this is bbc news, the headlines: as the search for six missing people continues — there are added concerns for global supply chains after a container ship crashed into a bridge in baltimore. these are the live pictures. conditions in baltimore are hampering the recovery efforts for the construction workers who are now presumed dead. and a report finds — ten—month baby finley boden who was murdered by his parents — �*should have one of the most protected children'. more on all of those stories in a moment or two. first now that all the business news. keep investing in china. that's the message from chinese

president xi jinpeng to visitng us president xi jinpeng visiting us business leaders as he tries to breathe fresh life into the world's second biggest economy. that's despite the continuing tensions between the us and china. on tuesday, china complained to the world trade organisation about what it says are unfair subsidies the us is giving to electric carmakers. and recently washington said it was investigating possible national security risks of cars made in china. these are just the latest in a series of troubles which mean trade between the world's two biggest economies fell 17% last year to $575 billion. the domestic challenges facing china's econonomy have led beijing to set a target of 5% for growth this year. and so it desperately needs investment from abroad, even though that shrank 8% last year. here's a bit of what president xi told those visiting us chief executives. translation: differences will always exist, this - is because people are different, and even people from the same

family are not the same. but, we should seek common ground, let small differences exist, and build more consensus. this is true between nations as well as between family members. daniel rosen is co—founder of the economic research firm rhodium group — and is also a former economic policy advisor at the white house. i asked him why xijinping was meeting these us business leaders. the job of the head of state is always to make the best case to the world's most important ceos to invest in their economy. so that is xi jinping's job, as it would be for the leader of any other major economy. but right now it is particularly important because there are major doubts about beijing's policy confidence that only president xi can really address. the doubt is whether china is prepared to stimulate its domestic demand in the economy and reform a system

that is currently producing massive overcapacity that's spilling into the rest of the world. if not, these ceos cannot go back to their own home governments and asked them not to take extraordinary defensive trade measures. that is really what is on the line here. i am interested in that political piece in that, of course, these two economic giants are at loggerheads. does that make it an unappealing prospect for american business leaders to invest in china? well, you know, these were notjust american ceos who are in beijing right now, there are ceos from firms around the world. it's notjust american companies who are already de—risking from over reliance on the chinese economy. in the face of, of course, all of the national security things we talk about so frequently. the really big surprise there is the economic slowdown in china's economic

growth and performance. we knew it was going to be a taxing relationship as china got into this development. what people didn't expect was that growth was going to slow down is extraordinarily as it has. china is still at $16 or $17 trillion economy, even if it is not growing very much right now. and these firms from europe, the us, japan and elsewhere, put trillions of dollars of investment in place already. so, of course, it is the job of these ceos to make the most of that even if china is not looking great right now economicly. of course, we have got the us elections coming up. is that going to cast a chilling factor over investment in china? when we look at the us election this year, in the short—term outlook, the election matters a little bit less than people would have expected.

so much about the biden administration's china policy has been no less tough on china than the previous policies that were introduced by former president trump. in the near term, everyone is being as sceptical as they can about whether china's growth can be taken at face value and the severity of these export that i just mentioned a second ago. in the near term, china's choice, whether it offers a credible response to these concerns that european, american officials have communicated in recent months. but the election does matter immensely for the longer term. the reason is that the biggest difference between biden and trump is that the biden administration has coordinated a correspondence to china that has got other market democracies to work together and share their concerns about where china is headed.

and that is what is on the line long term. in the us, the authorities say there is little chance that six people who are still missing from the baltimore bridge collapse will be found alive. the collapse is having widespread consequences with many companies having to rejig supply chains to keep trade flowing. nearly 850,000 cars and trucks passed through the port in 2023. here's what the governor has been saying in the last few hours. it is a huge economic impact for the country, and that is why i think, when we have seen how the entire country has rallied around maryland and rallied around baltimore, it is because they understand that the port of baltimore is not just impacting maryland. if you look at... this port is responsible for over 51 million tonnes of foreign cargo, that is the largest in the country. for everybody who is buying cars, for everybody who is buying farm equipment, we are the largest port in the country that does that.

