the government says no cuts to foreign aid, but stops short of promising to keep pensions rising as they do now. as theresa may campaigned in berkshire, her chancellor suggested a possible softening of the government's promise not to raise taxes. all chancellors would prefer to have more flexibility in how they manage the economy, and how they manage the overall tax burden down, than to have their hands constrained. on day three of campaigning, we'll bring you all the latest. also tonight: the paris gunman — he had beenjailed forfiring at police officers before. how the nhs trust under investigation for the deaths of babies was warned it needed to improve ten years ago. a warning about teenage boys and their computers, as the police reveal the average cyber hacker is just 17. and the day hull turned blue in the buff. a new exhibition for this year's city of culture. it's a big cup weekend in england and scotland. we'll look ahead to

all four semi—finals, starting with chelsea's bid for the double. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. on day three of the campaign trail the prime minister and the chancellor have given theirfirst hints of what will and what won't be in the conservative manifesto. theresa may says she'll keep the current spending on foreign aid, despite pressure from within her own party to cut it. but she would not commit to keep the so—called triple lock on pensions, which guarantees they rise by inflation, average earnings or 2.5% each year, whichever is highest. labour has said it will. and the chancellor, philip hammond, has hinted that he would like to end the party's promise not to increase taxes.

our first report tonight is from our deputy political editor, john pienaar. trust me, i'm a politician. no leader stays popular forever but theresa may clearly feels that she is well liked enough for now to make promises that some might like but others wilmot. she looks confident, and the message is one we have heard before and will again. what drives me, the passion that i have in politics, is to make the united kingdom a country that works for everyone, not just the kingdom a country that works for everyone, notjust the privileged few. that meant sticking to britain's target spending on foreign aid, which some right—wingers want cut. we need to look at how it is spent and make sure we are able to spend the money in the most effective way. what about the other costly pledge, keeping up the value of pensions? today, you are telling the country you are a leader people

can trust. can pensioners trust you to go on raising their state pensions and year by year, just as your party and your government does now? what i would say to pensioners is, look what the conservatives in government have done. pensioners today are £1250 a year better off as a result of action that has been taken. we were clear about the need to make sure we support people in old age and that is what we have done. that was not a yes, but here in berkshire, and a lot of places, plenty of people like the idea of looking after pensioners. they have worked and paid national insurance and taxes, so i think they deserve it as much as anyone else. if you can't look after the elderly, what can't look after the elderly, what can you do. if it can be done, stop it for them, they don't need it. many of them put it straight in the bank. theresa may may be about to upset an awful lot of voters. even

thinking about dropping the tory promise to pensioners takes a leader very confident about this election, especially now she is protecting overseas spending at the same time. a big lead in the polls comes in handy if you are about to annoy pensioners. a big majority in the commons, even more so. pensioners. a big majority in the commons, even more so. that deserves a hug, jeremy corbyn campaigning his way, to small crowds and big ones. no talk of saving on benefits here. the corbyn way sounds like this. theresa may seems incapable of answering any question about the protection of the triple lock on the state pension. well, i give you that commitment now. labour will maintain the triple lock. standing by the triple lock, pensions up every year by inflation or average earnings, or 2.596. sorry, i am not quite sure where i am going. nor does anyone know for sure. the campaign has

barely started. the lib dems look perky, sure that this election will be better than last time. we are the only clear opposition to the conservatives, opposing a hard brexit, exit from the single market, and being an effective opposition on every level. and on they go. pollsters and pundits might think they know how this ends but there are 48 days until polling day. the chancellor, philip hammond, has said he would prefer the government to have more "flexibility" on taxes. speaking to the bbc, he hinted that he would like the conservative's 2015 manifesto promise not to raise income tax, vat or national insurance to be amended. he was talking to our economics editor kamal ahmed in washington. it was the solemn pledge tweeted to the voter by david cameron before the election of 2015 — no increases in tax, vat or national insurance. will it be repeated before this election? today the chancellor, visiting washington for a meeting of leading industrialised nations, hinted maybe not. i came into politics not to see taxes rising but to see

