It was the third time David Duckenfield had gone on trial the investigation has cost around £65 million. Also tonight. The institute for fiscal studies says neither the conservatives nor labour are offering credible Spending Plans in their election manifestos. The first funerals are held in vietnam for some of the 39 people found dead in a refrigerated lorry in essex last month. And as politicians on all sides pledge to plant trees for the future, we look at the parties plans to tackle the climate crisis. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news a good start for arsenal against Eintracht Frankfurt in the europa league. They only need a draw to reach the last 32. Good evening. 30 years after the hillsborough disaster, no one has been held responsible for the deaths of the 96 fans who lost their lives after being crushed on the terraces. Today, a jury found the policeman in charge on the day at the fa cup semifinal chief superintendent David Duckenfield not guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence. Its the third time hes been on trial since 1989. As the verdict was read out, there were gasps and tears in court from the families of some of those who died. Our north of england correspondentjudith moritz is at Preston Crown court. Yes, and this was a decisive moment in the very long history of hillsborough. Inside Court Room Number one here, some of the families were in tears while they waited for the verdict to arrive, such was the anxiety and tension they were feeling. When David Duckenfield was found not guilty, he hugged his wife, but there were loud sobs from the public gallery, and the daughter of one hillsborough victim rose to herfeet the daughter of one hillsborough victim rose to her feet and shouted at thejudge, i want victim rose to her feet and shouted at the judge, i want to know who is responsible for my fathers death. David duckenfield has been a blame figure for 30 years, in charge at hillsborough when disaster happened. That he failed isnt in dispute but his trial ended with a not guilty verdict, and with tears for the hillsborough families. 96 people have found to have been unlawfully killed to a criminal standard by an inquestjury, and somebody has got to be held responsible for 96 deaths, its the the biggest sporting disaster in british legal history. All of the families loved ones, were unlawfully killed, and we have now got to live with. Well, who is accountable for the deaths . The families have struggled to reconcile the two different core processes they have gone through. The crown courtjury did not accept the prosecution case that David Duckenfields failings were so exceptionally bad they were a substantial cause of the disaster. It comes four years after an inquest jury found that the 96 were unlawfully killed. Who put the 96 in their graves . Who is accountable for 96 unlawfully killed . What a disgrace this has been today. If 96 Police Officers had been killed on the 15th of april 1989 their families would not be at a press conference as we are today. For the last seven years hundreds of detectives have been gathering evidence into hillsborough. Costing £65 million, 0peration resolve is the longest ever criminal investigation in england. It may sound like a cliche to say that lessons must be learnt, but given this verdict that has never been more relevant nor important. The hillsborough families say that over 30 years opportunities have been missed to prosecute the full number of people and institutions which could have been held responsible for the disaster. With this trial, the jurors only had one man to consider, and they werent willing to make him solely responsible for the deaths. In 1989, liverpool played Nottingham Forest in an fa cup semifinal. Commentator liverpools faithful followers, fed on success for 25 years, at the leppings lane end. 211,000 liverpool fans travelled to the city for the fixture. Minutes before the kick off, a huge crowd was still queueing to get into the ground. David duckenfield gave a critical order open the gate. Thousands poured in, but he didnt close the tunnel to the terraces which were already full. For the first time, we can broadcast him giving his evidence at the inquests four years ago. That is arguably one of the biggest regrets of my life, that i did not foresee where fans would go when they came in through the gates. Some fans climbed out of the crush, but most were trapped. These survivors are still coping with the mental scars. I dont know if i passed out but i remember, i gave up. I knew i was dying, you just knew you were going to die. The next thing i knew, there was a pile of bodies next to me. I was screaming at a Police Officer to open the gate of pen 2, so we could get onto the pitch. I remember vividly, one lad saying, my brothers in there, hes dying. We found that moment on the archive footage. 19 year old ian, in his red tracksuit, traumatised for life. Ive had suicide attempts. Self harm. Im tattooed, because that was the more positive alternative to cutting myself. 