borisjohnson is ordered to appear in court over claims he lied during the eu referendum campaign. he stands accused of lying about the uk giving the eu £350 milllion a week. districtjudge coleman decided that having considered all the relevant factors she was satisfied that this is a proper case in which to issue generally speaking i would prefer it that the courts keep out of affairs, i find the general public are incredibly discerning. we'll bring you the latest on how the legal case is likely to proceed and its possible impact on the tory leadership contest. also tonight... how funding for social care in england is a third less per person than scotland and wales — and the people left trying to cope.

i'm desperate. and i'm not the only one, you know? lifelines being cut, you just think, if they don't listen to our pleas how is the future going to evolve? the man who investigated donald trump over alleged collusion with russia again refuses to exonerate him for obstructing justice. cctv shows one of the london bridge attackers buying the kitchen knives used to kill eight people. and fans get ready in azerbaijan, as arsenal prepare to meet chelsea in the europa league final. and coming up on bbc news — captain eoin morgan says england are favourites for a reason as they build up to the opening match of the world cup on home soil.

good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. there's been a dramatic twist in the contest for the tory leadership with a summons for borisjohnson to appear in court over claims he lied by saying the uk gave the eu £350 million a week. johnson — who is the current frontrunner in the leadership contest to succeed theresa may as prime minister — stands accused of misconduct in public office after making the claim during the 2016 eu referendum campaign. mrjohnson‘s lawyers have described the case as a political stunt. our deputy political editor john pienaar has the latest. cheering he's always loved attention, just not this kind. borisjohnson, the official leave campaign's far from secret weapon is being hauled into court to face accusations he lied to the public about brexit. no one

campaigns like him, but it's the claim about how much britain sent to the eu which he echoed as an mp, that triggered a real private prosecution and the even more real outcome of a top politician being summoned to a criminal court. his accusers in court summoned to a criminal court. his accusers in court papers say he repeatedly lied and misled the british public as to the cost of eu membership, expressly stating, endorsing or inferring that the cost of eu membership was £350 million a week. businessman marcus ball, on the right, crowd funded the prosecution, arguing it's about standards in public office. mr ball who stood with me today considered that politicians have made, said things that are untrue and he wants to ensure there is a better standard in politics and currently is the case. but boris johnson, flag

carrierfor brexit, is now case. but boris johnson, flag carrier for brexit, is now favourite in the race to be the next prime minister. he might even be pm when and if his case is finally tried. a source close to borisjohnson said this prosecution is nothing less than a politically motivated attempt to reverse brexit and crush the will of the people. if the case is allowed to proceed the state rather than the public will be put in charge of determining the strengths of argument at elections. this runs counter to centuries of british political tradition and risks undermining our democracy. the dispute centres on campaign claims of how much britain pays the eu against the rebate which comes back, some say it's a matter of principle. generally speaking i would prefer it that the courts keep out of political affairs. i find that the general public are incredibly discerning. the case will be a political spectacle. borisjohnson denies wrongdoing and today's ruling

was no finding of guilt. but the verdict could have an impact on politics and campaigning in britain. john pienaar, bbc news. our home affairs correspondent tom symondsjoins me now. what more can you tell me about how this legal action will proceed — and why it's just against borisjohnson and not other politicians who featured prominently in the leave campaign? i think the main reason according to the prosecutors us we have to call them is he was so extensively covered when he makes these comments that there is a lot of evidence they can marshalfor their that there is a lot of evidence they can marshal for their case. in that there is a lot of evidence they can marshalfor their case. in fact they said they could not find enough to charge anybody else. this is a serious allegation, misconduct in public office carries a maximum light sentence, it has to be heard any crown court in front of a jury. what the districtjudge has said, though she is not ruled on facts, she has said there is a case to answer. two she has said there is a case to answer. two prove she has said there is a case to answer. two prove he is guilty the prosecution have to show he was a public official who acted recklessly, abused his office and the key thing is public official. that's going to be the background.

