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 it s 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
including against its oil industry which has helped fund its military activities and those of its proxies across the middle east. data from energy analytics firm, vortexa, suggests that in the first three months of this year, iran exported more oil than at any time in the last six years, with most of it going to china. iran currently produces about 3% of the world s oil supplies. earlier i spoke to philip worman who is a senior managing director we have heard about new sanctions from the us and uk, targeting executives of an engine manufacturer that supplied the drones iran used in that attack on israel. companies also linked to iran s steel industry are being targeted. earlier i spoke to philip worman who is a senior managing director at risk consultanchs held. philip advises on sanctions risk. well, it s interesting. even with the recent missile attacks on israel, the price of crude really hasn t gone up in the same way that you saw with previous geopolitical shocks. so cru
this is bbc news, the headlines. ukraine s prime minister warns the west of the threat of a third world war, if they don t help to arm his country. police take down an international cyber crime gang based in the uk, accused of industrial scale fraud. and an end to fa cup replays from the first round onwards as of next season. we ll get reaction from former footballer pat nevin. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here s sarah mulkerrins. we start with european football and the quarter final second legs of the europa league, which kick off in just over four hours. last week s matches produced first leg leads for roma, benfica, bayer leverkusen and atalanta. liverpool are in bergamo looking to overturn a 3 0 deficit. the odds are stacked against them, butjurgen klopp hasn t ruled out his liverpool side. everybody thinks it is already decided but, you know, we are here. and we can be good. obviously we can be not so good as well, so let s see what we can d
months ago and says it is investigating. our political correspondent damian grammaticas reports. honesty needs to start now. the lack of clarity needs to stop. mark menzies. of clarity needs to stop. mark menzies, this of clarity needs to stop. mark menzies, this was of clarity needs to stop. mark menzies, this was him - of clarity needs to stop. mark menzies, this was him last i of clarity needs to stop. mark menzies, this was him last week urging transparency about the impact locally of a wind farm being built offshore. the allegation about his own behaviour, first reported by the times newspaper, is that last december at three o clock in the morning he called his former campaign manager and said bad people had locked him in a flat, adding that he needed £5,000 as a matter of life or death. it is claimed campaign donations were later used to cover the payment, and also that he has received £14,000 to cover medical bills. the bbc has not been able to speak to him f
suggested that he was not aware that the post office was able to prosecute subpostmasters, individuals that work for the organisation. that was the most striking moment because he was managing directorfor several years. because he was managing directorfor severalyears. during because he was managing directorfor several years. during that time, there were hundreds of prosecutions against sub postmasters and after establishing at the beginning of his testimony how important that was, that he was running the business, he then said that he just didn t even know that these prosecutions were being brought forward by the post office, that there was no independent body, no review as to whether those decisions made sense and he realises that two thirds of those cases, those decisions, were being taken by the post office owe you wonder that how is it when you ve seen these documents that are going to him, talking about these criminal cases, that he didn t understand as the man in the t