tonight at six — labour's key manifesto pledge on childcare but jeremy corbyn stumbles over its cost. he's now apologised for not knowing the bill for extending free care for all two to four year olds. how much will it cost? i will give you the figure in a moment. you don't know it? erm... you are logging into your ipad here, you've announced a major policy and you don't know how much it costs? theresa may concentrates on brexit and says she'll be ready on day one to negotiate for britain. the snp launches its manifesto — nicola sturgeon calls for scotland to have a greater say in brexit negotiations. scotland must have a choice about our future. the choice between following the uk down the brexit path or becoming an independent country. we'll bring you the latest in this, the last full week of campaigning. also tonight: returning to manchester — ariana grande announces a benefit concert to remember the victims

of the terror attack. passionate about herjob — tributes to the zookeeper killed by a tiger she cared for. it's been a as—year wait — huddersfield celebrates the team's entry into football's top flight. and coming up in the sport on bbc news... it's "wenger in" as arsene signs a new two—year deal to extend his 21—year stay as arsenal manager. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. jeremy corbyn has apologised for not knowing the cost of one of labour's key campaign pledges. in the last full week

of campaigning, this was a chance for him and theresa may to press home their messages. instead labour has found itself having to explain what the conservatives have a called a car—crash interview in which he failed, repeatedly, to say how much it would cost to extend free childcare in england. more on the conservatives in a moment but first here's our deputy political editor john pienaar. got to keep up, cannot fall too far behind. more free childcare might play well with voters. some say don't play with children. itjeremy corbyn knows what looks and sounds good. ought to know. look at these wonderful children here, they all need a childcare place, so ours is a universal provision so every child gets a place of at least 30 hours a week from 22 aged four. playtime

over, onto women's hour, what could go wrong. how much will it will it be to provide childcare for 1.3 million children. it will cost a lot to do so. i presume you have the figures? yes i do. so how much will it cost? i will give you the figures ina minute. it cost? i will give you the figures in a minute. you are logging into youripad in a minute. you are logging into your ipad in a minute. can i give your ipad in a minute. can i give you the exact figure in a minute. your ipad in a minute. can i give you the exact figure in a minutem this an issue with people in the labour party which came up under gordon brown, we cannot trust you with our money. not at all, our ma nifesto with our money. not at all, our manifesto is fully costed and examined. you have been looking at youripad, examined. you have been looking at your ipad, you have had a phone call and you don't know how much it is going to cost. can we come back to that in a moment? if we don't invest

in our children and invest in them for the future they do less well in primary school, less well in secondary school and less well in the future. at a rally in watford, he was amongst friends. a much better tomorrow for everybody in this country. thank you very much. mr corbyn, you labour's choice for the next prime minister, but you couldn't put a cost on the key childcare policy he went out to promote. how do you answer the suggestion this showed a lack of basic confidence? i didn't have the exact figure in front to me so i was unable to answer that question. for which, i apologise. unable to answer that question. for which, iapologise. but unable to answer that question. for which, i apologise. but i don't apologise for what is in the ma nifesto. apologise for what is in the manifesto. there is always a queue to seejeremy corbyn. but whether you are a convert to the cause or not, who doesn't want more for childcare, hospitals and schools and tax those who can afford it. leaving

labour can deliver without borrowing and taxing more than the party is admitting, is another question. and seeing jeremy corbyn is notjust well—meaning but prime ministerial, people will remain to be convinced. i want to know how he can pay for it all. he comes across very well with the youngsters, but he hasn't got all his facts and figures correct. the youngsters, but he hasn't got all his facts and figures correcti think he is one of the most honest politicians we have seen in the last 15 years, to be honest. i have seen him ona 15 years, to be honest. i have seen him on a couple of things recently and he gives honest answers, which is more than i can say for their members of the other parties. people need to give him a chance. if you don't try something, you don't know how good it can be. some love him, butjeremy corbyn needs more believers, and not just butjeremy corbyn needs more believers, and notjust in his sums. the square root of nine is three. the square root of nine is three. the square root of nine is three. the square root of 16 is for. will that do you. he needs more trust, he

