to test public opinion, the bbc‘s huw edwards travelled to meet people in a suburb of paris.is the annual bank holiday football tournament in the outskirts of paris. the reaction to the election seems to be relief rather than enthusiasm. lots of people voted for him yesterday, but they voted against marine le pen. he is young and has no past experience. so, it might be difficult for him, but i believe he can do it. it is a complex picture, evenin can do it. it is a complex picture, even ina can do it. it is a complex picture, even in a mixed community like this one. one of the coaches, who left

huw edwards spoke to some of the people who were there.st it. as we say that, we are sending a signal notjust to manchester but across the world. i felt compelled to come. i'm manchester born and bred, this is my city, i live here, my children have been born here. with such an atrocious act that happened last night, with so many young people. why was it important fopr you to be here? it is important to me because, like my mum said, i was born in manchester and i know people who were at the concert. i find it very upsetting that somebody would just walk into a place, kill themselves along with other people and it is very, very upsetting. you cannot defeat us, because love, in the end, is always stronger than hate. cheering and applause. the spirit of manchester cannot be broken by a bomb. there is much more to this city than that. i am really proud to be from this city, it's a wonderful place, full of culture, we are a multicultural city and we cannot be defeated by something like this, so that's why i'm here today. my sentiments exactly, w

huw edwards focus on people there.e're sending a signal to manchester and to the world. i fell compared to come. “— and to the world. i fell compared to come. —— compelled. this is my city. i live here. my children have been born here. it is such an atrocious act that happened last night with so many young people. why was it important to you to be a? it was important to you to be a? it was important for me because as my mother said, i was born in manchester, and i knew people at the concert. i find it very upsetting that somebody would just walk into a place, kill themselves, and other people, and it is very, very upsetting. you cannot defeat us, because love, in the end, is or are stronger than hate. the spirit of manchester cannot be broken by a man with a nail—bomb. there is more to the city than that. i am proud to be from the city. it is a wonderful place full of culture. we can be defeated by something that is. that is why i am here today. being in manchester, it hits home, and with it being a terrorist attack, i

huw edwards will chair the discussion between the leaders of all the main parties in wales. edition of newsnight here on bbc news will be at the later time of midnight. here with the details are kirsty wark and jonathan blake. a special collaboration between newsnight and radio one's newspeak and our debate from newcastle. we will be looking at the generation gap in this election. an audience will challenge politicians on everything from housing to jobs to brexit. join us at 9pm on radio 1 and here on the news channel at midnight. time for a look at the weather. it has been a better day for many parts of the country. in kent we had some sunshine. no storms as they had during the holiday weekend. bricks in the cloud ahead of the thicker band of cloud. the cloud swept across scotland and it is weakening as it heads into england and wales. behind it we have some cool and fresh air. the air comes in behind the weather front. not much rain left. that will weaken as it moves south. abandon cloud across southern parts of england and wales. clearer skies to the north by cooler than

studio: it should be fascinating, huw edwards, thank you. back to the election now. cuts." we need strong voices, taking a stand against the tories at heart of the action. our pledge is that the sdlp will always stand up for your interests, will always be in your corner. huddersfield town are celebrating their promotion to the richest league in the world — the premier league — with an open—top bus parade. the west yorkshire team beat reading on penalties at wembley yesterday, sealing their return to the top division of english football for the first time in 45 years. patrick gearey reports: let's go live to huddersfield and speak to tanya arnold. what an atmosphere!? you picked the right moment. the music has kicked in, the players have arrived on the open top bus. they will have a right old party here in huddersfield. this is a little bit like leicester city winning the premier league last year. a fairy tale of football. these guys finished 19th in the championship last year, with a fifth of the budget of the likes of newcastle united, but they made it to be premier

over now to huw edwards who tonight is in the scottish capital for us. huw.d evening from edinburgh, where the scottish party leaders are getting ready for their big campaign debate, it starts in 30 minutes' time. it's expected to include exchanges, on the snp's demand, for a second independence referendum. more on that in a moment. but today's campaigning in england and wales has been dominated by reaction to the conservative plans for reforming social care and the winter fuel benefit for pensioners. the party says it will not re—think the plans, despite claims that they're unjust. our political correspondent alex forsyth has the latest. manifestos are key in election campaigns, packed with policy, a pitch to voters. one of her promises last week, a fairer system for young and old. record funding for schools, real technical education for young people, and the first ever proper plan to pay for and provide social care. but there's some disquiet in her party about what social care changes will mean for traditional tory voters, pensioners and homeowners. on the

