05/06/2016 World News Today

I don't want to call it the whip, I call it the snake, you know.

So you call it whatever you want to call it,

that's what you learn from Muhammad, you know, be yourself.

The closer it gets, the more bitter the two rival campaigns get over

whether the UK stays in the European Union.

Now, two senior members of the same ruling Conservative Party,

but from opposite sides of the debate, have clashed.

The former Prime Minister John Major accused the Leave campaign

of misleading people over the costs of pulling out of the EU.

But Boris Johnson defended the Leave campaign's numbers.

Here's our political correspondent, Ben Wright.

But today, the former Tory prime minister let rip,

I am angry at the way the British people are being misled.

I think their campaign is verging on the squalid.

What they have said about leaving is fundamentally dishonest.

I think this is a deceitful campaign.

He used to be caricatured as grey, but this was a Technicolor assault

Vote Leave have said some of the cash Britain currently

spends on being a member of the European Union could be

But Sir John Major said leading Conservatives could not be trusted

Boris wanted to charge people for using it,

and Iain Duncan Smith wanted a social insurance system.

The NHS is about as safe with them as a pet hamster would be

He then turned to Turkey, saying the Leave campaign's claim

the country would soon join the EU was misleading.

Is it seriously suggested, as they do, that all 88 million

Apparently, for our higher National Living Wage?

On the one hand, they say migrants are depressing wages,

and on the other, people are flooding in to get our

Turkey has applied to join the European Union, and the UK does

The Government insists that's decades away,

but Boris Johnson defended the Leave campaign's decision

The statement Turkey is joining the EU is not true, is it?

Turkey has been joining the EU since 1963.

You join or you don't join, but it isn't true, is it?

That is what John Major was talking about.

Frankly, I don't mind whether Turkey joins the EU, provided

Turkey is bound up with the issue of immigration, and the Leave

campaign says outside the EU, total net migration to Britain

could be cut to the tens of thousands, a pledge

the Government has been unable to meet.

Unconditional numbers coming in not only depress

wages for working people, it is also a case that they put

considerable strain on public services, on housing,

on the National Health Service, and of course on school places.

We grew very successfully in the 1980s and 1990s with

This referendum is laying bare deep Tory divisions over Europe that have

existed since John Major was in Number 10 himself,

and somehow the Government will have to move beyond this,

Tory civil war over Europe is probably not a drama most

voters are interested in, and both sides are trying

to wrestle the arguments back to the issue at stake.

We have a short time to go until the referendum,

and what people want to hear are the arguments.

What we're setting out on the Leave side of the campaign is an agenda

for the Government to take back control on June the 23rd of a lot

of things that really matter to the people of this country.

There is a huge choice in front of voters,

the biggest in a generation, and in Leeds today the rival

campaigns were trying to clinch the undecided.

The arguments are fierce because the vote is getting close.

With me now is BBC political correspondent Tom Bateman.

We were seeing that the acrimonious incredible. How will this party

govern after the vote? What is really interesting is that you have

a former Prime Minister, Sir John Major, who during his time in office

was characterised and often caricatured as being rather monotone

and Dell, and yet what you had here was an incredibly spiky,

uncharacteristically brazen intervention into the referendum

campaign in which he was not only criticising those who want it in to

leave the European Union, but these are senior members of his own party.

He is a grant the figure of the Conservative Party, really laying

into people who sit around the government table here in the UK. It

shows you the heat this campaign is generating and the trouble they will

have tried to stick themselves back together after the referendum. If

one thing is clear, whoever wins the referendum, there will still be the

same government running the UK. And it is being run by people who are

now in open warfare. This is openly hostile behaviour between members of

the governing party in the UK. That will present a clear challenge after

the referendum. Just over two weeks to go. Do we have any indication

which way this vote is going to go? Well, there is a cause polling

evidence, as you would expect. However, it is important to say that

recent experience in the UK, there was a general election last year in

which the polls got things disastrously wrong and predicted an

outcome that didn't bear fruit at all. A lot of the campaign then was

spent discussing the possible permutations of a college in

government, because that was what the polls at the time was adjusting.

