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The Chancellor says a plan of action will be unveiled this week to | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
devolve more power to Scotland, if there's a vote against independence. | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
With only ten days of campaigning until the referendum takes place, | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
One poll has put the yes campaign ahead. | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
You will see in the next few days a plan of action to give more power | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
to Scotland, more tax powers, more spending powers, more plans | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
If the no campaign parties had any serious intention of delivering | :00:31. | :00:41. | |
substantial new powers for Scotland, then why has it taken until ten days | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
before polling day? We'll be asking about the mood | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
at Westminster, amid Also tonight, the cease-fire holds | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
in eastern Ukraine, despite exchanges of fire between government | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
forces and pro-Russian rebels. President Obama says America is | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
ready to go on the offensive against Islamic State, as more air | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
strikes target militants in Iraq. And Scotland are beaten by the | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
World Champions in their Scotland's First Minister, Alex | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
Salmond, has accused the Westminster government of "panicky, last-minute | :01:05. | :01:37. | |
measures", after the Chancellor, George Osborne, said a plan | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
of action is about to be unveiled, devolving more powers in the event | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
of a vote against independence. Mr Osborne said a timetable | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
for devolution would be made public In recent days, | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
the polls have narrowed. A YouGov poll in today's | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
Sunday Times has put the Yes Our Special Correspondent, Allan | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
Little, is in Glasgow tonight. The leader of the better together | :01:54. | :02:02. | |
campaign, Alistair Darling, has said today should be what he called a | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
wake-up call for any pro union supporter tempted to believe that | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
this referendum campaign was a foregone conclusion, and that every | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
vote will count. That one poll you mentioned, giving the yes campaign a | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
narrow lead for the first time, has put a jolt of electricity through | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
this whole business, with many in the yes campaign starting to believe | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
that that very energetic campaign they have been waging not so much on | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
television campaigns between political leaders but on the | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
grassroots level for many months now is starting to pay off at the right | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
time. It is what the yes campaign were saying six months ago, that | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
they would come from behind and draw level in the last two weeks and then | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
take the lead. Back then, it was easy to dismiss as wishful thinking. | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
It doesn't look like that now. If the prounion parties are not | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
rattled, then they should be. They insisted again that a no vote would | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
not mean a vote the no change, but now getting that message across and | :02:58. | :02:59. | |
being believed is certainly more urgent. You will see in the next few | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
days a plan of action to give more powers to Scotland, more tax powers, | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
more spending powers, more plans and powers over the welfare state, and | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
that will be put into effect. The timetable for delivering that will | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
be put into effect the moment there is a no vote in the referendum. Was | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
that riven by this? A you go of poll that gives the yes campaign a lead | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
for the first time. The direction of travel seems clear. The commanding | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
14 point lead that the no side enjoyed so long seems to have | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
evaporated in a month. Both sides need to realise that they are | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
approaching something of a crisis of credibility. We are now in a | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
position where 51% of people say they do not believe what the no side | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
say about the currency, and that number has kept on increasing the | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
more the no side have insisted that they are not bluffing. All three | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
prounion parties have already promised to transfer more powers | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
from Westminster to Holyrood. Labour wants to give more power. The | :04:05. | :04:15. | |
Conservatives go further to give Holyrood personal control of income | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
tax. The Liberal Democrats say they would allow the Scottish Parliament | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
to raise most of their own taxes. Scotland has known for some time | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
what the three prounion parties plan to do to transfer more powers to | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
Holyrood. The Conservatives for example announced their plan to | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
devolve income tax more than three months ago. George Osborne today did | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
not announce a new plan, he announced that there would soon be a | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
timetable for implement in the existing plan. It increasingly looks | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