96 men, women and children were killed. The youngest aged ten, the oldest a pensioner. Brian mathews was 38 when he died in the crush. He came from a large merseyside family who have spent 30 years campaigning on his behalf. People went to that Football Game as a family, dads went with their sons, dads came home with their sons in body bags. You went as a family on a saturday, to watch a Football Team play. There shouldnt have been any risk that you wouldnt come home. Walk on, walk on. In 2016, the hillsborough families sang to welcome the celebrate the unlawful killing finding at the inquests, but the 30 year journey of this disaster has taken many twists and turns, patience and sympathy tested again and again. David duckenfield has been on trial three times, including a private prosecution brought by the families 19 years ago. There is some finality, then, in todays verdict. It means no one will be jailed for so many lives lost. For the families, is this the end of the legal road now . Well, i think that in terms of the prosecution for manslaughter, yes, it is. Its hard to see how another case can be brought on that front and although the families may not like it, the jurys decision here brings that finality. It is a definite decision and they accepted the defences case that the stage was set for disaster before David Duckenfield took command at hillsborough. The Crown Prosecution Service tonight said that it respect the jurys decision but they added this had been a complex and harrowing case to bring with obvious difficulties in presenting evidence about the events ofa presenting evidence about the events of a disaster which happened 30 yea rs of a disaster which happened 30 years ago, so of a disaster which happened 30 years ago, so there is that question of whether time has run out. To establish through the courts what caused hillsborough has the end of the road come for the families . Tonight, David Duckenfield offered them his sympathies. He said he was relieved to be acquitted. He now can resume his retirement on the south coast. But the families will be back here at preston, import, in the new year, but got in april there will be another trial, this time though it will be of three men charged in connection with the aftermath of hillsborough rather than with the causes of. Judith moritz, thank you. The institute for fiscal studies says neither the conservatives nor labour are being honest with voters about spending in the run up to the election. The independent Research Group has examined both parties manifestos and says their economic plans are not credible. Heres our economics editor faisal islam. It is a rather similar set of words about the nations coffers from the main parties. I think our manifesto is bold, its ambitious, its prepared for, its thought out, and theres a grey book that fully costs it. And so says the prime minister, too. Its a fully costed manifesto, and we can now make the very substantial commitments that were making. All the parties campaigning stressing their good housekeeping. But particularly for the main two parties the message of the ifss critical audit of election manifestos is a plague on both your houses. The parties plans for Health Spending are all in the same ball park, with the conservatives on 3 growth a year, and labour, 4 . But when you strip health care out, you get an interesting picture. Look at the parties spending commitments over the next few years. You see the end of the spending squeeze. Every party pushing up day to day spending for things like schools, councils, roads and public pay. Now, there are big differences in the amounts. But if you zoom out and look at this over the last ten years, they dont all take us back to where we were. Conservative plans leave spending levels still 14 below where they were in 2010. Lib dems are below the line too. Labours plans dont just spend more, they undo the austerity decade, leaving spending higher even than 2010. But neither plans are credible, according to the ifs. For labour, the claim it could raise more than £70 billion a year in tax revenue but only from the richest 5 was clearly not true, says the ifs. Some of those losing the marriage tax allowance, for example, are not high earners. The ifs also criticised the unbudgeted £58 billion spent on a relatively small number of women who were forced to delay their pension age. But the conservatives havent costed some of their more significant plans too. Social care, very expensive, as are a series of investment projects from electric car factories to railways. All of those tax and spend numbers have implications for borrowing. The lib dems commitment to remain in the eu and relative restraint leaves them with the lowest level of borrowing to pay for their plans. Labours is double that and has the highest borrowing plans to help fund extra investment. Conservative plans show they are in between the two, but this is rather interesting. A version of no deal brexit is still possible in a years time, after borisjohnson ruled out in his manifesto any extension to the brexit implementation plan. That would hit the economy and, in fact, say the ifs, lead to higher borrowing under the conservatives than labour. The conservatives are proposing what is quite a hard brexit outside of the single market, outside of the customs union, and a deadline at the end of next year for a trade agreement which if we dont meet could potentially still end up with something which looks rather like a no deal brexit, and therefore serious negative consequences for the economy. We dont know where labour is going to get on brexit, presumably something softer, which would be rather better for the economy. More investment spending helps the economy, but big tax increases, big increases in regulation, may well push in the other direction. The major parties cant be too cheered at this look at their numbers, for very Different Reasons not seen as credible. Faisal islam, bbc news. The leaders of labour, the liberal democrats, the snp, plaid cymru and the