Lots of people have tried to learn the lessons from that and not put

too much emphasis on what the polls are suggesting. They have tended to

be around neck and neck, with perhaps a bit more emphasis on the

Remain side. However, more recent polls have suggested that Leave

might be pulling ahead. But it is important to treat those with a

pinch of salt. We also had another lesson recently in British political

history, which was the Scottish referendum campaign, Scotland

answering the question over whether it wanted to become independent. One

of the campaigning sides did very loud and energetic. You couldn't

miss their campaigners in the streets, and yet the result went the

other way towards the quiet majority who knew how they were going to

vote. So it is hard to tell in these binary decision referendums, which

way it will go. That is why you are seeing so much heat generated, as

the pressure is on. Thank you. The United States has been stepping

up air strikes in support of Kurdish and moderate Syrian rebel forces

in Northern Syria, as they take The US has moved an aircraft carrier

from the Gulf to the Mediterranean, It comes as Syrian regime forces

are reported to have crossed into the IS heartland

of Raqqa province. Our defence correspondent,

Jonathan Beale, is with US forces on board the USS

Harry S Truman carrier. America's most potent weapon

in the fight against so-called Islamic State has quietly been

on the move and changed It was launching strikes

from the Gulf, but is now somewhere The last time the US launched

attacks from here was 2003. These jets are flying their first

missions from the Mediterranean, and they are much closer

here to potential targets in Syria, where US special forces are already

operating on the ground. He doesn't want us to give his real

name, but he believes He's already dropped around 30 bombs

on IS targets. I've personally seen the forward

line of troops from the good guys When he launches, he knows

he will be flying He refuels several times as he looks

for a target. And when he returns,

he tells us he dropped a 1000lb bomb We had no preplanned target,

as it were, and then we talked on the radio with some of our forces

and we found out what our target So you're talking to US

people on the ground? It's not just US air power helping

in the push towards Raqqa. Nor is America the only outside

power trying to influence this war. And that may be another reason why

this US warship is now sailing Russia will soon be sending its only

carrier to these same waters. Jonathan Beale, BBC News,

on board the Harry S Truman. Let me take you to Louisville in

Kentucky, where Muhammad Ali's family is due to speak. We are due

to hear from his family, who will be holding this press conference.

Muhammad Ali of course passed away on Friday, 874. We will bring you

the latest as soon as have it. What inspires me most about Muhammad Ali

is staking a -- taking a stand for what you believe in. For him to take

a stand against the war when he did, at the height of his career, that

would be the equivalent of Brian James not play into my's final game.

So that is huge, what Muhammad Ali did. He was a man of strength, a man

of courage. Everyone admires him now, but there was a time when

nobody liked him when he made an unpopular stance. But the message in

his life is that if you stand for you believe in, you will be

remembered long after you are gone. STUDIO: We will hear from the

family. That will be in the next few hours. We will bring you that when

we can. Iraqi forces say they have taken

the southern edge of Falluja in their battle to remove

the so-called Islamic The operation has been

going on for two weeks now, but progress has been slow

with troops facing stiff Peruvians are choosing between two

conservative candidates Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former

