♪ law ♪ >> this is dw news live from berlin. we have been developing a story tonight in germany, a champions league game called off in the western german city of portland, and -- dortmund, after a number of explosions new the team bus. they have no information on what caused the explosions. the blasts came as the team were on their way to the stadium to play against monaco. we will bring you more information as it unfolds this evening.

let's start -- i am waiting for my producer to tell me where we are going right now. all right, we want to go to my colleague who is in dortmund. can you hear me? reporter: i can hear you loud and clearly. brent: what can you tell us about the situation there now? reporter: i am close to the team hotel where the incident occurred. right before or right after the team bus of borussia dortmund was about to leave the hotel ground, three blasts occurred, destroying most of the windows, and this injured one player, marc bartra. the team was brought back into

the hotel, where they still are as far as we believe. police don't know if these were all the bombs. they are searching for more explosive devices. they are using a drone which was set up into the air to look for more evidence, and the police don't really know what happened and what are the background of the explosions. brent: what have police said about what these explosions might have been? we have confirmed there were three devices that went off. reporter: yes, three bombs that destroyed the bus, mostly the windows. and one player that was injured is not very badly, but he was

cut by some of the glass that fell into the bus. as far as we have heard, he was right into a hospital -- brought into a hospital, but was never in real danger. brent: we can hear in the background, we can hear the sirens from police and emergency vehicles. we want to make clear, police have said nothing about this being a terror-related incident right now. they have no idea at the moment what was behind these explosions, right? reporter: absolutely. they are careful not to speak about a terrorist attack or using the words terrorism right now. they are using phrases like, there has been an attack, there has been an incident, there have been several blasts. they would not use the phrase

terrorism. there is no evidence this could have been a terrorist attack like we have seen in the past. brent: ok, rupert, thank you very much, there on the scene in dortmund. police have been giving the initial statement about what happened. here's what they said. >> three explosions occurred near the team's route. they destroyed two windows on the back of the bus, the windows broke and the glass shattered. because of this, one person on the bus was injured, but i do not know the exact circumstances. this is what we know so far. who or what triggered the explosions is currently being investigated, and they are trying to establish what kind of explosives were used. brent: police in dortmund -- i'm waiting for my producers tell us where we are going. ok. medication is the first step.

-- communication is the first step. you have been trying to gather details. reporter: i can tell you how the evening kind of happened. at 1900, the team was leaving as they go through the day. there were three explosions, we don't know what they are, apparently. there was speculation it was in a hedge, as persimmon teaches the bus, which caused a window pane to shatter. brent: the bus was moving along? nick: as soon as it left the premises of the hotel, within a second of leaving, this happened. the windows shattered, a player in the back of the bus called marc bartra has been injured. this has been confirmed by the ceo of dortmund, the team, and he has injuries to the hand and arm, nothing substantial.

the game of course, the players are going to the stadium to play tonight. that game has been postponed to tomorrow, early evening. the champions need work. this is the next week, the -- the next game of a two legged tie, so it is hard. for the time being it is set for tomorrow at 18:45 cte. brent: this has been a real shock. fans have been moved by this. and you are ever anything like this happening in a champions league match? nick: no. i have been watching champions league for 15 years. nothing happened like this. french monaco fans who need a

place to stay and maybe find some place to stay, there are people opening their apartments, saying i have room for five people. it is situations like this when the beautiful side of football shows its face. even though they are rival fans, playing each other tonight, they will open their homes to their fellow fans. brent: and thousands of disappointed fans have been leaving the stadium in dortmund, but some of them had a strong message against violence. let's listen to what some fans from the monaco visiting team had to say. >> i was here for our team, thank you to dortmund who are welcoming us like -- >> there is room here. i stay here. i see dortmund fans. >> we see love.

>> this is not love. this is shame. it is shame. and so we are coming back, to support our team, because football is love. football is more powerful than anything. brent: all right, neck. -- nick. three explosive devices, but we still do not know what exactly what kind. we have been saying bomb, but police have not the confirmed it. nick: they have not said on. -- bomb. we can see the bus, and back to the far end, you can see the mas, that is where the impact was. brent: it does not like the glass was shattered. nick: it was double glazing. there are bits of it hanging off . you still see the window pane. i imagine from what i

understood, and this is speculation, marc bartra was sitting in the back row, so if it is double glazed, the inner panel was pushed. it could have been pushed out. this is speculation. there is no way to know for sure. brent: but some very sturdy windows and glass, if that is the case. nick: you can see what the buses are made for. in football, whether they like it or not, they are important people. same with politicians, these buses have got certain security features such as sick or double glazed -- thick or double glazed glass. these will have normal windows for traffic accidents. what i can tell from the picture is there appears to be double glazing. abf marc bartra was not in the back row -- maybe if marc bartra was not in the back row it would not have been. brent: you talk about the

