join a very special visitor for a preview of the chelsea flower show. royal guests have been touring the gardens today, before thousands of members of the public arrive tomorrow. good evening and welcome to bbc news. theresa may has refused to put a figure on the upper limit people will have to pay towards the cost of social care, saying it will be subject to consultation. the prime minister has denied going back on her manifesto plan to make people in england pay for their care, up to the last £100,000 of their assets. after mounting criticism, she said today she would consider a cap. questioned by the bbc‘s andrew neil this evening, mrs may declined to say what the cap might be. 0ur political correspondent, alex forsyth, is in westminster. what more did the prime minister have to say about this to andrew neil? theresa may has been saying, when she was asked byjournalists this morning and then to andrew neil, that there was no change in policy but she has moved from what
this is a government in chaos and confusion. we ll be looking in more detail at the conservative approach to social care in england, and what it could mean for the election campaign. also tonight. president trump starts his official trip to israel and expresses confidence about a peace deal with the palestinians. i ve heard it s one of the toughest deals of all, but i have a feeling we re going to get there, eventually. facebook insists that it is serious about monitoring offensive material posted on its pages. and two centuries of tradition injapanese art stealing the show at the british museum. and coming up in sportsday on bbc news: david moyes resigns as sunderland manager afterjust one year in charge. the club ended the season bottom of the premier league. good evening. the prime minister stands accused of performing a hasty u turn on her plans to reform social care in england. just four days after publishing the conservative manifesto and following widespread controve
it is like a soldier on a battlefield, you don t know what you will be faced with. on top of that, you have got the fear, am i going to make it home tonight? the brexit bill is published, causing tension within labour, which tells its mps you must vote for it. and one of the leading contemporary art prizes in the world won tonight by a british artist and film maker. and coming up in sportsday on bbc news: manchester united went behind in their efl cup semifinal second leg at hull. find out if they could hold onto their aggregate lead to reach the final at wembley. good evening. theresa may has arrived in america at the start of a trip which she hopes will pave the way for a post brexit trade deal with the united states. she ll be the first foreign leader to hold talks with donald trump, when she meets the new president at the white house tomorrow. this evening, she addressed a republican conference in philadelphia, in a speech where she sought to find common ground with m
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued an Advisory to the Centre, States, and UT Administrations to mitigate deliberate self-harm and suicide attempts by prisoners in judicial custody..