30/05/2017 BBC News at One

Jeremy Corbyn launches Labour's childcare policy -

and is unable under repeated questioning to say

Speaking to Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Mr Corbyn struggled to remember

the ?4.7 billion figure the party puts on its plans.

I'll give you the figure in a moment.

You're logging into your iPad here, you've announced a

major policy and you don't know the cost?

Can I give you the exact figure in a moment?

Meanwhile Theresa May said with Brexit negotiations due

to start days after the election, only she was prepared.

I'm ready to go. Jeremy Corbyn is not.

The SNP launch their manifesto, calling for a second

Scottish Independence referendum "at the end of the Brexit process".

Scotland must have a choice about our future. A choice between

following the UK go in the Brexit path or becoming an independent

country. We'll bring all the latest

on the campaign trail Killed doing the job she loved -

Rosa King, the zoo keeper who died Tributes continue to the victims

of the Manchester bombing, as the city's Victoria train station

reopens a week after the attack. And a top time for the Terriers

as Huddersfield Town get promoted to the Premier League for the first

time in their history. And coming up in the

sport on BBC News: Andy Murray starts his

French Open campaign shortly. He's due on court in Paris

where he'll be hoping Good afternoon, and welcome

to the BBC News at One. With just over a week to go

to the general election, campaigning is resuming in earnest,

after a pause because of The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn,

campaigning today on the issue of childcare, found himself in a BBC

interview unable to provide the cost of a key pledge -

extending free childcare Meanwhile Theresa May, campaigning

in the West Midlands on Brexit, Attacked Jeremy Corbyn on nuclear

weapons, the police and dealing with terror.

She said she is ready and prepared for Brexit negotiations.

Our political correspondent Eleanor Garnier reports.

It's the home stretch, the last nine days, the final push so the parties

are back to the game plans, there are core messages and four Jeremy

Corbyn that means public services and pointing out how Labour would

aim to help families who are in work but are struggling. Ours is a

universal provision so that every child gets a place in the Surrey, 30

hours a week, from 2-4. More than a million children will benefit. And

later on Radio 4's Woman's Hour Jeremy Corbyn was asked for a bit of

detail on this key policy. How much will it cost? I will give you a

figure in the moment. You don't know it? You are logging into your iPad,

you have announced a major policy and don't know how much it will

cost? I will give you the exact figure in a moment. It was the night

after they have been put through their paces. He was challenged on

foreign policy and faced accusations of supporting IRA sympathisers.

Theresa May was taken to task over cuts to policing, NHS funding and

claims of a U-turn over a cap on costs for social care. But the core

message she and the Conservative want to get back to is Brexit. The

European Union is already adopting an aggressive negotiating position.

That's why now more than ever Britain needs a strong government

and a strong panellist are capable of standing up to Brussels. The Lib

Dem leader has admitted he is not aiming for a government but is

instead focused on holding others to account. Theresa May called this

election taking people for granted assuming she would win. The Liberal

Democrats are determined to challenge because Britain needs a

strong opposition and the national health service which is properly

funded, education that is protected and a future with Europe where the

British people have the final say. It is you the voters who will end up

with the final say on who ends up here after June the gate. And in the

last effort to win you over in these final few days the parties will

stick to the core messages, they are safe zones, in the hope he will hand

them the keys to number ten. Our political correspondent,

Vicki Young, is in Wolverhampton The Prime Minister lodged quite a

personal attack on Mr Corbyn at the beginning of her speech and will

have been helped by her loss of memory this morning? Yes, it was

striking, the direct nature of the attack Theresa May just launched on

the Labour leader. I think with nine days to go the clear plan from the

Conservatives is to make sure people's minds are focused on this

being a choice of the person you want to be the next Prime Minister.

