tonight at six — the long awaited full report into president trump, the russians and the 2016 election campaign. the president has been cleared of colluding with the russians — but questions still remain over whether he obstructed the following investigation. but that's not how he sees it. they're having a good day, i'm having a good day too. it's called no pollution, no obstruction. applause hello, this is bbc news. the they may be celebrating here at the headlines... long—awaited mueller white house but democrats are saying report into russia and its possible the report shows clear evidence of collusion with the trump campaign has been published revealing other presidential wrongdoing and details that the us president tried demanding that robert mueller himself give evidence to congress. to get special cancer mueller fired. also on tonight's programme. donald trump tweets a game of they are among the most vulnerable patients —

the nhs said patients thrones meme. facebook bans 12 far like philip corfield would be cared for in the community. but he like thousands of others ended up in hospital. right individuals and organisations in britain saying they have no place it was like being kept in an animal on this platform. as climate change protests continue for a fourth day, cage. facebook says it's cracking down on far right extremists — police are urged to use the full organisations like the british force of the law. in a moment it national party will be banned. the businesses left out of pocket after stockpiling goods will be time for sports day —— before last month's brexit deadline — the cost is running into the billions. the bbc children's star sportsday. at 7pm beyond 100 days mya—lecia naylor has died — she was 16 years old. will be bringing you live reaction from washington after the and coming up on bbc news. publication of the long—awaited mueller report into possible collusion between russian and the alex mcleish has been sacked as scotland manager trump campaign. at 8:40pm, we will afterjust over a year in the job for the second time and a struggle in their opening euro qualifiers. be speaking to an environmental scientist to find out what individual and government can be doing to tackle climate change. at 10:40pm we will take a first look at the

good evening and welcome to the bbc‘s news at six. it's the investigation that has dominated washington politics for nearly two years. today the long—awaited, 400—page report into alleged russian interference in the 2016 us presidential election has finally been released. the investigation was carried out by special counsel robert mueller, a former fbi director. he examined two issues — whether president trump colluded with the russian government and whether he tried to obstruct subsequent investigations into the affair. the report cleared president trump of conspiring with russia but on the question of obstruction, the report didn't reach a conclusion. our north america editorjon sopel is in washington now. here it is, all 400 pages of it, and

it makes for riveting reading. the president using the strongest language possible when he thinks his presidency may have been fatally undermined by the mueller investigation and then again later when donald trump tries to have robert muellerfired. he when donald trump tries to have robert mueller fired. he orders when donald trump tries to have robert muellerfired. he orders his chief lawyer in the white house to go and kill off the mueller investigation but the chief lawyer refuses and says he would rather resign than do that. what will this report change? i think for those who never thought donald trump should be president, they will still think he is unfit to be president and those who admire him and support him will say nothing illegal went on and this has all been a hoax and a witchhunt. a watershed moment for this president and may be the presidency itself. donald trump was at the white house meeting wounded warriors. but from his two—year long battle with robert merrill he feels he has emerged unscathed, his reputation intact. he said his

guests reputation intact. he said his gu ests we re reputation intact. he said his guests were having a good time. —— robert mueller. i'm having a good day too, it was called no collusion, no obstruction. applause before publication of this long—awaited report, the president tweeted this with its game of thrones styling and his team put out this video. no collusion. there was no collusion. no collusion. his attorney general weighed into what amounted to a pre—rebuttal of the report as at this stage had not been published, defending his anger and behaviour that some saw as an attempt to obstruct justice. as the special counsel's report acknowledges, there is substantial evidence to show that the president was frustrated and angered by his sincere belief that the investigation was undermining his presidency, propelled by his political opponents, and fuelled by illegal leaks. but for all that, mueller identified ten occasions when the president may have

obstructed, nothing that pass the criminal threshold, though. and on the other question of whether there was collusion between the trump campaign and the russians, a clean bill of health. thanks to the special counsel's thorough investigation, we now know that the russian operatives who perpetrated these schemes did not have the cooperation of the trump campaign, 01’ cooperation of the trump campaign, or the knowing assistance of any other american, for that matter. that is something that all americans can and should be grateful to have confirmed. the mueller report is being devoured on capitol hill, debated online. democrats are not buying the argument that the president did nothing wrong. they think there is plenty to go out and the one person who is going to be receiving more invitations to congress than a hollywood a—lister will be robert mueller. jon sopel, bbc news, washington. new figures out today show how the nhs is failing to meet its own target for the care

