tonight at ten: us secretary of state, rex tillerson, arrives in moscow to try to persuade russia to end its support for syria's president. he flew in after meeting western foreign ministers in the wake of the chemical attack in syria. he'll urge president putin to abandon assad. it is unclear whether russia failed to take this obligation seriously, or if russia is incompetent. but this distinction doesn't much matter to the dead. we'll be asking how president putin will react to america's demands. also tonight: calls for president trump to fire his white house press secretary sean spicer after he says hitler didn't use chemical weapons in world war two. i think when you come to sarin gas... there was no... he was not using gas on his own people the same way assad is doing. three explosions tonight near the bus carrying the german team borussia dortmund to their champions league match — one player's injured.

the parents of a seriously ill eight—month—old baby say they're devastated after the high court decides doctors can withdraw their son's life support. 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 his fellow passengers. and coming up in sportsday on bbc news: barca on the back foot again, asjuventus look to press home the advantage in the first of the champions league quarterfinals. 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 the two countries continue to grow. he will urge president putin to withdraw his support

for the assad regime in the wake of last week's chemical attack on a rebel town in syria. he flew out from italy, where g7 foreign ministers had been meeting. they rejected a british call for new sanctions to be imposed on syria and russia. this report from our diplomatic correspondent james robbins contains some distressing images. 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 ta ke 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 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 6-7 who carries it out and when and how. the 6—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 borisjohnson‘s

performance, what is a former foreign secretary make of his gamble over sanctions? putin will be pleased that the g—7 over sanctions? putin will be pleased that the 6—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 6—7 allies universal endorsement of trump's missile strikes on syria but he left here without the sort of stick to threaten russia that borisjohnson 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 for the syrian regime. 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 legs 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 we re 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

we re 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 correspondentjenny 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 we re 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 we re side of the road. in shock, players were helped from the bus or though only one was taken to hospital. marc ba rtra 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, fa ns 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 a p pa re ntly 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 that further treatment is futile. they arrived at the high court to hear a judge decide the fate of their only child, and it was the outcome they were dreading. thejudge 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 except palliative care 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. the medical evidence is complex 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 if you never try anything. and the public responded. 82,000 people made online donations totalling more £1.2 million. it was to pay for treatment

in the united states so experimental it's never been tried on humans 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. fergus walsh, bbc news. 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 fell sharply today. our north america correspondent laura trevelyan reports. oh my god. no! a shocking scene — a man is dragged from a plane in chicago after he refuses to obey officials who have told him they need his seat. screaming. oh my god. 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. oh my god! look at what you're doing to him! they drag him out of his seat, banging his head on an armrest, and then pulled him out of the plane, as if he was less than human. in a further twist, the passenger somehow returns

to the aircraft looking bewildered, bloody and dazed, as the horrified passengers carry on recording. 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. ‘not enough seating? 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 oscarmunoz 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 on an overbooked flight. 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? no, no. 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 lost on many. performing together with a single united purpose... slick commercials couldn't stop united's shares closing down a little over i% and the airline faces bumpy skies ahead as it tries to ride this one out. laura trevelyan, bbc news, new york. 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 and injured 15 others.

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 tojoin theirfamilies. victims who say they were abused by a leader of christian holiday camps in the 19805 have accused the church of letting them down. john smyth committed a series of brutal assaults on pupils from winchester college. 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 men until they bled. 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 we care about most. 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 the church of england. over a four—year period, smyth recruited and beat young men from these camps and from winchester college in his garden shed. in 1982 the trust commissioned a report cataloguing the criminal nature of the beatings but they failed to pass this on to police. three decades later, in 2013, one of the victims came forward. in 2014 the trust was informed

and this time finally contacted the police. 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. idid. 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 that stretched over three years. he repeatedly asks for the church's help, help which never really materialised.

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 been no word from the church. 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 for those who requested it. 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. fiona lamdin, bbc news. 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 of living the same as last month. 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, are in serious doubt. an inquest has opened into the death of a jewellery expert on the bbc‘s antiques roadshow, who died five weeks after giving birth. 34—year—old alice gibson—watt had been suffering from post—partum psychosis — a mental health condition that some women develop after childbirth. three years after they were kidnapped by the extremist group boko haram, more than 190 nigerian schoolgirls are still missing. they were taken by the militants in the middle of the night from the town of chibok. their plight drew international attention. some of the girls have since been released, but the rest are still being held.

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 ta ken into captivity. 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 since the liberation. a place of repression and death, all in the name of strict sharia law. 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 of the chibok girls. 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 never been any concrete proof. actually, boko haram kidnapped thousands of others but those who were left behind, the youngsters who were not taken, they are suffering too. 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 raid just two weeks ago. 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 were captured by boko haram. 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 sold their daughters into wedlock. 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 to as little as £8. 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, which detests western education. school is fun?

yes. you like maths? yes. spelling? yes. no! no? you don't like maths? yes! you do like maths! ok. if only things were that simple. their teacher, mostafa mohammad, says that while most parents hate boko haram, many do believe a western education threatens islamic culture. some of the parents, most of the parents, they don't want their children being in the school. and why is that? is that because they believe what boko haram says? that's it. ignorance. 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 in an underwater mountain. 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 a chunk of the seabed. the rocks look pretty ordinary but, in a surprising revelation, it turns out they're laden with some of the most precious minerals on the planet. 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 like these from the deep ocean. 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. nothing comes without a cost. 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 a comparatively smaller hole. 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, are involved in this process. 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 of mining, we need to learn more. 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 will open on the ocean floor. david shukman, bbc news. let's return to our breaking news in germany now and the investigation into the three explosions near the borussia dortmund football team's bus this evening. police have been holding a press conference in the last few minutes. let's speak tojenny hill in berlin. 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