security, the glass with double panes, security for this game was not exceptionally high, for a champions league game, but it was high relative. we were talking about the way it would have been two years ago. nick: two years ago the german national team were in france playing the french national team in the national stadium, and one of the bombs went off. four days later after this game, they were supposed to have a friendly game in hanover, which angela merkel was supposed to attend. that was postponed before kickoff for a bomb threat. nothing came out of it. it was a hoax, but security, especially, has been upped, and what was high security is now normal. so these are not rival clubs. they are rivals on the pitch only because one of them wants to win the tie, but fans will be fighting each other outside of the stadium, so it is completely

different. brent: we were listening to fans from monaco a few minutes ago. we have some voices now of dortmund fans. take a listen to what they have to say. >> what have you heard? that there was an explosion of the department players bus, and that marc bartra was injured. what do you make of it? it is awful. what could it have been? it could of course be fans who were thrown out. it could of course be white ring -- right wing extremists. >> we have heard a lot of rumors, and it was officially confirmed. we heard some things on mobile phones. is there a -- it is terrible, horrible. who would set off a bomb? we only heard there was someone in the hotel. >> what do you think about it as a football fan?

>> shocked. you just think, these people are normal. for a fan that is one thing, but that someone goes so far to bomb a bus, was a rival fan angry? no idea. brent: those are the fans. fans have been on social media. my colleague marina strauss from the social media desk is here. you have found reaction. reporter: dortmund reacted saying a bomb explosion so close to the team hotel, all the players are safe, no danger new the stadium. more information will follow, and we have the police of north rhine-westphalia, the region where dortmund is located, to assure the public there are strong police forces around the stadium. we have just heard that this was a serious attack with

explosives, and the police thinks that these explosives were like put in a hatch. brent: a hedge around the road where the bus was traveling. reporter: that is correct. we also have a picture of the dortmund bus that was about an hour ago, and it is a picture saying, the bus is still standing on the street. the windows are broken. we really saw the social media app standing with the football team and especially with marc bartra, and famous players expressing sympathies with him. we have a former german soccer player, very famous, who also reacted on social media saying, i hope everything is fine with borussia dortmund. brent: that is the german way of

saying the initials for the soccer team. maureen: that is correct. and we have a video of the fans of monaco who were in the stadium waiting for the match to begin, and we can hear the near. they are singing, chanting dortmund, dortmund, so that is a nice gesture of solidarity. dortmund thinks the fans -- thanks the fans. dear monaco fans, if you need accommodation in dortmund, we can help you. brent: people are opening up their homes for people that may not have accommodations tonight. thank you very much. we are going to take a short break. when we come back, we will have more on the breaking news situation, the explosion near a soccer team's bus, and javier will be here with the business headlines. we will be back in 60 seconds.

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♪ brent: welcome back, you are with dw news. a champions league football match set to take place in the city of dortmund has been postponed tonight after three explosions near the team bus player marc bartra was injured on the arm and hand when the windows shattered. there were no other injuries. the champions league game will be until wednesday. american secretary of state has landed in moscow to pressure russia over its support for the syrian government in its civil war. this is the first trip of a member of donald trump's cabinet and follows the missile strike on a syrian air base. secretary tillerson's visit

comes on the heels of a meeting of g7 summit ministe who also warned russia against continuing its support of president assad. they stopped short of imposing new sanctions against russia. reporter: the g7 foreign ministers were all smiles, even if they could not agree on the matter of sanctions. before he headed for moscow, the u.s. secretary of state that it was time for russia to think about its future relationship with the west. >> russia has really aligned itself with the assad regime, the iranians, and hezbollah. is that a long-term alliance that serves russia's interest? or will russia prefer to realign with the united states, with other western countries and middle eastern countries who are seeking to resolve a syrian

crisis? reporter: the future of the government after nervous attacks killed scores of civilians was in area was there -- where there was strong agreement among the ministers. >> it is clear we see no further role from the assad regime longer-term, given they have effectively given up the legitimacy with these type of attacks. reporter: germany stated support and urged russia to rebuild its credibility abroad by working with the international community towards a peaceful solution in syria. >> you can't side with a regime which has on several occasions used poison gas against its own population. i don't think there are any politicians listed in russia that want to see more pictures of fathers and mothers carrying their slain children through poison gas attacks and know that russia is supporting such a regime. reporter: moscow says it will

