this is bbc news. the headlines... a pledge not to raise income tax, vat or national insurance from borisjohnson, as he unveils the conservative‘s election manifesto. let's go for sensible, moderate, but tax cutting, one nation conservative government and take this country forwards. the tories also promise to add 50,000 nurses to the nhs in england, and restore nursing grants. labour pledges to compensate nearly four million women, who lost out when their state pension age rose from 60 to 66. five teenagers arrested after a large brawl at a birmingham cinema. machetes are recovered and vue cinemas pull the gang film blue story.

china's secret brainwashing camps — bbc panorama goes inside the network of high security prisons where inmates are indoctrinated and punished. and coming up at 8:30 — a bbc investigation finds vulnerable children are increasingly being placed in unregulated homes. that's in britain's care scandal exposed. good evening. borisjohnson has launched the conservative party's election manifesto, promising to get his brexit deal passed by parliament, as soon as possible after the election, if he wins. in a speech in telford in shropshire, he offered what he called a "route map" to take

the country forward. for the nhs in england there's a pledge to add 50,000 more nurses, and restore nursing grants, that's on top of an existing promise to pump tens of billions more into the health service. he said there'd be no rises in income tax, national insurance and vat for five years. and he pledged to raise the threshold at which people start paying national insurance — to £9,500, a saving of £85 a year, per person. 0ur political editor, laura kuenssberg, was at the manifesto launch, and her report contains some flash photography. ahead, but far from clear and away. are you feeling optimistic, ministers? tories out, tories out! the tories know it's theirs to lose. but who would bet on much these days? this time last year, boris johnson was just a

controversial backbencher. now, defending his own position as prime minister. boris! and with a list of promises he's making new, trying to secure the conservatives another five years in charge. how's that? can you see that? his number—one rallying cry — to move on and leave the eu injanuary. do we want more delay? do we want more dither and drift and deadlock and division? do we want 2020 to be another year of defeatism and despair? no, we don't. get brexit done, and we can restore confidence and certainty to business and to families. get brexit done, and we will see a pent—up tidal wave of investment into this country. get brexit done, and we can focus our hearts and our minds on the priorities of the british people. the conservatives had already vowed

extra money for the health service, but there's a new promise to recruit more nurses. today, in this manifesto, we pledge 50,000 more nurses and 50 million more gp surgery appointments, and today we make this guarantee... cash to scrap hospital parking charges, taxpayers' money for more childcare, and an infrastructure fund — all, he claims, without raising taxe we can do all these things without raising her income tax, vat, or national insurance contributions. that's our guarantee. and in this manifesto... applause. ..there is a vision for the future. borisjohnson says he never wanted this election, but it's both a huge risk and a huge opportunity for him and his party. let's go for sensible, moderate, but tax—cutting one—nation conservative government,

and take this country forwards. thank you all very much. you won the leadership of your party by making a big promise on brexit that you then broke, despite saying the buck stops with you. now you are trying to win the country with a whole list of promises and significant extra spending — do you accept that beyond this room, and beyond your party, this is a big leap of faith for the country to trust you with a majority? the biggest issue at this election is really whether people have any confidence in politics any more. and i think the reason that confidence and trust in politics has been so undermined is because for three and half years, they have seen politicians engaged in constant prevarication, procrastination, dither and delay, when the people of this country voted to get brexit done. the tory leader is now right in the fray, right in the middle of this campaign. but none of the steps spelt out today are designed to create the fireworks

he's famous for. there's no doubt people are asking politicians, will you stick to what you are saying you will be doing? we couldn't be clearer about getting brexit done. we do want to spend more money on our priorities, the nhs, more on the 20,000 police, more on our schools, but we can do that if we keep the economy strong. compared to the labour manifesto, this is a pamphlet rather than a phone book, but it's a document designed to keep the tories out of trouble, rather than shake up the fundamentals of the campaign. is this a winning manifesto, mrjohnson? well, we're fighting very hard, we're fighting very hard. its like gold dust, getting these posters. the big contrast between him and his rivals has been there since day one — borisjohnson would take us out of the eu in less than 70 days. that's the choice — vote to leave at speed or vote for the chance to stay. laura kuenssberg, bbc news, telford. one of the conservative‘s key new policies is to add 50,000 more nurses to the workforce in england by 2023. here's our health editor, hugh pym,

