23/08/2014 BBC Weekend News

The United Nations has called for immediate action to prevent

a massacre in an Iraqi town that's under siege

by militants from Islamic State. The UN said the situation faced

by 20,000 people in the town of Amerli is "desperate".

Here, the Home Secretary, Theresa May, has said she is

considering banning extremist groups in the UK, even if they're not

directly involved in terrorism. Our World Affairs Correspondent Mike

Wooldridge reports With Islamic state now holding sway,

it is across wide areas of both Iraq and Syria, they parade fighters and

well funded military resources in propaganda videos. As governments

get to grips with the complex challenge of trying to check their

advances on different fronts. New sectarian violence in Iraq, this is

the aftermath of an attack on a Sunni mosque which killed around 70

people. It has already led to major Sunni groups pulling out of racial

talks to form a new government. And here, a further blow to Iraq's own

capacity to defeat. And that is a head of further concerns about a

town which is surrounded by militants. TRANSLATION: We have been

depending upon undrinkable ground water force arrival, six people have

run out of medicine, we do not have enough food because the whole city

has been under siege for a long time and there is no way to leave. All of

this after this week in which the ISP heading of the American

journalist, James Foley, was seen as a watershed in battling the

extremist movement, piling the pressure on the US, Britain and the

governments over how to tackle the IAS in Syria as well as in Iraq. --

and other governments. A seasoned voice saying that it must mean

dealing with Syria. I have been involved in the Middle East for many

years, 50 years, and I have never if I saw macro -- if Isil win, they

face a threat to all of the surrounding countries. The Foreign

Secretary Philip Hammond has rejected collaborating with the

president on the threat of IAS, the Home Secretary Theresa May now says

that she is looking at the case for new banning orders for extremist

groups which fall short of the legal threshold. -- IS. The Home Secretary

says this could be a struggle which lasts decades.

We can speed with political correspondent Ben Bright in

Westminster, how much detail is there about what the government

might be wanting to do here in relation to the terrorism laws? Not

a great deal but we are not talking about a raft of new anti-terror

laws, the government is not suggesting that and there would not

be time to get them through parliament for the election even if

they wanted to. Theresa May is talking about tweaking the toolkit

of power. Widening the net of groups connected to extremism which could

be banned the on those directly involved in terrorism, she's also

talking about bringing in civil powers to restrict the movements of

people involved in radicalisation. Those the kind of thing she is

talking about. There is not much detail about who the powers may

apply to and when they may come in. The government says it is

considering them, but they were considering the exact same proposals

a month ago, when the anti-extremism task force reported after the murder

of Lee Rigby in London last year. My sense is that there is no desire to

come up with a knee jerk reactive proposal, that is not where the

government are. They are under pressure from their own backbenchers

to come up with something tougher. Reviving in some form, for instance,

control orders which were replaced by the government in 2011, several

Tory MPs have said that should be looked at again.

Two men have been remanded in custody, following the death of an

Afghan migrant who was found in a container at Tilbury docks in Essex.

Stephen McLaughlin and Timothy Murphy appeared

before magistrates in Chelmsford, accused of conspiring to facilitate

illegal entry into the UK. The man who died was among 35 Afghan

Sikhs found at the docks a week ago. Jane Peel reports.

The group had travelled thousands of miles to what they hoped would be a

better life, they were found in a container, which had arrived at

Tilbury on a ferry from is a broker. Dock workers heard banging and

screaming, when they open the container, they found one man, a

40-year-old, dead. The rest of the group including a number of children

were severely dehydrated and hypothermia. -- Zeebrugge. Two men

in their early 30s, both lorry drivers from Londonderry, were

arrested last week, they were charged last night and appeared at

Magistrates' Court in Chelmsford this morning. Timothy Murphy and

Stephen McLaughlin are accused of conspiring together and with other

people are known to clandestine they convey 35 Afghan nationals by C to

an English port in breach of immigration law. They were both

denied bail and were remanded in custody. -- by sea. This photo taken

by a local temple if you days after the migrants were found shows

members of the community who gave them support, and some of those they

helped. The survivors are in the process of claiming asylum in

Britain. Essex Police say their investigation is continuing.

A boat carrying up to 200 African migrants bound for Europe has sunk

off the coast of Libya. It's feared that most of those

on board have drowned. The small wooden boat sank

last night, east of Tripoli. 16 people were rescued.

Aviation authorities have banned all flights over Iceland's largest

volcano, after a number of recent eruptions.

Experts say the Bardar-bunga volcano could emit significant amounts

of ash into the atmosphere. Hospitals in England have been told

to cut the cost of parking for some patients and their relatives,

as well as staff who work shifts. The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt,

says he wants to protect patients and their families from the "added

stress of unfair parking charges". Sarah Campbell reports

High parking fees can make an already stressful hospital visit

even more painful. Campaigners say 79% of hospitals in England charge

for parking with costs as much as ?72 per day. Three weeks ago, this

baby was having a difficult time entering the world, his father had

to pay for five days parking at the local hospital, costing him ?60. At

a time when you are experiencing something quite traumatic and you

are at your most honourable, I think it is excessive. -- vulnerable. It

is an NHS hospital so it is something paid for by the taxpayer.

At a time of need, which is what the NHS is therefore, we should not be

subjected to that kind of charge. Now the government has issued

guidelines to all NHS organisations in England that free or reduced

parking should be available to more people including those with

disabilities, with gravely ill relatives and staff, where public

transport is not available. It has become an easy source of revenue, a

stealth tax by hospital bosses. This announcement is very good, it says

enough is enough. Charges have been abolished in all but a handful of

hospitals in Wales and Scotland, some patients in Northern Ireland

are exempt as well. In England the new rules are for guidance only, if

they trust, Royal free Hospital in London here for example, feels

charging ?3 per hour to Park is appropriate, there is nothing to

stop them. , the cost of scrapping parking

altogether has been estimated at ?250 million, it is a cost that some

hospitals may be unwilling or unable to bear.

Today was 7th time lucky for Leeds Rhinos as they beat

Castleford at Wembley, to win Rugby League's Challenge Cup.

Leeds had lost their last six Challenge Cup finals.

Adam Wild was watching the action. Rugby league's grandest occasion,

the game 's most famous trophy. -- game's. The question for Leeds

United, could they put to an end a run of six straight cup final

defeat? They were first to find space, Tom Briscoe crossing in the

corner. Castleford is a club starved of the success of their big club

neighbours, Harold Clark refused to react to narrow the margin, hitting

back immediately. Lead United proved difficult to catch, Danny McGuire

touching down, was this finally to be their year -- Leeds.

Oliver Holmes raced away to score under the posts. For Leeds and their

much heralded golden generation of players, they were unstoppable, man

of the match Ryan Hall scoring his second, challenge cup winners at the

seventh time of asking.