05/06/2016 BBC Weekend News

A former Prime Minister launches a scathing attack on the campaign

for Britain to leave the European Union.

who wants Britain to stay in the EU - says the claims being made

What they have said about leaving is fundamentally dishonest,

and it's dishonest about the cost of Europe.

For the Leave campaign, Boris Johnson defends the approach

Yes, there's our borders but there are also very,

very important aspects of our economic life that,

Muhammad Ali's coffin is flown home to Kentucky ahead of the funeral

on Friday in the town where he was born.

How scientists are using animals to grow human organs -

This sow is pregnant with embryos which contain human cells.

I'll be reporting on why scientists think it could be the answer

And Novak Djokovic defeats Andy Murray to win the French Open -

he now holds all four grand slams at the same time.

The former Conservative Prime Minister Sir John Major,

who wants Britain to remain in the EU, has made a fierce

attack on the campaign for Britain to leave,

With little more than two weeks to go before the vote,

Sir John said the claims being made were deceitful and,

on the issue of immigration, verging on the squalid.

Boris Johnson has responded for the Leave campaign,

defending the emphasis on immigration and claiming the UK's

population could rise to 80 million if it is not brought under control.

Our political correspondent Ben Wright reports

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 that 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.

Uncontrolled numbers coming in here not only depress

wages for working people, it is also the 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's going to 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 very 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, I think,

an agenda for the Government to take back control on June 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 political arguments is now fierce, because

Our deputy political editor John Pienaar is with me now.

What you think the impact of what John Major said today will be?

Coming from John Major, a respected former Prime Minister, we have never

seen a so-called blue on blue attack of this kind in living memory,

Margaret Thatcher never let rip like this, nor did Ted Heath before her.

It is true that John Major is a great pro-European, I think he never

forgave the Eurosceptics that made his premiership a misery, as they

did. Day after day, we have seen senior politicians on both sides,

that rely on public trust, accusing each other of being barefaced liars.

It can't be good for the party and power, it can't be good for

politics. Tomorrow, the Leave aside will say that unpaid bills in the EU

will mean Britain getting landed with a bill, and as soon as that is

said, it will be called a lie. People might decide they can't

believe what is being said and they will make up their own mind. Maybe

that is not all bad, that is what people will have to do in the end,

use their own judgment, at least those that can be bothered to vote

on June the 23rd, in the biggest decision this country has faced for

many years. The day after, the Conservatives have to start to mend

fences, how will they do it? It is an extraordinary campaign, it will

put a lot of strain on David Cameron's future management of his

party and the Government. He will need a big win for Remain to have

any chance of stabilising his party and the government. Mutinous MPs are

muttering the whole time about stopping the Government doing

anything they don't like. There will be split in the Cabinet which will

erode his authority. I think he has a tough time coming. He might put

off choosing his own time and place to go, but he might end up hanging

on and wishing he had gone sooner. The funeral of Muhammad Ali,

one of the most internationally celebrated people of our time,

will be held in his home town His body was flown home from Arizona

this evening and his family have said people from anywhere

in the world are welcome Our correspondent Aleem Maqbool

reports from Louisville. For the final time, the man they

call the greatest of them all has travelled home. His casket, arriving

back in Louisville, where he grew up and where he wanted to be laid to

rest. In their own small ways, people across this city are

remembering Muhammad Ali. There is a steady stream of mourners to his

childhood home. I am so beyond devastated,

but he is in a 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. 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 in the 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 His doctor says in the final

year before his death, Muhammad Ali had been

having a tough time. That will be a distressing thought

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. Muhammad Ali's life - and death -

