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drifting 13 miles in the irish sea. and coming up in the sport on bbc news, madrid is in for a spectacle tonight as real host neighbours atleti in the the first leg of their all spanish champions league semifinal. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. following the leaked account of a tense meeting between the prime minister and the head of the european commission last week, theresa may has told the bbc she will be a bloody difficult woman in brexit negotiations and she s already made clear jean claude juncker will discover that. she told our political editor, laura kuenssberg, that the negotiations with the eu will be tough and what matters in the coming election is making the right choice of leader to represent the uk s interests. who wouldn t like a day by the cornish coast? who could be coming to town? we believe it s that nice theresa may. is that correct or not correct? strong and stable theresa. i m not very keen. in fact, i m very unkeen. i hope she ....
justice side. what happened with numbers, in 2010 we got to an all time high in police numbers, 144,000 officers. in 2011 under the coalition government it began to fall away as police budgets were cut and as of september last year the number was about 122,000 or just above. so the verdict is police numbers have indeed come down by almost 20,000. so broadly she s correct in what saying. the issue is, this is part of a bigger trend which is that police numbers have been rising consistently over the long term. since about 1980 in fact so long term. since about 1980 in fact so the trend has always been going up. it is only recently that it has come down. but that decline since 2010 has been quite significant, around 13%. 2010 has been quite significant, around 1396. so in terms of how much it is going to cost to put these 10,000 extra officers on the beat? this is where she came unstuck this morning though she said she misspoke. what the labour government, the labour oppos ....
final round of the french presidential election, marine le pen delivers a speech that sounds a little familiar. the far right leader of the front national has been accused of plagerising her defeated rival, francoise fillon, in a spich she delivered on monday. how new proposals to stop doping could mean previous world records by clean athletes could no longer stand. and pulled to safety, after 30 hours in the irish sea. the surfer, who s lucky to be alive. good evening and welcome to bbc news. following the leaked account of a tense meeting between the prime minister and the head of the european commission last week, theresa may has told the bbc she will be a bloody difficult woman in brexit negotiations, and she s already made clearjean claude juncker will discover that. she told our political editor laura kuenssberg that the negotiations with the eu will be tough, and what matters in the coming election is making the right choice of leader to represent the uk s inte ....
and we ll have many more stories right here on outside source. you re very welcome to the programme. let us begin with relations between europe and russia. they have been rough. this meeting between german chancellor, angela merkel, and vladimir putin were meant to smooth things over. sanctions were brought up and the treatment of homosexuals in chechnya. the russian president reaffirmed support for the syrian president and denied interfearing with the us election. let s have a listen. translation: we need to do more in order to untangle the situation. u nfortu nately, we order to untangle the situation. unfortunately, we are not making much headway here. i think the central point is that we keep returning to the beginning of the minsk agreement which stated we need a ceasefire. ensuing from the ceasefire the relevant political steps would follow. in the meantime, we have started a parallel political process. the ceasefire is essential. of course, the questions surround ....
to her suicide. how leading former athletes could be written out of the record books as part of a new anti doping strategy. and the story of the surfer rescued after 30 hours adrift in the irish sea. and coming up in sportsday on bbc news. it was an all madrid champions league semifinal tonight and a familiar face who gave real the lead in the first leg against atletico at the bernabeau. good evening. the deepening tensions between the prime minister and the president of the european commission ahead of the brexit negotiations have been laid bare. theresa may has warned jean claude juncker that she will prove to be a bloody difficult woman during the brexit talks. it follows reports that mrjuncker had accused her of being deluded about the brexit process. mrs may, campaigning in the south west of england today, told our political editor laura kuenssberg that she always knew the brexit negotiations would be challenging. who wouldn t like a day by the cornish coast? w ....