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Police say three men arrested in connection with the Manchester Bombing have been released without charge. Eleven people remain in custody. The mother of zookeeper rosa king who was killed by a tiger says she loved herjob and wouldnt have done anything else. Coming up later. Newsnight asks how different generations are approaching this election, with an audience split evenly between people over 60 and people under 30. Thats at midnight, here on the news channel. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has apologised for not knowing the cost of one of labours key Election Pledges on childcare. It was a policy he was out campaigning on today but during a bbc interview this morning he struggled to come up with the numbers for how much it would cost to extend Free Childcare in england. The conservatives called it a car crash interview. Heres our deputy Political Editorjohn pienaar. Id better get a car, hadnt i . Got to keep up, cant fall too far behind. More Free Childcare might play well with voters. Some say dont work with children. Jeremy corbyn knows what looks and sounds good. Ought to know. Look at these wonderful children here, they all need a Nursery Place and a chance to grow up and learn together, so ours is a universal provision so every child gets a place in nursery of 30 hours a week from two to four. Playtime over, onto womens hour what could go wrong . How much will it cost to provide un means tested childcare for 1. 3 million children . It will cost. It will obviously cost a lot to do so. We accept that. I presume you have the figures . Yes, i do. So, how much will it cost . I will give you the figures in a moment. You dont know it . You are logging into your ipad here. Youve announced a major policy and you dont know how much it will cost . Can i give you the exact figure in a moment please . Is this not exactly the issue with people and the labour party which came up under gordon brown, that we cannot trust you with our money . Not at all, our manifesto is fully costed and examined. You are holding your manifesto, youre flicking through it, youve got an ipad there, youve had a phone call and you dont know how much its going to cost. Can we come back to that in a moment . I think what is important for the voters to understand is if we dont invest in our children and invest in them for the future, they do less well in primary school, less well in Secondary School and less well in the future. This was better couldnt be worse. At a rally in watford, he was amongst friends. A much better tomorrow for everybody in this country. Thank you very much. Mr corbyn, you are labours choice of next Prime Minister, yet this morning you couldnt put a cost on the key Childcare Policy you went out to promote. How do you answer the suggestion that this showed a lack of basic necessary confidence . I didnt have the exact figure in front to me so i was unable to answer that question, forwhich, obviously, iapologise. But i dont apologise for what is in the manifesto. Theres always a queue to seeJeremy Corbyn. But whether you are a convert to the cause or not, who doesnt want more for childcare, hospitals and schools, and more tax those who can afford it . Believing labour can deliver without borrowing and taxing more than the party is admitting, thats another question. And seeing Jeremy Corbyn as notjust well meaning but Prime Ministerial, a lot of people remain to be convinced. I want to know how he will pay for it all. No answers, is it . He comes across very well with the answers, but he hasnt got all his facts and figures correct. I think he is one of the most honest politicians we have seen in the last 15 years, to be honest. Ive seen him on a couple of things recently and he gives honest answers, which is more than i can say for other members of the other parties. People need to give him a chance. If you dont try something, you dont know how good it is. As far as im concerned i have a lot of faith in him. On the one showed tonight, he was happy to accept that he never expected to be here. Did i set out in life to become Prime Minister . Know. I set out in life to try and change things and bring about greater justice in change things and bring about greaterjustice in our society and i am honoured and proud to lead the party and i am giving It Everything ican to party and i am giving It Everything i can to win this election. He wants thejob now, but getting it will ta ke thejob now, but getting it will take trust and he has nine days to earn it. John pienaar, bbc news. For the conservatives it was not labours policies but the competence of its leader that was the focus of their fire today. In a speech about brexit the Prime Minister questioned Jeremy Corbyns fitness to conduct talks with the eu. But labour says theresa mays Negotiating Position so far had made britain a Laughing Stock in europe. Heres our Political Editor laura kuenssberg. Your road, everyones avenue. Its on all our streets and