11/04/2017 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at ten: US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson,

arrives in Moscow to try to persuade Russia to end its support

He flew in after meeting western foreign ministers in the wake

He'll urge President Putin to abandon Assad.

It is unclear whether Russia failed to take this obligation seriously,

But this distinction doesn't much matter to the dead.

We'll be asking how President Putin will react to America's demands.

Calls for President Trump to fire his White House

press secretary Sean Spicer after he says Hitler didn't use

I think when you come to sarin gas...

He was not using gas on his own people the same way

Three explosions tonight near the bus carrying

the German team Borussia Dortmund to their Champions League match -

The parents of a seriously ill eight-month-old baby say they're

devastated after the High Court decides doctors can withdraw

And 48 hours after this man was dragged from a plane in Chicago -

the United Airlines boss finally issues a full apology to him

And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: Barca on the back foot again,

as Juventus look to press home the advantage in the first of

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Ten.

The American Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, has arrived in Russia

ahead of tomorrow's talks, as tensions between

He will urge President Putin to withdraw his support

for the Assad regime in the wake of last week's chemical attack

He flew out from Italy, where G7 foreign ministers had been meeting.

They rejected a British call for new sanctions to be imposed

This report from our diplomatic correspondent James Robbins

America's top diplomat arriving in Moscow does not accept that this is

a mission impossible. Rex Tillerson still hopes he can somehow persuade

the Russians to ditch Syria's President Assad but he is not

mincing his words. Moscow he said there is a heavy responsibility

after last week's chemical attack. It is unclear whether Russia failed

to take this obligation seriously or Russia has been incompetent, but

this distinction does not much matter to the dead. President

Vladimir Putin is sending mixed signals, meeting the Italian

president today, the Russian leader is apparently hoping for

constructive cooperation with Washington. But he is still talking

up the risk of confrontation, accusing both America and opposition

forces of planning further attacks. TRANSLATION: We have information

from various sources, that similar provocations, I cannot call them

differently, are being prepared in other parts of Syria as well,

including the southern suburbs of Damascus, where they are preparing

to release some sort of substance again. One leading Kremlin watcher

says Mr Tillerson must tread brake heavily to do a deal with the

Russian leader. We know Putin well. Putin is a person who can make

unexpected moves towards partners and even concessions, but he never

does it under pressure, just the opposite. About last week's gas

attack, Moscow and Washington do seem to agree on one thing, there

should be a full investigation, but there is plenty of room to dispute

who carries it out and when and how. The G-7 meeting of America's allies

ended today without giving Rex Tillerson much extra political

ammunition. Ministers agree any further threat to sanctions. Boris

Johnson had pressed hard for it but insisted no consensus was not

defeat. I am not going to pretend to you that this is going to be easy,

but there are very few or better routes forward that I can see for

the Russians. This is a way forward for Russia and for Syria, and doing

going to make this offer, I think that Rex Tillerson has come as you

can see, overwhelming support. So looking at Boris Johnson's

performance, what is a former Foreign Secretary make of his gamble

over sanctions? Putin will be pleased that the G-7 was unable to

reach agreement but he still has a problem. Putin is an opportunist. In

the Obama years he was able to say I can do what I like militarily in

Syria because the Americans will not intervene. The Americans have now

intervened. They have done so once and they could do so again. Rex

Tillerson did get from G-7 allies universal endorsement of Trump's

missile strikes on Syria but he left here without the sort of stick to

threaten Russia that Boris Johnson would have liked.

Let's go to Moscow and our correspondent Steve Rosenberg.

How is President Putin likely to react to those demands from America?

I think quite negatively, to be honest. It is interesting, back in

the days when he was an oil executive doing deals with the

Russians, Rex Tillerson got an award from Vladimir Putin, it was known as

the Russian order of friendship award, which many people remember

now. I think he will find it quite difficult to secure the political

prize that he seeks now, in other words, a U-turn on Syria. And that

is because President Assad is Russia's key military ally in the

Middle East. The Russians have invested heavily militarily,

politically, financially, to keep him in power. The Russians see

President Assad as a guarantor against Islamist takeover of Syria,

and a guarantor of Russian interests in Syria. So I think Rex Tillerson

will have to have something pretty special in his briefcase, a sweet

deal to offer the Russians, get the Kremlin to rethink its support for

President Assad. And perhaps that will only happen if the Kremlin

reaches a conclusion, if it reaches a conclusion, that President Assad

has become a liability for the Kremlin. Thank you.

