this is bbc news, i'm simon mccoy. the headlines at lipm: breast surgeon ian paterson is sentenced to 15 years in prison for carrying out unnecessary operations, after falsely telling patients they had breast cancer. he took everything away from me and i'm still... up until today, this has been going on now since the 90s, and only today i've gotjustice. he took away my youth. 80 people have been killed and hundreds injured in the afghan capital, kabul, after a massive car bomb near the german embassy. labour leaderjeremy corbyn says he will take part in a televised bbc debate this evening and challenges the prime minister, theresa may, to do the same. i invite her to go to cambridge and debate her policies, debate her record, debate their plans, debate their proposals, and let... and let the public make up their mind. well, i'm interested, you know, in the fact jeremy corbyn seems to be paying far more attention to how many appearances on telly he's doing.

i think it ought to be paying a little more attention to thinking about brexit negotiations, that's what i'm doing. i'm clive myrie live in cambridge, as tonight does not debate promises fireworks and passion. the seven leaders of the major political parties go head—to—head, live on stage. i'm annita mcveigh, also in the next hour... police investigating the manchester attack are searching a house in the south of the city. a police cordon is in place around a house in rusholme — the public have been asked to avoid the area. and arsene wenger signs on the dotted line and says he wants to win next season's premier league title. good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news.

a breast surgeon, who carried out a series of unnecessary operations at hospitals in the west midlands, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. ian paterson was found guilty last month of wounding with intent, and unlawful wounding in a case involving 10 private patients. our health editor hugh pym sent this report from nottingham. ian paterson, once a higher earning and highly regarded surgeon, now a convicted criminal about to begin a 15 year jail sentence. some of the patients that he harmed arrived at court in nottingham this morning to hear the sentencing. the judge, mrjustice jeremy baker, said paterson carried out unnecessary breast surgery which had a profound physical and psychological effect, and left his patients feeling violated and vulnerable. i just want to say thank you to the judge, at last today we have got justice.

we waited for years for this and finally mr paterson has been stopped. over four years of trauma and stress. in trying to bring this man to account. no amount of prison sentence will ever compensate what myself and other people affected have gone through. the number of victims who were harmed is said by their lawyers to run into the hundreds, possibly even thousands, but paterson's motives still remain a mystery... perhaps he likes the adoration of the patient. if you tell someone they are going to die of breast cancer but if you let me operate on you, you're not, and then tell them afterwards that the pathology shows that yes, if i hadn't operated, you were going to get breast cancer, even though it's untrue, that patient is grateful and likes you, and indeed all the patients, before they found out that he had actually misled them, thought he was a wonderful doctor. a high court action for damages against nhs trust and private hospitals where he worked, and paterson himself, is set to begin in the autumn.

our correspondent phil mackie is outside nottingham crown court. listening to some of those patients outside the court earlier, they said ian paterson seemed to show little remorse in court. what do they make of the links of the sentence he has been given? i spoke to quite a number of them immediately after the sentence was given earlier on. i think it was at the lower end of their expectations, i think any lower and they would have been angry. 15 years they accept that they would have hoped it would be more than that because the maximum sentence for wounding that with intent and he was committed of 17 cou nts intent and he was committed of 17 counts of that, was life. however, 15 years and the satisfaction that after a ll 15 years and the satisfaction that after all this time they had seen him taken down to the cells was at least something for them. and of course, it's been a very long journey. you just heard people

talking on the steps afterwards, talking on the steps afterwards, talking about years and years of waiting for justice to talking about years and years of waiting forjustice to be served. they finally got their wish when he was convicted last month here and today some of them at least were able to get into court and see him sitting there, showing no remorse, shaking his head occasionally but mostly sitting with his head bowed in the two and a half hour hearing, before he was sent down to the cells. isn't the end of the story, is it? absolutely not. there are a lot of questions still to be answered. for instance, we know that as long as 20 years ago his collea g u es as long as 20 years ago his colleagues who were present in operating theatres with him were raising concerns about his methods. they were questions raised with senior members of staff to brush them aside. paterson appeared to be a charismatic character who is able to persuade patients they needed the surgery they didn't need and was also able to bully colleagues. we know that several times in that 20

yea rs know that several times in that 20 years other people have raised questions about him, and yet for a long period he was able to continue practising in his private practice in solihull and also in the nhs as well. so there are questions to be a nswered well. so there are questions to be answered about that. the patients wa nt answered about that. the patients want a public inquiry, that will be for the next government to determine. also compensation claims. a lot of them will be taking part in that. there are hundreds of patients taking part in that simple damages case which will be held at the height court in october. thank you for that. theresa may has justified a rob simmons and about‘s election leader debate after the labour leader confirmed he will take part in the live election debate and said the prime minister appeared to have difficulties in meeting anyone or having a debate. mrs may has said she has taken questions up and

