and surprise, as welsh rugby s alun wynjones the most capped player in the world announces he s retiring from the international game, just four months before the world cup. coming up on bbc news, to shock welsh rugby pep guardiola says he will be watching the match saying without playing instead focusing on doing the job themselves against chelsea on sunday. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. ourfirst story tonight is about a man from london who has been jailed for helping to con people out of more than £100 million. police say it was the uk s largest everfraud investigation. tejay fletcher was the mastermind behind a website which was essentially an online fraud shop a place where criminals could buy technology that allowed them to dupe people into parting with their cash often by handing over their bank details. police say more than 160 people have so far been arrested in connection with the scam. 0ur correspondent sean dilley reports. this was the
in northern italy. and, irish boxer katie taylor, bids to become only the second fighter in the modern era, to hold all the major belts, at two different weights. in london, joanna simpson s husband killed her in a vicious attack. he is now due for release after serving half his sentence. her mother desperately wants him to stay behind bars. good evening. vladimir putin cast a shadow over two major international summits today. in a significant shift of policy, at the g7 meeting of the world s most advanced economies injapan, america signalled it s willingness to back the supply of f 16fighterjets, and the training of ukrainian pilots, in the war with russia. meanwhile moscow s closest ally in the middle east. syria s bashar al assad, received a warm welcome at a summit of arab leaders in saudi arabia, after years of international isolation. during syria s bloody civil war, it was only massive russian military support, that allowed assad condemned by many as a war criminal
Low pressure sticks close by. It starts to turn is quite cold in the north of scotland as we are pulling in some cold air from scandinavia. Elsewhere, it is going to be a mixture of sunshine and showers. Best chance of staying dry towards eastern england, temperatures ranging from single figures in the north, 15 in the south, that is it from me, back to you. Thanks, stav. And thats bbc news at ten. Theres more analysis of the days main stories on newsnight, which isjust getting under way on bbc two. The news continues here on bbc one, as now its time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. But from the ten team, its goodnight. Another day of death and misery in gaza and another day of torment for the hostages and their families. Can anyone see a way forward . While diplomats keep talking, the father of a young woman killed at the Music Festival a man who previously funded a hospital in gaza tells newsnight the only way to find peace is through
Featuring all four members in a weeks time. Now and then is based on a recording Byjohn Lennon in the 19705 which was completed by sir Paul Macartney and ringo starr last year after advances in Audio Technology made it possible. Mccartney said it was quite emotional to hearjohn s voice. When we lostjohn, we knew that it was really over. I was talking to yoko and she said, oh, i think ive got a tape ofjohn. Paul called me up and said hed like to work on now and then. I he put the bass on. I put the drums on. Its The Last Song that my dad and paul and george and ringo will get to make together. How lucky was i to have those men in my life . I am joined now by eric alper, a Canadian Music publicist and commentator on the industry. Welcome to newsnight. Very few people, id like to make clear, have heard this song yet, hardly anybody. Are you counting down the hours to next wednesday . film. Are you counting down the hours to next wednesday . Are you counting down the hours to next wednesd
growing far more negative. with the death toll rising in gaza and memories facing of hamas atrocities; killing families, children, babies, taking civilian hostages. all of which i think should be mentioned every day. much of the mainstream press is growing more skeptical and in some cases outright hostile. look at the verbiage by this cbs news anchor. we begin tonight with israel s invasion of gaza i go growing more intense. howard: not israel s realuation for a war started by hamas which is dedicated to wiping it off the map. bibi netanyahu s government didn t help itself by bombing the largest refugee center, and i get it, the israelis were targeting and killed a top hamas commander. hamas because this kind of embedding everywhere, using its own people as human shields, but many just position on the civilian deaths. watch this exchange between cnn s wolf blitzer and israeli military spokesman richard hecht. israel still dropped a bomb there attempting to kill this ha