:00:00. > :00:20.Broadcasting in the UK and around the world. A week of tragedy in the
:00:21. > :00:26.Mediterranean Sea. Up to 700 migrants are feared drowned in three
:00:27. > :00:32.separate ship wrecks off the Libyan coast, according to the UN. In
:00:33. > :00:36.Britain, two senior Conservatives tell the primaries that he must
:00:37. > :00:40.admit he cannot cut immigration as long as Britain remains in the
:00:41. > :00:48.youth. And the French and German leaders mark the Centenary of the
:00:49. > :00:52.bloodiest battle of World War I. The heart stopping moment a child was at
:00:53. > :01:05.the mercy of a gorilla at a zoo in America.
:01:06. > :01:11.Good evening and welcome to BBC World News Today.
:01:12. > :01:16.The UN refugee agency say the number of migrants who drowned in the
:01:17. > :01:21.Mediterranean in the past two days could be as high as 700. The
:01:22. > :01:24.information comes from survivors who have been taken to Italy. Our
:01:25. > :01:32.correspondent has been following the story. The end of a terrifying
:01:33. > :01:39.ordeal as the Italian navy ship brings people ashore. On board, 629
:01:40. > :01:46.people who were saved. They were picked up just in time. Many are too
:01:47. > :01:53.weak to walk. Also, those who did not make the journey alive. 45 Ortiz
:01:54. > :01:58.brought ashore. By interviewing survivors officials have got more
:01:59. > :02:02.information about the extent of the tragedies at sea. The UN refugees
:02:03. > :02:09.agency says it now believes around 700 people died last week. It could
:02:10. > :02:13.have been worse, rescue teams were working flat out, the UN says a
:02:14. > :02:24.staggering 15,000 lives were saved last week in the Mediterranean.
:02:25. > :02:26.What is happening is that this is the new normal.
:02:27. > :02:28.It is awful, but basically the central Mediterranean route
:02:29. > :02:30.has been confirmed as the most dreadful.
:02:31. > :02:33.It is very much needed to open some legal way for those who have right
:02:34. > :02:37.otherwise they will continue to get on these really flimsy boats.
:02:38. > :02:39.And the smugglers, the survivors told us,
:02:40. > :02:41.that there are smugglers literally pushing them onto the boat,
:02:42. > :02:53.Those desperate to reach Europe are at the mercy of smuggling gangs who
:02:54. > :02:59.value money more than lives. A terrifying capsize. This happened on
:03:00. > :03:03.Wednesday. Now we learn that at least 100 of the passengers are
:03:04. > :03:07.missing. People rescued say that another entire boat officials knew
:03:08. > :03:13.nothing about sank off the Libyan coast. There is no record of names
:03:14. > :03:14.of precise numbers of the victims of this tragedy which looks likely to
:03:15. > :03:31.continue into the summer. Two senior Conservatives have called
:03:32. > :03:34.on David Cameron to accept his failure to cut migration, saying the
:03:35. > :03:39.goal is unachievable unless Britain leaves the European Union. Downing
:03:40. > :03:43.Street said it was an attempt to distract voters from the economic
:03:44. > :03:47.case for membership. In further signs of divisions in the party is
:03:48. > :03:49.some backbench MPs suggested that the time Mr could face a vote of no
:03:50. > :03:51.confidence. A moment of unity, even triumph,
:03:52. > :03:55.before the referendum began. Now, there are bitter rivals
:03:56. > :03:57.in the ranks and David Cameron has been openly confronted
:03:58. > :04:01.where he and the campaign he leads to remain an EU
:04:02. > :04:04.member is most vulnerable, the tricky issue
:04:05. > :04:08.of migration control. Boris Johnson's been close
:04:09. > :04:10.to David Cameron - they both know he wants his job -
:04:11. > :04:13.and Michael Gove has been even Now they have combined
