‘ northern sunshine. turning drive for northern england, southern scotland and northern ireland. still wet in northern scotland. in her own cabinet. her withdrawal agreement bill was due to be published tomorrow, but downing street says the prime minister is listening to the concerns of colleagues. and all this as pressure increases on mrs may to step down. we'll have the latest from westminster. also on the programme... a former youth football coach, bob higgins, is found guilty of indecently assaulting numerous boys over more than 20 years. his supporters are happy, but can prime minister modi unite a divided india after a landslide victory, in the general election? no the gymnast scoring a perfect

10 for one routine, no but in the past plagued with doubt, about her body image. i was told that i didn't look like a gymnast. i was told that i looked like i'd swallowed and elephant or i looked like a pig. and judith karr, the author who delighted millions of children with her bestseller, the tiger who came to tea, has died. she was 95. and later in the hour, we will have sports day on the bbc news channel with all the reports, results and features from the bbc sport centre. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the government has decided not to publish theresa may's revised

brexit withdrawal bill tomorrow as planned, but instead in earlyjune. the delay comes amid increasing pressure on the prime minister to resign, following changes to her plans for leaving the european union, which have angered many in her own party. the commons leader andrea leadsom stepped down yesterday, over the new proposals. here's our political editor, laura kuenssberg. emergency? it may well be. an investigation on whitehall, while behind downing street's gates, the prime minister is hanging on. calls for her to quit, growing. morning. after one of her colleagues jumped first. i have no doubts that i made the right decision, and of course it's for the prime minister to decide what's right for her and for the country. thanks very much. will others follow her out the door? plenty of them have concerns, but no sign yet. will you be following the steps of angela leadsom and resigning

to strengthen your position? no. loyalists in and out of number ten. is it over for the prime minister? how can they deal with restive backbenchers, who want theresa may out? is it time for her to stand aside? and fears in cabinet about the brexit plan. the home secretary and the foreign secretary both told her of their worries today. but publicly at least... discussions between the foreign secretary and the prime minister should remain confidential, and i'm not going to change that this morning. ..he‘s saying she should stay. at least to host the american president, who will be in town in ten days. theresa may will be prime minister to welcome him, and rightly so, and we are absolutely at one with the united states. but mps on all sides have condemned theresa may's new brexit plan. there is no sign of it emerging in the commons any time soon. we'd hoped to hold a second reading on friday the 7th ofjune. at the moment, we've not

secured agreement to this in the usual channels. of course, we'll update the house when we return from recess. this is yet another broken promise from the prime minister on brexit. could the honourable gentleman confirm why the bill is not coming forward for a second reading as promised, and when is it likely to do so? she might have more time for small talk soon. the most serious conversations are happening now about her departure. is it over, prime minister? and when? only she knows. this brexit bill matters so much to theresa may because it is tied to everything she has fought for as prime minister but there are serious conversations about her future happening right now. she is under extreme pressure over whether she should go or stay and tomorrow she is due to meet graham brady, the top brass of the party's backbench

committee and that could be fit theresa may some of the last conversations she has in her current job. thank you, laura. laura kuenssberg at westminster. a former youth football coach has been found guilty of indecently assaulting 23 teenage boys. bob higgins sexually touched and groped his victims, who were mostly trainees at southampton and peterborough united between 1971 and 1996. duncan kennedy is at bournemouth crown court for us this evening. duncan. this is one of the worst cases to come out of the football abuse scandal, which first broke in 2016. you are right, bob higgins worked as a youth team coach for southampton football clu b a youth team coach for southampton football club and peterborough united, as well as other clubs. he was a trusted member of staff but today he was found guilty of 45 cou nts today he was found guilty of 45 counts of sexual abuse involving 23 boys. i should warn viewers, some people may find the details in this report upsetting.

