inflation, the government has faced growing pressure, including from some of its own Conservative lawmakers, to delay or cancel the new health and social care levy that will see the rate of National Insurance rise by 1.25 percentage points.