fresh calls for the home secretary to resign over the immigration row as downing street insists it has full confidence in her. amber rudd says she'll scrap immigration removal targets — despite denying their existence yesterday. i have never agreed that there should be specific removal targets, andl should be specific removal targets, and i would never support a policy that puts targets ahead of people. isn't it time that the home secretary considered her honour and resigned? we'll hear from one family being torn apart by immigration rules. also tonight: a sharp rise in violent crime in england and wales last year — with knife and gun attacks on the up. donald trump's first presidential visit to britain is announced — he'll arrive on friday 13thjuly. could wembley stadium be sold? the fa says it has received an offer of more than £800 million from the owner of fulham football club. tsb is on its knees, says the boss — after a computer meltdown which has

left thousands locked out of their accounts for almost a week. and with less than a month to go until the royal wedding, prince harry finally names his best man. and coming up on bbc news, looking to go out in a blaze of glory — arsenal take on atletico madrid in arsene wenger‘s final european home game as manager. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the home office is to scrap immigration removal targets — a day after home secretary amber rudd said they did not exist. ms rudd admitted in the commons earlier that there had been local targets for measuring performance. downing street insists it has full confidence in the home secretary, despite more calls for her to resign in the wake of the windrush controversy.

our political editor laura kuenssberg reports. cameras at the front door, rarely a good sign for a cabinet minister. the home secretary said her department did not have targets for getting people who live here illegally to leave. she was wrong. meaning the government apologised for the seventh time since this mess emerged. home secretary, amber rudd. the immigration arm of the home office has been using local targets for internal performance management dotmac these were not published targets against which performance was assessed, but if they were used inappropriately, then i am clear that this will have to change. labour says the home secretary's performance has passed the point of no return. when lord carrington resigned over the falklands, he said

it was a matter of honour. isn't it time that the home secretary considered her honour and resigned? i say with all conscience, is she really the right person to lead this office of state? but the government side is still on her side. she has the total support of this side of the total support of this side of the house, the total support of this side of the house in trying to resolve a very difficult legacy issue. most people in the real world outside of the labour party, the snp and the metropolitan london elite in the media, believe that the government don't do enough to remove illegal image is from this country, not that they are doing too much. this was the root of her embarrassment, being quizzed over the windrush fiasco yesterday, she appeared not control of the facts.

targets for removals, when were they set? we don't have targets for removals. except that wasn't quite true. documents like this passed to the bbc showed that week after week, numbers were collected and compared to those targets. so by morning, the home secretary had no choice but to admit that that was the case. but at lunchtime, government sources told me the targets would be scrapped. so injusta me the targets would be scrapped. so injust a day, they me the targets would be scrapped. so in just a day, they didn't exist. then they did, and now they are to disappear. it's common for government departments to have targets, but for families like the williams, there is unease about how the system works. mum nelly, who is from indonesia, is desperately worried that she could be deported. we are told we can't remain in the country as a family, the consequences are that we then get split up as a family. it impacts my daughter, who was in a local school getting an education that is important for her. i am astounded.

we are a happy family together. reporter: do have confidence in your home secretary, prime minister? amber rudd's boss knows a thing or two about managing home office crises, but while ms rudd is in place, it keeps the mess at some distance from theresa may's door. laura kuenssberg, bbc news, westminster. gun crime is up, knife crime is up — in fact in the last year alone police have registered sharp increases in both in england and wales amid concern over the increasing levels of violence. the figures from the office of national statistics show that knife crime last year was up by 22% compared with 2016. and robberies have increased by 33%. our home affairs correspondent leila nathoo has this report. i was told i had been stabbed i2 times, andi i was told i had been stabbed i2 times, and i nearly died. it was the dawn of 2017, and will flint was out celebrating the new year when he was stabbed while trying to stop an attack on a girl in the street.|j had a punctured lung, the knife

