protesters in hong kong remain barricaded inside a university campus, as the standoff with police continues for a third day. protesters still inside are said to be running low on supplies — hong kong's leader urged them to come out peacefully. they have to stop violence, give up their weapons and come out peacefully and take the instructions from the police. we'll bring you more on one of the biggest flare—ups hong kong has seen since protests broke out in june. also this lunchtime; after the bbc interview about his links with sex offenderjeffrey epstein, prince andrew faces calls to talk to us investigators from a woman who says epstein assaulted her. the green party launches its manifesto, pledging to make the uk carbon neutral by 2030.

the tsb it meltdown which left nearly two million people without online services — the bank faces severe criticism in a new report. and we speak to the prize—winning sir david attenborough, about the threat still posed to the environment by plastic products. we still have to dispose of the wretched material. somebody, surely we could invented, somebody somewhere has got to have a way of dealing with it. and coming up in the sport on bbc news, there's a huge night ahead for wales. win against hungary in cardiff and they're going to the european championships. good afternoon and welcome

to the bbc news at one. dozens of demonstrators are still barricaded inside a hong kong university, which has been under siege by the police for three days. activists have been inside the campus since last week, initially preventing police from entering by lighting fires and throwing petrol bombs. 600 protesters, including minors, have now given themselves up. police say that any adults who leave will be arrested. with the latest, here's our correspondent paul adams. exhaustion and defiance on the campus of hong kong polytechnic, dozens campus of hong kong polytechnic, d oze ns of campus of hong kong polytechnic, dozens of students still holed up inside, some in need of medical attention. they want this to end but worry about what will happen if they leave. i want to leave but the police... i feel leave. i want to leave but the police... ifeel i leave. i want to leave but the police... i feel i am leave. i want to leave but the police... ifeel i am going to die. we have been trying to escape since yesterday morning. but then we

couldn't find a way out. i was quite desperate. in their efforts to evade arrest, some students in gas masks and plastic sheets tried to escape through sewage tunnels. the fire brigade was called in and the effort abandoned. but hundreds have now gone, leaving behind a campus scarred by days of confrontation. for a week the city's universities have been on the front line of this bitter struggle over the future of hong kong. the opposition politician helping students to leave says they shouldn't necessarily be afraid. they have to face the reality, even it's the ridiculous, even it's unfairon the part it's the ridiculous, even it's unfair on the part of the police, they have to face it. so the charges that they will face, actually face, maybe are somewhat more moderate charges than rioting. so it's not that risky for being arrested. but of course for the first time being

arrested it is still very frightening. those who leave are searched and if they are over 18, rested. younger students have been allowed to go home. the police say those involved in violence will be punished. translation: let me tell you this, you can run but you cannot run forever. offenders that have escaped will eventually be caught. hong kong's much criticised chief executive hopes the stand—off at the university can now end but only if stu d e nts university can now end but only if students do what they are told. the preferences for a peaceful resolution as far as possible. this objective could be achieved with the full cooperation of the protesters, including of course, the rioters. the stand—off at hong kong polytechnic may now be in its final hours but the past week has seen this long crisis lurch into new

traumatic territory, with absolutely no sign of a wider resolution. paul adams, bbc news. our correspondent, stephen mcdonell, is in hong kong. stephen, just bring us up to date with the situation as it is? well, here at the entrance to hong kong's polytechnic university, riot teams seem pretty content just to polytechnic university, riot teams seem pretty contentjust to wait it out, as the students activists still on the campus run out of supplies, food, water, everything they need, they are coming out and they are being arrested. now the government and the police have promised they will be arrested and in fact charged with rioting, but after hong kong's leader said they had been a peaceful end to this after three pretty bloody days of clashes, the riot police are not charging in to mop up the groups of protesters stilljust hundreds of metres behind me, inside this campus. however, in their it's

very quiet. there is a lot of debris strewn over the ground, including the makings of hundreds of petrol bombs. and as i say, the protesters are coming out and giving themselves up are coming out and giving themselves up knowing they‘ re are coming out and giving themselves up knowing they're going to be arrested. now we have seen more violence over the last three days then we have seen in five months leading up to it. including an armoured truck being set on fire by petrol bombs. a police officer being shotin petrol bombs. a police officer being shot in the leg with an arrow. in turn we have seen riot police, it doesn't at a time, bussing protesters, kicking them in the head. scenes of considerable violence as this crisis continues to escalate. and really everybody is asking, where could it go from there? the next potentialflash point is at the weekend when there are due to be local elections but the government has threatened to call them off because of the crisis. stephen, many thanks.

