Greens will tackle the climate crisis, greens will remain and transform, greens will build a better britain. Borisjohnson and Jeremy Corbyn go head to head in the first tv debate of the Election Campaign tonight after the lib dems and snp failed in a legal bid to be included. And how will it all go down here in southampton . Its a key Battle Ground in the coming weeks. Were here on the latest of our visits around the uk to answer voters questions on the big topics, today were looking at education. And coming up,the renowned broadcaster Sir David Attenborough tells the bbc the world is beginning to tackle the threat of Plastic Waste. 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. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Im joanna gosling. An alleged victim ofjeffrey epstein has appealed directly to Prince Andrew to come forward and give a statement to us investigators. The duke is facing renewed calls to tell the authorities about his friendship with epstein, a convicted sex offender. Heres our los angeles correspondent, sophie long. This is the lawyer in los angeles representing five of Jeffrey Epsteins alleged victims. With her, a young woman who told reporters crammed into the small room that epstein raped her when she was 15. We were not hidden. It is upsetting to me to think that anyone who was closely associated withjeffrey epstein might argue that they didnt suspect that he might have been sexually abusing children. Her attorney urged Prince Andrew to come to the United States and tell investigators everything he knows about the behaviour and activities of his former friend, jeffrey epstein. He described in his interview this weekend that Jeffrey Epsteins home was like a railway station. A lot of people coming in and out. He should have asked, why are these girls here . This is the interview ms allred was referring to. Prince andrew responded to the allegations about him with categoric denials of impropriety. You can say categorically that you dont recall meeting Virginia Roberts, dining with her, dancing with her at tramp, or going on to have sex with her in a bedroom in a house in belgravia. Yes, i can absolutely categorically tell you, it never happened. But there are further signs of the damage to Prince Andrews reputation. The accountants kpmg have announced they are withdrawing their sponsorship of one of his initiatives, a mentoring scheme for entrepreneurs. Sophie long, bbc news, los angeles. Rohan silva was an adviser to pm david cameron. Yesterday he wrote in the Evening Standard about two meetings with Prince Andrew at which he alleged that Prince Andrew had used racially offensive language. He spoke to the today programme on radio 4 earlier this moring. I raised the topic of the British Trade department and whether the prince thought it should be reformed, and he said to me, well, if you pardon the expression, that really is the n in the woodpile. And that expression i did know, and i was in truth really shocked by it. The meeting ended shortly afterwards and i remember walking out of Buckingham Palace and just feeling an incredible sense of regret that i hadnt said anything at the time, i hadnt taken him to task and challenged that. That was rohan silva. The palace has strenuously denied that the duke of york made these comments. We can hear now from actress and Metoo Movement campaigner rose mcgowan. Victoria derbyshire asked for her response to Prince Andrews interview in which he categorically denies having sex with a 17 year old and also that he knew anything about epsteins actions. Plenty of people have made jokes about what a pr disaster it was, they have joked about his remarks to do with sweating, the Pizza Express alibi and so on. Do you think people like Virginia Roberts and others will be disappointed that some of the conversation has been a bad Prince Andrews performance, a lot of it has been about his performance, rather than if he has actually got something serious to a nswer actually got something serious to answerfor . Actually got something serious to answer for . I think that is a com pletely answer for . I think that is a completely true statement. I definitely feel like they have been ignored in this process, and its easy to go for the pr angle, its easy to go for the pr angle, its easy to go for the Pizza Express and sweating and things like that. I do feel like i wish a lot more in the interview had been asked about the victims. We cannot forget that there is human tragedy behind this, its not just a is human tragedy behind this, its notjust a joke is human tragedy behind this, its not just a joke about two creepy older men. This has serious repercussions and ramifications. And serious pain that is involved in this story. What do you feel should happen now, legally . this story. What do you feel should happen now, legally . Ithink this story. What do you feel should happen now, legally . I think Prince Andrew needs to talk to the fbi, and the investigators. I think thats all he really can do at this point because i dont think there is anything left on the pr front for him to do. He should voluntarily go to the us and submit to questioning by the authorities . I think he should. I think it would be, as he said, the honourable thing to do. That was the actress and campaigner rose mcgowan talking to victoria. Around a hundred protesters remain barricaded inside a Hong Kong University surrounded by police, as a standoff there enters a third day. Protesters inside Polytechnic University are said to be running low on supplies. The territoritys chief executive carrie lam says she wants a peaceful solution but she cant