is tonight the night you can turn things around, prime minister? the big question for rishi sunak. the polls aren't budging. could this be the moment for a game changer? and here's the guy who wants hisjob. is tonight the night you seal the deal? pleasantries, smiles and — you can bet for both of them — a bag of nerves. the debate under way, and the biggest topic of our time, the cost of living, set out by paula from huddersfield in the studio audience. my savings are gone and i'm genuinely. worried about my future. i don't think you understand . how this is for people like me. so what can you do about that? both men expressed sympathy, and then the argument began. of course i know everyone is onlyjust starting to feel the benefits of it, but inflation is back to normal, wages are growing, taxes are now being cut. keir starmer would put all that progress at risk. he would put up everyone's taxes by £2,000. keir starmer. paula, ijust don't know how you feel when you hear a prime minister say, having heard what you're going through, that the plan is working, it's all all right. i meet so many people who are struggling with their bills, and the prime minister just keeps saying... he lives in a different world. next, listen to this exchange on nhs waiting lists where the audience laughed at the prime minister. we are now making progress. the waiting lists are coming down. but what keir starmer didn't mention to you, which you did, julie... waiting lists were 7.2 million. they're now 7.5 million. he says they're coming down, and this is the guy who says he's good at maths. yeah, they are now coming down. they are now coming down. 7.2, when you said you'd get them down... 7.2 million — they're now 7.5 million. i'd like you to explain how they're coming down. because they were coming down from where they were when they were higher... laughter they are down, right? and both offered direct answers to this question. if you had loved ones on a long waiting list for surgery, - would you, if you felt that - that was the only way forward, use private health care? rishi sunak? yes. keir starmer? no. what about how much tax you might have to pay after the election? please raise your. hand if i am wrong. you as prime minister. will not raise income tax. you will not raise - national insurance in the next parliament. and, other than labour on private schools, - you will not raise vat. thank you for that . instructive moment. so, how will either of them pay for things? we will raise specific taxes, and we've been really clear what they are. we've already dealt with the tax break on private schools. we want to end the non—dom status completely. i think that the super—rich should be paying their tax. yes, well, we have already scrapped the non—dom regime. and then promises, finger—wagging, interruptions on pensions. please let mr sunak finish. ..the triple lock plus, so that we raise the personal allowance for pensioners and ensure that the state pension is never subject to tax. that's what you'll get under a future conservative government. keir starmer hasn't matched that pledge, which means, for the first time in our country's history, if labour are elected, pensioners will pay tax. i do not think that is right, and you should explain to everyone why you think pensioners will be paying a retirement tax under your government. the big problem with liz truss is that she made unfunded tax cuts. the prime minister is doing the same thing... next, it was stephen from warrington. politicians have broken so many promises on immigration. - why should i trust either of you? - and we will need bold action to bring it down, whether that's legal immigration, where we're going to introduce a new legal cap to guarantee that it will come down every year, or the boats, which you mentioned. we got the numbers down last year by a third, and now we have a deterrent ready to go. migrants have been detained, the flights will go in july, but only if i'm your prime minister. we need to smash the gangs that are running this vile trade, making a huge amount of money putting some of the most vulnerable people in boats across the channel. they're making a fortune. and the tension was rising. 0k... what are you going to do? just tell everybody, what are you going to do with illegal migrants who arrive? rishi sunak, please, can wejust...? - please, gentlemen, - we will lower our voices. and there was a dividing line on this specific measure. if your rwanda plan is blocked by the courts, and will this - appear in your manifesto, that you would remove i the uk from the european - convention on human rights? is that part of your plan? i'm crystal clear. i believe all our plans are compliant with our international obligations, but if i am forced to choose between securing our borders and our country's security or a foreign court, i'm going to choose our country's security every single time. if i'm prime minister, we will not pull out of international agreements and international law which is respected the world over, because i want the uk to be a respected player on the global stage, not a pariah. and this debate is not yet done. when it is, the spin will begin to attempt to answer the big question — who won? chris mason, bbc news, in salford. to the general election in india, where official results show an alliance led by the prime minister, narendra modi, has won enough seats to form the