a woman has appealed directly to prince andrew to "come forward" and give a statement to us investigators. the duke is facing renewed calls to tell the authorities about his friendship with jeffrey epstein, a convicted sex offender. here's our los angeles correspondent, sophie long. this is the lawyer in los angeles representing five of jeffrey epstein's alleged victims. with her, a young woman who told reporters crammed into the small room that epstein raped her when she was 15. we were not hidden. it is upsetting to me to think that anyone who was closely associated withjeffrey epstein might argue that they didn't suspect that he might have been sexually abusing children. her attorney urged prince andrew to come to the united states and tell investigators everything he knows about the behaviour and activities of his former friend, jeffrey epstein. he described in his interview this weekend that jeffrey epstein's home was like a railway station.

a lot of people coming in and out. he should have asked, why are these girls here? this is the interview ms allred was referring to. prince andrew responded to the allegations about him with categoric denials of impropriety. you can say categorically that you don't recall meeting virginia roberts, dining with her, dancing with her at tramp, or going on to have sex with her in a bedroom in a house in belgravia. yes, i can absolutely categorically tell you, it never happened. but there are further signs of the damage to prince andrew's reputation. the accountants kpmg have announced they are withdrawing their sponsorship of one of his initiatives, a mentoring scheme for entrepreneurs. sophie long, bbc news, los angeles. the green party has launched its manifesto with a pledge to "tra nsform everything"

to combat climate change. it's promising net zero carbon emissions in the uk by 2030 — the government's target is 2050 — and it says it will pay for the policy by borrowing almost £100 billion a year. carbon emissions are the the amount of carbon dioxide released from burning fuel, which contributes to global warming. chris morris is here with more details. thanks. the greens have policies to introduce a universal basic income, to abolish tuition fees for students and to reform the voting system. they want to remain in the european union. but their main focus — obviously — is on the climate crisis, and an unashamedly ambitious programme to transform the economy and make this country carbon neutral by 2030. everything needs to change. and so the green new deal is an idea whose time has come. today we are so proud

to put forward a manifesto which puts us on track to decarbonise every single sector of the economy by2030, every single sector of the economy by 2030, while delivering social justice. they propose spending £100 billion a year every year for ten years on climate action — far more than other parties. most of that money — more than £90 billion a year — would be borrowed, driving up overall government borrowing significantly. but, they argue, investing that money would create millions of newjobs. so what does their manifesto mean in practice? within a decade the greens want, for example, to phase out petrol and diesel vehicles. replace gas boilers with heat pumps in millions of homes. stop all carbon emissions from industry. and phase in a tax on meat and dairy products. the greens also propose a frequent flyer levy, reducing the impact of the estimated 15% of people who take about 70% of all flights. their policies would also transform the countryside, changing

the way agriculture works, and planting 700 million new trees by 2030 to soak up greenhouse gas emissions. again, that's a higher target than any other party. but the big question for the greens — is their programme actually achievable within a decade? the advisory committee on climate change argues that it isn't. other parties have set targets of 2045 or 2050 for making the economy carbon neutral. but the greens are talking about an economic revolution. each and every green mp elected this december will have in their in tray a legislative agenda ready to go. ten bills ready for the next parliament to hit the ground running. because the future will give us another chance to get these next two years right. £100 billion a year is an awful lot of money — but it's about the same

as the government currently spends on education, less than it spends on health. so, for a party that says the climate is by far the most important issue facing the country, and indeed the world, this is their radical alternative vision. reeta. chris, many thanks. borisjohnson has announced that if the conservatives win a majority at the election, the police will be given new powers to make it easier to stop and search suspects who are known to have carried knifes. speaking this morning in greater manchester, he said he wants to "come down hard on the scourge of knife crime". i think that you've got to come down harder on knife crime. and you see what we said about serious violence reduction orders. so, if you've been convicted of carrying a knife, by her majesty's court, or whatever, in the past, then you will have, as it were, a personalised section 60 order over your head, which means that the police can stop and search you, just like that, because of your previous record.

