tonight at ten: we're in cambridge where one of the biggest debates of this election campaign has just taken place, with exchanges on immigration, security and the future of public services. the debate included labour's jeremy corbyn and featured repeated attacks on the prime minister for refusing to take part. she was represented by amber rudd. some of the clashes were over stagnating wages and austerity. amber rudd seems so confident that this is a country at ease with itself. have you been to a food bank? have you seen people sleeping around our stations? have you seen... applause. ijust have to take on some ofjeremy corbyn's fantasy economics. i mean, he has this money tree wish list in his manifesto. and the prime minister, campaigning in the west country today, defended her decision not to be in cambridge for tonight's debate. i think debates where the politicians are squabbling among themselves doesn't do anything for the process of electioneering. i think actually it's about getting out and about, meeting voters and hearing directly from voters.

also on the programme tonight: the breast surgeon sentenced to 15 years injail. ian paterson is sent to prison after performing completely unnecessary operations on patients after inventing or exaggerating the risk of cancer. 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. at least 90 people are killed in the afghan capital kabul after a truck bomb explodes in the diplomatic quarter. and the global accord to curb carbon emissions — is president trump about to withdraw america from the paris climate change deal? coming up in sportsday on bbc news: arsenal majority owner stan kroenke says arsene wenger is the best person to manage the club as his new two—year deal is confirmed. good evening.

with just eight days to go until the election, one of the biggest debates of this campaign has just taken place in cambridge. there were seven party representatives involved, including the labour leader jeremy corbyn, who'd announced earlier in the day that he would, after all, be attending. the prime minister theresa may did not take part, she said she'd rather be out meeting voters on the campaign trail. we'll have more on the day's campaigning in a moment, but first tonight's debate, which featured some forthright here's our deputy political editorjohn pienaar. guess who came after all and what an

entrance? jeremy corbyn left it late but how could he resist trying to show up theresa may who stayed away? maybe make up for the odd campaign gaffe. this was his chance and look at him, he meant to take it if he could. she came to stop him. her leader's favourite, amber rudd. fewer fa ns leader's favourite, amber rudd. fewer fans but a leader's favourite, amber rudd. fewerfans but a bigger motorcade and a single mission, take down jeremy corbyn. wherever theresa may was, she wanted this, the nearest thing this election has to a contact sport, to go her way. amber rudd was straight into the attack afterjeremy corbyn criticised treatment of those on disability benefits. you are not credible... there is no extra payment you don't want to add to, no tax you don't want to rise. but the fa ct tax you don't want to rise. but the fact is we have to concentrate resources on the people who need it most, and we have to stop thinking as you do that there is a magic money tree. you have to be

accountable... i would like to bring in other parties. it was already a personal confrontation. the labour leader counterattacking on poverty. i would just say this, since amber rudd seems confident this is a country at ease with itself, have you been to a food bank, have you seen people sleeping around our stations? have you seen... applause. have you seen the level... i would like to answer your attack. because of your government's conscious decisions on benefits. for amberto conscious decisions on benefits. for amber to say this is a government that cares for those most vulnerable i think is downright insulting to the people that i see in my constituency surgery. this was a seven—sided debate. brexit was inevitably a big issue tonight. passion and heat from all sides. we have to get the population under control because if we carry back

will have a population of 80 million. there will have to be a huge school building programme, new hospitals, new motorways, a new rail network, new houses, we are already having to build a house every seven minutes to keep up with the numbers of people coming to this country. minutes to keep up with the numbers of people coming to this countrylj am afraid ukip keep using this issue, they want to whip up people's hatred, division and fear and that's why they talk about immigration all the time. i think this debate shames and demeans us all, i don't think there is anyone in this room or anybody watching this debate from cornwall to kithness doesn't jn stand the positive contribution people have made who have come to this country and demonising them is unacceptable. amber rudd took her opportunity, if theresa may had come along she would have said what her stand—in said next. along she would have said what her stand-in said next. i was thinking how chaotic it would be if they