the burden of taxation falling as our economy grows, and that remains my very clear political ambition. but you do not support specific tax pledges not to raise income tax, national insurance and vat, because it would tie your hands? all chancellors would prefer to have more flexibility in how they manage the economy and how they manage the overall tax burden down than to have their hands constrained. the problem with pledges — they tend to come unstuck. here is the chancellor on budget day, announcing an increase to national insurance payments for the self—employed. there then followed a screeching u—turn after critics pointed out mr hammond had broken that 2015 pledge. the chancellor is here in washington to talk about the global economy, but, frankly, his mind is on matters rather more domestic. in his interview with me, i think he went as far

as he feels able to, given that the manifesto is not yet finalised. he is no fan of constraining promises, particularly on tax. he used one word over and over again — "flexibility". mr hammond has opened up a flank, and labour attacked. i think he's recognising that he's got problems with the economy, he's got problems in the budgeting that he's done, and as a result of that there will be tax rises under a conservative government if they get re—elected. this is quite a tax bombshell. as always, the big test in any election — the economy — and today's poor retail sales figures suggested that the increase in inflation is starting to bite and consumers are feeling the strain. some might say you've called this election to get a mandate before the economy truly turns sour. we've called the election because it will strengthen the prime minister's hand in the negotiations to get the right brexit deal for britain.

but in terms of the economic data, it has been remarkably resilient over the last nine months. just this week, the imf revised up its forecast for britain's economy this year to 2%. the cancer will return from his us trip at the weekend, back to an election battle where the promises the parties make two voters will be key. as far as mr hammond is concerned, the fewer, it would seem, the better. kamal ahmed, bbc news, washington. let's speak to our deputy political editor, john pienaar, who's in westminster for us now. commitments in some areas by theresa may and also a lack of them in others. it's very early in the campaign. how risky is this for the prime minister? well, she is certainly risking upsetting a lot of the people who are most likely to turn out and vote

on polling day, british pensioners. you could call it confidence, or economic necessity, if that promise is not in the conservative ma nifesto. is not in the conservative manifesto. the truth is it would probably be quite a lot of both. 0n overseas aid, she is confident enough to take on some in her party and in fleet street who believe that more aid money should be spent closer to home. as forjeremy corbyn, his conviction is about public spending and protecting services and benefits. they are deep and they are sincere and they will be supported by many of his core supporters, loyal supporters. his trouble is that theresa may has a lead on leadership and trust, and this election is so much about that. we have never had an election like this, except maybe for all the others. the french authorities have revealed that the man who shot and killed a police officer in paris last night had attacked the police previously. karim cheurfi, who was 39, had beenjailed in 2001 forfiring at police officers. but tonight the french authorities say he'd shown no sign of islamist extremism. this latest attack comes as france prepares to go to the polls this weekend in the country's

presidential elections, and the issue of security has been seized on by the candidates, as lucy williamson reports from paris. in this election, not everyone fighting for influence is a politician. last night, a lone attacker with an automatic weapon brought chaos to the capital's well—guarded heart. his target — french police, patrolling a country on the cusp of an election after two years on high alert. this mobile phone footage shows the moment he killed a policeman and injured two others, before being shot dead on france's most famous street. the policeman he killed was identified today as xavierjugele, dead for doing his duty, the interior minister said. the group calling itself islamic state has claimed responsibility. the gunman named as 39—year—old frenchman karim cheurfi.

he had already served years in prison for attacking the police. 0fficers today searched his family house east of paris. three of those living there are now being questioned. neighbours told us they didn't see the family very often. one man said he read about the attack in this morning's paper and discovered that karim cheurfi had been living on his street. today, another house, another neighbourhood rebranded as part of the story of france's terrorist attacks. with thousands of people from ordinary areas listed as potential threats, the security services here are stretched to breaking point. this election was always seen as a target for terrorism. 50,000 security forces have been brought in to secure the vote. the leading candidates have promised thousands more police posts if they're elected. and when it comes to being tough on terrorism, it's sometimes hard to tell their policies apart.

