of the terror attack. passionate about herjob tributes to the zookeeper killed by a tiger she cared for. it s been a as year wait huddersfield celebrates the team s entry into football s top flight. and coming up in the sport on bbc news. it s wenger in as arsene signs a new two year deal to extend his 21 year stay as arsenal manager. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. jeremy corbyn has apologised for not knowing the cost of one of labour s key campaign pledges. in the last full week of campaigning, this was a chance for him and theresa may to press home their messages. instead labour has found itself having to explain what the conservatives have a called a car crash interview in which he failed, repeatedly, to say how much it would cost to extend free childcare in england. more on the conservatives in a moment but first here s our deputy political editor john pienaar. got to keep up, cannot fall too far behind. more free childcare might play well with vot
i m katty kay in washington. christian fraser is off. it s not entirely clear why relations between germany and america have deteriorated so fast this week, but there s no doubt they have. both angela merkel and donald trump today continued their war of words. for the american president, that meant taking to twitter. we have a massive trade deficit with germany, plus they pay far less than they should on nato & military very bad for us this will change. the german foreign minister wistfully suggested it isn t helpful for the two countries to be communicating with tweets but his chancellor restated her view that europe now has to look out for itself. translation: transatlantic ties are of paramount importance to us. the only thing i did was to say that the current situation gives more reasons for us in europe to take our destiny in ourown for us in europe to take our destiny in our own hands. so what is germany and the rest of europe making of the apparent us german row. j
promotion to the premier league with an open top bus parade. and coming up in half an hour, huw edwards chairs a debate in cardiff about what the election means for wales, and the rest of the united kingdom. good evening and welcome to bbc news. it s been announced the american singer ariana grande will return to manchester this weekend for a benefit concert. the event on sunday evening will take place nearly two weeks after her gig was attacked in the city, killing 22 people. she ll bejoined for the ‘0ne love manchester‘ gig byjustin bieber, coldplay, katy perry, miley cyrus and take that. it ll take place at old trafford cricket ground on sunday and raise money for the families of those who died and were injured at manchester arena just over a week ago. well meanwhile the chief constable of greater manchester police, ian hopkins, has said that salman abedi, the man who carried out the suicide attack, had not been known to police for his extremist views. mr hopkins revea
i personally don t think it s showing a great deal of respect. it is not giving them a chance to show respect to their loved ones. the former military leader of panama, general manuel noriega has died, at the age of eighty three. and coming up in sportsday on bbc news: it s wenger in as arsene signs a new two year contract to extend his 21 year stay as arsenal manager. good evening. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, has apologised for not knowing the cost of one of labour s 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. here s our deputy political editorjohn pienaar. i d better get a car, hadn t i? got to keep up, can t fall too far behind. more free childcare might play well with voters. some say don t work with children. jeremy corbyn knows w
is coming over as warm and friendly and it s looking like avon killer figure and is likeable to people watching him where theresa may who is in trouble for the figures is coming through as cold and lacking any warmth. which leads to the times, we ve learnt not to believe the opinion polls that anyway let s talk about them. shock poll predicts tory losses as the times. a controversial yugo polkas mike shock isa controversial yugo polkas mike shock is a massive understatement, if we got a result like this it would be needing new superlatives to describe it. the idea the conservatives called the selection expecting a landslide victory really, to then lose seats and lose control of commons, these numbers suggest that labour would be just about in a position to form a coalition with the liberal democrats and the snp s whose coalition of chaos theresa may told us about would be a reality of these numbers were borne out. i think it s interesting reading the waiters written, the stor