:04:14. > :04:18.to tell their PM openly the Tory pledge to cut migration into Britain
:04:19. > :04:20.isn't worth the paper In an open letter, they write:
:04:21. > :04:25."The promise net immigration could be cut to tens
:04:26. > :04:28.of thousands is not achievable. Failure to keep it was
:04:29. > :04:32.corrosive of public trust." A fellow campaigner to get out
:04:33. > :04:35.of the EU wants to calm the confrontation but
:04:36. > :04:37.stands by the warning. This needs to be a campaign
:04:38. > :04:40.that is relentlessly reasonable. What we are doing from the Leave
:04:41. > :04:43.side is saying, Everyone involved in this debate
:04:44. > :04:50.needs to accept that if we vote to remain in the United Kingdom,
:04:51. > :04:53.in the European Union, we cannot set limits on the number
:04:54. > :04:56.of people who come and live and work Away from Westminster's war games,
:04:57. > :05:01.to people with better things to do I don't know what is going
:05:02. > :05:06.to make me vote which way. I don't know which way
:05:07. > :05:08.I'm going to vote. The amount of people
:05:09. > :05:13.coming over now, it is... to a small country like ours,
:05:14. > :05:16.I think we need to have You have got 200,000 people trying
:05:17. > :05:22.to get into Britain, say. If you are in the EU,
:05:23. > :05:25.whether you are out of it, Between warring politicians
:05:26. > :05:29.it is getting personal. Remain campaign leaders,
:05:30. > :05:35.who include the PM, are too privileged to understand how mass
:05:36. > :05:38.migration hits the poor. Downing Street says the Leave side
:05:39. > :05:41.is losing arguments Big names in the Remain camp say
:05:42. > :05:46.the Leavers are plain wrong. I'm completely sensitive
:05:47. > :05:48.to the issue of immigration. And you have to be
:05:49. > :05:51.in politics today. What I'm completely opposed
:05:52. > :05:54.to is their answer to it, Among Tory MPs, the chatter over
:05:55. > :05:59.coffee is about mutiny There is no sign it's spread out
:06:00. > :06:04.of control yet, but Eurosceptics feel it is David Cameron's side
:06:05. > :06:07.that won't play fair. One of the most militant has broken
:06:08. > :06:11.cover and gone public. I think there's at least 50
:06:12. > :06:14.colleagues who are dissatisfied with the way that the Prime Minister
:06:15. > :06:17.has put himself front and centre of a fairly outrageous
:06:18. > :06:21.Remain campaign. They would demand a vote
:06:22. > :06:23.of no confidence? And now the Prime Minister may also
:06:24. > :06:33.need a win for his Remain campaign - and a big one - to see off his
:06:34. > :06:52.enemies and stabilise his party. The leaders of Germany and France
:06:53. > :06:57.have stood side-by-side at a commemoration of the longest battle
:06:58. > :07:03.in World War I. It lasted almost ten months and 300,000 lives were lost.
:07:04. > :07:06.Our correspondent is following the events of the day for us. A day of
:07:07. > :07:19.solemn remembrance. At the German cemetery, they laid a
:07:20. > :07:27.wreath. Accompanied by four children, two from France, two from
:07:28. > :07:31.Germany. Verdun, one of the most brutal battles of the First World
:07:32. > :07:36.War. A savage war of attrition for just a few square miles of land.
:07:37. > :07:40.Tens of millions of shells were fired. Hundreds of thousands of
:07:41. > :07:46.French and German soldiers lost their lives. The trauma of the
:07:47. > :07:51.conflict was so great that it took many years before the two countries
:07:52. > :07:58.were able to hold a joint commemoration. But in 1984, the
:07:59. > :08:04.French and German leaders met and were photographed holding hands
:08:05. > :08:13.there. The gesture became a symbol of French and German reconciliation.
:08:14. > :08:15.Angela Merkel says the lessons should not be forgotten.
