we start with breaking news. a former civilian police worker has been jailed for 12 years for sexually abusing a boy. timothy schofield was found guilty of 11 sexual offences against a teenager. the 54 year old denied the offences, which happened between 2016 and 2019. in the last few minutes, police had been speaking outside the court. the police had been speaking outside the court. y . , police had been speaking outside the court. q . , , court. the offences were first re orted court. the offences were first reported in court. the offences were first reported in december - court. the offences were first reported in december 2021, l court. the offences were first i reported in december 2021, and within two days, timothy schofield had been arrested, interviewed and charged with these offences. he was suspended from duty and the criminal case took priority. following his conviction, a conduct hearing was held in april, and chaired by the chief assistant constable. he was dis
hello, a warm welcome. we begin injeddah where in the past few minutes ukraine s president zelensky has arrived on an unannounced visit at an arab league summit, just getting under way. he tweeted that he wanted to enhance ukraine s ties with the arab world and take cooperation with the saudis to a new level. the syrian president bashar al assad is making his first appearance at the summit in more than 12 years, since syria was thrown out of the bloc in response to the suppression of pro democracy protests and an enduring civil war he arrived in the country last night we will speak to our correspondent injeddah injusta we will speak to our correspondent injeddah in just a few moments, we will speak to our correspondent injeddah injust a few moments, but injeddah injust a few moments, but in a big day for diplomatic developments, this time injapan. now to japan, where the g7 leaders of the world s leading industrialised nations have begun their summit with a demand that
behaviour by four women. welcome to bbc news. it is a day of two important summits, with the war in ukraine being the common theme. at the g7 gathering injapan, world leaders met to discuss a new round of sanctions against russia while, at the arab league meeting in saudi arabia, president zelensky made a surprise visit, urging those attending to support ukraine. he told the gathering injeddah that, on this, the asoth day of the war, the world needed to fight the virus of aggression from moscow, stressing kyiv would not give up any sovereign territory to achieve peace. also making the headlines at that summit president assad of syria the first time he s been invited to the arab league since the devastating civil war that s blighted the country. here he is the official handshake and welcome from the saudi crown prince. more on assad in a moment and more on the g7. first, though, let s hear from volodymir zelenski. if there are people here at the summit who have a different
And another attack. They repelled irans attack, which was impressive. He says, it was a success which shouldnt be given away easily, hence our advice for the Israeli Government to be part of the de escalation. Lets take a closer look at the strikes on saturday night. Iran may have appeared to try and overwhelm israels air defences with multiple waves of drones and missiles. But israels advanced defence system destroyed most of them in the air, with the help of its western allies. Our defence correspondent Jonathan Beale has more. So how is israel able to defend itself with the help of its allies . First, they knew about the attack. It was telegraphed in advance, but the scale was significant with more than 300 weapons fired, including more than 170 armed drones, 30 Cruise Missiles and 120 Ballistic Missiles, which can travel twice the speed of sand. Most of those were fired from iran which can travel twice the speed of sound. Most of those were fired from iran itself, the first time ir
Was in relatiation for an air strike two weeks ago on one of its consulates in damascus, widely thought to have been carried out by israel. Speaking on Iranian State tv, the armed forces Chief Of Staff warned israel of a larger attack on its territory should it retaliate against the overnight drone and missile attack. Lets bring you up to date with the latest. Lets take a look at how events unfolded. Sirens. What you can hear is the air raid sirens injerusalem. What you can see is israels Air Defence System, the iron dome, in Operation Flashes in thejerusalem sky as drones and missiles are shot down. A coalition of israels allies, including the us and uk has helped shoot down some iranian drones and missiles before they reached israeli territory. This is footage of that happening overjordan. Similarly, this video is from the Skies Over Damascus in syria. You can see objects being hit in the sky. And again, in the skies over iraq. More drones and missiles being intercepted as they trave