as if the no campaign thinks people in Scotland are daft. If the no | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
campaign parties had any serious intention of delivering substantial | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
new powers for Scotland, then why has it taken until ten days before | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
polling day with the poll showing yes in the lead for them to come up | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
with this? This is a critical, even dangerous, moment for the prounion | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
campaign, for the yes campaign is increasingly convinced it is going | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
the way that months ago they believed a word. It is possible to | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
say now with any certainty who is in the lead, it is really too close for | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
that, but there is not much doubt about where the momentum is tonight, | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
and where the growing confidence is. It is with the yes campaign. Let's | :05:21. | :05:29. | |
turn to our political editor, Nick Robinson. What is the mood at | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
Westminster? Are the parties rattled by what they are seeing in the yes | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
campaign? Of course they are. We carved a week, month after month, | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
Westminster politicians, whatever party they had been in, have been | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
really confident in private that no would win. Yes, of course they would | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
have to get the vote out, but they were certain no would win. This one | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
poll, even though Alan has been telling us it could prove to be | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
wrong, this one poll showing a yes lead has had the effect, along with | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
the closing gap, of making Westminster politicians and | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
everybody realise we could be ten days away from the end of the United | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
Kingdom. A constitutional crisis the like of which this country has never | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
seen, shaking institutions from the monarchy to the Armed Forces, | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
through the business community and of course shaking the two key | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
political parties who formed governments in this country for so | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
long. The key fightback that they are planning, that George Osborne | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
was alluding to, is trying to convince people that if they vote | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
no, they still get change. You will get a timetable for some form of | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
constitutional convention, which will consider more powers for the | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
Scottish Parliament, in other words. But the problem and confusion today | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
is that these rival political parties don't agree who should | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
announce it, where it should be announced, quite what the | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
announcement should be. It is a bit like if you had to have your friends | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
who were planning the break-up, and you called in three people who are | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
barely on speaking terms and said could you sort it out? George | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
Osborne and Gordon Brown and others trying to come to an agreement is | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
not easy. One last thing, Michelle. Part of this yes vote surge appears | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
to be a loathing of politics as usual and Westminster politics. | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
That's why it's so hard for the no campaign. | :07:12. | :07:12. | |
And for more on the Scottish independence referendum, | :07:13. | :07:14. | |
including the latest polling, follow our coverage at bbc.co.uk/news. | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
There have been more clashes between Ukrainian forces | :07:20. | :07:21. | |
and pro-Russia rebels in Eastern Ukraine, threatening | :07:22. | :07:23. | |
The agreement is still in place, despite fresh shelling today | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
That came after rebels bombarded government positions in the port | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
Our correspondent Fergal Keane reports from there. | :07:34. | :07:44. | |
A sustained barrage to break the cease-fire. We felt the power of | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
explosions rumble across the city. And in the light of morning, the | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
bloody aftermath. An army truck still smoking. The civilians in this | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
car were hit as they approached a checkpoint under shellfire. This | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
checkpoint is the closest to Mariupol city centre. It's about ten | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
Minutes Drive that way. The fact that the rebels have been able to | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
shell this area has substantially increased people's nervousness. They | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
feel the war is now coming to them. For the people of this area, the | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
cease-fire held out the best prospect of peace. But it seems to | :08:25. | :08:33. | |
be rapidly evaporating. Reinforcements arrived, but Russian | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
backing has given the rebels a big military advantage. Ukraine says it | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
has been promised weapons and military advisers by some NATO | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
countries, but the threat of attack is imminent. Are you going to be | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
able to hold them back? If we will be attacked, we will react | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
objectively, so we will defend ourselves, and defend our territory. | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
Then panic near the checkpoint. The shelling started again. But as | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
people fled past us, one woman was refusing to leave. She is the aunt | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