:08:16. > :08:17.TRANSLATION: The name Verdun stands for incomprehensible cruelty and the
:08:18. > :08:20.futility of war, as well as the lessons learned and the
:08:21. > :08:38.Francoise Hollande, saying the town had become a symbol of peace.
:08:39. > :08:40.TRANSLATION: Verdun is a city that represents the worst - where Europe
:08:41. > :08:43.lost itself 100 years ago, but also the best -
:08:44. > :08:46.where the city has been able to invest, to unify for peace
:08:47. > :08:47.and for the French-German friendship.
:08:48. > :09:03.In the afternoon both leaders visited the cemetery from the French
:09:04. > :09:09.soldiers. They lit a flame and briefly shook hands. Hundreds of
:09:10. > :09:14.children from both countries took part in a performance recalling the
:09:15. > :09:24.events of the battle and expressing the hope for peace in the future.
:09:25. > :09:32.A look at some of the day's other stories. 18 Albanians, believed to
:09:33. > :09:36.be migrants, are among 20 people rescued from a boat in the English
:09:37. > :09:40.Channel. It is understood some of the passengers phoned relatives in
:09:41. > :09:45.Calais to say there were in trouble after their boat began taking in
:09:46. > :09:50.water. French authorities were then alerted and contacted the UK
:09:51. > :09:54.coastguard. At least 17 people have died in a fire at an elderly peoples
:09:55. > :10:02.home in Ukraine. It broke out in the early hours of Sunday in a village
:10:03. > :10:06.north of Kiev. The authorities say the building was used as an illegal
:10:07. > :10:12.temporary house for 35 elderly people. And Lufthansa has announced
:10:13. > :10:15.it will suspend flights to Venezuela, suffering a deepening
:10:16. > :10:18.economic crisis, saying currency controls make it impossible for
:10:19. > :10:26.airlines to convert their earnings into dollars. It is an awful dilemma
:10:27. > :10:29.for a zoo keeper to face, what to do if a visitor gets into the same
:10:30. > :10:34.enclosure is a potentially dangerous animal. That is exactly what
:10:35. > :10:36.happened in Cincinnati in the USA when a young boy fell in to a
:10:37. > :10:42.gorilla pen. Screams of disbelief as people
:10:43. > :10:46.watched the four-year-old boy being His mother calls out to
:10:47. > :10:49.reassure him. The child has just crawled
:10:50. > :10:55.through a barrier at the zoo, The gorilla weighs almost 30 stones,
:10:56. > :11:08.but moves fast. The staff at Cincinnati Zoo had
:11:09. > :11:11.a difficult decision to make. Harambe, our 17-year-old gorilla
:11:12. > :11:15.male, is a great big animal, 400lb, went down and got him,
:11:16. > :11:18.carried him up into the moat, was moving him around and it seemed
:11:19. > :11:22.very much by our professional team, our dangerous animal response team,
:11:23. > :11:26.to be a life-threatening situation. The four-year-old boy was taken
:11:27. > :11:29.to hospital but was not reported The zoo staff said they couldn't
:11:30. > :11:33.have tranquillised the gorilla instead of killing him because that
:11:34. > :11:36.would have taken several They thought that was too long as
:11:37. > :11:45.the gorilla appeared agitated. The team did a good job
:11:46. > :11:48.and they made a tough choice and they made the right choice
:11:49. > :12:00.because they saved that The zoo had hoped he would help
:12:01. > :12:03.father of the guerrillas to help preserve a rare and endangered
:12:04. > :12:11.species, the enclosure will be closed until further notice.
:12:12. > :12:14.Earlier, I ask an expert in wild gorillas at the University of
:12:15. > :12:21.Cambridge weather staff at the zoo made the right decision.
:12:22. > :12:25.It is extremely difficult to have a good sense of how much the child was
:12:26. > :12:31.at risk. It is unfortunate. They did what they thought they had to do.
