12/04/2017 Breakfast

This is Breakfast, with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin.

The hunt for clues begins after three explosions hit the bus

carrying the German team Borussia Dortmund

but it's too early to know if it was a terrorist attack.

Good morning, it's Wednesday 12th April.

Also this morning: The case of Thomas Orchard, who died

after being restrained by police officers.

His mother talks to Breakfast about her struggle for answers.

I fear that we are going to end up in a situation where nobody is going

to be held to account. An apology from the spokesman

for President Trump, Sean Spicer, after he tells a press

briefing that Hitler didn't use chemical weapons during

the Second World War. It's a business trying to change

after some tough times I'll be looking at whether

the turnaround plan is working. In sport, one of the biggest

nights in the history They're in the quarter-finals

of the Champions League Good morning. We are here for the

rendezvous of the tall ships. If you want to see them you can see them

tomorrow until Easter Sunday. A bit nippy first thing. For most of us it

will be dry. But there will be a few showers in the north-west.

Police in Germany believe the three explosions that hit a bus carrying

the Borussia Dortmund football team were directly targeting the club.

The team was on its way to its Champions League

One player has undergone surgery after the blast shattered windows

Forensic teams have spent the night examining the blast site.

Three devices in what police described as a targeted attack

exploded as the players' bus left their hotel shortly after 7pm.

It's believed the explosives were hidden in a hedge

and were detonated as the bus passed.

But two panes at the back shattered, injuring Spanish international

Marc Bartra, who's undergone surgery.

At a press conference held soon afterwards,

a spokesman for the team gave an update on his condition.

TRANSLATION: Marc Bartra is being operated on right now

for a broken bone in his right hand and he's got various glass shards

The team, through captain Marcel Schmelzer, just rang me.

They're still very shocked and thinking about Marc.

The police are still trying to establish who was behind

An official from the state prosecutor revealed that a letter

TRANSLATION: I can say a letter was found near the blast scene.

At the moment, due to the ongoing investigation, I can't give more

The authenticity is being investigated.

The devices exploded about ten kilometres

The match has been postponed until later today.

The world of football has come together in wishing Bartra a full

recovery and condemning the attack, which has unsettled players

The US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, is meeting his

counterpart in Moscow this morning, less than a week

after the United States bombed an air base in Syria.

Overnight many pictures have appeared on social media after both

clubs rallied four 13. There was a real pouring of help.

It has been great. That was organised really quickly after the

announcement came through. There were singing of Dortmund by the

Monaco fans as well. Quite a lot of positivity to come out of an awful

situation. Rex Tillerson is meeting his

counterpart in Moscow this morning, less than a week after the US bond

and air base in Syria. He wants to persuade the Kremlin

to drop its support for the current Syrian regime and its

President, Bashar al-Assad. But the Russian President Vladimir

Putin has said that Assad's forces were not responsible

for the chemical attack which prompted the US

missile strikes. President Trump's spokesman,

Sean Spicer, has apologised for saying that Adolf Hitler didn't

use chemical weapons. Mr Spicer made the remark

in a White House press briefing, as he answered questions

about the war in Syria. Journalists reminded him that Nazis

used gas to kill millions Our Washington correspondent

David Willis has more. Asked about the Syrian government's

use of chemical weapons, the President's press spokesman used

this surprising assertion. We didn't use chemical

weapons in World War Two. You know, someone as despicable

as Hitler who didn't Asked to clarify those remarks,

Mr Spicer dug himself To the Holocaust centre,

I understand that. What I'm saying, in the way that

Assad used them where he went into towns, dropped them

down to innocent... ..into the middle of

towns, it was brought. So the use of it, I appreciate

the clarification. In a statement, the Anne Frank

Centre on Mutual Respect accused Mr Spicer of engaging

in what it called: Calls mounting for his

dismissal, the spokesman went back into the cameras

to offer this apology. I was obviously trying to make

a point about the heinous acts that Assad had made against his

own people last week, And frankly, I mistakenly used

an inappropriate and insensitive reference to the Holocaust

for which, frankly, there is no comparison and for

that, I apologise. On Monday, Mr Spicer suggested

the use of barrel bombs by the Syrian regime could merit

renewed military action on the part only for the White House

to deny its policy had changed. Now the Trump administration

is facing further unflattering headlines amid suggestions

that this man's days at the lectern could

now be numbered. Any future referendum in the UK

should avoid the "mistakes" of last year's vote on Britain's

membership of the EU, The cross-party public

administration and constitutional affairs committee says there must be

adequate planning for any outcome. It also recommends the Prime

Minister of the day stay in office If the government of the day is

going to call a referendum on a big constitutional issue they should be

prepared for either eventuality in the result. To rule out civil

servants doing any preparation on the result they don't want, a mean,

clearly that is irresponsible and we've suffered a six-month hiatus.

More than 50,000 disabled people have had specially adapted cars

and other vehicles taken away after the introduction

of a new disability benefit, according to the Motability charity.

Campaigners are demanding changes to the programme

so claimants will have a chance to appeal before their vehicles

Ministers say there are more people on the scheme now than in 2010.

Our disability correspondent Nikki Fox reports.

Since their introduction back in 2013, personal independence payments

have been controversial. They replaced disability living allowance

and were designed to reduce the growing welfare budget. The benefit

helps cover the extra cost of having a disability, driving a car is one

of them. The changes to the way people are assessed for PIP meant

many have lost their specially adapted cars. According to the

charity which runs the scheme, 51,000 people have been told they

are no longer eligible for a vehicle. That's nearly half of those

who have been reassessed. Latest figures also show that nearly two

thirds of deals are found in a claim on the's favour, leading MPs and

charities to call for changes. When people have their specially adapted

vehicle removed, this can have a real negative impact on the quality

of life and independence as well. So we want to make sure that the DWP

change their policy on this area. We don't think the vehicles should be

taken away from people and till they've had a chance to appeal

against a particular decision. The Department for Work and Pensions

says there are 70,000 more people on the boat ability scheme that they

were in 2010. And those who lose their cars are eligible for ?2000

worth of support. The head of United Airlines has

apologised for the "truly horrific" incident in which a passenger

was forcibly dragged, Footage of David Dao being removed

from the overbooked plane was posted on social media and sparked

a backlash against the company. The chief executive, Oscar Munoz,

said: Originally he had maintained staff

had followed established procedures. I'm not sure we've heard the end of

that one! We will be talking about it with a

PR expert later. From rock pools to rock bands,

a shrimp which makes some of the loudest sounds in the ocean

has been named after Pink Floyd. Uh, I normally play

Pink Floyd louder than that. It might not sound like it,

but the pistol shrimp, can use its claw to create a sound

louder than a gunshot and is powerful enough

to stun small fish. The team who discovered

the new species wanted to honour the legendary group

by using their name and have mocked up some of the band's album

covers to feature it. That's the sort of thing that

happens to me! We have been talking a lot today

about Borussia Dortmund facing Monaco. That now been rescheduled

for the night. Yes, we are looking ahead to the

fixtures for this evening and Borussia Dortmund versus Monaco has

been rescheduled for the night. Tickets are still valid for all of

the people who travelled to Germany for that. There will be extra

security, understandably, at the venue and all of the other Champions

League venues around Europe this evening.

It's one of the biggest days in the history

Last year's Premier League champions are the only English club

left in the Champions League and tonight they're in Spain

for their first Champions League quarter-final against Atletico

They lost the first leg of their Champions League

quarterfinal 3-0 to the Italian champions Juventus in Turin.

Sam Warburton, the favourite to be named the British and Irish Lions

captain next Wednesday, is out for six weeks with a knee

injury, but he should be fit again by the end of May.

The Lions tour to New Zealand starts in June.

And former FA chief executive Brian Barwick will lead Liverpool's

They were initally just bidding to host the 2026 Games,

but Durban's withdrawal from hosting the event four years earlier has

opened up a vacancy for the 2022 event.

In fact, Liverpool are bidding at Manchester put their name in the

ring. Glasgow have said they can do it again as well. Yes, we could see

the gains back in Britain in 2022, which would be great.

Well, I loved it! You worry firm supporter. -- you are

a firm supporter. Let's catch up with Carol.