that was the mayor of baltimore speaking there. let's get more on this with erin delmore who's been following this in new york. what sort of disruption are we seeing? hello. like we had the governor of maryland west more say this is not something that only impact maryland, it affects the whole country. reverberations can be felt all around the world. he talks about this section being the first top import of the cars. a lot of those cars are brought in by foreign auto—makers. we can see why it's called a supply chain and how this has downstream effects. he also mentioned farm equipment and construction materials. it is becoming construction season in the us as the weather begins to get better. once the spring arrives we tend to see more construction. now that impact can be felt acutely as well. on top of it, we are looking at impact on coal, soybeans and sugar. how some of these products

will be re—routed or sent in that direction. it is, as we say, a supply chain. it's not a question of where can this go, it's being able to send these products along. thank ou so to send these products along. thank you so much — to send these products along. thank you so much for— to send these products along. thank you so much for keeping _ to send these products along. thank you so much for keeping track- to send these products along. thank you so much for keeping track of theirs. new york's international auto show gets underway today — with electric cars grabbing a lot of the attention. but sales in many parts of the world are stalling — and the growth in demand we saw after the pandemic has slowed down. that's not been helped by the cost of living crisis and higher interest rates. nissan is one of is one of the big names at the show — and has just launched a major plan to boost sales. when i spoke to its americas boss jeremie papin i began by asking him what impact the baltimore bridge collapse was having on the company. first of all, my thoughts are with the families, friends, colleagues of those that have been hit by this terrible accident, the victims.

for us, in terms of business, we have been happy users of the baltimore port, we have been re—routing our ships to other ports in the east coast and, so, we think there will be minimal, if any, impact to our business in the near term. ok, let's talk about your own plans for sales, boosting sales. you are planning over the next three years, 13 new models, you want to raise sales byi million vehicles and cut costs. that sounds like a pretty tall and difficult balancing act. how are you going to do that? look, there is... new models went live, there momentum in the business, as you say, 13 models that will be launched globally. in the us, we will have seven of those. we will have all types of combustion engines, hybrids, and electric vehicles.

and we will be rejuvenating our line significantly. combustion vehicles right now will be renewed over the next few years. with that momentum of new product will be new products, refresh designs, a lot of technology coming in. so we think we are going to be in for quite some growth, as you mentioned. i million globally and let's say, 15 to 20% of that coming out of the usa. so you are confident you can hit all of those targets? definitely confident that we have the resources and the products that can deliver those types of successes. in the volume drives the efficiency in the business and drives the economic result. let's talk now about electric vehicles. you want to cut the cost of those by one third but given the scale

by one third by the end of the decade but given the scale of the climate emergency, is not a bit too slow? i think what drives the fact that given the option to accelerate is the fact that nissan in particular will be capable of cutting back on the cost of making those cars even more affordable than they are today. so i will say, the same dynamic in the industry. ultimately, the consumer will decide how many evs are being sold and bought. there is a lot of momentum behind the growth of ev in the us. it was 7% of sales last year, it's going to be shy of 10% of sales this year. probably about 40% in 2030. because, inherently, those are vehicles that have a high level of satisfaction with the buyers.

for us, what matters is definitely having a good business investment and making those cars available to the widerconsumption group. so cost reduction is necessary but we give it back to the consumers in a way. in other news... the boss of h&m, the world's second biggest clothing retailer, says he expects prices to fall this year. daniel erver recently took over as ceo and is trying to increase profit margins after losing market share to rivals. he said the company's latest spring collections were selling well. the swedish company saw profits in the three months to the end of febraury grow to almost $200m. new ceo says top priority is to strengthen sales * spring another story to tell you... the us state of florida

and walt disney have reached a settlement in their high profile lawsuit about control of the special administrative district in which the company's orlando theme park is located. the dispute began in 2022 when disney boss bob iger critcicsed when disney boss bob iger criticised the state's efforts to limit education on sexuality and gender issues. disney said the settlement "opens a new chapter of constructive engagement" with the local authorities. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news.