has got ten days to earn it. for the conservatives it was not labour's policies but the competence of its leader that was the focus of their fire today. in a speech about brexit the prime minister questioned jeremy corbyn‘s fitness to conduct talks with the eu. but labour says mrs may's negotiating position so far had made britain a laughing stock in europe. here's our political editor laura kuenssberg. your road, everyone's avenue. it is on all our streets and that the doors where elections are decided. has a shaky few days for theresa may made much difference? has a shaky few days for theresa may made much difference ?|i has a shaky few days for theresa may made much difference? i wish she would make her mind up. i know it is a woman's privilege... but not in politics. on plenty of doorsteps, the perceptions of the two leaders

could hardly be more far apart. everything she does is so proficient. i don't like that mr corbyn to be the head of the labour party, if they get in. i cannot see them getting in, can you?” party, if they get in. i cannot see them getting in, can you? i like theresa may, i think she is good. i don't like jeremy corbyn. theresa may wants to drive her hoped—for contrast home so after a tricky few days, our top contrast home so after a tricky few days, ourtop up contrast home so after a tricky few days, our top up of her main message, back onto brexit. to try to get away from accusations of indecision. her number one target, the labour leader. with his position on brexit, he will find himself alone and naked in the negotiating chamber of the european union. with the brexit negotiationsjune to begin only 11 days after polling day, he is not prepared for those

negotiations. but i am prepared. prepared to take the difficult decisions that leadership the man's. iam decisions that leadership the man's. i am ready to go. jeremy corbyn, is not. election campaigns test leaders, don't they? isn't the emerging truth of this campaign is it is showing you a leader to be wea ker it is showing you a leader to be weaker rather than stronger? let me tell you what strong and stable leadership is about. it is about being open with the challenges we face and that is what we have done in the manifesto we have set out. strong and stable leadership is about being open and the hard choices that lay ahead in order to build the stronger britain. but despite the tories' recent troubles, any scepticism towards them perhaps? it isa any scepticism towards them perhaps? it is a case of labour trying to cling on in areas like this, the midlands margins. 0ne cling on in areas like this, the midlands margins. one source told me the fundamentals of the campaign hasn't changed. questions in voters'

minds aboutjeremy corbyn, the tories tried to focus on brexit. negotiations in brussels seem remote from the hard graft of this campaign. but theresa may wants to make this about her authority to carry them out. but the tory wobble has been noticed on the doorsteps and it is here her party has to make their case. and house by house, street by street, for both sides, time is running out. and live now to our political editor laura kuenssberg who's in wolverhampton. watching your report, it was quite a personal attack on jeremy corbyn?m certainly was, george. you can faintly hear the jangling of tory nerves. and ten days out, it is not a time forflowery nerves. and ten days out, it is not a time for flowery language, it is not a time for appeals to the electorate about elegant philosophies, or even, time for more arguments about public services or

more new policies on health or on education. this is a time, in their view, to go after the central question, who do the voters trust to ta ke question, who do the voters trust to take the country to the difficult complex of leaving the european union and the tories will no doubt use the kind of confusion we saw from jeremy corbyn over childcare as the kind of evidence to suggest again in his closing moments of the campaign, to suggest that he's just not up to it. no question in the last few days, we have seen the polls tightening and there is a new scepticism on the doorsteps towards the reason may. but with this time to go, they were returning to their core argument and i don't think the tories will budge from it. it might not be elegant, they hope it will be effective but it is not necessarily the kind of message and not the kind of campaign where the party is trying to inspire voters, but it is what they hope will see them through. laura, thank you.

