the actor stephen tompkinson tells a court it would be career suicide for him to assault someone as he denies inflicting grievous bodily harm. # instead i wrote a song. and they re off heading to liverpool for the first eurovision semifinal tonight before saturday s big showdown. and coming up in bbc news. manchester city fans are building up to their champions league semifinal with real madrid in spain. it is a repeat of last year when the spanish side put them out. good evening. the head of the metropolitan police has insisted they had serious and reliable intelligence that protesters had planned to disrupt the coronation on saturday. sir mark rowley says they had intelligence that rape alarms and loud hailers were going to be used which would have frightened horses during the procession. he spoke out to defend officers who arrested and detained six anti monarchy demonstrators, the first arrests to be made under the sweeping public order act. but scotland yard now say
back in 2016 and 2019 in england, the government set targets to increase gp numbers. it s notjust on track to miss those two targets gp numbers have actually fallen even further. i would like the government to be honest with the public and have an honest conversation with them around what they can really expect from a gp service where we have now so few gps. and doctors are warning about the impact on the patients. driving up access comes at a cost and the cost is you affect the quality of care and that ultimately affects their life expectancy and their health. but government plans for more gps are still unclear. its long awaited workforce strategy is not expected for another few months. sophie hutchinson, bbc news. our top story this evening.
the leaker of pentagon documents. we will find out tonight who he might be and what the feds are doing about it. also on the programme, the oil and gas industry are they doing enough to meet government set targets on methane and oil spills? we will talk diabetes. the uk experiencing a rapidly escalating crisis, with an all time high for type two and type one combined. and..abort abort, the european space agency cancelling its launch today, but the rocket that is heading forjupiter and its moons will be rescheduled for take off tomorrow. we will tell you all about that. but we start tonight, with news tonight that us investigators. in on the source of the leaked classified documents. the new york times is reporting that the man they are looking for is a 21 year old member of the intelligence wing in the massachusetts air national guard. it is alleged that jack teixeira oversaw a private online group named thug shaker central, where 20 to 30 people,
of the swinging 60s fashion revolution, has died at the age of 93. she opened her first shop on chelsea s kings road in 1955. many of those fashions are now returning. many of those fashions are now returning. are the energy companies doing enough to meet government set targets? the bbc has published new data today that shows oil is routinely spilt into uk waters, adding thousands of tonnes of pollution that is endangering protected marine life. a certain amount of oil spillage is allowed in production, but these figures suggest 40% of monitored releases breach what the government thinks is safe. the information was obtained by the group uplift, which campaigns for green transition. between 2017 and 2022, 164,000 barrels of oil was discharged.