tried to run a government. jeremy corbyn was put under pressure. he had come to apply pressure of his own, on pensions. you have said very clearly... have you not read my manifesto, i am clearly... have you not read my manifesto, lam happy clearly... have you not read my manifesto, i am happy to give you a copy. i would like the answer now. are you going to protect... they're going to get rid of it, jeremy. terrorism was always going to be a hot topic. and it was. i am shocked thatjeremy corbyn just in 2011 boasted that he had opposed every piece of anti—terror legislation in his 30 years in office. my opposition to anti—terror legislation isn't opposition to protecting us from terrorism, it is simply saying there must be judicial oversight over what is done in our name. you cannot give... applause. it got heated. ukip's leader demanded more action against extremists from muslims, too much

for tim farron. you have to rebuild trust and confidence in prevent. you know the murderer last monday was reported five separate occasions by the muslim community. they want our safety as much as anybody else. then it was over. no knockout blows but this fight heating up. just a week to go. so as we've seen, amber rudd represented the conservatives here this evening. the prime minister spent most of the day campaigning. she visited the west country, where she was challenged about not giving enough detail on her party's policies. mrs may insisted she was listening to voters and rejected accusations that her decision not to go to cambridge tonight was a sign of weakness. 0ur political editor laura kuenssberg reports on the campaign trail. there is flash photography in her report. london, 9.00am. days to go. a rare sight these days, an old—fashioned press conference. labour attacking the tories on public services. patients are suffering ever longer

waits in overcrowded wards. those who need care have been left without it. a&e and maternity units in whole hospitals are threatened with closure. children are crammed into overcrowded and crumbling classrooms. schools are sending home begging letters to the parents. it has to change. rather than preparing, or even considering tonight's big debate, theresa may was up early with the boats. then a campaign classic, sampling the produce at a county show. notably, the prime minister on the road today in parts of the country, the south—west, the tories are trying to defend. but elsewhere, labour and the leader's crowds are enjoying being the insurgent underdog. it's about 11.30am and we're on the road in reading. this rally of people packed, waiting to hear from jeremy corbyn. it's just a case of vote for me, not that horrible man. i've come to see the horrible man

because he's not horrible. he's very sensible. it's relatable to people and he understands what young people really want. their hero's welcome, ready to commit that he will debate with or without the pm. 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. 0n the move, but heading the other way, the prime minister won't respond to heckles or agree to those chanted demands to show her face tonight. show your face! staff at this factory in bath did try to put her on the spot. but applauded when she was asked about not showing tonight. but could she really laugh it off? look... he's now up for a head—to—head debate. doesn't it suggest that you're

frightened of taking him on directly if you don't go too? no, you know, laura, first of all, i've been taking jeremy corbyn on directly week in, week out, at prime minister's questions. secondly, actually, yes, public scrutiny is for an election campaign but that's why taking questions from members of the public who are going to be voting on the 8thjune is so important. the risk — she just looks scared. isn't your decision not to take part in a debate tonight a bit of a metaphor for your whole campaign? you're very happy to repeatedly criticise the labour party, but for your own plans you're reluctant to give us very much detail at all, whether that's on brexit, your future immigration system, how many people will lose their winter fuel allowance? what i've done in terms of our manifesto has been open with the british public about the great challenges that we face as a country over the next few years and beyond and how we will address those challenges. and 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. don't people want more from you, because you're basically saying on many of these big issues, i'll get back to you? i think what we owe to people is to be open with them about the challenges we face as a society and as a country and be open with them about the solutions that we're offering. but in campaigns the path is so often less smooth for those who start out in front. laura kuenssberg, bbc news, bath. 0ur political editor, laura kuenssberg, is with me. will it change anything, laura? well, sophie, ispoke will it change anything, laura? well, sophie, i spoke to some of the audience tonight after the end of the debate, including some tory voters, and a couple of them were clearly very frustrated that theresa may hadn't bothered to show and in reverse pleased that jeremy may hadn't bothered to show and in reverse pleased thatjeremy corbyn had made the effort to turn up and to debate the other parties here tonight. i think it's pretty clear

that in terms of today at least jeremy corbyn has had a tactical win. he has been seen to seize the initiative and come along and take part. i think it's too early to say how that's going to play out with the wider electorate, those people who weren't following every twist and turn of tonight's debate, those people who hadn't necessarily paid much attention to what the line—up was going to be, who the political players were all going to be at this big major event. in the spin room tonight where members of the press we re tonight where members of the press were watching and senior politicians we re were watching and senior politicians were trying to claim victory for their person, it hasn't felt really like a wake or a celebration for any of them. i think the truth is really none of the seven politicians on stage tonight had a cringe—worthy disaster, nor did any of them, including jeremy corbyn, have some kind of big breakthrough moment that really feels like it will have a huge impact on the course of this campaign. i suspect by the time we get to the actual election, tonight