:12:32. > :12:35.This has happened before in zoos in the United States, in a case before,
:12:36. > :12:40.the adult male silverback actually protected the child from other
:12:41. > :12:45.gorillas. Contrary to the ferocious look, adult male gorillas are really
:12:46. > :12:50.sweethearts, gentle parents. I don't think the child was in that great
:12:51. > :12:57.danger. You are talking about what happened in 1986, the silverback in
:12:58. > :13:01.the island of Jersey who ended up protecting their child. It is a
:13:02. > :13:06.difficult call. Gorillas are very human, quite nurturing by nature.
:13:07. > :13:10.You watched the footage, I presume. What do you make, when you look at
:13:11. > :13:17.it? How do you perceive the mannerisms of the silverback? He was
:13:18. > :13:22.excited, as you can understand, it was an unusual experience. I do
:13:23. > :13:28.think there was mayhem in his heart. I think he was just a jazzed up by
:13:29. > :13:31.the fact it had happened. He was excited, then you heard people
:13:32. > :13:37.screaming in the background, the child is upset, etc. So he was
:13:38. > :13:43.excited. And the mother was excited, she was shouting whilst watching as
:13:44. > :13:47.well. That was the danger that they gorilla could have, by accident, but
:13:48. > :13:54.the child. It all raises the question as to whether the animal
:13:55. > :13:59.should be in a zoo at all. That is an extremely thorny issue. On the
:14:00. > :14:05.one hand I am a wildlife guy, I love animals in the wild, but there is an
:14:06. > :14:10.educational role that zoos play, it was eventually what motivated me to
:14:11. > :14:17.conserve in the wild. I don't have a good answer whether it is the right
:14:18. > :14:23.thing to do or not. Still to come, what is stuck down this whole? A
:14:24. > :14:31.baby elephant. The next dilemma, how to rescue it?
:14:32. > :14:36.In the biggest international sporting spectacle ever seen a
:14:37. > :14:40.million people have taken part in sponsored athletic events to aid
:14:41. > :14:43.families in Africa. The first of what the makers of Star
:14:44. > :14:48.Wars hope will be thousands of Jews started at seven a.m..
:14:49. > :14:52.The scuffles built into fighting, the fighting into a full skill riot,
:14:53. > :14:57.as Liverpool supporters broke into the Juventus enclosure. The police
:14:58. > :15:01.had lost control. The world will mourn at this tragic
:15:02. > :15:04.death today. The father of the Indian people on the day of
:15:05. > :15:08.independence. The Oprah Winfrey show comes to an
:15:09. > :15:14.end after 25 years and more than 4500 episodes. It made her one of
:15:15. > :15:17.the richest people on the planet. Geri Halliwell, known as Ginger
:15:18. > :15:19.spice, announces she has left the Spice Girls.
:15:20. > :15:36.I don't believe it, girl power. Why? A warm welcome back. This is BBC
:15:37. > :15:39.world News today. The latest headlines: the United Nations says
:15:40. > :15:47.that around 700 migrants are feared to have drowned off the coast of
:15:48. > :15:50.Libya in the past week. In Britain, two senior Conservatives tell the
:15:51. > :15:56.Prime Minister he must admit he cannot cut immigration as long as
:15:57. > :16:00.Britain remains in the EU. The Iraqi government says it has
:16:01. > :16:11.made significant advances in its effort to drive out Islamic State
:16:12. > :16:14.extremists from the city of Fallujah but there is growing concern for the
:16:15. > :16:16.50,000 civilians still trapped in the city. Jim Muir travelled with
:16:17. > :16:19.Iraqi forces. Around-the-clock, heavy
:16:20. > :16:21.artillery shells blasting Fighters from so-called
:16:22. > :16:24.Islamic State are still dug in there nearly a week
:16:25. > :16:27.into the campaign. The attack on the city itself
:16:28. > :16:30.still has not begun. This is the centre of the town
:16:31. > :16:37.of Garma, which until recently was held by IS, the militants
:16:38. > :16:41.from the so-called Islamic State, now firmly in the hands of Iraqi