There have been calls tonight for Donald Trump to fire his

White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, after he said

Adolf Hitler did not use chemical weapons during World War II.

He made the comments while discussing Russia's support

When asked to clarify the remarks, Mr Spicer said Hitler did not use

gas on his own people in the same way as President Assad.

Here's our North America Editor, Jon Sopel.

The President's spokesman Sean Spicer came to the daily briefing

determined to talk about the seriousness of last leg's sarin

attack in Syria, which the administration holds Bashar al-Assad

responsible for. But then he drew on history to make this point. We did

not use chemical weapons in World War II. You know, you had someone as

despicable as Hitler, who did not even sync to using chemical weapons.

But that statement drew an incredulous response from

journalists attending the briefing. Sarah-macro I want to give you an

opportunity to clarify something, Hitler did not sink to the level of

using chemical weapons. What did you mean by that? When you come to sarin

gas, he was not using the gas on his own people, the same way that Assad

is doing. Millions of German dues were gassed in the Second World War,

in the network of concentration camps, built in what was called the

final solution. The director of the Anne Frank Centre condemned the

spokesman's remarks. Sean Spicer has engaged in Holocaust denial, the

most offensive form of fake news imaginable, by denying Hitler gassed

millions of dues to death. Spicer's statement is the most evil slow we

have ever heard from a White House press secretary.

And on Capitol Hill, congressmen and women, both Republican and Democrat

were disturbed by what they heard. Last night, President Trump put out

a tweet wishing dues here in America and around the world a happy

Passover. Today, his press secretary has caused offence to millions of

people with his comments. Sean Spicer put out a clarification

saying, in no way was I trying to lessen the horrendous nature of the

Holocaust. But perhaps the lesson is, don't

make comparisons with Hitler. There've been three explosions

tonight near the bus carrying the German team Borussia Dortmund

to their Champions League match. One player has been injured

and taken to hospital. The police say 'serious explosives'

were used but they've warned against assuming

it was a terrorist attack. The match against Monaco

has been postponed. Our correspondent Jenny

Hill has the story. An apparent attack on the heart of

the national game. Three devices using what police described as

serious explosives, detonated as the players left the hotel. Tonight,

Germany's largest stadium deserted. 65,000 fans told to leave. Confusion

and fear. TRANSLATION: Shortly after seven o'clock this evening, there

were three explosions near the Borussia Dortmund bus. Two pains of

glass were damaged. Because of that, we're not sure how, one person on

the bus was injured. That is what we know at the moment. The devices

exploded here, ten kilometres from the stadium. Police believe they may

have been left in a hedge at the side of the road. In shock, players

were helped from the bus or though only one was taken to hospital. Marc

Bartra joined the team last year. One of his hands was injured by

broken glass. Elsewhere, police were taking no chances, extra security

for Leicester City ahead of their game in Madrid. Tonight, a match

postponed, questions unanswered. What appears to have been a

deliberate attack has left players, fans and a country shaken.

Well, I think tonight there is a general sense of relief. Those

players appear to have been deliberately targeted and they have

apparently had a very lucky escape. Security sources and police are

suggesting at this stage there is no indication that this was an act of

terror, but investigations are ongoing, as police tried to

establish and fast who planted those devices and why?

