and something that the wta can point to as they try and bring about this goal of equal prize money. but the wta chief executive knows that there will be criticism in some quarters, although the players have either been supportive or not spoken out against it for the most part. he knows he will have to justify his decision and his argument is that by going to riyadh, tennis is supporting growth and improvement and change across the region. staying with tennis news. third seeded dan evans is out of the atp tour event in marrakech. the british player and world number 42 was beaten in straight sets by the defending champion roberto carballes baena. the spaniard moves into the quarterfinals. rafael nadal has withdrawn from the upcoming monte carlo masters where the 22 time grand slam winner was expected to make his atp tour comeback. writing on the social media platform x, nadal said, unfortu nately i have to tell you that i am not going to be playing in monte carlo. my body si
this is bbc news. the headlines: after israel s strike that killed seven aid workers, the killer of the british police officer sharon beshenivsky has been found guilty of her murder. after israel s strike that killed seven aid workers, more than 600 lawyers sign a letter, calling for the uk to stop arms sales to israel. countries bordering russia urge their nato allies to reintroduce military conscription to deter vladimir putin. and why fewer trees are being being chopped down in the amazon. new data shows a major shift. we speak to the people behind the research. we will be back in brussels for that nato press conference. sport now, and a full round up from the bbc sport centre. hello from the bbc sport centre. i m anne marie batson. we start with tennis, and the news that the saudi arabian capital of riyadh will host the wta finals for the next three years and offer record prize money of $15.25 million. this year s finals, featuring the top eight singles players and double
speaking to someone who knows who i am, and i m trying desperately not to come across as rude. the messages continue. the former mp then replies, asking who it is he s talking to. charlie falsely says he used to work in the office of another mp. he later sends a sexually explicit image, and the former mp blocks the number. the questions now are how widespread this is, who is behind it and whether the attackers got hold of any useful information. we ve seen another series of messages sent to a political journalist from the same number and following a similar pattern. according to the website politico, which first reported the claims, at least 12 people with connections to westminster have been targeted. this wasn tjust, as i d thought, someone being stupid and doing something that they d regret the next day. maybe this is something more sinister than that, potentially malicious. we tried to call the number associated with the messages, but nobody picked up. a parliamentary spo