our home editor, mark easton, is here. tough talk — how easy will it be to implement this? well, the government, the conservatives have been in government for over nine years, during which time they have launched numerous major reports and acts of parliament all to do with knife crime, serious violence, gang violence. it is perhaps a little odd to hear the conservative prime minister saying there is going to be a tough new approach. and in truth today's announcement is more of a restate m e nt today's announcement is more of a restatement about the government's position than anything really new. at the top of the news release they say anybody found in possession of a knife will be immediately arrested and charged within 2a hours. in the notes at the bottom it says they will be charged or cautioned, police will be charged or cautioned, police will retain their discretion. no real change. they also say those charged will be in court within a week. except that the government has

closed half of the magistrates courts in england and wales. that reduction in capacity will make it harder to keep a promise like that. the government as we have been hearing restates its termination to increase the use of targeted and random stop and search, arguing that is an effective tool. incidentally, the green party manifesto today says the green party manifesto today says the opposite, it says they would reduce stop and search because the evidence shows it has little effect on the long term sort of violent crime trends and can damage community relations. the announcement from the prime minister todayis announcement from the prime minister today is more of a reminder to voters of the priority that the conservatives place on tackling knife crime, an issue they know matters to a lot of voters. any thanks. let's take a look at some of today's other news from the general election campaign. shadow chancellor john mcdonnell has claimed that britain's 150 billionaires "do not deserve" so much money. mr mcdonnell was giving a speech covering labour's plan to change the way business works. he added that under a labour government, chief executives in the public sector would not be

allowed to earn more than 20 times someone on the living wage. the liberal democrats have announced they would add a penny to the basic rate of income tax to help fund the nhs. they say the move will raise an extra £26 billion a year above inflation by 2023. the party says it will match labour's pledge on the health service in england, made last week. the snp leader nicola sturgeon has said immigration powers should be devolved. speaking this morning, the first minister said the current uk—wide policy on the issue was a disaster. she insited regardless of what happens over brexit, scotland should control its own borders. boris johnson and jeremy corbyn will go head to head in theirfirst general election tv debate tonight. the liberal democrats and snp won't be taking part in the show on itv, after they lost a last—minute legal bid to be included. tim muffett has been on the set of tonight's debate in salford.

so this is it then, the set ofjohnson versus corbyn, the itv debate taking place tonight at eight o'clock. now, lots have been drawn to decide who will speak first and who will stand where. jeremy corbyn's name was drawn out first, and he's chosen to stand at this podium and to kick off proceedings. the prime minister, borisjohnson, will be standing here and he will be closing proceedings. there will be a one minute opening statement, then questions from the audience will be taken. let's have a quick spin around, because this is where the audience will be, around 200 of them. and this is wherejulie etchingham, the adjudicator, will be keeping a firm eye on proceedings. now, in previous debates people have spoken about the tendency for some candidates to walk around the stage and to address the audience directly. that is not going to be the case tonight. they are going to be stood behind their podiums. at ten o'clock, leaders' interviews, featuring leaders of the other political parties, will be broadcast. it will be fascinating to see

how this head—to—head debate pans out. it is the first time just two representatives of the main political parties have taken part in a uk tv election debate. what will the chemistry be like? will they look each other in the eye? will they ignore each other and address the audience or the viewers at home? we are going to have to wait and see. what topics will come up? will there be a standout moment? again, tonight at eight o'clock, all will become clear. our assistant political editor, norman smith, is at westminster. lots of questions from tim method, there. how important is tonight's debate for boris johnson and jeremy corbyn, and could it be an election game changer? i hope it adds some drama and excitement because, let's be honest, it has been a meat and two veg election so far, not very remarkable oi’ election so far, not very remarkable or surprising. perhaps that could change tonight, albeit the history of previous leadership style

debates, a little bit underwhelming. they will be noisy, scratchy affairs but no knockout blow. tonight could be different because it is a direct head to head, mano e mano. there is no hiding place, which creates unpredictability and the unexpected. borisjohnson this morning letting off stea m borisjohnson this morning letting off steam in a boxing gym, throwing a new physical punches ahead of tonight's confrontation. if the polls are to be believed, he is in the lead, so he has it all to lose. perhaps even more pressure onjeremy corbyn, who this morning seem to be taking a drug that calmly, going to his local barber to have his beard trimmed. —— who this morning seemed to be taking it rather calmly. there is no sign of the polls narrowing, despite the fact he has had an ok election so far, he has scored some