greens have taken part in the First Television debate based solely on how to tackle Climate Change. The discussion which was hosted by channel 4 included Renewable Energy, public transport and legal targets to reach net zero emissions. As you probably noticed, Boris Johnson and nigel we absolutely need to look at every single layer of our society to do this. Our Green New Deal looks at oui this. Our Green New Deal looks at our homes, our industry, our energy and very importantly our agriculture, of food and how we deal with our land. Labour will kick start a green industrial revolution, bringing new wealth to all parts of our country. Labour is oii all parts of our country. Labour is on your side and on the side of the environment. What we want to do is make it easier and cheaper for everybody to do the right thing, so that the obvious decision to make is the one that is good for our climate. Powering up the great renewable revolution and after scotla nd renewable revolution and after scotland i think wales has got incredible Renewable Energy resources and the great thing is we we re resources and the great thing is we were the cradle of the last industrial revolution. We could be there at the start of this new industrial revolution. All of this discussion individual behaviour and important though it is, somebody made the point about the small numberof made the point about the small number of companies responsible for the majority of the emissions. Weve got to make sure that industry and government are leading by example. As im sure you noticed, Boris Johnson and nigel farage werent there. They both turned down an invitation to particiapate. They were replaced with Ice Sculptures instead which started to melt during the debate. The conservative party has made a formal complaint to the media regulator, 0fcom, because channel 4 said it would not allow any other tory, apart from Boris Johnson, to take part in the debate. 0ur science editor David Shukman has been looking at the parties plans for the climate. With new warnings about the melting of the ice sheets, a relentless increase in global temperatures, the streets filled with young protesters, and flooding in the middle of this winter election, Climate Change is high up the agenda. So they are all proposing to move away from fossil fuels and offer a transformation to a cleaner future that is carbon free. With this wind its a great day for generating Clean Electricity and all the main parties say they want more of it but they disagree over how rapidly the country should cut its Carbon Emissions to effectively zero. The conservatives say 2050 is the right date for that, though as things stand current policies would deliver that. The liberal democrats want to go a bit fast and they say 2045 is the right date. The labour party wants to go faster still, they are talking about the 2030s so they have given themselves a bit of leeway. And the green party are saying 2030 should be the deadline. But whichever policy is adopted it is going to be a huge challenge. A great deal depends, believe it or not, on insulation, making our homes more efficient, wasting less energy. They are a major source of Carbon Emissions. And techniques like filling cavity walls are being pushed by labour, the liberal democrats and the greens are massive programmes to upgrade millions of properties. Another election battle is rather unexpected, it is over trees. The conservatives say they will plant as many as 30 million a year. The liberal democrats have gone for double that number, 60 million. The green party has gone even higher at 70 Million Trees a year. And the labour party has just come up with the biggest number of all, 100 Million Trees a year over the next two decades. It is the first time we have had a general election where Climate Change or any environmental question has featured so prominently. But ultimately what counts, whoever wins, is what they actually deliver. David shukman, bbc news. And to find out more about the parties policies on Climate Change, you can visit bbc. Co. Uk election. Borisjohnson still hasnt confirmed if hell be interviewed by the Bbcs Andrew Neil before the election. Mr neils interviews with Party Leaders have already included Jeremy Corbyn and Nicola Sturgeon and dates have been agreed forjo swinson and nigel farage. But asked about it several times this evening mrjohnson said it was for others to decide. You know, prime minister, this is a big interview. All the other leaders have agreed to do it. Will you join them in being interviewed by andrew neil on the bbc before election day . Well, i dont want to pre empt any discussions that may be taking place, but ive no doubt the conversations are going on about all sorts of interviews with all sorts of people and i look forward very much to their result. Is that a yes or a no . There is. Other people are getting involved in these conversations. It would be its not myjob to do it. They will be deciding and discussing. The latest figures from the office for National Statistics show that fewer people from the European Union are coming since peak levels in early 2016, eu net migration thats the numbers arriving minus the numbers leaving has fallen to an estimated 118,000 the lowest level in 16 years. But in contrast, net migration from elsewhere in the world has gradually risen, to over 220,000, as more non eu citizens came to the uk to study. The number of vacancies for nhs nurses in england increased to around 43,500 by the end of september, almost a thousand more than the