To ten years in jail. The first clash between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn of the election is on the way. We are alive tonight in salford, whether two will meet ina tonight in salford, whether two will meet in a couple of hours. The Plastic Waste crisis highlighted by David Attenboroughs blue planet 2 programme now he says there are signs of improvement. Its 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 its very encouraging, to that degree. Coming up in sportsday later in the hour on bbc news tonight could be the night for wales. Win against hungary in cardiff, theyll qualify for the euros. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Ever since the bbc revealed the scale of its failings, the shrewsbury and telford nhs trust has been under the spotlight. Tonight, a leaked report on the Maternity Hospital reveals failures way beyond what we knew already. Several dozen unexplained deaths are now being investigated. The probe reveals a toxic culture that led to the avoidable deaths of babies and mothers, and sub standard care that left babies brain damaged and disabled, while their parents were left in the dark. Well be live at the hospital in a moment but, first, heres our health editor, hugh pym. I held her and said goodbye. And i went home empty handed. I held her and said goodbye. And i went home emptyhanded. And he said that there was no heartbeat. That midwife came in crying. Sane, oh, i am so midwife came in crying. Sane, oh, i am so sorry, midwife came in crying. Sane, oh, i am so sorry, i am midwife came in crying. Sane, oh, i am so sorry, i am so midwife came in crying. Sane, oh, i am so sorry, i am so sorry. Too late. Distressing stories from pa rents told late. Distressing stories from parents told to bbc news during coverage of an unfolding scandal which could yet turn into the worst everin which could yet turn into the worst ever in the history of nhs Maternity Care. Now a leaked report from an official inquiry sets out for the first time the number of known deaths. 42, including deaths during pregnancy, babies after birth and three mothers. And there could yet be more discovered by the inquiry. The report describes a toxic culture at the shrewsbury and telford nhs trust stretching back a0 years and deaths which were avoidable because of substandard care. It says at the time of writing earlier this year, lessons were still not been learned and stuff are uncommunicative with families. In april 2017, and stuff are uncommunicative with families. In april2017, bbc and stuff are uncommunicative with families. In april 2017, bbc news reported a cluster of baby death at the trust. Injuly reported a cluster of baby death at the trust. In july that year, the government ordered an investigation. The head of that inquiry submitted an update report in february this year which was leaked to the independent. Now it is understood her Ongoing Investigation is reviewing 620 cases. Richard and rhiannon, their daughter kate died at just rhiannon, their daughter kate died atjust six rhiannon, their daughter kate died at just six days rhiannon, their daughter kate died atjust six days old, they have been campaigning for justice ever since. Her death at the hands of the trust you have a toxic culture of lying and cover up, a toxic culture of a wilful neglect to learn. They are failing, they are already in special measures, and me and rhiannon had to battle them every step of the way for the past ten years to get to where we are today. A spokesperson said the trust apologised unreservedly to families who had been affected, but it would like to reassure all families using Maternity Services that work on improving them was continuing, without waiting for the official final report. 0ur health correspondent, dominic hughes, is at the Princess Royal hospital, in telford. Dominic, just put this into context for me. I read somewhere that this could be the nhss west maternity scandal. Well, george, about eight yea rs scandal. Well, george, about eight years ago, i started reporting on the failures in Maternity Care at the failures in Maternity Care at the Morecambe Bay trust which, at the Morecambe Bay trust which, at the time, was seen as the worst example of failures of care, but this one sadly looks likely to outstrip it. And it is disturbing to see so many outstrip it. And it is disturbing to see so many familiar themes emerging at this trust. That talk of a toxic culture, the avoidable deaths of so many mothers and babies, children left with lifelong disabilities. A trust that failed to communicate openly and honestly with bereaved pa rents. Openly and honestly with bereaved parents. A lack of candour, a lack of truth. Now, this is going to be very disturbing reading for those families who were caught up in the events here in shropshire, many of whom campaigned so hard to get this independent inquiry off the ground, but also for those very hard working people within the nhs who tried to deliver the best possible care day in and day out. But they will also be big concern is that when this interim report was published in february of this year, it said then that there was still of care going on at that dominic, thank you very much. The police siege of hong kongs university is in its third day, leaving the last of the protestors still inside, facing an increasingly desperate situation with supplies of water and food running out. At the height of the campus occupation, there were hundreds of pro democracy activists, but now their number has dwindled to the dozens. 