:16:42. > :16:45.security forces and a strange mixture of Shia militia,
:16:46. > :16:49.mixed in with the government forces and so on, also some Sunni elements,
:16:50. > :16:53.so it is a whole coalition moving You can still hear gunfire
:16:54. > :16:57.here but that is celebration, The ground carpeted
:16:58. > :17:03.with spent cartridges. A suspected car bomb taken
:17:04. > :17:10.out by an air strike. The only sign that IS was here,
:17:11. > :17:17.a hastily-torn-down black banner. Safe enough for government ministers
:17:18. > :17:23.and top brass from Baghdad The interior minister said there had
:17:24. > :17:32.been only a limited number of civilians in what was a battle
:17:33. > :17:35.zone, but that some had made their way to safety
:17:36. > :17:40.with the security forces. Many of those who fled are clearly
:17:41. > :17:43.traumatised and terrified. The UN says more civilians are being
:17:44. > :17:49.executed by IS for trying to escape. TRANSLATION: We have been hiding
:17:50. > :17:54.from them for the past three days. If they had caught us,
:17:55. > :17:58.they would have killed us. Although camps have been
:17:59. > :18:00.set up to receive them, their ordeal is not
:18:01. > :18:04.over once they flee. Men of fighting age are separated
:18:05. > :18:08.out for interrogation as possible extremists,
:18:09. > :18:15.leaving their families worried. As the noose tightens around
:18:16. > :18:18.Fallujah, there is growing concern for an estimated 50,000 civilians
:18:19. > :18:23.still trapped in the centre. The IS fighters aren't
:18:24. > :18:26.letting them out. They have constructed
:18:27. > :18:31.tunnels and other defences. The battle for Fallujah could be
:18:32. > :18:55.long, hard and devastating Let's catch up with the latest
:18:56. > :18:58.sport. Defending Formula One world
:18:59. > :19:03.champion, Lewis Hamilton, has won his first race of the season,
:19:04. > :19:10.snatching the Monico Grand Prix from Daniel Ricciardo, starting from pole
:19:11. > :19:13.position in the first time in his career, but the Red Bull mechanics
:19:14. > :19:20.were caught off-guard during a pit stop, costing Ricciardo the lead.
:19:21. > :19:29.Hamilton has cut the lead of Nico Rosberg at the top of the
:19:30. > :19:32.championship to 24 points. Thank you to my team for providing me with a
:19:33. > :19:39.great car that saw me through to the end. I am honestly lost forwards. I
:19:40. > :19:46.prayed for a day like this and it came true. I feel truly blessed.
:19:47. > :19:49.From the outside we put on a show. But it should not have been as
:19:50. > :19:56.exciting as it was, to be honest. But this two' I have been screwed.
:19:57. > :20:03.It sucks, it hurts, but thank you everyone for sticking it out, I
:20:04. > :20:09.appreciated. -- that is two weekends in a row I have been screwed. Andy
:20:10. > :20:17.Murray defeated the American John Isner after a rain delay, he will
:20:18. > :20:26.now play the ninth seed, Richard Gasquet. He is the only French
:20:27. > :20:36.player left in the singles draw. Defending champion, Stanislave
:20:37. > :20:40.Wawrinka also booked a quarterfinal place, he will play a Spanish
:20:41. > :21:03.left-hander who is not Rafa Nadal. Last year's Wimbledon finalist,
:21:04. > :21:08.Muguruza defeated the final French Open champion and will now play the
:21:09. > :21:13.world number 108, Shelby Rogers of the USA. There are only five players
:21:14. > :21:18.ranked lower than Rogers who have reached a quarterfinal of the French
:21:19. > :21:21.Open in the last 30 years. Sri Lanka prevented another England victory
:21:22. > :21:25.within three days in the second test. The hosts had forced the
:21:26. > :21:30.tourists to follow-on after bowling them out for 101 but Sri Lanka
:21:31. > :21:37.showed fight, the captain Angelo Mathews led by example, they
:21:38. > :21:44.finished the day on 309-5, trailing England by 88. England's Rugby union
:21:45. > :21:49.team have defeated Wales 27-13 in an international match at Wigan.