Good morning, Carol! Good morning. If we take an overview

of this whole view, you can see the magnificence of these ships. I am

actually standing on the Wild Swan. This ship was built back in 1920 and

it was originally else to carry fresh fish. Then it was used during

the war as a torpedo ship and now it will make its way across the

Atlantic Ocean, to Portugal first, then Bermuda, Austen and finally to

Quebec, Canada, as part of this magnificent event. If you want to

come and see these ships, and it is well worth looking at them, you can

do so from tomorrow, right up until Easter Sunday. There are lots of

people working on these ships as they crossed the Atlantic. All

different ages and different walks of life. We will be talking to some

of the skippers of the ships through the morning. The weather in London

is a bit nippy first thing. The chilly start for many parts of the

UK. A touch of frost here and fair, but there will be some sunshine

around. If we stop forecast at 9am, showers in the north of Scotland.

Equally bright spells. As we come into the southern uplands and

northern England there's more cloud and rain. Especially in parts of

Lancashire and Cumbria. Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, a little bit

drier. Into the Midlands and east Anglia, Essex and Kent, down to the

Isle of Wight, very low amounts of cloud. Equally, there will be some

sunshine from the word go. That carries on as we drift over towards

the south-west of England. Again, bright skies and sunshine. A chilly

start if you are standing outside waiting for the bus. Into Wales,

South Wales singer sunshine. More cloud in the north Wales. Into

Northern Ireland, by 9am, the north of Northern Ireland is brightening

up. Through the day the weather front is producing that rain and it

will continue its descent, moving southwards across England and Wales.

That's a weakening feature so by the time it gets in the south it would

be much more than a band of cloud, with perhaps the odd shower. Behind

it variable amounts of cloud, some spells and more showers in the

north. A breezy day. Into the evening and overnight there will be

clear skies, especially in the east. A touch of frost again. More cloud

to the west. We have temperatures again in the mid-to high single

figures. So we start off tomorrow in east with a lot of brightness, some

sunshine. Increasingly through the day in the west of the cloud will

build and we will start to see showers. Those could be heavy. But

you know the drill with showers, not all of us will catch them.

Temperatures about where they should be this time of year. On Good Friday

weather front is sinking south. Some light rain on it. A bright start

ahead of it, with the cloud building through the day. Behind it there

will be bright spells again, but also showers. Temperatures still

roughly where they should be at this stage in April. That leads us into

the Easter weekend. In the south it will be largely dry. In the north it

will be more changeable, with showers and splashes of rain. We

will still have a cool north-westerly, but there will be

sunshine around as well. In the sunshine it will feel pleasant.

They do look stunning, those ships. Or tell us about them later. Very

impressive. A look at the papers in a moment.

the Borussia Dortmund football team, which was damaged in a series

of explosions, was targeted deliberately.

The US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, is in Moscow to urge

Russia to stop supporting the Syrian government after last week's

Steph and Kat have joined us on the big red sofa to have a look at the

papers. Would you like to start? The Guardian, our main story, talking

about Vladimir Putin, they said Vladimir Putin deepened his support

for the Syrian regime yesterday. Rex Tillerson is on his way to Russia,

but that's how they have written it up this morning, lots of different

takes on that from the papers. Front page of the Daily Telegraph this

morning, Russia the main story, Boris out in the cold over Russia

they say, in reference to Boris Johnson and a lovely picture from

Whipsnade Zoo. This is wonderful. I wonder if the elephant followed

royal protocol, you can't extend any part of your body towards the Queen.

Donna, the Asian elephant, may have overstepped the mark, don't you

think? You might be right but the Queen enjoyed it and she find out

one of the cars has been named Elizabeth. -- calves. She took her

gloves off when she was there. When she opened up the new studios here

and I had to meet her for two minutes and 34 seconds, she kept her

gloves on at all times. I was halfway through an anecdote when she

walked off, if I ever see her again I will finish it. How much longer

did you need? Around 20 seconds. Budgie had to go and see the dog!

The exact same front page story here on the Telegraph with Boris Johnson

and the lack of sanctions with Russia. The Daily Mail, this story

we will talk about later on. Parents trying to take their son, Charlie,

to America for some special treatment but the judge has ruled

that doctors can turn off his line support and it would be too

dangerous and Charlie should be allowed to die. Interesting ethical

debate. We will talk about that later, also front page of the Daily

Mirror as well. I'm fascinated by the two minutes and 34 seconds. I

was told that really specifically. You should be good at that, it is

your job. The iWatch showing her the studio, the lights, the augmented

reality -- I was showing her. She looked really interested and when I

got to the punchline at the end she walked off and said, lovely to meet

you. You could have got your timing is right, Dan Wes Ulloa I could have

done it in two minutes and 40 seconds! -- Dan? . We have been

talking about the scandal around United Airlines, and it has really

targeted the share price. The Financial Times has picked up on

that this morning. The share price fell 4% yesterday. In terms of what

that means in terms of money, it is ?1.1 billion wiped off the value of

the company. That is an expensive scandal for them, the chief

executive there, lots of people suggesting he should resign because

he made some comments when it first happened at saying the passenger was

belligerent and now he's taken that back apparently. Yeah, a scandal

that will be interesting to see how it unfolds. Lots of pictures on the

back of the sports sections of the Borussia Dortmund players being

escorted away from the bus targeted in a series of explosions last night

ahead of their Champions League match against Monaco. Broken windows

in the background as well. And here, the armed police escorting the

players away. A picture of Marc Bartra, the Spanish defender,

luckily the only player hurt, he's had a minor operation, perhaps to do

with broken glass and he broke a bone in his wrist, not a serious

injury, though, and he has had surgery. A picture here, the knock

on effect of it as well, an armed policemen escorting Leicester City

on to their team bus as they left Atletico Madrid's stadium last night

ahead of their Champions League match this evening. Apparently extra

security and armed police escort as they left the stadium in Madrid. A

lot of the papers talking about the knock on effect on sport, where do

we go from this and how long until there's a six for attack on a

sporting event, it is such a prime target, lots of people in a confined

space -- successful attack. 1000 Monaco fans staying overnight in

Dortmund. I will show you pictures of that later, stay tuned.

Last month, three police staff were found not-guilty

of manslaughter after a man who'd been held in police custody died.

Thomas Orchard's mother has told Breakfast she now fears no-one

will be held accountable for her son's death.

A Home Office review into deaths in police custody began

in 2015, but so far the Government hasn't published its report.

Campaigners say that could leave vulnerable people at risk.

You may find some of the images in Jayne McCubbin's report distressing.

His mother tells me that as a child, Thomas loved the outdoors. More

comfortable with his hands than with humans, but with troubled teenagers

years as his mental health deteriorated into schizophrenia but

at 32 he was a church caretaker and he was getting better. Law really

proud of where Thomas was at with his life? Absolutely. Did overcome

enormous difficulties and was living a very personable, productive life.

But in October 2012 he hadn't been taking his medication. After

shouting aggressively in the street, passers-by called police and he was

arrested. An emergency restraint belt was wrapped around his face.

Police said that was proportionate and in line with training. In the

station, you can just hear a call coming in. It's a complaint about

Thomas's arrest. The belt is finally removed. Thomas had been

asphyxiated. He died seven days later. They saw an angry man. Was he

by nature? No. He was quiet. He was just having a mental health crisis?

