29/05/2016 BBC Weekend News

Two senior Conservatives, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove,

have called on David Cameron to accept the failure

of his pledge to cut immigration, saying his goal is unachievable

as long as Britain remains in the EU.

Downing Street said the comments were a distraction.

But in further signs of division within the party,

some MPs have suggested that the Prime Minister

may face attempts to remove him from office.

Our deputy political editor, John Pienaar, reports.

A moment of unity, even triumph, before the referendum began. No

friends have become bitter rivals and from within his party, David

Cameron has been confronted openly where he is most vulnerable, the

tricky issue of migration control. Boris Johnson has been close to

David Cameron, though both know he wants his job, and Michael Gove has

been even closer, in Cabinet and outside. Now they have combined to

tell the Prime Minister Larayedh may be Tory pledge to cut my great into

Britain is not worth the paper it is written on. In an open letter, the

red... -- they write. A campaign to get out

of the EU wants to can the confrontation but stands by the

warning. What we are doing on the vote leaves side is saying, we

cannot set limits. Everyone involved in this debate needs to accept that

if we vote to remain in the European Union, we cannot set limits on the

number of people that come and live and work here. The fighting has

become personal and Minister Priti Patel has suggested that Remain

campaign leaders, including the Prime Minister, are to privilege to

understand the issue. Remain campaigners are dismissive. I am

opposed to the announcer, to get out of Europe. This fight is fiercest

between Tories. Among MPs at Westminster, the rule -- there are

whispers of meeting in the making of the campaign goes on as it has. One

has broken cover. At least 50 colleagues are dissatisfied with the

way the Prime Minister has put himself front and centre of a fairly

outrageous Remain campaign. I think that is unlikely. Everything rests

on the Broad, and the Prime Minister may now need a win to remain to

stabilise his party and see of his enemies.

19 people have been rescued from the English Channel

after their inflatable boat began to sink off the Kent coast.

Coastguards say the vessel was found around two this morning.

Catriona Renton is at Dymchurch in Kent.

What more do we know about the boat and the people on board?

At about 11:40pm, the search and rescue operation was launched.

Because God was contacted that the inflatable boat, carrying 19 people,

off the coast at Dymchurch, was in trouble. We have heard from local

people. They heard and saw the search helicopter which was launched

from nearby Lydd airport. They saw the searchlights. It hovered above

the sea. Two ferries were also launched, one from nearby Little

stone and the other from Dungeness. We understand the boat was found at

around two o'clock in the morning and all 19 people on board have been

taken to Dover. They are being interviewed by officials from the UK

Border Force. The BBC has been told that some of those people on board,

who are believed to have been migrants, telephoned their relatives

in Cali, who contacted the French authorities, who then contacted the

UK coastguard, who started the rescue operation. We understand, as

we have heard, these people are being interviewed in Dover. There

was a similar incident in April this year, when two people who were

believed to be migrants from Iran, were rescued from their inflatable

boat when it got into trouble of the cost of Dover. As we hear more

information on this developing story, we will let you know.

Search teams off southern Thailand have found the body of a British man

who'd been missing for four days after a speedboat crash.

Jason Parnell, who was 46, had been on holiday with his wife,

celebrating his first wedding anniversary.

Four people died when the vessel capsized off the coast

The Iraqi government says it has made some advances since the start

of its campaign to drive out IS militants from

But there's growing concern for the fate of an estimated

50,000 civilians trapped in the centre of the city,

few of whom have been able to escape.

Our correspondent, Jim Muir, who's been embedded

with the attacking Iraqi forces, reports from Baghdad.

Around the clock, heavy artillery shells blasting

Militants of so-called Islamic State are still dug in there,

The attack on the city itself still has not begun.

This is the centre of the town of Karma, which until recently

was held by IS, the militants from so-called Islamic State,

now firmly in the hands of Iraqi security forces.

A strange mixture of Shia militias mixed in with

Also some Sunni elements so it is a whole coalition moving

You can still hear some gunfire here but that is

The ground carpeted with spent cartridges.

A suspected car bomb taken out by an air strike.

The only sign that IS was here, a hastily torn down militant banner.

Safe enough for government ministers and top brass from Baghdad

The Interior Minister said there had been only a limited number of

But that some had made their way to safety with the security forces.

Many of those who have escaped are clearly

Their ordeal is not over once they flee IS.

Men of fighting age are singled out for interrogation as

As the noose tightens around Fallujah itself,

there is growing concern for an estimated 50,000 civilians

The militants are not letting them out.

They have constructed tunnels and other defences.

The battle for Fallujah could be long, hard and devastating

Ceremonies have been taking place in north-eastern France to mark

the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Verdun, the longest single battle

The German Chancellor and the French President

laid a wreath at the war cemetery in Consenvoye.

About 300,000 soldiers from both sides were killed in the battle

Staff at a zoo in the United States have shot dead a gorilla

after a child entered the animal's enclosure.

The director of Cincinnati Zoo said the four-year-old boy crawled

through a barrier and fell into a moat before being

Screams of disbelief as people watch before -year-old boy being dragged

by the gorilla. His mother comes out reassure him. Mummy loves you, I am

raped here. The child has crawled through a barrier at the zoo,

falling into the moat. No one has any idea what the gorilla, called

Harambe, will do next. Anyways almost 30 stone, but moves fast. The

staff at Cincinnati zoo had a difficult decision to make. They

chose to shoot the gorilla. Harambe, are 17-year-old gorilla mail, was a

great big animal, ?400. He was in the moat, moving him around. Our

dangerous animal response team thought it was a life-threatening

situation. The four-year-old boy was taken to hospital but was not

reported to be badly injured. The zoo staff said they could not have

tranquillised the gorilla instead of telling him because that would have

taken several minutes to take effect. The team had a tough choice

and they made the right choice. The save the little boy's life. It could

have been very bad. The zoo is due to reopen later today after what was

an extraordinary ten minute ordeal for the four-year-old.

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