0ur correspondent, Rupert Wingfield hayes, reports from the campus. They came out looking more like prisoners of war, hands on each others shoulders, full on, humiliated and exhausted. Family members looked on anxiously, hoping to catch a glimpse of a missing child. This man saw his brother, a man he says was only in the hong kong polytechnic to help negotiate, but he is also in a police cell. How does that make you feel . Angry. Very. And he wanted justice to come out in hong kong. It is not china. It is the rule of law in hong kong. But now it is being like china. Tonight, we managed to get inside the university and this is the sight that greeted us. The detritus of sundays battle and the ammunition, ready for a battle yet to come. What is this . Petrol ether. And another one. Ethyl acetate. This has all come from the universitys chemistry labs, it looks like. It has been used to make what was clearly, look at this, this is a bottle with a gas canister attached to it. Im not sure whether it would have actually worked. But the students here, the protesters here were preparing for another full scale battle with the police. Tonight, maybe 50 protesters are Still Holding out here, they are portrayed in the media is the ha rd est of portrayed in the media is the hardest of the hardcore. But this young man seemed more hardest of the hardcore. But this young man seemed more scared and lonely. He told me even his family has now turned against him. They blame the protesters and say they deserve this, he tells me. They even say it is right for the police to shoot at protesters. When i hear this, it is very tough, i feel very sad. It is clear none of the remaining protesters wants to stay. The steady trickle of surrenders has continued all evening. Many are too exhausted to go on. Then suddenly as we watch, a group of about ten try to make a run for it. Within seconds, the police were on them from all directions. They never really stood a chance. It appears this or surrender are now the only choices facing the few who remain inside. Injust under two hours time, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn will take part in the first head to head tv debate of the election debate. The hour long encounter will not feature the liberal democrats or the snp, after they lost a last minute legal bid to be included. 0ur political editor, laura kuenssberg, reports. Boom, boom insert your own pun here. Before the first big bout tonight, a new promise from the blue corner. With knife crime in england and wales historically high, a controversial vow from borisjohnson to expand stop and search. Kids whove been previously convicted of carrying a bladed weapon have, as it were, a kind of section 60 order over their heads that means the police can stop and search them without suspicion. And the idea is that that will deter them from getting back into the life of crime. Can you admit that a lot of the things that you are promising for future years, first of all, would happen immediately, wouldnt happen immediately, and second of all, arejust making up for what has been a really serious squeeze on public spending since the conservatives have been in charge . You cant pretend this has somehow got nothing to do with the tories. We are making Big Investments now because we have been able to manage the economy prudently. How are you preparing for this debate . I want to be able to say to people, look, we have a great deal, its ready to go. If you go with us and we get a working majority, we will get a parliament that is working for you. Well get brexit over the line in the next few weeks. And then we can get on and deliver all the priorities that matter to us and i think matter to the whole of the country. Jeremy corbyn was having a trim, rather than a punch up, but will a newly smart look give him any smart lines tonight . I think you all from the bottom of my heart for everything youre doing to bring about a labour victory on december the 12th and more money for public services, or safer staff over the firms they work for. Im very confident in our policies and our abilities to try and transform this country, to reduce the levels of inequality and give real hope to people who have been so up against it for the past ten years because of austerity. And what preparation have you been doing . Well, ive eaten a caesar salad. Had a couple of cups of tea. And read a bit and talked a bit to my team. Its been very pleasant. Despite taking itv to court, the lib dem leader wont be on stage here tonight talking about her plan for a penny on income tax for the nhs or anything else. They will turn round and they will look at borisjohnson and Jeremy Corbyn and they will say, this is not good enough. Theres going to be a lot of people watching tonight who see that debate and feel depressed. Also on the trail, but not on the stage, the first minister nicola sturgeon, who leads the third biggest current party, but is only standing in one part