this is bbc news. the headlines at eight. the us pop star ariana grande, will return to the uk on sunday, for a benefit concert for the victims of the manchester bombing. police are currently searching 18 locations in relation to the manchester attack. 1a people remain in custody. in election news, jeremy corbyn stumbles over a key election campaign pledge today, on free childcare. meanwhile, theresa may says with brexit talks due to start days after the election, only she's prepared, to lead the negotiations. nicola sturgeon launches the snp manifesto, calling for a second scottish independence referendum, "at the end of the brexit process". the mother of zookeeper rosa king, who was killed by a tiger, says she loved herjob and wouldn't have done anything else. and in the next hour, back in the top flight after 45 years. huddersfield town celebrate

promotion to the premier league with an open top bus parade. and coming up in half an hour, huw edwards chairs a debate in cardiff about what the election means for wales, and the rest of the united kingdom. good evening and welcome to bbc news. it's been announced the american singer ariana grande will return to manchester this weekend for a benefit concert. the event on sunday evening will take place nearly two weeks after her gig was attacked in the city, killing 22 people. she'll bejoined for the ‘0ne love manchester‘ gig byjustin bieber, coldplay, katy perry, miley cyrus and take that. it'll take place at old trafford cricket ground on sunday and raise money for the families of those

who died and were injured at manchester arena just over a week ago. well meanwhile the chief constable of greater manchester police, ian hopkins, has said that salman abedi, the man who carried out the suicide attack, had not been known to police for his extremist views. mr hopkins revealed that abedi had come to the police‘s attention only for minor criminality. 1a men are still being questioned in connection with the atrocity. dave guest reports. "11; —— 1a people "14 people are still being questioned. for people in this part of wigan this is nothing new, feverish police activity coupled with instructions to leave their homes. the police have said move so obviously it's for our own safety, so we have been to are son's. it's very worrying, you don't feel safe in your own home. the police have been searching this house for several days. last week they found something that caused concern and the bomb squad was called. it turned out to be nothing. but, the same happened again today. so, they'd have the all clear now

and live returning to normal, but this is just won so many parts of greater manchester that have witnessed this kind of police activity over the past week. there are currently 18 locations where the police are searching evidence about how abedi carried out his atrocity and who might have helped him. they include this landfill site near bury. we want to know absolutely everything about salman abedi and the days leading up to the terrible attack, we believe something that may have been discarded may well be in a landfill site, so we are currently looking for that. over the past week we have been learning more and more about him and the fact that some people claim that they did flag him up as a concern to the authorities. did you miss a chance? what i know about it from the policing perspective is that he had a very small number of minor offences that we are aware of from 2012, five years ago...

what sort of offences? there was a theft, receiving stolen goods and an assault. we cannot find, atthe moment, any evidence of him ever being part of the prevent programme... he was not known to prevent, which is of course the anti—radicalisation programme. yes. if people did report, as they said, to the anti—terrorist hotline who picks up the phone then? should it not been automatically referred to? that goes to to the national police counter—terrorism network, as far as i can tell at the moment there was no referral into prevent made by anyone. yesterday the home office announced it would be carrying out its own enquiry to establish who knew what and who was told what about abedi. for gmp at the moment the priority is continuing to investigate he may have helped him carry out the atrocity and to piece together exactly what he got up to on the days before the attack. a week on a lot of work

has been done but there is still a lot to do, say the police. with me is our correspondent keith doyle. tell us more about what the police did and did not know about salam labadie. they did not know that he was not part of the government prevent scheme, which is a scheme that aims to do ragged prize. young people getting radicalised, we know that the chief constable said that he was arrested for minor offences in 2012, theft, receiving stolen goods and minor assault. he would bid about 16 or 17 will stop he went on to say that he was not known to the programme or on any sort of agenda. in terms of the security operation since that attacks, troops have been on the street but they've been stood down. yes over the next