on the doors where elections are really decided. Has a shakier few days for theresa may made much difference . Ijust wish shed make her mind up and stick to it. I mean, i know its a womans privilege. But they shouldnt do it in politics. Turned against pensioners, hasnt she . But on plenty of doorsteps, the perceptions of the two leaders could hardly be more far apart. Oh, i like her. Well, everything she does is so proficient. I dont like that mr corbyn to be the head of the labour party, if they get in. I cant see them getting in, can you . I like theresa may, i think shes good. I dont like Jeremy Corbyn. Theresa may wants to drive her hoped for contrast home, so after a tricky few days, a top up of her main message back onto brexit. To try to get away from accusations of indecision. Her number one target the labour leader. With his position on brexit, he will find himself alone and naked in the Negotiating Chamber of the european union. With the brexit negotiations due to begin only 11 days after polling day, he is not prepared for those negotiations. But i am prepared. Prepared to take the difficult decisions that leadership demands. Im ready to go, Jeremy Corbyn is not. Prime minister, Election Campaigns test our leaders, dont they . Isnt the emerging truth of this campaign that its showing you as a leader to be weaker rather than stronger . Laura, let me tell you what i think strong and stable leadership is about. Strong and stable leadership is about being open with the british people about the challenges that we face, and thats what weve done in the manifesto that weve set out. Strong and stable leadership is about being open about the hard choices that lie ahead in order to build that stronger britain. But despite the tories recent troubles, a new scepticism towards them perhaps . It is a case of labour trying to cling on in areas like this, the midlands marginals. One Senior Source told me the fundamentals of the campaign havent real changed. Questions in voters minds aboutJeremy Corbyn, the tories trying to focus on brexit. Negotiations in brussels seem pretty remote from the hard graft of this election campaign, but theresa may wants to make the choice all about her authority to carry them out. But the tory wobble has been noticed on the doorstep, and its here that her party has to make their case. And house by House And Street By street, for both sides, time is running out. The Scottish National party has launched its election manifesto pledging to promote fairness and opportunity. The partys leader, Nicola Sturgeon, said labour was in disarray and the only way to keep the conservatives in check was to vote snp. She also said that an snp victory in scotland would further reinforce the mandate for a second referendum on independence. Our scotland editor sarah smith reports from perth. Nicola sturgeon knows she wont be walking into number ten as the next Prime Minister. The snp cant form a uk government, so her pitch . They are the only effective opposition. Now, more than ever, it is vital to have strong snp voices standing up for scotland at westminster. A vote for the Snp Onjune 8th will strengthen scotlands hands against tory cuts. It will strengthen scotlands hand against an extreme brexit, and it will strengthen scotlands right to make our own decisions. The snp also advocate an additional £118 billion in public spending, raising the minimum wage to over £10, and raising the top rate of tax to 50p. Nicola sturgeon had much less to say about a second referendum on scottish independence. Are you worried its a vote loser . No, im not. Ive made my position on this clear. At the end of the brexit process, not now, but at the end of that process, i think scotland should have a choice over our own future. But ive also said that, in this election, theres a more immediate opportunity and that is to strengthen scotlands hand in the brexit negotiations. Youve even changed your language about independence, you talk about scotland have a choice, we almost never hear you actually saying a second referendum on independence, whilst your opponents are putting that front and centre of their campaigns. Its as though youre almost a bit embarrassed about it . Ive got opponents, yes, saying im talking about nothing else, when as youve just said thats not true. But they want to talk about nothing else because they, particularly the tories, are embarrassed about their record and about the policies that are in their manifesto. Right on cue, a tory protest promising to block another referendum. Then drowned out by the snp. You say more snp mps will be able to stand up to the tories, you have just about every mp in scotland with 56 of them. What real material difference did any of them make to the lives of any scottish voters in two years in westminster . Were seeing, almost with every week that passes right now that this Prime Minister is not so much the iron lady than she is the queen of the u turn. Therefore, the stronger the snp and scotlands voice is, then the