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
the lowest incomes. a manchester city masterclass. they dominate real madrid to reach the champions league final in their pursuit for a remarkable treble. good morning. a cloudier start to the day to day that we will see sunny spells developing. a few showers across southern, eastern and central england. another front bringing rain across western scotland and northern ireland later. all the details throughout this morning s programme. it s thursday, the 18th of may. water companies in england have made an unprecedented apology for failing to do enough to stop sewage from flowing into rivers and seas. water uk says it will invest £10 billion over the next decade to put things right, promising the biggest modernisation of sewers since the victorian era. our environment correspondent, jonah fisher, reports. for years, campaigners have complained about the amount of sewage that flows into our waterways, and that profit has been put before the health of our rivers and beaches.
amanda renteria and brian taylor, political commentator and columnist of the herald newspaper. hello welcome to the programme. government forces in ukraine are trying to seize the initiative before the arrival of winter. a counter offensive is already under way in the south of the country, around kherson, the only city that russian forces have captured west of the strategically important dnipro river. but the ukrainians are now preparing to expand that operation in the donbas to the east and also around kharkiv in the north. our correspondent quentin sommerville and camera journalist in the donbas to the east and also around kharkiv in the north. our correspondent quentin sommerville and camera journalist darren conway have had exclusive access to a unit of ukrainian troops, near the front line. in donbas, there will be no harvest. as russian shells fall, about us these fields and furrows are instead ploughed gun tracks and fighting men. ukraine s national guard leads us thro
There is no punishment, there is no brexit bill, the financial settlement is only about settling the accounts. Im nicholas owen. The other main stories on bbc news at 5. A 20 year old student is found guilty of Planting A Home made bomb on a busy London Underground tube train. Ten years on from the disappearance of Madeleine Mccann we return to praia da luz as British Police say their investigation remains open. A big fall in profits at sainsburys. The Supermarket Giant blames tough Market Conditions and a fall in the value of sterling. Good afternoon imjane hill at westminster on the day that the general Election Campaign officially got underway. Theresa may has launched an attack on european officials accusing someone on european officials accusing someone to try to influence the outcome of the british General Election by using threats. She said that talks would be tough and the position of the uk had been represented the standards of the European Commission hardened. The Prime Minis