bob higgins was a youth coach who guided the lives and nurtured the dreams of generations of young footballers. but he was also a sexual manipulator, who abused dozens of boys from the 1970s to the 1990s. he was head of youth development at southampton football club and brought on future england stars like matt le tissier and alan shearer, although there is no suggestion either man was abused by bob higgins. er, my life's been chaos, really. billy seymour was one of higgins‘ victims. he waived his right to anonymity. he was among a party boys who went higgins on coaching trips, like this one to sweden. he believed higgins could make him a football star, but instead, higgins became a predator. he'd come and sit down on the bed, stroking my hair, and then he would tell me to move up and he would lay on top of the covers and his hands would be

going under the covers and touching my groin area. but billy seymour never lived to see his tormentor face justice. he died in a car crash injanuary. we coach them in the mornings. higgins went on to abuse other boys over a number of years. they included greg llewellyn, who's also waived his right to anonymity. he says higgins abused him during post training massages and says it's taken years to move on. i had a lot, a lot of anger for a very long time. it's only in fairly recent years that things have come together and i'm able to get on with my life. it took a very long time to enable me to do that. southampton football club here have told the bbc that they weren't aware of that abuse of trust until 1989 and that when they did find out, they immediately told the police. the football association say that they've appointed an independent lawyer to investigate all the allegations

involving bob higgins. have you ever engaged in any behaviour... after his arrest, higgins was questioned for 15 hours, but he didn't say a word. they were young men who dreamed of being footballers and he held that key to that goal in his hands and he exploited that as part of his sexual offending. this was higgins in 1986, but at the back of this parade is barry bennell. he was another youth coach jailed last year for 30 years, also for abusing junior players. higgins, who wore this bizarre disguise to court, will be sentenced later. a gatekeeper to boys who dreamed of a career in football, but actually someone who slammed the door on their innocence. duncan kennedy, bbc news. you can watch a special programme on the trial that led

to bob higgins‘ conviction at 9.30 tomorrow night on the bbc news channel — and also on the bbc iplayer from today. india's prime minister, narendra modi, has secured another five—year term, after a landslide victory in the general election. results so far show his bjp party, is on course to win more than 300, of the 543 seats in parliament. in all, 900 million voters were eligible to take part, making it the largest election the world has ever seen. there were one million polling stations due to rules that no one should have to travel more than 2 kilometres to vote, and the poll lasted 39 days. 0ur south asia correspondent rajini vaidyanathan, reports from delhi. a warning that there are flashing images in her report. narendra modi, india's strongman, has retained his grip on power. back for a second term, the boy who sold tea has grown into one

of the world's most powerful men. beloved too many, his autocratic brand of hindu nationalism has ca ptu red brand of hindu nationalism has captured the faith of the people. across this vast nation, the bjp notched up big wins. if this was a referendum on his popularity, he has seen referendum on his popularity, he has seen off his challengers and won a mandate that has quietened his critics. celebrations here are about more thanjust critics. celebrations here are about more than just this election. narendra modi's party secured at historic landslide victory but also disrupted a political landscape dominated by the same party, the same family since independence in 1947. the opposition congress party. rahul gandhi, torchbearer india's first family, great grandson of the

country's first ever prime minister, the great hope who never delivered. todayis the great hope who never delivered. today is not the day for me to go into the details of this mandate. todayis into the details of this mandate. today is the day that a new prime minister has been elected and today's the day to wish him all the best. while his opponents campaigned, narendra modi went on a pilgrimage. in this deeply religious country, he's electrified millions of hindus but scorched its minorities. india's secular soul enshrined in its constitution is at sta ke. enshrined in its constitution is at stake. narendra modi has fought this election on fear, fear of muslims, infiltrators, outsiders come on this idea of giving back hindus that hindu pride. so when that comes into question, it's difficult to lose an election. narendra modi rode to power in 2014, promising to serve the poor, the weekend marginalised.