around the country instead and will be represented by the home secretary, amber rudd. my colleague clive myrie is in cambridge where the debate will be held. it has taken on a bit more of a series. yes, a bit more fizz has been added byjeremy corbyn‘s decision to turn up here. i have had worse assignments, it is absolutely glorious here in cambridge, beautiful. behind me the imposing neoclassical facade of senate house, usually used for graduation ceremonies here at cambridge university, but the venue for tonight does not debate. the big question is, will be leaving this place tonight with honours that debate? seven representatives of the major british political parties will be turning up here, taking questions from members of the public. jeremy corbyn has made it clear that he believes he deserves extra points forjust turning up in the first place. he believes that theresa may

has flunked this particular test and this is what he has said today. it's very odd that you have an election campaign where we go out and talk to people, all the time, and the prime minister seems to have difficulty in meeting anyone or having a debate. and so, there is a debate in cambridge tonight. i don't know what she's doing this evening, but it isn't far from london. i invite her to go to cambridge and debate her policies, debate her record, debate their plans, debate their proposals, and let the public make up their mind. cheering and applause no, no, no sense theresa may. remaining defiant and saying she won't turn up here and debate with jeremy corbyn. she refused the suggestion that her no—show here tonight is actually a reflection of problems that may exist within the tory manifesto. what i've done, in terms

of our manifesto, is being open with the british people about the great challenges that we face as a country over the next few years and beyond. and how we will address those challenges. you talk about the brexit negotiations, i've set out very clearly what our 12 objectives are for those brexit negotiations. i believe that's the right thing to do, but as we go into those negotiations, which start just 11 days after election day, the question that people must ask themselves on election day is, who do they want to see fighting for britain in those negotiations? who do they want to see taking this country forward, building a more prosperous britain for the future? theresa may a little earlier. let's get the thoughts of adam fleming, oui’ get the thoughts of adam fleming, our political correspondent. your ta ke our political correspondent. your take on theresa may not turning up and jeremy corbyn turning up? as a political journalist it straightaway makes this event very much more exciting to cover and watch this evening. we've gone from having none of the people auditioning to be

prime minister on the stage tonight having one. that has made it more of a diary item for political correspondents travelling here tonight. i think, correspondents travelling here tonight. ithink, we've correspondents travelling here tonight. i think, we've stood outside enough of these debate venues outside enough of these debate venues in the last few years to know the calculation is that go on about these things. the main one being that person in the lead has everything to lose and the person who is behind has everything to gain. i imagine the conservatives are looking at it and thinking, you know what, a few million people tuning in to bbc wants not seeing the prime minister, that's not going to bea the prime minister, that's not going to be a big deal or have a dramatic affect on people's votes next week. jeremy corbyn‘s team looking at the great review this had from people all across the political spectrum for the offence he's done in the last few days, where he's gone in as an underdog and performed fairly well and people said, look, team corbyn say the more people see of jeremy corbyn, the more they get to like him. especially as he can talk on his own terms, he's not been a victim of labour party splits but

getting these opportunities to put his views and policies forward. i imagine that's the calculation that's happened. five other parties will be here tonight. they have representatives here as well. we are just over seven days away from polling day. how much of a bounce could they get? there's a rumour doing the rounds about nicola sturgeon, the snp leader, turning up 110w sturgeon, the snp leader, turning up now thatjeremy corbyn is turning up. i have spoken to a senior snp figure who says that will not happen, they will stick with angus robertson, the snp‘s leader at westminster. this is a brace for seats at westminster, which is why he's doing it rather than nicola sturgeon. in terms of the other parties, look at the slot for this programme, bbc one, prime—time weekday. it will reach a lot of people who frankly maybe do not watch our programme right now. it is a chance for those parties that

don't get quite as much air time as the big parties to make their case. also another theory doing the rounds that there are millions of undecided voters out there and people only start, the undecided people, only start, the undecided people, only start to make up their minds in the last few days, maybe this weekend. this is a chance to inject the other party ‘s policies in tibet thinking in the last few minutes. interesting. thank you. just a reminder that that debate starts at 7:30pm tonight on bbc one. tune in, it will be interesting. back to you. thank you very much. at the risk of repetition... you can watch the bbc election debate 2017 here on the bbc news channel. we'll have live coverage with clive myrie from 7pm this evening. and the debate gets underway at 7:30pm. the health charity says tens of thousands of pensioners living in the eu may return to the uk to use the nhs after brexit — unless a deal can be done to let them keep receiving care abroad. the nuffield trust estimates the cost of treating them on home soil, rather than abroad — could double to £1 billion pounds. at the moment, the uk gives around £500 million a year to eu

countries that care for british pensioners. police investigating the manchester arena attack are searching a house in rusholme in the south of the city. greater manchester police say a cordon is in place at the address in banff road. 11 men are currently being held in custody in connection with the attack. earlier i spoke to our correspondent in manchester june kelly. a large number of police arrived at this address in banff road this morning and then the bomb squad arrived. they were here for some time. they have now left. but interestingly, this address is close to wilmslow road and last night the police said that they were focusing on wilmslow road because they have now established in the days before the attack, salman abedi kept coming back to wilmslow road with his blue suitcase. that is the suitcase police released an image of a couple of days ago. they are trying to establish what he was doing down here, who potentially he might have been seeing. what the police have also said, in relation to the investigation,