of people with learning disabilities and autism. they are some of the most vulnerable people in society and yet many of them — including children — are being treated as hospital in—patients rather than being cared for in the community. the latest figures show that more than 2,000 vulnerable people are still in long—stay hospitals in england. the nhs promised to cut the number of people in these institutions by between 35% and 50% over three years. but, so far, it has only managed a 19% reduction. campaigners say these patients are trapped and at risk of abuse and neglect during their long stays. 0ur social affairs correspondent alison holt reports. jill keeps her daughter's bedroom ready for the day she finally comes home but she has no idea when that will be. the teddy bear she bought her mother. lee has autism and learning difficulties. a year ago she had a crisis, was sectioned and

taken to a secure hospital. this was herjust taken to a secure hospital. this was her just before taken to a secure hospital. this was herjust before that happened. and 12 months on this is the 43—year—old 110w. 12 months on this is the 43—year—old now. we have been trying so hard to get her back. we know that her anxiety would be through the roof, her longing for her family comes before anything else really. so, every day on the phone when she rings me, ten o'clock, please come and money, help me. please, mummy, get everyone to help me. after so many promises to support people like lee in the community, her mother doesn't understand why she is still fighting to get her daughter home. i'm helpless, i'm powerless, every little thing, i think of her, what cani little thing, i think of her, what can i do, what can i do? more reading, more research. in 2011

after abuse was exposed at winterbourne view hospital by the bbc‘s panorama programme, the government said all such places would close. the latest figures for england show that's still a long way off. 0ut england show that's still a long way off. out of the more than 2000 people currently in these institutions, 37% have been there for more than five years. in 2015 there were 110 children in these units. there is now more than double that number at 240. today there are hundreds of people with learning disabilities and or autism in units when they do not need to be and that is detrimental to them and that is a scandal. philip was someone who spent more than a year miles from home in an assessment and treatment hospital, or atu, but home in an assessment and treatment hospital, oratu, but now home in an assessment and treatment hospital, or atu, but now that he's living in the community with support, his life has transformed. philip is much more happy, much more affectionate, which, obviously he

wasn't when he was in the atu because he was always locked behind glass doors. nhs england says it is investing in early intervention and ramping up specialist community care to help hundreds more people live more independent lives closer to home. it insists progress is being made. but the question for families remains why is it taking so long? alison holt, bbc news. facebook has announced that it's banning a dozen british far right campaigners and organisations who it says have been spreading hate and encouraging violence. they include the british national party and its former leader, nick griffin the english defence league, and britain first. the ban also applies on instagram, which is owned by facebook. here's our media editor amol rajan. masters of modern communication they may be, but according to facebook at least of these members of britain's

ha rd least of these members of britain's hard right groups and organisations often spread hate or promote violence. the full list includes the british national party and its former leader nick griffin, britain first, its leader paul golding and former deputy leaderjayda fransen, the english defence league and its founding member paul ray, knights templar international, a militant christian group and its promoterjim dowson, national front and its leader tony martin and jack renshaw, a convicted neo—nazi who plotted to murder a labour mp. but a convicted neo—nazi who plotted to murdera labour mp. but how a convicted neo—nazi who plotted to murder a labour mp. but how exactly did they violate facebook‘s rules? facebook, who declined to be interviewed, say simply that they found those who proclaim a violent 01’ found those who proclaim a violent or hateful mission, or engaged in a cts or hateful mission, or engaged in acts of hate or violence. posts endorsing these individuals or groups will now be banned. endorsing these individuals or groups will now be bannedm endorsing these individuals or groups will now be banned. it is good the police have taken action, finally... the hard right have been steering on and off—line for years so steering on and off—line for years so why is this happening now? upcoming european elections amid a rising tide of populism across the continent and the drip, drip, drip of scandal around the country in