with some analysis of that pledge. the 50,000 more nurses by 2024 was an eye—catching plan, set out by borisjohnson, what does it add up to? well, it's not the same thing as recruiting 50,000 new nurses, it's adding 50,000 to the workforce in england, currently around 300,000. now there are a lot of vacancies at the moment, it is difficult recruiting, so the conservatives are arguing this is trying to deal with that problem. but that 50,000 figure includes recruitment overseas, and it includes better retention, that is policies to hold on to nurses, and try and make them, or persuade them that it's worth staying with more professional development of their careers, rather than leaving early. the recruitment of new nurses is rather less than that, down around between 10,000 and 20,000, based on more training places. now, the conservative government scrapped the bursary for training of nurses in england back in 2017.

that caused a decline in applications. the conservatives say, if elected, they will reintroduce the maintenance grant of up to £8,000 a year for nursing students. well our economics editor faisal islam has been taking look at some of the numbers in the conservative manifesto which he says contains no rabbits out of the hat, no huge tax cuts or new spending item. it's been designed as a steady as she go modest efforts, an equivalent of a rather low—key budgets, with some targeted help. by design, the tax and spend numbers are just much smaller than the lib dems, and especially the labour party. there is extra nurse recruitment and appointments costing about £1.5 billion a year, on top of existing commitments. there's 600 million a year on a national skills fund. the national insurance threshold increase costs the exchequer

2.5 billion a year, a tax cut. total 6.5 billion in spending rises in tax cuts. it's pretty modest. and although this spending builds on rises already announced, it doesn't undo ten years of austerity policies. all of that is basically funded by not cutting corporation tax, a tax on business profits, to 17p, leaving it at 19p instead. about half a billion is raised from increasing charged to migrants to use the health service. this is not a transformative manifesto in terms of taxes and budgets, it's pre—much steady as she goes, take on board the increases announced earlier this year, and then not much in addition. so i think the big take away here is that most of the cuts that we've seen over the last decade will be baked into spending over the next 3—4 years, unless more money turns up later on.

the big picture is several billion a year, not several tens of billions. on top of all of this, there is investment spending of 8 billion a year in the last year for things like research and development, and potholes. but they do have space to do a lot more with the new borrowing rules. at the chancellor and prime minister want to keep a tight ship, a little bit more spending, yes, bit more tax as well, but less than a fraction of 1% of the size of the economy. faisal islam there. labour says if it wins the election, women who lost out on their state pensions when the retirement age was raised, will be compensated. sums of up to £31,000 could be handed out — to the nearly 4 million women affected. labour estimates the overrall cost would be £58 billion over five years. today's announcement wasn't part of their manifesto, and both the conservatives and the liberal democrats have described the promise as uncosted.

welljeremy corbyn has been launching labour's arts for all policy charter this afternoon , our correspondent richard galpin has been at the event and can tell us what that's about. it has just wrapped up at the theatre royal in stratford. it has been a lively evening. as you say, it has all been about providing arts for all, accessible arts, so everybody can take part, watch or listen. what mr corbyn has said is that they are going to spend £1 billion on this. because they say there has been a huge impact of the austerity years, they are claiming that there have been cuts of more than £600 million over the past nine yea rs. than £600 million over the past nine years. and therefore, there is a need now for what they are describing as a national cultural renaissance. now, that money is going to be spent in a lot of

different ways. rebuilding libraries, for example, or refurbishing libraries, which have been closed down. a lot of money going into different parts of the arts. at one of the big emphasis that he made is that they are going to provide money, £175 million a year, for schoolchildren to learn a musical instrument. there is evidence, i think, musical instrument. there is evidence, ithink, that musical instrument. there is evidence, i think, that a lot of schoolchildren have not been taking up schoolchildren have not been taking up music in any way, and jeremy corbyn wants this to be very much at the heart of what they are doing with this charter for the arts. now, there have been endorsements from quite a lot of celebrities, who have either actually appeared in person here, or those that have recorded videos, for example, mark rylance. there have been performances from emeli sande and other musicians. it has been quite a lively night, but a