is they have established that in the days before the attack, and of course salman abedi came back to the uk on the 18th of may, they have established that in the following days up to the bombing on the 22nd, he seemed to be largely alone, and that included when he was assembling his bomb components and amassing what he was going to use in that deadly bomb. these are all new lines of inquiry that are emerging. also what's interesting is, in terms of who was he potentially working with, last week the police were saying he was part of the network. now the language has changed somewhat. they are saying, obviously acknowledging he was alone a lot in those final days, they're saying the network theory, they're saying it something they can't rule out. june, obviously still a very sensitive time there. manchester city council, they have had something to say about what will happen to his remains? that's right, because obviously now this is a question about what happens to his remains. what they have said in a statement

this morning is that under no circumstances would we allow the body of the perpetrator of the heinous attack on manchester arena to be buried or cremated in manchester. an unequivocal statement from the council. finally on the investigation, we still have 11 people in custody. three men were released last night and they include two cousins of salman abedi and another man who rented a flat to him. that was june kelly reporting that wasjune kelly reporting a little earlier. the headlines on bbc news: breast surgeon ian pattison is sentenced to 15 years in prison for carrying out unnecessary operations after falsely telling patients they had breast cancer. jeremy corbyn announces he will appear into my‘s tv debate on bbc one, with representatives of the six other major parties. the afghan president describes a car bomb in kabul‘s diplomatic quarter which killed 80

people as an inhuman acts. and in sport, arsenal majority owner stan kroenke says the club won't rest until the premier league title and european success is secured. that's after it was announced a new deal for manager arsene wenger. novak djokovic eases through to the third round of the french open with a co mforta ble round of the french open with a comfortable straight sets win over portugal's joao sousa. comfortable straight sets win over portugal'sjoao sousa. and head coach warren gatland dismisses concerns over the british and irish lions have schedule as they arrive at their tour of new zealand. i will be back with more on those stories just after az30pm. a 30—year—old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder, after a woman and two children were found dead in a flat in liverpool. police were called to the address near toxteth yesterday evening. they say they're not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths. a car bomb has exploded in the diplomatic quarter

of the afghan capital, kabul, killing at least 80 people and wounding more than 300. the country's president has called it was a cowardly attack on innocent civilians. just a warning — tom burridge's report contains some distressing images from the start. makeshift ambulances brought them in this morning, as kabul‘s hospitals were overwhelmed. at least 80 people killed when a huge truck bomb exploded during rush hour. several hundred people were injured. it is one of the worst bomb attacks in afghanistan in years. translation: i heard a terrible sound and became unconscious. i opened my eyes and found myself under the desk. blood was coming out of my shoulder. it was a dreadful explosion. this video taken miles from the blast shows how powerful it was. the bbc‘s reporter has been at the scene. it was a water tanker or a lorry full of explosives that hit this strategic location right in the heart of kabul.

it is very close to the german embassy, indian embassy, french and british embassies. the explosion only a short distance from afg hanistan's presidential palace. this is the german embassy today, badly damaged. germany's foreign minister said the unimaginable death toll was proof that terror continues to target western institutions, but also local people. a bbc team were in the area and hit by the blast, killing driver mohammed nazir. the bbc described him as a popular colleague, with a young family. nato and some british troops are still based in afghanistan, but the fact that militants were able to get such a large bomb into the city's heavily guarded political zone shows how fragile afg hanistan's security picture has become. so far, neither the taliban nor the so—called islamic state

in afghanistan have claimed responsibility. attacks in kabul are not unusual. but this was a bombing on another scale and among the dead, women and children. tom burridge, bbc news. police say a "dangerous" prisoner, believed to be armed with a razor blade, is on the run after escaping officers in wiltshire. michael kisiel, who's 30, had been taken to hospital in salisbury with a head injury before overpowering prison guards yesterday evening. police are warning the public not to approach him. 0ur correspondentjon kay is at salisbury hospital for us now. do the police have any idea where michal kisiel might be right now? a p pa re ntly michal kisiel might be right now? apparently not. this morning when they went public with their appeal to try and find him and issued the description and photograph, they we re description and photograph, they were suggesting they believed he must be somewhere in the area surrounding the hospital. that is

where most of the attention seemed to be. we have seen helicopters and drones in the air, police dogs and officers on the ground searching the fields around this hospital site. this is where he escaped from yesterday evening at about seven o'clock. but today, as the day has gone on and this afternoon for the statements from wiltshire police have suggested they are now looking more widely. we have had a suggestion from bedfordshire police, where this man, michal kisiel, one slipped in the luton area, where he was convicted last year of an attack on a mother and daughter, that he might have gone back there and they are searching there as well. you get the sense that hour by hour this is becoming a bigger search, for a man who police is dangerous and who they believe was armed with a razor blade when he left this hospital. is any great idea of how he actually managed to overpower his prison guards? the police in the hospital won't give much information but we

