And we are joined 0k, plenty more from these tonight and we arejoined by 0k, plenty more from these tonight and we are joined by senior politicians from seven parties who will be listening and responding to what everyone has got to say. They are, for the conservatives. Representing the labour party, said area champion. The Scottish National party. Ukip, the Liberal Democrats and plaid cymru join us and for the green party, their co leader. Also, give them applause. Applause. Also, Jonathan Blake is working with bbc Reality Check looking at the numbers promises we will hear about by working out what really stacks up. And it is going through comments we have been getting all day on bbcdebate. First, tonight, after two devastating Terror Attacks in two weeks, including In Manchester, security has become a bigger part of the election campaign, in particular how best to protect british people from future attacks. Police numbers in england and wales have fallen by almost 20,000 since 2010 an
get discriminated on and it doesn t make it acceptable on any level and fundamentally why when things done sooner? we have had comments from the prime minister himself on muslim woman in burkhas. emerging breaking news on the pope. you may have seen a report which said he mishandled some cases of sexual abuse when he was an archbishop in the 1970s. it concluded that the pope failed to properly act on claims of polish priests. he rejected those claims when that report emerged but we are now hearing that he has admitted that he did attend a meeting around 40 that he did attend a meeting around a0 years ago at the case of a piece, at which the case of a priest, a known paedophile, was distrust. he
i ve seen women who are in westernized dress. i ve seen women in burkhas. i have seen young men, old men, children carried on the backs of their fathers. i think what we have here is a broad cross-section of cairo society, all stratas united in this single demand. i think that a lot of the things that happen in this uprising is the absence of what is thought to be the most powerful opposition force here, the muslim brotherhood. they have been ambivalent to say the least about whether or not they should back these protests. and i have seen no evidence over the past five days of whether we should see any islamic demands attaching themselves to this crowd. obviously people here paused during the day of rage yesterday to pray in the street. they paused again mid morning to pray in the streets. but these demands are very