And also the anxiety about what may still be to come. Is the drive for electric cars risking damage to the ocean bed . We have exclusive access to a project assessing the impact of deep sea mining. So the machines are being prepared for deep sea mining, but is it the right thing to do . Ill be reporting on the risks of damage to the ocean floor. And tree planting, car sharing and wildlife corridors, how green is your Football Club . And coming up on bbc news. Sam kerr has joined the Womens Super League leaders chelsea the australian is widely regarded as one of the best strikers in the world. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Labour has unveiled plans to outspend the conservatives on healthcare in england, with a warning that the nhs is crying out for a Financial Rescue plan. Labour is pledging a real terms increase in funding of £26 billion a year by 2024, about £6 billion more than current government plans. It says it will use the money to cut waiting times and increase investment in Mental Health treatment, but the conservatives have warned that labours plan for a shorter working week would send staff costs soaring. Our Political CorrespondentJessica Parker reports. It is, they feel, their territory. Labour will go big on the nhs at this election. £6 billion big to be precise, to be added in time to englands annual health budget. We will give Mental Health the greatest priority it has ever had. We will introduce free prescriptions, prevention and well being will be at the heart of our mission to help people live healthier, happier, longer lives. The quality care patients deserve. A rescue plan for oui patients deserve. A rescue plan for our nhs. Labours plans are costly and unworkable, so the conservatives, especially with Jeremy Corbyns long term aim for a four day working week. But the tories have had a rebuke of their own. On the right, a young david gauke. He has been a party member for nearly 30 years, and served in theresa mays cabinet. Now he is saying this. Traditional conservative voters like me should lend their support to the liberal democrats. He lost the party whip in september, and now. You are going to stand as an independent . White . Yes, i to stand as an independent . White . Yes, lam. To stand as an independent . White . Yes, i am. The to stand as an independent . White . Yes, lam. The reason being, and this pains me to say it, but a conservative majority after the next general election will take us in the direction of a veryhard brexit. This intervention from a man who was until recently a serving member of a conservative cabinet surely remarkable in the midst of a general election campaign. Except it doesnt quite feel that way. Its the latest example of how politics recently, particularly brexit, has pushed Party Loyalties to and beyond breaking point. Last week, the former labour mp ian austin urged voters to back borisjohnson, claiming Jeremy Corbyn was unfit to lead the country. Visiting flood hit yorkshire today, not everyone was receptive to the Prime Minister. Is there anything in particular you would like us to do . No, thank you later he will try to reinforce his mantra of getting brexit done is at the country can move on. And reacting to david gaukes, we are fighting for every vote we can get, and we regret we havent got his support, but we will do our best in the campaign ahead. Every politician will attract their critics and fans. But today, a push on all sides to convey core messages. Jessica parker, bbc news. As weve heard, labour is promising to spend more on the nhs in england do their pledges add up . Our reality check correspondent Sophie Hutchinson is here. Theres no doubt that the past decade has been the hardest in financial terms that the nhs has ever faced. The cost to patients has been long waits in a e, delays for treatments including cancer and struggling Mental Health services. Now labour says it will reverse that. £26 billion in real terms health ca re £26 billion in real terms Health Care Funding boost from 2018 to 19 to 2024. An care funding boost from 2018 to 19 to 202k. An annual average increase of 3. 4 in real terms on Health Spending in the next four years. So just how generous is that pledge . Drilling down into the figures, you just look at nhs front line funding in england. Labour is promising an average annual increase of 3. 9 over five years. Compare that to the last decade under the coalition there were rises of just 1. 1 , and 1. 4 under the conservatives the lowest sustained rates in the history of the health service. Labours pledge of a 3. 9 increase is just a whisker away from the 4 that most experts say has always been needed in order to keep up with Rising Patient demand. Its a relief to move from the very low levels of funding we have had in the last decade to something that is more like a sustainable long term position, but it is going to take a long time to deal with the backlog of problems that has accumulated, and there is a serious issue in the shortage of key staff in general practice and nursing, and it will ta ke practice and nursing, and it will take a significant amount of time and effort to put that right. So how does labour compare to the conservatives on the nhs . Well the parties arent so different. Labour is planning to spend £6 billlion more than the conservatives by 2023 24. But thats out of a total budget for nhs Front Line Services of £155 billion. So both parties are proposing significant increases which should help to stop the current crisis, but they dont come close to the large 6 rises given to the nhs under new labour. Jane, back to you. To sophie, very many thanks for that. Lets get the thoughts as well of our assistant Political Editor norman smith following all the days campaigning as ever. Hejoins me from westminster. The nhs is always a key pa