they see his accusers that he was a public official, mayor of london, brexit was the policy of his office, he wrote letters to that effect and he wrote letters to that effect and he knew the claims about the 350 million were not correct, untrue. mr johnson's lawyers say he was a political campaigner when he made the comments, it was nothing to do with the dayjob of being mere if you like. there's an added complication that this is a private prosecution so at any point under law the cps can come in and stop the whole thing. i think it's more likely we will see boris johnson whole thing. i think it's more likely we will see borisjohnson try to fight this through the courts right from the start and try to show the court process is being abused. but the courts, nothing ever happens quickly in the courts, and asjohn said, could all be happening while he is running for leadership of the party, possibly even prime minister. tom, thank you. new research has revealed how funding for social care per person

in england is a third less in england than it is in wales, and more than a third less than it is in scotland. politicians agree that pressure caused by longer life expectancy and more complex needs mean a new strategy is needed. but the government's plans for social care have been delayed five times and are long overdue. 0ur correspondent alison holt looks at the struggle to provide social care in somerset. martine evans is 37, and has juvenile idiopathic arthritis. ah! her husband david has to do nearly everything for her. thank you. they also have triplets. we first met the family last summer as they asked for help from somerset county council. i fell through the system. unfortunately, it happens, because it's so busy. you know, there are so many people that need help, which is why i was worried. i didn't want to take care away from other people. but we needed it for david. he's just so tired, i just couldn't

watch that any more. sweetheart. yeah? i need some help, please. getting enough care from the cash—strapped council is difficult, but david is caring for martine and the boys day and night. thank you. drinks, painkillers, toilet, trying to make them comfortable. but i could do that four or five times in an hour one night. constantly tired, really. just keep going for the things that you love, really, i suppose, isn't it? but at the last year has been one of the toughest their county council has faced, as it came close to going bust. it blames cuts to government grants, and growing demand. she has got a package of care at the moment, 2.5 hours a day, so that's 15 hours per week. it means difficult decisions for the social work teams. the support they put in for martine at home cost more than £600 a week. that is above the cost of a residential home place and does

not include night care. he needs support, otherwise if he crashes... yeah, absolutely. right, can you explain to me the thinking on martine's case? it's never our decision to say somebody has to go into residential placement. what we say is, "this is the personal budget we can give you," and it is of course for them as a family up to them to make a decision how they spend that money. but we have to say, "this is a matter of money we can help you with," and that is it. in the last year, the director of adult care services in somerset has had to cut £9 million from his budget of nearly £140 million. we are in territory i had not planned for, not considered, so we are in a really difficult position. that sounds really tough. it is on the verge of impossible. where are you? i'm only here. we're going to go this way now. all right? why?

i want to be here. one of the cuts is to the dementia day centre where rachel blackford's mother, barbara, spends two days a week. the council says it's outdated, but for rachel, it's a vital break. will you take me, please? i'm helping you, come on. no, you're strangling me. i'm desperate. and i'm not the only one. you know, lifelines being cut. you just think, if they don't listen to our pleas, how is the future going to evolve? they are offered sessions at local residential homes, but rachel is upset that they are losing something that works. help, cried the witch flying down to the ground. she looked all around, but no help could be found. it's a system where the need for help keeps rising. the cost of martine's care eventually increases to nearly £1,000 a week. the government has promised to reform the funding of care at the earliest opportunity, but for many,

the pressures are here now. alison holt, bbc news. so how much are councils spending on social care, and why is the picture worse in england than in scotland and wales? our home editor mark easton has been looking at the numbers. how we look after our elderly is the wicked issue we keep ignoring. the good news is we are generally living longer. the bad news is that our adult social care needs are increasing and becoming more complex as the costs of care go up and the money to pay for it all has not kept pace. there have been a number of short—term ring—fenced funding schemes for social care in england, but local councils reckon there is still a £1 billion funding gap this year, rising to £3.6 billion by 2025. and that's why councils are cutting services by limiting the numbers eligible for smaller care packages and reducing the prices paid to providers.

