far south-west where it is the far south—west where it is particularly mild. the best of the sunshine probably in the far north of scotland. the next area of low pressure is racing in for tuesday, this has propical air remnant of tropical storm sebastian in the mid—atlantic, tropical storm sebastian in the mid—atla ntic, that will tropical storm sebastian in the mid—atlantic, that will bring heavier rain. rain. it will strengthen the winds in the england channel with the stronger force the south—west of england on hello, this is bbc news with rachel schofield. the headlines: borisjohnson has launched the conservative party's election manifesto, promising to train 50,000 new nurses, at a cost of £750 million a year. he also said the tories can unleash the uk's potential without raising income tax, vat or national insurance. jeremy corbyn says the manifesto was "paid for by billionaires,

written for billionaires and delivered for billionaires." meanwhile, labour has pledged to compensate nearly four million women who lost out when their state pension age rose from 60 to 66. in other news, voters in hong kong have turned out in large numbers to vote in local elections, seen as a test of support for the territory's chief executive, carrie lam. five teenagers have been arrested after a large brawl at a cinema in birmigham last night which saw a number of police officers injured. let's return to that headline story. five teenagers have been arrested after a large brawl at a cinema in birmigham yesterday evening which saw a number of police officers injured. fights broke out as police attempted to clear around 100 people from the star city leisure complex. two machetes were seized in the incident. 0ne witness described it as one of the "scariest momemts" of their life.

jenny kumah is in birmingham. now many of the people here last night were families with young children and they were left shaken and frightened by the outbreak of violence here. they had come to see the new film frozen but they ended up seeing something quite different. the police say they were called at around half—past five yesterday afternoon after reports of groups of young people armed with machetes and they say they needed to use tasers to restore order. the recovered two machetes from the scene and they found a knife nearby. in terms of injuries, they say seven police officers sustained minor facial injuries and also, today, more details have emerged about the five arrests, they include a 13—year—old girl who was arrested on suspicion of assaulting the police. she was arrested alongside a 14—year—old boy

and a 14—year—old girl, and a 19—year—old man. a 14—year—old boy was also arrested on suspicion of obstructing the police. the police say they are trying to find out the reasons for this outbreak of violence and they would like anyone who took any video footage or photos to forward it to them so they can make more arrests. birmingham police commissioner steve graham said that the police had no warning ahead of the incident, and will continue working to prevent similar behaviour from happening again. they seem to happen spontaneously and as we said earlier on, we are not entirely certain what caused it so we not entirely certain what caused it so we will not get into that speculation, but it's reassuring we we re speculation, but it's reassuring we were able to deal with it in a relatively short time to make sure the public were safe. we have plans to make more arrests today and going forward but it is important to stress we are not just forward but it is important to stress we are notjust about making arrests, from tomorrow morning we will have neighbourhood officers working on schools to try to

reassure some of the young people who might have been there and we're genuinely scared are not part of the disorder, and to divert other people away from this activity. as we've been hearing, there's been a record turnout for the district elections in hong kong which will give an indication of levels of support for the government after months of pro—democracy protests. 0pposition parties hope the results will reflect public anger about how the chief executive, carrie lam, has handled the demonstrations. from hong kong, our correspondent jonathan head reports. the queues formed early and ran long right around the block in taikoo shing. just a local ballot, true, for relatively powerless district councils, but the significance of this first full test of public opinion since hong kong's crisis began more than five months ago was not lost on these voters. there are so many people here. many people are actually waiting for this opportunity to say something.

it is like approving or disapproving the legitimacy of the protest. it is an election, one way or the other, so it shows that people in hong kong believe in elections. that is very important. it is not long since the police were doing nightly battle with black—clad protesters. today they were deployed to secure the polling stations. but there was no sign of trouble here. the opposition wants this election to go smoothly, in the hope that a decisive swing in its favour might force chief executive carrie lam, here casting her vote, to make the concessions she steadfastly refused to make in the face of protests which have brought hong kong to its knees. it is already eight hours since voting started and still there are these impressive lines of voters at polling stations. everyone here knows this is about a lot more than just local councils. they also know that whatever the result of this election, everything depends, in the end,

on whether china can be moved to support concessions. yet still, you can see how important it is for them that their voices are heard. the university campus which saw such dramatic confrontations only a week ago is quiet now. ringed by police, the last few determined activists are hiding on its upperfloors refusing to surrender. this stage of the protest is all but over. but once the election is done, the anti—government campaign will surely resume somewhere else. jonathan head, bbc news, hong kong. just some breaking news coming to us from the united states concerning the presidential race. this may or may not surprise you to hear that michael bloomberg has announced he is running for president, joining what is of course a very crowded field of democrats, 17 candidates declared already, seeking to take on

