16/10/2016 BBC Weekend News

The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson who led the campaign to leave the

European Union has defended a newspaper article in favour of the

EU, it just two days before he announced he was back in the Leave

campaign. He warns of the economic and constitutional risks Brexit

would pose. Mr Johnson said he wrote the article along with another one

in favour of leaving the EU in order to clarify his thoughts.

He's the Foreign Secretary who is supposed to be

But just days before coming out for the Leave campaign,

Boris Johnson wrote an article singing the praises

Everyone was trying to make up their minds about whether or not

to leave the European Union, and it was perfectly true back

in February, I was wrestling with it, like a lot

And I wrote a long piece which came down overwhelmingly

I then thought I had better see if I can make

I set them side-by-side and it was blindly obvious

And I think the people made the right decision.

The Sunday Times printed the column in which Mr Johnson said the EU came

He went on to say that the UK should be ultimately engaged

with the European Union and suggested that Brexit could lead

to an economic shock or even the break-up of the United Kingdom.

But now Mr Johnson is one of those charged with steering

There's a battle brewing between the government

and backbenchers over whether Parliament should get

to vote on the details of the Brexit negotiations.

Whilst the government has a mandate to put us out of the

European Union, they don't have a mandate how to do that.

And that is why it is important the government strengthens its own

hand and also subjects its own ideas to the sort of scrutiny

of the parliament before they go to the negotiations.

A parliamentary vote on the issue would be a risk though,

because if the government were to lose, the triggering

of Article 50, which Theresa May has promised by the end of March,

And some on the front bench say parliament

This is not about using Parliament as a vehicle

to subvert the democratic will of the British public.

Debates are happening, there will be a significant debate,

several debates I suspect, around the great repeal bill.

We have new committees, select committee in the House

of Commons, we have a new secretary of state in David Davis

They are in and out of the Commons on a daily basis.

The referendum might have been decided, but the direction of travel

for Britain's exit from the EU and who will get to have a say,

A former member of the SAS has said he is being investigated

by the Royal Military Police, after revealing that he shot dead

severely injured enemy fighters during the Iraq War in 2003.

Colin MacLachan, who was featured in the Channel Four programme,

SAS: Who Dares Wins, describes in a new book how he acted

More than a decade on from Britain's military intervention in Iraq and

more questions about what was done in Britain's name. Colin MacLachan

was then a Sergeant in the SAS. Here he can be seen in a TV series about

special forces training and endurance. But it is his

contribution to a chapter in a new book that has led to fresh

controversy about wartime behaviour and how it is judged. The former

Sergeant says he took part in the killing of three Iraqi army soldiers

after they had been very badly injured in an ambush. In the book he

writes: What he called mercy killings were,

he said, for the greater good. But now Colin MacLachan says he is under

investigation for what he did. The Ministry of Defence says credible

investigations of criminal behaviour will always be investigated. The

Prime Minister has made it clear she disapproves of the prosecution of

soldiers for their actions in wartime. But no military units and

no soldier is above the law. Questions about actions in Iraq will

not go away. People will have different opinions

on this, but what is the legal position? There is growing concern

about what happened in Iraq. The Iraq historical allegations team is

looking at more than 1300 separate incidents. And there is a growing

argument that what happened in wartime should be dealt differently

with what happens in peace time. What Colin MacLachan says he did was

against the law and against the Geneva Convention Britain is signed

up to. It says if you are out of combat as a result of your wounds,

you must be treated humanely. Supporters of Colin MacLachan will

say, the most humane thing would be to shoot these men, but the law and

the convention sees it differently. MPs have accused Labour of failing

to deal properly with allegations of anti-Semitism in the party -

and have criticised Jeremy Corbyn for not providing adequate

leadership in addressing the issue. Mr Corbyn has rejected the findings

of the report by the Commons' Home Affairs Committee,

saying its focus on Labour was unjustifiable -

when there was no reliable evidence to suggest it had a greater

problem with anti-Semitism Police have reopened the case of two

11-year-old friends murdered in Merseyside 36 years ago -

after receiving new information. John Greenwood and Gary Miller died

after being found beaten and hidden under a mattress on a rubbish tip

in Whiston on 16 August 1980. A man was tried for their murders

in 1981, but found not guilty. Detectives have made a new appeal

for anybody who saw the boys on the day

of the murders to come forward. Rebel groups in Syria say they've

captured the town of Dabiq Many of the fighters have

been backed by Turkey. Talks to discuss the crisis in Syria

are taking place in The foreign ministers of France,

Germany, Britain and Donald Trump has accused his

Democratic rival Hillary Clinton of taking performance enhancing

drugs before last week's US The Republican candidate is also

suggesting they both take a substance test before the final

debate on Wednesday. The Donald Trump campaign

for President rolls on and into New Hampshire,

where despite a string of recent sexual allegations against him,

he shows no signs of wavering in his battle against

Hillary Clinton. This time alleging she may have

taken drugs in their last debate, and saying they both should be

tested for drugs before She was all pumped up

at the beginning, and at the end So I think we should

take a drug test. And he suggested that

Hillary Clinton's conspicuous absence from campaigning was due

to the fact she was A recent talk show appearance seemed

to suggest otherwise. We're going to be choosing

a President who will set policy. A heavily doctored clip

which the Democratic The Democratic nominee

for Vice-President, Tim Kaine, said Donald Trump was desperate,

as he continues to claim the media and the establishment are trying

to rig the elections And now that he thinks he's

going to lose, he's going around and saying, oh,

the whole thing's rigged. Next stop a Republican Hindu

coalition fund raiser in New Jersey. Donald Trump insists he wants to be

a President for all citizens, to bring what he says

is a divided country together. The last of their presidential

debates takes place on Wednesday. Andy Murray has won the Shanghai

Masters for the third time. He beat Spain's

Roberto Bautista-Agut It's Murray's second

tournament victory in a row, having recently won the China Open

title in Beijing. The world number two has now cut

Novak Djokovic's lead at the top of the world rankings to 915

points. You can see more on all of today's

stories on the BBC News Channel. The next news on BBC One

is at 5:55pm - bye for now. It has been a lively morning of

weather. An active band of rain travelling across the country.

Gloucestershire saw some rain earlier