rule out using force if a life threatening situation emerges. Rich preston has the latest. The morning after the night before. After days of violence, diminishing numbers of protesters and supplies. In a press conference earlier, the territorys chief executive carrie lam said around 600 people had already left the university, around 200 of them minors. She encouraged those under 18 still in the building to leave, saying they would not be arrested. Some have already had enough. Its just that i was quite desperate, because our only way is to surrender. But then we were really afraid of being charged. Ms lam insisted she has full control and doesnt need to call in china. I would assure you that we remain very confident that we are able to cope with the situation. For those who refuse to leave, a Police Cordon remains in place. And a promise that, sooner or later, they will be arrested. About 100 are reportedly still inside the university and they say they are prepared to sit it out. I have stored some, an amount of dried food, and some snacks. Those foods are sufficient for me to stay a week or two weeks. The surrender of these protesters, cold and hungry, will be a welcome sight to authorities both in hong kong and beijing. Despite many leaving and despite ms lams insistence that she has control, those inside are still a thorn in the side of hong kong authorities. This isnt over yet. Rich preston, bbc news. 0ur correspondent Rupert Wingfield hayes has been watching events unfold and brings us up to date. What you can see behind me here is the result of what happened here last night, which is that thousands of protesters came out onto the street here in kowloon, really, in support of the students who are besieged inside the campus of the hong kong Polytechnic University, which is about a kilometre down the street behind me here. And the object of those protests was really to cause as much chaos as possible and to divert the police, pull the police away, to allow the students inside that campus to escape. And this is the result. You can see all of this debris on either sides of the streets. These protesters were ripping up the sidewalks, ripping up the pavement. This street this morning was completely filled with debris, with roadblocks, there were cars burned, there were buses burned. It was, right across the southern end of kowloon, scenes of complete mayhem last night. Theres been a lot of cleaning up going on this morning. Now, at the campus, the siege is still going on, although it is much smaller than it was last night. We understand around about 100, we think, protesters remain inside there, the holdouts, either because they are hardliners or because they are just too scared to give themselves up to police. Since yesterday around 600 people have given themselves up. Of those, we understand a third, around 200, were minors under the age of 18. They have been allowed to go home after their details were taken by police. Thats one of the concessions carrie lam and the government has given to try and defuse the situation. Anybody under the age of 18 will be allowed to go home, but all the rest have been taken into police custody. And police this morning say they have taken more than 1100 people into custody over the last two days. The lawyer for the man accused of murdering british backpacker Grace Millane has told a new Zealand Court that she died as a result of consensual sex gone wrong. Grace, who was 21 and from wickford in essex, died last december in auckland while travelling in new zealand. A 27 year old man who cannot be named for legal reasons denies her murder. Prosecutors say he strangled her and then disposed of her body in a suitcase. He claims she died accidentally after being consensually choked during sex. Boris johnson will go head to head with Jeremy Corbyn tonight in the first of the general election live tv debates, their first major clash of the campaign. The liberal democrats and the snp had wanted to be included, but lost a legal challenge yesterday. Meanwhile this morning theres a string of policy announcements, so lets take a look at what the parties are saying. The green party of england and wales has launched its election manifesto, promising to spend £100 billion a year to help the uk reach net zero Carbon Emissions by 2030. The conservatives say adults who murder children will face life in prison without parole, if they are elected in december. And labour has promised to spend £45 million on combating fox hunting, hare coursing and other wildlife crimes, if they get into power. This has just this hasjust come this has just come through, another announcement from the tories. They are saying that anyone caught unlawfully with a knife will be immediately arrested, charged within 24 immediately arrested, charged within 2a hours and in court within a week, which is three times faster than the current average. Police will be empowered to target known knife carriers with a new court order making it easier for officers to stop and search those known in the past to have carried weapons. Violence reduction units, multi agency teams made up of police, social services and other agencies will be boosted by £35 million next year to champion preventative work and stop violence happening in the first place. 