you are live with bbc news. the uk government says, it's fully committed to improving the nhs and bringing down waiting times after a survey found patient satisfaction was at an all time low. fewer than one in four — 24% —

people were satisfied with the health service last year — down five percentage points on the previous year. satisfaction was at 70% as recently as 2010. the main reasons for dissatisfaction are waiting times for gp and hospital appointments followed by staff shortages and the government not spending enough money on the nhs. however, support for the founding principles of the nhs remains high, with 91% believing the nhs should be free of charge when people need to use it, 82% agreeing it should be primarily funded through taxes. i've been speaking to dr zoe norris, who is chief executive of humberside local medical committee, which represents all gps in the area. i asked herfor her i asked her for her response to the survey. i think i am unsurprised, we see all this on the ground, our gps and practices know that patients are finding it difficult at the moment. it is often the case that when they are able to see a doctor or nurse, they are satisfied with the care they get

but it is the challenge of seeing that doctor or practitioner in the first place that poses the biggest difficulty for patients. what you think is going wrong? people talk about money and resourcing and the government, talking about record amounts going into the nhs, both things are probably true, but what do you pinpoint as being something that needs to change here as a result of what we are seeing? i can only speak for general practice but behind those headline figures, general practice has received £1.11 billion. received £1.11 billion in staff funding over the past five years which sounds amazing but when i tell you that we are not allowed to spend that on doctors or nurses that might give people an idea why there is a problem. when you look at the overall budget for the nhs whether you think it is too big or too small, the amount that general practice receives was 12% it is now 6%. despite the fact that we are seeing 6 million more patients

than in 2015, the amount of funding that general practice gets compared to everyone else has reduced and that inevitably has an impact on patients. briefly, do you think we have reached the point where the model of funding the nhs needs to be looked at cross party. you look at models like germany, should we be looking at different models? we should be looking at removing politics from the nhs, we should be looking at cross consensus and independent oversight and stopping the constant change for political points. let's get more on one of those headline stories. it's the highest honour at the ivor novello awards and one of the most coveted prizes in songwriting — the fellowship of the ivors academy. only 26 people have ever received the fellowship, including sir eltonjohn, sir paul mccartney and kate bush. the award recognises writing that has enriched the cultural fabric of the uk. and now, there's a new name on the list —

bruce springsteen , whose albums have sold millions of copies around the world. the boss, as he's known, is the first american musician to make the cut. to speak more about this decision and the legacy of springsteen, i am joined by dr marianjago, a senior lecturer in popular music and jazz studies at the university of edinburgh. thank you so much for being with us. what do you make of this? it’s a what do you make of this? it's a really interesting _ what do you make of this? it�*s —. really interesting development. i what do you make of this? it�*s 5. really interesting development. i am really interesting development. i am really happy. i think this is the first time that they have reached out internationally, i think all of the other receivers are irish, uk based musicians. if you are going international for the first time, you could do a heck of a lot worse than going for bri springsteen. this is on my briefing material that you are a huge fan. i is on my briefing material that you are a huge fan-— is on my briefing material that you are a huge fan. i am. i am a pretty bi bruce are a huge fan. i am. i am a pretty big bruce springsteen _ are a huge fan. i am. i am a pretty big bruce springsteen fan, - are a huge fan. i am. i am a pretty big bruce springsteen fan, i - are a huge fan. i am. i am a pretty big bruce springsteen fan, i teach| big bruce springsteen fan, i teach at the university of edinburgh so i

try to analyse how he does what he doesin try to analyse how he does what he does in why he does what it does and his impact. tell does in why he does what it does and his im act. ., ., ,., his impact. tell me more about that. wh do his impact. tell me more about that. why do you — his impact. tell me more about that. why do you think— his impact. tell me more about that. why do you think there _ his impact. tell me more about that. why do you think there is _ his impact. tell me more about that. why do you think there is such - his impact. tell me more about that. j why do you think there is such power in the songwriting? film. why do you think there is such power in the songwriting?— why do you think there is such power in the songwriting? oh, my goodness. that is a really — in the songwriting? oh, my goodness. that is a really good _ in the songwriting? oh, my goodness. that is a really good question. - in the songwriting? oh, my goodness. that is a really good question. i - that is a really good question. i think a lot of it has to do with the subject position that he takes. he doesn't always write from the eye perspective. he challenges his listeners, he makes you take on perspectives that you might not otherwise have taken on. he sings from the perspective of, you know, very famously working—class characters in his songs, but also very famously he won an academy award for writing a song and the director of that film reached out to springsteen on purpose because he thought that he might be able to get the message about the aids epidemic over to listeners who might not