recent yea rs of scandal around the country in recent years must be taking its toll. i think what will happen is they will still have a space, they will still have those supporters but it is about stopping it from going to the mainstream, and i think that thatis to the mainstream, and i think that that is really where the key issue is here. if of facebook band stephen yaxley—lennon, but he known as tommy robinson. the tech giants don't a lwa ys robinson. the tech giants don't always release their figures. robinson. the tech giants don't always release theirfigures. but millions across the world and many in the united kingdom like and enjoy access to views they do not see on traditional media. we don't need the media to report that because we are the media! facebook is being dragged into uncomfortable terrain. the company into uncomfortable terrain. the com pa ny wa nts to into uncomfortable terrain. the company wants to be impartial but there is no getting around the fact that today saw a california corporation whose upper echelons are liberal clamping down on parts of the british hard right. and the company says it's not in the truth business, but today's decision was based on the application of subjective criteria to public

opinion. there is an old—fashioned word for that. it's journalism. opinion. there is an old—fashioned word for that. it'sjournalism. wary of accusations of censorship the danger is that global tech giants end up creating national martyrs who simply congregate elsewhere. amol rajan, bbc news. climate change activists say they plan to expand their protests from central london to heathrow airport tomorrow — just as the easter getaway begins. extinction rebellion are calling for the government to reduce the uk's greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2025. and in a bbc documentary due to be broadcast tonight — 0ur science correspondent rebecca morelle reports. and a warning — this report contains some distressing images. cheering blocking the streets, protesters from around the country descending on central london. rebellion! extinction rebellion leading another day of disruption. an attempt to force urgent action on climate change. this is the new wave of eco activism. it's giving climate change

attention, but will it bring action? the campaigners here want greenhouse gas emissions to be reduced to zero by 2025. scientists say it's a target that's virtually impossible to achieve. the united nations agrees that we need to get to zero carbon emissions but over a much longer timescale by 2050. the uk government is aiming to reduce emissions by 80% by then. but they're considering going further. in any scenario, it will mean radical changes to how we live. it's perfectly achievable for us to get to zero emissions but it is a big challenge that we will have to grasp. it involves us using technologies that we know about and which we have been developing and which have been falling in cost actually quite remarkably in recent years. adding to these warnings is sir david attenborough‘s latest documentary. it reveals a rapidly changing landscape. in his starkest statement yet, the broadcaster says that climate change is the biggest threat we face.

it may sound frightening, but the scientific evidence is that if we have not taken dramatic action within the next decade, we could face irreversible damage to the natural world and the collapse of our societies. last year saw record—breaking heat waves. in australia, as temperatures rose above 42 celsius, fruit bats were unable to survive. it's estimated that more than 10,000 of the animals died. scientists say the impacts of climate change are becoming clear, as is the new movement it sparked. joining the campaign is the next generation. students on strike around the world. with scientists warning that the time to act is running out, they say the fate of the planet is in their hands. rebecca morelle, bbc news. our home affairs correspondent tom symonds is at oxford circus,

—— waterloo bridge. the police are coming under more pressure to do more about this, aren't they? they are, george. this afternoon police arrived in and increased the pace at which they are arresting people from this protest. they took about 20 into police vans and another 30 protesters arrived. and as you can see not much has changed here, the bridge is still blocked. the police have three problems in dealing with this protest. the first is that they can't go in and use a lot of force because this is a non—violent protest. they have to use reasonable force in everything they do. the second is, the sheer number of people that are protesting and the number of people they are having to deal with when they arrest them. and the third is that it's causing a lot of disruption and they are under great political pressure to reduce that disruption. they say they may need to look again at how they police this sort of protest which blocks key locations like this

bridge, causing an enormous amount of disruption. tom, thank you very much. brexit and the prospect of no deal forced businesses across the uk to make contingency plans — many of them ended up stockpiling their goods. but that stockpiling came at a price — britain's biggest business lender, rbs, has confirmed that it has made nearly £3 billion of loans to businesses to deal with all brexit eventualities and those loans will need to be paid back. our business editor, simonjack, reports. easter time is chocolate time and was due to be brexit time. we are normally at this time of year have one to two weeks' stock. and this is? so now we're looking at one to two months‘ stock. so that is four or five times we would normally have at this time. hot chocolate maker brian what he did government advised to prepare his business for a no—deal brexit.