0ur assistant Political Editor, norman smith, is in westminsterfor us. That extra detail just that extra detailjust through that extra detail just through from the tories, so lets start with them, going strongly on law and order today. Yes, this has been a theme of the borisjohnson campaign. A massive amount of announcements we have had on law and order, everything from the 20,000 more police officers, to 10,000 more prison places. We have had tougher sentences proposed for violent and sexual offenders, they will no longer be eligible for parole after half their sentence. This morning we had the justice half their sentence. This morning we had thejustice secretary Robert Buckland with fresh proposals on law and order, that child killers would be eligible for no parole at all, and now this latest move on knife crime to make it easier for the police to stop people suspected of carrying a knife, with a so called knife court order. Also massively speeding up the whole process so those found to be unlawfully carrying a knife would be charged within 24 hour is and would appear in court within a week. That is a response to what has been an upsurge in knife crime, particularly in the capital. It comes as we are really reaching that point in the campaign where we get the manifesto moments, we get a whole string of manifestos today. We have the Green Party Ma nifesto, today. We have the Green Party Manifesto, tomorrow, the liberal democrats, theresee, labour, and possibly at the weekend, next week, the tories. Thursday, labour. This morning the green party kicked off their manifesto, not surprisingly, at the front of it is a commitment to hugely improve our response to Climate Change said they are suggesting by 2030, we would be Carbon Neutral. That would be achieved by a huge spending splurge to improve the installation of homes, to ensure better transport, and to pave in the introduction of renewable energy. This was sian berry, their co leader, unveiling the manifesto. 0ur manifesto is our vision for the future of this country. 0ur ten bills for this new parliament will make our vision a reality. Every single green mp you elect now will dedicate themselves to this agenda. The green mps, the more chance we have to save the future. Greens will tackle the climate crisis, greens will remain and transform, greens will build a better britain. 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 . Elsewhere, on the green front, they are also suggesting in constitutional terms that they would do away with the house of lords, they would have another brexit referendum, they would introduce proportional representation, theyre talking about greening the landscapes are giving more powers to local communities to oppose development. They are talking about protecting the green belt, banning fracking. 0n animals, tougher rules on fox hunting, ending the badger cull and ending animal testing. So quite a big, radical package from the greens. The other parties, today we have the liberal democrats suggesting they would put 1p on tax to generate an extra £35 billion over the next few years to jim to generate an extra £35 billion over the next few years tojim go towards the nhs. Labour have come up with proposals to ensure there is more money to ensure more police to crackdown Animal Welfare crime. A lot going on in different areas in the election today. And of course the election today. And of course the tv debate later, borisjohnson, Jeremy Corbyn head to head. What is the pundits thinking around the potential pitfalls for each of them . I think all of the pundits are thinking, please, please let something happen there is a slight sense that the election is on tramlines at the moment, with boris enjoying going on and on about brexit, borisjohnson going on and on about brexit, and Jeremy Corbyn trying to move things on nhs and austerity. There is a slight sense that nothing dramatic or surprising or out of the ordinary has happened so far. Perhaps tonight will be that moment. The only thing which makes one slightly cautious is that in the past, by and large, when we have had the sort of debates, whether they are in general elections of the brexit referendum on the tory leadership, they havent really delivered. They have been rather shouted, scratchy occasions where perhaps the most remarkable thing are the bar stools of the contenders have to sit on. Lets see what happens tonight, maybe it will bea game what happens tonight, maybe it will be a game changer. The Vice President of facebook, Nicola Mendelsohn, has defended the social media platforms decision not to ban political adverts. Speaking to the Victoria Derbyshire show, Nicola Mendelsohn said private companies should not police politicians. Facebook has come under heavy scrutiny in recent months over its political ads policy that leaves political adverts unconstrained regarding how they could mislead or deceive. Ina in a democracy, we dont think its right that a private company should make the decisions as to what is and isnt the right thing for a politician to put out there. The point is about whether its accurate, or whether it is misleading. And the argument against you is, a politician or a Political Party ca n you is, a politician or a Political Party can Say Something inaccurate as long as they are paying for it. No, ithink as long as they are paying for it. No, i think its about the fact that i want to be very clear that there are i want to be very clear that there a re rules i want to be very clear that there are rules out there so if theres anything that would cause harm anything that would cause harm anything that would cause harm anything that may be jeopardised the election, that would come down. We think it is right that we allow our thatfrom, this is a hard conversation, its not an easy conversation, its not an easy conversation, we do think its right that we allow our platform to be a place so people can see what is out there. Especially on political advertising, we make sure what happ