his fellow billionaire, donald trump. bloomberg is 77 years old, he says he is running for president to defeat donald trump and rebuild america. we cannot afford four more yea rs of america. we cannot afford four more years of the president's reckless and unethical actions. he is not likely to have an issue with funding that campaign with a personal fortune of around $50 billion, so expected to shake up the race for the presidential nomination among the presidential nomination among the democrats. 0k, the presidential nomination among the democrats. ok, let's return to the democrats. ok, let's return to the menus. boris johnson has unveiled what he described as the most radical agenda for britain at the launch of the party's manifesto in telford in shropshire. he announced a plan for a triple lock, promising to freeze income tax, vat and national insurance. he also pledged more money for the nhs and zero net carbon emissions by 2050. but he said the most critical element of the plan was to make sure britain left the european union. let's talk to warwick

lightfoot, he was a special adviser to three conservative chancellors, and is now the director of economics and social policy at policy ecxhange. thank you very much for being with us. thank you very much for being with us. it was something of a damp squib, borisjohnson us. it was something of a damp squib, boris johnson describing us. it was something of a damp squib, borisjohnson describing it asa squib, borisjohnson describing it as a partial blueprint for the future, that is not going to set the world on fire? what i have found a new manifesto so far is it is a realistic political document that is set against the constraints that all politicians face when they have to make these decisions. the tax pledges are there, we have a very high tax burden at the moment, and i think a centre—right party probably has got to suggest how that burden will be constrained. i also think that the issue to do with the triple lock on benefits, i am talking to you, as you know, from berlin in germany, and when you travel outside

of the united kingdom, whether it is in north american tour across europe, one realises that the state funded pension benefits in the uk are very modest indeed, and the idea that a government to do anything other than maintain the benefits pretty much as they are, realistically, is to mislead yourself. so far, it sounds to me to bea yourself. so far, it sounds to me to be a sensible reckoning of the constraints that democratic politicians face. i am pleased they are exploring the idea of integrating national insurance with income tax, that would help to create a much more coherent tag system, but you cannot do it unless you're going to do it in the context of some kind of tax cut, because the losses from lasers from integration would be too great otherwise. you mentioned restraint and yet some people criticising the fact that sajid javid is said that he proposes to raise borrowing from 2% to 3% of gdp which would mean finding an

extra £100 billion. the interesting thing there, and i think this is a genuine challenge for centre—right politicians like conservative ministers, is that the cost of borrowing and servicing government debt is a different kettle of fish from what it was ten or 15 years ago, and there is a growing international consensus from the imf, only this week, the 0ecd, and evenin imf, only this week, the 0ecd, and even in germany, which has strict rules, there is an intense debate about the role of fiscal policy and borrowing. just because you are going to borrow money, and that cost is less difficult than it once was, does not mean to say it is not without constraints. and yet something of a gear change from a party that has always said it prides itself on not borrowing beyond its means? yes, you have put your finger on it, borrowing beyond your means. the cost of government that now is very low and the cost of debt service charges. there has never been a problem with governments

borrowing, it is making sure that you do not borrow at a faster rate than you allow tax revenue to service the debt. because the costs are so low, the public expenditure constraint is much reduced. people who thought in a different way before, including myself, and people at the imf, the 0ecd, and a number of central banks, a few hundred miles from where i am talking this afternoon, the new head of the 0ecd is trying to persuade governments to consider a looserfiscal is trying to persuade governments to consider a looser fiscal framework than they have had before so this is a change in the consensus of public finances, but i would emphasise i support the change in consensus, it does not mean you can increase the rate of spending without looking at the spending you have when you undertake investments. sometimes it is the smaller infrastructure investments that yield the best and the biggest return to capital spending is when you look after what

you have already got, and repairing what you have already got should be your number one priority and i was pleased to see greater emphasis on that. 0k, many thanks for your time. 0ther that. 0k, many thanks for your time. other news. pope francis has called for "a world without nuclear weapons". he was speaking on a highly symbolic visit to nagasaki, one of japan's two cities devastated by atomic bombs during the second world war. janey mitchell reports. the unspeakable horror of the us atomic bomb attack was how pope francis described the suffering of the victims, encapsulated in this photo of a young boy carrying his dead baby brother on his back in the aftermath.