same time last year. Hospital managers say workforce shortages is one of the biggest problems they have to deal with. The need to boost recruitment across the nhs has already proved to be a key issue in the election debate, as our Health Editor hugh pym reports. We start off about four nurses down, that number can increase if nurses call in sick. Georgina is on a day off from her nursing post in a busy a e department. She has been a nurse forfive years and says its more stressful than ever. Because of Staff Shortages and increasing numbers of patients. You are really pushed, when youre processing volumes of people rather than delivering really good care to people. If im to be really honest, my satisfaction in myjob is a lot less than it used to be, because it really is very hard to keep feeling that youre doing a safe and good job. So, what are the parties plans for england . The conservatives say 19,000 more nurses will be trained, with grants restored. Another 31,000 will come from foreign recruitment and better retention. Labour wants 211,000 more nurses trained, with £1 billion a year invested in restoring bursaries. And more on top through better retention and recruitment. The liberal democrats want to target extra help for nursing students. Health think tanks say if there are no new policies, the current vacancy total of just over 40,000 will increase to around 70,000 in four years time. The big challenge of health care is we have to run to stand still. Weve got a growing population and most importantly an ageing population with more chronic disease. What that means is we need more and more staff, so although the number of people employed in the nhs is increasing a bit, its not increasing at anywhere near the fast enough pace to cope with that rising demand. Staff shortages are obvious on the front line right now. Capping Public Sector pay in previous years and the scrapping of nurse bursaries in england havent helped. The Royal College of nursing says more than half of members feel too busy to provide the level of care theyd like. Georgina says some nurses she works with are close to the limits of what they can tolerate. Some of my colleagues, very sadly, are thinking of leaving nursing. And that is so sad because i really believe in nursing, i really believe in the role we do. Their satisfaction in theirjob is so low that they dont want to do that any more, they dont want to take the risk. Georgina wants to stick with the job she loves. For whoever forms the next government, it will be critical to find ways to hold on to others like her, as well as training the nurses of the future. Hugh pym, bbc news. The Democratic Unionist Party says itll continue to press Boris Johnson for changes to his brexit deal if he remains prime minister. Launching her pa rtys manifesto in belfast, Arlene Foster said she remains opposed to the customs changes proposed in mrjohnsons deal. The dup propped up the conservative government during the last parliament, but relations soured over the prime ministers agreement with the eu. The deal, obviously, that is there at the moment is not acceptable. Everyone across Northern Ireland knows the reasons for that. Certainly unionism, as nigel has said, is united in relation to our rejection of the boris deal and therefore it needs to be changed. A United Nations food expert has warned that zimbabwe is on the brink of man made starvation. Nearly 8 million people, almost two thirds of the population, are unable to meet their own food needs, according to the report. Hyperinflation is preventing most households from getting enough food. An Iraqi Military commander has been sacked after Security Forces in the Southern City of nassariya killed at least 25 Anti Government protesters. Authorities opened fire as they cleared demonstrators from a bridge. There have been widespread protests in iraq for nearly two months. President trump has made a surprise trip to afghanistan to celebrate the american holiday of thanksgiving with us troops. He said that he had re opened talks with the taliban and that the us would substantially reduce its presence in the country. The first funerals have been held in vietnam for some of the 39 people found dead in a refrigerated lorry in essex last month. Families of 16 of the victims have held services. The bodies of the other people who died are expected to be returned to vietnam from the uk this weekend. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Daniel Sandford reports. A single drum sounded as two young cousins were laid to rest in a cemetery in rural vietnam. Nguyen van hung was 33, Hoang Van Tiep just 18. They died together in the back of a lorry trailer crossing the English Channel to britain. Hoang van tieps grieving father says he is now glad his son is home. In all, 39 people died in the trailer, the first 16 bodies were flown back yesterday. And driven out to their villages in vietnams poorer provinces. The cousins funeral was the first. The priest using it to warn young people of the dangers of leaving their homeland to seek greater wealth overseas. In the village of dien thinh it was the largest funeral anyone can remember. For two young cousins who left with high hopes, but died locked in the back of a trailer in a way that nobody wants to imagine. Daniel sandford, bbc news. Three teenage boys have admitted threatening two women who were subjected to homophobic abuse on a bus. Melania geymonat and her date Christine Hannigan were pelted with coins on a london night bus in may. The teenagers, aged 15, 16 and 17, admitted public order offences ahead of a scheduled trial at highbury corner youth court. The family of the Television Chef gary rhodes have revealed he died from a head injury. In a statement they said the 59 year old collapsed at his home in dubai on tuesday evening, before being taken to hospital suffering from a bleed on the brain. Every household in britain bought on average 54 bags for life last year. Environmental campaigners say the shopping bags should be much more expensive, to curb plastic use. 1. 