Yes. And if they had viewed it as such... As you like it would

probably be alive today. Last month one sergeant and to detention staff

were found not guilty of gross negligence manslaughter. Their chief

constable said his thoughts are with the family. Staff and colleagues

continue to be confessional and serve our communities often under

extreme and very difficult circumstances. Amongst our 25,000 or

more the tendons each year, so many more of those detainees are

vulnerable through emotional crisis, mental ill-health and substance

misuse Devon and Cornwall police have not

decided about disciplinary action. I still hear not guilty, not guilty,

not guilty. Something went very, very, very badly wrong. I fear we're

going to end up in a situation where nobody is going to be held to

account. In autumn, 2015, the Home Office ordered a review into deaths

in police custody. There've been 209 in the last ten years. The review

was to find out why investigations fall short for many families and

address their concerns about an apparent lack of accountability. It

was expected be published last summer. The key special adviser said

that delay could leave others at risk. I'm extremely frustrated, as

other families that contributed to that review, because we wanted a

review that makes a difference and that stops these preventable and

needless deaths occurring. The Home Office said the report would be

published in due course. The government wants to stop police

cells being used for people in mental health crisis, and from next

month holding a child who is mentally unwell in a cell will be

banned, and it will become even more difficult to do so for adults. This

card from Thomas's church was sent to the Orchard family when the trial

ended, saying how special he was to them. They are still waiting to hear

if any individual or the police force will be held accountable for

his death. Jayne McCubbin, BBC News. Thanks to the family for talking to

us on BBC Breakfast. You're watching

Breakfast from BBC News. for White House Press

Secretary, Sean Spicer. We'll get the latest reaction

after he's forced to apologise for saying Hitler didn't

use chemical weapons More discussion on that coming up at

6:40am. Time now to get the news,

travel and weather where you are. Plenty more on our website

at the usual address. Hello, this is Breakfast

with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. We'll bring you all the latest news

and sport in a moment, It took 48 hours, but the boss

of United Airlines has finally issued a full apology to the man

who was dragged from a plane Also this morning, it's one

of the world's oldest, most mysterious societies,

but as the Freemasons turn 300, they've lifted the veil

of secrecy and let the cameras And, this weekend a new companion

steps through the blue We'll be live with Dr Who

writer Steven Moffat. But now a summary of this

morning's main news. Police in Germany are investigating

three explosions that damaged a bus carrying the football

team, Borussia Dortmund, to a Champions League match

at their home stadium. Dortmund Police believe the vehicle

was targeted deliberately, but say it's too early to know

whether it was a terrorist attack. The match against Monaco

was postponed until this evening. TRANSLATION: Marc Bartra is being

operated on right now for a broken bone in his right hand. Last shards

just rang me. They are still very just rang me. They are still very

shocked and thinking about Marc. We hope he recovers quickly.

We will be talking a little bit about the hashtag bedsforawayfans.

Thousands of Monaco fans will be needing a bed, so Dortmund fans came

to their aid. We will talk about that later.

The US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, is meeting his

counterpart in Moscow this morning, less than a week

after the United States bombed an air base in Syria.

He wants to persuade the Kremlin to drop its support

for the current Syrian regime and its President,

As a former oil executive, Rex Tillerson is more used to arriving

in Moscow for business deals. This political mission may prove more

difficult. Russia, he said on Tuesday, there is a heavy

responsibility after last week's the middle attack. It is unclear whether

Russia failed to take this responsibility seriously or has been

incompetent, but this distinction doesn't much matter to the dead.

Washington accuses the Assad regime of using the nerve agent, killing at

least 89 people. In retaliation, the US fired missiles at a Syrian air

base, and act condemned by Syria's ally at rush hour. But any Putin

seemed to harden his stance, accusing opposition forces planning

further attacks. TRANSLATION: We have information from various

sources that similar provocations, I can't call them any differently, are

being prepared in other parts of Syria too, including the southern

suburbs of Damascus, where they are preparing to release some sort of

substance again. And while G7 ministers couldn't agree on new

sanctions yesterday, they did endorse a joint call for Russia to

abandon Assad. Right now it seems that message may fall on deaf ears.

Any future referendum in the UK should avoid the "mistakes" of last

year's vote on Britain's membership of the EU,

The cross-party public administration and constitutional

affairs committee says there must be adequate planning for any outcome.

It also recommends the incumbent Prime Minister stays in office

More than 50,000 people with disabilities have had specially

adapted cars and other vehicles taken away after the introduction

of a new disability benefit, according to the Motability charity.

Their figure has led some MPs and campaigners to demand changes

so vehicles are not removed before claimants have had

The government says there are more people on the Motability Scheme

The head of United Airlines has apologised for what he's now calling

the "truly horrific" incident in which a passenger

was forcibly dragged, screaming, from a flight.

Footage of David Dao being removed from the

overbooked plane was posted on social media and sparked

Including a drop in their share price.

The chief executive, Oscar Munoz, said:

The incident wiped ?1.1 billion off the value of the company,

its share price dropped by 4% on Tuesday.

That's quite a row back from the original position.

Yes, because in the beginning he said he was supporting staff.

We will be showing you the front pages of the papers, many of which

have the pictures of the Queen and Prince Philip feeding elephants.

They were on a visit to Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire.

The royal couple met Donna, who is one of a herd of nine

They were officially opening the new two million Centre

You were talking about royal protocol, saying you are not allowed

to extend your hand, well, the elephant definitely wasn't told.

I've been told you have to have your hands by your side until Her Majesty

extends her hand to you. Well, if I ever get the honour they

will come to you. Just be gentle.

You can't go into handed. Oh my goodness! -- in two handed.

And I apologise for not wearing an orange tie today. I was told I would

be too much tough. But you both look lovely. Thank you.

Good morning. We were showing you the back pages. Powerful shots of

armed police escorting the way the Borussia Dortmund players. That's

after the explosions, as the team were making their way towards the

stadium for their Champions League match against Monaco last night.

Of course a terrible incident. Plays in shock. One is having surgery

after a wrist injury. But something good has come out of it, as often

happens when something terrible happens. Have a look at these tweets

coming from Borussia Dortmund vans after the news broke, that there had

been this explosion. A hashtag went out, bedforawayfans. Spare rooms

being offered to Monaco fans for the night. These are the pictures that

appeared, of fans extending hospitality to Monaco fans. It has

really brought the teams together. And also chants in the stadium.

Borussia Dortmund's game with Monaco is set to go ahead at 5:45pm.

As you've been hearing that's after the game was postponed last

night, following the explosive attack on the Dortmund team bus.

Thousands of fans were already in the stadium when they were told

The visiting Monaco fans chanted "Dortmund" in a show of solidarity.

There they are. A positive story coming out of what could have been a

terrible tragedy. It's one of the biggest

days in the history Last year's Premier League winners

are the only English club left in the Champions League

and tonight they're in Spain for their quarter-final

against Atletico Madrid. Captain Wes Morgan has travelled

with the team but won't play It's Leicester's first season

in the Champions League and manager Craig Shakespeare is determined

to make the most of it. Walking through the stadium in terms

of by the changing rooms, seeing all of the cups, it's a lovely

traditional ground. It gives you a little tingle. But I'm on this site

now and you have to make sure that you enjoy these moments, but I think

to enjoy it you have to make sure that you try and get a result.

The former Liverpool and Chelsea striker Fernando Torres is now

He enjoyed watching Leicester win the Premier League last season,

and told Football Focus he knows exactly to expect when he faces them

Leicester is a team with passion, with great players, about everything

as a team. They know how to play together and how to suffer together.

They showed against severe, for example, that they went up in the

second leg and they could do it. -- Sevilla. It's a team we want to play

again. And there's much more of that

interview on Football Focus this They are the nation's favourite.

A plug for Dan's other show! Also tonight in the Champions

League, Bayern Munich face Real One quarter-final match was played

last night and Italian champions Juventus took a big step

towards the semi-finals They won 3-0 against Barcelona,

leaving the Catalans needing a recovery almost as dramatic

as the last round when they came That's one to watch when the second

leg takes place. Sam Warburton, the favourite to be

named the British and Irish Lions captain next Wednesday,

is out for six weeks Warburton should be fit

again by the end of May. The Lions tour to New

Zealand starts in June. So Warburton back, but two others

from the world of rugby The former Scotland captain

Kelly Brown is calling it a day He'll become an academy coach

at his current club Saracens. While the former Wales and British

and Irish Lions scrum half Mike Phillips will also

retire next month. Phillips won two Six Nations Grand

Slams with Wales and finishes just one short of making 100

international appearances. Britain's Heather Watson has been

knocked out in the first round of the Biel Open

in Switzerland. Watson, now ranked 110th

in the world, needed to call on the trainer during the second set

and was beaten in straight sets Britain's first female Olympic boxer

Natasha Jonas is returning to the sport and

turning professional. Jonas was the first woman to take

part in an Olympic fight at the 2012 Games, but she retired two years ago

when she was pregnant. She's got her eyes on a world

title and perhaps a fight against the Irish boxer

Katie Taylor, who beat Would I love in two years to have a

World Championship here? Possibly. If it's any earlier than that,

great. But I want to create my own path and my own journey.

Former FA chief executive Brian Barwick will lead Liverpool's

Barwick will chair the city's bid, which was initially just

Durban's withdrawal though from hosting the event four years

earlier has also opened up a vacancy for the 2022 event.

Birmingham and Manchester have also expressed interest,

with the latter potentially being part of a joint north-west bid.