the scottish national party has launched its election manifesto pledging to promote fairness and opportunity. leader nicola sturgeon, said labour was in disarray and the only way to keep the conservatives in check was to vote snp. she also said that an snp victory in scotland would "further reinforce" the mandate for a second referendum on independence. 0ur scotland editor sarah smith is in perth. sarah? this is a tricky election for the snp because they are almost victims of their own success. they did so well in 2015, winning all but three of the seats in scotland, they cannot do any better. but if they lose any, opponents will say, it shows people don't want another independence referendum and that is why there was barely a mention of that referendum here today. nicola sturgeon know she won't be walking into number ten as the next prime minister. the snp cannot form

auk prime minister. the snp cannot form a uk government, so head coach? they are the only effective opposition. now, more than ever it is vital to have strong snp voices standing up to scotland at westminster. a vote for the snp on june to scotland at westminster. a vote for the snp onjune the aids will strengthen scotland's hands against tory cuts. it will strengthen our hand againstan tory cuts. it will strengthen our hand against an extreme brexit and it will strengthen scotland's right to make our own decisions. the snp advocate an additional £118 billion in public spending. raising the minimum wage to over £10 and raising the top rate of tax to 50p. nicola sturgeon had less to say about a second referendum on scottish independence. are you worried it is a vote loser? know, at the end of the brexit process, i think scotland should have a choice over our own future. i have also said, in this

election there is a more immediate opportunity and that is to strengthen scotland's hands in the brexit negotiations. you have changed your language about independence, you talk about scotla nd independence, you talk about scotland have a choice, we almost never hear you say a second referendum. it is almost as though you are a bit embarrassed about it? saying i talk about nothing else, thatis saying i talk about nothing else, that is not true. but they want to talk about nothing else because particularly the tories are embarrassed about their record and the policies in their manifesto. right on cue, a tory protest promising to block another referendum. then drowned out by the snp. you say more snp ‘s will be able to stand up to the tories, you have 56, what material difference did any of them make to the lives of

any scottish voters in two years? this prime minister is not so much the iron lady, and she is the queen of the u turn. therefore the stronger the snp and scotland's voice is, the more we can effect change to tory positions that are damaging so many people. the snp's biggest challenge is holding onto those mps. it will be difficult to hold onto 56 seats and nobody expects them to do so. but i would be surprised if they lose more than half a dozen. even if they lose two 01’ half a dozen. even if they lose two or three, it will be said their vote is going backwards and they have lost momentum towards another independence referendum. lost momentum towards another independence referendumm lost momentum towards another independence referendum. it will be spun that way by the other parties. so it is all aboard the campaign bus and there is not a moment to lose. the singer ariana grande has announced she'll return to manchester on sunday to hold a benefit concert in memory

of the 22 people who died in the suicide bombing after her show last week. she'll be joined by other musicians including justin bieber, katy perry and coldplay. our home affairs correspondentjune kelly is in old trafford now. this is going to be quite an undertaking so soon after the attack? that's right. a major security challenge for greater manchester police when this benefit ta kes pla ce manchester police when this benefit takes place here at the cricket ground. today the chief constable, ian hopkins, said he had taking soundings from both the bereaved families and the victims of the arena bombing and while most were in favour of this benefit going ahead on sunday, some felt that it was simply too soon because of course there are 50 people still in hospital and some of them are in a critical condition. now the security situation has been complicated by the fact that on sunday afternoon the fact that on sunday afternoon the former manchester united star, michael carrick, is due to have his testimonal up the road at old trafford football ground. it was

announced this afternoon that that game has been brought forward by 90 minutes so that there will be more breathing space following the end of that match and the start of the ariana grande concert. people coming to both these events here on sunday should expect extremely stringent security measures. june, thank you very much. the time is 6.16pm. 0ur top story this evening. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, has apologised after struggling to explain the cost of a key pledge on childcare that he was attempting to promote. still to come: thousands turn out to celebrate huddersfield's return to top—flight football. coming up in sportsday on bbc news: there's a shock defeat for the british number one, johanna konta, in the first round of the french open. konta was beaten in three sets by chinese taipei's hsieh su—ewi. patients of the breast surgeon ian paterson will find out tomorrow

how long he'll spend injail, that's following his conviction last month for carrying out unnecessary operations on 17 women. lawyers say hundreds of paterson's patients could have undergone surgery quite needlessly. asjeremy cook reports, some victims are calling for the maximum punishment of life. a broken bond of trust between a doctor and his patients. you are evil, pure evil. he told them he'd cut them free of life—threatening cancer — he lied. i had no need to be there and he had no reason to cut bits off me. ian paterson removed lumps, performed entire mastectomies, deliberate mutilation for no medical reason. judy conduit suffered a catastrophic infection following paterson's phoney diagnosis that both her breasts must be removed. he just duped everybody.