President Alberto Fujimori, is battling Pedro Pablo Kuczynski,

a former World Bank economist. Suspected Islamist militants have

murdered the wife of a senior police She was stabbed and shot

as she walked with her son The Islamic State group

also admitted murdering There have been waves

of killings of minorities A woman has been killed by a shark

off the west coast of Australia - the second such death there in less

than a week. Police say she was diving in waters

near the city of Perth with a man The 60-year-old woman was diving

about two kilometres off the Mindarie coast near Perth

when she was attacked. She was with a 43-year-old man,

who told police that he felt something pass him in the water,

and then a violent commotion. Three men on a nearby

fishing boat saw that something was happening,

and went to assist. The other boat that was in the water

got between the male diver and the shark,

and he was able to get back into his own boat,

and he was able to pull the lady But the woman's injuries

were severe and proved fatal. The fisherman told the police

that the shark was longer than their boat, more

than five metres in length. The woman is the second

person killed by a shark in Western Australia in less

than a week. On Tuesday, a surfer's leg

was bitten off by a shark about 100 kilometres south of where the latest

attack took place. 29-year-old Ben Gerring died

from his injuries on Friday. An inspection of this damaged

surfboard showed On Thursday, a four metre long great

white shark was captured and killed, but it's not known if this

shark was to blame for Stay with us on BBC

World News - still to come: We investigate the illegal

trade in bushmeat - one of the world's growing wildlife

crimes. With less than three weeks

until Britain votes in a referendum on whether to remain

in the European Union, the former Prime minister John Major

denounces the Leave campaign. A Christian shopkeeper has been

hacked to death in Bangladesh, hours after the wife of a policeman was

killed taking her son to school. than initial estimates two years

ago, according to the UN's In a new report, they say

international criminal gangs are netting profits estimated

at $259 billion from ivory The Angolan government has pledged

to close down the biggest market Our southern Africa correspondent

Karen Allen reports from Luanda. A post-war generation may

struggling to find jobs, but here, business is booming

in the bushmeat trade. It may be illegal, but we didn't

have to look far to find it. Although it may offend

some sensibilities What they are selling

here is a gazelle or an antelope. And it's not simply

about traditions. One woman told me there is

an economic reason for buying this. Monkey, snake, wildcat,

gazelle, all for sale It may seem macabre,

but this woman is among the millions They can't stop it, she tells me,

and you can't compare the taste of this meat

and the taste of chicken. And this is just

the tip of the iceberg. Big crime syndicates

are using markets like this bushmeat and ivory on an industrial

scale, Wildlife, now bigger Access to markets is coming

with cheap motorbikes coming into the landscape,

enabling them to convert So the people are eating just

the heads and guts of these animals. They're eating the big cats,

moles and birds. It's cascading down

into the ecosystem. Soldiers are now being rebranded

as wildlife rangers as Angola promises to live up to international

commitments to scale up efforts Daily, the poachers

are killing animals. And we don't want them

to kill any single animal, Pristine and wild, for some

of the remotest parts of this region, there is still a chance

to protect the wildlife. A proposal for a major conservation

zone is now on the table, in an effort to cheat the criminals

and avoid the looming threat that these majestic creatures

could very soon face extinction. What a great day for Novak Djokovic.

Absolutely. Novak Djokovic has become only

the eighth man in history to win all four Grand Slams and he now

holds all four titles at the same time, after beating Andy Murray

in the French Open final. It's the one Djokovic had always

wanted, after being a losing finalist three times at Roland

Garros. But having won 11 Majors,

the French is his 12th. Murray, meanwhile, was hoping

to become the first British man to win the French since 1935,

but was outclassed after winning I am privileged and honoured to be

alongside Rod Laver Arena. Today, I probably experienced one of the most

beautiful moment in my professional tennis career. Next to this one, I

would probably say it was Wimbledon back in 2011. These moments are

remarkable and unforgettable. I didn't serve particularly well after

the first set, which can be a factor against him. He is one of the best

returners, so if you don't serve so well, it will make things tough.

That is the one thing right now that I could pick. I am sure there are a

few other things I could have done better. But he definitely raise his

game as well and deserved to win. One of those men looking happy, the

other sad, as you can understand. Euro 2016 is now less than a week

away, with hosts France opening the tournament on Friday

against Romania in Paris. But several other teams

in the tournament got their last bit of practice in on Sunday,

ahead of the tournament. Belgium beat Norway 3-2,

with Romelu Lukaku and Eden Hazard The Czech Republic were shocked

at home to South Korea. Russia, who are in England

and Wales's group, drew, while the Welsh themselves had

a disappointing defeat against another Euro

2016 side, Sweden. It's done now. Disappointed, of

course we are. One thing I know about this bunch, they are a great

set of lads, fantastic people to work with. And it's up to me and my

staff now just to make sure we give them some reminders about what they

have done, but they are capable of, and make sure they are in a positive

frame of mind next week. Mo Farah broke the British 3,000m

record, as he dominated the field at the Diamond League meeting

in Birmingham this afternoon. While the 5 and 10k Olympic champion

wasn't racing against the most dangerous Kenyan or Ethiopian

athletes, he still impressed, and took a tenth of a second off

that British record. Incredible, I am happy with that. I

thought I had just missed it. You got it by a tenth. Close one! The

crowd made a big difference. Bit tired in the last lap.

40-year-old Kim Collins of St Kitts and Nevis won

America's Michael Rodgers finished second, with

The strongest field of the day featured three of the fastest women

It finished with an American one-two-three.

Kendra Harrison was first across the line, followed

by Brianna Rollins and Kristi Castlin.

Britain's Tiffany Porter finished in fifth.

And David Rudisha led from start to finish in the 600 metres. The Kenyan

was challenged, but held on for victory.

Muhammad Ali's family have said people from all over the world

are invited to his funeral in his hometown of

Aleem Maqbool reports from Louisville.

As a boy, Cassius Clay, as he was, came to this

His father painted the mural behind the altar.

And in their own small ways, people across this city are doing

the same, including outside Muhammad Ali's childhood home.

I am so beyond devastated, but he is no better place.

He is at peace, and there is no more suffering.

Young boxers here, of course, are thinking of him, too.

He said whatever he wanted to say to whoever he wanted to say it to.

My biggest lesson from him is, be yourself.

Flags across the city of Louisville at half-mast, including

here outside the huge arena where Muhammad Ali's funeral

His family said he was a citizen of the world, and would have wanted

as many people as possible from all walks of life to be

And the tributes from further afield keep coming, including from the man

who famously cried after beating Muhammad Ali

He would give the shirt off his back.

He didn't care about money or anything else.

If he walked down the street and people would say, hi, Ali,

That is what is wrong with people today, they don't do that.

Particularly poignant have been the words of Michael J Fox,

who suffers from the same disease that affected Muhammad Ali

Before I was diagnosed with Parkinson's, I admired him,

and I admired his athleticism, his poise, his class,

his style, his stoicism, his belief in what he felt was right

and his willingness to accept the consequences of standing

His doctor says in the final year before his death,

Muhammad Ali had been having a tough time.

That will be a distressing time for many around the world

who remember the man in his pomp, all power and elegance and grace.

Aleem Maqbool, BBC News, in Louisville, Kentucky.