translation: we want to take back control of our borders from the eu schengen treaty. translation: i'll raise the level of protection on our borders by re—negotiating the schengen treaty. translation: preachers of hatred must be expelled and islamist mosques closed. translation: no imam in any mosque will be able to preach against the values of the republic. the liberal newcomer, emmanuel macron, said that unity was the key. translation: at heart, it's our democracy that's being targeted, our unity. i say don't give in to fear, division or intimidation. france is locked in a debate over how to stop attacks like this. even harder perhaps to stop them influencing its democratic transition of power. lucy williamson, bbc news, paris. the health trust facing an investigation into the avoidable deaths of babies was told

by regulators a decade ago that its maternity services needed to improve. the health care commission told the shrewsbury and telford trust that its monitoring of babies' heart rates during labour wasn't good enough and that its training of staff was inadequate. our social affairs correspondent michael buchanan reports. she was very dependent on me. my life went round a clock. i had to give her medication at certain times, make sure herfeed was running ok. i was more of a nurse and a carer than a mum. abbey was born in 2004 with brain injuries, including severe epilepsy and cerebral palsy. staff at the royal shrewsbury hospital failed to promptly deliver her, despite foetal heart traces indicating abbey was in distress. the errors led to abbey dying aged just 17 months. her heart rate went down, down and down. they didn't intervene. obviously they tried to move me to see if they could find a trace.

there wasn't anything there. if they would have done theirjob and got me into theatre when she was dropping, as in her heart rate dropping, then i might still have her now. following abbey's death in 2007, the bbc‘s panorama programme learned the nhs regulator wrote to the trust urging them to improve maternity services. the healthcare commission said they should keep a record of foetal heart monitor traces, staff training needed updating and learning from clinical incidents had to improve. two days ago, we asked the trust to lay out the actions they'd taken following the healthcare commission's advice. this afternoon they responded. they failed to provide evidence that any changes had, in fact, been made. instead, they say that every baby's death is investigated to ensure that lessons are learned and again, repeated their unreserved apologies to the families. we were prepared to have a child, to

change our lives completely. and that didn't happen. kai hall should still be alive. staff at the trust failed to properly monitor his heart rate and missed that he was in distress. his heart—broken parents are astonished the trust was told a decade ago to improve its maternity care. it makes me angry, but it makes me sad as well, to think of all the people that have lost their children because theyjust haven't done anything, they haven't acted. it's horrible. you feel robbed. this memory bear is katie and matt's lasting link to kai. years after the trust was told to improve care, their son is one of several babies who need not have died. michael buchanan, bbc news, shropshire. across the for this goal of the

season across the for this goal of the season against celtic. but ugo ehiogu will bruin and theresa may says there'll be no cuts to foreign aid but stops short of promising to keep pensions rising as they do now. and still to come, tributes to the former england and aston villa defender ugo ehiogu, who collapsed and died yesterday at the age of 44. coming up on sportsday in the next 15 minutes on bbc news, we'll have the latest from the crucible, including the battle of two former champions, as ronnie o'sullivan looks to reach the third round at shaun murphy's expense. a court has heard how a teenage computer hacker unleashed nearly two million cyber attacks on websites around the world using a program designed in his bedroom. adam mudd, who is now 20, admitted creating the program and selling it to criminals. the case comes as a new report by the national crime agency reveals that the average hacker is just 17. it's been looking at ways to stop young people being drawn into online crime,

as our correspondent angus crawford reports. simple, effective, illegal. in german: die website, titaniumstresser. net. the titanium stresser, a cyber weapon designed to shut down websites unless their owners paid a ransom. it bombarded targets with data, using ddos, or distributed denial of service, attacks, and it was created by adam mudd when he wasjust 16. internationally, this tool caused a considerable amount of damage... mudd sold it to other criminals, making hundreds of thousands of pounds. but after a massive attack in the us, the software was traced to his home in hertfordshire. 1.7 million ddoss, making nearly $400,000 — that's not innocent, that is like an industrial scale for the purposes of cybercrime. this site is a hack forum... but are there other adam mudds