Jenny Hill in Berlin, thank you. The parents of an eight-month-old

baby boy say they are devastated after the High Court ruled that

doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital can

withdraw his life support. They shouted no - and broke down

in tears as they heard the decision. Charlie Gard has a very rare genetic

condition and brain damage. His parents have raised more

than a million pounds to take him to America

for experimental treatment. But the judge said it was not

in Charlie's best interests. The boy's parents say

they want to appeal. Our medical correspondent

Fergus Walsh reports. This is Charlie Gard -

unable to move, he is fed through a tube and breathes

through a machine. There is no cure for his rare

muscle-wasting condition. But his parents, Connie Yates

and Chris Gard, refuse to accept the advice of doctors

at Great Ormond Street Hospital They arrived at the High Court

to hear a judge decide the fate of their only child,

and it was the outcome The judge ruled there could be no

benefit to taking Charlie abroad. Given the overwhelming medical

evidence, there was only one possible outcome

to this tragic case. The judge said it was with

the heaviest of hearts, but with complete conviction,

that he ruled that all treatment be withdrawn to permit Charlie

to die with dignity. Charlie's parents are back

by their son's bedside, their legal team say

they're devastated. Connie and Chris are facing

every parent's worse nightmare, they're struggling to understand

why the court has not at least given Charlie the chance

of treatment in America. and the treatment offered

potentially groundbreaking. These are not easy issues,

and they remain utterly committed, like any parent, to wanting

to do their utmost for their child. We just wanted to be given

a chance because, you know, you're never going to find

treatments or cures for these things 82,000 people made online donations

totalling more ?1.2 million. It was to pay for treatment

in the United States so experimental or animals with the rare

genetic disorder. The court would have many things

to take into consideration here. One would be whether continued

existence for the child, whether in America or in England,

would have been burdensome to the child himself, would have

involved pain and suffering. Crucially, Charlie's doctors

think he can experience pain and the treatment proposed

could not reverse his brain damage. The judge said this was the darkest

day for Charlie's parents but he hoped they would

come to accept he should be allowed

to slip away peacefully. It's taken 48 hours,

but the boss of the American carrier United Airlines has finally issued

a full apology to the man who was dragged off

a flight in Chicago. He also apologised to the passengers

who were horrified as they watched him being pulled along the floor

by his arms. His apology comes after

the company's share price Our North America correspondent

Laura Trevelyan reports. A shocking scene -

a man is dragged from a plane in Chicago after he refuses to obey

officials who have told him Other passengers have apparently

left the aircraft when asked because United insisted it needed

four seats for crew members. Those on board watch

aghast as the man, named locally as David Dao,

is forcibly ejected from the plane. They drag him out of his seat,

banging his head on an armrest, and then pulled him out

of the plane, as if he In a further twist,

the passenger somehow returns to the aircraft looking bewildered,

bloody and dazed, as the horrified Tonight he is reported to be

in hospital in Chicago. On social media there has been

an outcry as United Airlines is mocked for its 'fly

the friendly skies' motto. Time for a beating!' said one

particularly pointed tweet. For United Airlines,

it's a communications catastrophe. The airline initially described

the passenger as disruptive and belligerent before

abruptly changing tone. Tonight, chief executive

Oscar Munoz said... As if flying in America wasn't

overcrowded and stressful enough, on top of all that it seems you can

be dragged from your seat Now the Federal Transportation

Department is investigating whether United followed

the rules on overbooking. For the long-suffering flying

public, this is a new low. Yeah, I thought it was pretty

horrifying, you know. Do you think airlines should be able

to drag people off planes? Not because they were overbooked,

that's their issue, not the issue of the passengers

who are already seated. Tonight United insisted

they did not remove Doctor Dao because the flight was oversold,

rather it was to accommodate four crewmembers needing seats,

a distinction which may be Performing together

with a single united purpose... Slick commercials couldn't stop

United's shares closing down a little over 1% and the airline

faces bumpy skies ahead as it tries The man suspected of carrying out

last week's Stockholm truck attack has told a court that he committed

a "terrorist crime". Rakhmat Akilov - an Uzbek national -

appeared in court for the first time today, and confessed to driving

the lorry that killed four people Refugee charities are calling

on the British Government to re-settle 80 children