:21:50. > :21:54.England ran in five tries in their final match before heading on tour
:21:55. > :21:59.to Australia. George Ford had a day to forget, missing six kicks. Wales
:22:00. > :22:06.visit New Zealand for their Test match tour next month. Time to tell
:22:07. > :22:12.you that a former Formula One test driver is the winner of the
:22:13. > :22:18.Indianapolis 500, Alexander Rossi managing to stretch his fuel to the
:22:19. > :22:26.finish. In India African students are
:22:27. > :22:30.planning to hold an antiracism rally in the capital to protest against a
:22:31. > :22:36.spate of attacks. But local police say they do not believe the attacks
:22:37. > :22:40.were racially motivated. I spoke to a lecturer at the University of
:22:41. > :22:44.Northampton earlier about his experience at the Delhi School of
:22:45. > :22:49.economics. People do not like to talk about it,
:22:50. > :22:54.because it is very uncomfortable to be a guest in a country and raise an
:22:55. > :22:58.issue of such ugly, yet magnificent proportions. I did my doctorate at
:22:59. > :23:07.Delhi University. I lived there for seven and a half years. It is
:23:08. > :23:14.covered with fair skinned, fair skin cream advertise and the summer. For
:23:15. > :23:19.Africans, we see it as the other side of the coin of the races we
:23:20. > :23:23.face in India. Can you give me specific examples of
:23:24. > :23:28.racist attacks you suffered during your time in India? Did you report
:23:29. > :23:35.them? Complain to the university? The police? Was anything done?
:23:36. > :23:39.Who do you report to when you with a property dealer and one of the
:23:40. > :23:43.landlords says, I do not want to rent to blacks? That was a common
:23:44. > :23:48.occurrence I heard from students and I also faced it myself. I was in
:23:49. > :23:54.shock. As a student I did not know what to do. Remember, we're talking
:23:55. > :23:58.about students. Any of the Africans who, to Delhi are students, coming
:23:59. > :24:03.with a specific purpose, they are not there by chance. So who do you
:24:04. > :24:06.report to when people will not serve you, or push you out of the way
:24:07. > :24:14.because a European person is behind you? Who do you report that too?
:24:15. > :24:18.A team of wildlife officers in Sri Lanka have come to the rescue of a
:24:19. > :24:20.baby elephant after it fell down a drain.
:24:21. > :24:23.Stuck inside a small drain, this baby elephant made desperate
:24:24. > :24:29.But the gap was too narrow and attempts at first
:24:30. > :24:33.It was part of a herd that had wandered into the area
:24:34. > :24:36.near Hambantota in southern Sri Lanka.
:24:37. > :24:40.The mother elephant wouldn't leave the calf alone and the authorities
:24:41. > :24:44.had to use firecrackers to chase her away so
:24:45. > :24:54.After four hours of struggle, the baby elephant was pulled out.
:24:55. > :24:58.The terrified baby elephant had no energy to stand on its own.
:24:59. > :25:05.While the authorities believed it has a broken leg.
:25:06. > :25:09.It is estimated that about 300 to 400 elephants inhabit
:25:10. > :25:16.With more and more forest land being cleared, elephants are running
:25:17. > :25:34.A German opposition leader has had a chocolate cake shop in her face in
:25:35. > :25:42.protest at her stance on the migrants. The prominent member of
:25:43. > :25:45.the German far left party is calling for a limit on the number of
:25:46. > :25:50.refugees Germany should accept, putting her at odds with others in
:25:51. > :25:54.the party. A group calling itself the antifascist initiative
:25:55. > :25:58.distributed flyers pointing to her position on migrants as a motive for
:25:59. > :26:01.throwing taken her face. Thank you for watching.