of the uk. Well, borisjohnson is clearly terrified to debate me. 0bviously, wed have to speculate as to why that is the case but ill debate him anytime, anyplace. The Prime Minister was reminded today it can be the Little Things that matter. There will be big events and maybe big surprises but, in the end, all politics is local. What matters to you and me. George, it is still early in this election, debt still a long way to 90, election, debt still a long way to go, but it is clear there is so much thatis go, but it is clear there is so much that is different about these two candidates, in terms of their plans for the country and their personalities, and also in terms of how the public views them. But what the two big camps have in common are nervous. They are both well aware in labour and tory ranks that their candidates can devise, as well as delight. And although broadly, the polls put the tories ahead and labour some way behind, big events like this when millions of people will be watching their every move, they are big opportunities to impress, but also big moments when m ista kes impress, but also big moments when mistakes can be made. Laura, thank you. The green party of england and wales has launched its election manifesto, with a pledge to reach net zero Carbon Emissions by 2030 that means getting to a point where we cancel out as many harmful emissions as we make. The current government target is to do this by 2050. The green party says it would invest £100 billion a year over the next decade, as part of a Green New Deal. Jessica parker reports. Unfortunately, in the wild, they are officially classed as vulnerable. Not begging for scraps. At a Wildlife Centre today, the green party announced big plans that mean big spending. They say on Climate Change, the country cant afford not to act. This is the last election where we can take the first step down the right path, and that is what we must do. Vote green. If not now, when . £100 billion a year on climate action, far more than other parties, most of it through borrowing. They say itll create millions ofjobs too, for a net zero Carbon Economy by 2030 the kind of target the committee on Climate Change had suggested wasnt credible. And were entirely honest. It is the most ambitious Green New Deal anywhere in the world. Accept no limitations. The settings green and so is the message, but other bigger parties are straining to be seen as serious on Environmental Issues as well. The greens say theyll go further and faster, but theyll face questions as to whether their plans are realistic. As part of their agenda, they also want to phase in a universal basic income, starting at £89 per week for every adult. Scrap tuition fees, and hold a further brexit referendum. Improve the insulation of over a million homes a year. And. You want to put additional taxes on meat, dairy, plastics, flying. How do you think thats going to go down with the public . Well, what we want is a carbon tax, and well use the proceeds of that carbon tax to give the money back to people, in the form of our basic income. So, actually, theyre getting the support that they need to navigate through the zero carbon economies. The greens had just one mp in the last parliament, but theyre looking for more. Jessica parker, bbc news. Ever since the Eu Referendum here and the election of donald trump in america, there have been fears that social media platforms can be used by foreign powers to manipulate opinion and influence the result. Now, just weeks away from the general election, one of facebooks most Senior Executives has been speaking to the bbc. Steve hatch has told our media editor, amol rajan, that the company is consta ntly vigila nt. So far in this election campaign, has there been any foreign interference on facebook . Today, we have not seen anything. And instagram . Similarly. And whatsapp . Similarly. What i can say is, this is an area where we always have to be co nsta ntly, co nsta ntly vig ila nt. To date, no, but theres certainly no complacency by this organisation. Twitter has banned political ads, but you havent, why . So, in this country, weve made this decision that advertising is part of the political process and is part of the election process. To ban political advertising actually has an inherent bias in it, in that it helps entrench the positions of the incumbents, at the cost of those that are less representative. Isnt it ultimately absolutely absurd that whether or not people see millions of true or false claims online, its something you, as a private company, decide on and adjudicate on, rather than regulators and lawmakers in this country . For many years now, we think there is a clear role for reform and regulation in the political advertising space. In the uk, for every pound you make, your pre tax profit margin isjust 8. 