the pope prayed silently in torrential rain at the memorial to the 711,000 people who died, instantly and in the months after the attack in august 19115. addressing hundreds in waterproofs at ground zero of the bombing, he said nuclear weapons were not the answer to the desire for peace and security. translation: convinced, as i am that a world without nuclear weapons is possible and necessary, i ask political leaders not to forget that these weapons cannot protect us from the current threats to national and international security. we need to ponder the catastrophic impact of their deployment. the 82—year—old pope also hit out at what he called the money squandered and the fortune made in the arms trade. the pope's message has passionate support from elderly survivors of the nagasaki bomb. translation: even if a third atomic bomb was dropped onjapan, we must not accept a fourth be fired anywhere else, we must not use atomic bombs in retaliation. i don't believe in nuclear deterrence.

from the memorial, the pope went on to pray for peace at a mass at a nagasaki stadium, before travelling on to hiroshima, the city hit by the world's first nuclear attack three days before nagasaki. the pope is fulfilling a long—held ambition with his trip to japan, a country he wanted to visit as a young missionary. now his message is one many hope will have international resonance. janey mitchell, bbc news. sport and for a full round up from the bbc sport centre. perhaps not great news about the cricket. not if you're an england cricket fan because they are in big trouble in the first test. they have fallen well behind new zealand on day four and will need to bat out the final day tomorrow to force a draw, and they only have seven wickets in hand. bj watling continued his brilliant innings making 205

alongside his partner who hit a century as they declared on 615—9, their highest score against england. the partner then took three england wickets for just six runs leaving the site ofjoe root on 55—3 on their second innings at the close. england will struggle to recover after the impressive batting display from new zealand. it is a mind-set. it isa from new zealand. it is a mind-set. it is a case of application and discipline, and it is not something a lot of the modern day players enjoy. it is more their natural game to play in that fashion, but, some of the other england players want to be aggressive and positive so it will be a real challenge for them, to show the necessary discipline, and to take a leave out of watling's book of denial, really and backing their defence, leaving the ball well. it is important they do rotate the strike, and they don'tjust get stuck blocking the ball all the time, but, it is low risk batting,

thatis time, but, it is low risk batting, that is what we want, building some partnerships and getting england to safety. now rangers are back level on points with celtic at the top of the scottish premiership after they won 3-1 this scottish premiership after they won 3—1 this afternoon. rangers went ahead seven minutes in, thanks to a great finish from ryan jack. but louis smith levelled for the accuse sips not long after that and the game's decisive moment came before the break. another great strike from ryan kent restored the lead and added a third late on. they are in second place behind celtic on goal difference. the day's other scottish premiership game aberdeen are leading stjohnstone by a goal to nil. they are at approaching half—time in that game. in rugby union's european

championship sharks beat la rochelle. sale could have capitalised on the advantage, they didn't particularly, although it was chris ashton that sealed victory with this try after the break. spain'sjohn with this try after the break. spain's john ram with this try after the break. spain'sjohn ram has won the final event on the world tour championship in dubai. he finishes at europe's number one golfer, he we vies with tommy fleetwood for the honours and he needed to birdie the final hole to beat him. the race to dubai which replaced the old 0rder to beat him. the race to dubai which replaced the old order of merit has only ever been won by one other spanish golfer and that was seve ballesteros. ram said he was proud of himself for achieving something seve had once done. that is all the sport for now. there is more on the website.

we will have more for you at round 5.o. thank you. i will be back with you at 11.00. first it is time for the rim review. hello and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's releases, as ever, mark kermode. hello, mark. hello. something for everyone this week. we have harriet, which is a true story of bravery. we have frozen 2. let it go, again. and 21 bridges, a ‘705—inflected crime thriller. well, let it go has of course been an earworm all day... of course, of course. ..but let's start with harriet, which i'm really hoping you are going to tell me is really good. it is really good. good!

so this is a film about a former slave turned abolitionist harriet tubman. cynthia erivo is the woman who escapes slavery, makes her own way to philadelphia where she meets up with the underground railroad, who cannot believe that she has made this journey pretty much under her own steam. here's a clip. so where are the others? weren't no others. you know, you can trust me. i'm a friend. who — who'd you make the journey with? i left my husband and family. it wasjust me and the lord. well, i don't know if you know how extraordinary this is but by some miraculous means, you have made it 100 miles to freedom, all by yourself. would you like to pick a new name? to mark your freedom? most ex—slaves do — any name you want.