in the world's fastest growing economy, many say he has failed to deliver the good days he promised. translation: he promised jobs and housing in the last five years. he has not fulfilled that. what can i expect from him now? unemployment is at its highest for 50 yea rs. unemployment is at its highest for 50 years. but for believers like this man, he is their only hope. narendra modi will improve unemployment this time, the job has been left have undone that it will happen. like other nationalistic world leaders, narendra modi offers a vision of hope and national pride, of protection against outside threats, but he's reinvigorated a climate of fear and suspicion. will he be able to steer a country now characterised by deep divides towards the bright future he has

promised? in a country so divided, how did narendra modi pull off such a stunning victory? well, one game changer was a few months ago when tensions between india and neighbouring pakistan ratcheted up close to the brink of nuclear war. back then, narendra modi said he was the only person who could guard the gates of india and offering and playing into a brand of fear, he offered them a brand of hope, and people he aborted. thank you. rajini vaidyanathan people he aborted. thank you. rajini vaidya nathan live in people he aborted. thank you. rajini vaidyanathan live in delhi. —— mike and people bought it. the health secretary, mathew hancock, has condemned as "awful" the abuse of vulnerable patients, uncovered by the bbc, at a specialist hospital in county durham. secret filming for the panorama programme showed staff mocking and intimidating patients with autism and learning difficulties at worlton hall. it's now emerged there were a hundred visits to the hospital by official agencies in the past 12 months.

this report from our social affairs correspondent alison holt contains some distressing details. whorlton hall hospital in county durham, which looks after nearly a dozen people with learning disabilities and autism, now stands empty. all of its patients, moved to new places after the panorama undercover investigation exposed a culture of bullying, taunting and intimidation. alex, who has profound autism, was a regular target for some staff. she should only be looked after by women, because men frighten her. but when she was upset, the men took over. alex screams. they called it pushing the man button. shocked by what was happening to their daughter, alex's parents, tony and sarah, say that others need to be warned. i'm devastating for

anyone to happen to. pound to a penny, it's happening to some other people. it shouldn't be. you must show all those clips. you must show people. you must, you must show people. this comes eight years after panorama exposed abuse at the now closed winterbourne view, another hospital for people with learning disabilities and autism. then, the government promised all such institutions would close. it hasn't happened. today, the health secretary described the abuse seen in last night's programme as awful. i have brought in a new investigation, and crucially, we're going to make sure that everybody gets their case looked at, and we support them to get them out into the community, wherever that is possible. is thatjust going to be another review? no, we are going to go through each case, case—by—case, to help people to get into the right setting. one expert who wrote a plan for moving people out of places like this nearly five years ago says

that's not good enough. i think anyone seeing that programme should be very angry and should be angry that the government is not prepared to take the action that they should do. and i'm asking them today to rethink, close those institutions, build the community facilities and importantly, actually introduced legislation for a charter of rights, to give more protection to people and families. and with more than 100 visits by official agencies to whorlton hall in the last year, many will question how this abuse could have been missed. alison holt, bbc news. the time is 6:16pm. our top story this evening: the government delays publication of theresa may's revised brexit plans, amid a growing backlash, in her own cabinet. and still to come we celebrate the 50—year career of the children's authorjudith kerr, who's died at the age of 95.

coming up on bbc news. a perfect tribute to a formula 1 legend. lewis hamilton was fastest a practice in monaco as the tributes roll in for niki lauda. injanuary, a video of the american gymnast katelyn ohashi performing a perfect 10 routine, went viral, gaining her millions of new fans around the world. but her amazing performance in competition in california, betrayed none of the struggles in her life dealing with crippling body image issues. katelyn has been speaking to our sports correspondent, jo currie. it was the gymnastics routine that flipped the internet on its head. and injanuary, it turned us collegiate athlete, katelyn ohashi, into a viral sensation. it's crazy. the next day my phone kept

going off, my twitter notifications and i looked and i had like 50,000 more followers than i had that morning. i had people screen shotting, celebrities posting the video. this is so crazy, i don't even know what's happening, but it's so amazing. but behind that smile, ohashi has had a difficultjourney. quitting sport when she was younger, a lot of coaches told her she was too large to be a gymnast. i was told that i didn't look like a gymnast. i was told that i looked like i'd swallowed an elephant and i looked like a pig and my face was three times the size it was this morning. as a 14—year—old that's impressionable, you start believing those things. it hit me so hard, i felt so uncomfortable looking in the mirror. i felt uncomfortable walking back into the gym because i felt like their eyes were targeted at me and i do think it is a form of abuse. ohashi had been tipped as the next big thing in us gymnastics,