wound to my left side. it narrowly missed my heart. physically, i started to recover, but there were a lot of mental issues going on but i had to deal with, and i was overcome when i went through it. we'll was lucky to survive, but in the year that followed, hundreds of thousands became victims of violence across the country. overall, violent crimes recorded by police in england and wales increased by 21% last year, compared with 2016. knife crime stands out, with an increase of 22%. gun crime was also up 11%. some of the rises we are seeing in violent crime, including the most cream such as homicide, i changed in the drug activity we are seeing thickness across the country. so the links to drug taking and drug dealing are well—known, and we are seeing, for example from hospital admissions, rises in drug activity. there are two sets of crime figures out today, a survey of people's experiences,

which captures crime is not reported to police chose the more stable picture. over the longer term, to police chose the more stable picture. overthe longerterm, crime has fallen. but the police data reveals what is happening at the serious end of the scale, where there has been a surge in violence, largely here in london and other cities. and already this year, the trend looks to be continuing. in the capital, there has been a spate of killings. the government recently launched another strategy to try to tackle the problem. they want to focus on prevention as well as policing and tightening up legislation around weapons. these young people in south—east london have their own ideas. even if one person gets stabbed, that is one person gets stabbed, that is one person too much. after another stabbing in their area, they have come together to discuss solutions. think about the background of people and what the support is with their family and friends. put pressure on government to increase funding for youth engagement opportunities. police ain't listening. the police are against us. provide young people

with a safe place. youth clubs traditionally were always safe and secure. everyone is searching for a nswe i’s , secure. everyone is searching for answers, how to stop violence devastating lives and devastating communities. leila nathoo, bbc news. donald trump is making his first official visit to the uk since he was sworn in as president. he will arrive here on friday the 13th july. our north america editor, jon sopel is in washington. so can we assume the president's not superstitious? strange in the special relationship, meeting on friday the 13th, what could go wrong? given the bumps there have been in that relationship when you think about donald trump's re—tweets of anti—muslim videos from britain first and his comments about the mayor of london, his comments about the national health service, there is cause for concern. you have also had a french president in washington this week laying claim to the special relationship. but for

all that, particularly on defence, intelligence, national security matters, there is still a close relationship between britain and the united states. we saw that particularly in the recent air strikes on syria am aware france, britain and the us worked very closely together in making that happen. what we don't know about donald trump's visit is what else he will do aside from meeting theresa may. would he have lunch with the queen at buckingham palace or windsor castle? will he meet the opposition leaderjeremy corbyn? will he even meet the mayor of london? those bits of his agenda, we don't know anything about. but theresa may and he have business to conduct on what might be the framework of a post—brexit trade deal. theresa may will also be keen to see a permanent abandonment of plans for tariffs. then there the optics. aye flew out night. angela merkel flies in this evening.

britain doesn't want to get left behind. the home of english football, wembley stadium, could be sold. the football association has confirmed that it has received an offer of more than £800 million from a pakistani—american billionaire who wants to buy the ground. shahid khan already owns fulham football club and the american nfl team — the jacksonville jaguars. it's known as the home of english football and the venue for some of the sport's most memorable moments. commentator: some people are on the pitch. they think it's all over. it is now! redeveloped by the football association and reopened in 2007, wembley could now be sold to this man, the us billionaire shahid khan, following his bid worth a total of £800 million. he already owns fulham football club and, more significantly in this deal, the american football team the jacksonville jaguars. they have been a regular visitor to london in

recent years, given the nfl's appetite for overseas expansion. commentator: touch down, jacksonville. his offer for wembley is a sign that the jaguars could, in time, move permanently to wembley. confirming his offer, shahid khan said in a statement: wembley stadium would return to private ownership and the fa would be able to focus on its core mission of developing players with the best play developers and facilities anywhere in the game. is it a good dealfor the nation? because it's notjust the fa's decision to sell wembley. wembley is the national stadium, for our national sport, of which the government put well in excess of £100 million. shahid khan says wembley will still be the national team's home, but the deal could see more matches played outside of the capital in future. i'd be perhaps a little bit disappointed if it was going to be a question of that's the end of england and wembley, but i don't believe that would be the case. if it it meant thatjust a few other games had to be taken outside