Theresa May not holding back, saying Jeremy Corbyn was not ready to

govern or delete. She raised the issue of his reluctance to use

nuclear weapons for example, that he associated and supported people who

wanted to attack our country. Not holding back wanting to make this

all about leadership but also Brexit. She is in Wolverhampton

where many people including former Labour voters of course voted for

Brexit, she is appealing directly for them, saying she is the only

person who can deliver on all of that and that their views in the

past have been very much ignored. For Labour they want to get back on

the issue of public services and funding, they think the Tories are

shaky on all of this so an eye-catching policy today talking

about more free childcare for two -year-olds, but Jeremy Corbyn unable

to remember how much it would cost. These elections are not a memory

test in any way but confidence is important and Labour are now in the

past people maybe have not trusted them with the country's finances and

this will not have helped. The Scottish National Party has

launched its manifesto for the general election,

promising to reverse cuts in welfare Speaking in Perth, the party leader

Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland should have a say in its own future -

and called for a second Independence referendum "at the end

of the Brexit process". If you hate a Tory traitor clap your

hands. Manifesto launch in a city where the SNP face one of their

toughest challenges, political rivals outside the venue, inside

Nicola Sturgeon set out her party 's alternative on Brexit, independence

and austerity. The fact is we cannot afford a Tory government with a free

hand to do whatever it likes. We must have strong voice says,

standing up for our interests and defending the values we hold dear.

In policy terms that includes freeing up an extra ?118 billion to

invest in public services, support for a UK wide 50p tax rate,

something the SNP chose not to pursue in government that Hollywood.

A living wage climbing behind -- about ?10 an hour and action on

welfare. SNP MPs will stand against all of the further planned cuts to

social security. And we will do so because they punish the disabled and

those who work hard to make ends meet. The manifesto also pledges to

protect the pensions triple lock, calls for all immigration powers to

be devolved and seeks a cross-party coalition to scrap Trident. On

Brexit SNP success would, says Nicola Sturgeon, demand a seat at

the negotiating table and reinforce a mandate for a second independence

referendum. That is why I believe so strongly that at the end of the

Brexit process, not now, but when the terms of the deal are known,

Scotland must have a choice about our future. A choice between

following the UK down the Brexit path or becoming an independent

country. With Nicola Sturgeon predicting a Conservative victory

this is not a manifesto to govern but to secure the votes which would

maintain SNP's dominance in Scotland, an argument they say

should bring influence on key areas of policy. The voters have nine days

to consider its contents before going to the polls.

Our Assistant political editor Norman Smith is in Perth.

Norman, one would imagine Scottish independence would be central to

this manifesto but that's not the case. It was not quite a case of

don't mention the independence referendum but it was striking,

independence is the lifeblood of the SNP yet in the manifesto it was

almost relegated to the margins, point number ten on their ten point

list of pledges. Nicola Sturgeon almost seemed to leave open the

option in her speech of maybe a second referendum being pushed back

beyond her proposed timetable by the spring of 2019 depending now on when

the Brexit process was complete. SNP people say it's nonsense, they are

not getting cold feet about an independence referendum, but simply

it's the fact they already have a mandate from the previous election

and the Scottish Parliament has already voted for a second

independence referendum. But you sense they are wary of frightening

off voters who are apprehensive about the possible break-up of the

UK. Similarly I think they have maybe been bruised by some of the

accusations they have been too focused on independence and not paid

enough attention to core domestic issues like schools and the health

service so this document at its heart is all about reversing Tory

austerity, ending the freeze on benefits, ending the public sector

pay cap, raising the living wage. When Nicola Sturgeon was asked how

she would do that she suggested Theresa May could backtrack because

she has become the queen of U-turns. Norman, many thanks. Norman Smith

there. And we'll be taking a closer look

at the policies and costings in the SNP Manifesto

with our Reality Check team Tributes have been paid

to a zoo-keeper who was attacked Rosa King - who was 33 -

has been described as the "shining light" of Hamerton Zoo Park in

Cambridgeshire. She died yesterday after a tiger

entered the enclosure she was in. An investigation is underway here

but at its heart is a relatively simple question, how did an

experienced zookeeper at a well-regarded wildlife Park come to

be in an enclosed space with a deadly predator? Meanwhile tributes

have been paid to Rosa King by her family and friends, one of whom said

she was someone around him things revolved here at Hamilton Park zoo.

We do a lot of work... Rosa King had always loved animals. And according

to those who knew her was passionate about their welfare and protection.