5 billion of the carriers were bought in the uk in the last year alone. Its almost seven years now since David Cameron first pledged to hold an in out referendum on the uks membership of the European Union. Who could have predicted then what an enormous impact his decision would have on the nation . It has polarised our society and shaken up the Political Landscape and party allegiances that for decades had been taken for granted. Our special correspondent allan little has been speaking to three people whose Party Loyalty has been turned on its head by brexit. For the last 40 years i voted for the conservative party. |j for the last 40 years i voted for the conservative party. I have voted labour all my life. I will not be voting for labour any more. |j labour all my life. I will not be voting for labour any more. I found myself with no alternative but to vote for the labour party. Myself with no alternative but to vote for the labour partylj myself with no alternative but to vote for the labour party. I will be voting for the brexit party. |j vote for the labour party. I will be voting for the brexit party. I will be voting conservative this time. Voting for the brexit party. I will be voting conservative this timelj will be campaigning for the lib dems. It began in scotland, this breaking of the bond between parties and their traditional base. Labours long domination here once seemed as fixed as the forth bridges. The conservatives had been all but wiped out, but the independence referendum of 2014 changed all that. After it, voters began putting their position on independence ahead of old party loyalties. The snp swept labour away, the conservatives revitalised. A referendum had changed the landscape of party allegiance. The question is, is a similar realignment now happening in the rest of britain over brexit . Does your identity as a remainer or a leaver now trump the party you traditionally supported . I wrote in to the yorkshire post. It already has forjason aldiss. Hes been a prominent tory activist for years and was a constituency chairman, but hes a remainer and will now vote for the party he believes most likely to defeat his old conservative friends. What will it feel like for somebody like you to put a cross beside the labour candidate . Ill feel physically ill. Ill probably have to go to the spotted cow for a couple of pints to do it. But you are still going to do it . Definitely. To me, its patriotism really, because its about doing what is good for the country and not whats good for oneself, and i feel that we lost that as a party. And are there enough of you to deprive the conservative party of seats that they need to hold . I hope so. This monument stands near the old silverhill colliery in nottinghamshire, solid labour territory for generations, but the local constituency ashfield voted 70 to leave. Former miner and former labour voter ian todd is backing brexit and Boris Johnson. Hes promised it and hes stuck everybody out and hes going to deliver brexit for us. And thats what made you cross to support him . Yes, definitely, yes, yeah, i think hes a man of his word. So even five years ago, could you have you imagined youd be voting conservative . No, never, because everybody round here was labour. If my dad now, hes not alive now, but if he knew i was voting conservative, hed probably turn in his grave, but the situation is so different nowadays. We now have about 9 of the electorate say they very strongly identify with a political party, but 45 say they very strongly identify with either leave or remain. The electorate in the time that weve had really good quality data opinion polling and so on has never been this unpredictable. This is hartlepool, once a proud industrial centre, with a strong labour loyalty, but here, its the brexit party that hopes to benefit from the erosion of Traditional Voter allegiances. Anne wrigley is planning to vote for the brexit party after losing faith in labour. They promise you this, promise you that. Promises are like pie crusts they break. There were shipyards, steelworks, hospital, fishing. Its all gone. I dont believe in this money going out of the country. Its needed here. Leave voting hartlepool has its mirror opposite here, in Richmond Park in south west london. It has a pro brexit conservative mp, but the people voted 70 to remain. It was something very much in the background of my life. Andrea steer has voted conservative at every election since 1979. Now shes campaigning for the liberal democrats. The defining moment for me was when theresa may talked about, if you are a citizen of the world you are a citizen of nowhere, and that was a terrible, terrible thing to say about people like me. I think theres a strong move in london of people that believed in remain that dont feel that the conservative party are listening to them. They have no longer got a voice and they see the lib dems are giving them that voice. A referendum can change fundamentally the electoral landscape. Scotland showed us that