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 told David Cameron,

he must admit he can't cut immigration, while Britain

A group of 18 Albanians including two children,

are rescued adrift off the Kent coast.

Hopefully, you know, somebody will try and put a stop to it because

it's people's lives, right. . We are all concerned.

On the front line in Fallujah, a special report on the battle

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

And drinks all round, as Lewis Hamilton wins his first

Downing Street has dismissed claims by two senior Conservatives,

that David Cameron will never be able to meet his pledge to cut

immigration to tens of thousands, as long as Britain remains

Number Ten says an open letter to the Prime Minister

from the prominent Vote Leave campaigners Boris Johnson

and Michael Gove, is a 'distraction' because they're unable to counter

the economic arguments for remaining inside the European Union.

But in a further sign of division in Conservative ranks,

some backbench MPs have suggested the Prime Minister could face a vote

Here's our Deputy Political Editor John Pienaar.

A moment of unity before the referendum.

Now there are bitter rivals in the ranks - the mood of triumph

after last May's election victory seems long ago,

and David Cameron is being confronted where he and the campaign

to remain in the EU is most vulnerable - the issue

Boris Johnson has been close to David Cameron, but both know

he wants his job and Michael Gove has been even closer,

Now they have combined to tell their PM openly the Tory

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

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,

and what we're doing from the Vote Leave side today

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

in the European Union, we cannot set limits on the amount

of people who come to live and work in the United Kingdom.

Away from Westminster's war games to people with better

things to do on Sunday, this issue still matters.

I don't know what's going to make me vote which way, and I don't know

which way I'm going to vote, but immigration is one thing, yeah.

The amount of people coming over now, I think it's...

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

If you've got 200,000 people trying to get into Britain, say,

if you're in the EU, or if you're out of it,

Between warring politicians it's grown personal.

Minister Priti Patel's suggestion - Remain campaign leaders,

who include the PM, are too privileged to understand how mass

Downing Street says the Leave side is losing arguments

Big names of the Remain camp say the Laavers are just plain wrong.

I'm completely sensitive to the issue of immigration, and you

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

But among Tory MPs, the chat over coffee

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

but Eurosceptics feel it is David Cameron's side

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

I think there is 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.

And they would demand a vote of no confidence, you're saying?

I think that's probably highly likely.

Either way, there may now be enough angry Tories to make

Everything rests on the vote, and the Prime Minister will need

a win for his Remain campaign, and a big one, to see off his

Well, as the immigration debate continues, 18 Albanian migrants had

to be rescued off the Kent coast, after getting into

All are now being questioned in Dover, with the incident

intensifying arguments over Britain's ability to

Katriona Renton reports from Dymchurch on the Kent coast.

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

Among them, a woman and two children.

The boat was taking on water when the coastguard scrambled

the search and rescue helicopter and lifeboats.

Locals in Dymchurch witnessed the search.

All of a sudden, this huge helicopter came down and basically

We ran as fast as we could up there, and all of a sudden about 50 police

officers came from nowhere and you could see this massive raft,

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.

The boat was found at 2 o'clock in the morning,

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

to it, because it's people's lives, right, that we're

Some fear this could be a wider problem.

It's a bit of a worry because you think we've got a huge

coastline along here now and it's probably a matter of time before

they start looking at different areas to try to get across.

This is the latest incident on the UK's shores this week

On Tuesday 17 people, also thought to be Albanian,

It's said the weather conditions at sea last night were good.

Had they been worse, or the boat not found,

the outcome could have been very different.

Recently, the National Crime Agency has warned that some organised

criminal gangs are trying to smuggle migrants into the UK through less

busy ports along the east and south coasts of England.

Katriona Renton, BBC News, Dymchurch.

Let's speak to our Deputy Political Editor John Pienaar.

Jon Downing Street say the vote leave arguments about immigration

are distracting from concerns about the economic impact

of a possible Brexit but incident like the one we've seen in Kent

Mass migration is as much an emotive issue. The sight of the boats

arriving on the beaches might fuel the fear that Britain will be more

insulated outside the EU. Some feel migration is a raw nerve, that they

can't bash hard enough or often enough, that there could be a price

to pay in party unity, managing the daily business of government could

be much more difficult after this turn in the mood inside the

Conservative Party. And there are whisperics of a vote

of no confidence possibly -- whisperings. Is he confident he can

keep his backbenchers in line? They are angry. Depending tonne outcome,

there may or may not be a vote of no-confidence for David Cameron and

it takes only about nine or ten to stop the Government doing what it

likes in the House of Commons, which is a problem for the Government. You

know that the Labour Party, well, no party does suicidal indiscipline

like the Labour Party except the Conservative Party when it's in the

mood and right now the Euro-sceptics are in as much of a mood as I've

seen like when John Major made their lives a misery. Thank you very much.

The Iraqi Government says it's made significant advances,

in efforts to drive out so called Islamic State extremists

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

Our correspondent Jim Muir, is travelling with Iraqi

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

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, during the ten months of fighting.

Today President Francois Hollande and Chancellor Angela Merkel,

paid their respects at the German military cemetery, just north

And hundreds of thousands of bikers have descended on Washington DC,

to commemorate America's war dead at the annual Memorial Day event

This year the rally was addressed by the Republican Presidential

He said America wasn't fit for war veterans,

with an ailing economy, and companies moving

their operations to Mexico in search of cheap labour.