night where an important charter was put forward by the labour party. richard, thank you very much indeed. the liberal democrat leader, jo swinson has said there has "been a squeeze" on her party during the campaign, but that she is "not conceding yet". speaking on the bbc‘s andrew marr show, swinson also attacked jeremy corbyn‘s neutral stance on brexit, and said the liberal democrats' priority was to stop brexit from happening. well, of course the liberal democrats want to stop brexit and we will be campaigning to stop brexit. ok, if that is the case, jeremy corbyn is offering a referendum, you may not like every aspect of what he is saying, but he is offering a referendum, and borisjohnson very much isn't, doesn't that mean you are inevitably going to have to lean towards the labour party and help them form a government, vote things through for them, rather than the conservatives? well, first of all, as things stand, as things stand, borisjohnson is on course to get a majority, and liberal democrats are the best placed party to stop it. ah, you think that is what is happening at the moment?

if you look at the polls right now, that is what they say. now there is, obviously, two and a half weeks to go in this campaign, and i am working very hard to change that situation... you are not conceding yet, but you think that he is going to win? of course i am not conceding yet. liberal democrats are campaigning hard right across the country, and we are making real inroads, but we need to make sure we win those seats from the conservatives, and we are in a position to do that in a way that labour simply is not. if he doesn't win an overall majority, and he comes to you saying, "listen, jo, i never thought... i don't want to do this, i am doing this through gritted teeth, jo, but to get my deal through, to get my withdrawal agreement through, i am prepared to offer the liberal democrats a referendum on that deal afterwards", what do you say to him? look, i am not putting borisjohnson orjeremy corbyn into number ten, but if there is a law in parliament... the voters might. if there is a law in parliament that i can vote for that makes sure that the brexit deal is put to the public, with the opportunity to remain, i will vote for that. we have always said we will vote for that.

ah, 0k. so if borisjohnson tries to do a deal with you, whereby he gets his withdrawal agreement through the house of commons, he delivers his promise to "get brexit done", but in return for that, he gives you a referendum, you say yes? i am not doing a deal, andrew. i am going to vote for the things that i am standing up for, for the things that i believe in, and i believe we should stop brexit, and it may be that a people's vote is the best way to do that. we have campaigned for that for more than three years and so, as we have said, over the last year, if we can put a specific brexit deal to the british public with the option to remain, liberal democrats will support having a people's vote. we will vote for that legislation. the leader of the snp, nicola sturgeon, said that scrapping the uk's nuclear deterrent, trident, would be one of her "red—lines", in the event of her party supporting a labour government. i have a moral objection to weapons of mass destruction, unlikejo swinson, i wouldn't be prepared to press that nuclear

button that would kill potentially millions, tens of millions of people. but there is also the opportunity costs of trident, billions, tens of billions of pounds that are required to renew trident, in my view, are better stronger and stronger conventional defence that is more effective to protect our country, but also on hospitals and schools and better social security provision. these are the choices that we should be thinking very carefully about, and you know, if the snp is in that position of influence, then these are absolutely the kind of policies that we will push through. and we'll find out how the conservatives' manifesto launch, the rest of the day's election campaign news — and other stories — are covered in tomorrow's front pages. 10:30 and 11:30 this evening in the papers — our guests joining me tonight are ros altman and mihir bose. the headlines on bbc news....

borisjohnson pledges not to raise income tax, vat or national insurance as he unveils the conservative‘s election manifesto. the tories also promise to add 50,000 nurses to the nhs in england, and restore nursing grants. five teenagers are arrested after a large brawl at a birmingham cinema. machetes are recovered and vue cinemas pull the gang film blue story. sport, and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's chetan. good evening. we start with an extraordinary game in the premier league at bramall lane, as manchester united scored three goals in seven second half minutes to come from 2—0 down to lead 3—2 at sheffield united, only for the home side

to snatch a point with a last minute equaliser. patrick geary was watching. bramall lane is an assault on the senses, fire, water and a song about a greasy chip butty. it all feeds into an elemental energy that fuelled felled philjones. no foul, play on, and the final flick from john fleck. a team that keep on surprising. 0le gunnar solskjaer may be at the wheel, but they needed three points. 2-0. wheel, but they needed three points. 2—0. so often, the answers to manchester united's problems have come from within. young men like brandon williams, a teenage trendsetter. five minutes later, 18—year—old mason greenwood made it 2-2. 18—year—old mason greenwood made it 2—2. sheffield united, so co mforta ble 2—2. sheffield united, so comfortable for so long, were now breathless and bewildered, as marcus rashford completed the youth u—turn.

