a u turn for tory leadership contender liz truss, dropping regional pay plans for millions of public sector workers. one of america s most wanted man, ayman al zawahiri, an architect of the 9/11 attacks is killed in a us drone strike. needs a good solid dismount, double front somersault with a half turn. what a performance from joe fraser. and the 23 year old hometown favourite takes his third gold medal at the commonwealth in birmingham. and coming up on sportsday on the bbc news channel. an emotional win for wales at the commonwealth games here in birmingham as they beat england to gold in a thrilling final of the men s pair bowls. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the energy company bp has reported its second highest quarterly profit in its history. between april and june, the firm made a profit of £6.9 billion, that s three times the amount for the same period last year. the company says its oil trading performance was exceptional and that it expects to pa
Grounds for two hours on Christmas Day 2021, while the late queen was in residence. The old bailey heard today hed been in encouraged by an Artificial Intelligence virtual girlfriend with which hed exchanged thousands of messages. The judge said kale was nonsense , said kale was nonsense, psychotic and therefore culpable when he devised the plan. But he had lost touch with reality and become psychotic by the time he carried it out. Well, also in carried it out. Well, also in the news today, sir keir starmer has revealed an extra 700,000 urgent dental appointments would be introduced under a Labour Government in plans to improve the nations oral health. The party says it would also introduce supervised tooth brushing in schools across england in to order tackle preventable tooth decay in children. People in most need of treatments would be prioritised too, under proposals aimed at rescuing nhs dentistry. As they said, the plans would be financed. Labour says by using. Financed. Labour s
Sondheim theatre in to london a halt. Five people have been arrested. The protesters were not welcomed warmly by the audience. You know , youre not audience. You know, youre not keeping. Keeping. Just dont get it. Do they record high rents . The average rent outside of london has risen to almost £1,300 a month. To almost £1,300 a month. And well be telling you all our gossip from the conservative Party Conference. Thats first one. I think it was probably my 33rd one. I was trying to work it out there. I dont think it really was. Was it the first time you came home in a minibus, though . It certainly was. The first one came and can tell came in first. And can i tell you the last to thank you, you the last time to thank you, rmt. Oh, it was aslef, wasnt it . Wasnt no. We came back it . Wasnt it . No. We came back in a very jolly peoples carrier. We are a people carrier. We are a people carrier. We are a people carrier. We the peoples champion. Definitely minibus. It its definitely a mi
Liable to be returned to custody. Jaswant singh chail, on counts one, the sentence is one of 44 months in prison. On counts to the sentence is one of 16 months in prison. On counts three, the sentence is one of 48 months imprisonment, with an extended licence period of five years. The total sentences amounted to nine years custody with a further licence period of five years. The defendant may go down. We licence period of five years. The defendant may go down. We are ust leavin the defendant may go down. We are ust leaving the courtroom, i defendant may go down. We are ust leaving the courtroom, Court I Defendant May go down. We are just leaving the courtroom, court room i leaving the courtroom, Court Room One at the old bailey, where we have been listening to the sentencing of Jaswant Singh chail, who pleaded guilty for treason, to treason. Mr Justice Hillyard summing up the case as you can hear going into a lot of detail. We heard thatjaswant as you can hear going into a lot of detai
Properly a little later. Ukraine says a russian attack on a village in the east of the country has killed at least 50 people. That would make it the deadliest Missile Strike in months. Officials said a cafe and a shop were hit in the village of hroza, not far from kupiansk. A six year old boy is said to be among the dead. There has been intense fighting in the region in recent weeks, with russia attempting to recapture territory it lost last year. This latest russian attack took place in the middle of the day, as european leaders were meeting in the spanish city of granada, with ukraine one of the big issues being discussed. President zelensky made a point of being at the talks in person. He asked european leaders for more air defence missiles and said other countries could thank ukraine for protecting them from russian aggression. We must not allow putin to destabilise any other parts of the world and our parties in order to ruin europes power. We must continue to put pressure with sa