29/05/2016 BBC Weekend News

Downing Street says Leave campaigners in the EU referendum

are trying to distract voters from the real economic cost

It comes after two senior Conservatives said the Prime

Minister must admit he can't cut immigration while Britain

18 Albanians and two Britons, are rescued from the English Channel

Hopefully, you know, somebody will try and put a stop

to it because it's people's lives, right, that we are all

The Iraqi government says it's making progress in attempts

to retake the city of Fallujah, from Islamic State extremists.

The heart-stopping moment a child is at the mercy of a gorilla

Lewis Hamilton wins his first Grand Prix of the year,

Two senior Conservatives, the prominent Leave campaigners

in the EU referendum, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove,

have called on David Cameron to accept the failure of his pledge

They say the goal is unachievable, as long as Britain remains

Downing Street says the comments were a distraction, but in further

signs of division in the party, some backbench MPs have suggested

the Prime Minister could face a vote of no confidence.

Here's our Deputy Political Editor, John Pienaar.

A moment of unity, even triumph before the referendum began.

Now, there are bitter rivals in the ranks and David Cameron has

been openly confronted where he and the campaign

he leads to remain an EU member is most vulnerable,

the tricky issue of migration control.

Boris Johnson's been close to David Cameron -

they both know he wants his job - and Michael Gove has been even

Now they have combined to tell their PM openly the Tory

pledge to cut migration into Britain isn't worth the paper

In an open letter, they write: "The promise net immigration

could be cut to tens of thousands is not achievable.

Failure to keep it was corrosive of public trust."

A fellow campaigner to get out of the EU wants to calm

the confrontation but stands by the warning.

This needs to be a campaign that is relentlessly reasonable.

What we are doing from the Leave side is saying,

Everyone involved in this debate needs to accept that if we vote

to remain in the United Kingdom, in the European Union,

we cannot set limits on the number of people who come and live and work

Away from Westminster's war games, to people with better things to do

I don't know what is going to make me vote which way.

I don't know which way I'm going to vote.

The amount of people coming over now, it is...

to a small country like ours, I think we need to have

You have got 200,000 people trying to get into Britain, say.

If you are in the EU, whether you are out of it,

Between warring politicians it is getting personal.

Remain campaign leaders, who include the PM, are too

privileged to understand how mass migration hits the poor.

Downing Street says the Leave side is losing arguments

Big names in the Remain camp say the Leavers are plain wrong.

I'm completely sensitive to the issue of immigration.

And you have to be in politics today.

What I'm completely opposed to is their answer to it,

Among Tory MPs, the chatter over coffee is about mutiny

There is no sign it's spread out of control yet, but Eurosceptics

feel it is David Cameron's side that won't play fair.

One of the most militant has broken cover and gone public.

I think there's at least 50 colleagues who are dissatisfied

with the way that the Prime Minister has put himself front and centre

of a fairly outrageous Remain campaign.

They would demand a vote of no confidence?

And now the Prime Minister may also need a win for his Remain campaign -

and a big one - to see off his enemies and stabilise his party.

Officers from the UK Border Force are interviewing 18 Albanians

and two Britons rescued from the English Channel

Their inflatable boat had just begun taking on water, off

Our correspondent, Catriona Renton, is there.

The English Channel is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.

Overnight, a small boat packed with people started to take on water in

the pitch darkness and drifted for some time. A terrifying ordeal that

could have ended in tragedy. Border Force officials removing

a boat from the beach here at Dymchurch this morning,

as part of their investigation. On another small dinghy last night,

18 Albanian migrants and two Britons It was taking on water

when the coastguard scrambled the search and rescue

helicopter and lifeboats. Locals in the village of Dymchurch

witnessed the search. This huge helicopter has

come down and basically is on the beach so we ran up there,

we ran as fast as we could, and 50 police officers came down out

of nowhere and this massive raft had The migrants were found

after they called relatives in Calais to tell them

their boat was in trouble. They contacted the French

authorities who raised the alarm. Hopefully, you know,

somebody will try and put a stop to it because it's people's lives,

right, that we are Some fear this could be

a wider problem. You think we have a huge

coastline along here, it is only going to be a matter

of time before they start looking for different areas of trying

to get across. It is only a matter

of time before they look This is the latest incident

on the UK's shores this week, On Tuesday, 17 people also thought

to be Albanian were detained in Chichester and last month two

Iranian men were found in an ill-equipped dinghy

in the Dover Strait. Authorities are on alert

in case other migrants The conditions last night at sea

were said to be good. Had they been different, or the boat not found,

the outcome could have been very different. Recently, the National

Crime Agency has warned that organised criminal gangs are trying

to smuggle migrants through less busy UK ports along the east and

south coasts of England. The question now is, what exactly is

happening out there at sea? Thank you for that.