of wembley and taken around the country, i don't see that personally as a negative. wembley has witnessed many incredible moments over the yea rs. a new chapter in that history may now be about to begin. let me bring you up to date. in the last few minutes, the bbc has spoken to shahid khan and he says he is hopeful that a deal to complete the sale of wembley stadium can be done within eight to 12 weeks. he is confident that a deal can be done, but what will the fa do with the cash? sources here at wembley tell me today that they want to push nearly half £1 billion into grassroots of the sport. they want to improve facilities, built new pictures and overall improve the quality at all levels of the game. but tonight, the offer is on the table. they have a big decision to make, with shahid khan telling us he is confident a deal can be done within three months. richard, thank you. the high street bank tsb is on its knees,

according to its own boss, after six days of computer meltdown which has left half of its customers unable to access their accounts online. the bank has now been forced to call in outside help to try to fix the problems — which began with a major it upgrade last weekend. our personal finance correspondent, simon gompertz reports. the frustration still facing millions of tsb customers. only 50% can get into their online accounts. if they do log in, they are frequently being kicked out again. so early today, the boss said he was flying in overseas experts to find solutions. when the team of global experts arrive at eight o'clock in bristol this morning, working directly with me and for me, they'll get to the bottom of why we're having issues providing the service we should be able to provide to our customers. it's unacceptable. when tsb is through this issue, we are on oui’ knees, but we will come back fighting. but right now, he's fighting more complaints, people shut

out of the online bank, others finding the information in their accounts is wrong. desperate times call for desperate measures to try to stop customers from leaving. tsb is promising they will pay no overdraft charges. it is bumping up the interest on its main current account to 5%, and there will be compensation not just for unexpected fees, but also for the knock—on effects of being cut off from your cash. tsb is so rattled by its inability to get the online bank working properly that it's calling for outside help. the worry for customers is that this means the problems are so deep—seated that it will take even longer to get the service back to normal. as the anxiety grows, people are asking why tsb launched the systems upgrade which caused the problems without a way of switching back to the old platform if necessary. the biggest thing they did wrong was to not have a contingency plan that allowed them to step back

to a working system once they found out that there were problems. there are investigations under way, calls for heads to roll at the top of tsb. but what customers want first is a bank that works. simon gompertz, bbc news. our top story this evening: fresh calls for the home secretary to resign over the immigration row — amber rudd says she'll scrap immigration removal targets despite denying their existence yesterday. they were supposed to be installing new power cables, instead they sparked a flood. the engineers who got in a spot of bother in the west midlands today. coming up on sportsday on bbc news, in the uk or las vegas, a unification fight between anthonyjoshua and deontay wilder is likely to happen as long as the american has the cash. asda, coca cola, nestle, procter and gamble —

they're among more than a0 companies that have pledged to crack down on the amount of plastic they use over the next seven years as part of a new agreement between supermarkets and food companies. it comes amid growing pressure on food and drink manufacturers to curb the impact plastic pollution is having on the environment. here's our science editor david shukman. it feels as if much of what we buy comes wrapped in plastic, and most is never recycled. now companies representing many of the items sold on supermarket shelves have come together to promise to cut plastic waste. this is why — shocking images of what happens when plastic gets into the oceans. so we're now seeing more and more pressure heaped on the manufacturers. over 100 ngos and 1,000 volunteers have been collecting from beaches... a promotional video from procter & gamble, one of the companies supporting the new initiative. it's churning out bottles of shampoo made with plastic collected on beaches. the bottles are grey,

because they contain recycled material. the company says the public are demanding change. consumers, people are out there talking about the role of plastics in packaging, the role of single plastics and single use plastics. so the debate is very topical at the moment. i hope it's notjust a one—hit wonder on the topic. i hope we will continue the discussions. this is all about trying to prevent plastic items like these from entering the rivers and the oceans. the overall aim is to try to cut plastic pollution by 2025. some products are difficult to recycle, because they are made up of more than one type of plastic. so one target is for 100% of plastic packaging to be ready for recycling, reuse or composting. and because some manufacturers use new materials rather than plastic that has been used before, another target is for new products to contain 30% of recycled plastic on average. so a lot of challenges lie ahead. for a start, increasing the amount