studio: huw edwards, thank you. staying with the election...e union is by far the most important issue in next week's vote. the dup leader arlene foster said returning a majority of unionist mps would keep the idea of a vote about a united ireland off the agenda for generations. speaking at the manifesto launch in antrim she outlined the party's key commitments. 0njune the 8th, i'm asking people to get northern ireland back on the right track. to vote to get the best deal for northern ireland. to strengthen our hand in the upcoming negotiations. to get the assembly back up and running. to protect our place within the united kingdom. and to unite behind one strong unionist voice. most of the political parties in northern ireland launched their general election manifestos this week, including the cross—community alliance party. the party campaigned to remain in the eu and says it wants to mitigate the impact of brexit on northern ireland. the alliance leader, naomi long, said following the referendum result northern ireland needs a special deal.

to test public opinion, the bbc‘s huw edwards travelled to meet people in a suburb of paris.is. the reaction to the election seems to be relief rather than enthusiasm. lots of people voted for him yesterday, but they voted against marine le pen. he is young and has no past experience. so, it might be difficult for him, but i believe he can do it. it is a complex picture, evenin can do it. it is a complex picture, even ina can do it. it is a complex picture, even in a mixed community like this one. one of the coaches, who left this ballot paper blank, told me that social integration and immigration had to be taken seriously. translation: it is a big problem, even for established immigrants like me. foreigners coming these days and theyjust aren't able to integrate. ii aren't able to integrate. 11 million voters went for marine le pen. that does not mean all of them are racist. and it is abundantly clear that it was fear of a marine le pen presidency more than anything else that drove people to vote for a political novice as president. translation: i am very happy. he wasn't my

huw edwards spoke to some of the people who were there. this city is greater than that of the forcesworld. manchester but across the world. manchester born and bred, this is my city, my children have been born here. with such atrocities happening la st here. with such atrocities happening last night with so many young people. it is important like mum said because i was born in manchester and i know people who we re manchester and i know people who were at the concert. i find it upsetting that somebody could walk into a place killed along with other people and it is very, very upsetting. you cannot defeat is because love in the end is always stronger than hate. the spirit of manchester cannot be broken by a bomb. there is much more to the city than that. i am proud to be from the city, we are a multicultural city at the canopy defeated. my sentiments exactly, we are diverse, we welcome everybody in an somebody to just think they can come in and do what they have done... this is our city and we will always come together. being in manchester, it hits home. with it being a terrorist atta

you can continue to watch those results come in, full coverage of those results, huw edwards will be back from 2pm, coverage on two and bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here is ben rich. scenes like this have become quite familiar, many others ending the week with the same sort of weather we had to start it. another beautiful day with plenty of sunshine across north—west scotland, high pressure to the north and an easterly winds, we still have the best up the sunshine in northern areas and we still have a bit more cloud towards the south. that was the scene from one of the weather watchers in devon a short time ago. the cloud in southern areas is more broken than in recent days, there will be brighter spells. across parts of the midlands and wales, patchy cloud and sunny spells. northern england, northern ireland and scotland will see the best sunshine, but more cloud plaguing the far north—east of scotland. fairly cool towards the east coast, out west, highs of 17, 18 or fairly cool towards the east coast, out west, highs of17, 18 or 19. cloud out west, highs of 17, 18 or 1

lets cross to my colleague huw edwards who is in paris.m paris, where the polls will close within the next couple of hours and the people of france will discover who their next president will be. tens of millions of voters have been visiting the polling stations today, after a deeply divisive campaign, with emmanuel macron and marine le pen offering radically different visions of the future of this country. tonight's result will also have a direct impact on the future direction of the european union in the years ahead, as the brexit process unfolds, so the relevance of the outcome to france's neighbours is very clear. this report on the day's voting is by our correspondent hugh schofield. emmanuel macron was the first of the candidates to vote this morning, at a voting station near his home in the seaside resort of le touquet. with him, his wife brigitte. a short time later, marie le pen was also in front of the cameras in the northern working—class town of henin—beaumont, one of the strongholds of her front national party. turnout will be

