15/05/2016 BBC Weekend News

The ambition of EU leaders to create a single European state have been

compared to the aims of Adolf Hitler by the Vote Leave

In an article in a Sunday newspaper, Mr Johnson said both the Nazi

leader and the current EU shared similar goals,

but today's politicians were getting there by stealth rather than force.

His comments have been criticised as "deeply offensive" by those

Here's our political correspondent, Carole Walker.

Boris, Boris. I don the campaign Trail, Boris Johnson makes the most

of every photo opportunity to press his case for leaving the European

Union. Now he has certainly sees the headlines, comparing EU efforts to

build a superstate to Hitler's attempt to dominate the continent.

The classical scholar said the last 2000 years of European history had

seemed doomed attempts to recreate the Roman Empire, by trying to unify

it. Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out and it ends

tragically. The EU is an attempt to do this by different

methods. Fellow campaigners defended him. It is a historical fact of life

that if you go through Napoleon... You think that Hitler's efforts to

unify Europe, and I put that", is the same as the efforts of the

European Union. Any comparison between heckler who inflicted so

much death and destruction with the current generation of EU leaders was

always going to be inflammatory and there has been a strong reaction

from the In campaign. To try and come pair Hitler and the 90s, the

millions of people who died in the Second World War, the Holocaust,

with a free democracies of Europe coming together to trade and

incorporate, and in the process trying to bring peace to the

continent of Europe after centuries of war, that is frankly deeply

offensive. The Prime Minister has said the EU is a force for peace and

stability which could be put at risk if the UK votes to leave. Both sides

know they cannot just rely on economic arguments but the former

London mayor will be hoping that his appeal for Britain to stand up to

the EU was to the hearts of voters. With less than six weeks to go

before the referendum, both sides have ratcheted up the rhetoric in an

attempt to sway the voters. It is unclear whether people will respond

to those passionate arrogance about our destiny, or whether they will

make more practical, down-to-earth judgments about whether they believe

they will be better off in or out of the European Union.

At least 14 people have been killed and more than 20 wounded

in a suicide bomb attack by so-called Islamic State

on a gas installation north of the Iraqi capital,

An Iraqi military spokesman said a car bomb was detonated

Six attackers wearing explosive vests then entered

the facility where they clashed with security forces.

Police in Kosovo have arrested a former Roman Catholic priest

from Britain in connection with historical child

A European Arrest Warrant had been issued for Lawrence Soper,

who is wanted in connection with child sex offences allegedly

carried out while he taught at an independent school in West

The government is to outline more support for the hundreds of

children in England who leave local authority care each year.

David Cameron will use the Queen's Speech

on Wednesday to outline the

Let's speak to our correspondent, Daniela Relph, at

Daniela, what's Mr Cameron proposing?

These are significant changes to the care system we lead about in the

Queen's speech on Wednesday. The Prime Minister has pledged to create

a covenant, describing it as a promise laid out in law to everyone

who has been through the care system. It would insure those who

leave care would be guaranteed access to jobs, housing, and to a

doctor. They would also be given a mentor or until the age of 25 who

would offer them both emotional support and practical help. The

Prime Minister says this is all about ensuring those who

have had a difficult start in life still have a chance of a brighter

future. There will also be changes on the issue of adoption. David

Cameron has described himself as unashamedly pro-adoption. He wants

to stop the current trend in family courts of placing children with

distant relatives, rather than new families. He says you sometimes have

to override family ties in favour of permanent adoption.

Opposition leaders in Venezuela are warning people are ready

to "explode" after the president announced a state of emergency.

He has threatened to jail factory owners who have closed

Businesses say they have no foreign currency

It's a situation that's led to shortages of everything

from beer to toilet paper in the South American country,

which, despite being rich in oil, has been plunged into economic

There is no more potent symbol of that than this abandoned factory.

With Chinese help, it was supposed to make the rails for

a new high-tech bullet train speeding across the country at 300

Last year, the money ran out and local people tore the site apart

Venezuela's president, Nicolas Maduro, says

that the economic crisis is not his fault.

In declaring a state of emergency, he blamed the USA, and the business

elite in Venezuela for trying to sabotage their own country.

There are many who believe his explanation.

At this pro-government rally, Maduro said he would be putting

the armed forces on alert to counter what he called "foreign aggression".

Next Saturday, I have called for the armed forces and the militia

to hold national military exercises to prepare us for any scenario

because this land is sacred and we should make sure

On the other side of the capital, Caracas, a counter demonstration

by those who believe Maduro is responsible for most

They are calling for a referendum to expel him from power.

This is our right to peaceful protest.

All Venezuelans have to tell the president and the world

I am tired of this tragedy and everything.

I just want Maduro to leave quietly and peacefully.

Sitting on the world's largest oil reserves, Venezuela should

be a wealthy country, but its people having endured years

of shortages in everything from medicines to toilet paper.

And now with one of the country's last breweries shutting

down, they cannot even drown their sorrows.

Now, for once the winner of this year's Eurovision song contest

didn't chose love or peace as their subject matter.

Instead, Ukraine won with a political protest

about Stalin's atrocities in

The Ukrainian singer Jamala beat favourites Russia

with her song entitled 1944, about the

Joe and Jake, who represented the UK with their song, You're Not Alone,

The Flying Scotsman will be travelling through

the Scottish Borders later today after Network Rail reversed

On Friday, the company said it wasn't able to check

if the locomotive would fit on the platforms and under bridges

But the rail operator has now changed its mind,

It is one of the world's most famous engines,

The Flying Scotsman has made its way to Scotland

For two years, plans have been under way for the locomotive to visit

the newly reopened Borders railway and parts of Fife.

But on Friday, Network Rail said they did not have the right data

to gauge the engine so that part of the trip had to be cancelled.

There was anger from the Scottish government, the train

Hundreds had bought tickets for the once-in-a-lifetime

We had planned to go and see it when it was going to come up.

There are going to be a lot of people disappointed.

I just love trains and I have always wanted to see the Flying Scotsman.

We have been looking forward to seeing it and being around it,

because it is coming here for servicing as well.

But just when all seemed lost, Network Rail announced

The focus of that will be to figure out what went wrong,

to learn lessons from that, and to make sure it

For nearly 100 years, on and off, the Flying Scotsman has

Now, after more than a day's wrangling, finally people

in the Borders and Fife will get to see it visit here.

The next news on BBC One is at 6:35 this evening.

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