power if necessary. britain s economic growth slowed sharply at the start of the year. official figures show gdp grew byjust 0.3%. in the next hour: the cancer drugs fund condemned as a huge waste of money. a study finds that it wasted more than a billion pounds of public money. less than a fifth of its drugs helped patients. cycling s three day tour de yorkshire is underway, the peloton heading from bridlington to scarborough. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. a breast surgeon has been convicted of intentionally wounding patients by performing completely unnecessary operations. he has been released on conditional bail. ian paterson, who s 59, was found guilty of 20 charges in total, relating to nine women and one man. police say his victims felt that the surgeon enjoyed playing god. and one former patient outside court said she felt mutilated by the doctor. dominic hughes reports. surgeon ian paterson. well liked and trusted by patients facing the frightening prospect
well, you can argue about who started it, but there has been a decided deterioration in the government s relationship with the eu in the last few days. the prime minister thinks there are people in brussels not from all the other member states but brussels itself who ve been stirring things up, and in the process, interfering in our election. if that was the case, the effect has probably been to help her. but for the europeans, the point is simply that they have now agreed their shared negotiating position that was over the weekend and if it appears tough well, that s not their doing, that s brexit. you might say this is alljust the dynamics of nationalism one side asserts itself, then so does the other. but has it poisoned the atmosphere for the real negotiation about to hit us? we ll hear eu and uk perspectives, but first here s nick watt. # don t know why there s no sun up in the sky, stormy weather. ..# the outlook for theresa may in this election has so far bee
our audience was selected by a leading opinion polling company to ensure they are representative of the country as whole. they support different parties, some are undecided voters, and they are also equally split along the lines of last year s eu referendum half voted to leave the eu and half to remain. and if you d like to join in the debate at home, you can do so on twitter using the hashtag #bbcdebate. we start with opening statements from all seven politicians, the order of which was decided by the drawing of lots. first, the leader of plaid cymru, leanne wood. theresa may called this election because she s taking you for granted. she won t turn up to these debates, because her campaign of soundbites is falling apart. unlike theresa may, i am not afraid to defend my policies, my principles, my values. plaid cymru exists to defend and build up our country. in wales, it is plaid cymru that stands for fairness and equality for everyone who chooses to call wales home. for a
treated many of the young victims. what we saw was essentially war wounds. war wounds? yes, so the kind of wounds you would see on a battlefield. and we look at the politics of zero hours contracts and the debate over workers‘ rights. and coming up in sportsday on bbc news, england s champions trophy ambitions take root, as they win their opening match against bangladesh by eight wickets with joe root scoring an unbeaten century. good evening. president trump has announced that america is to withdraw from the paris climate agreement, the treaty signed by 200 countries just two years ago to reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. he said he d taken the decision because of the the economic burdens imposed by the treaty. his predecessor, barack obama, whose administration signed the accord, said it was a decision to reject the future. mr trump made the announcement despite several appeals from the united nations to respect the future of the planet. our correspondent nick br
or something in between? we ll hear from a prominent brexiteer and remainer. and eat your heart out, theresa may. france s president macron has a new party, and it seems to be dominating french politics at the expense of the socialists. what are the lessons for us, and the implications for europe? and katie razzall has gone back to the very start of theresa may s campaign, to find out just what went wrong for the pm there. do you feel that you were very instrumental in what s happened in this election? definitely. i feel like we ve caused it, because we ve gone from having such a small turnout amongst 18 24 year olds to having a massive one. hello. for better or worse, hung parliaments offer an excuse to parties to jettison the difficult promises made in their manifesto. we saw that in the tory lib dem coalition of 2010. we re seeing the tories prune away bits of their manifesto now, as they negotiate with the dup. but the really big question hanging over westminster is whe