more we can effect change to tory positions that are damaging so many people. The snps biggest challenge is holding onto all those mps. Itll be difficult to hold onto 56 seats, nobody seriously expects them to do so. But id be surprised if they lose more than half a dozen. But if they lose even jsut two or three seats, itll be said their vote is going backwards and that theyve lost momentum towards another independence referendum. It will certainly be spun that way by the other parties. So its all aboard the campaign bus. With so many seats to defend, theres not a moment to lose. Sarah smith, bbc news, perth. Less than two weeks after the suicide bomb at Manchester Arena that left 22 people dead, the american singer Ariana Grande has announced shell perform again In The City On Sunday at a Benefit Concert for the victims and their families. Shell be joined by other musicians including Justin Bieber, katy perry and coldplay. But some of those affected say they think it is too soon. Our correspondent danny savage reports. Got to have it. I want you, you. Shes the global superstar who the victims of the Manchester Bombing had gone to see. After the attack, Ariana Grande quickly returned to her home in the states, saying her heart was broken. But tonight she announced this the one love manchester Benefit Concert this sunday. Free tickets will be offered to those who were at the arena last week. She wont be performing alone, Justin Bieber is alsojoining her. When i look in your eyes. Other famous names include take that, who donated the proceeds from their liverpool concert to the victims. Turn it up, its your favourite song. And katy perry, who broke down in tears last week as she talked to fans about the atrocity. This is where the concert will take place, the Cricket Ground at old trafford. It has a capacity of about 50,000 people who, for speed of entry, are being asked not to bring bags, but thats down to security, too which will be upper most in peoples minds. The concert occurs on the same day as a Testimonal Match at neighbouring manchester united. The police chief here says hes confident his force will be able to cover both events. You will see a Significant Police presence around both of those events, both with unarmed and armed officers. You know, well continue to review intelligence as it comes in to make sure, as much as we can, that everybodys absolutely safe and can go and enjoy both of those events. Police have been speaking to families who were at the original arena concert, most say they are happy, but some are not. I, personally, dont think its showing a great deal of respect to them. Its not giving them a chance to show their respects to their loved ones orfor the individuals in hospital to get over their injuries. But, in the quiet dignity of st anns square, in Manchester City centre, theres broad support for Ariana Grandes return. I think its amazing that shes coming back. I think its something that should be commended, really. Its something that, yeah, its definitely needed. I think itlljust be a message to them, you know, not hide who you are. You shouldnt be ashamed of who you are. You shouldnt have been targeted. The concert will undoubtedly sell out quickly. Ariana grande says she hopes it will help heal the city. Danny savage, bbc news, manchester. Well meanwhile Police Say Three men arrested over the attack have been released without charge this evening. 11 people remain in custody. The headlines on bbc news. Jeremy corbyn apologises after being unable to come up with the cost of labours key Childcare Policy during a bbc interview. Meanwhile theresa may returns to her main election message saying only the conservatives can be trusted to win a good brexit deal in brussels. Launching the snp manifesto Nicola Sturgeon says victory in scotland would further reinforce the mandate for a second independence referendum. A reminder that we do have a second edition of the papers tonight but for now. Lets have a quick look at some of the front pages. The metro leads with articles car crash into view asJeremy Corbyn stumbled over the cost of Free Childcare plans in that interview with the bbc. The Daily Telegraph says it has been leaked documents showing a labour plan to allow thousands of unskilled migrants to enter the uk after brexit. The same story as in the daily mail adding the proposals include axing rules that allow foreign spouses to live here unless they show they will not bea here unless they show they will not be a burden on the taxpayer. The guardian focuses on theresa may saying thatJeremy Corbyn s policies with leave him alone and naked in the Negotiating Chamber of the eu. They call it her strongest personal attack yet on the labour leader. The times refers to you got polls that suggest that the conservatives could be in line to lose 20 seats with labour gaining nearly 30 seats in the election next week. The daily start up story is the american pop star Ariana Grande coming back to the uk on sunday for that Benefit Concert for