three goals in seven sensational minutes. but they could not contain the chaos. sheffield united made their own anarchy. 0liver mcburnie squeezed in a stoppage time equaliser. 3—3. it had he used his arm? the equaliser. 3—3. it had he used his arm ? the replays equaliser. 3—3. it had he used his arm? the replays were not clear. goal given. quite some finish, to quite so much. rangers are back level on points with celtic at the top of the scottish premiership, after they won 3—1 at hamilton academicals this afternoon. rangers went ahead seven minutes in thanks to this finish from ryan jack, but lewis smith levelled for hamilton. the game's decisive moment came before the break. this fantastic strike from ryan kent restored rangers lead, and he added a third in injury time. they're now only in second place on goal difference. in the day's other game, aberdeen remain in third after a 1—1 draw against stjohnstone. sam cosgrove fired aberdeen ahead with this fine strike. but the side bottom of the table equalised when matty kennedy finished off this move —

1—1 the score. it was a fiesty end to the game with stjohnstone, who'd already had murray davidson sent off, seeing callum hendry get his marching orders minutes later too, for that lunge which meant they finished the game with nine men. sale sharks produced a less—than—convincing display to beat 1a—man la rochelle in the european champions cup. the sharks move up to second in pool two, five points behind leaders exeter chiefs. gloucester produced a valiant fightback, but ultimately felljust short in their defeat by 1a—man montpellier in france. defeat for the cherry and whites means they stay bottom of pool five. england's cricketers are in a battle to save the first test against new zealand, after bj watling scored a double century on day four in mount maunganui. the hosts declared on 615 for nine. england will have to bat for the whole of the final day with just seven wickets in hand if they're to force a draw.

i am concerned. no doubt about it, because i have seen england in this position before and it is a mindset and it is a case of application and discipline. not something that a lot of the modern day players enjoy. don sibley and rory burns, that is their natural game to play in that fashion but a lot 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 basically take a leaf out of bj watling's book of denial, and backing their defence, leaving the ball well. of course it is important that they rotate the strike and that they don'tjust get stuck blocking the ball all the time. but it is low—risk batting, that is what we want. building some partnerships and getting england to safety. in the last few moments, spain have

w011 in the last few moments, spain have won the davis cup. rafa nadal has got thejob done. won the davis cup. rafa nadal has got the job done. there won the davis cup. rafa nadal has got thejob done. there he is, to the ground, beating denis shapovalov. it was 9—7 in the tie—breaker. shapovalov. it was 9—7 in the tie—brea ker. shapovalov shapovalov. it was 9—7 in the tie—breaker. shapovalov digging in, he saved a couple of match points, but rafa nadal managed to get the job done in the end. an emotional weekend for the spanish team, roberto bautista agut‘s father passing away. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. that's bbc.co.uk/sport, but that's all for now. more for you in an hour. five teenagers have been arrested after a brawl at a cinema in birmingham, in which a number of police officers were injured. fights broke out during attempts to clear around 100 people, from the star city leisure complex early yesterday evening. two machetes were seized. here's jenny kumar.

screaming. chaos and confusion at the star city complex in birmingham early last night as the police tried to restore order. officers were called following reports that a group of people armed with machetes had arrived at the cinema. fights broke out as the police tried to move around 100 people. it was a frightening atmosphere, and it's almost very upsetting, because this is a place where families come to enjoy themselves, it's an entertainment complex, these young kids were there last night to see frozen. police brought tasers to try to contain the incident, and several arrests were made for assaulting officers. this happened spontaneously. as we said, we are not certain what caused it, so we won't get into speculation. it is reassuring we were able to deal with it. this photo has been widely shared on social media.