When Glasgow hosted it in 14 I wrote a column in one of the newspapers to

say Liverpool should attend and bid for the hosting of a future

Commonwealth Games. I think the scale of the games itself and this

magnificent backdrop that we have here and just the fact that the city

of Liverpool, the people of Liverpool, Warmley welcome people

and also are sports mad. So it is pretty likely that we will

see a Commonwealth Games in Liverpool, because they are

launching a bid for the 2026 games, but they say they will do the 2022

games as well if you need us do. Imagine if they got both! That would

be pretty good. Thank you! His apology last night

following his comments that even Hitler "didn't

sink" to using chemical weapons came just hours

after his ill-fated press briefing. Such a quick, full acknowledgement

of making a mistake, as he called it, is rare

from public figures, especially in the White House

and raises the question - does Mr Spicer still have the full

support of the President Trump? We'll get the latest reaction

from the States but first let's take a look at the moment

where it all went wrong. We didn't use chemical weapons in

World War Two. You have someone as despicable as Hitler who didn't even

sink to using chemical weapons. I just want to give you an opportunity

to clarify something that seems to be gaining traction. Hitler didn't

even sink to 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... There was clearly... I understand, thank you.

Let's pick up some of those thoughts. Joining us is the

political analyst, Eric Ham. Sean Spicer is the quite well known now

White House press secretary. At what point did he realise he has made a

very big mistake? Actually, I think it took him a while to actually

figure out that this was a foot in mouth moment for him. We also have

to understand that not only is he the press secretary, but he is the

chief mouthpiece for the presidential administration. That's

a very big deal. When you consider the clout and influence that the

Jewish community holds in US politics, to say something that was

so outrageous and offensive, that's something that I think we'll stick

with him for as long as he is the press secretary for Donald Trump. He

was given the opportunity to clarify what he had said. The U think in

some ways that compounded it? -- do you think. They did compound the

problem. We have to step out and look at the big rich and why

something like this was said. I think the root cause of this is that

this administration simply does not have a strategy. There is no

overarching theme or Trump doctrine. Quite frankly, he is not the first

person to say something of this magnitude. If we look at some of the

comments made by General Mattis, he said the same thing. He was more

specific and articulate in how he stated the comments, but I think

this is a talking point of the Trump administration, which actually goes

back to the larger issue. Are we still grappling with anti-Semitism

from this administration? This has been a problem for them and I think

Sean Spicer's comments today certainly draw them back into this

issue. Does this administration have problems with the Jewish community

and with anti-Semitism? How do they move on from it and draw

a line under it? I do believe the Trump administration, starting with

Donald Trump, needs to come out aggressively and speak out harshly

against the comments, but more importantly they need to I think

show a sensitivity to actually the Jewish community and what took place

during the World War Two. And I do believe that this is something that

will unfortunately dog this administration, dog this president

for as long as he's in office. Sean Spicer, do you think he is safe in

that job? Well, this is Donald Trump that we're talking about and we

cannot... One thing about Donald Trump that is predictable, he's very

good at being unpredictable. So is this something that will end Sean

Spicer's tenure as Press Secretary, we don't know. If it's the media

calling for Sean Spicer's head, rest assured this president will dig in

his heels and he will not fire him unless he has absolutely no choice.

To be clear, the job as Press Secretary but the people surrounding

the president is to insure the president always looks good, even

though the buck stops with the president. Clearly this is something

that will damage this president and tarnish this president and surely

needs to be looking to fall on his sword, which is why he came out so

quickly with an apology today -- Sean Spicer. Thank you very much.

From Washington. A fascinating story.

And bringing us a look at the morning's weather is Carol,

down at Woolwich Pier ahead of the Royal Tall Ships Regatta.

You have a number of tall ships behind you and your on one? Good

morning. Good morning both and good morning

to you. Do at this fine piece of wood, lovely bit of mahogany but

let's find out more about the tall ships Regatta from Lawrence. Good

morning. A bit chilly this morning. What is the tall ships Regatta? The

tall ships Regatta is this year organised by... It is a race all the

way to Quebec and back to commemorate the 150th anniversary of

the Canadian confederation and the Regatta is all about young people

sailing on a big fall ship out of their comfort zone without a

cellphone, without social media and then climbing the rigging, so it is

a great experience for young people to be on board a ship and racing all

the way to Quebec via different ports. It stops off in Portugal,

Bermuda, Boston, Quebec and then back to France? How long is that

likely to take? Basically the event in Quebec is in July and the ships

are expected back in Le Havre in France in September, it is a whole

summer long event. You mention it's a life changing experience for many

people taking part and lots of people are from different walks of

life, have any of them sailed before? No, it is all about getting

people out of their comfort zone and getting on board a ship, on the helm

and meeting new people. No, people are very much inexperienced, most of

them. Some know how to sail but this is completely different, being on

the ocean et cetera. If you don't want to sale but you want a look at

these magnificent ships, you can in the next few days? Yes, from

tomorrow until Easter Sunday you can visit the ships and take a cruise on

a tall ship. You can just watch them, enjoy them, there's a lot of

entertainment on shore, the two main event sites this year, one is at

Maritime Greenwich near the Cutty Sark, you can also take a shuttle to

see a tall ship, go to concerts. Lots of things going on. The second

event site is Woolwich, where we are now, there's a lot of ships you can

see and take a cruise and also there's entertainment and many

things going on. I could talk to you all morning but I have to get on

with the weather. Thank you so much for now. Look at the view, it is

just gorgeous here. It's a bit nippy, as we were just saying, not

just in London but other parts of the UK as well. After a chilly

start, some will see sunny spells, but rain in the forecast today.

Again, we weren't all see it. Across Northern Scotland this morning, we

continue with showers and in between some sunshine. For southern Scotland

and northern England we have rain and some of that will be heavy

across Cumbria and Lancashire in particular, but for Yorkshire and

Lincolnshire we're looking at a cloudy start but largely dry. And

then into the Midlands, East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Hampshire and the Isle

of Wight, skies similar to this in London, cloud around but the sun is

getting up. In the south-west, a similar story, brighter, sunny

skies, a nippy start, by 9am nine degrees in Plymouth and in south

Wales, starting on a sunny note but in north Wales, a bit more cloud and

rain, the same rain affecting southern parts of Northern Ireland.

Northern Ireland, the north of it, seeing some brighter skies coming

through. That rain is being produced by a weather front and Asda weather

front sinks south during today it will continue to weaken -- as that

weather front. By the time it gets to the south-east, we could have

some showers. Brighter spells, sunshine and showers but more cloud

around than yesterday. Temperatures in the breeze will feel cooler but

above average or near average. Through this evening and overnight

we lose the front from the south, we will see clear skies developing,

especially in eastern areas, so a touch of frost. More cloud in the

west with some showers and that's how we start the day tomorrow. After

that nice bright start with a lot of sunshine, in the east you'll notice

the cloud building and the cloud will certainly be building in the

west, heralding the arrival of another weather front, a fairly weak

affair so not doing much more than producing showers, especially in the

north and west. Starting to see more of a north-westerly breeze, XM 20

the chillier feel. For Good Friday itself, we are looking once again at

a right old mixture -- accentuate in. Brighter spells, showers in the

forecast as well and a band of rain sinking south, but a weak affair as

it goes. For the Easter week end, changeable in the north, rain here

at times, some showers, but some sunshine. Southern areas largely

staying dry but we hang onto that fresh north-westerly wind.

Thank you very much, Carol. It makes more lovely sightseeing, those tall

ships. Back with you later. I like a fresh north-westerly. Do you? I do!

Steph, Tesco, results coming results coming our way in the next ten

minutes? They've had a tough couple of years, yeah, big results for

them. Tesco, our biggest retailer,

a massive employer, but undergoing a real

period of change. For a long time now Tesco has been

the king of supermarkets with a 27% share of

the grocery sector. But competition from budget chains

and an accounting scandal has meant in stores which has included some

of the 24-hour stores being phased out to save money on energy

and nightshift pay. There's also a smaller

range of products Instead Tesco has been focusing

on more consistent lower prices and have been adding

more own-brand products. This is all in a bid to try and win

back customers. Tesco is expensive to run, not least because they have

a lot of huge stores. About half their larger stores

are over 50,000 sq ft that's Big stores aren't as popular as they

once were because our shopping habits have been changing. We do

more online and do more frequent smaller shops.