few days because of the downgrading of the security level to severe, the operation mean that the troops that have been guarding places such as buckingham palace. down over the next three days. today manchester's victoria station open for the first time since the bombing. the greater manchester mayor and transport secretary were amongst the first to lay wreath at the station as it reopened. many of the staff who were there who were first responders on there who were first responders on the night, it was their first day back at work and many were visibly upset about that. a moving day. ariana grande whose concert as was his -- ariana grande whose concert as was his —— whose concert was attacked is coming back there this weekend. his —— whose concert was attacked is coming back there this weekendm will start at 715 last three hours, this coming sunday the 11th ofjune. we know the people playing there, ariana grande, justin bieber, coldplay, katie perry and others. clearly there could be more added to

that. all proceeds will go to the wheel of manchester emergency fund which has been set up by manchester city council and the red cross. they expect it could raise £2 million for the victims and those injured." line—up. thank you very much indeed. —— aren't quite a line—up. and we'll find out how this story — and many others — are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10.45 and 11.30 this evening in the papers, our guestsjoining me tonight are ben chu, economics and business editor at the independent and dave wooding, political editor of the sun on sunday. let's get the latest on the election campaign and jeremy corbyn has apologised for not knowing the cost of one of labour's key manifesto 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. here's our deputy political editorjohn 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. jeremy 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 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 in a minute. you are logging into your ipad. you've announced a major policy do not know how much it will cost. can i give you the exact figure in a minute. 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 manifesto is fully costed and 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. but i don't 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. —— believing labour can deliver without borrowing. 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. i think he is one of the most honest politicians we have seen in the last 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. as farasi as far as i am concerned i have a lot of faith in him. some love him, butjeremy corbyn needs more believers, and notjust in his sums. the square root of nine is three. the square root of 16 is four. do you need more? 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? 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. i like it. 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? 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 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 negotiations june 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 demands. 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 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? —— a new scepticism towards them, perhaps? it is a case of labour trying to 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 about jeremy 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. 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. our scotland editor sarah smith is in perth. nicola sturgeon know she won't be walking into number ten as the next prime minister. the snp cannot form a uk government, so her pitch? they are the only effective opposition. now, more than ever it is vital to have strong snp voices standing

up for scotland at westminster. a vote for the snp onjune the 8th will strengthen scotland's hands against 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? no, 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 scotland have a choice,

we almost never hear you say a second referendum. whilst your opponents put that front and centre of their campaigns. it is almost as though you are a bit embarrassed about it? 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 mps 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 or three, it will be said their vote is going backwards and they have 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. now to wales. neither welsh conservative leader andrew rt davies nor welsh secretary alun cairns are taking part in this evening's bbc wales leaders' debate. the tories will be represented by their welsh education spokesman darren millar.

it is understood mr davies, who took part in the itv wales debate earlier in may, is on holiday. we can cross to cardiff now to get more from our correspondent tomos morgan. a bit of confusion about who will be in the debate. yes, an embarrassing start to the debate here today. there has been an internal row between members of the conservative party, andrew rt davies is expected to do all three debates, he did the itv debate, the leaders debate with the bbc, alun cairns the welsh secretary took over, that. today, neither of them were of the doing it. it is said that alan cans, thought that andrew rt davies was doing it, and he said that alan cans was unwilling to do it. so, the shadow education minister in wales is stepping in, the only non—leader

thatis is stepping in, the only non—leader that is taking part here. today, the leader of the welsh conservatives, ukip‘s leaders in wales, neil hamilton as is mark williams from the welsh liberal democrats. differently to some other debates, that so many key policy issues are devolved in wales, health, education, said the subject areas will include security, immigration, economic and poverty, as well as brexit, the big issue. i'm sure all the parties will be coming back and taking a swipe at the conservatives are not having a worse leader here today. we must with an opening, go today. we must with an opening, go to questions, 0 edwards will chair the debate, some questions from the audience and after the programme there will be some reactions from some of the political pundits, journalists and members from each of the partners who will say who they believe it has come out and fed well in the debate. it will be shown live on bbc one wales, the news channel,