of plastic sent for recycling may depend on the government laying down the law. that's the view of environmental campaigners who welcome the new initiative, but say it does need to be enforced. we are seeing government and business responding to public pressure, and that's a good thing. but without government regulation behind voluntary agreements like this, you see little actual change. to fix all this, the systems for recycling will need to be improved, along with making it easierfor people, and using less plastic in the first place. david shukman, bbc news. facebook has admitted it didn't read the terms and conditions of a personality test app that it allowed on the site. the app was used to harvest the data of 87 million users. appearing before a committee of mps today, facebook‘s chief technical officer said it would introduce new measures in the uk to be more transparent about political posts and advertising on the platform. the leader of the scottish conservative party,

ruth davidson, has announced that she is pregnant and expecting herfirst child with her partnerjen wilson. the 39—year—old says they are delighted to be starting a family. our scotland editor, sarah smith, is in glasgow. ruth davidson could barely contain her excitement, she was beaming with ride as she announced today that she and her fiance will have the baby in the autumn. she conceived via ivf treatment and said there had been some tips treatment and said there had been some ups and downs while she attempted to get pregnant. here she is speaking to brian taylor. just really relieved, actually, because it's quite a lot of stress and pressure, and you're just hoping so hard and trying not to allow yourself to hope in case it's bad news and yes, it's just genuinely, look — i can't keep the smile off my face... you're famous for smiling but you're adding a few inches to the smile today. also i really struggled keeping it quiet because i'm the sort

of person who wears my heart on my sleeve anyway. as the first uk party leader to become a mother while in office, ruth davidson's pregnancy has sparked political speculation as well. she's often tipped as potential future leader of the uk conservative party and made it clear she doesn't intend motherhood to affect her career. she said she will ta ke affect her career. she said she will take a few months off work, then be back full—time and fully committed in the spring of next year. they were supposed to be installing new electricity cables in the west midlands, but instead of power, the engineers sparked a major flood and extraordinary scenes in tipton as cars were left submerged. sima kotecha was there. after ten o'clock this morning, a water pipe burst open. a plume of water pipe burst open. a plume of water more than two metres high went

gushing into the air. it's believed a digger hit the pipe causing the fracture. firefighters say enough water to fill six olympic size swimming pools leaked from this pipe ina swimming pools leaked from this pipe in a matter of minutes. in some places the water was three metres deep. four houses were evacuated, 16 ca i’s deep. four houses were evacuated, 16 cars we re deep. four houses were evacuated, 16 cars were submerged several schools closed. at the moment people cannot get out of their businesses and cannot get fully back to normal in their houses so we are pumping out their houses so we are pumping out the water into the canal to release the water into the canal to release the water into the canal to release the water further downstream, and obviously get people back into their houses tonight if we can. firefighters had to break into vehicles in case anybody was stranded. western distribution power are installing a new electricity cable because some homes are without power but nobody is believed to be without water. brexit raises all kinds of questions over the future of gibraltar.

talks with spain over the future of the british territory are currently deadlocked. as part of our series looking at key aspects of the brexit talks, we've considered some of the hurdles, including the significance of the airport and whether sharing it with spain might be a way out of the impasse. our europe reporter gavin lee is in gibraltar. gibraltar. a picture postcard of britishness on the southern tip of spain. gib, as the locals call it, has been uk territory for three centuries, a state of affairs contested by spain for almost as long. the 32,000 gibraltarians here are on the verge of leaving the eu, despite 96% of the people having voted against brexit. my biggest worry is that the border will close, which would result in the gaming companies leaving, because my husband works fora gaming company

that's based in gibraltar. the eu has allowed spain a voice in these brexit talks over gibraltar, and british and spanish negotiators are now meeting weekly to discuss a solution, and the spanish side say they're not seeking to reclaim the rock as part of these talks. in madrid, earlier this month, spain's foreign minister spelt out to me their demands. the tax systems in gibraltar, questions having to do with the controls at the border. the airport is located in the treaty of utrecht so we cannot accept there is britishjurisdiction of utrecht so we cannot accept there is british jurisdiction over that. the bbc understands talks are currently deadlocked because spain wa nts to currently deadlocked because spain wants to build a terminal inside the gibraltar border. britain fears it can be seen as a land grab and wa nted can be seen as a land grab and wanted to be outside frontier and neither side is giving ground.