next government. but his bjp party has failed to secure a majority on its own, winning far fewer seats than at the previous election. opposition groups led by the congress party have performed better than forecast. with the latest from delhi, here's yogita limaye. a widely expected moment and an historic one. it is only the second time that an indian prime minister has won a third term. "it is the win of our commitment to a developed india", narendra modi told his supporters. but it isn't the victory he wanted, winning fewer seats than the last election, which will damage the air of invincibility that has surrounded him and the bjp over the past ten years. perhaps the biggest shock came from ayodhya, where prime minister modi inaugurated a grand hindu temple injanuary at a site that had been disputed by hindus and muslims... ..expected to galvanise hindu voters, but the ruling party was defeated here by a large margin. this is how the opposition congress took in the results, with an almost equal fervour. it is rare to see this kind ofjubilation amid the losing side, but that is because over the past ten years the congress party has suffered humiliating election defeats. and what that has resulted in is a party whose confidence was so low that they didn't believe that they could actually launch a proper challenge. so this is a celebration for being significantly back in the game. "long live rahul gandhi", supporters chanted the name of a leaderfrom india's most prominent political dynasty, but whose capabilities and future were under question. today will mark a point of resurgence. the country has unanimously and clearly stated that they do not like the way they run this country, we do not appreciate the way they have attacked the constitution, we do not appreciate the way they have run this country for the last few years. so that is a huge message to mr narendra modi. it is a bittersweet victory for the bjp. with the numbers they've got, they cannot pass laws unilaterally. they will need to take others on board. some will see this as a win for indian democracy. yogita limaye, bbc news, delhi. tanvi madan is a seniorfellow at the brookings institution and the host of the global india podcast. she told me why she thought narendra modi failed to win an outright majority. i think the granular analysis of why they fell short of the majority, you'll find in the next days and weeks, whether that was regional issues, cast as a factor of a gender perhaps, economy and unemployment, but i think the largest single we are getting from voters in india is that well many continue to back prime minister modi for his nda coalition, there are significant numbers of voters that don't seem to think they are better off today than they were five years ago, and they're sending a signal that they're sending a signal that theyjust they're sending a signal that they just want multipolar tea abroad, they want it at home, they want choice and perhaps some amount of balance. find some amount of balance. and this is the _ some amount of balance. and this is the first time _ some amount of balance. and this is the first time modi will be governing without a majority. will he have any problems managing a coalition, and what will it mean for how he is able to sort of put into a voter's agenda coachella this was a known unknown, that prime minister modi has was a known unknown, that prime minister modi— minister modi has never come when he was _ minister modi has never come when he was chief _ minister modi has never come when he was chief minister. minister modi has never come l when he was chief minister and for number of years, and when he was prime minister the last decade, has not needed a coalition. he has been able to vote, or choose his policy priorities, his governance style, as somebody who has the votes himself. i think the known unknown is we don't know how this is going to shape his governance style, his policy priorities, or how he functions in parliament, which might also change. he might have to adapt. some of it will depend on the bjp�*s on assessment of why they did not get the majority they sought. some of it will depend on what his coalition partners are demanding of him in terms of policy priority, but also approach to fellow politicians and. , , , ., and. these results to show the con . ress and. these results to show the congress led — and. these results to show the congress led in _ and. these results to show the congress led in the _ and. these results to show the congress led in the alliance - congress led in the alliance did much better than what was expected. what do you put that down to? i expected. what do you put that down to? ~' ,, �* expected. what do you put that down to? ~ i. �* , down to? i think you're seeing it as a combination _ down to? i think you're seeing it as a combination of- down to? i think you're seeing it as a combination of a - it as a combination of a coalition actually being formed, it was not perfect in any places, the coalition parties sometimes run against each other in certain states, like bengal, but nonetheless i think you're seeing that voters haven't said they do want choices somewhere interpret ——, or the bjp did suffer some losses significant enough to make a difference to their majority —— in uttar pradesh. you saw the parties come together, setting aside their differences. i think it is state to state. in some