otherwise have been open to hearing the message at that time. so he challenges people are makes them put themselves in a position that they might not otherwise choose to occupy. ah. might not otherwise choose to occu . �* , might not otherwise choose to occu . ~ , ., might not otherwise choose to occu . �* , ., ., might not otherwise choose to occu . _ 5 , ., ., ~ , occupy. a brief final thought. why do ou occupy. a brief final thought. why do you think _ occupy. a brief final thought. why do you think the _ occupy. a brief final thought. why do you think the academy - occupy. a brief final thought. why do you think the academy has - do you think the academy has actually done it, as you were saying, they have not done it before? �* ., , ., , before? i'm not sure. i have been thinkin: before? i'm not sure. i have been thinking about _ before? i'm not sure. i have been thinking about it _ before? i'm not sure. i have been thinking about it all _ before? i'm not sure. i have been thinking about it all afternoon - thinking about it all afternoon since i got the call to be on the show. i suspect may be the academy is looking to its profile. it is a little bit like the grammys for british songwriting. and i think it's been televised before on tv but i'm not sure. and the fact that i'm not even sure suggest perhaps that they are trying to raise their profile, live streaming since last year. i think that perhaps it's not a coincidence that the award ceremony is on the 23rd of may and springsteen is playing in sunderland on the 22nd of may so i think there is a good chance he will show up.

thank you so much forjoining us on bbc news. thank you so much for “oining us on bbc news. ., ., _, now let's turn to a story that has made major headlines here in the uk. finley boden was just ten months old when he died on christmas day 2020 — murdered by his parents soon after a family court had returned the baby to their care. now a safeguarding review has said he was failed by the authorities in derbyshire when he should have been one of the most protected children in the area. stephen boden and shannon marsden inflicted 130 injuries on their child: both were convicted of murder and sentenced to life. here's phil mackie. finley boden�*s family said he was a happy, chucking baby. the authorities knew he was at risk, and so he was taken into care shortly after birth. for his first nine months, he thrived. he was safe and looked after.

he died on christmas day 2020, just weeks after being returned to the care of his parents, stephen boden and shannon marsden. he had suffered 130 separate injuries. in court, they were described as monsters. the pair were living in squalor and cared more about buying drugs than their son. many agencies were involved in their supervision, but the system failed the boy who should have been among the most protected. a lot of what is in this 50—page report i've seen before in previous safeguarding reviews concerning the deaths of other children. a lack of professional curiosity, poor information sharing, for instance. but in finley�*s case, there was another major factor, too, and that was the pandemic. lockdowns meant the couple were able to evade scrutiny. contact with the authorities was made remotely and not in person. meetings were missed and reports not shared. they pretended everything was ok and no—one knew differently. if you're working with children, the worst possible thing is for a child to die. it's absolutely tragic. are you confident now that, if there were another finley out there,

things would be done differently? so our systems and our process have much strengthened. that has been robustly tested during our recent ofsted inspection. so i'm more confident. as you rightly say, we can never say never in these cases. last year, marsden and boden were convicted of murder and jailed for life at derby crown court. they will have to serve at least 27 and 29 years respectively. the judge said they subjected finley to unimaginable cruelty. marsden was a heavy drugs user. boden had 32 previous convictions. and yet it was deemed safe to allow them to care for their son. today's report recommends many changes. this is about making sure that what didn't happen and should have happened will happen and is happening into the future. as i have said, we owe that to finley to make sure that we move forward and make the improvements necessary. one relative described him as a beautiful ray of sunlight. it's hoped those improvements

will be part of finley�*s legacy. now to a fascinating story. whatever your job, wherever you are — imagine going on national television and slateing your bosses. that's exactly what we've seen in the us — in a row that's engulfed the media network, nbc news — after they appointed the former chairwoman of the republican national committee, ronna mcdaniel, as a political contributor. she made her debut on meet the press over the weekend — in which she claimed — without any evidence — there were problems with the 2020 election. the network had spent $300,000 on the hire — they've now caved — under the pressure and dropped mcdaniel. it followed some of the networks biggest stars — doing this — live on air. to be clear, we believe nbc news should seek out conservative republican voices to provide balance in their election coverage.