has a particular significance He grew up at a time of racial

segregation and was later despised by some for his refusal

to fight in Vietnam. The civil rights activist

the Reverend Al Sharpton has told the BBC that Ali's journey to become

global hero symbolises Nick Bryant has been speaking

to him, and reports from America's most famous

black neighbourhood - In black churches in Harlem today,

praise and prayer for America's Once such a polarising

figure, now the recipient That rare thing in modern-day

America, a unifying figure. He filled us with the audacity

to say we could float like The audacity to believe

we could accomplish great things. At a time when black Americans

were made to feel powerless, He tells a story about not

being served in a restaurant Wrapped himself in the American flag

and they would not serve him. Membership of the Nation Of Islam

and his friendship with black radicals like Malcolm X put him

at odds with the mainstream civil rights movement,

but he was still the dominant figure He inspired modern-day leaders

like his friend, the Here is a man that was despised

because he stood up He went from being despised

to being a global hero, He symbolises to us that

if you struggle and remain true to the cause,

you will be vindicated. Whenever Ali toured Harlem,

his magnetism meant he was mobbed. Today, the famed Apollo Theatre

put his name up in lights and T-shirts went on sale adorned

with Ali iconography. PZ take the lead backer deified

figure. To visit the churches was to be reminded that I am the greatest

was not just his famous boast, but also an affirmation of black pride.

Iraqi forces say they have secured the southern edge of Fallujah

as part of an operation to recapture the city from so called

Fallujah is one of the last strongholds of IS in Iraq -

and has been under the militants' control for more than two years.

They also hold Iraq's second largest city,

Police investigating the murder of a pensioner from Suffolk

and the disappearance of his wife have arrested a man in Leicester.

A body believed to be that of Peter Stuart, who was 75,

was found close to his home near Diss on Friday night.

His wife, Sylvia, was last seen over a week ago.

A woman's been killed in a shark attack off

It's the second fatal attack in the area in less than a week.

The 60-year-old woman was diving about a mile off Perth with a man

Scientists in the United States are trying to grow human

The research uses a pioneering technique known as gene editing,

which enables DNA to be altered simply and quickly.

Some experts believe animals could provide the answer

Our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh has this

You are watching two species being mixed.

Human stem cells are being injected into a one-day old pig embryo.

You can see them travelling down the tube.

This biologist in California is trying to grow a human

Our hope is that this pig embryo will develop normally,

but the pancreas will be made up almost exclusively of human cells.

So then that pancreas could be compatible with a patient

The technique is known as gene editing.

It uses molecular scissors to delete the DNA instructions in the pig

The ambition is the human cells will fill the void and grow

The same technique might enable other organs to be

The BBC's Panorama was allowed to film the sows that

were pregnant with human-pig embryos known as chimeras.

If human stem cells were taken from a patient, the transplant

organs could be tissue matched, reducing the risk of rejection.

This research raises profound ethical concerns,

crucially, just how human are the piglets

It's such a sensitive area that the chimeric embryos will not

be permitted to go to term, but be removed for tissue analysis

after 28 days gestation, when they are about a centimetre

Crucially, they will check whether the pig's developing brain

Another pioneer in this field told me this question

With every organ that we try to make, the kidney, liver or lung,

we will look at what is happening in the brain.

And if we find that it is too humanlike, we won't let those

But organisations campaigning for an end to factory farming

are dismayed by the thought of organ farms.

I'm nervous about opening up a new source of animal suffering.

Let's first get many more people to donate organs.

If there is still a shortage, we could consider using pigs,

but on the basis that we eat less meat, so that there is no overall

increase in the number of pigs being used for human purposes.

7,000 people in the UK are on the transplant waiting list

and hundreds die each year before a donor can be found.

But patient trials involving gene edited pig organs

And you can see more about this on Panorama tomorrow night

With all the sport, here's Karthi Gnanasegaram

World number two Andy Murray admitted that he's very disappointed

after losing today's French Open final to Novak Djokovic but feels

he played some of his best clay court tennis during the tournament.

Instead of Murray making history today, it was Djokovic,

who has become only the third man to hold all four Grand Slam

So, would a gloomy Sunday in Paris prove another date with destiny?