states, it is regional issues. in some states, it's got to do with the economy, orthe states, it's got to do with the economy, or the question of employment. so i think we wait to see what the specifics are indigent state, but think indian voters have said they do want an opposition and the factor people of talked about in india, there is no alternative, does not have quite the residence people thought, or analysts thought, it did, voters are saying, we might not have one leader as the choice opposite, but we do want to see an opposition be able to play that role, checks and balances. buti able to play that role, checks and balances. but i think the opposition will also have to do some thinking about, could they have brought this coalition together earlier? they too have together earlier? they too have to decide how they function in parliament, and at the end of the day, this is a coalition of the day, this is a coalition of the nda coalition, that has won a majority and so they will have to be some soul—searching on both sides of this question. tanvi ta nvi madan there tanvi madan there from brookings institution. police in hong kong say four more people have been arrested on the anniversary of the killing of pro—democracy protesters at tiananmen square in beijing in 1989. earlier, people gathered in taiwan to commemorate the day after the island's president lai ching—te vowed that the memory of those killed would not disappear. back in 1989, chinese tanks rolled in to the square as troops opened fire on the protestors — mostly students — who'd been demonstrating for weeks in the heart of beijing. they were calling for a free press and freedom of speech. it's a day in history that is still a taboo subject in china. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. us presidentjoe biden has announced sweeping new measures aimed at deterring migrants from crossing into the united states from mexico. he said the executive action was necessary to regain control of the border and blamed republicans for the collapse of a bipartisan deal. the us president has come under intense pressure to tighten border controls ahead of november's presidential election. the order will ban migrants who enter illegally from claiming asylum when border encounters surpass 2,500 per day and make it easier to deport them to mexico. that means the president's order should go into effect immediately. so today, i'm moving past republican obstruction and using the executive authorities available to me as president to do what i can on my own to address the border. frankly, i would have preferred to address this issue through bipartisan legislation, because that's the only way to actually get the kind of system we have now that's broken fixed — to hire more border patrol agents, more asylum officers, morejudges — but republicans have left me no choice. conor o'callaghan is a democrat running for congress in arizona and also a former resident on the texas border. i asked him how much he thinks politics played a part in biden's action on the border. i don't think it's a political decision at all. i actually think in a lot of respects, it's sort of a sad day for our country and a sad day for our system that the president, as he said, had to go it alone on this issue. so i don't think it's political. i don't think this is a democratic party problem. i don't think it's a republican party problem. this is an american problem. we've had issues at the border for the better part of two decades. and in those two decades, we've had three really solid attempts at bipartisan immigration reform. and every single time, the republican party has blocked those efforts. so as the president himself said, he had no choice but to go it alone on this. and i think he's absolutely right to do so. well, separating the politics from the policies is very difficult in an election season. but if we look at the measures that are themselves, give us a bit more detail, if you can, about what you expect to see happening and given this sort of threshold number of 2,500. yeah, so we haven't... i guess for it to turn off, it has to go below 1,500, which it hasn't been below 5,500 since 2020. so it's probably not something that's going to get turned off, so to speak, any time soon. what's ironic with speaker johnson and other republicans, you know, jumping up and down saying, oh, you know, this is a political stunt, a lot of what the president is doing is what was in the legislation that donald trump single handedly killed. so, look, any time we can do something bipartisan, that's always better, as the president said. but he had to go it alone. and he's really doing things that the republicans originally wanted done anyway. so i think it's a sound policy. and i think over time, with a more closed border, you know, hopefully, people will stop coming once they realise they're not going to be able to get in. and that's how i think you're going to see the numbers start to recede, get below that 1,500 threshold, and then we can get back to some sort of normalcy instead of having a constant state of crisis at the border. well, there are members of the democratic party that aren't too pleased with this executive order. democratic congressman pramila jayapal says, "i'm profoundly disappointed," and calls biden's action a step in the wrong direction. now, it's worth mentioning that she is on the subcommittee