hits on the nhs, borisjohnson has beenin hits on the nhs, borisjohnson has been in difficulty in the floods, but time is running short. tonight, a 0—0 draw would be a win, i guess, for borisjohnson. jeremy corbyn really needs to school, preferably with an overhead bicycle kick in the top right—hand corner in the 89th minute. game on! a chip shop owner whose wife was scalded with boiling oil has been cleared of her murder and manslaughter. geoffrey bran, who's 71 and from carmarthenshire, told police that his wife mavis had slipped and pulled a deep fat fryer over herself. the 69—year—old died six days later in hospital in october last year. the time is almost 13:20. our top story this lunchtime: protesters in hong kong remain barricaded inside a university campus as the stand—off with police continues for a third day. still to

come, as we continue to look closely at the places where the election could be won and lost, we will be live in southampton. coming up in the sport in the next 15 minutes on bbc news, luis enrique returns to manage spain following the death of his daughter. he stood down to care for her earlier this year. the dramatic images from the bbc‘s blue planet ii programme highlighted the threat of plastic pollution to a global audience. now, two years since the programme was first broadcast, sir david attenborough says the world is now starting to act on the threat — but he says more still needs to be done. he was speaking as he and the bbc‘s natural history unit won an international prize from the chatham house think tank for highlighting the issue. sir david has been speaking to our science editor david shukman. depressing images of plastic waste drifting in the water. sights captured by blue planet ii,

the bbc documentary series. filming that revealed the damage being done to marine life by our throwaway culture. other forms of pollution are only too familiar. presented by sir david attenborough, the programmes were shown around the world, catching the public imagination and forcing governments and companies to take action. but every year, some 8 million tonnes of it ends up in the ocean. this london supermarket, for example, is turning its back on plastic packaging, part of a movement that is gathering pace in many different countries. so when i meet sir david at kew gardens in london, he says that the dangers of plastic waste are now so clearly understood that there are reasons to be optimistic. it's the beginning, and people in all parts of society are aware of what's happening and it's vile, it's horrid, it's something that we are clearly seeing, inflicting on the natural world and having a dreadful effect

and there's something that they can do about it. so, in a way, it's a bit of a litmus test to see whether in fact the population care about this sort of thing, and people do, and so i think it's very encouraging. sir david says he found these scenes of albatrosses the most moving. they're feeding their chicks with plastic. they speak to the parental instinct in all of us. people see an albatross coming back after having scoured the seas for food for its check, and, heart—tuggingly, delivers it to its little chick that's been waiting there several days to have food. and the parent opens its bill with the food it's collected, and what comes out, every single thing is a piece of plastic. and that... that chick is doomed. but clearly this problem won't be fixed easily or rapidly. we filmed this plastic pollution in indonesia last year, and sir david

acknowledges the challenge. we still need how to dispose of the wretched material. somebody... surely if we can invent it, somebody somewhere is going to be able to... a way of dealing with it, and be able to deal with these mountains of this appalling material. every day, the great rivers of asia keep adding more plastic waste to the oceans. but sir david believes the world is making a start. david shukman, bbc news. tsb bank has been accused of using a new it system that was "neither stable nor complete," leading to a major failure last year which locked two million people out of their accounts. the criticism comes in a report following an independent investigation into what went wrong. our business correspondent theo leggett is here. this sounds like a scathing report? absolutely, and nobody comes out of it well. just as a reminder of what happened, this was tsb, which changed hands, transferring more

than a billion customer records its old system run by lloyds, onto a new one run by the spanish banc sabadell. 2 million people were locked out of their accounts when it went wrong, there were problems in the branches and it went on for weeks. the report says that at the at the time the changeover was carried out, the system was not ready, nor was the company meant to run it. it says the tests carried out on the system were inadequate and tsb‘s own management, who should have been keeping an ion this, took that i offer the ball. they did not ask common—sense questions. there we re ask common—sense questions. there were delayed, some parts of the project were delayed by seven months but the project as a whole only by four months. why didn't they question that? all of this has come out on the reports, tsb says it does not agree with it all but it has published the report anywhere in the interests of transparency. the whole fiasco has cost the company a lot of money, it has had to pay £125