but it should be conservative republicans not a person who used her position of power to be an anti democracy election denier. earlier i got some reaction to this from the us media commentator and journalist, brian stelter. this all went down over a long weekend, basically. and nbc management felt they had to backtrack. why? because of the staff revolt. but i think this started with the best of intentions. the former head of the republican party is available to be a tv commentator, there is a long history of those sorts of people being hired by networks, it has happened for decades. the difference of course now is the big lie. donald trump's lies about the elections which were aided and abetted by people like ronna mcdaniel. that is why there was this internal revolt, but what it exposes is this intense dynamic for american and international media in 202a. when you are covering the american election, you are notjust covering two equal parties with different policy ideas. one of the two parties has

an anti—democratic wing, and basically the argument from nbc journalists was that mcdaniel belongs to that anti—democratic movement and thus doesn't belong on the npc payroll. on the nbc payroll. a fascinating story. we are about to take a break but when we come back we have a busy hour here. we'll have the latest from baltimore and the operation in the harbour following the bridge collapse in the early hours of tuesday morning. the search goes on for the six missing workers who were on the bridge. we will get the latest from our correspondent who was there on the ground for us. we will be live in the middle east following the reaction that they are considering sending back that delegation to washington the one that they pulled

after washington supported the un security council resolution. we will get reaction on that developing story. one more story that we will be looking at. and a new bbc investigation tells for the first time the story of a lost american documentary, filmed inside the irish republican army in 1972. i'll be speaking tojohn o'kane, who produced the documentary. all of that coming up in 60 minutes. now it's time for a look at the weather. hello there. it's going to stay very unsettled as we head into the easter weekend. and today was certainly very mixed weather. we had some sunshine and some brief warmth of 12 degrees in eastern england before we saw that spell of rain. but it was in scotland where the rain hung around for much longer and that really kept the temperatures much lower as well. it's so very unsettled because we've got low pressure sitting close to us and this one is going to strengthen the winds into thursday. we've got this weather front here bringing rain back up from france, in across england and wales. there may even be a bit of sleet and snow over exmoor and into the cotswolds, more particularly over the hills of wales. further north, there'll be some showers for a while,

but it may well turn drier and it will also get colder with a frost likely in some parts of scotland. let's head to the south of england, though, where it's going to get windy through the day on thursday, particularly so along these coastal areas, gales are likely large waves, maybe even some travel disruption as well. and together with those strengthening winds, it's going to get wetter from the south west. this is the overnight rain, though, moving into northern england. some heavier rain again, unfortunately for northern ireland. it'll turn more showery, i think in scotland, so not as wet as today was, but we will see these showers or longer spells of rain developing more widely across england and wales as the winds pick up and that will prevent the temperatures rising too high. although nine degrees will be better in the central belt than it was today. still got low pressure around as we head into good friday. the wind is not going to be quite as strong across southern areas by this stage, but we're still in this sort of showery air stream. there will be some sunshine at times and that will give us a little bit of warmth, sufficient to trigger

more showers, mind you. and these are going to be turning heavy and thundery, particularly across the western side of the uk. we've got a top temperature of 13 or 1a degrees on good friday. now the really warm air, if you are travelling further afield into europe, it's going to be across eastern europe and the eastern mediterranean could make the mid 20s. for western areas of europe, we've got this cooler air and this is where it's going to be a wetter as well. with the heavier rain more likely across iberia heading into the south of france, we've got the low pressure to the west of the uk and so it's not going to be a wash—out over the easter weekend. it will feel warm when the sun is out, but the showers are never too far away, particularly in the west.

live from london, this is bbc news. us investigators — recover the data recorder — from the ship, which crashed into a bridge in baltimore. these are live pictures, you can see conditions in baltimore are hampering the efforts to search for the six women workers who are presumed that. israel responds after a un human rights expert says she believes the country has committed "acts of genocide" in gaza. we have no interest in harming gazans, we are after hamas. check your passport — the message to millions of britons planning a trip to europe to avoid being caught out by a ten—year rule. we'll explain. and bruce springsteen is given one of the most coveted awards in songwriting — the fellowship of the ivor novello academy.