The Iraqi government says it's made significant advances in efforts

to drive out Islamic State extremists from

But there's growing concern for around 50,000 civilians

Our correspondent, Jim Muir, is travelling with Iraqi forces.

Around-the-clock, heavy artillery shells blasting

Fighters from so-called Islamic State are still dug

in there nearly a week into the campaign.

The attack on the city itself still has not begun.

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

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

now firmly in the hands of Iraqi security forces and a strange

mixture of Shia militia, mixed in with the government forces

and so on, also some Sunni elements, so it is a whole coalition moving

You can still hear gunfire here but that is celebration,

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 black banner.

Safe enough for government ministers and top brass from Baghdad

The interior minister said there had been only a limited number

of civilians in what was a battle zone, but that some had

made their way to safety with the security forces.

Many of those who fled are clearly traumatised and terrified.

The UN says more civilians are being executed by IS for trying to escape.

TRANSLATION: We have been hiding from them for the past three days.

If they had caught us, they would have killed us.

Although camps have been set up to receive them,

their ordeal is not over once they flee.

Men of fighting age are separated out for interrogation

as possible extremists, leaving their families worried.

As the noose tightens around Fallujah, there is growing concern

for an estimated 50,000 civilians still trapped in the centre.

The IS fighters aren't letting them out.

They have constructed tunnels and other defences.

The battle for Fallujah could be long, hard and devastating

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

Ceremonies have been taking place to commemorate the 100th anniversary

of the longest single battle of the First World War at Verdun.

Hundreds of thousands of French and German soldiers were killed

Today, President Francois Hollande and Chancellor Angela Merkel

paid their respects at the German military cemetery, just

Staff at a zoo in America had to shoot 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 watched the four-year-old boy being

His mother calls out to reassure him.

The child has just crawled through a barrier at the zoo,

No-one has any idea what the gorilla, called

He weighs almost 30 stone, but moves fast.

The staff at Cincinnati Zoo had a difficult decision to make.

Harambe, our 17-year-old gorilla male, is a great big animal, 400lb,

went down and got him, carried him up into the moat,

was moving him around and it seemed very much by our professional team,

our dangerous animal response team, to be a life-threatening situation.

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

The zoo staff said they couldn't have tranquillised the gorilla

instead of killing him because that would have taken several

The team did a good job and they made a tough choice

and they made the right choice because they saved that

The zoo is due to re-open later today after what was

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

With all the sport, here's Katherine Downes

Lewis Hamilton won his first race of the season, snatching

the Monaco Grand Prix from Daniel Ricciardo.

The Red Bull driver had started in pole position,

but a slow pit-stop meant Hamilton could sneak past in

Days away from summer, it felt much further in Monaco. This was weather

to huddle and plot trouble. Here, the tight and twisting streets can

make this race a game of follow the leader, the wet track meant it

started behind the safety car. But rain guarantees drama in Monaco.

With no margin for error, Britain's Palmer's Grand Prix was over. When

the spray cleared, it revealed Lewis Hamilton had been allowed past his

team-mate, Nico Rosberg, now only Daniel Ricciardo was ahead. That is

where the Red Bull driver could have stayed but for one pit-stop. His

team were off the pace and when he emerged, so was he. Now, Hamilton

had the lead and on a track where overtaking is virtually impossible,

Ricciardo couldn't find a way back. This was Hamilton's first win of

2016, after a difficult start to the season, could this be when his title

defence takes off? England look to be heading towards

certain victory in the Test series They need just five wickets tomorrow

to win the second Test after reducing the tourists to 304-5

in their second innings. With two days still left to play,

Sri Lanka are still 93 runs short Andy Murray is through to

the quarterfinals of the French He beat American John

Isner in straight sets. The first went to a tie-break -

7-6, but after a rain delay, Murray came out stronger to win

the next two 6-4, 6-3. Barnsley have been promoted

to the Championship after winning the League One play-off final

at Wembley today. They beat Millwall 3-1 -

this the pick of the goals from Adam Barnsley back in the second

tier of English football England ran in five tries

against Wales in a friendly at Twickenham as both sides prepare

for their summer tours. Wales face New Zealand

in a Test series next month, And Great Britain won

its first ever high-bar gold at the European Championships

in Switzerland - Nile Wilson took the title, beating his team-mate

Kristian Thomas into silver. The British men won silver

in the team event yesterday. There's more throughout the evening

on the BBC News Channel, and I'll be back with the late

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