million in compensation, another 120 million in compensation, another 120 million also sorting out the problems, and there was a big issue with fraud at the time. while the company with fraud at the time. while the com pa ny systems were with fraud at the time. while the company systems were in such disorder, fraudsters had a field day. thank you. back now to the general election, and throughout the campaign bbc news is looking closely at the places where the election could be won and lost. we will be visiting 10 parts of the uk where seats will be closely contested. today we're in southampton, and simon mccoy is there. reeta, thank you. southampton is split into three constituencies. at the 2017 election two were won by the conservatives, one by labour. i'm here in the southampton itchen seat, which is being defended by the tories. there are just 31 votes in it. one of the election issues we're looking at today is school funding. our education editor bra nwen jeffreys has been looking at how

classrooms are trying to raise standards and balance the books. you have chosen one number and you've made one number... adding up isn't always easy. for schools, cash in, wages out do not always match. last year, this school went £200,000 over budget so everything is rationed, from glue to printing. every now and then i'll do something really special — which i class as special — that has to be in colour, but everything else just has to be in black and white because it's too expensive. how do you manage when you're making your displays, you're doing things for the class, if you don't have enough money? i do it at home. i am spending a lot on coloured things that i need around. so the school is trying to raise standards while cutting costs. the cash going into england's schools has been going up, but the bills have been rising even faster, so the first bit of any money promised will have to go towards reversing those cuts. so the spending per child might just get back to where it was almost a decade ago.

a third of the kids here get free school lunches, some families are given food bank vouchers, not so easy to ask parents to fundraise. the head says this year they will balance the budget. we've lost our speech and language person and we've lost our librarian. both of those posts are very valuable here, and they are not people that i would be making redundant if i didn't have to. anyone managing a budget has to make hard decisions. have you really found all the savings that you can? we've looked at every single budget heading that we can look at, but our biggest expenditure is staffing and people, so that is what it comes down to. that's just what you have to look at. we have lost maybe 20 posts over the last four years. school budgets in england have cast a long political shadow, now all the parties are promising more. head teachers worry it is still not enough. branwen jeffrey, bbc news, southampton. as we've been hearing,

the green party have launched their manifesto today — and over the coming days the other parties will publish their plans. but what exactly are manifestos — and what part do they play in the election? chi chi izundu reports. the manifesto, the document which sets out which each political party would do if it got into government. daniel craig, a taxi driver who lives in hampshire, has a question about them. why can't we make election manifestos legally binding? to answer dan's question is peter. his job is to analyse politics, including elections. it would be really hard to make manifestos legally binding. so the prime minister and the cabinet obviously lead the government, but if they want to make any changes, they have to get mps and members of the house of lords to agree, and that's not always possible even when a party has a majority. this is anna, she is a criminal lawyer. here is what she thinks about getting courts mixed up in politics.

the problem is that...it‘s a bad idea. if the election manifesto becomes legally binding, then, firstly, you have the risk that it will tie the hands of parliament, and secondly, when it comes to enforcement, against whom would you enforce it? would it be against the prime minister, would it be against the entire government? who enforces it? is it a public enforcement action only, or can you bring a private prosecution? we spoke to ellen, an academic in sweden whose research compared manifesto pledges in different countries to see who honoured them when they got into government. in the uk we find that parties mostly keep their promises, and the uk system, being a westminster system where the winner takes it all, is apparently a system that is more efficient on fulfilling pledges than some of the other countries that we investigate. but is it worth it? breaking a pledge will lead to punishment from the voters, right? fulfilling a pledge is something that you're expected to do, so you don't get a lot of credit for that. dan isn't the only one to have

asked this question. the system is complicated, but right now the only way to hold the government to account is at the ballot box. general issue is a trust in politics. if they can't trust their government, they conscious than to follow through on their election pledges, then i suppose people feel disenfranchised by that and left out. —— and they can't trust them to follow through on their election pledges. well wherever you are across the uk — if you'd like to find out more about who you can vote for on december 12th — check out all the candidates standing in your area — full details are at bbc.co.uk/news or on the bbc news app. much more from me here in southampton throughout the afternoon on the bbc news channel. for now, back to rita in the studio. time for a look at the weather. here's matt taylor.