5 . Thats artificially diminished, isnt it, in order to avoid paying full tax . No, it isnt. Its based on the rules in which we operate and every company thats like us operates. So, why is facebook so much less profitable in the uk than elsewhere . Based on where the value is created, which is the rules of taxation as theyre set at the moment. So, where are the things being built and made, generated . So, if thats the case, ifJeremy Corbyn were elected Prime Minister a few weeks from now, if he brought in this so called tech tax, you would pay it, you wouldnt be against it, and you wouldnt shift your operations elsewhere . No, we will work with whatever government has the privilege to be elected by the people of this country. So you would pay this tech tax, you wont lobby against it, and you wont move your operations elsewhere . We will work with every government that comes in. We always want to be an additive to the uk. Weve been that for more than ten years and we certainly envisage ourfuture in the uk being more than ten years hence. Facebooks steve hatch speaking to our media editor, amol rajan. The time is 6 18pm. Our top story this evening. The catalogue of failures at shrewsbury and telford nhs trust. Dozens of deaths are being investigated. Coming up, we are live in southampton, a key marginal Battle Ground in the upcoming election, just 31 votes the difference between victory and defeat last time around. Coming up on sportsday in the next 15 minutes on bbc news. We hearfrom hannah cockroft, back from dubai with two more world titles. Shes now targetting two more paralympic golds in tokyo next year Sir David Attenborough says the world is starting to act on the threat of plastic pollution. The broadcaster, who has been praised for raising International Awareness of the problem through his blue planet 2 programme, has just been given a Prestigious International award by Chatham House the think tank that focuses on international affairs, 0ur science editor David Shukman has been speaking to him. Depressing images of Plastic Waste drifting in the water. Sights captured by blue planet 2, the bbc documentary series. Filming that revealed how our throwaway culture is damaging life in the oceans. Other forms of pollution are only too familiar. Presented by Sir David Attenborough, the programmes were shown around the world and caught the public imagination, forcing governments and companies to take action. But every year some 8 Million Tonnes of it ends up in the ocean. This london supermarket is one of many turning its back on plastic packaging, a movement that is gathering pace in many different countries. And when i meet sir david at kew gardens in london, he says that the dangers of Plastic Waste are now so well understood that there are reasons to be optimistic. People in all parts of society are aware of what is happening, and its vile, its horrid, its something we are clearly seeing inflicted on the Natural World and having a dreadful effect and there is something they can do about it, so in a way, its a bit of a litmus test to see if the population care about this sort of thing, and people do. And so, i think its very encouraging. But plastic pollution is a massive challenge, too big to fix rapidly. Last year, we filmed these soldiers in indonesia trying to clear a river blocked by plastic. Sir david says that at least the problem is now being recognised. So what about another, much bigger threat . The rise in Global Temperatures from the burning of fossil fuels. Even on this, sir david sounds a little more optimistic. Well, were not going to win, its not a win or lose situation, its not as simple as that. But we are not losing as badly as we might, and i think thats about as good as you can say. But i think we are changing our habits, and i think the world is waking up to what we have done to the planet, and young people, as we know, are demanding that things should be done about it. 0ne demand is for many more installations like this, a vast solarfarm in china. But theyre only one part of the answer to tackling Climate Change, thats a problem so complicated it makes fighting plastic pollution seem relatively easy. David shukman, bbc news. Lets return to news about the general election. Over the course of the campaign were taking a closer look at some of the key battles, places where the election could be won or lost. Today, clive myrie is in southampton. Yes, were here in the heart of the city and very festive it is too. There is an ice rink beneath me with people having fun. The port and boat building, vital parts of the economy here in this major election Battle Ground. The city is actually split into two constituencies with southampton test held by labour since 1997. Next door, Southampton Itchen has been fought over as a key marginal between labour and the tories in the last three elections. In 2017, the conservative mp held on byjust 31 votes. Up to 25 of the population here is in their 20s with two universities driving this demographic. 