of two children killed by shellfire just before the cease-fire. Two days | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
ago, we tell the story of how Carolyn, aged six, and ten-year-old | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
Nikita were cut down. Now they are aunt was trying to get home to find | :09:23. | :09:30. | |
clothes in which to bury them. Last night when the bombing started, she | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
told me, we ran into the corridor. My daughter was crying. She has been | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
really affected by the death of her two cousins. These are rebels | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
besieging government troops at the main regional airport at Donetsk. | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
Fighting here has breached the cease-fire. Houses in rebel | :09:47. | :09:56. | |
territory were hit by shellfire. As the war flares again, the People's | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
struggle against its destructive power. TRANSLATION: I don't know why | :09:59. | :10:06. | |
this has happened. There is no cease-fire and there never will be. | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
Despite the breaches, neither side is willing to formally declare the | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
cease-fire over. And, in parts of the East, there is calm, and some | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
hope. But as tanks deployed near Mariupol, the sense of foreboding | :10:24. | :10:25. | |
was hard to escape. President Obama says America is | :10:26. | :10:27. | |
ready to go on the offensive against Islamic State militants, and | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
that he will set out his plans to He says he wants to explain to | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
the American people What I want people to understand is | :10:34. | :10:47. | |
that over the course of months, we are going to be able to, not just | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
blunt the momentum of ISIL, we are going to systematically degrade | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
their capabilities, we are going to shrink the territory that they | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
control, and ultimately were going to defeat them. | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
Our North America Editor Jon Sopel is in Washington. | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
Is this the beginning of that elusive strategy, then, John? We are | :11:06. | :11:14. | |
getting there slowly, aren't we? President Obama has effectively | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
three domestic audiences he has needed to win over, the American | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
public, the Congress and the third is himself. And it looks like he is | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
finally winning that particular battle. It wasn't that long ago that | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
he was talking about Islamic State as being minor league terrorists, | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
and that he had no strategy to deal with them. On Wednesday, we'll hear | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
the detail of how he plans to degrade, diminish and ultimately | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
destroy them. Two things he is at pains to make clear that he won't be | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
setting out is that he won't be announcing that there will be tens | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
of thousands of American troops being sent there to fight on the | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
ground. And the second thing is that America won't be acting alone, he's | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
very keen that this should be seen as a huge cross country Alliance, | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
involving all sorts of other people, involving the UAE, Turkey, Saudi | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
Arabia. And just one other thing to note, use choosing to make this | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
announcement on the EE of the 13th anniversary of -- on the EE is of | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
9/11, a date that shows no other like the vulnerability of America to | :12:19. | :12:19. | |
terrorism. Police trying to find the missing | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
schoolgirl, Alice Gross, have Specialist divers have been brought | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
in to search a canal in Hanwell, west London, where | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
the 14-year-old was seen before she Detectives are continuing to | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
question a 25-year-old man Protests have taken place in Calais, | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
over the continuing influx Riot police were deployed, | :12:35. | :12:46. | |
as two separate groups of activists, one from the extreme left, | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
defending the migrants, and another from the extreme right, | :12:51. | :12:52. | |
marched through the French port. From Calais, | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
Lucy Williamson reports. CHANTING | :12:56. | :13:07. | |
Sunday afternoon in Calais. And far left protesters are taking on the | :13:08. | :13:15. | |
riot police. We are protecting -- they are protecting the fascists, | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
they charm. This is who they are talking about: Far right activists, | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
gathered at the town hall, just 15 metres away, come to shout their | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
opposition to the growing number of migrants camped around the town. | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
Neither side can resist a glimpse of the other. Behind these police here | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
are the far right protesters, and just across this road behind me are | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
some far left protesters. They have just been separated by the police | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
but it really tells you that anger here in Calais is growing over this | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
issue, and now it's trawling in groups from outside as well. Some of | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
these are Calais residence. Others travelled from Paris or elsewhere in | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
France. Officials say this is not a local problem, and the solution must | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
be shared too. We are blamed by everybody that situation but nobody | :14:04. | :14:05. | |
wants to deal with it. Nobody wants to deal with it. Calais is not a | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
