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there is no punishment, there is no brexit bill, the financial settlement is only about settling the accounts. i m nicholas owen. the other main stories on bbc news at 5. a 20 year old student is found guilty of planting a home made bomb on a busy london underground tube train. ten years on from the disappearance of madeleine mccann we return to praia da luz as british police say their investigation remains open. a big fall in profits at sainsbury‘s. the supermarket giant blames tough market conditions and a fall in the value of sterling. good afternoon i mjane hill at westminster on the day that the general election campaign officially got underway. theresa may has launched an attack on european officials accusing someone on european officials accusing someone to try to influence the outcome of the british general election by using threats. she said that talks would be tough and the position of the uk had been represented the standards of the european commission ....
promise in their manifesto to cut net migration to the tens of thousands. labour is promising to ban tv ads for unhealthy food before the watershed, to tackle childhood obesity. and facebook places advertisements in british newspapers with tips on how to spot fake news in the run up to the general election. good morning from paris, where emmanuel macron has been attending his first official function as france s president elect. hejoined commemorations here in the capital, marking the end of the second world war in europe, along with the man he ll replace by the end of the week, francois hollande. the two men stood side by side for the annual ceremony at the tomb of the unknown soldier to commemorate victory in europe day and the surrender of nazi forces on may eight, 1916. mr macron who ll be france s youngest leader since napoleon is working on forming a new government. he s admitted he faces daunting challenges and he promised to heal divisions and restore confi ....
this is turning out to be a weird election opinion polls gyrating, reputations fluctuating, the unpredictable quickly becomes conceivable, or not. there s been farce, and sadly, there has been more tragedy in this campaign than we ve experienced before. yet, a week to go to the vote, and it feels as though some of our structural problems have yet to get a mention. so we re going to start with one tonight, even at the risk of looking like we are off the subject of the campaign. the question is how we deal with britain s lopsided, low productivity economy? for all the rhetoric of us being the fifth, or is it now sixth largest economy in the world, it s not firing on all cylinders. do the labour and conservatives parties really have any idea as to how to improve things? we ll ask them that, and some other questions. but first, a quick look at the journey we ve taken, and the problem we ve arrived at. through the monstrous scenery of slag heaps, chimneys, piled scrap ir ....
and that is what we will do. and you can see what the labour leader makes of these results so far. a man whose campaign confounded many expectations. beaming smiles, with labour on course for a far better night than many thought. the prime minister called the election because she wanted a mandate. well, the mandate she s got is lost conservative seats, lost votes, lost support, and lost confidence. i would have thought that is enough to go, actually. in battersea, labour have ousted a government minister on a swing of 10%. there have been labour gains elsewhere. taking peter borough, and at the kent in hastings. the home secretary amber rudd only just scraped home. it s notjust the tories suffering. in sheffield, the lib dem s former leader nick clegg has lost his seat. i, of course, have encountered this evening something that many people have encountered before tonight, and i suspect many people will encounter after tonight, which is in politics you live by the sword ....
coming up: the government heads off the threat of a defeat on the queen s speech, by offering a concession on abortion rights for women in northern ireland. we will be funding her department with additionalfunding so that she can make a grant to the external organisations who will provide these services. the culture secretary says she s minded to refer fox s proposed takeover of sky to the competition watchdog. and is another parliamentary tradition about to disappear, as the speaker hints he s relaxing the dress code? the question of whether that member is wearing a tie is not absolutely front and centre stage. but first, the government has seen off a possible rebellion in the commons by announcing that it will fund abortions for women who travel from northern ireland to england. a cross party group of mps was threatening to back an amendment to the queen s speech put forward by the labour mp stella creasy. with a tiny majority in the commons the government bowed to th ....