know he was found with a head wound in his cell at erlestoke prison and was brought to this hospital on medical advice to receive treatment. we understand he was accompanied by prison guards, that they brought him here, that he was handcuffed at the time but somehow we are told he overpowered, the weather police are using, overpowered the prison guards and managed to escape with this weapon, with this blade. the language the police are using has changed a bit, notjust in where they are searching but also this afternoon they change their tack in what might be highness. initially they were saying that he didn't have a phone with him or a change of clothes for any money, so another reason for assuming he was nearby in the salisbury area. this afternoon they have confirmed they are now looking at the possibility this might have been preplanned in some whites, which is curious, bearing in mind he came here as a result of an

injury in prison, and asking if he had some sort of assistance in this. it seems to be a much more complex investigation now and it is now nearly 2a hours since he was last seen here. thank you. just some details of an incident in the air above australia. a malaysian airlines plane has diverted back to australia. this is the feed from a traffic control monitoring site. a p pa re ntly traffic control monitoring site. apparently after somebody tried to get into the cockpit, the operating captain was alerted and cabin crew had to restrain somebody who was trying to get into the cockpit and the plane was diverted back to melbourne. we are just hearing from the malaysian ministry of transport that that plane has landed safely after turning back after a disruptive passenger attempted to enter the flight deck. we don't know what was said or what it was about. the plane had landed safely. we will find you more information and bring it to you. for the first time, a british police

force is to recruit people directly to become detectives — without making them first work in uniform on the beat. the metropolitan police hopes the move will fill some of its 600 detective vacancies. our home affairs correspondent danny shaw reports. for decades there has only been one way to become a detective. start as an officer in uniform, and then join cid. it was seen as the pinnacle of policing, everyone wanted to crack crimes. but not any longer. detective work is not thejob it used to be. there are more cases to handle, there is more pressure to get results. the independent inspectorate has described it as a national crisis because there are so many unfilled vacancies. now the metropolitan police is trying to do something about it. something that has never been done before. they're starting a recruitment campaign for people with no experience of policing. unlike other recruits they will not have to spend time in uniform, doing street patrol and response work. this is about offering people a direct pathway into a different type of career in policing.

and we know from research we did last year, quite extensively in london, this was really appealing. because actually the uniform attraction is attractive to some and a barrier to others. to join the metropolitan police as a detective, recruits must have a degree level qualification. they will be given 18 weeks training and have to pass an exam after 12 months. the trainees will investigate crimes like burglary, robbery and car theft, before moving on to more serious offences after two years. but former detective barry phillips has doubts about the idea. he started out in uniform over a0 years ago. you cannot bring people in who cannot walk the walk, talk the talk. that is what is required. a cid officer needs a good grounding in police work, that is gained through coming through the normal channels. but scotland yard is likely to extend its recruitment drive, it is initially taking 80 detectives and other forces may follow suit. danny shaw, bbc news. bullying in the online gaming world is a growing problem,

according to new research. half the gamers questioned by the anti—bullying charity, ditch the label, said they had been harassed or received threats. more details from our technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones. for 16—year—old bailey, video games have been a big part of his life. and were once an escape when he was getting a hard time at school. he enjoys pitting his skills against other players online. but what he doesn't like is the abuse he sometimes gets while playing. he first experienced bullying in games when he was ten. and it is not getting any better. if i'm playing a game and i score a goal, i have literally been told to kill myself. if you are being bullied at school, you come home and you play computer and you're just getting more abuse thrown at you. it is just going to put you off doing anything social. the charity ditch the label surveyed 2500 young gamers. 57% said they had been subjected to hate speech in an online game. 47% had received threats and 40% had had unwanted sexual contact. what has changed over the last decade is that more and more

games are played online. and that means young gamers are encountering anonymous people from around the world. and chatting with them. that can of course be very positive, but it also lays them open to the kind of dangers we have seen elsewhere in the online world. the anti—bullying charity worked with the online game habbo hotel to research young gamers‘ experiences and was disturbed by what it found. i think first and foremost it shows the true extent of the problem. when we talk about bullying, we usually talk about cyber bullying on social media or traditional bullying off—line. and we very seldom talk about it in game environments. and as a result of this research we have found that the majority of gamers have at some point experienced bullying. and i think what is so shocking is the fact that it is normalised behaviour. we had gamers telling us that this was just part of playing games online, which is incredibly shocking because it can have very real and devastating impacts upon those who are subjected to it. bailey says he has now learned not

to let abuse get to him. he wants the games companies to do more to watch over what happens online and to act to stop the bullies. rory cellanjones, bbc news. let's bring you more on the breaking news, a malaysian airlines flight from melbourne to kuala lumpur has been diverted back to melbourne because of a disruptive passenger. andy moore has been monitoring the story. what happened? we had a statement from malaysian airlines and they say this was a flight that left melbourne 11 minutes past 11 at night local time and was due to arrive at kuala lumpur at about, six hours later. it made a turn back to melbourne after the operating captain was alerted by cabin crew of the passenger attempting to enter the passenger attempting to enter the cockpit. the plane returned rapidly to melbourne airport and is