destination. They don't fall from the sky in Calais. I think they | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
could fall from the sky somewhere, that would probably be in England. | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
But Calais is where Europe's open border system ends. Britain's border | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
fences are the first migrants in counter after landing in Italy or | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
Spain, and some are asking whether that needs to change. For the | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
migrants own demonstration today, a football match. No riot police here, | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
just Sudanese jungle taking on the dream team. Nobody is quite sure who | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
is winning. We are against the fascist demonstration, that is why | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
we want our rights, our right is peace, our right is freedom, freedom | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
of choice. Dream Team, we are told, was a reference to their dreams of | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
England. The match, a game where chances are made and rules are | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
broken, all for one elusive goal. Time now for some sport. | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
Scotland's campaign to qualify for Euro 2016 has started with a defeat. | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
They lost 2-1 to Germany but it was a gutsy performance from the Scots | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
against the current world champions. Christmas dockland reports. Unbeaten | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
in six games, Gordon Strachan's side and 5000 travelling fans could dare | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
to dream in Dortmund. Despite early Germany domination, Scotland had | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
their chances. It provided hope but also provided the home side with a | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
reason to switch gears, and having missed an earlier header, Thomas | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
Muller was not in a mood to miss the second. The travelling fans, though, | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
were refusing to panic. Just a minute after the break, Steven | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
Naismith came agonisingly close to equalising. Then Ikechi Anya | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
sprinted onto Steven Fletcher's through ball, composed himself and | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
all of a sudden Deutschland had become Dreamland for the Tartan | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
Army. Scotland had the world champions on the ropes. Before | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
flower of Scotland was finished, Thomas Muller divided the sucker | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
punch. The Scots refused to bow down, James McCarthy should have | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
done better. In the end it was defeat, but a message from Scotland: | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
The gloves and the jackets are off in the fight for a place at France | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
2016. Northern Ireland got their European campaign up and running | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
with an impressive 2-1 win in Hungary. All the goals came in the | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
closing quarter. Kyle Lafferty scored the winner with two minute | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
ago, as the team secured their first away win in 18 matches. Lewis | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
Hamilton recovered from a poor start to win the Italian Grand Prix, | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
finishing ahead of his Mercedes team-mate, Nico Rosberg. The pair | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
collided in Belgium two weeks ago, and today was another high-pressure | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
battle. The Mercedes fallout from Belgium dominated the weekend at the | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
historic Monza circuit. The drivers were told to adopt a more cautious | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
approach. Would that be the case? COMMENTATOR: Lights out, away we go, | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
the battle between the Mercedes team-mate is on. Hamilton's lead | :17:12. | :17:20. | |
evaporated in seconds due to another mechanical failure. Instead of | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
sulking, the 2008 world champion clawed his way back from fourth to | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
second. This brave manoeuvre on Felipe Massa meant he could now | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
attack Nico Rosberg with 43 laps remaining. The Britain's pace and | :17:31. | :17:38. | |
consistent pressure perhaps broke the nerve of Rosberg. Hamilton's | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
chance to take the lead of the Grand Prix and he does at! For Hamilton, | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
the sixth win of the season was particularly satisfying. Mo today I | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
still had a problem but to be successful with that problem is a | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
great feeling. Even more in powering. With just six races | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
remaining, Hamilton is back in the title race but he still needs to | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
claw back 22 points. This win will at least make him believe it is | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
possible. Mo Farah has become the first British man to win the Great | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
North Run since 1985. The double Olympic champion held off Kenyan | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
Mike Kigen to take the half marathon title in a new record of exactly one | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
hour. Britain's Gemma Steel came second in the women's race. | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
Cricket, England's women completed a T20 series whitewash of South | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
Africa, before England's men won their 2020 match against India. It | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
came down to the last ball. India chasing 181 to win. They needed a | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
six, but MS Dhoni's effort did not quite get there and England won by | :18:43. | :18:43. | |
three runs. That is all the sport. You can see more on all of today's | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
stories on the BBC News Channel. | :18:49. | :18:49. |