the human cost is all too clear, particularly in england where spending on social care is much lower than elsewhere in the uk. scotland spends £445 a head, wales £411; a head. in england is it is just £310 per head. some councils are using money from emergency reserves to cover day to day costs. northamptonshire, somerset whose plight we sawjust now, and rotherham have seen their reserve budgets reduce by over 60% in three years — putting pressure on services elsewhere. new research suggests that even if council tax kept increasing at the current rate, by 2035 the rising cost of care would gobble up more than half of all local authority revenue and mean cuts to almost everything else — housing, roads and transport, planning and leisure.

no—one thinks we can just keep on muddling through but the government's long—awaited plans for social care have been delayed for the fifth time — now at least two years later than promised. we have been talking about how we can sustainably fund social care for decades. someone is going to have to pay but, as things stand, no—one seems prepared to pick up the bill. mark easton, bbc news and you can find out more tonight on that story in the first of a two part panorama series, crisis in care, that's at 9pm on bbc one. in the united states, the man who investigated donald trump for alleged collusion with russia has given a damning verdict in his first statement on the subject. robert mueller pointedly again refused to exonerate the president for obstruction ofjustice and said he'd been prevented from charging donald trump by the constitution. if we had had confidence

that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. under long—standing department policy, a president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. that is unconstitutional. 0ur north america editorjon sopel is at the whitehouse. you've been listening to what robert mueller has had to say. what's your assessment of his parting shot before he bows out of public life? this was a dramatic moment, he's not spokenin this was a dramatic moment, he's not spoken in public for two years so it was keenly awaited, what he would say. in essence he said look, donald trump goes free on a technicality, the department ofjustice says we cannot prosecute him. if we thought he was innocent we would have said so he was innocent we would have said so but we don't think that. this is a tape that will be played and replayed by democrats who want to damage the president because i think what this shows is there is still a huge question, donald trump has

tried to characterise the report in full words like a perfect bumper sticker, no collusion, no obstruction. today that was flatly contradicted. donald trump has come up contradicted. donald trump has come up with a different interpretation as you might imagine. he says there was insufficient evidence and therefore in our country a person is innocent. is that how he is setting the bar? that if there is insufficient if the dense to prosecute me than i am free? what the net effect of all this will be is that robert mueller is punting this to congress and saying i have gone as far as i can go. if you want to impeach the president it's now up to impeach the president it's now up to you to take up the cudgels and ta ke to you to take up the cudgels and take up the fight, it's something the democratic leadership have been extremely wary of doing. we will see, thank you. footage of the london bridge attackers, preparing in the days and hours before they killed eight people, have been played at the inquests into those who died. the court was shown images of rachid redouane buying pink ceramic kitchen knives from a shop

in east london, which were used in the attacks two years ago. daniel sandford reports. three weeks before the london bridge attack, and rachid redouane, the father of a little girl, is in lidl buying knives, the first sign of preparations. they were the same pink ceramic knives used to stab six people to death during the attack. less than a week before the attack, all three killers were seen meeting outside a gym they used. rachid redouane was seen dumping his phonejust before the men start talking, presumably as a counter—surveillance measure, to make sure they weren't being bugged. at the end of the meeting, they shook hands and hugged. the next day, rachid redouane was back in lidl, this time buying wine, to use the bottles for making petrol bombs. 0n the saturday of the attack itself, their leader, khuram butt, spent the morning with his wife and children — domestic scenes that the coroner's barrister said could not be more different from the events of the night that would follow.

by late afternoon, the three attackers were together in a red corsa car along with redouane's little daughter. khuram butt was making calls to hire a van, after the lorry hire they'd planned fell through. the cctv footage gives the impression that the three killers were improvising their attack as they went along. just six hours before they arrived here at london bridge, they still hadn't found a van and, on the sat nav on one of the men's phones, the destination was set at oxford street, not london bridge, suggesting that may have been the target until quite late in the day. the men drove to b&q with redouane's daughter still in the back. there, they picked up a hire van, loaded with 29 bags of gravel to make it heavier. afterfinally dropping off the little girl, they loaded some chairs into the van at khuram butt‘s flat to make it look like they were moving house, then set off for central london with their knives, petrol bombs and fake suicide belts.