ona rapidly to melbourne airport and is on a remote bay according to malaysian airlines, waiting for security assistance to arrive at the aircraft. we understand federal police are surrounding the aircraft at the moment. it seems that the airport itself is closed to other aircraft, though it is one o'clock in the morning now in melbourne, so there wouldn't be a lot of arrivals and departures. we have had confirmation from the malaysian minister of transport. he said the plane landed safely after being forced to turn back due to a disruptive passenger attempting to enter the flight deck. there are reports that the man claimed he had explosives. there are reports that he was tackled by other passengers on the plane. but everyone is safe on the plane. but everyone is safe on board the aircraft. it is back now on the ground. the flight only lasted about eight minutes or so, the plane returned very quickly to melbourne. it landed with a lot of

fuel on board and an aircraft won't do that unless there is an absolute emergency and it really needs to be back on the ground stopper at the moment it is back on the ground but there is some sort of lockdown? yes, as far as we are aware and it is being checked over by the police, to find out if these claims of an explosive device on—boa rd find out if these claims of an explosive device on—board are or not. i will let you go back to the phones, thank you, andy. time for the weather forecast now and let's get the latest. as promised, quite a nice day out there across most of the uk. it will be warm as well, warming up tomorrow. there are a few showers in the forecast, not too many. if they do occur, they will probably fall across southern parts of the uk, maybe the midlands, southern wales. for most northern areas, as you can see, a stunning start to the day and early afternoon. temperatures, 23 in london, not far off 20 degrees in

scotland. a beautiful evening on the way, with light winds. tonight, some areas turning a bit cloudy, misty and murky. you can't miss this weather front approaching from the west. that will arrive in northern ireland and western parts of scotla nd ireland and western parts of scotland by roundabout dawn. there will be some wet weather pushing through but ahead of that southerly winds, drawing up the warmth out of france. temperatures will be rising, we could even hit 26 in london, 21 in yorkshire and 19 in newcastle. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines: a breast surgeon — who carried out a series of needless operations — is jailed for 15 years. ian paterson was found guilty of 17 counts of wounding with intent and three counts of unlawful wounding. the afghan president has described a car bomb, which killed at least 80 people

in kabul, as an inhuman act. more than 300 people were wounded, and several embassies were damaged, in the attack on the city's diplomatic quarter. jeremy corbyn announces he will appear in tonight's tv debate on bbc one with representatives of the six other major parties. the labour leader has repeatedly challenged theresa may to a debate but she has ruled out taking part. as preparations for saturday's benefit concert in manchester get underway, police investigating last week's attack now believe the suicide bomber bought most of the components for the bomb himself, but haven't ruled out a wider network. police hunting for a prisoner on the run say his escape from a hospital in salisbury could have been "pre—planned". michal kisier, who's thought to be armed with a razor blade, overpowered his guards at the hospital last night. and now the sport. arsenal's majority shareholder stan kroenke says arsene wenger

is "the best person" to help the club win the premier league again. we can speak to our reporter who is outside the emirates. the club has been quite public about what their future aims of. very much. the majority shareholder and the owner sta n majority shareholder and the owner stan kroenke has spoken about wanting domestic and european success leaving no stone unturned, which is a pointed reference to those who have said he is not in it for the football and he is only in it for the money. also comments from arsene wenger and the chief executive ivan gazidis. the contract was agreed in principle many months ago but it wasn't signed because our store, their season took a turn for the worse, losing seven of 12

matches —— because arsenal. they missed out on the top four and are out of the champions league but they did finish with a fa cup final victory. arsene wenger met with stan kroenke and agreed the final terms of the contract and it was taken to a board meeting yesterday and signed. arsene wenger will be the manager until 2019 and this is what he had to say. what is the basic dna of the club, let's be together to support our players and to support the club and give absolutely altogether of our best to be at the level where we want to be. we can move up to the next level, i'm convinced of that. by having faith in the way we want to play and supporting the players we have already and of course we will try to strengthen our squad, to be stronger next season. this is a decision

which has to vie did opinion. —— divided opinion. many fans want arsene wenger to go and some have said it is the right thing that he is staying and hopefully he can bring success to the club. they will spend heavily in the summer, up to £150 million, but results matter most and that responsibility is arsene wenger‘s. most and that responsibility is arsene wenger's. thanks forjoining us. eoin morgan says there's a ‘good chance' ben stokes will not be able to bowl in tomorrow's champions trophy opener against bangladesh at the oval. stokes has been struggling with a knee injury, but england's one day captain does remain confident about his side's chances over the coming weeks. we've a huge amount of talent and we have put ourselves in pressure situations before. and the consistency we have showed has been very impressive in the last two years. when we changed the method, we knew there would be ups and downs, but there hasn't been anywhere