that's a lot of money sitting there. what are you going to do with all this now? i mean, what are the options? so, this is stock that i've bought and i've done that on the basis of borrowing from the bank, so now my big concern that keeps me awake at night is how do i actually sell that stock out, get the cash into the business, pay the bank? i wake up at 4:30am in the morning thinking about cash flow. it's hard enough running a business without brexit uncertainty and while there may be a collective sigh of relief that the uk didn't leave the eu without a deal, even for companies that did take precautions, any peace of mind that provided may be short lived, as we are still facing an uncertain outcome and an uncertain date. this small company borrowed an extra £43,000. it wasn't alone. firms of all sizes have borrowed billions for brexit planning. we set aside £3 billion. the vast bulk of that is now committed, it is there to support stockpiling, supply chain related activities and also trade—related activities. and given we have gone through this cliff edge, which many people were stockpiling for, are you now going to ask for that money back? no, it's still too uncertain for customers to actually decide

what they are going to do yet. they need to know how we are leaving and when we are leaving before they take those decisions. and that is why warehouses like this one in hull are still full to the rafters. some businesses would rather continue paying the price to be ready. the problem now is do they keep the stock here, or do they run it down? if we have an agreement and things move quickly, if they have run the stock down, then they are back to where they were before, so most customers are actually holding their stock at a high level to ensure that if a date comes forward quickly that they are in position to deal with it quickly. brexit may have been paused but for business the costs continue to stack up. simon jack, bbc news. 0ur our top story this evening... president trump is cleared of colluding with the russians

in the 2016 election campaign but questions still remain over whether he obstructed the following investigation. and still to come — the number of children removed from secondary schools in england without an explanation may be greater than previously thought. coming up on sportsday on bbc news: we reflect on a special night for spurs who achieve a first champions league semi—final after a match being described as one of the greatest ever. 0ne they didn't even win. french president emmanuel macron has paid tribute to the hundreds of firefighters who saved notre dame cathedral. 600 firefighters worked throughout monday night to put out the fire. he was speaking on maundy thursday, as lucy williamson reports. today france saw the faces of its heroes. the firefighters who on monday night pitted their bravery against a vast inferno and won. now filing into the gilded rooms of the elysee palace, the secular cathedral

of the french state. translation: it's a great joy, a great honour. the paris firefighters are a humble and discrete unit and we are here as a community to honour the individual and collective efforts of my comrades. 0ne firefighter described emerging from a bell tower and seeing the roof engulfed in flames. it was only later we understood the risks we had taken, she said. the hardest thing was that we were so small compared to it. investigators have interviewed 40 people and forensic teams have begun to gather evidence at the site. but the structure of notre dame is still fragile, damaged by both the fire and the operation to save it. the threat to notre dame didn't die with the fire. several areas of the building have been badly weakened. some of the gables have already been given extra support. scaffolding is being brought in to secure the stonework and a tarpaulin is urgently needed to protect the

vaulted ceiling from rain. across the riverfrom notre dame outside the town hall, crowds gathered this afternoon for a service of thanks. translation: i feel gratitude to the fire brigade. by risking your lives you saved part of ours. after the service, the crowd walked down to notre dame just as thousands did on monday night. standing with the cathedral in its hour of need, the mayor explained, as notre dame has for centuries stood with us. lucy williamson, bbc news, paris. crossrail, the project to build an east—west rail line under london, now won't be finished until 2021. it had been due to open in december last year. bbc news has been told that none of the new stations have been finished, and there are concerns about the signalling system. a ukip candidate at the european elections has refused to apologise for comments he made online to the labour

mp jess phillips. carl benjamin, seen here standing on the left, posted on twitter that he "wouldn't even rape" the mp. at a news conference today, he said he wouldn't apologise for what he called his "crimes against political correctness". more pupils may be being deliberately moved off their books by secondary schools than previously thought, according to new research. the education policy institute says it found more than 50,000 moves from secondary schools in england that it couldn't explain. it's not known how many are because schools want to get rid of pupils not expected to get good grades. the government has written to schools warning this is illegal. bra nwen jeffreys reports. this is bailey. he went missing from the system until this head teacher gave him another chance. just a few weeks until his gcses. for bailey, it's the end of a journey.

