Manchester city could meet arsenal in the semifinals of the champions league. First, city will need to beat real madrid and arsenal, bayern munich. Good afternoon. The Chancellorjeremy Hunt says the Conservative Party good afternoon. The Chancellorjeremy Hunt says the Conservative Party is absolutely transparent about the donations it receives. But so far the party has neither confirmed nor denied reports its been given another £5 million by the businessman frank hester, on top of the ten million hes already donated. Mr hester has been widely accused of racism after allegedly saying the mp diane abbott makes him want to hate All Black Women. The tech boss apologised for making what he said rude comments about her. Heres our Political Correspondent hannah miller. Learning to use a camera on a visit to the university of sunderland, the chancellor and Prime Minister cant escape the glare of scrutiny over donations to the party. This week, they said that comments made by one of the conser
And when parties have to report it. This is one of the many problems that we have in our system. It appears to be born out of historical reasons rather than anything else. We do have, for what is supposed to be a very transparent system, quite a complicated one in which there are various different registers updated at various different points. The electoral commissions register is only updated every quarter and i think this story has sort of renewed questions about whether thats really appropriate in this day and age when websites can be updated at the drop of a hat. That was the conservative Party Response so far when it came to frank hester s donations, that they have reported everything that needed to be reported in the public sphere. You have looked into this closely, could you tell us how big a donor frank hester is, how important he is to the tory partys treasure chest, essentially . Sure, i would say first of all, for many people, even political obsessives and conservative figur
Hungary has emerged as a Dog Breeding Power in europe. In the last two years, its legally exported over 70,000 puppies within the eu. A huge network of puppy farms grew up here after the collapse of the soviet union. The system changed. The state farms and co operative farms were privatised. So, people stopped working with cows, stopped working with swine and the italian tradesmen came into hungary and saw a big business, and they started to build up a network of Puppy Producers here in hungary, and then the people, step by step, realised that they can make money on dogs instead of Keeping Swine and rabbits, and they put these animals in the place of the swine and poultry and rabbit. The industry is controlled by the government through licensing and farms are expected to conform to Animal Welfare standards but anyone can register online to be a breeder without any initial checks. This is puspokladany. This town ofjust 16,000 people has 154 registered breeders. The nebih is the Governme
Lizzie Greenwood Hughes is there for us. Once again, Willie Mullins has triumphed in the Sport Ofjump Racing at the cheltenham gold cup, for in six years for the irish maestro and two in succession although his margin of victory was not as great as last year, this was our ghibli a more impressive performance from the horse because the ground is testing soft but heavy and places for more than 30 years where the word heavy has been in the official going here at cheltenham. But he saw off is hugely talented competitors, so it was another poor day for the bookmakers here, but a great day and great week for the cheltenham festivals most successful winning trainer, Willie Mullins. Here he is speaking to laura scott. It mullins. Here he is speaking to Laura Scott Laura scott. It has been extraordinary, laura scott. It has been extraordinary, our laura scott. It has been i extraordinary, our horses laura scott. It has been extraordinary, our horses were in such extraordinary, our horses were i
This is bbc news, the headlines. Israel sends a delegation back to qatar for Ceasefire Talks despite branding hamas proposals unrealistic. Meanwhile Benjamin Netanyahu approves plans for a military operation in rafah. An aid ship with 20 tons of food and medical supplies arrives off the coast of gaza. Ajudge rules a judge rules an attorney can continue prosecuting donald trump in the Georgia Election interference case. And we show you the incredible images from this years British Wildlife photography awards. Some of those stories coming up in a moment or two, lets head back to the middle east. Israel deployed thousands of Police Across the old city in occupied eastjerusalem as muslim worshippers marked the first friday of ramadan. With tensions soaring over the gaza war, palestinians in the west bank crossed israeli checkpoints, to reachjerusalems al aqsa mosque compound. Our correspondent anna foster said the morning had passed off peacefully amid tight security. Thousands of people a