Well, Tesco has been shopping for convenience stores

They've made a ?3.4 billion bid for parent company Booker that gives

We should find out a bit more about Tesco's big shop this morning.

Their financial results for the whole year will be out

I'll be running out, getting the stuff off the printer, back to the

sofa and I'll tell you what's going on in about five minutes. That's

what I wanted to know. On you go, see you later. She's obviously got

slipped on! -- slip ons! We are talking about shoes. You're

going to tell me about how you tie your slews? We've been talking about

how they come undone but if you do a double not it's impossible. Why do

they come undone in the first place? It has never been revealed until

now. Scientists in America have been

looking into the problem and say it's down to a complex

combination of forces that come The first thing we did is we took a

really high speed camera and we took video of me running on a treadmill,

we watched in extreme detail how my shoelaces came untyped. That helped

us make a hypothesis of how this was happening. We found out the reason

your shoelaces, and hide when you walk is there's this very specific

interaction between the impact of your foot on the ground and the

swinging movement of your leg when you're walking. If I had my blue

laces -- I had my shoelaces tied and wanted to an Payet I would do this.

-- untidy. Of the whipping motion and the inertia are the force that

pulls it through in the end. Do you get it? I think so. Go. I

don't think my double not has ever failed. You're going to ruin them.

When you put your trainers on do they fail? The laces on trainers are

a bit more grippy. I have special ones when I'm running so they don't

come on down. That is cheating! Let us know about your shoe lace issues.

Tell I'm back with the latest

from the BBC London newsroom Plenty more on our website

at the usual address. Hello, this is Breakfast,

with Dan Waler and Louise Minchin. The hunt for clues begins

after three explosions hit the bus carrying the German

team Borussia Dortmund Police say the vehicle

was deliberately targeted, but it's too early to know

if it was a terrorist attack. Good morning, it's

Wednesday 12th April. Also this morning, the case of

Thomas Orchard who died after being detained by police officers. His

mother talks to us about her struggle for answers. I fear we will

end up in a situation where nobody will be held to account.

An apology from the spokesman for President Trump,

Sean Spicer, after he tells a press briefing that Hitler didn't use

chemical weapons during the Second World War.

It's a business trying to change after some tough times

I'll be looking at whether the turnaround plan is working.

In sport, one of the biggest nights in the history of Leicester City

lies ahead and they're in the quarter-finals

of the Champions League against Atletico Madrid.

Good morning. I am at Woolwich Pier, in London. We are here for the tall

ships regatta and you could come and see this magnificent ships over the

next few days until Easter Sunday. We have a weather front moving

across southern Scotland, northern England and Northern Ireland,

producing rain. It moves into southern England and will produce a

band of cloud and the odd shower. Behind it, breezy, with sons -- with

some showers. Police in Germany believe the three

explosions which hit a bus carrying the Borussia Dortmund football team,

were directly targeting the club. The team were on their way

to its Champions League One player has undergone surgery

after the blast shattered windows Forensic teams have spent the night

examining the blast site. Three devices in what police

described as a targeted attack exploded as the players' bus

left their hotel shortly after 7pm. It's believed the explosives

were hidden in a hedge and were detonated

as the bus passed. But two panes at the back shattered,

injuring Spanish international Marc Bartra, who's

undergone surgery. At a press conference

held soon afterwards, a spokesman for the team gave

an update on his condition. TRANSLATION: Marc Bartra

is being operated on right now for a broken bone in his right hand

and he's got various glass shards The team, through captain

Marcel Schmelzer, just rang me. They're still very shocked

and thinking about Marc. The police are still trying

to establish who was behind An official from the state

prosecutor revealed that a letter TRANSLATION: I can say a letter

was found near the blast scene. At the moment, due to the ongoing

investigation, I can't give more The authenticity is

being investigated. The devices exploded

about ten kilometres The match has been postponed

until later today. The world of football has come

together in wishing Bartra a full recovery and condemning the attack,

which has unsettled players After last night's game

was postponed Borussia Dortmund tweeted asking local fans to help

accommodate the thousands of Monaco supporters who had travelled

to Germany for the match. Which they did! We've got some

pictures for you. Loads more of these on the BBC website.

Overnight dozens of pictures like these appeared on social media

as fans of both clubs rallied around the hashtag #bedforawayfans.

Our Europe reporter Gavin Lee is in Dortmund this morning.

What more do they know about what happened, why this happened? Well, I

am outside Dortmund's football stadium, where the match will be

replayed tonight. All through the night security and police were

watching the coach, unsure of what could happen next. I spoke to the

coach driver last night who said he is scared of driving here now. At 17

-- 7pm last night the bus took off. Police said it was a targeted

attack. They found this letter that appeared to claim responsibility.

They are still trying to work out the Barossa did. There's no sense at

the moment, they aren't using the word terrorism, just saying it was a

targeted attack. Marc Bartra Roker bone in his wrist. At the moment he

is said to be in a better condition. -- broke a bone. In the newspapers,

they are talking about the three bombs in the hedge. Broadcast media

also talk about this being a mobile device, someone physically set them

off, so they are looking for a car with a certain registration plate.

There will be another press conference in about one hour. That's

very much. Sean Spicer has apologised for

saying that Adolf Hitler didn't use chemical with them is.

Mr Spicer made the remark in a White House press briefing,

as he answered questions about the war in Syria.

Journalists reminded him that Nazis used gas to kill millions

Our Washington correspondent David Willis has more.

Asked about the Syrian government's use of chemical weapons,

the President's press spokesman used this surprising assertion.

We didn't use chemical weapons in World War Two.

You know, someone as despicable as Hitler who didn't

Asked to clarify those remarks, Mr Spicer dug himself

To the Holocaust centre, I understand that.

What I'm saying, in the way that Assad used them where he went

into towns, dropped them down to innocent...

..into the middle of towns, it was brought.

So the use of it, I appreciate the clarification.

In a statement, the Anne Frank Centre on Mutual Respect accused

Mr Spicer of engaging in what it called:

Calls mounting for his dismissal, the spokesman

went back into the cameras to offer this apology.

I was obviously trying to make a point about the heinous acts that

Assad had made against his own people last week,

And frankly, I mistakenly used an inappropriate and insensitive

reference to the Holocaust for which, frankly, there is no

comparison and, for that, I apologise.

On Monday, Mr Spicer suggested the use of barrel bombs

by the Syrian regime could merit renewed military action on the part

only for the White House to deny its policy had changed.

Now the Trump administration is facing further unflattering

headlines amid suggestions that this man's days

at the lectern could now be numbered.

More than 50,000 people with disabilities have had specially

adapted cars and other vehicles taken away after the introduction

of a new disability benefit, according to the Motability charity.

Their figure has led some MPs and campaigners to demand changes

so vehicles are not removed before claimants have had

The government says there are more people on the Motability Scheme

The UK's biggest supermarket Tesco has just announced

I want to take this introduction to use slowly, because they know if it

is literally just coming in. Yes, great figures from Tesco. They

have had a tough couple of years and they have reported that their group

operating profit, what we call before exceptional items, they say

they are by 30% to ?1.2 billion. Last year it was just shy of ?1

billion and now they say it has gone up about 30%. Good news for them

because they have had a tough few years. They had an accounting

scandal, do you and that? They were fined nearly ?130 million because

they overstated their profits. They have also suffered from basically

being too big. So they've had a lot of installs. Our shopping habits

have changed, so we don't go and do on the shop any more, quite often

people do smaller, more frequent shops, meaning that had some big

stores that they've been trying to work on reducing the range of

products, making it fewer products, and basically trying to compete with

discount retailers. The chief executive has been commenting, Dave

Lewis, saying, we are ahead of where we expected to be. We've made good

progress on the strategic drive, this is all about trying to reduce

the amount of money they are spending and trying increase the

sales. They say going well for them. The other big thing about Tesco is

they are trying to buy another company, the convenience stores, and

there are 5000 of them. Tesco says that deal is going ahead, a ?3.4

billion deal. So that will give them more access to those smaller stores.

Thank you very much. We will be talking about that later.

I can see it is small print! The smallest print of ever seen in

my life! She is good.

The head of United Airlines has apologised for the "truly horrific"

incident in which a passenger was forcibly dragged,

Footage of David Dao being removed from the overbooked plane was posted

on social media and sparked a backlash against the company.

The chief executive, Oscar Munoz, said:

The incident wiped over ?1 billion off the value of the company,

its share price dropped by 4% on Tuesday.