he started at one secondary but struggled, then moved to another. they persuaded bailey to go to home education, taking him off their school roll into two years of wilderness. i feel like it really took away my ability to learn. what did those two years of not being in school do to you? i broke down on myself, i lost myself. social anxiety and depression started to really creep up on me. they really just make you want to get into a ball and ignore the outside world. you shouldn't be pushed away and made to feel unwanted. you should be engaged with the school and they should make you feel like they're going to help you and develop you as a person. this research says, as a year group moves through secondary, there are 55,000 unexplained moves.

23% are pupils moving from just 330 schools. they lose an average of 30 pupils from each age group. these types of moves, they are unregulated. there's no transparency or data and we don't really know what is going on with them. as a head teacher, jason furley took a big risk. the school will be held responsible for bailey's results. we have to reward inclusivity and i think we have got to recognise the schools who are picking up the pieces and giving the students second, third, fifth chances even, and not penalise them for maybe two or three years where the child may have had a very disrupted education before them joining that school. bailey's rebuilt his confidence with boxing. he became head boy and is predicted to pass seven gcses. boxing has given me discipline, it's given me respect, it's given me a better attitude

towards learning in life. bailey is on track to be a successful amateur boxer but plans to go on studying too. the actress mya—lecia naylor, who starred in a number of bbc children's programmes, has died suddenly at the age of 16. she appeared in the shows "millie inbetween" and "almost never". in a statement, the bbc‘s head of children's programming david sillito reports. are you threatening to kick me out of the band? in almost never, the story of a fictional group, girls here first, she was mya. here's the deal. we get to be in girls here first and still have lives. mya—lecia naylor was only 16 but already a tv veteran. there we go, lie down. her first appearance on prime—time was as a baby in absolutely fabulous. and it was as fran in

millie inbetween that she became one of the faces of cbbc. it's unknown how she died but there are reports of a sudden collapse. the head of the bbc‘s children services, alice webb, said she was hugely popular with the audience, a very talented actress, dancer and singer, and a real role model for her young fans. i'm tati, welcome to tati's hotel. a generation had watched her grow up on screen, and only a few days before her death she'd been interviewed, talking excitedly about her plans for the future. mya—lecia naylor who has died at the age of 16. time for a look at the weather. here's tomasz schafernaker. the weather is looking very good over the next few days. mother nature has got it right for the easter weekend. the outlook is very simple and clear, very warm weather on the way. the one where is coming out of the south from the continent

where it has been warming up as well, in fact the warm air is reaching almost into the arctic so many parts of western europe will be feeling the spell of warm weather. this evening's temperature is still around 20 degrees in the country, but on the north sea coast it is a lot fresher, only 11 degrees in newcastle. spring is defined for the large temperature differences we see between the day and night, so despite the very warm day the night will still turn nippy and in some spots it could get as low as three celsius so very continental weather over the next few days with chilly mornings and warm afternoons. temperatures tomorrow will be every bit as warm as today, even the lowla nds bit as warm as today, even the lowlands of scotland managing to get up lowlands of scotland managing to get up to 21. on saturday the temperatures will be even higher. widely across the country we will see highs into the 20s, possibly

peaking at 25, may be 24 in the centre of london. come sunday, possibly a bit more cloud and breeze in the far north—west of the british isles, but the vast majority of the uk will be under the sunny skies and once again with temperatures into the 20s you won't know the difference between saturday and sunday. how about monday and beyond? it is looking every bit as warm. thank you. that's all from the bbc news at six so it's goodbye from me 00:28:35,267 --> 2147483051:51:02,348 and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s 2147483051:51:02,348 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 news teams where you are.