who were living in a migrant camp in Dunkirk which was destroyed

by fire last night. The children are all said to have

relatives in the UK. Charities say that, under what's

known as the Dublin Convention, the children have the right

to join their families. Victims who say they were abused

by a leader of Christian holiday camps in the 1980s have accused

the Church of letting them down. John Smyth committed a series

of brutal assaults on pupils The BBC has learnt that the charity

responsible for the holidays failed to pass on information to the police

and, despite assurances from the Church earlier this year

that victims would be the main priority, none has

since been contacted. Our correspondent Fiona

Lamdin has the story. 22 victims caught

in a religious cult. I got within seconds

of ending my life. Behind the abuse, this man,

John Smyth, who beat young I would have expected somebody,

somewhere, to have reached out. Despite promises from

those at the top... Their interests have to come first,

those are the people Months on, still silence

from the Church. John Smyth was chairman

of the Iwerne Trust, a charity which ran holiday camps

with close ties to Over a four-year period,

Smyth recruited and beat young men from these camps

and from Winchester College In 1982 the trust commissioned

a report cataloguing the criminal nature of the beatings

but they failed to pass Three decades later, in 2013,

one of the victims came forward. In 2014 the trust was informed

and this time finally But now we've learned that,

once again, the full report was withheld,

although the trust insists that they did share all

the relevant information. However, in 2014, the police

investigation came to a halt. Andy Morse was unaware an

investigation had even been opened. He feared his story

would never be heard. Three decades later you tried again

to take your own life. So this is 30 years later and this

is the only other time in my life that I seriously intended

to take my life. I met another victim

here in this hotel room. He told me his life had been

ruined by the abuse. He didn't want to go on camera

but he showed me an e-mail trail He repeatedly asks for the Church's

help, help which never Because that's the only thing

that will bring closure. The Church of England promised to do

all they could to help those abused, but Mark Stibbe, another of Smyth's

victims, says two months on there's I was a vicar in the Church

of England for nearly 25 years and we've not had a single telephone

call or visit from anybody as yet. For me, personally, I'm

just very sad about it. Tonight the Church have told the BBC

they've offered pastoral support After decades of waiting,

as the truth is finally pieced together, these victims

are still waiting for an apology from those who they say have

failed and abused them. Some of the day's other

news stories now. The UK inflation rate

remained at 2.3% in March - the highest level since

September 2013. Economists say that a rise

in the price of food and clothing was offset by a drop in flight

and fuel prices to keep the cost The Japanese electronics giant

Toshiba is warning that it may collapse after reporting losses

of around ?4 billion. It means plans for a new nuclear

power station at Moorside in Cumbria, which Toshiba

is supposed to build, An inquest has opened into the death

of a jewellery expert on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow,

who died five weeks 34-year-old Alice Gibson-Watt

had been suffering from post-partum psychosis -

a mental health condition that some Three years after they were

kidnapped by the extremist group Boko Haram,

more than 190 Nigerian They were taken by the militants

in the middle of the night Their plight drew

international attention. Some of the girls have

since been released, It's thought they've been married

off to the fighters. Clive Myrie has been to one

of the last places some of the girls were seen -

the town of Gwoza in north-east Nigeria, from where Boko Haram

ran its campaign of abductions, which led to thousands

of women and girls being For several months the city of Gwoza

was under the heel of radical Islam. Now it's the Nigerian army that

claims to hold sway. We're the first journalists

to enter the shattered city A place of repression

and death, all in the name It's also a place that

knows kidnapping. The BBC was told that this building,

plastered with the black and white flag of Boko Haram,

was a safe house used to hide some The abduction of three

years ago this week horrified the world and gave

the Boko Haram global notoriety. Several people claim they saw some

of the girls here but there has Actually, Boko Haram kidnapped

thousands of others but those who were left behind,

the youngsters who were not taken, A makeshift sign says we're entering

the village of Pulka, and our military escort

guides us in. Here 18 girls were seized

by Boko Haram in a dawn Four more have been

snatched in recent days. But the lives of those not taken

to breed a new generation of religious fanatics

is blighted nonetheless. This camp houses thousands of women

who have lost everything. Like Adama Adamu, who is 30,

traumatised and all alone. TRANSLATION: My father

and my two brothers I don't know if I'll