ask the u.n. to investigate the syrian chemical attack which the kremlin says was faked. brent: the number of people executed around the world has fallen significantly in the last year, but amnesty international latest report said the number carried out in china remains a secret. the human rights organization is calling on beijing to reveal what amnesty says is china's grotesque level of capital punishment. reporter: by m the international -- amnesty international's latest publication, china is the biggest executor. more people are sentenced to death and the rest of the world combined. how many remains a matter of speculation, since there are no official figures. most information on the death penalty is a state secret. joining china has the world's top five executioners are iran, saudi arabia, iraq, and

pakistan. but 2016 did see some changes, taking china out of the equation , global executions fell from a record high of 2015. 1000 people were put to death, down or than a third with the sharpest decreases in iran and pakistan. pakistan lifted a moratorium on the death penalty in 2015 following the #school massacre. -- peshawar school massacre. last year, the pace slowed. the report found only a handful of countries were executing people on a large scale. last year, just for countries were responsible for 87% of all recorded death penalties. for the first time in a decade, the united states has dropped out of the top five. the number of executions is at its lowest point since the early

1990's, but anti-international warns they could go up again this year if a variety of legal challenges to legal injections are cleared. brent: a lot of people around the world have been talking about united airlines. please remain seated until the plane has landed or until security drugs you away. that is one of the things we have been hearing, javier, about what has turned into a crisis, maybe disaster. javier: a total disaster that will have financial consequences. we have seen the images of an unconscious person or -- passenger being dragged out after being beaten by officers, security officers here and we all know the airline business is highly competitive and a tough industry, but not as tough as the police officer striking the police -- man out of the plane, or how the united ceo calls it accommodations. passenger rights still exist,

and here is a review of what you are entitled to while flying. reporter: the air is growing thinner for aircraft carriers, rising prices and competition turning to overbooking at corner cutting to turn a profit. >> this particular one, but they have handled this operation very badly. all airlines will try to root overbooked because -- try to overbook because there will be people that do not turn up. maintaining that is important for profitability in a sense where origins are incredibly thin. reporter: but this time, united airlines appears to have violated a passenger's writes. they are guaranteed certain rights. if a flight is overbooked, they must help passengers reach their document -- destination, even using alternate means. if a flight is delayed more than three hours, passengers must be compensated, especially if you

miss a connecting flight. and the airline must inform 14 days prior if it is canceled. the amount of compensation depends on the length of flight, and there are differences between the u.s. and europe. police are rarely called in to remove the passenger by force, but this forcible ejection was filmed by others on board and quickly promote -- provoked a backlash online. the airline has apologized, but they have taken a hit, and transportation authorities willing -- will examine the case. javier: how bad could that be? we will bring in soapy chemin ski. -- sophie. this will have financial consequences. we have seen united stock drop already. is this a short-term thing, or could it hurt in the long run? sophie: tuesday's slobs suggest

many investors think the carrier could suffer in the long-term. it did much damage to the reputation of united, continental and the stock on wall street. the story keeps driving more investors out of the stock. shares fell, wiping out $300 million, and it is not only the story itself. it has become a pr disaster, and investors are unhappy with the way of the carrier handling the incident. statement from the you -- the united ceo wondered if he was upset about what happened to a paying client or just the company. javier: speaking of americans in general, they seem to be losing steam after a very good couple of weeks. is that the feeling you have? sophie: definitely. there is too much going on concerning investors. america's strike on syria and

airbase -- a syrian airbase, the challenge is trump is facing with china, investors are starting to think trump is doing exactly the same thing as his predecessors, something he promised he never would do, talking a lot without any results. he has had a lot of meetings, each time saying he has great plans, and everyone was pretty excited at first about these plans. it is why the s&p 500 rose 11% after november 8, but the only thing rising after months and months of meetings is the investors' uncertainty, and the gold price, while stocks are falling. javier: we are just at the beginning. thank you very much. that is all from the business desk for now. back to you. brent: thank you very much. we want to go back to the top story, the explosion near a

soccer team bus in the german city of dortmund. we have a reporter who joins us now. what more have you been able to find out about what exactly happened? rupert: there is still quite a lot of not knowing what happened, but three explosive devices exploded close to the team bus. and the bus was leaving the hotel grounds where borussia dortmund was house, and the team were brought back into the hotel where they are right now, we don't know. we know that they are supposed to stay for the rest of the night, and police are looking out for more explosive devices. they have sent out a helicopter, drones -- yes? brent: thank you very much.

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