Apologies seem to be the theme of the programme today.

We will be talking more about PR and how to make an apology later.

Thanks for watching us on Breakfast today. Now, returning to one of our

major stories. He spent his entire career in the

oil industry before becoming US Secretary of State. Now Rex

Tillerson is meeting his counterpart in Moscow. It comes a week after US

launched that attack on Syria. Rainer-Elk Anders is a Russia

analyst from Staffordshire Thank you for coming in. What's the

best result Rex Tillerson can hope for from these meetings? When you

look at some of the initial context between the Trump team and Russia, I

think Russia was hoping for a meeting of people that have known

each other, because Rex Tillerson was an ex- movie -- Mobile

executive. Now the ground has shifted. At the moment we have the

Secretary of State, the US Secretary of State, who is not experienced in

terms of diplomacy. He is an oil executive. But we have to give him

the benefit of the doubt. What we've seen over the past few weeks, and

passed days, is Rex Tillerson does understand that he has to come with

a united message from Western countries. We've seen it at the G7

meeting. I do think that Boris Johnson's cancelling means he knows

he has to have a united message. It isn't the same Rex Tillerson Russian

has -- Russia has no in regards to business. Websites need to stake out

their positions. Their red lines when it comes to global and regional

security. We will not see that Russia will withdraw support from

Assad, because Russia has really staked its interest in the Middle

East. It wants to play a brokering role and it also wants to become one

of the... It doesn't just want the US and its allies to play a role in

the Middle East. I think it's a very tough challenge. When I teach my

students about intelligence and international policy, I sometimes

joke and say, what would Winston Churchill du? -- do? He would say

never exhaust, never weary. That's what Rex Tillerson needs to bear in

mind. You made the point clearly that he was a businessman, but he

does have something that perhaps other people going there wouldn't

have, which is personal relationships, which counts for a

lot, don't they was yellow absolutely. They count for a lot.

There has been respected in terms of the Russian side, especially his

ability to make deals. Obviously in the oil and gas business. But I do

believe that the ground has shifted. If one of the new doctrines of the

Trump administration is to stand for universal values, then Rex Tillerson

will not be able to bypass that. There have been concerned at the

beginning of the Trump administration that the US and

Russia would I passed Nato and maybe the G7 and have bilateral

agreements. I think we actually have seen the ground shifting.

Is there any way that Russia would change its position on being closely

allied with Syria? That seems to be a line in the ground that they can't

cross. It comes with great responsibility.

They will be faced with demands that peace negotiations in Syria and will

be forced to acknowledge that it has to play a constructive role in that

process but I don't believe that this visit is one of the outcomes. I

believe we will see a series of negotiations over the coming weeks

and coming months were indeed we will probably see some moves towards

a peace conference where Russia will be playing an important role.

Fascinating. Carol's here with a look at today's

weather, at Woolwich Pier, where the tall ships have gathered

for the bank holiday weekend. Good morning. This morning it is a

chilly start in London but look at these ships. This is called Iris and

it is magnificent. It is taking place in the tall ships race which

leaves on Sunday and is in Portugal, then bum -- Bermuda. It will come

back around the bank holiday weekend in August. Lots of people taking

part. A lot have never sailed before. They are with professional

crews learning how to take part in a team effort, sailing across the

Atlantic and what an experience that proves to be. The weather today is

fairly mixed. First of all, a chilly start. Some of us have frost to

start the day but there will be sunny spells and a bit more cloud

today than yesterday. At 9am, we have sunshine and showers. Across

the southern uplands and into southern England, we also have some

rain. The rain will be heavy across come to share and Lancashire. Not as

heavy across Lincolnshire. Then we move to the Midlands, East Anglia,

all the way down to London and into that she and the Isle of Wight. We

have scarred labia. There is cloud around but some are seeing sunny

breaks -- we have cloud around. North Wales, you will also see some

rain. It is affecting north-west England and Northern Ireland but for

the north of Northern Ireland, starting to brighten up. The weather

front is producing a whirring and the weather front is going to

continue with dissenter southwards. When it gets into southern England,

it won't be more than a band of cloud with the odd shower. Behind

it, breezy conditions with a chilly wind and a mixture of sunshine,

bright spells and this showers. Temperatures just above average for

this time of year. It is any and overnight, we quickly lose the front

from the south of England. Skies were clear and we will see some

frost developing, particularly in rural areas. Temperatures are

roughly about 7-9 tonight in towns and cities but in the countryside

is, low. Tomorrow, we start of the sunshine in central and eastern

areas. We will have increasing cloud building from the West. It will

produce some showers in the north and west. Temperatures up a notch

but a roundabout where they would be this time in April. On Friday, a

weak weather front pushing southwards. Ahead, some bright skies

and in front, some bright skies, sunny intervals but also some

showers. Leading us into Easter weekend. The forecast for that is

changeable in the north. Showers and rain at times but some dry weather

as well. The south, largely dry with sunny spells. In the sunshine, it

will feel pleasant that we are hanging onto that fresh

north-westerly wind. We look forward to using ping around in one of those

ships later. -- we look forward to you zipping

It was around six o'clock last night when three devices exploded

near the coach carrying the football team, Borussia Dortmund.

The German club were on their way to their Champions League

Now the state prosecutor says a letter found near the scene

is being examined as part of the investigation.

Felix Huesmann is a journalist in Dortmund

and joins us from the city this morning.

We have heard a a lot about what happened last night. What was the

atmosphere like in Dortmund? What have you heard and seen over the

last few hours? I think the situation inside and around the

stadium was reasonably calm from everything I have heard. This press

spokesperson for Baruch yet -- Borussia Dortmund, people did not

panic. So far, the situation is calm. A lot of people opened their

homes for a way fans with the Twitter campaign #bedforawayfans. We

have seen loads of people staying overnight and going out for dinner.

It is a really positive story coming out of something which could have

been a serious security issue. In other instances and other cities,

after bomb attacks or similar stuff happening, people panicked. Here,

they didn't. I think that a good thing, yes. Felix, what you think

the atmosphere will be like tonight? We hear there is an extra level of

security. Champions League 's games are very heavily policed already.

What will fans make of what they this evening? I think Bhasin will be

more tense than normally. The police have said that yes, there will be

extra security. --I think the scene will be more tense. It will be hard

to get inside the stadium but with everything we have seen last night,

I think most people will stay calm and people will understand it will

take longer and the extra security measures are necessary at this

point. Good to hear. Thank you for talking to us this morning.

An extraordinary outpouring of friendship, wasn't it? You often get

that, don't you? After the Paris attacks, lots of people came in to

take people away. The actual outcome is far less serious in this

situation. One Dortmund player is looking at a broken bone in his

hand. Last month, three police staff

were found not-guilty of manslaughter after a man who'd

been held in police custody died. Thomas Orchard's mother has told

Breakfast she now fears no-one will be held accountable

for her son's death. In 2015 the Home Office announced

a review into deaths in police custody, but so far

the Government hasn't Campaigners say that could leave

vulnerable people at risk. You may find some of the images in

Jayne McCubbin's report distressing. His mother tells me that as a child,

Thomas loved the outdoors. More comfortable with his

hens than with humans, but in his troubled teenagers

years his mental health deteriorated into schizophrenia, but at 32

he was a church caretaker You're really proud of where Thomas

was at with his life? He'd overcome enormous difficulties

and was living a very But in October, 2012, he hadn't been

taking his medication. After shouting aggressively

in the street, passers-by called An emergency restraint belt

was wrapped around his face. Police said that was proportionate

and in line with training. In the station, you can just

hear a call coming in. It's a complaint

about Thomas's arrest. He was just having

a mental health crisis? Last month one sergeant and two

detention staff were found not guilty of gross

negligence manslaughter. Their chief constable

said his thoughts were with Custody staff and colleagues

within Devon and Cornwall continue to be professional and to

serve our communities, often under extreme and very

difficult circumstances. Amongst our 25,000 or more

detentions each year, so very many of those detained

are vulnerable through emotional crisis, mental ill-health, physical

ill-health and substance misuse. But the Independent Police

Complaints Commission say they still believe there is a case

to answer for gross misconduct. Devon and Cornwall police have yet

to decide about disciplinary action. I still hear not guilty,

not guilty, not guilty. Something went very, very,

very, very badly wrong. I fear that we're going to end up

in a situation where nobody In autumn, 2015, the Home Office

ordered a review into deaths There've been 209 in

the last ten years. The review was to find out why

investigations fall short for many families and address

their concerns about an apparent It was expected be

published last summer. Its key special adviser told me that

delay could leave others at risk. I'm extremely frustrated,

as are the families that contributed to that review, because we want

a review that makes a difference and that stops these preventable

and needless deaths occurring. The Home Office said the report

would be published in due course. The government wants to stop police

cells being used for people who are in mental health crisis,

and from next month, holding a child who is mentally

unwell in a cell will be banned, and it will become even more

difficult to do so for adults. This card from Thomas's church

was sent to the Orchard family when the trial ended,

saying how special he was to them. They are still waiting to hear

if any individual or the police force will be held

accountable for his death. We will continue following this

story and let you know if there are any updates as well. Let's get some

news, travel and weather I'm back with the latest

from the BBC London newsroom Hello, this is Breakfast,

with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. Thanks for being with us. The main