for immigration, integrity, integrity, security and enforcement. she's the ranking member on that committee. this is a problem for biden. —— is this is a problem for biden? i don't think it's a problem for biden. i think it's a complicated situation. and i empathise with congresswoman jayapal�*s view. i'm an immigrant. my wife's an immigrant. this is a country that was built on immigrants. so we need a good, robust immigration system here. there's no question about it. but we have unfortunately had chaos and disorder at the border. people like immigration. they don't like chaos and disorder. so this is just one step. but we need to better secure the border. we need to work on our asylum process, make it faster, make it more streamlined. and we need to revamp our legal immigration system and also do something for the dreamers, for the folks that are already here, the 12 million people that donald trump is on record as saying he wants to round up and send back to where they came from. that rhetoric has no place in our society today, and that's why president biden is taking a step in the right direction. and it's very important to make sure that he wins this november. conor, you're a democrat vying for a congressional seat in arizona, as i mentioned earlier. you've also got lived experience living on the texas border as well. how will you be sort of pushing this message out to the wider sort of democratic voters around the us, that aren't on the border, that don't have these issues sort of on their doorstep? yeah, that's a great question, steve. so, yes, i grew up in arizona, which is obviously a border state. and then after i went to college, my family moved to the rio grande valley on the texas—mexico border. and i spent a lot of time down there during school breaks, etc. and i think you have to have that lived experience because we don't have enough time to get into all of it, butjust this notion that we can build a wall from the pacific ocean to the gulf of mexico is completely absurd. when you actually spend time at the border, there are so many physical reasons why that's just impossible, between livestock, wild animals, the marshyness of the ground. so we have the technology. we can drone strike iranian commanders from the sky. we can read... satellites can read licence plates. we have the technological know how to have a secure virtual border. but as the president said, we need the will and the resolve to actually get it done. the republicans have not shown that they have that will and resolve. so once again, unfortunately, the president for now has to go it alone. when we flip the house and keep the senate in november, we'll be able to do something more comprehensive, to finally address this issue once and for all. let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines. the criminal trial of president biden's son, hunter, in delaware has heard opening statements from both sides. hunter biden has pleaded not guilty to lying about his drug use when he applied to buy a handgun in 2018. the prosecution described him as a habitual user of crack cocaine who knowingly misled officials on a declaration form. hezbollah rockets have sparked days of bushfires in northern israel, with swathes of forest reserve destroyed and 11 people hospitalised for smoke inhalation. israel's army chief says that his forces are ready for a military offensive along the border with lebanon as skirmishes continue with the iran—backed hezbollah movement. ukraine's president, volodymyr zelensky, says the heaviest fighting in his country is currently taking place in the eastern donetsk region. the army said the town of pokrovsk had seen the most clashes with russian forces. in russia itself, president putin has appointed his former, long—standing defence minister, sergei shoigu, to a role coordinating the defence industry. the major league baseball infielder tucupita marcano has been banned for life for placing hundreds of bets on the sport, including on his own team's games. he was was found to have placed 387 baseball—related bets —— he was found to have placed 387 baseball—related bets while he was a pittsburgh pirates player. marcano denies that any outcomes in the games on which he placed bets were compromised. some of the last surviving veterans who fought in the second world war are in normandy to commemorate 80 years since d—day. it was a turning point in the war, as allied troops landed on the coast of northern france and began the liberation from nazi occupation. john maguire reports. for many of these veterans, their departure from the shores 80 years ago, all as very young man, was theirfirst ve ntu re overseas . cheering excitement and a sense of celebration will, in coming days, turn to commemoration. stan ford survived as his ship was sunk by a mini submarine, but many other members of the group were killed. as you know, john, i have 32 reasons for going back, and those 32 reasons are the 32 guys that never came home. and i made that promise to myself that every opportunity, i would go back and pay my respects and honour those guys. as they left portsmouth, their modern—day counterparts flew overhead in a royal air force transport plane and stood to attention, saluting on the deck of the aircraft carrier hms prince of wales — respect between the generations. john dennett has been back to normandy before, but never to the british memorial. it was