might be remembered as the day when theresa may didn't turn up, rather than what anybody who was actually here actually said. thank you. a breast surgeon is beginning a 15—year sentence in prison tonight for carrying out needless and life—changing operations on nine women and one man. ian paterson, who's 59, exaggerated the risk of cancer to persuade his patients to consent to surgery. althought the case related to ten patients, it's thought many more could have been affected. 0ur health editor, hugh pym, reports. a rogue surgeon who thought he was untouchable. he had the total trust of vulnerable patients, but he maimed and mutilated them. now, ian paterson is behind bars. he caused me to have 23 operations. some of his victims, who suffered from the operations he carried out, gathered before the sentencing this morning. then they marched together into nottingham crown court, determined to see justice being done. many warned of a cancer risk,

had breast surgery, which proved to be unnecessary. they sat in court watching ian paterson, head bowed in the dock. sentencing him, mrjustice jeremy bakersaid: "in pursuit of your own self aggrandisement and the material rewards it brought from your private practice, you lost sight of the fact you were carrying out significant surgical procedures upon your patients. you deliberately played upon their worst fears, either by inventing or deliberately exaggerating the risks that they would develop cancer." the court also heard that his former patients endured pain and discomfort, with some suffering long—term complications, anxiety and depression. i lost my home. i lost my marriage. i lost my health. i lost myjob. i lost absolutely everything. he took everything away from me. we may never know the real 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. some questioned paterson's 15—year prison sentence. he should be released on licence after seven—and—a—half years. we've all been given a life sentence. he's just going to walk away a free man after seven—and—a—half years and yet every morning we look in the mirror and the scars are there to remind us. so i think at the least he should serve the 15 years he's been given. for the victims, the battle doesn't end here. their lawyers are preparing a high court civil action to be heard later this year, seeking damages from the hospitals and paterson himself. solicitors say they're acting for around 600 former patients, but more may come forward and the total number of victims could be 1,000, or even more. so, could there be another paterson? medical regulators say there are much tougher safeguards now, with regular staff appraisals and surgeons working in teams who can challenge them.

the safety net we have now in place is a very different one than existed at that time. does it provide an absolute guarantee against people committing criminal acts? i can't give you that absolute guarantee. but what i can say is that if people do perpetrate such criminal acts, i would feel very confident that those would be picked up very quickly indeed. but private hospitals, where paterson and other surgeons work, are still not strictly regulated, according to medical leaders and even as he began his prison sentence, there have been calls for a wider enquiry into how patients were so badly let down. hugh pym, bbc news, nottingham. at least 90 people, most of them civilians, have been killed and hundreds more injured after a massive car bomb attack in the afghan capital, kabul. the country's president, ashraf ghani, called it "a crime against humanity." the bomb was detonated near zanbaq square in the heavily fortified zone during the morning rush hour.

it struck the city's diplomatic quarter, damaging several foreign embassies. no one has admitted carrying out the attack. this report from our correspondent, caroline hawley, contains some distressing images. you could see from miles away the force of this explosion. a massive bomb ata force of this explosion. a massive bomb at a busy kabul intersection, hitting commuters on their way to work. children on their way to school. it was a bomb so powerful it shattered windows up to a mile away, leaving a trail of horrific destruction. 0ne witness said it was like an earthquake. there were so many casualties, security vehicles had to double—up as ambulances. the afg ha n had to double—up as ambulances. the afghan government said hospitals in the capital were in dire need of blood. translation: i was working in the office when a powerful blast happened. i collapsed under the desk and received injuries from shattered windows. most of the dead and injured were civilians, including