More than 80 years after a British man last Here, the Andy Murray fan

club were hoping once again for history. The only problem was, so

was his opponent. His nemesis, Novak Djokovic, aiming for a full set of

grand slams. With that pressure weighing on him, it was Murray that

roared out of the box. That is Murray at his best. Djokovic looked

rattled. After one line call, he lost his composure and duly lost the

first set, Murray seemingly in control. But not for long. At last,

Djokovic stirred, and in what style, as he raced to the second set. The

world number one was now playing like it and, as Murray's form faded,

Djokovic's hit dizzying heights. He reeled off the next two sets and his

reward was sporting greatness. The last gap on his CV had been finally

and a gloriously filled, while Murray could only rue what might

have been. I didn't serve particularly well. That can be a

factor against one of the best returners. I am sure there were a

few other things I could have done a bit better. But he definitely raised

his game as well and deserved to win. Disappointment for Murray and

his fans, but they know they have witnessed something very special

indeed, from a now who now rules his sport like few others. Not since Rod

Labour in 1969 has one man held all four micrograms slams. For this

seemingly unstoppable player, a quite unforgettable day.

Wales have been defeated by Sweden in their one and only warm up match

before the European Championship starts on Friday.

Sweden were 3-0 winners over Wales in Stockholm.

Emil Forsberg scored their first goal just before half time.

Even a second half appearance by Gareth Balecouldn't inspire Wales

to score while their defence let in two goals after the break.

Their first game in the European Championship

Great Britain's Becky Downie has won a gold medal

in the uneven bars discipline at the European Gymnastics

Downie was crowned European Champion for the second time in her

Her younger sister, Ellie, claimed two silver medals

on the vault and floor on the final day of the competition.

Great Britain's women have won four medals in total

Athletics, and with exactly two months to go until the Rio Olympics

begin, double Olympic and world champion Mo Farah has broken the 34

year old British three thousand metres record

Farrah is now the national record holder at 1500 metres,

2 miles, 3000, 5000 and 10000 metres.

But the Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford finished in fifth

place in Birmingham today as his unbeaten run in 2016 came

That is all from the BBC Sport Centre.

On this day in 1975, Britain was voting in the first

European referendum, on membership of what was then the

Our world affairs editor, John Simpson, reported on that

referendum and looks now at how the campaigns then and now compare.

Sometimes, 41 years on, it feels awfully like Groundhog Day.

The same passionate certainty from some people, the same

Many of the same arguments, too - though some of the issues

Immigration barely surfaced as an issue in 1975.

41,000 more people left Britain than came to it that year.

We've been in the common market now for two and a half years.

We had the three-day week only a year before.

Europe was far richer and more successful.

At the time, Lord Hannay was a senior diplomat who played

an important part renegotiating Britain's new terms of membership.

I would, myself, say that the differences are even more

For example, I think the whole tone of politics has got a bit

There seems to be pretty well no boundaries beyond which you cannot

It's become far too much like Have I Got News For You.

It's true, people still trusted politics and politicians then.

1975 seems like today turned upside down.

It was the Labour Party which was bitterly divided over Europe.

That is why Harold Wilson, as Labour Prime Minister,

The Tories were enthusiastically in favour of staying in Europe,

including Margaret Thatcher, their brand-new leader.

41 years on, the tone of the debate seems a lot more bitter now,

a lot nastier and more personal than it did back in 1975.

Partly, of course, because of the way politics

But it's also because of the way the press is now reporting

This is typical of how the newspapers represented the campaign.

Dr Robert Saunders is an historian of the '75 referendum.

In those days, only two lone newspapers -

the communist Morning Star and The Spectator -

Newspapers like The Sun, The Express, the Daily Mail,

which today are, to varying degrees, Eurosceptic, in 1975,

all of those newspapers campaigned enthusiastically to stay in.

So, given that this is a period in which newspaper readership

in Britain was extremely high, I think that the message coming

from the media was very much on one side of the argument.

In 1975, the fact that the press and the main political parties

were all in favour of Europe helped to ensure a massive

Today, the outcome is a lot less clear.

What does seem clear is that referendums rarely sort

That's all from me, stay with us on BBC One -