a young boy holding a machete, shown here in the blue circle. police believe it was taken at the scene, and they want to hear from the families of those in the photo. tonight, the vue cinema chain has confirmed it has pulled the film blue story from all its venues following the trouble here at star city. but the police say they are not sure if the film which is about gang violence is linked to the brawl. five people have been arrested for assaulting officers and failing to disperse, including a 13—year—old girl. jenny kumar, bbc news. as jenny mentioned — vue cinemas, one of big three cinema chains in the uk, have issued a statement. in it they say...

but there are some conesting vue cinema's decision to pull the film from its 91 outlets across the uk and ireland. with me is umar kankiya, a consultant solicitor and member of dope black dads. thank you for coming in. what has upset you about this decision by vue? the issue really is that they have taken what fundamentally was an issue with a group of young people, of south asian descent, and somehow they have equated that to being linked to the film, the message is that the film was trying to promote. they have taken the decision to actually withdraw the film from all 91 of their cinemas. actually, when i was on my way here, i learned that showcase cinemas had also taken the

same view. for me, it is like, well, this is something that rapman and his team have been trying to portray a particular kind of story, yet you have made a decision based on a decision which... how is it even linked? how did you come to that decision making process that the machete incident with this group of young people is directly linked to the film that was being shown? for me, it really stirred something up at me. here's a question for me. in oui’ at me. here's a question for me. in our headlines, we are saying it is a gang film, blue story, a direct quote of what i said. is that a fair description? i don't think so, it is a love story. it so happens there are elements of post—cold war issues that go on, it is to make your friends that start off in school together, —— post code wars. it is a love story, but there are issues around violence and whatnot. but to

call it a gang film i think does it a very big disservice, in my opinion. reviews have said that the language is authentic, the london language, the location is authentic, the soundtrack that goes through it is authentic. so is the violence authentic? that is what people are primarily worried about. again, i am not living in london at the moment, ican not living in london at the moment, i can only go back to when kidulthood came out, and top boy as well. for me, it is a reflection of the time. the issues we were being shown then was a reflection of the time, what is happening at this juncture, perhaps it is a reflection of what is going on in those particular areas at this moment in time. again, i go back to the point that i made before. to call it a gang film is giving it a huge disservice. it is a love story. james bond is not called a gangster film. there are love themes that run throughout that. quentin tarantino has made several films that have a

love stories running through it, but we don't hear them being depicted as being gang films. so why, in this situation, has vue cinema, and now showcase cinema ta ken situation, has vue cinema, and now showcase cinema taken the view that we need to pull the film from all of oui’ we need to pull the film from all of our chains across the country? it makes no sense. umar, we have run out of time, thank you very much indeed. part of a viaduct in northwestern italy has been washed away, by what appears to be a mudslide, leaving a 30—metre gap in the road. officials say there have been no confirmed casualities. the bridge collapse is the latest damage caused by heavy rains that have hit the region, trapping travelers, downing trees and causing mudslides near the flooded italian coastal city of savona. leaked documents have revealed how china is holding hundreds of thousands of uighur muslims in high security detention camps in what uighur groups say is an effort to brainwash them.

china claims the camps in the xinjiang region offer voluntary education and training. but papers seen by the international consortium of investigativejournalists and bbc panorama show how inmates are indoctrinated through a regime that controls every aspect of their lives. richard bilton has this report this is a journey thousands have been forced to make, into china's internment camps. now, we know what's happening inside. this document contains orders written for those who run the camps. this is an actionable piece of evidence, documenting a gross human rights violation. this should be sitting, you know, in the files of a prosecutor.

in the last three years, china has built hundreds of camps across the remote province of xinjiang. they hold at least a million people, mainly uighur muslims. china says they offer training and they stop terrorism. but the document shows why a superpower is really locking up so many people. make remedial mandarin studies the top priority. encourage students to truly transform. inmates are imprisioned until they change their beliefs, their behaviour, and their language. it's very difficult, on that scale, with more thani million people in those conditions, to view that as anything other than a mass brainwashing scheme, designed and directed at an entire ethnic community. the chinese ambassador in london refused to answer our direct questions about the camps.