many women and children. among those killed is mohammed nazir, who worked for the bbc as a driver. the bbc said he was a popular colleague, with a young family. the area where the bomb went off is supposed to be one of the most secure parts of the capital, walking distance from the presidential palace. the bbc‘s correspondent was at the scene soon after the attack. it was a water tanker or a lorry full of explosive that hit this trannic location right in the heart of kabul. it's very close to the german embassy, indian embassy, french and british embassies. even in a country that's become painfully used to violence, the scale of this attack has been a shock. security in afghanistan has been deteriorating for some time. most of the country was under government control by in 2014, when nato ended its combat mission. since then, large swathes of territory have fallen to the taliban. most of

helmand, where so many british soldiers lost their lives, is now in taliban hands. so is much of the province of kunduz. is has a presence in nangarhar. us commanders are asking for several thousand more. at one point we had 150,000 foreign military boots on the ground. that did not weaken or destroy the taliban. so a few thousand more today is not going to bea thousand more today is not going to be a solution. yes, in the short—term it is going to give some support and better training to the afg ha n support and better training to the afghan government and afghan security forces, but the insurgency will still be there. afghan intelligence are blaming a network, no group has admitted to carrying out one of the worstattacks kabul has ever seen. caroline hawley, bbc news. president trump is preparing to pull out of the paris climate deal

to combat global warming — that's according to media reports in america. donald trump has not confirmed those reports, but he's said he will make an announcement in the next few days. pulling out of the climate accord — signed in 2015 — was one of president trump's key campaign pledges. well, our correspondent, nick bryant, is in washington for us tonight. if he does indeed do that, what will it mean? sophie, the indications tonight, as you say, so far unconfirmed, the question is not whether america would withdraw from the paris accord how will it remove itself from the paris accord under the terms of the agreement it's a three—year exit process. the trump administration is said to be considering a nuclear option of opting out of all the un's climate change negotiating framework that would short circuit the process. it would happen in the space of a year. climate change scientists are saying that's potentially cla ma'am us to it is brings close to the day when the planet reaches dangerous temperature levels. 0ne climate change scientists put it the global warming

noose tightens. there is additional concern that other countries will follow america's lead. two are outside the paris accord emit and that other nations might not be so committed to the emissions targets which are voluntarily. there is is talk of a green alliance between beijing and brussels the eu and china to make sure the climate change doesn't fall apart. donald trump has chosen isolation on arguably the biggest issue facing the planet. nick bryant, thank you. it's a war that's largely been forgotten. but libya's descent into chaos, after the fall of general gaddafi six years ago, has created a broken state and a breeding ground for terrorism. it's been exploited by so—called islamic state, who've been drawing in young men, like the manchester bomber, salman abedi. he'd only recently returned from libya when he blew himself up. 0ur middle east correspondent, quentin sommerville, has been talking to another man from manchester — a former friend of abedi's — who travelled to libya,

not to support the islamic state group, but to fight them. his report contains flashing images and scenes which some viewers may find disturbing. gunfire libya's been ripping itself apart for years. much ignored, it seemed far off, but we're more involved in this fight than we ever realised. these home videos are from benghazi and one faction, the libyan national army. it's a foreign war, but this fighter is from manchester. the boys from moss side became libya's soldiers. mohamed el—sharif has taken up arms against islamists, including the so—called islamic state. he left manchester in 2011, and never went back. people at that time

wanted to come to libya. i knew he could come to libya. just come. go book a ticket to tunisia. book a ticket to egypt. book a ticket to wherever and then just get a taxi into libya. once they know you're in libya they know you're living, that's it, nobody can topple you. it's your hometown, it's your city. this is home now, drugs are widespread, dulling the monotony and the wounds of young fighters. in this madness, the islamic state is waiting for the right moment and the right recruit. make sure they don't go to that path, if you know what i mean. like, if you needed them to do what they do, there's people that are looking for young lads to blow themselves up. to do stuff like that.

they're going to find them. they're going to convince them. they're going to make them do and do and do. yeah, this's salman that. that's salman right there. that's salman. he was once good friends with the manchester bomber, salman abedi, but they chose different sides in libya's war. they haven't seen each other in five years. the fighting changed both men. i've been in wars for over three years. i've seen so much blood. i wouldn't go blow myself up. gunfire but life here is warped. mohamed was filmed proudly desecrating is corpses. you posted a video on instagram, tell me what happened? why did you shoot those bodies? it is wrong. it is, obviously. what can i say to you. i do regret it but, what can i say, they deserved to do die, too. they deserved to die because they killed so many people. gunfire

