Were just a couple of days away from the ryder cup getting under way, in rome. It will be the first tournament since the start of the Breakway Liv Golf series. Brooks koepka is the only rebel golfer taking part on the us team, europe made the decision to exclude liv golfers so no ryder cup legends sergio garcia, lee westwood, and ian poulter. Its certainly a little strange not having them around, but i think this week of all weeks, its going to hit home with them that theyre not here, and i think they are going to miss being here more than we are missing them. I think this week is a realisation that the decision that they made has led to not being part of this week, and thats tough and the landscape in golf is ever changing and more dynamic, and we will see whats happening and whether they will be a part of it in the future. I always thought leading up to this week is when its going to hit home that they are not going to be here. Theres also been an all star celebrity match, taking pla
Adequate air defences. Our ukraine correspondent James Waterhouse has more on this. Kyiv has been heavily fortified, if you like, in terms of air defences, with the supply of western Patriot Missile systems, which have proven to be incredibly effective against russian air attacks. However, Russian Forces have adapted as well. So, what we see now are slightly less often, less frequent attacks, but they are at a much greater scale. As you say, last night, russia launched 22 missiles, 1a drones, and they are designed to overwhelm air defences. But when we are talking about eastern cities like zaporizhzhia, dnipro, odesa in the south, which was also attacked, they are less well defended, and missiles get through. And we have seen images of a burning building next to dnipro train station, and we are told across that region, at least nine people have been killed, three of them children. And i think president zelensky, he will continue to ask for much needed air Defence Systems, and those ask
Environmental campaigners have already criticised the plans to scrap that key Climate Change targets. Indeed, Friends Of The Earth Scotland branded it the worst environmental decision in the history of the Scottish Parliament. We will be live in holyrood for that statement which we are expecting around 25 past two. But first i want to take a look at some of the days other news. A conservative mp has been suspended by the Parliamentary Party after claims he misused campaign funds. The Times Newspaper alleges he use the local party funds to pay off what he reportedly called bad people who had locked him in a flat. He strongly disputes the allegations. The Conservative Party was made aware of the allegations three months ago and says it is investigating. 0ur Political Correspondent reports. The honesty needs to start now, the lack of clarity needs to stop. This was marked last week urging transparency about the impact locally of a wind farm being built offshore. The allegation about his o
And a further £14,000 was spent on private medical bills. He strongly disputes the claims, according to the times. The Conservative Party was made aware of the allegations three months ago. It says its investigating. 0ur Political Correspondent nick eardley reports the honesty needs to start now. The lack of clarity needs to stop. This was mark menzies last week in a local campaign video. When this was filmed, he was still a conservative mp. But last night he was suspended from the party. It came after allegations in a newspaper that he used funds from donors to pay thousands to so called bad people who had apparently locked him in a flat. The bbc has checked details of some of the allegations printed in the times this morning that mr menzies called a 78 year old local activist in the middle of the night, asking for money. It is claimed he said he was being detained against his will, that he needed money as a matter of life or death. The £6,500 was provided by a local activist, the m
This was one of a series of coordinated raids, targeting cybercrime in 17 countries, masterminded from the uk. One man was arrested here and 23 others around the uk. And this all began about two years ago when Security Experts for the Banking Industry spotted on the dark web criminals offering other criminals a service a way to make money using phishing with a ph. Labhost provided the technology and training for other criminals to carry out Phishing Attacks sending fraudulent Text Messages to get people to hand over their personal data. The police say there were an estimated 70,000 victims in the uk, bombarded with messages linking to 47 fake websites usually seeming to be online payment or shopping services. 480,000 Payment Card Numbers have been stolen and 64,000 pin numbers. And if you thought only older or less technically savvy people get scammed, well, youd be wrong. The victims in this case have been aged between about 25 and a5, predominantly. Pretty young, then. Digital native