very emotional, and i am afraid that will probably be a bit emotional when we get there, to see the actual thing. we will rememberthem. as the ferry approached the french coastline, the engine slowed and the veterans paid tribute. so, a short, poignant, but highly—symbolic ceremony as a wreath were thrown over the side of the ferry. the idea is to pay tribute to those who died before even reaching the french shores and beaches they had come here to liberate. and so to france, and two full days of ceremonies and commemorations for those who can tell the story of what happened here 80 years ago first—hand. their number may be dwindling, but their commitment today, as it was then, remains immense. john maguire, bbc news, normandy. the kilauea volcano on the pacific island of hawaii, which is one of the most active in the world, has erupted again. a year ago, there was a massive eruption that lasted several weeks and sent plumes of lava into the air. it wasn't the only one. a volcano 30 miles from iceland's capital reykjavik continues to erupt, nearly a week after current round of flare—ups began. we leave you with these images. see you soon. hello there. on tuesday, we had a cold front move southwards across the uk. now, after a cloudy and wet start to the day across northern areas, once that cold front had moved its way through, well, the skies brightened up and we had a mixture of sunshine and these big shower clouds. the other thing that the cold front did was what cold fronts do — it's really dumped the temperature. so, for example, in aberdeen, we started on monday at 21 degrees for the highest temperature. it was just 15 degrees, though, for tuesday. and those temperatures dropping by five or six degrees was quite typical as this colder polar air mass worked its way in. that means the air started from a long way to our north. now, at the moment, we have plenty of showers around, particularly near coastal areas in the north—west. otherwise, some lengthy, clear spells. and it's a chilly start to wednesday morning, with temperatures widely down into single figures, the coldest spots probably down to about1 in sheltered areas of scotland. that really is cold for a start to a summer's day. despite the chilly start, though, there will be plenty of sunshine. showers from the word go around these north—western areas, particularly near to the coast. but through the day, as those temperatures rise, the showers become really widespread, particularly across the northern half of the uk and especially in scotland, where, again, we're looking at some hail and thunder. it's going to feel quite chilly, particularly in the brisk winds here. but further south, ok, temperatures below average, but in thejune sun, it should probably feel ok but on the fresh side. now, our weather pattern's blocked at the moment. this is a blocking pattern that's out in the jet stream, out in the atlantic to our south—west. what that's doing is it's forcing this north—westerly jet stream across the uk, and that continues to pull in cold air, particularly to the northern half of the uk. and because we've got a blocking weather pattern, well, that means the weather doesn't change very much from one day to the next. wednesday, we have loads of showers in the forecast across the northern half of the uk. it's the same thing for thursday. again, with those showers coming in across scotland, there'll be quite a few that turn heavy with some hail and thunder, and it will continue to feel quite chilly here. spot the difference, then, for friday. again, loads more showers, particularly affecting scotland, quite a few for northern ireland, northern england. drier weather further south with some sunny spells. and again, we've got those same kind of temperature contrasts — chilly in the north, temperatures fairly close to average in the south, but feeling ok in thejune sun. and guess what? into the weekend, we don't really see a great deal changing with the weather. you'll have to wait till next week for some changes. indian shares slide as prime minister narendra modi's ruling party loses its parliamentary stronghold. and on world environment day, we speak to two young activists who use visuals to highlight issues of climate change in the region. hello and welcome to business today. i'm steve lai. let's begin in india, where the world's biggest election has seen narendra modi securing a rare third consecutive term in office. but his ruling bharatiya janata party fell short of an absolute majority, which means the party will have to rely on a coalition, where consensus will be key for pushing through any economic policy. arunoday mukharji reports. i'm outside the indian parliament, where the government in power and lawmakers will be deliberating on economic policy for the next five years. now, while india remains a bright spot in the world and remains one of the fastest growing economies in the world, there are also several challenges, especially unemployment, which remains high. according to the international labour organization, 83% of the unemployed were educated youth in the country. manufacturing as a share of the gdp has been stagnant for the last decade. private consumption has been at 3%, which has been at its slowest in the last two decades. now, according to the world inequality index, inequality in the country is at a 100—year high. so clearly, the rich may have gotten richer,