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
and chequered criminal history. at the time that he was arrested, he was living in sheltered accommodation in brighton, but obviously at some point in the course of that offending he seems to have become inspired through some kind of islamist ideology and it s through hatton tash at speaker s corner. speaker s corner of course being the place in london where people are allowed to come and talk about whatever they want. and very often these days there are quite strong religious arguments there between muslim speakers and speakers from other denominations like hatton tash, who is a christian preacher. he ll be sentenced onjuly the 21st. some breaking news two men have been arrested over the attempted murder of a senior police officer in northern ireland earlier this year. the pair, aged 28 and 70, were arrested following separate searches in county tyrone. detective chief inspectorjohn caldwell was shot several times at a sports centre in omagh in february. he d been putting
interference. meanwhile, g7 leaders injapan announce new sanctions against moscow. here, what stamp qualify for the final of your oblique and violent clashes marked the end of the match. and one other headline belief in a god plummets in uk who would talk to the author on a new report today. let s start this half hour with a different story because the brother of the tv presenter philip schofield has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for sexually abusing a teenage boy. to him at found guilty of 11 offences last month. ginny reports now from exeter. his brother set the crimes were despicable and disowned his sibling in the statement. timothy schofield arrived in court in the glare of intense media interests at his trial last month, he admitted that he had watch pornography with a teenager but insisted this victim was 16 and consented. he denied there was any sexual abuse but the jury found him guilty of all charges. during the hearing, the court heard a statement from the v
on the war in ukraine. let s start with the g7 meeting injapan. here they are outside hiroshima. with japan the leaders of the us, canada, the uk, france, italy, germany as well as the eu. they ve agreed new sanctions against russia measures they say will restrict the export of technology and equipment that would ve been critical to russia on the battlefield . now, while that s been happening, ukraine s president zelensky made a surprise to visit to that second big meeting the arab league summit in saudi arabia. zelensky asking leaders not to ignore the reality of what s happening in his country. next the arab league meeting was also attended by the syrian president bashar al assad. it s the first time he s been there for more than a decade. since he launched a brutal supression of pro democracy protesters in his own country. it lead to a civil war. hundreds of thousands of people are thought to have been killed. president assad was seen chatting injeddah with leaders. here