i hate him now. i hate him with a vengeance. john ingram was among ten former patients chosen to testify against paterson at his nine week trial. as a man, his case was not typical, but in every other aspect it was textbook ian paterson. he persuaded me to undergo a double mastectomy. a massively invasive procedure and the lumps injohn's chest were actually harmless. paterson exploited me as a person for his own ends both as a cash cow, being paid to operate needlessly on me, to satisfy whatever bit of twisted logic is in his head and also he exploited me and invalidated me.

i thought it was cowardly and pathetic. the scale of paterson's crimes is breathtaking. every face here a victim, and this is the just the start of it. solicitors believe the final count may run into the hundreds, quite possibly the thousands. this guy potentially has a history of offending that spans 15 years or more maybe, and that has got to be addressed. the sentence has got to be significant enough so that society is protected from this man. in my eyes, he deserves nothing less than a life sentence, and i hope he gets it. i hope they throw away the key and he never comes out. never to do this to anybody else again. paterson has been told to expect a custodial sentence when he attends court tomorrow.

the maximum punishment is life in prison. jeremy cook, bbc news. investigations are continuing into the death of a zookeeper in cambridge yesterday after she was attacked by a tiger. rosa king had worked at hamerton zoo for 1h years. in a tribute, her mother said she loved herjob and wouldn't have done anything else. ben ando reports. we do a lot of work for conservation, a lot of breeding to try and save... conservation and compassion, words rosa king lived by. today, flowers were laid at hamerton zoo by friends and visitors who were struggling to come to terms with her death. she was the most caring, compassionate woman you could ever meet and she's going to be sorely missed by everyone who knew her. ijust can't believe she's gone. in a statement her mother andrea said...

rosa had an infinity for big cats, she was inside the tiger enclosure when the unthinkable happened. in what the zoo is calling a "freak accident", one of the deadly predators got in and mauled her to death. 0ne visitor told the bbc it was the animals that raised the alarm. just basically the cheetahs were pacing up and down. you could sense that they knew something had happened. basically, the parakeets, which were close to the cheetahs, they were picking up, they were sensing something had happened, and they were going ballistic. for the park the question is relatively simple — how did an experienced zookeeper come to be trapped in an enclosure with a deadly predator? the police say they've dropped their investigation because there were no suspicious circumstances, but are sending their files to the local authority which grants the zoo its licence, and they will decide whether there should be any proceedings brought for breaches

of health and safety rules. but those are issues for another day, for staff here now thoughts are just of shock and of grief. ben ando, bbc news, cambridgeshire. the entertainer rolf harris will not face a further retrial on indecent assault allegations after a jury failed to reach a verdict. rolf harris left court today without comment, but said, through his solicitor, he felt "no sense of victory, just relief." he'd been accused of groping three teenage girls in the 19705 and ‘80s. in belfast, the sdlp leader, colum eastwood, has launched his party's manifesto with a strong focus on fighting a hard brexit and a hard border between northern ireland and the republic. he said the nationalist party would stand up "against borders, division and cruel crippling cuts" and claimed theresa may had called the general election with little thought towards northern ireland.

as we face into the new challenges across ireland, we must be mindful of the protections that europe has gifted us and we must remind others that our situation is unique, more challenging and deeply deserving of special status. to do that, we need strong voices taking a stand against the tories at the heart of the action. it's a club that last played top—flight football a mere 45 years ago. now, huddersfield town will compete with the best in the premier league next season — that's after winning the championship play—off yesterday. this evening, the town's laying on a parade, katie gornall‘s there. katie. yes, the parade has ended up here at the centre of huddersfield. the players are currently on stage celebrating with their fans. their promotion to the premier league. these are celebration that is few would have expected. 0nly14 years