well my colleague, huw edwards, was chairing the debate and he is there now.polite for the most part. you are quite right, the main focus was on brexit. the likely impact, if you like, of the brexit process on the welsh economy, on welsh public spending. on the future of wales in the years ahead. another dimension to that brexit debate about the welsh voice, if you like, the welsh perspective. to what extent will that be properly represented in those talks at the highest level, led by theresa may and david davis and others? concerns about the extent to which welsh problems will be properly represented. ben wright was listening to the exchanges. this is his report. five parties, vying to speak for wales at westminster. for yea rs to speak for wales at westminster. for years labour has ruled the roost here, more than half of the parliamentary constituencies are currently red and this evening it was the first minister of wales arguing labour's case. he was asked early on about the causes of terrorism. i don't agree with you that this would not have happened if it

and coming up in half an hour, huw edwards chairs a debate in cardiff about what the election means for wales, and the rest of the united kingdom. good evening and welcome to bbc news. it's been announced the american singer ariana grande will return to manchester this weekend for a benefit concert. the event on sunday evening will take place nearly two weeks after her gig was attacked in the city, killing 22 people. she'll bejoined for the ‘0ne love manchester‘ gig byjustin bieber, coldplay, katy perry, miley cyrus and take that. it'll take place at old trafford cricket ground on sunday and raise money for the families of those who died and were injured at manchester arena just over a week ago. well meanwhile the chief constable of greater manchester police, ian hopkins, has said that salman abedi, the man who carried out the suicide attack, had not been known to police for his extremist views. mr hopkins revealed that abedi had come to the police‘s attention only for minor criminality. 1a men are still being questioned in connection with the atrocity. dave guest reports. "11; —— 1a pe

you can continue to watch those results come in, full coverage of those results, huw edwards will bet the weather.

despite beating brentford 3—1. football, that's despite that's it from me in london, now back to huw edwardsing in the news that they have elected the youngest president in their history, a politician with no background of elected office, he's beaten marine le pen of the front national, who declared tonight that her party was now firmly established as the main party of opposition in france. as the main party of 0ur paris correspondent lucy williamson is with me. i'd lucy williamson is with me. like to talk about what president i'd like to talk about what kind of president mr macron will be. what do you think this presidency will be about? he is young, energetic, charismatic. he talks about optimism. he talks a lot about breaking the system, renewing the system. i will tell you an anecdote from his time as a state auditor. 0ne from his time as a state auditor. one of his colleagues remembered how he used to leapfrog layers of senior management. he once took his oppose all straight to the lee is a palace. he doesn't like obstacles getting in his way. he has the parliamentary elections next mon

that's a summary of the news — now back to local election 2017 with huw edwards. election special, we are here all day because there was plenty to talk about, results overnight but lots to come across scotland, england and wales. to what extent can we look at these results and then maybe have a clearer picture about what might or might not happen in five weeks at the general election? it is a cautious process. our political editor laura kuenssberg is with us. your thoughts so far? it is a barometer rather than something directly tra nslates barometer rather than something directly translates to the general election, but two things stand out. the bottom line is for an opposition party to look anything like realistically heading towards number ten they should be gobbling up seats in local elections that this kind of stage. labour, in these early is falling back. part of the reason is the second thing which is extremely striking, a total collapse, so far, in the ukip votes, losing all the seats in some councils, falling back all over the place. it seems that so far w

huw edwards will be back here with the latest from the bbc‘s news at ten.and solidarity. goodbye. always remember, never forget. forever manchester. choose love, manchester. thank you. temperatures are set to climb even higher over the next few days. we had a beautiful blue skies. it was quite muggy under the cloud in the south—east of england here at walton on thames in surrey. some of that cloud in the south—east melted away overnight. we still have cloud coming into northern ireland and scotland, with a little rain and drizzle coming from that. and not only do we have low cloud there, but low cloud coming back towards wales and the south—west of england through the english channel. clearer skies for eastern england, but quite a warm night. let's head into wednesday morning. we start off quite cloudy across a good part of wales to the english channel. a bit misty over the hills. some early sunshine across the south—east and east anglia. a bit cloudier for the north—west of england. the thickest cloud will be across the north—west of scotland, where we sti