they called my mama rip. but her name harriet. i want my mama name and my husband. harriet tubman. wow. you really have to remember that cynthia erivo is british as well. remarkable. it is a really brilliant performance. the tag line is be free or die. there is talk about it doing a harriet tubman biopic for quite a long time — i think 20 years ago is when they started talking about it — and no... i mean, it is a really inspirational story. she is terrific in the title role. it is very well — kasi lemmons and the co—writer gregory allen howard do a really good job of taking a quite complex historical story and compressing it into something which works as a really sort of adventurous, engrossing narrative on screen. 0n the one hand, you have the grit of the story, the horror of the story. in the way the film is shot, you get — i don't know if you remember this, but with 12 years a slave, there was always that thing about the beauty of the landscape against the horror

of what was happening. yes, yeah! you get some of that here. you also get this kind of slightly mystical element. she's had an injury to her head which causes fainting, but she seems to have almost like a hotline to the almighty, and it plays with that really, really well. but the most impressive thing about it is that it manages to tell a historical story in a way that is really dramatic, really engrossing that assumes you wouldn't know anything about this story beforehand and does so in a way that i think a mainstream audience could completely embrace and i think it's, you know, it's think it's a really, really well—made film and a really engrossing story and great to see this story told on the big screen. yeah. fantastic. rally looking forward to that. frozen 2. i mean, i cannot stop singing it all the time, but, yes... ok, so this picks up, you know, some — a few years after the first film. elsa hears a straight sound calling out of the north, calling her to the forest. now there is a new quest, a new problem to be solved. josh gad is 0laf who is grown up and is now dealing with some of the problems of maturity. we have all the stuff that you would expect — we have spectacular visuals, water, ice, you know,

heroines, action, drama. we have some absolutely belting songs. we have idina menzel belting out into the unknown which is kinda of up there to some extent with let it go. there's a lovely song by 0laf about when i'm older, everything will make sense, but it doesn't make sense now. i have no doubt that this is going to be a runaway smash and i have no doubt that it is going to find a very, very sympathetic audience because we know these characters, we love these characters, we have so much invested in it — and you can hear a big but coming. laughs. the thing is, from my point of view, you remember when toy story 2 came out and it was "wow! it's actually better than toy story!" yes! and you remember when godfather 2 came out and it's like "wow! "it's actually better than godfather!" well, frozen 2 is... it's fine. it's fine, yeah. but the thing is when i saw the first one, i just thought "this is so magical" and i didn't — you know, i had no expectation about it. it was so magical and so thrilling and so wonderful. i have no doubt that this is going to, you know, score a home run with its audiences but what it does not do —

and i know it's asking a lot, what it doesn't do is take it to the next level. what it does is it feels like "0k, this is really successful. you'd like to spend time with these characters again and we'd like to repeat that box office bonanza and so, here's frozen." so it's fine. but that's. .. they're not going to put that on the poster, are they? "it's fine." it's fine. but then again, what do they care what a 57—year—old bloke thinks? i mean, as i say, i'm sure with its target audience, it will... ijust want it — i wanted it to be the godfather 2. we so don't have time for that thought! i know. sorry. 21 bridges. so chadwick boseman as a new york cop with a reputation for shooting bad guys. sienna miller is a narcotics cop. they meet up in the wake of a crime which has gone wrong and a number of policemen have been shot. they decide that they are going to shut down manhattan by closing the 21 bridges and then they have to pursue what they think are two suspects, including a quite breathtaking chase sequence. here's a clip. police, stop! don't shoot!

it's tense! yeah, so what do you immediately think of when you see that? you immediately think of french connection. popeye doyle chasing charnier on and off the train, 0k? and the film is obviously referring back to those ‘705 thrillers. it doesn't have the grit or the depth of, you know, serpico or french connection. what it does have is a kind of very cliched, hard—boiled dialogue. it has an absolute nuts and bolts plot. you know, at the beginning,