rt westminster. The nhs is always a key part of a campaign. What do you make of what we have been hearing so far today . An awful lot of numbers and figures flying around, which is probably all very well if you are a statistician or a maths teacher, but if you are another motor, perhaps a bit confusing. I think the court thought labour want to get over is less to do with money and figures and more to do with memory lane, the idea that labour can restore the nhs to what it once used to be, to rebuild it, to rescue it. In other words, its a pitch to those voters who think, the local hospital isnt as good as it used to be they are having difficulties getting a gp appointment, or last time they visited amd it was snowed under and they had a wait. It is a sense of, things used to be better, and labour are saying, we can get the nhs back to that. They are suggesting returning the nhs to its roots, so they are not talking about internal markets or reforms or contracting out services or a bigger role for the private sector. Indeed, they are talking about easing out the private sector and returning the nhs to a state funded service. And yes, there will be many, many more staff, 24,000 more nurses, many of them british nurses who will be employed because they are reintroducing nurse bursaries, but many also will be eu nurses because they are going to keep freedom of movement for eu nationals working in the nhs. But elections are often decided by the issue, and it is clear the tories wa nt issue, and it is clear the tories want it to be brexit, borisjohnson wa nts want it to be brexit, borisjohnson wants the message and the idea to be, lets get brexit done. Labour would dearly like it to be, lets get the nhs back on its feet. Norman, thank you very much. Norman smith. Lets take a look at some of the other stories from the election campaign. Labour says that if it wins the election, it wont allow another referendum on Scottish Independence in theirfirst term. Speaking in glasgowJeremy Corbyn said a Labour Government would concentrate completely on investment in scotland. The party had previously suggested it would not block a second referendum. The green party says that the new government needs to put the Climate Emergency front and centre and make it the priority for all financial commitments. Its co leader jonathan ba rtley also called for the role of chancellor to be replaced with a carbon chancellor to oversee the treasury and a new department for the green new deal. We have to radically transform the way we look at the economy. Every sector of the economy needs to decarbonise. That means transport, that means agriculture, and that means of Course Energy and housing. And only by prioritising that in a new government are we going to get the action that we need to decarbonise by 2030. The snp leader, nicola sturgeon, has challenged westminster to get its act together on green energy, and stop obsessing about nuclear power. Campaigning in edinburgh, she vowed snp mps would pressure the government to take stronger action on climate change. And campaiging at a boxing club in north london this morning, the liberal democrats have pledged half a billion pounds to tackle knife crime. The partys leaderjo swinson said the fund would provide opportunites to prevent young people being drawn into Youth Violence and gang related crime. And there is plenty more on the election including a special analysis of the battleground seats that will make the difference at this election. From ultra marginals with tiny majorities to the seats with the strongest leave and remain support. You can see that at bbc. Co. Uk news and on the bbc news app. Now we will of course take a look at the days other main stories. Members of the army have arrived in South Yorkshire to help with flood relief as people in some flooded areas have been told they could be out of their homes for weeks. This morning the Prime Minister has been visiting the flood affected town of stainforth and was asked if the governments response had been too little, too late. I perfectly understand how people feel, and theres no. You cannot underestimate the anguish that a flood causes. You saw the couple earlier on, everybody ive talked to, the shock of seeing your property engulfed by what is huge, and also the anxiety about what may still be to come. I do thank very much the Emergency Services and the army for everything theyve been doing. Obviously we are working very hard, notjust with. We decided last night to send some of the troops here that you see, and theyre doing a greatjob in trying to repair the flood bank there. That was the Prime Minister a little earlier today. Robert hall is in stainforth. The Prime Minister has move on from here across the flooded fields to the village of fishlake. He has just left there, he has been talking to more residents and to those rallying to help them, as indeed people have been here. The other bit of news is that 200 more troops have been called in to help with the effort. But lets come back to the Prime Ministers visit here to stainforth. He came to the central club, didnt he, dean . Igather he came to the central club, didnt he, dean . I gather he had a bit of a mixed reaction. He did. He spoke to a lot of people, he did get a mixed reaction. For a lot people around mac one and doncaster, it has not been about brownie points going for any of the parties. We have had most of the leaders here, they are point scoring, and we are not bothered about politics at this point in time. For us it is all about fishla ke and point in time. For us it is all about fishlake and getting the help we need for fishlake right now. More could have been on earlier, it has not been done and we just want to help them, leave us alone, let us get on with it. You are one of three centres, george. Ithink get on with