near as many as i thought. we are well ahead of our progression. coming into the tournament as one of the favourites is pretty flattering, to be honest. the british and irish lions head coach warren gatland has admitted the schedule of their tour of new zealand will be tough. the lions flew into auckland overnight just three days before their first tour match against the nz provisional barbarians. the all blacks head coach steve hansen said the lions should have arrived a week before their first game — while gatland says the team can't afford to be negative. i mentioned about how difficult the schedule was for 12 months. for people to talk about this now it seems a bit ironic, because we have been well aware of it and how tough it is, and you can't dwell on it, you can't change it. so if you let negativity, in terms of thinking about those things worry you, it will influence the team. novak djokovic is into the third

round of the french open. after a straight sets victory over portugal's joao sousa. the second seed raced through the first set and was tested a little more in the second and third to wrap up the win injust over two hours. djokovic will face the argentine diego schwartzman next. two—time wimbledon champion petra kvitiva's comeback has been cut short. she's been knocked out of the french open by the american bethanie mattek—sands. kvitiva had been out for five months after being stabbed in the hand by a burglar. let's return to the election now. people in northern ireland are going to the polls for the fourth major vote injust over two years. brexit remains a crucial issue, as the future relationship with the republic of ireland remains unclear. well, the alliance party and the democratic unionist party are issuing manifetos today. let's cross to belfast

where we can talk to the alliance party's stephen farry. the party said maintaining the union with the uk is the most important issue, the dup party, that is, and what is the most important issue for you in the alliance party? we are cross— party you in the alliance party? we are cross—party and we try to bring people together, with the vision of a shared northern ireland. it is important that we focus on stability within our region. we don't have an assembly and we do not have a functioning government and our public service is our suffering. and brexit, as you mentioned, that brings consequences, for the uk and northern ireland, not least because of our long border with the republic of our long border with the republic of ireland. and because of our unique political settlement with the good friday agreement, so these are the challenges for us and people

need to understand that northern ireland works based on sharing and interdependence because we are a divided society. but brexit means fresh divisions and fresh borders and that really poses political and economic challenges. northern ireland doesn't have a function assembly, you said, what impact is that having on voters? do they feel they are voting in a vacuum? they are, but we have had a difficult 12 months. the situation has always been very fragile here, we have had devolution for virtually the past ten yea rs devolution for virtually the past ten years but it collapsed for a range of factors earlier this year. and we haven't had it restored. we have decisions being taken by civil serva nts have decisions being taken by civil servants and we don't even have a proper budget in place. we have major crisis in health and education and uncertainty around policing said this is not sustainable. in the

coming weeks we are going to have to make some very difficult decisions in terms of talks, and if we feel, in that regard, that we are going to see services further deteriorating or we want see services further deteriorating orwe wanta see services further deteriorating or we want a return to correct rule and devolution disappearing, that also has great political consequences. there has been a lot of tactical decisions, with one unionist party not fielding a candidate in a particular constituency to give a unionist candidate from another party a run at that constituency. what sort of impact is that having on alliance party? the first past the post system is very challenging in a divided society and it almost channels consistencies into being a two horse race, but we are not being

squeezed. we are seen as being a different party because of our unique identity and not being unionist or nationalist. we are viewed as being one of the main contenders in a number of seats. we have shown that we can elect mps and this time around we have a number which i regard as being the main challengers in a number of seats and so we are very confident in that regard. but there is work to be done over the next seven days. thanks for joining us. stephen parry from the alliance party. —— farry. back to our main story. the breast surgeon ian paterson has beenjailed for 15 years. he was convicted of 17 counts of wounding with intent and three of unlawful wounding at a trial last month. he had exaggerated or invented the risk of cancer to convince his victims of the need for surgery. one of those victims, patricia welch, gave her reaction to the sentence.

today's sentencing brings to an end over four years of trauma and stress. in trying to bring this man to account, no amount of prison sentence will ever compensate what myself and the other people affected have gone through. let us not forget the ladies involved, some of whom are not with us now. we may never know the reason why he acted in such an evil way. throughout the trial he has made no attempt to show any remorse for his actions. and maybe revealing his true character rather than the charming professional man we all thought he was. thankfully, the jury were able to see what actually was the truth. and gave the verdict we were all hoping for. the judge has clearly recognised the severity of his actions in the sentence given. it will never fully recompense for what i've gone through but i feel that justice has been done. the crown prosecution service commended the bravery of the victims in coming forward.

the impact of his actions on his victims has been devastating. from the unnecessary distress of undergoing procedures they did not need, to the scars that will always serve as a physical reminder of what their doctor, ian paterson, did to them. the victims‘ courage in coming forward to give evidence enabled the cps to secure his conviction. and i hope that today's prison sentence provides them with a sense ofjustice having been done. the private health care trust that oversees some of the hospitals where mr paterson carried out some of his operations has released a statement apologising to the victims. spire health care, which runs the spire parkway hospital in solihull and the spire little aston, says: bullying in the online gaming world is a growing problem,