But yesterday while she was doing the job she lodged at Hamerton Zoo

Park one of the Tigers in her care attacked and killed her. Today

friends and family paid tribute to the 33-year-old keeper who had an

affinity for cheaters but loved all the big cats. In a statement her

mother Andrea said... Now an investigation is underway,

the police have said there are no suspicious circumstances but zoo

managers will want to know how Tiger got into the enclosure where she was

working and in just a few seconds turned off on bank holiday into a

tragedy. Experts warn that whether in captivity are not Tigers are wild

and potentially dangerous animals. Under normal circumstances there

should be no reason for a keeper and a predator such as a tiger to be in

the same enclosure at the same time. The only exception to that would be

if the animal has been sedated so it can undergo a veteran of a procedure

or similar. But there should be no reason for a conscious predator to

be in the same space as a keeper. But some animal welfare campaigners

say keeping wild animals in captivity is just wrong. Taking a

child to a zoo for the first time of course there will be the wind

factor, why wouldn't there be when they see a tiger for the first time

or an elephant for the first time? But after that you have to ask what

is the educational benefit of seeing that same animal in that same space

doing the same thing day in and day out? Four years ago another keeper

was killed by Acer match and tiger at this zoo in Cumbria. The park was

later fined ?250,000 health and safety breaches. Zoo managers have

described the death of Rosa King as a freak accident but alongside the

shock and grief there is a need to find out what went wrong and why.

The zoo has not identified which particular tiger was involved in

this but says the animal is unharmed and says it will update everyone on

its investigation as soon as it possibly can. Meanwhile, the police

say they have closed their enquiry because they have determined there

were no suspicious circumstances, they will pass on their findings to

the local authority responsible for licensing the zoo and they may then

determine whether there should be any issues or prosecution around

health and safety matters. Manchester Victoria Station has

reopened, a week after the suicide The station, which is attached

to Manchester Arena, had been closed for repairs,

and to allow police to search it. Last night, people held a vigil

in St Ann's Square, to mark A week ago at this time, people were

just dealing with the trauma of the awful events of the night before.

For many, they have not moved on far from that point. 17 people are being

treated for more serious injuries. Although places like this have

reopened today, it is a scratch below the surface for so many

people. The bombing attack is still at the forefront of their mind.

At 5am this morning, Victoria station in Manchester was quietly

The station adjoins the Manchester Arena, which had been

sealed off as a crime scene for days after the staff here were some

My staff ran to site, provided first aid and comfort

to those in need and they stayed there against the instructions

of the police, for several hours, providing that first care

and attention that people really needed, so I'm

Up there is where the blast happened, so although

the concourse to the platforms are open again, there are still

With large metal screens across the access points to the arena.

Some people paused to look at the messages.

It's just so nice that people care, really, about us.

It's sad and I think it will take the city along time to get over it.

Very weird, very surreal, still upsetting.

It's also quite eerie to think so many people

Last night, thousands of people gathered in the city centre

at the exact time the bomb went off a week earlier.

Behind-the-scenes, the huge investigation continues.

Police are asking two key questions to the public at the moment.

Did anyone see Salman Abedi with a blue suitcase in the city

They also want to know where he was in the five days

This is believed to be him in a city centre convenience store

On the right is an image of him released by police.

Life is going on around the Manchester Arena,

but what happened here is still preoccupying people.

There are fewer officers on the streets now but this

is a city that is a long way from returning to normal.

And this morning, Ian Hopkins, the Chief Constable of Greater

Manchester please did an interview with BBC Radio Manchester answering

listener's on. One was, why do they know more about the man who carried

out the attack? The chief replied what we do know about Salman Abedi

the terrorist, he was known to police for relatively matters like

best and minor assault in 2012. He was not party to what the security

services no foot he said many of his staff had to deal with some awful

things on the night and were left traumatised by what they saw and had

to deal with. It will take a very long time for this city to heal.

Jeremy Corbyn launches Labour's childcare policy,

and is unable under repeated questioning to say how

Theresa May says, with Brexit negotiations due to start,

days after the election, only she is prepared.

And still to come: Tiger Woods is caught driving under the influence -

he says it's all due to prescription drugs.

Coming up in sport at half-past: Gareth Southgate says there was no

need to speak to captain Wayne Rooney before leaving him out

of the England squad to face Scotland and France next month.