news stories: Police in Germany are investigating

three explosions that damaged a bus carrying the football

team Borussia Dortmund to a Champions League match

at their home stadium. Dortmund Police believe the vehicle

was targeted deliberately, but say it's too early to know

whether it was a terrorist attack. The match against Monaco

was postponed until this evening. In the last half hour,

Britain's biggest supermarket, Tesco, has reported a 30% rise

in profits over the last year, making an operating

profit of ?1.3 billion. The group is in the middle

of a three year turnaround plan, following record losses

and a multi-million pound But this morning the boss said

improvements were being made to stores and customers' shopping

is cheaper than three years ago. The US Secretary of State,

Rex Tillerson, is meeting his counterpart in Moscow this

morning, less than a week after the United States bombed

an air base in Syria. He wants to persuade the Kremlin

to drop its support for the current Syrian regime and its

President, Bashar al-Assad. But the Russian President,

Vladimir Putin has said that Assad's forces were not responsible

for the chemical attack which prompted the US

missile strikes. President Trump's spokesman,

Sean Spicer, has apologised for saying that Adolf Hitler didn't

use chemical weapons. The Anne Frank Centre,

which campaigns for human rights, described Mr Spicer's comment

as an "evil slur" and said he now Mr Spicer made the remark

in a White House press briefing, as he answered questions

about the war in Syria. any future referendum in the UK

should avoid the mistakes regarding Britain's membership with the EU.

That's according to a group of MPs. The committee says that must be

adequate planning for any outcome and it says the incumbent Prime

Minister should stay in office to implement the result.

The head of United Airlines has apologised for the "truly horrific"

incident in which a passenger was forcibly dragged,

Footage of David Dao being removed from the overbooked plane was posted

on social media and sparked a backlash against the company.

The chief executive, Oscar Munoz, said:

The incident wiped over ?1 billion off the value of the company,

its share price dropped by 4% on Tuesday.

We will be talking at ten past 8am to a PR expert in how it is best to

handle that kind of incident. It's a day of apologies today.

Should we offer one just in case? Coming up on the programme,

Carol's got the weather. A big night of Champions League

action and annexed again tonight. The Dortmund - one of the game was

postponed. It will be played tonight? -- Monaco game.

Yes, and we heard that fans are likely to face big delays getting

into the stadium as they will be extra checks and extra security

around. We saw the pictures on the back pages of the papers. Armed

police escorting players away from their boss. We are getting reports

today of extra police on the streets of Madrid ahead of Leicester City's

Champions League quarter-final. Some Leicester fans apparently have been

injured by police. We do know many more details about that, but

certainly heightened police on the street. All of the matches are

taking place tonight. Borussia Dortmund's game with Monaco

is set to go ahead at 5:45pm. Thousands were fans were already in

the stadium when they were told the match was.

The visiting Monaco fans chanted "Dortmund" in a show of solidarity.

It's one of the biggest days in the history

Last year's Premier League winners are the only English club

left in the Champions League and tonight they're in Spain

for their quarter-final against Atletico Madrid.

Captain Wes Morgan has travelled with the team but won't play

It's Leicester's first season in the Champions League and manager

Craig Shakespeare is determined to make the most of it.

Walking through the stadium in terms of by the changing rooms,

seeing all of the cups, it's a lovely traditional ground.

But I'm on this side now and you have to make sure that

you enjoy these moments, but I think to enjoy it you have

to make sure that you try and get a result.

The former Liverpool and Chelsea striker Fernando Torres is now

He enjoyed watching Leicester win the Premier League last season,

and told Football Focus he knows exactly to expect when he faces them

Leicester is a team with passion, with great players, about everything

They know how to play together and how to suffer together.

They showed against Sevilla, for example, that they went up

in the second leg and they could do it.

And there's much more of that interview on Football Focus this

Also tonight, Bayern Munich face Real Madrid.

One quarter-final match was played last night and Italian champions

Juventus took a big step towards the semi-finals

They won 3-0 against Barcelona, leaving the Catalans needing

a recovery almost as dramatic as the last round when they came

That's one to watch when the second leg takes place.

Sam Warburton, the favourite to be named the British and Irish Lions

captain next Wednesday, is out for six weeks

Warburton should be fit again by the end of May.

The Lions tour to New Zealand starts in June.

So Warburton back, but two others from the world of rugby

The former Scotland captain Kelly Brown is calling it a day

He'll become an academy coach at his current club Saracens.

While the former Wales and British and Irish Lions scrum half

Mike Phillips will also retire next month.

Phillips won two Six Nations Grand Slams with Wales and finishes just

one short of making 100 international appearances.

Britain's Heather Watson has been knocked out in the first

round of the Biel Open in Switzerland.

Watson, now ranked 110th in the world, needed to call

the trainer onto the court during the second set and was beaten

in straight sets by the Estonion Anett Kontaveit.

Former FA chief executive Brian Barwick will lead Liverpool's

He will chair the city's bid, which was initially just

Durban's withdrawal, though, from hosting the event four years

earlier has also opened up a vacancy for the 2022 event.

Birmingham and Manchester have also expressed interest,

with the latter potentially being part of a joint north-west bid.

"He has nothing to lose but a potentially happy,

Those are the words of Charlie Gate's parents,

-- Charlie Guard's parents, Connie and Chris, who yesterday lost

doctors from taking their baby son off life support.

Charlie was born last August to mum Connie Yates and dad

At first he seemed healthy but soon developed serious problems

and at eight weeks old was admitted to hospital.

At three months old was diagnosed with

a rare genetic condition which causes progressive muscle

In January, his parents launched an online appeal to fund

an experimental treatment in the USA.

They are now close to reaching their target of ?1.3 million.

However, doctors at Great Ormond Street hospital say his brain damage

is irreversible and he should be taken off life support.

His parents challenged that decision in the High Court.

But Mr Justice Francis ruled in the hospital's favour.

Charlie's parents now have three weeks to lodge an appeal.

Connie and Chris are facing every parent's worst nightmare. We -- they

don't understand why Charlie isn't given the chance of treatment in

America. The treatment is potentially groundbreaking. These

are not easy issues and they remain utterly committed to wanting to do

their utmost for their child. Their total dedication has been recognised

by all parties concerned, including the judge. That is right, nothing

less could be said of them. Emma Nottingham is a member

of the Institute of Medical Ethics and a lecturer in child law

at the University of Winchester. Good morning. It is a really

difficult and emotional case. Charlie's parents were pleading for

the judge to give him a chance, but they have to weigh in all of that

emotion with medical facts. It is a really difficult decision.

Absolutely. He has to weigh up all of the evidence in front of him and

look at the arguments for all of the parties involved. Charlie's parents,

any experts that they would have spoken to. And he has to take a

really objective approach and he has said in a press summary just

yesterday that he has had to really focus on applying the law and that

is looking at best interests. Silly as to assume the position of Charlie

and look at what's in the best interests of this child in this

particular circumstance is the is such a difficult case for everybody

involved. I suppose the question is, how does it get to this, that these

parents are in the High Court trying to fight this sort of battle? It's

really because they weren't able to reach an agreement with the medical

professionals. The medical professionals have said what they

think is in the best interests of Charlie, which very sadly their view

was to withdraw his treatment, which no one wanted that to be the case,

but in their opinion that's what they thought. The parents quite

rightly wanted to fight back. They also have a right to express what

they think is in Charlie's best interests. So it is this conflict

between the parties involved as to what the best thing for Charlie

ease. As they weren't able to reach an agreement, it is at that point

that the legal profession and the courts then become involved. It

almost becomes impossible because the medical expertise from America

say there is a very small chance anything could be improved but as a

parent you hear chance and you don't pay attention to whether there is a

small chance or not, because you just want your son to have a chance.