even beating simone biles in a senior international competition. but the constant mental strain around her body image, coupled with a serious back injury led to her walking away from the sport. i came home and i wasjust bawling. my mum said, "aren't you happy?" isaid, "i'm miserable". i don't think the coaches were necessarily aware of the damage they were doing. to never put on leo again, to never be judged critically by anyone, i felt like was a relief. but after a year of recuperation, ohashi did return to gymnastics, albeit not as a professional, but at college in california. and it's here she created that routine and found her voice. being comfortable with the only person that matters is yourself. because you are the only person that has your back and you are the only person that's in your skin, 100% of the time. this routine catapulted ohashi into the spotlight, but it's her body issues that will resonate with girls and women everywhere. jo currie, bbc news, los angeles.

a man has described how a police bullet missed him by centimetres, as officers opened fire on the london bridge attackers two years ago. simon edwards told the inquests into the deaths of the eight people who were killed, that he hid in a pub with others, as the attackers tried to get inside, before the police opened fire. voting is taking place in the european parliament elections, but the results won't be known until sunday. 73 meps will be elected to represent the uk. the electoral commission says it's investigating reports some eu citizens living in britain have been unable to vote today, despite being eligible. botswana is lifting a ban on elephant hunting, after a five—year suspension. the government says it's because of an increase in the elephant population, which is adversly affecting farmers. botswana has the largest elephant population in africa, with more than 135,000 roaming freely in unfenced parks and open spaces. conservationists however have criticised the move,

to lift the hunting ban. middlesbrough has one of the highest proportions of asylum seekers in the uk, and is one of the places where the home office sends refugees, awaiting a decision on whether or not they can stay in britain. but it's a process that can take years, so as part of a week of stories from middlesbrough, our north of england correspondent danny savage, has been finding out how the town has adapted to the influx of visitors. middlesbrough, a town where many asylum seekers have been sent to live, mainly because accommodation is cheap. a lot has changed over the last two decades. when i first arrived here 18 years ago there wasn't many shops, compared to now where there are lots and lots of shops from a very diverse background. bin, an eritrean geologist,

was on the first coach of asylum seekers to come here. here's my very good, old friend. bin. hello. long time, have you been? i'm really well, thank you. i haven't seen you for a while. how are you? yeah, i'm all right. he's gone on to help people develop a whole street of businesses. i've come here with nothing, but today i own my shop, you know. so middlesbrough, it's all thanks to the people of middlesbrough because they give us that chance. desmond fled here from nigeria. so is middlesbrough a good place to live? it's my home now. this is where i live now. you know, i call this my home now. anybody describe me, i'm from middlesbrough. but it hasn't always been positive here. three years ago, we reported on the racist graffiti carved into the front doors of asylum seekers. in 2019, prospects for them have improved, things are more organised. the missing words are, ‘on‘, ‘in‘, ‘who', ‘by‘... this lady is a syrian refugee. improving her english so she can work in her chosen profession. i was a pharmacist. i had my own pharmacy, i worked

at it for more than three years. and since i arrived here i'm trying to qualify for my certificate to be able to work as a pharmacist. bin, hi. good to see you again. bin‘s charity pays for those classes, at one local hospital they talk about the results. on boxing day, at 9am in the morning, three of the junior doctors here were from the programme so they were here on our bank holiday looking after patients on teesside. the realities of seeking asylum a long way from home are also being tackled. there are so many things that as a migrant you face, you know. very difficult and challenging moments in your life. but the garden has been huge therapy because it takes away the stress. much is being done here to make things work for the individuals and the wider community. danny savage, bbc news, middlesbrough. the children's author, judith kerr, best known for her book ‘the tiger who came to tea,‘ has died. she was 95. her stories delighted many adults too, and in a career that