according to new research. half the gamers questioned by the anti—bullying charity, ditch the label, said they had been harassed or received threats. more details from our technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones. for 16—year—old bailey, video games have been a big part of his life. and were once an escape when he was getting a hard time at school. he enjoys pitting his skills against other players online. but what he doesn't like is the abuse he sometimes gets while playing. he first experienced bullying in games when he was ten. and it's not getting any better. if i'm playing a game and i score a goal, i have literally been told to kill myself. if you are being bullied at school, you come home and you play computer and you're just getting more abuse thrown at you,

it is just going to put you off doing anything social. the charity ditch the label surveyed 2500 young gamers. 57% said they had been subjected to hate speech in an online game. 47% had received threats and 40% had had unwanted sexual contact. what has changed over the last decade is that more and more games are played online. and that means young gamers are encountering anonymous people from around the world. and chatting with them. that can of course be very positive but it also lays them open to the kind of dangers we have seen elsewhere in the online world. the anti—bullying charity worked with the online game habbo hotel to research young gamers‘ experiences and was disturbed by what it found. i think first and foremost it shows the true extent of the problem. when we talk about bullying, we usually talk about cyber bullying on social media or traditional bullying off—line. and we very seldom talk about it in game environments. and as a result of this research we have found that the majority of gamers have at some

point experienced bullying. and i think what is so shocking is the fact that it is normalised behaviour. we had gamers telling us that this was just part of playing games online, which is incredibly shocking because it can have very real and devastating impacts upon those who are subjected to it. bailey says he has now learned not to let abuse get to him. he wants the games companies to do more to watch over what happens online and to act to stop the bullies. rory cellanjones, bbc news. to keep you up—to—date with the story we broke, a malaysia airlines flight story we broke, a malaysia airlines flight which was diverted back to melbourne airport, you can see the route, 20 minutes into its flight, someone was reportedly trying to get into the cabin. the crew and others are said to have got involved and the plane is now safely on the ground. the aircraft is waiting for

security assistance. the malaysia minister of transport said on twitter that the plane has landed safely after being forced to turn back after a disruptive passenger attempting to enter the flight deck. this was a flight bound for kuala lumpur but it was only in the air forjust a few minutes before it had to return to melbourne. that is the latest on that story developing this afternoon. in a moment a summary of the business news this hour but first — the headlines on bbc news. breast surgeon ian paterson is sentenced to 15 years in prison for carrying out unnecessary operations after falsely telling patients they had breast cancer. jeremy corbyn announces that he will appear on tonight's tv debate on bbc one with the representatives of the six other major parties. the afghan president describes the car bomb in kabul‘s diplomatic quarter, which killed at least 80 people, as an inhuman act. hello.

the elections are coming — voters are on the move in the uk, germany and possibly italy and the political uncertainty is causing trepidation among investors, especially following last year's shock outcomes from the uk brexit vote and us elections. and today sterling showed us just how vulnerable currencies can be to any change in the political wind. sterling is now up against the dollar. but we will come to that in a moment. but first, imagine 20 years ago you bought some shares in an online book seller priced at $18 each — well, last night you would have been celebrating as those shares broke the $1000 dollar mark — amazon now has a market capitalisation of about $478 billion, more than twice that of wal—mart.

from share prices to food prices — they climbed at their fastest rate for more than three years in may as the weak pound pushed up import prices — that's according to the british retail consortium — rising prices is nothing new. however, the brc also said overall inflation including non—food items had fallen — and it comes as another study found a surprise pick—up in consumer confidence despite a predicted pre—election slump. and as i mentioned it's been another busy day for the pound — this morning it fell 0.5% to a six week low of $1.27 after a projection, which is at odds with many other polls, suggested the conservatives could fail to win a majority in the general election and the uk could end up with a hung parliament. sterling has since recovered and is now up 0.2% against the dollar. here to discuss this is colin mclean, md of svm asset management.

it was interesting to watch the progress of sterling in the day. it seems as long as the markets believe the conservatives will win a clear majority, sterling is staying up, but when it is looking like the majority might be less or we end up with a hung parliament, sterling becomes weaker. investors and stock markets like certainty and they thought they were going to get that with the election. investors also recognise that a hung parliament or reduced majority might even increase the prospects of a soft brexit or something more amenable to the city something more amenable to the city so the market is not sure to make of these polls and what it really wants to see. let's talk about food prices. figures out from the british retail consortium, for the month of may, these are separate to the

office that the statistics that we normally report on, but these do give us a nice snapshot. although food prices are rising, they say, overall inflation wasn't raising and consumer confidence was up, is this a browsing? consumers are finding that although the pound has fallen 16% in the past year, some of the costis 16% in the past year, some of the cost is being absorbed by the supermarkets and there is some good discounting, non—food items, we still have some deflation. some of the hedging or currency protection which supermarkets have taken on has also helped. altogether it is not looking quite as bad for consumers as they feared. they are getting more confident. let's talk about amazon, their shares went on sale 20 yea rs amazon, their shares went on sale 20 years ago at $18 each and they are now $1000 per share, how have they

done it? they have done it with a unique business model which is focused on integrating every part of the value chain and focusing it on product development and customer service. they have also moved the shares to a high rating, but they have acquired some dominance in some sectors like cloud computing and the online retailing which is quite difficult for others to complete. colin, thanks forjoining us. we can have a quick look at the american markets, they have been trading, not having the best day. stocks in the us fell. here us stocks fell as a decline in trading revenue atjpmorgan chase & co sent bank shares into a tailspin.