without gibraltar representation in the room it would not be possible for agreements to be done to the satisfaction of the people of gibraltar. when it comes to the airport, this idea ofjoint management from spain, what do you think about that? gibraltar airport can be used more than it is today and there can be accessed from spain to gibraltar airport but insisting that it remains gibraltar‘s air. there's a legend in gibraltar that while the macaque monkeys that dot the top of the rock remain, gibraltar will stay british. and while there's no serious territorial claim right now, many aspects of life could change here, depending on the outcome of brexit talk. outcome of brexit talks. theirfuture, for now, lies in the hands of the negotiators. gavin lee, bbc news, gibraltar. with less than a month to go before the royal wedding, prince harry has finally named his best man. our royal correspondent, nicholas witchell is at buckingham palace. no real surprise with his choice? no surprise whatsoever, i would say.

there would have been a frightful family row if harry had not chosen as his best man and his brother, william. who else? william has said he's delighted and looking forward to supporting his brother and of course just as harry was william's best man at his wedding seven years ago on sunday, so william wilby harry's best man at windsor on the 19th of may. it puts paid to any likelihood that william will get to the cup final on the 19th of may. you will be far too busy warming up for his best man speech for the reception at windsor castle that evening. we have that it's of news about the royal wedding, what we don't have is any news about the name for william and catherine's baby son born on monday. he has still not been given a name which leads one to suspect that possibly his parents can't agree. next, thank

you. time for a look at the weather. here's louise lear. teasing us with each shot! you can see this cloud rolling up but across england and wales it has been quieter than yesterday, hasn't it, and the weather forecast for the next few days is not great. a rush of showers further north, some bunbury, not as bad as yesterday but they have been piling in across scotland, northern england and northern ireland. there have been some further south, but i need to draw your attention to this mass of cloud and rain which will arrive through the night tonight. clearer skies further north and we could see temperatures as low as 1 degrees in sheltered eastern areas of scotland but at least here you will have some sunshine. i need to draw your attention to what's happening further south and if we look at the detail more you can see bands of rain pushing up from the south—west,

one clearing and being replaced by another so it will be a dismal friday for many across the south—west of england, wales, the midlands and into the north of england. elsewhere april showers but it won't be very warm. underneath the cloud and rain, if we are lucky we will see 9 degrees so pretty disappointing. that will linger during the early hours of saturday morning, so cloudy, damp and drizzly. you can just morning, so cloudy, damp and drizzly. you canjust make morning, so cloudy, damp and drizzly. you can just make out the wind direction coming from the north. it will be a light breeze but a cool breeze. on saturday the best of the sunshine likely to be the norm and west, slowly brightening up in the south. some isolated showers into the afternoon but the temperatures again will struggle for this time of year with highs of nine -12 this time of year with highs of nine — 12 degrees. a similar story on sunday, then we could be heavy rain into the south—east corner. this is your summary, sunshine and showers to close out the month of april, a

cool breeze and on exposed coasts you will know about it with heavy rain threatening late on sunday. thank you. a reminder of our main story... fresh calls for the home secretary to resign over the immigration row amber rudd says she'll scrap immigration removal targets despite denying their existence yesterday. that's all from the bbc news at six, so it's goodbye from me and on bbc one, we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. this is bbc news — our latest headlines. the bbc understands the home office will scrap immigration removal targets, a day after home secretary amber rudd said they didn't exist. the white house announces plans for president trump to make a ‘working visit‘ to the uk injuly. the football association considers an offer to sell wembley stadium for a deal thought to be worth £800 million. scottish conservative leader ruth davidson announces she is pregnant and says she and her partner jen wilson are very excited. in a moment it will be time

for sportsday but first a look at what else is coming up this evening on bbc news. in beyond 100 days, reaction from both washington and westminster