it. You are one of three centres, george. I think it is quite extraordinary, the way people have rallied, and especially here perhaps . Yes, the whole village has been rallying around and doing everything they can. That is what we settle this up for saturday morning for the people in fishlake, because they got the brunt of all this one round here. We didnt get much because of the two bridges, but they have had the brunt of it, and we set it allup have had the brunt of it, and we set it all up for them on saturday morning. We just been doing what we can. Thank you very much indeed, gentlemen. As you have probably gathered, there is still this remarkable effort going on. Three centres here in stainforth, others elsewhere, everything concentrated on those most in need, and the situation likely to continue for some time. Robert hall, thank you. A jury has heard that a teenage girl escaped from an alleged serial rapist by jumping naked from a bedroom window. Joseph mccann is accused of 37 offences. Our Home Affairs Correspondent danny shaw is at the old bailey. The court has been hearing about the escape of this 17 Year Old Girl who, along with her mother and brother, it is alleged, was held against her will. She was raped byjoseph mccann in lancashire at the beginning of may this year. What actually happened, according to the cctv footage that was shown to the jury was that she jumped naked from the first floor bedroom window, landing in the front garden, then clambering over a wall, and then you can see her running, limping as she does so, running away. The jury was told that she fractured her heel during the process , she fractured her heel during the process, and then they were played the 999 call she made when she raised the alarm. She is sobbing, screaming, in the 999 call, hysterical, and says at one point, hes got a knife, he held us hostage. Thejury were hes got a knife, he held us hostage. The jury were also shown images of the capture ofjoseph mccann, when eventually he was cornered, there was a stand off up a tree in a field, and eventually he was arrested. He said nothing and interview, but he did tell a police officer, if you had caught me for the first two, the rest of this wouldnt have happened. The trial continues this afternoon. Danny shaw, thank you. At the old bailey. The time is quarter past one. Our top story this lunchtime labour vows to outspend the conservatives on the nhs in england. And still to come shout the new text Service Launched to help victims of cyber bullying. Coming up on bbc news. Andy murray says hes excited about his future and believes he is closer to beating roger federer, rafael nadal and Novak Djokovic than he was just weeks ago. The first public hearings in the donald trump impeachment inquiry begin in washington this afternoon, with democrats aiming to show that the president used his office to put pressure on a foreign leader for his own domestic political gain. Hes accused of seeking help from ukraine to boost his chances of re election next year. Our washington correspondent Gary Odonoghue reports. There was no quid pro quo. No quid pro quo. Quid pro quo three short latin words. In essence, you scratch my back, ill scratch yours. Thank you very much, mr president. Thats what the president stands accused of. Pressuring Ukraines Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate mr trumps opponents in return for hundreds of millions of dollars in aid. And that allegation has persuaded the top House Democrat to drop her resistance. Im announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. Everything centres on a july phone call with president zelensky, in which mr trump brought up joe biden and his son, hunter, whod worked for a ukrainian gas company. In the partial transcript of the call, donald trump asks for a favour. He then asks about a Conspiracy Theory surrounding the 2016 election, but goes on to say. I had a perfect phone call. Perfect, it was a perfect conversation. It was absolutely perfect a week before the call, the military aid had been put on hold by the white house. The president insists the two things were not linked, and has doubled down on his demand for an investigation despite there being no substantive evidence against the bidens. People have got to know whether or not their president s a crook. Well, im not a crook. Richard nixon resigned when he knew for sure he was going to be impeached and thrown out after the watergate scandal. But this place has only formally impeached two president s in more than 230 years, and neither of them was removed from office. Chances are, donald trump wont be either. So, why are the democrats bothering . Those open hearings will be an opportunity for the American People to evaluate the witnesses for themselves, to make their own determinations about the credibility of the witnesses, but also to learn first hand about the facts of their president s misconduct. The first witness in public will be the serving ambassador to ukraine, william taylor. Hes already stunned washington by telling congress that military aid was tied to investigating the bidens for domestic political gain. And its evidence like that that democrats will hope can damage President Trump in the run up to next years election. And garyjoins us now live from washington. And it promises to be quite a moment in these proceedings this afternoon, gary. It really does. These things dont come along often and we will get two key diplomats today who will set out as the democrats hope the sort of narrative of the pressure they say was applied to ukraine to investigate Donald Trumps domestic political opponents in return for cash. 391 million worth of cash. We already know that the ambassador to ukraine, the serving ambassador to ukraine, the serving ambassador to ukraine, says there was a quid pro quo