ago, huddersfield were in the bottom tier of the english football league. after beating reading they are not moving up. here we go — champions league! in huddersfield, now they feel anything is possible. forfans, young and old, past and present, this has been a season that's exceeded all expectations. i woke up this morning, wiped my eyes and i said, "it's not a dream." it just goes to show that you don't need a lot of money to get where you get up. a bit of belief. we've achieved so much and it's amazing, ain't it darcey? yeah. after 5a games of a gruelling season, it all came down to one kick. commentator: and he takes that chance! 0ne swing of his boot and christopher schindler had made huddersfield £170 million richer. they were led here by the relatively unknown german manager, david wagner, a left field appointment that has lifted huddersfield back among the elite. he's achieved the impossible. 0ur wage bill is small, but the hearts and desire and the will to win is outstanding.

so, we've done it. huddersfield's glory days were becoming a distant memory. it was back in 1922 when they won the fa cup and then three english titles in a row. after a more recent decline into administration, now, against the odds, their long journey back to the top is complete. katie gornall, bbc news, huddersfield. time for a look at the weather. here's tomasz schafernaker. the weather was cloudy, there was rain earlier on. it's starting to improve, actually, for many of us, across northern parts of the uk, it will be a lovely evening, dry with clearing skies into tonight. let's look at the satellite picture from earlier on. a lot of cloud across the uk. this curl of cloud, that is the uk. this curl of cloud, that is the weather front that moved across the weather front that moved across the north. it brought rain earlier on, now beautiful weather in northern ireland. it's clearing

skies during the night across scotland. to the south it will stay a little bit on the cloudy side. maybe some murk around the coasts, around 1a degrees, milder, muggier here. in the north nippy under the starry skies. tomorrow, apart from the south where it might be cloudy first thing, on the whole it's looking beautiful. lots of sunshine around. those temperatures really pleasant, 23 in london, 21 across yorkshire, not far off 20 in the lowla nds yorkshire, not far off 20 in the lowlands of scotland as well. that fine weather, bar the odd light shower if you are unlucky, will last until the end of the day. a fine day on the way tomorrow. towards thursday, slight change on the way. low pressure parked to the south of iceland and greenland is moving towards our neighbourhood. it will bring rain into north—western areas, heavier at times, to the south of it we are seeing warmer air from france. coming back in. on thursday the temperatures across some parts of the country will be rising

whereas in the north—west we have fresher, wetter atlantic weather setting in. the weatherfront fresher, wetter atlantic weather setting in. the weather front will be slow moving. it will bring light rain to wales and some northern parts. you can see where the fresh weather is. in the south—east it could be as high as 26. the south particularly warming up briefly, a lwa ys particularly warming up briefly, always a bit fresher in the north. a bit of rain from time to time. on balance, actually, not too bad. thank you very much. 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: jeremy corbyn stumbles over the cost of labour's free childcare plans in an interview with the bbc‘s woman's hour. theresa may says with brexit negotiations due to start days after the election, only she is prepared to lead britain out of the eu. the us pop star ariana grande will return to the uk on sunday for a benefit concert for the victims of the manchester bombing.

the mother of zookeeper rosa king — who was killed by a tiger — says she loved herjob and wouldn't have done anything else. rolf harris says he's "relieved" after being formally cleared of indecently assaulting three teenage girls. prosecutors ruled out a further retrial for harris, who denied the charges. in a moment it will be time for sportsday, but first a look at what else is coming up this evening on bbc news. president trump has slammed germany saying the relationship is bad for the us. we'll be getting the latest analysis of news from the us and the uk in 100 days at 7pm. we'll take you through today's news from the election campaign. and a review of the papers

with laura hughes from the daily telegraph and jason beattie from the mirror. that's all ahead on bbc news. now it's time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday. i'm hugh woozencroft. the main headlines this evening: huddersfield town have reached the promised land of the premier league. we'll be live at their victory parade. they'll be visiting arsene wenger in north london next season. he's agreed a two—year deal to stay as arsenal manager. andy murray is hoping to turn around his poorform on clay. he's made it through to the second round with victory today. but the british number one johanna konta is out — stunned by the world number 109, su—wei hsieh. and join me