out there, teenage boys dabbling in hacking? an online investigator shows us forums where they meet. look, here, young people are openly discussing how to use illegal software. so "all—in—one virus toolkit". how young are the youngest people on here? i've seen youngsters from the age of12,13,14. we find a user who says he's 15 and is happy to talk. ijust asked him, by text, what age he started, and he said about 12 or 13. do you make much money? he says, "a lot, actually." spends all night on his computer! the average age of cybercrime suspects is just 17, and police are so concerned they've launched this video. told us he robbed a bank! and they've helped put together this tech competition. here, teenagers learn

how to hack and stay on the right side of the law. if you know what you're doing, you'll probably find the bad side a bit more interesting, more challenging maybe. it does seem quite easy, like hints of what we got to do. you've got in? we've just got in. there can be a fine line between hacker and criminal. after today, they should all know the difference. angus crawford, bbc news. len mccluskey, leader of britain's biggest trade union, unite, has been re—elected as its general secretary following a ballot of members. mr mccluskey fought off a challenge from his more moderate rival, gerard coyne, who was suspended from his post yesterday pending an investigation. but only 12% of unite's million plus members voted. german police have arrested a man suspected of setting off the bombs that hit the borussia dortmund football team's bus last week. there had been initialfears it was a terror attack. but prosecutors now believe the man hoped to send the club's share price

plummeting in the hope of making a profit on investments he'd made before the attack. tributes from players and managers have been paid to the former england and aston villa defender ugo ehiogu, who's died at the age of 44. he collapsed yesterday while coaching at tottenham's training ground and died of cardiac arrest in hospital, as sports correspondent joe wilson reports. the time has just gone quarter past six, our top story this evening. ugo ehiogu was a rock, a central defender as strong and imposing as any in football. now, at the age of 44, he has died. his passing was that most poignantly at aston villa, where he played for nearly a, a central defender as strong and imposing as any in football. now, at the age of 44, he has died. his passing was that most poignantly at aston villa, where he played for nearly a decade. well, all shocked

and we are all shocked and devastated by the news that somebody so young who making his way was making his way as a talented coach he was an he was an football world will be shocked and saddened. ugo ehiogu was making his name as a coach with tottenham. he barely looks like he had aged since his bling days. he suffered cardiac arrest at tottenham's training ground yesterday. one man stood alongside him through his career, gareth southgate, defensive partners at aston villa and then and middlesbrough, southgate is now the england. all of the football world will be shocked and saddened. ugo ehiogu was making his name as a coach with tottenham. he barely looked like he had aged since his bling days. he suffered cardiac arrest at tottenham's training ground yesterday. one man stood alongside him through his career, gareth southgate, defensive partners at aston villa and then and middlesbrough, southgate is now the england manager. southgate paid this tribute to ehiogu : for football, the death of a

dedicated for football, the death of a dedicated professional it was a rather unusual sight on the streets of hull last summer — thousands of naked people painted blue. now they're getting the chance to see the results for the first time in a new art exhibition to mark hull as this year's city of culture. the photographs were taken around the city's landmarks with people posing for the artist spencer tunick. our arts correspondent colin paterson reports from hull. what makes 3,200 people strip off their clothes and paint themselves blue? laura dykes, support worker, hull resident and now hanging in a gallery. i really wanted to be on a piece art work in the art gallery, that's what drew me to it. i have a little boy who's eight. i wanted him to come to the art gallery, and me to say, "that's me."