we've got something to do, we've got a limited amount of time to do it, the bridges can only be closed until five o'clock in the morning, we've got to catch these two people. and so, it's kind of set up almost like you think of something like the warriors. you know, very, very simple set—up — you've got to do this and you've got to do it in a limited period of time. what i liked about it is that, for me, it was an a—list b—movie. remember we talked about black and blue before? mmm — yes, yes. i said it's the same thing. you know, it's something which is a nuts and bolts idea but it's elevated because it's got every good performances. the dialogue in this is so ripe, you can actually smell it, but it's fine because you think "0k, it's a b—movie, but itjust happens to being played by very fine performers and it's directed with an efficiency and an enthusiasm for the genre." and i like a ‘705—inflected crime thriller, i'm not making any claim for it being great, but i really enjoyed it as a good nuts and bolts popcorn thriller. there is a twist in it that you see coming a mile away. chuckles. but that's absolutely fine because it knows what it is and it does what it is efficiently. it does not have any great depth but then,

frankly, it doesn't need it. but it's honest. it's honest! honest! exactly, it's an honest thriller. and best 0ut this week is a re—release? it is. so the bfi's got this musical season and so they have put ken russell's tommy back into cinemas. now, i — i love ken russell. i think ken russell is the great, you know, british post—war film—making talent. you know, powell and pressburger and then onto ken russell — that's the lineage. and tommy is extraordinary. it is based on the who's rock opera but it's completely reinvented by russell because russell was interested in films about false messiahs in, you know, twisted religions. it's got brilliant songs, as we know... yes, yes. ..from the who. it's got a range of completely crazy performances, including famously elton john as the pinball wizard up on those massive boots and i'm — you haven't seen it, have you? laughs. you need to — no, but this is brilliant. it's an embarrassing admission! no, no — it's not! because when tommy came out in cinemas, ok, the only place you could see it with a proper sound mix was in leicester square, when it played... and i was five! yes, exactly. but everyone else who saw it in the cinema saw it with a bad sound mix. now, it's back in the cinema

so you can enjoy for the first time the way that ken russell wanted you to experience it. this is a thrilling treat and i think you should embrace that moment. i will, i will! that's the joy of a re—release. it is. that's the joy. and a quick thought about dvd this week? look, i did this with you in mind, 0k? annabelle comes home. i see this! i don't — i don't think it's by any means — but here's what it is. firstly, of all of the annabelle movies, it's the one that i like the most. and i've chosen it for you because it's a horror movie but it's actually not very scary. it's actually... 0k... it's got nice characters that we can empathise with and we can enjoy and it's like a — it's like roller—coaster fu nfair ride. so thrilling, but not — it's not disturbing. it'sjust — it has got a... 0k. it's like a — it's like a — it's like a way in. you haven't heard how much i swear on a roller—coaster! it's not pretty! i am going to get you to like horror movies. it's a — i'm — this is gonna happen. this is a very good way in. annabelle comes home. it's fine, just a little bit but nothing deeply disturbing.

0k. scary enough to count as a horror genre, however... yes. 0k. but not scary enough to disturb you or give you a sleepless night. 0k. well, it is certainly a week with something for everyone. something for everyone. exactly as you say. i'm afraid harriet is top of my list but it won't surprise you to hear that. yeah, it's great. and you will really — you will really like it. it's really worth seeing. thank you very much. see you next time. thank you very much for being with us. enjoy your cinema—going. bye— bye. hello there. there is signs of change in the south—west, we have an area of low pressure, again, more weatherfronts bringing rain up from the south—west overnight, picking up the breeze a little. maybe breaking a few holes in the cloud but lifting the mist and fog, it should be mild an frost—free, particularly to the south—west where we have the cloud and rain. that will move northwards and rain. that will move northwards and eastwards, some rain for a while in northern ireland, easing off in the afternoon, not much rain for scotland. may be seeing some late sunshine in the far south—west, where it is particularly mild, the best of the sunshine probably in the

far north of scotland. the next area of low pressure is racing in for tuesday, this has o tropical air re m na nts of tuesday, this has o tropical air remnants of tropical storm sebastian in the mid—atlantic, that will bring heavier rain across the uk, it will strengthen the wind through the english channel with the strongest of the winds on tuesday, for south wales and

this is bbc news. i'm rachel schofield. the headlines at 11: boris johnson launches the conservatives' election manifesto in telford, pledging to "get brexit done" and "forge a new britain". we are now, as you know, less than three weeks away from the most critical election of modern memory, when the stakes for this country have seldom been higher, and the choice has never been starker. the manifesto also promises to train 50,000 new nurses, at a cost of £750 million a year. meanwhile, the labour party pledges to compensate nearly four million women who lost out when their state pension age rose from 60 to 66. in other news, five teenagers have been arrested after a large brawl at a cinema in birmigham last night which saw a number