the journey to here from manchester was quick and it was easy. these two worlds overlap. mohmmed stayed in libya, but salman abedi brought the violence back home with him. libya's chaos won't be contained. quentin sommerville, bbc news, eastern libya. back to the election now and the largest unionist party in northern ireland, the dup, has launched its manifesto, promising to work for the best deal in the brexit talks. the party also pledged to make tourism a billion—pound industry and called for a public holiday to celebrate northern ireland's centenary in 2021. the dup's leader and former first minister, arlene foster, said she wanted a mandate for talks aimed at restoring power—sharing at stormont. but above all, she said, the election was about making sure northern ireland remains in the uk. 0njune 8th, i'm asking people to get northern ireland back on the right track.

to vote to get the best deal for northern ireland. to strengthen our hands in the upcoming negotiations. to get the assembly back up and running, to protect our place within the united kingdom and to unite behind one strong unionist voice. northern ireland's alliance party has also launched its election manifesto, promising "progressive and pro—european politics. " the manifesto includes a series of commitments on power—sharing in the assembly, the economy and justice, but focuses on brexit. this is a manifesto which pledges to oppose a hard brexit, support a special deal for northern ireland and which will give the public the final say on the outcome of those brexit negotiations. the way we consume our daily news is changing, with a growing generational divide. nowadays, younger voters are relying less on newspapers and more on the internet and social media.

but does that make them more prone to so—called fake news? 0ur media editor, amol rajan, has been finding out. archive: yes, it's fleet street, but how many of you know the inside story on the stories you read? 0nce home to britain's newspapers, for decades fleet street provided the life blood of our body politic. those are vanished times of course, thanks to the digital revolution, but for all the talk of the death of papers, the presses are still rolling. read by nearly eight million people in britain every day, papers often set the wider news agenda. these days the daily telegraph is much more thanjust a newspaper, but in it is printed form it still boasts nearly half a million half a million readers, the majority of them conservative inclined with an average age of 57. if we wield any influence it's because of the influence of our readers and we're lucky to have many of them and many of them are influential. it's true that print circulation is in decline somewhat, but we still sell more than 450,000 newspapers every day. even as their print circulations fall and they move online, titles like the mighty telegraph still wield enormous influence

and have a hot—line to number ten. but there is another conversation going on during this election, one in which websites with a very different following tell a very different story. one such website is skwuawkbox, its anonymous author, a hard left member of the labour party and pressure group momentum, spoke to us on the condition that we would preserve his anonymity, saying he operates below the radar of traditional media and fears for his family's safety. many of his articles go viral, with some achieving hundreds of thousands of readers. the way that social media works in facebook, more than twitter, is that you've got this kind of venn diagrams, the overlapping circles with people's sphere of influence and acquaintance and that person might be somebody you're already preaching to the choir, but their auntie or uncle, who sees their facebook feed, might not be.

their friend that they're connected to from work and it's that overspill around the edges of people's social media circles that interest me because that's where the message gets out and you get a chance to actually change opinion. with a lot of these sites that are popping up, their entire purpose is to destroy the status quo. they don't want to give a fair hearing to both sides. they don't want to engage with the opposition. they don't want to have the relationships that journalists traditionally do with politicians. their entire purpose is to smash the system. in the uk, the older you are, the more likely you are to get most of your news from tv, but the comparison of print and online shows a growing generation divide. the younger you are, the greater the dependence on the internet for news. 84% of young people mostly get their news online, with social media playing a key role. just 4% of the same age range turn to newspapers first. the headlines are fairly sensationalist. they're fairly emotionally charged. in analysis published this evening, researchers at the oxford internet institute conclude that so far british voters are getting less false or misleading news on twitter than americans saw in last year's presidential election. it's not as big of a problem

as it was in the states. we found that in the lead—up to this election people are sharing quality news. so news from professional news organisations, and that's 53% of the total content shared. junk news has been around 13%, so a big difference there. social media have created echo chambers where younger and often left—leaning audiences find and an alternative news agenda. the balance of power within the news ecosystem is shifting their way, even though many politicians are yet to realise. amol rajan, bbc news. the arsenal manager, arsene wenger, says he is happy and excited after signing a new two—year deal to remain in charge at the club, ending months of speculation about his future.