spanned half a century, she published more than 30 books. our arts correspondent david sillito, looks back at her life. excuse me. do you think i could have tea with you? the tiger who came to tea. forjudith carr, it was the beginning of a 50 year career and it's happened when she and her daughter were feeling they needed some excitement. they became very boring. we wish somebody would come. soi boring. we wish somebody would come. so i thought, why not have a tiger? then came forgetful, accident—prone mog. it was for lauren child, trademarksjudith kerr. mog. it was for lauren child, trademarks judith kerr. her work is beautiful because there is a lovely

stillness to it, it never preaches or tells you what to think. she is an extremely kind person. very thoughtful. but, she is funny, really, really funny. but to understand judith kerr's own life story, you need to read when hitler stole pink rabbit. it was based on her own family, her father was a theatre critic and they've fled nazi germany in the 1930s. she was a wonderful, lively, witty, clever woman. she always had a new story and there was always another surprising story, whether it was from her childhood when the nazis first came or how it was how she came to write a book. she was witty, clever, funny, loving and kind. she was a wonderful, wonderful person andi was a wonderful, wonderful person and i am very sad today. she could

make children laugh, but could a lwa ys make children laugh, but could always tell the truth. the final mog book is how the lovable, family cat dies. for someone who only started writing when she was 45, she lived dozens writing when she was 45, she lived d oze ns of writing when she was 45, she lived dozens of books that became part of childhood for millions. her life, she says, was a blessing. she always felt she was one of the lucky ones. escaping hitler in the first place, iam escaping hitler in the first place, i am always conscious of the fact that millions of people would give anything to be in my shoes and just to have a tiny bit of what i've had. i've been ridiculously lucky. the authorjudith kerr, who's died, at the age of 95. time for a look at the weather. here's chris fawkes. we had some big contrast across the uk today. in the sunshine in london we had temperatures as high as 25

celsius. very warm for the time of year. it wasn't just celsius. very warm for the time of year. it wasn'tjust london, you can see the extent of the clear skies across england and wales. across the north of scotland, we had thick cloud and it looked something like this. temperatures were 17 celsius lower than those in the capital and it was very cool for the time of year. overnight we keep the thick cloud across northern scotland, still threatening bits and pieces of rain through the night. but otherwise it is a dry night with clear spells. not particularly cold, temperatures range from six to 11 celsius. i'll start on friday. and wales getting a decent start with some early morning sunshine and cloud developing later on. the cloud is whether for scotland once again. it is the far north of scotland i could get outbreaks of rain. through the day we will see temperatures similarto the day we will see temperatures similar to those that we have seen this afternoon. just a few isolated showers and clouds building across southern england and wales in the

afternoon but well space. most places properly dodging those and staying dry. into the weekend we have a warm front moving in and that will bring thicker cloud to northern ireland, scotland and cumbria. threatening outbreaks of rain. probably not too heavy but it could be persistent. further south, probably not too heavy but it could be persistent. furthersouth, dry weather with spells of sunshine. temperatures quite widely getting into the high teens to low 20s. not feeling too bad when the sunshine comes out. there will be a change in the weather on the weekend. a cold front follows in with the spell of heavy rain across the uk on sunday and ultimately behind the cold front we have cooler air following and that will work for bank holiday monday with maximum temperatures of 18 degrees. that's it, so goodbye from me. now on bbc one, let'sjoin our news teams, where you are.

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the headlines: the former football coach bob higgins is found guilty of more than 40 counts of indecent assault against boys. bob higgins is a predaory paedophile. he thrived on controlling and manipulating the situation he found himself in. he held the careers and prospects of those young men in his hands, and he exploited that in the most disgraceful way. under growing pressure, the government delays publication of theresa may's revised brexit plans amid a backlash in her own cabinet. indian prime minister narendra modi secures another five—year term after winning a landslide general election victory. the authorjudith kerr, who delighted millions of children with her bestseller the tiger who came to tea, has died aged 95.