Shares in the owner of British Airways fell by almost 3% this

morning after the computer failure on Saturday which disrupted flights

of tens of thousands of passengers around the world. It worked about

?400 million of the company's value. British Airways said it is a pretty

full schedule today but it'll take some time before reuniting

passengers with bags. This was Heathrow Terminal

5 this morning. A far cry from the weekend

when a power surge wreaked havoc, leaving 75,000 passengers

here and abroad stranded. He told me he'd arranged

a surprise 80th birthday party for her but her BA flight

from Rome was cancelled. She was abandoned

by British Airways - They were abandoned

by British Airways and told to get on with it themselves,

which is just not good enough. Did your mum make it back on time

for her birthday celebration? Fortunately, it was a bank

holiday weekend, so we were It was a good end to

a slightly traumatic weekend. If your flight's been cancelled,

you must be offered an alternative Under EU guidelines,

you're also entitled to compensation if your flight's been delayed

by more than three hours. It could be more than ?500

if it's a long haul flight. Airlines must also provide hotels,

transport costs, meals The financial markets

will be watching closely what British Airways does

in the coming weeks and months in terms of evaluating

the cause of a problem, how much they were able to rebuild

customer confidence, and the impact it may have

on long-term business because it's an airline that's been very

successful at cutting costs. Up until now it has been able

to maintain a very good reputation The two have to be

able to work together. According to one brand expert,

BA has now got its work cut out The impact on reputation in terms

of the short and mid-term People are booking, or thinking

about booking, holidays. They're going to think twice now

when it comes to BA. BA apologised again today

for all the inconvenience caused. It says it's trying to get delayed

luggage to customers as quickly as possible - getting to the bottom

of what caused such a widespread meltdown across its computers and IT

systems may take a good deal longer. The golfer, Tiger Woods,

says alcohol was "not involved" in his arrest while driving

in Florida in the early hours The player, who was charged

with Driving Under the Influence, blamed "an unexpected reaction

to prescribed medication". He's had four operations

on his back since 2014. In the early hours of morning, a

mugshot taken of one of the world's to golfers. He's just been arrested

and charged with driving under the influence of either alcohol or

drugs. He had been stopped by police here, near his home in Florida, and

was held for several hours before being released. He soon put out a

statement saying, I want the public to know alcohol was not involved.

What happened was an unexpected reaction to prescribed medications.

I'd like to apologise with all my heart to my family, friends and the

fans. I will do everything in my power to ensure this never happens

again. But this sports publicist believes the arrest and Tiger Woods

recurrent injuries could now spell the end to his career. I think there

are a lot of reasons why Tiger Woods should have retired sometime ago,

given his back injuries and he has carried on, thinking he can

transform his career and get back to the level at which he is at. Perhaps

that obstinacy is why he was so successful in the first place. He's

not getting any younger. He is over 40. You have to wonder if this will

be the end. At the peak of his career, Tiger Woods was the world

number one. Winning 14 major championships. Recently he has had

four operations on his back. And yet, for the billion-dollar golfer,

scandal is that the root of his demise. The first back in 2009 when

he had a bizarre, early-morning car crash near his home, which led to

allegations he had had extramarital affairs. His marriage collapsed.

With another incident in his car, his future is very much in question,

although something he may still try to play on. -- some think.

The former military leader of Panama, General Manuel Noriega,

A former key US ally in Latin America, he was forcibly

removed from power by American troops in 1989.

He was later jailed in the US on drugs charges, and spent the rest

Manuel Noriega was almost a caricature of a Latin American

strongman. A corrupt, brutal populist, favoured and then dumped

by the United States. For a while, Washington found him useful. He was

staunchly anti-Communist, happy to support pro-American forces in El

Salvador and Nicaragua. By the time he seized power, US officials knew

all about his criminal activities. Despite his CIA connections, Manuel

Noriega was helping to smuggle Colombian cocaine into the United

States. In 1989, Noriega attempted to steal an election. His thugs beat

up opponents, including the victorious vice presidential

candidate. Washington lost patience, launching an invasion just before

Christmas. It was a one-sided affair and didn't last long. The UN

condemned it. The US president said he had no choice. General Noriega's

reckless threats and attacks in Panama created an imminent danger to

the 35,000 American citizens in Panama. Manuel Noriega eventually

gave himself up, flown out of the city on an American helicopter. The

people Panama seemed only too happy to see him go. In Florida, the

former dictator was jailed for 40 years. Six years ago, his health is

failing, he finally went back to Panama, a country that has prospered

without the man who once called himself maximum leader.

Back to the election now and the SDLP leader, Colum Eastwood,

has launched his party's manifesto with a strong focus on Brexit.

He said the nationalist party would stand up "against borders,

We need strong voices, taking a stand against the Tories at heart of

the action. Our pledge is that the SDLP will always stand up for your

interests, will always be in your corner.