those other day's of the main stories, now back to huw edwards in manchester. thank you. europa league final. security had been stepped up significantly in the past 2li—hours. our sports editor, dan roan, is in stockholm and we canjoin him now. united had a huge responsibility coming into this game this evening. the atrocity on monday evening had rented the result tonight's europa league final in stockholm almost irrelevant, yet the human value of the occasion had been allocated. united's players fully aware that their club is a world—renowned symbol of the city of man stand that they had an opportunity to give something back, a job to do, and they delivered. —— backweb is a world—renowned symbol of the city of manchester. it may sound and look like the normal build—up to a big european final, but this is no normal match. amid a measured security presence, thousands of manchester united fans we re thousands of manchester united fans were here to support but also to be pa rt were here to support but also to be part ofan were here to support but also to be part of an expres

studio: huw edwards, thank you.have been jailed after both pleading guilty to a total of 94 offences of raping, sexually abusing and drugging children over a ten year period. 47—year—old nicholas taylor was jailed for life, with a minimum term of 18 years and his 42—year—old wife, joan taylor, was sentenced to 18 years. ben ando has been following the case at leicester crown court. hejoins me now from our cambridge newsroom. this is a particularly disturbing case? yes, 94 offences in total, committed between this pair. nicholas taylor and his wife, joan. as he was led down to begin the life sentence, he will see serve at least 18 years in prison, he gave a thumbs up 18 years in prison, he gave a thumbs up and said "yeah, spot on" as he was led away. he said, thejudge, who thejudge said was led away. he said, thejudge, who the judge said i see no good was led away. he said, thejudge, who thejudge said i see no good in you. you have been described as a monster. he added "while the train yourself as a reformed characte

huw edwards will have live coverage of the local election results across england, scotland and wales bbc two. let's take a look at some other news now. the government is set to publish draft plans to tackle air pollution following a legal battle with environmental campaigners. the measures are expected to contain a scheme to encourage drivers of older diesels to scrap their cars. our environment analyst roger harrabin reports. breathing polluted air can harm people's health throughout their life. the government is being forced by the courts to clean it up. dirty diesel vehicles are mostly to blame. many drivers bought them thinking they would be betterfor the climate. ministers are likely to pay drivers to scrap the most polluting vehicles. local councils will have the power to tax dirty vehicles too. road humps may come into the spotlight in the strategy. the government says they increase pollution by encouraging drivers to accelerate and break. road humps also save children's lives, so that would be controversial. either way, ministers have to come up with a credible plan. we would

that's a summary of the news — now back to local elections 2017 with huw edwards.use that is the west midlands because that is the big result coming in. probably within the next 90 minutes although who am! within the next 90 minutes although who am i to say? patrick burns is there. let's have the latest on this big fight that is happening there.” think we can probably do better than your estimate, i think it might be 45 minutes away. i did say earlier on that this had the makings of a photo finish between the conservative candidate andy street, the formerjohn lewis boss, and sion simon the labour candidate, former minister under gordon brown. on the first round of first preference votes, andy street had a majority of 6000. if you do the percentages that's just a tiny bit over 1% of the total first preference votes cast. extraordinarily close. what we haveis cast. extraordinarily close. what we have is one of the seven counts. there's one in each of the metropolitan council areas around the west midlands, this is the biggest in birmingham. what's happening now is th

jeremy cook, bbc news. and join huw edwards for the bbc wales leaders‘ debate.pplause good evening, noswaith dda, a warm welcome to the sse swalec stadium in the heart of the welsh capitalfor a special live election debate, and welcome to people across the uk watching on the bbc news channel. this is where we'll be spending the next 90 minutes, testing the pledges and ambitions of five political parties in wales. as voters prepare to visit the polling stations on thursday of next week, we'll be exploring some of the biggest issues featuring in this campaign, from the challenges of the brexit process ahead to the questions raised by the terrible events in manchester last week. we asked the five main parties in wales to nominate a leading representative to take part in tonight's debate. joining us tonight here in cardiff for labour we have first minister carwynjones. for plaid cymru we have their leader leanne wood. for the conservatives we have the welsh assembly member darren millar, and we're grateful to him for appearing as the leader of the welsh conservative