it was july last year, when people came from as far as japan and australia to take part in artist spencer tunick‘s latest photographic extravaganza, sea of hull, featuring four different shades of blue body paint. i was trying to bring the sea back into hull over paved and concrete landscapes. i think it worked out well. cheek byjowl by buttock, from a distance, it looked like a gigantic smurf nudist colony. just there. with so many people from hull taking part, it led to more than a few awkward moments. i bumped into somebody from work, which was a bit awkward. but no, not really. everyone was there to do the same thing. once everyone was in the same situation and they got their kit off, it was fine. how did the conversation go when you bumped into the neighbour? it was very much eye to eye and everything was kept above the neck line. all the participants have been invited to this evening's launch to find out which parts of them have made the final photos. i was way down there. you would think there

might be some kind of nervousness or awkwardness. you had to ask strangers help you do the bits you couldn't reach. but because everybody was in the same situation, it wasjust — i will always look back on it fondly. the day hull turned blue, now making a lot of people happy. colin paterson, bbc news. and just before we go, the duke and duchess of cambridge as you haven't heard them before. last week, harry styles went straight to number one with his debut single, sign of the times. can he do it again? 0r... or will ed sheeran retain that top spot? he had 13 weeks at number one with shape of you before harry came along and spoiled his easter. sounds familiar! the royal couple helped greg james kick off the official chart on a surprise visit to radio 1 to talk about their mental—health campaign. prince william also revealed that he had previously texted in to radio1 under an assumed name. time for a look at the weather,

here's helen willetts. michael buchanan, bbc news, shropshire. the weather is going to get much colder and will give us a shock to the system. what is the difference today? a cold weather front. we're heading to may and talking about snow already. tonight, just frost we are talking about. low—level frost in the north. in the south, we should keep temperatures a little higher. it is sunshine amounts that is troubling this weekend. sunny in the north, although cold, and we should see more sunshine then we have in the south as well, across the south—west in particular. we have the remnants of a weather giving us a headache, so hopefully it will be dry and bright with

increasing amounts of sunshine. another cloudy day in northern ireland but for scotland more sunshine. just wintry showers over the hills at this stage. but it will get colder. not necessarily too much colder tomorrow night. but again, sunday morning will have a touch of ground frost. it promises well for the marathon. not great for spectators but the runners will appreciate the cooler weather. if the cloud breaks, it will get warm into the afternoon. and there is more sunshine on offer on sunday but again, the north will see the onset of increasing wind and rain later on, with low—pressure approaching. for most of us, high pressure this weekend will give dry weather. here comes the shock. as the low—pressure moves away, we get a blast of arctic air. temperatures significantly lower than average, accentuated by the cold northerly wind. wintry showers will be widespread. hale,

thunderstorms, sleet and snow, even in southern areas, and at lower levels we could see a dusting of snow. just to reiterate, not this weekend, which looks cooler, but there should be dry weather with sunny spells. not bad for running. that's all from the bbc news at six, so it's goodbye from me, and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines at 6:30pm: theresa may's committed to keeping the uk's foreign aid budget — but has refused to say whether the tories would maintain the triple lock on state pensions. officials in paris say the gunman who shot dead a french policeman was known to them as karim cheurfi — a convicted criminal. translation: in january, translation: injanuary, 2017, karim cheurfi was trying to obtain weapons, arms, in orderto

cheurfi was trying to obtain weapons, arms, in order to kill policeman. len mccluskey has been re—elected as the general secretary of the uk's biggest trade union, unite. in a moment it will be time for sportsday but first a look at what else is coming up this evening on bbc news... we will look back on today's general election news and try and discern what the parties are planning for their campaigns... less than 24 hours after last night's attack at the champs elysees, french voters get ready to cast their ballots — we're live in paris. and we'll find out what's on the front pages of tomorrow's newspapers with henry mance, political correspondent and we'll find out what's on the front pages of tomorrow's newspapers with torcuil crichton, political editor of the daily record, and the barrister and broadcaster sophia cannon. now, it's time for sportsday. hello, i'm olly foster, here's what's coming up

on sportsday tonight... double dreamers...the league leaders chelsea face tottenham at wembley in the fa cup semifinal. it's a derby at hampden too...celtic and rangers go head to head this weekend in the scottish cup semi—finals. ...and also on sunday it's the london marathon — and one man is finishing his marathon behind the mike... the olympic city of