the victims of the Manchester Arena attack with the line up including Justin Bieber, coldplay and take that. One of the stories in the Financial Times is a plan by the mayor of london and Transport For London for people to be able to use their phones on the underground. Investigations are continuing into the death of a zookeeper in cambridge yesterday after she was attacked by a tiger. Rosa king had worked at hamerton zoo for fourteen years. Ben ando reports. We do a lot of work for conservation, a lot of breeding to try and save. Conservation and compassion, words rosa king lived by. Today, flowers were laid at hamerton zoo by friends and visitors who were struggling to come to terms with her death. She was the most caring, compassionate woman you could ever meet and shes going to be sorely missed by everyone who knew her. Ijust cant believe shes gone. In a statement, her mother andrea said. She wouldnt have done anything else. Its what she has always done. Its what she has always loved. Rosa had an affinity for big cats, she was inside the Tiger Enclosure when the unthinkable happened. In what the zoo is calling a freak accident, one of the deadly predators got in and mauled her to death. One visitor told the bbc it was the animals that raised the alarm. Just basically the cheetahs were pacing up and down. You could sense that they knew something had happened. Basically, the parakeets, which were close to the cheetahs, they were picking up, they were sensing something had happened, and they were going ballistic. For the park, the question is relatively simple how did an experienced zookeeper come to be trapped in an enclosure with a deadly predator . The police say theyve dropped their investigation because there were no suspicious circumstances, but are sending their files to the local authority which grants the zoo its licence, and they will decide whether there should be any proceedings brought for breaches of health and safety rules. But those are issues for another day, for staff here now thoughts are just of shock and of grief. Ben ando, bbc news, cambridgeshire. A Breast Surgeon accused of playing god and carrying out completely unnecessary operations on patients will be sentenced tomorrow for intentionally wounding 9 women and one man. Lawyers say its possible that hundreds of ian patersons patients could have undergone surgery quite needlessly. Asjeremy cooke reports, some victims are calling for him to be given the maximum punishment of life. A broken bond of trust between a doctor and his patients. Pure evil, pure evil. He told them hed cut them free of life threatening cancer he lied. I had no need to be there and he had no reason to cut bits off me. It was mass betrayal in the operating theatre. Ian paterson removed lumps, performed entire mastectomies, deliberate mutilation for no medical reason. My flesh was black and rotten, the stuff was just oozing out, it is was brown, horrible smell. Judy conduit suffered a catastrophic infection following patersons phony diagnosis that both her breasts must be removed. It was an act, yeah, and he duped everybody, including doctors, patients, colleagues. He just duped everybody. I hate him now. I hate him with a vengeance. John ingram was among the ten former patients chosen to testify against paterson at his nine week trial. As a man, his case was not typical, but in every other aspect it was textbook ian paterson. He persuaded me to undergo a double mastectomy. A massively invasive procedure and the lumps injohns chest were actually harmless. Paterson exploited me as a person for his own ends both as a cash cow, being paid to operate needlessly on me, to satisfy whatever bit of Twisted Logic is in his head and also he exploited me and invalidated me. I thought it was cowardly and pathetic that he tried to rationalise the way he victimised me, the way he hurt me, both physically and mentally, and then tried to defend himself using the same vulnerability he had exploited to get me under the knife in the first place. Solicitors believe ian patersons victims run to the hundreds, quite possibly the thousands, and for every face here the same question why did he do it . Perhaps he liked adoration of the patient. I mean, if you tell someone theyre going to die of breast cancer, but if you let me operate on you, youre not. Then tell them afterwards that the pathology showed that, yes, if i hadnt operated on you, you were going to get breast cancer, even though its untrue, then that patient is grateful to you and likes you and indeed all the patients, before they found out that he had actually misled them, thought he was a wonderful doctor. Ian paterson had always denied deliberately causing harm, but his patients, his victims, have seen him convicted and tomorrow will see him sentenced for his crimes. This guy potentially has a history of offending that spans 15 years or more maybe, and that has got to be addressed. The sentence has got to be significant enough so that society is protected from this man. In