0n brexit, southampton closely mirrored the National Result with 5a voting to leave the eu in 2016. Weve been here for a couple of days now and found a city in a state of flux, the nature of work being transformed. Changes including inevitably brexit, that are raising questions local people want the election to answer. In this election the most important issue for me is getting over this brexit issue. This election is about getting a decent mp that will secure my childrens future. We havent got one person that we can honestly stand behind, because you dont know whether anybody is telling the truth or not. Southampton. An affluent pocket of the south, prosperity by the sea. But this election has revealed fault lines. Wed rather be building boats, theres no two ways about that but at the moment we are building bridges. At the meerkat boatyard, the boss is angry. All the books are empty, workers hours have been cut. And brexit is the villain. Along with the politicians. They really have let the people down. If its remain, remain. If its exit, lets go. But it has to be sorted. Thats the problem. Regardless of who becomes Prime Minister . Regardless of who. Heavy industry and manufacturing were struggling long before brexit. The ford plant here shut down six years ago. Gig economy jobs, self employed and part time working now much more common. Can you pass me the thinning scissors . The thinning scissors . Thank you single mumjenny rents a chair at the salon in a region where there has been a dramatic increase in workers on zero hour contracts. Like all good hairdressers, clients confide in her. I think for the younger ones, they are really struggling to try and find work, especially when they have come out of college. Some of the hours are not always set in stone or they are just getting a phone call and its not as regular as they thought it was going to be. Cruise liners are part of the architecture here. And in the shadow of a hulking ship, we catch up withjenny outside daughter amaris school. What is she hoping for, for this election . I want people to be real. We havent got one person that we can honestly stand behind because you dont know whether anybody is telling the truth or not. Water lubricates the local economy. The docks, the citys biggest employer, is booming. But elsewhere, southamptons jobs transformation is part of the story of this election. How secure or how worried people are could swing their vote. Very generous with their time, thanks to jenny and very generous with their time, thanks tojenny and everyone who spoke to us. And with that, george its back to you in the studio. Last night it was the coldest its been this year and some parts of scotland we re this year and some parts of scotland were as cold as it has been, and you can see the breezes picking up and also a bit of rain around which has been flirting with wales in the south west, affecting Northern Ireland and also some showery bursts of rain as the wetter weather moves into the cold air and you can see, its very patchy across Northern Areas by the end of the night, and much milder than last night. There will be a few showers left for scotla nd will be a few showers left for scotland during the day tomorrow and will also see some of them affecting Northern Ireland and the far south west of england but drying off in wales and most of england and wales will have a dry day and the risk of showers and on the whole temperatures will be a little bit higher than today, despite the fresher south to south easterly breeze which will still be around as we head into the week with an area of low pressure towards the south west and that means a bit more rain, which will be affecting the south west of england and push into wales, perhaps into the midlands by the end of the day and a few more of them arriving into Northern Ireland. Elsewhere, east and the north, dry, hazy sunshine and the between seven and 9 degrees. Lets head to the end of the week and the low pressure still not far away, threatening more rain, some wet and windy weather heading towards iberia and some of that could head here for the weekend but most places will be dry on friday, still a little breezy and a few showery away from scotland and then its a bit like today with western area seeing rain and most places will be dry with sunshine at times and more of the country will see temperatures in double figures. It is slowly getting milder by day and night. A reminder of our top story. The catalogue of the failures at shrewsbury and telford nhs trust. Dozens of deaths are being investigated. Thats all from the bbc news at six. So its goodbye from me, and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbcs news teams where you are. Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines. A leaked report into care at shrewsbury and Telford Hospital has shown that babies and mothers died in a toxic culture at the trust stretching back a0 years. Boris johnson and Jeremy Corbyn prepare for their first head to head tv debate in the election campaign. Swedish prosecutors drop their investigation of rape allegations against the wikileaks co founder, julian assange. Violence intensifies in hong kong as dozens of demonstrators attempting to escape a university are blocked by police. Borisjohnson Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn borisjohnson and Jeremy Corbyn will be going head to head in the first ever general election tv debate behind serving Prime Minister and leader of the opposition. The liberal democrats and the snp will not bejoining the liberal democrats and the snp will not be joining the debate after a legal bid to be included. In watson is gearing up for the action tonight in salford and joins us now from the debate venue. All set for a busy night . Im not sure if you can hear me but we are gearing up for the debate here in salford this evening and as you can see people are taking their place is now in the spin