Here's our North America Editor Jon Sopel.

Washington is normally such a tranquil city.

Because the memorial Bank Holiday weekend is when a million bikers

from all over the US converge on DC to pay tribute

Some even ride with their dog, suitable crash helmet of course.

It's called Rolling Thunder, but the person whipping up a storm

this weeked is Donald Trump who's come to address the rally.

Not that he's adored, it's just they dislike his main

What about Hillary, what do you think of her?

That's immaterial, I don't like who his opponent is going to be.

So because it's Hillary Clinton, you will be voting Donald Trump?

Those people that live in our world don't have the freedoms

A lot of our freedoms are being taken away and hopefully

The organisers, many of them veterans from the Vietnam

era, invited us to join the front of the parade.

Rolling Thunder takes in the capital's most famous

landmarks and huge crowds line the streets to salute

Try to talk about solemnity when you have a row

Except for today, Donald Trump is here symbolically connecting

himself with patriotic blue colour Harley Davidson-loving America.

Donald Trump played on the links when he took to the stage.

"These people are my people", he declared.

And then came the pitch this audience wanted to hear.

We are going to rebuild our military and we are going to take care

Our veterans have been treated so badly.

The crowds in Washington for today's rally were huge.

Many more will have watched on television.

Courting the bikers and veterans isn't pandering to a tiny minority,

this vote is big and Donald Trump is determined to make it his own.

A four-year-old boy is recovering in hospital after falling

into a Gorilla enclosure and being dragged for several

Staff decided to shoot the gorilla dead at the zoo, in the US

city of Cincinnati, as Laura Bicker reports.

These are the frantic screams of disbelief as a gorilla drags

The boy crawled through a barrier and fell ten feet into the moat.

The gorilla weighs almost 30 stone, but he moves fast.

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

Our 17-year-old gorilla male who's a great big animal, 400 pounds,

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

It seemed from the team that it was a life-threatening situation.

The four-year-old was taken to hospital, he's not thought

Zoo staff say a tranquilizer would have taken several

They thought that was too long as the gorilla appeared agitated.

The team did a good job, made a tough choice but the right choice.

They saved that little boy eats life.

The zoo hoped the gorilla would father other gorillas

to help conserve this rare, endangered species.

The Gorilla World enclosure will be closed until further notice.

All this week we'll be looking at some of the key issues weighing

on everyone's minds, as they decide how to vote in the EU

Tonight in the first of our series of Issues Unpacked our

Education Editor Branwyn Jeffreys, looks at what a vote in or out,

800 years of academic research, Cambridge university still among

The European Union a recent chapter in its history.

Professor Derek Smith tracks infectious diseases,

His research wins EU money but he says it's being

Having the voice in that to set the agenda, as well as actually do

the research is incredibly important because of course it's not just

important to do research, it's important to do the right sort

of research that can best protect us from these sorts of

So universities argue that research funding helps drive

collaboration at universities in other EU countries.

But it's not just about the money, also the people.

Every year, about 120,000 students come from other EU countries

More than twice that number come from outside the EU.

The Vice Chancellor here was born in Wales to Polish parents.

He argues research creates jobs and opportunities

For him, the biggest worry is global competition.

It is China, it is the growing power of India, it's also North America

That's where our graduates have to compete in the future.

That's why I believe being in a wider grouping gives us

the best opportunity to remain globally competitive.

It's about building knowledge into the future they say.

This research facility at Cardiff university will investigate diseases

It's the first stage of the new project.

Two more buildings are going to be built here,

as part of a new innovation centre, being partly funded

The university says it's an example of how research funding can trickle

Just next door, a rare academic who thinks we should leave.

Professor Kent Matthews tells me university is paid for by UK taxes

Professor Kent Matthews tells me universities paid for by UK taxes

would be more accountable and could still bid

Turkey is in it, Tunisia is in it, Norway is in it.

Now, why should you think that the EU has a monopoly

The best academics come from all over the world,

we have to be open to the rest of the world and not

Our universities are some of the best in the world.

Many with reputations much older than the European Union,

leaving would affect them but how much no-one

Now with all the sport, here's Katherine Downes

Lewis Hamilton won his first race of the season -

snatching the Monaco Grand Prix from Daniel Riccardo.

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

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

That is where the Red Bull driver could have stayed

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

England look to be heading for victory in the Test

They need just 5 wickets tomorrow to win the 2nd Test.

At the close the tourists were 309-5 in their second innings.

With two days left to play, that leaves Sri Lanka still 88 runs

short of England's first innings score.

Andy Murray is through to the quarter finals

He beat American John Isner in straight sets.

The first went to a tie break, but after a rain delay,

Murray came out stronger to win the next two 6-4, 6-3.

He'll next play home favourite Richard Gasquet, who knocked out

Barnsley have been promoted to the Championship after winning

the League 1 play-off final at Wembley today.

They beat Millwall 3-1 - this the pick of the goals

Barnsley back in the second tier of English football

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.

And finally, a bit of history was made in London today,

as British Paralympian David Weir became the first wheelchair racer

in the world, to complete a mile in under three minutes.

Weir - who's won six Paralympic gold medals -

finished the distance in 2 minutes and 57 seconds.

Sir Roger Bannister, who ran the first sub-four-minute

mile in 1954, was among those to congratulate Weir

But do stay with us on BBC1, it's time for the news