Let's take a more detailed look at the SNP manifesto now.

Reality Check's Chris Morris has been looking at the figures.

In most parts of the UK - anywhere but Scotland -

you can't actually vote for the SNP.

But in Scotland at the 2015 election, don't forget they won

an unprecedented 56 out of 59 seats, which made them, by some distance,

the third largest party in the UK parliament in Westminster.

And the SNP does have plenty to say about UK politics as a whole.

The manifesto includes plans to invest an extra ?118 billion

With the Tories in their sights, this would include keeping

the triple lock on pensions and universal winter fuel

payments for pensioners, as well as increasing

Like all the other parties, they are also promising an increase

The manifesto says overall health spending in Scotland is already

around 7% higher per head than in England - and that it

would cost more than ?11 billion over the next five years for England

How would the SNP pay for its manifesto proposals?

By delaying plans to reduce the deficit, and by introducing

a new top income tax rate of 50p across the UK.

Because they run the Scottish government,

in Scotland alone if they chose to do so.

So far though Nicola Sturgeon has refused to do

that for fear of driving high wage-earners south of the border.

But the SNP makes clear that it believes the biggest danger

to the health of the Scottish economy is the threat

It says, quoting research from the University of Strathclyde,

that leaving the EU single market could cost 80,000 jobs

Now in last year's referendum Scotland voted to stay in the EU,

bucking the UK trend, and this manifesto calls

for Scotland to be given a place at the Brexit negotiating table,

so the party can work to try to keep it in the single market.

If the Conservatives are returned to power in Westminster,

there's absolutely no sign that that would happen.

But a Brexit that is unpopular in Scotland?

Well, the SNP believes that would give fresh fuel

to its campaign for the other referendum it cares about.

It wants a second referendum on Scottish independence once

the terms of the Brexit deal are known.

Huddersfield Town will celebrate their promotion to the richest

league in the world - the Premier League - this evening,

Christopher Schindler had sent Huddersfield Town into the elite,

boldly going where they had never been before, the Premier League.

Huddersfield were led there by a young German manager,

David Wagner, who had been relatively unknown here.

This is the fairy tale which usually is not possible but they've done it.

I am one of the happiest men on this planet at the minute, I think.

So proud for what the players have done.

I'm happy for everybody who is connected and supports

Back in 1921, Huddersfield hired a manager a few years younger

Herbert Chapman said them to the FA Cup, then three

something that had never been done before.

As power in English football moved from towns to cities,

They fell out of the top tier for the last time in 1972.

By 2003, they were in the league's bottom division,

Five years later, Dean Hoyle joined the board.

The lifelong fan became chairman and then,

through yesterday's penalty shoot out, uncomfortable spectator.

A man he brought in on loan from Liverpool, goalkeeper

Our wage bill is small but the heart and desire

and will to win is outstanding, so, we've done it.

Huddersfield will start next season as they did last,

Now for the weather. We had the storms. This is a nice picture from

our weather watcher. Mostly dry across the UK now. Let's move on.

There is some good weather around in a number of areas as well. That is

how it will stage in the course of the afternoon. Lots of bright

weather and a few showers. Lots of us are having to use the umbrellas

today but most of us are not. The clouds are broken up across the UK.

This weather front is pushing away into northern Scotland. To the south

of that partly cloudy skies and a decent afternoon. Temperatures

getting up to 20, 21 in London. A few showers across parts of northern

England. A nice afternoon, really present, across Northern Ireland

after the rain we had. In the second half of the day the rain has moved

into northern Scotland and the Northern Isles. For most of us, a

decent second half to the day. By night the skies were clear. A

beautiful sunset. In the South more clarity and there might be some mist

around the coast. The clouds will keep the temperatures from dipping

too low down south. 13 or 14 degrees. Under the starry skies in

the North it will be fresher. Tomorrow we'll start off cloudy

early in the day. Then the sun should be out. For most of us,

tomorrow promises to be a lovely day. Temperatures up to 23 in London

and 24 the North. No change if you have any plans tomorrow. Late

afternoon and evening should be fine, right until sunset. The second

half of the week the weather does tend to change. This weather front

is being pushed in our direction. It will help to waft in some warm air,

at least temporarily, into southern and South East areas. Rain in the

north-west, this is the fresher air coming in. If anything, it could be

even warmer by the time you get to Friday. We will keep the fresher

weather in the north-west. Back to you.