What do you think the parents were doing, because they can appeal this.

Potentially they can appeal this. They have a few weeks to get back

together. We will wait and see as to whether that will happen. They

fought really hard so far and media headlines yesterday said they would

continue to fight on Charlie's behalf. The difficulty is partly

with the comments that were given from the doctor in the US who has

said the treatment he can have over there is experimental, which means

we don't really know how much difference it's going to make the

judge said yesterday that an experimental treatment might not be

in his best interests. They've given the parents enormous support, not

least the people trying to see if they could have taken him to

America. These are all individual cases, but will there be any

ramifications? I think you've really hit the nail on the head. All cases

are different. It is difficult to say what effect this might have on

future cases. All cases with children are dealt on a case-by-case

basis. If there is anything like this in the future, the

circumstances are not going to be exactly the same as Charlie's, so it

is difficult to say what kind of ramifications this case would have

on future cases. OK, thanks very much.

Carol is at Woolwich Pier taking a look at the Tall Ships taking part

How is the weather going to be looking for us?

Good morning. It's fabulous to be here this morning. It has clouded

over a bit since we have been here and it is a chilly start. Check out

those tall ships. Look behind me at the rigging. You wouldn't catch me

up there in a month of Sundays. These ships will be selling off on

Easter Sunday, going to Portugal, crossing the Atlantic, getting into

Bermuda, Boston, Quebec and then coming back to France at the end of

August, beginning of September. Taking part in a race. The ships

will be manned by people and some of them have never sailed before but

have been taught by obviously a trained crew. They come from all

walks of life and what an experience. If you want to come and

see them you can do so here tomorrow until Easter Sunday. You can even

get on some of them as well. They are stunning. More than what you can

say to the temperatures this morning. A bit chilly this morning.

A touch of Frost overnight and rather chilly across the board. We

will see some sunshine today that there is also rain in the forecast.

Across Scotland at 9am, a lot of showers, particularly in the north.

In between, some brighter spells. In the Southern uplands and northern

England, we are looking at some rain. The rain this morning could be

heavy at times across, she and Lancashire where is in looks --

Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, not as heavy. The weather front thinking

south. Ahead of that, the cloud has been building but there are some

bright in the cloud and glimmers of sunshine as we have seen in London

this morning was not quite a bit of cloud a round as well. Southern

counties, Midlands, south-west, a fair bit of cloud with some breaks

and sunshine. Southern parts of Wales also seen some sunshine this

morning but North Wales, a bit more cloud and some rain, particularly

the north-west. The same band of rain affecting southern parts of

Northern Ireland but it is going to clear Northern Ireland, affecting

the brightness in the north to develop further south. You consider

weather front that is producing this rain. As it continues to move across

the rest of England and Wales throughout the day, it will weaken.

By the time it gets into southern England, it would be much more than

abound of cloud with the odd shower. Behind it, for all of us, a chilly

breeze but we are also looking at the mixture of bright spells,

sunshine and showers will stop temperatures shook slightly above

average for this type of April. -- time of April. Clearer skies

particularly in the east. It will be called, cold enough for a touch of

Frost. That cold. Still some showers in the north and west. Temperatures

are round about 6- nine Celsius. Then as we start tomorrow, we will

have a cold start but there will be some sunshine as well in the east

but increasingly, we will see the cloud or from the West. There will

be some showers around, too, particularly in the north and west.

Temperatures just down a notch on today. Around about average for this

time of year. For Good Friday, we have weather front which is sinking

southwards. It is a fairly weak affair as it does so. It will be

clouding up through the day. Some blustery showers behind it. As we

head into the Easter weekend, in short, we are looking at more

changeable weather in the north. Some showers at times with rain as

well. Equally, dry and bright spells with some sunshine. In the south,

dry conditions, not necessarily good news for gardeners but there will be

some sunshine and it will feel pleasant in the sunshine. Varied

weather for the next few days but generally speaking, fairly settled.

Thank you, Carol. In the last few minutes Tesco has

reported a 30percent increase in operating profits -

making almost ?1.3bn last year. The company has been seeking

to turnaround the business. Whenever companies put out results,

there are so many numbers. With Tesco, they are saying that profits

are up 30% when they are looking at the day today but on the other hand,

taking into account the fines they have had to pay out over the last

few years and also the costs associated with cutting down the

number of stores and restructuring costs and that profits are down 28%

but overall, a good story for Tesco. Let me tell you a bit more. Not long

after announcing its profits, it had to pay a fine for the tune of ?300

million since then, a turnaround. Natalie Berg is a retail expert

from Planet Retail and joins me now. A very positive story, overall. And

it is start with a disclaimer that I can't see Tesco ever returning to

its former glory. There has been too much structural change in the market

with the rise of discounters and online shopping but overall, I think

the numbers indicate that the recovery strategy is working. It is

gaining momentum. They have done a lot of work over the past few years

to really rebuild their brand and regain consumer trust as well. When

we talk about this restructuring plan, it is quite a big change for

Tesco. They were so big and now they are to pull back on that, reduce the

of stores and go for more smaller stores. Tell us about that. Their

number one priority is to put the customer back at the heart of their

strategy and improve the overall shopping experience. They have done

a lot of work. If you want your Tesco today, you will notice that

prices are lower. They are 6% lower today than they were three years

ago. An important point here is that that it has largely been held by

deeply -- helped by deflation. Overall, they have simplified the

shopping experience, cut back the number of promotions, something we

are seeing across the industry. They have invested in their own label and

made a very big improvement. Another interesting part is that deal and

merger which means there will be taking on convenience stores. What

are your thoughts? There are some clear regulatory and investment

concerns as well. A number of investors see this as a costly

distraction at a time where Tesco's is just getting back on track.

Absolutely, you are right, I think that going forward, they need to

reduce their reliance on these large out-of-town superstores because it

shopping habits have changed. We are shopping little and often an

increasingly buying from these smaller convenience stores. Do you

think if they take on these 5000 convenience stores which they will

have access to butchers, do you think that will make a difference? I

think it is a step in the right direction but ultimately, Tesco is

structurally disadvantaged in that around half of its total floorspace

is still dedicated to stores that are over 50,000 square feet. So,

they are still readily reliant on a store format that is going out of

Russian. At the end of the day, they need to figure out what to do with

these big stores. Thank you for coming in for us. That's it from me

for now. Doctor Who is back this weekend

and this time he has That's not the only reason this

series is highly anticipated - it's also the last outing

for Peter Capaldi as the Doctor Breakfast's Tim Muffett

is on London's South Bank And Tim will be talking

to the writer Stephen Moffat Look at this mysterious alien

landscape. It marks the start of the new series of Doctor Who which

begins this Saturday. We have some daleks. I'm going to make a daring

leap across this. He we go. Maybe it! -- made it. Big news for Doctor

Who fans. New series on Saturday. Peter Capaldi's last outing. There

will be an use assistant. -- new assistant. It will make her a global

star. Plenty of people come to your lectures, why me? I noticed you.

Why? Most people when they don't understand something, they frown.

You smile. Tell you what I don't understand. You have been lecturing

me for a long time. 50 years, some people say. You you are thinking

that I do look all deny. Inflate -- it like the University doesn't know

what you go to talk about. They said you go to talk about physics, you

talked about poetry. Same thing. A lot of reasons for Doctor Who fans

to be excited. So far in the latest trailer for the new series, we have

seen glimpses of the daleks and obviously fans pay a lot of

attention to these things. People will be keen to see whether the

favourites will be brought back. This is the last series to be

overseen by Stephen Moffat who is the writer executive producer, show

runner, as he is known. He will be talking to us again in about an hour

as well. Whenever Doctor Who hits the airwaves, fans right across the

world, and it is a global show, bareback in mind, it used to be a

very domesticated programme back a few years. -- bear that in mind.

Lots to talk about with Stephen Moffat in about an hour were's time.

Of course, as we also mentioned, Peter Capaldi is making his last

appearance. Bookies have been putting money on actors like Tilda

Swinton, Chris Marshall, David Harewood. You might get a little