my eyes, he deserves nothing fess than a life sentence, i hope they throw away the key and he never comes out. Never to do this to anybody else again. Paterson has been told to expect a custodial sentence when he attends court tomorrow. Jeremy cooke, bbc news. After a massive computer failure grounded flights over the weekend. The disgraced Television Star rolf harris will not face a further retrial on Indecent Assault allegations after a jury failed to reach a verdict. The 87 year old left court today without comment but said through his solicitor he felt no debatein frontofanaudiencethfs of how wales would fare outside i the debate. Five parties trying to speak for wales at westminster. For years labour has ruled the roost here. More than half of the parliamentary constituencies currently he was asked early on about the causes of terrorism. I dont agree with you that this would not have happened if it wasnt for, if British Foreign policy would have been different. The gentleman made the incredibly about sweden, this is a war, as they see it, against all those who dont believe as they believe. Turkey has been on the receiving end of these attacks. A contrast in tone with labours leader, Jeremy Corbyn. Then it was on the brexit. More than half of voters in wales backed leave in the eu referendum. There is a welsh mp in the brexit department. There is a minister actively articulating the case for wales. David jones. And it is really important that we get this right, this will set the scene the future generations. I have to say i have no confidence that having Jeremy Corbyn doing those negotiations will defile; a fact not lost on plaid cymrus leader. Redistribution of wealth from the eu and we cannot guarantee that that same redistribution of wealth will happen through the westminster government. My concerns are that the tories will try to grab that money for themselves, and we will lose out and that is what we have to guard against and that is what we have to get guarantees from the tories about, although their leader plaid cymrus main election but the Liberal Democrat leader in wales argued that only his party would do that. Wales voted to leave but it did not see the terms, it did not see the impact on the Farming Community or on small businesses, one higher education. Wales, like everyone else, needs to see the terms. And how, the audience asked, will the parties increased the wealth of wales . My party is in favour of increasing Corporation Tax powers to the welsh assembly, the example, so we can create, in wales, the kind of Tax Haven Status which the irish public has to the immense benefit of the irish economy. This is the way forward for wales. Thank you very much. Neil, tax havens have no health service, and poor spending on education, each and every one of them around the world. Next weeks election will be the fifth time in just over two years that everyone in wales has been able to go to the polls. An election that will test labours defences and their opponents lines of attack. Now a look at the weather for the week ahead with darren bett. Hello there. October to march was the tries for 20 years, april was also very dry. The figures for may for all but the last two days show it has been dry across the north and west of the uk but a different story for the south east of the stuffing and where we have had average if not above average rainfall, largely because we have had warm air bringing thundery rain. That Bank Holiday Rain has pushed away and we are seeing High Pressure building across the uk, introducing the uk, are more air across the uk, are more Co Mforta Ble Air across the uk, are more comfortable night. Sleeping ongwayl on 2 way on e the south e the south and into wednesday for the south and into wales, more cloud. Double break up, one or two isolated showers, most places will have a dry and nice day. Some sunshine around and developing temperatures will be higher than on some sunshine around and developing temperatures will be inland. Han on w ~f fw 3; Will Et Moved Awa wednesday, it will get moved away towards the yeast by a big area of low pressure filling the atlantic and the approaching weather front. While it is sitting there, it is scooping up warm airfrom the near continent and we will find temperatures rising on thursday and perhaps into friday. The rain moves into northern ireland, into the west of scotland, the east of scotland may stay dry and across england and wales, those temperatures will continue to rise. You can see how slowly this rain moves across Scotla Nd Slowly This Rain Moves Across Scotland and northern ireland, only into the west of england and wales on friday, central and eastern areas are dry, those temperatures rising, are dry, those temperatures rising, a few thundery downpours in the east later on. That will get washed away, you will be left with sunny spells, a scattering of showers and a cooler and fresher feel, particularly in the south east of the uk. 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