and streamed in our bbc news website. thank you very much indeed. sport now, a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. arsene wenger will be staying at arsenal, after agreeing a new two year contract. the deal will be officially confirmed tomorrow and follows a meeting with majority owner stan kroenke yesterday. wenger won his 7th fa cup with the club last weekend but the pressure will be on to improve their premier league performance after they finished 5th, outside the champions league spots for the first time in 20 years. he needs to spend, that is what he needs to do, to be given bones and use them. we keep on hearing their funds, and he seems to not go in with the big players. for the players that are ning astronomic

number, like chelsea and manchester united paid them. —— ning astronomical money. you don't pay the wages for the top, top players thatis the wages for the top, top players that is what frustrates the fans. huddersfield town have been celebrating their promotion to the premier league this evening. thousands of fans lined the streets of the west yorkshire town after they returned to the top flight of english football for the first time in 45 years. david wagner's side beat reading in a penalty shoot out and earn themselves a reported minimum £175 million over the next few seasons. norway and lyon striker arda hegerberg has been crowned the bbc women's footballer of the year 2017. she was surprised by her sister andrine, a midfielder for birmingham city in front of her lyon team—mates in france. the french side are hoping to win successive trebles when thy face paris st—germain the uefa champions league final

in cardiff on thursday. world number one andy murray is seeking to build some good form after a poor season so far on clay. lasty year's runner—up beat unseeded russian andrey kuznetsov in 4 sets to ease through the first round at the french open as hannah lupton reports can't put injury, injury and bad form behind him, andrew murray arrived in paris still as the world number one. he attempted to master the famous red clay for the first time. he seemed to wait for an forced errors from the russian who seem happy to oblige, despite losing his serve he took the first set 6—4. his opponent had a good clay season, he made the geneva open semifinals last week. here, he was showing what he was capable of. murray was not helped by a misfiring south, broken three times as the russian won the second set, 6—4, levering the match. murray changed is that the first and

110w murray changed is that the first and now his opponent made the mistakes. murray breezed through the set and took a 2—1 lead. murray cruised through the upset, 6—0, he moves to the second round where he faces eight slovakian player. the second round where he faces eight slovakian playerlj the second round where he faces eight slovakian player. i was looking forward to getting going today, but i did need the extra time on the practice court and by getting a cheese day to start that allowed me to get some good practice in after missing a couple of days at the beginning of the week with the illness. i was actually quite happy to wait until tuesday. bisley, i ended up buying some decent stuff. also through to round two is kyle edmund reaching the second round for the third successive year. he beat portugal's gastao elias taking the match in straight sets. edmund will play frenchman giles simon in round two. in the women's draw,

british number one johanna konta suffered a shock defeat by world number 109 hsieh su—wei in the first round of the french open. the seventh seed took the first set 6—1 with her power too much for her opponent, but the match swung around with konta eventually on the losing side and is still yet to win in the main draw at roland garros after three successive first—round losses. 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 1970s and 80s. 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... she wouldn't have done anything else, it's what she's always done, it's what she's always loved. 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. one 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. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news this afternoon. in sri lanka the death toll continues to climb as the flood waters start to recede. 188 people were killed and another 99 people are still missing after monsoon rains struck on friday, triggering severe flooding and landslides.

the floods are the worst the country has seen in 1a years. more rain is still expected in the region. general manuel antonio noriega, the former military leader of panama, has died aged 83. noriega had been a key us ally but was forcibly removed when american troops invaded in 1989, and was later jailed in the us on drugs and laundering charges. the white house communications director has resigned only three months after being hired by president donald trump. mike dubke, an experienced republican strategist, was hired in march to revamp the administration's media strategy. patients of the breast surgeon ian paterson will find out tomorrow how long he'll spend injail, following his conviction last month for carrying out unnecessary operations on 9 women and one man. 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.