the van itself was also a weapon. after getting lost in the city, they found their way onto london bridge for one last reconnaissance run. within the next 20 minutes, they killed eight people and were themselves shot dead by armed police. daniel sandford, bbc news, at the old bailey. our top story this evening: boris johnson has been ordered to appear in court over claims he lied during the eu referendum campaign. and still to come... moving a banksy mural — how do you transport an artwork that's been painted on the side of a garage? coming up on sportsday on bbc news... another win for rafa nadal. the spaniard is well on his way to a record—extending 12th men's singles title at the french open. in less than two hours' times, arsenal will take on chelsea

in the europa league final in azerbaijan. fans from both clubs have been arriving in the host city, baku, although many have struggled with the cost and difficulty of travel. 0ur sports correspondent, david 0rnstein, has made it though and is live in baku for us tonight. tension must be building there among the fans. fiona, it really is. chelsea and arsenal have met many times over the year, but arguably never before with so much at stake. the lead up has been dominated by controversy over travel tickets. politics and human rights as well, but at last it's time for the sport, and the totte n ha m time for the sport, and the tottenham and liverpool are facing off in the champion league final on saturday, so it marks the start of a huge a few days for english football. at last, they arrived, the final stop on a journey so many simply couldn't make. these, among

the relatively few who did, travelling thousands of miles at great expense to watch their team go for glory. you can see us, we are a mixed marriage. chelsea, arsenal. it can't get any better than this for us, so we decided we had to go, because when else would we get a chance to see baku and to get to see arsenal play chelsea? we left london la st arsenal play chelsea? we left london last tuesday, so it's been almost a week to get to baku, travelling 3500 miles, using different currencies, through three different countries, in different beds every night. the most high—profile absenteeism henrikh mkhitaryan, the armenian player saying he didn't feel safe to ta ke player saying he didn't feel safe to take part because of political tension between his country and the hosts, azerbaijan. on the pitch, it's all about the football. chelsea have enjoyed their fair share of european success, but this game is

particularly important to their manager, who has never won a major trophy. and even that might not be enough to keep a in hisjob, nor prevent star player eden hazard from leaving the summer. a lot of speculation about individual players futures, managers futures at the clu b futures, managers futures at the club so when you add that together sets us up for a bigger game than just football. arsenal have a key man of their own in pierre—emerick aubameyang, and no victory —— victory would bring the added bonus of qualifying for next season's champions league. may be the season we deserved, to be in the top four, but it's a one—off game, a final, we can takea but it's a one—off game, a final, we can take a trophy and go back to the champions league. the past azerbaijan has been farfrom champions league. the past azerbaijan has been far from smooth, but finally the focus turns to football. —— the path to azerbaijan.

labour's deputy leader says his party's decision to expel alastair campbell, tony blair's former spin doctor who admitted to voting liberal democrat in the eu elections last week, was "spiteful". tom watson said hundreds of thousands of labour party members voted against their party over its stance on brexit and there should be an amnesty against further expulsions. several other senior labour figures have also backed mr campbell. the scottish government has published legislation that could pave the way for a new vote on scottish independence, if the westminster government allows it. the bill contains no details on when a referendum could be held or what the question would be, but first minister nicola sturgeon says the legislation would give people in scotland the "opportunity to choose a better future". 0ur scotland editor, sarah smith, reports. most of these young people couldn't vote in the last scottish referendum five years ago. nicola sturgeon wants to give them and the rest of scotland a say on independence again next year. her problem is she needs the authorisation of the uk

government in westminster. what is the point of trying to legislate for a referendum, that you know it's extremely unlikely any westminster prime minister's ever going to allow you to hold? well, that is a democratic outrage to suggest that that is the case. it's perfectly legitimate for the westminster government to oppose independence. it is not democratically legitimate for them to stand in the way of the people of scotland having the right to choose. what do you all think about having another independence referendum? i think it's important. i think it's only fair that things have changed between then and now and we should get another opportunity to have a say. how would you vote, if there was another independence referendum? i would make sure that i was looking into any further details into whether to go independent or not. today's legislation in the scottish parliament sets the rules for any future referendum. it doesn't set the date. contenders for the tory leadership have taken to twitter today to say they will refuse

to allow another referendum.