ever see them again. While the people here in the camp

are good to me, I'm on my own. And that means Adama,

like so many others, is vulnerable. In some camps women have been

refused food unless they offer sex. Others have had to turn

to prostitution to get by while a few desperate families,

for a handful of pennies, have I found the elder of this camp

who told me there had been several marriages so far here and the bride

price, or the fee paid to parents by the grooms,

had fallen dramatically So what's the future for these

kids, boys and girls? Education could be the key

to a better life and that's why all the displacement camps insist

on children going to school five days a week, much

to the anger of Boko Haram, Their teacher, Mostafa Mohammad,

says that while most parents hate Boko Haram,

many do believe a Western education Some of the parents,

most of the parents, they don't want their children

being in the school. Is that because they believe

what Boko Haram says? A fitting tribute to the memory

of the missing Chibok girls is that these youngsters do at least

have the chance to go to school. Clive Myrie, BBC News

in north-eastern Nigeria. British scientists are calling it

an "astonishing" discovery. Deep under the waves

of the Atlantic Ocean near the Canary Islands they've

found some of the richest deposits of rare minerals

anywhere on Earth This natural treasure trove contains

elements that are vital for everything from solar

panels to electronics. With this exclusive report, here's

our Science Editor, David Shukman. Deep in the Atlantic,

a remotely controlled arm grabs The rocks look pretty ordinary but,

in a surprising revelation, it turns out they're laden with some

of the most precious Working from a British research

ship, The James Cook, scientists deployed robot submarines

and they discovered that an underwater mountain,

not far from Tenerife, is entirely covered

in a highly unusual crust. It's made up of rocks that

are unlike anything seen on dry land because they hold exceptional

quantities of important elements. What's astonishing about these

rocks, brought up from deep underwater, is how incredibly rich

they are in valuable minerals, especially the kind of things needed

for renewable energy, which raises a really

difficult question - if the world's going to go green,

we may have to start mining rocks Analysis reveals what are called

rare Earth elements, which are used in wind turbines,

and a substance called tellurium. Tellurim is used in a type of highly

efficient solar panel. The element is hard to extract

on land, but far greater concentrations of it have been found

in rocks underwater. So if we need these green energy

supplies, then we need the raw materials to make the devices that

will produce the energy. So, yes, the raw materials have

to come from somewhere. We either dig them up

for the ground, and make a very large hole, or we dig them

from the seabed and make One mining company has already built

giant robotic machines ready to advance over the seabed,

breaking it up to get at the rocks. We're on the brink of mines

opening deep underwater. It's part of a new goldrush,

searching for minerals. Each of the coloured dots represents

an area being explored. The Pacific is attracting most

attention with exploration of the seabed stretching over

nearly 3,000 miles. More than a dozen different

countries, including Britain, So how damaging will this

underwater mining be? The British expedition did

an experiment, pumping out huge volumes of dust to mimick

the effects of mining. One fear is that plumes of dust

could kill sealife for miles around. It's difficult to predict and,

you know, like everything in the deep sea, everything

connected with the effects We still know so little about what's

going on down there. We're discovering how there's

more life in the deep than anyone thought,

but also how there's a treasure trove of critically important

elements and the more valuable they are, the more likely

it is the first mines Let's return to our breaking news

in Germany now and the investigation into the three explosions

near the Borussia Dortmund football Police have been holding a press

conference in the last few minutes. What have they been saying? The

police say they believe that the Dortmund team was deliberately

targeted and they told us that the defender who was injured in the

attack, Marc Bartra, is undergoing surgery right now on his hands. We

have learned a little about one of the leads, investigators said they

found a letter at the sight of the explosion is although they will not

reveal the contents of it. At the same time, and I suppose above all,

the police are saying that at this stage tonight the motive behind the

attack it very much unclear but they are not prepared to rule anything

out. Thank you. More on that story tonight on the BBC News Channel.

Boris Johnson did not get his way at the G-7 in Italy today. We will ask

if this episode said anything about the state of British foreign policy.

Do we ourselves to be more important than we really are in international

affairs? Join me on BBC Two. Here on BBC One it's time

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