the nasdaq started off with a record breaking day — the technology—heavy exchange opened 12 points up to hit a new high of 6,215 — but is down — as is the dow and the s&p 500. the ftse is pretty much flat. that's all the business news. there is a round—up of all the other top business stories on our website — bbc.co.uk/business. nasais nasa is announcing its plans to send a space probe closer to the sun than ever before. it will travel to within 4 million miles of the sun where it will face extreme temperatures and radiation levels. nasa say the aim is to find out more about the sun's atmosphere and the solar wind — the stream of plasma and particles the sun emits into space.

the solar probe will be the hottest and the solar probe will be the hottest a nd fastest the solar probe will be the hottest and fastest mission, the coolest hottest mission under the sun. we will be moving at blistering temperatures and we will go right up to the corona. as you have heard, the revolutionary work... parker from as far back as 1958, still we have not been able to answer these key questions —— revolutionary work of doctor parker. we have had to mendis advances and we have been inside the orbit of mercury and we have done amazing things but until you actually go there and touch the sun you really can't answer these questions and these questions are so simple. why is the corona hotter than the surface of the sun? it defies the laws of nature, like water flowing defies the laws of nature, like waterflowing uphill, defies the laws of nature, like water flowing uphill, it defies the laws of nature, like waterflowing uphill, it shouldn't happen for some why does the solar atmosphere suddenly get so energised it escapes from the poll of the sun

and reaches the other planets. we have not been able to answer these questions without taking a probe to the sun, and we will move at blistering speeds, 430,000 miles per hour. that is about 118 miles a second. you would all enjoy your morning commute at that speed. we will be seven times closer than any other mission has ever been. and we will repeatedly swoop through the corona making these measurements. so why has it taking us 60 years to be able to do it? because tuqiri —— the materials did not exist. the first thing is to make a heat shield and we love our heat shield. it was developed using nasa research money and was led by apl along with the whiting school and john hopkins and many other contributors who designed a carbon composite to be able to not just withstand the temperature but

also we are doing 24 orbits so we go hot and cold and hot and cold, and something to withstand that kind of thing is revolutionary. we also had to design a new solar panel to keep them cool, they are on the shoulder joint and they move in and out as we go close and further away from the sun and we are so close that the little finger tips poke out and that generates enough solar energy for us to operate the mission. right now the spacecraft is being built and tested and being put through a lot of rigorous testing to make sure we can withstand that environment. we are going into the corona, the temperatures can reach a couple of million degrees, we're not going back post but we will be at 2500 fahrenheit —— we're not going that far, but we will be at 2500 fahrenheit. but the spacecraft will be operating at the room temperature

we have here. time for a look at the weather. the sun is always in the same place, but sometimes it is secured by the cloud. i do look at the sky a lot, and this was across cumbria, not a cloud in the sky, and a bit more hazy. across cheshire. this evening and overnight it will be very mild, turning quite misty, especially coastal areas and the countryside. this is the satellite picture, taken by satellite, clear skies across scotland, northern parts of england, to the south we have had the cloud and some rain. you can see the mist, turning a bit more cloudy, this rain is nudging into the north—west of the uk, and look how mild it is, 16 degrees. tomorrow's weather map,

there is a big low across the atlantic, this is a cold front. it is sending the fresh atlantic air and pushing that into northern ireland and parts of scotland. to the south we have winds coming out of france where it is very warm, so this weather front is helping to shut the warmer air in our direction —— shunt. it could reach 26 degrees in the south. western parts and the north west, more cloud and much fresher air from north west, more cloud and much fresher airfrom the north west, more cloud and much fresher air from the atlantic. it is a very slow—moving front, very sluggish, not pushing it too much, so it will stay through the course of the day and the evening across many parts of england. the weather

front still moving sluggishly through friday across western areas. here we have the atlantic fresh weather and maybe thunderstorms being generated by that heat with temperatures getting into the mid—20s. humid weather on saturday, close to the british isles, but that will probably stay to the east of us, and the thinking is that the weekend, we have the winds being pushed in, the temperatures in the teens and not as warm in the south. this is the summary, sunny spells on the way for the weekend, scattered showers, and feeling a bit fresher. today at five. we're in cambridge where one of the biggest debates of the election campaign takes place this evening. and in a last—minute change, labour's jeremy corbyn will be taking part. the labour leader said he'd changed his mind on taking part because voters deserved to see leaders being challenged. and he invited theresa may tojoin him. i invite her to go to cambridge and debate her policies,

debate her record, debate their plans, debate their proposals and let the public make up their minds. but mrs may — visiting the west country today — said she preferred to be meeting voters on the campaign trail. i think debates where the politicians are squabbling among themselves doesn't do anything for the process of electioneering.