18/03/2017 BBC Weekend News

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has insisted there will be

another independence referendum - saying the wishes of

the Scottish Parliament "must and will prevail".

She was addressing her party's conference this

Elsewhere, Gordon Brown has entered the debate.

The former prime minister called for the Scottish parliament to be

given more powers while balancing that with the need for continued

Here's our Scotland Editor Sarah Smith.

They won't take no for an answer. Nicola Sturgeon excited her party

conference with a defiant message, indirectly at Theresa May and her

refusal to allow a Scottish referendum. She has time to think

again, and I hope she does. If her concern is timing, then, within

reason, I am happy to have that discussion. But let the Prime

Minister be in no doubt, the will of our Parliament must and will

prevail. APPLAUSE The Tories were loved and still

allow Scotland a choice isn't really hard to fathom. They are now

terrified of the verdict of the Scottish people. Striding into the

middle of the argument today, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. I fear

for a divided Scotland. I fear for bitter acrimonious debate over

perhaps two years, maybe even four years. And I fear we are now seeing

people entrenched into extreme positions. He says he has a third

option. If new powers over agriculture and fishing, VAT rates

and the right to conclude international trade treaties were

devolved to Scotland, he thinks there would need to be a vote on

full independence. His interventions in the last Scottish referendum more

influential, but he's been accused of not delivering what was promised

them. In 2014 during the independence referendum you said if

Scotland voted No we would be living in close to what would be a federal

state, we are not, it's a broken promise. I said the federal powers I

was proposing were welfare powers, employment powers, environmental

powers, taxation power was. These powers were delivered. You said as

close to a federal state as we could be within the UK. Yes because I

think the UK now has to change, at that time I think it was impossible

to envisage big regional devolution in England, I think that's now

possible. Nicola Sturgeon will not sign off on anything less than a

vote on independence for Scotland. So we have a stand-off between the

First Minister of Scotland and the Prime Minister of the United

Kingdom, neither of them prepared to back down. So what happens now? Next

week there will be a vote in the Scottish parliament in Edinburgh and

they will certainly backed a call for another independence referendum.

Nicola Sturgeon will go ahead and make a formal request to Theresa May

for that referendum even though she knows what the answer is going to

be. Then we'll see whether or not her offer to negotiate over the date

of a referendum is taken up by the Prime Minister. Theresa May didn't

say she would block a Scottish referendum outright, she said, now

is not the time. Nicola Sturgeon wants to see when the time for

another vote might be. A man's been shot dead at Orly

international airport in France, after attempting to seize a gun

from a soldier on duty. The incident forced the airport

to close and flights be redirected. Police said the man was known

to the intelligence services. They also confirmed

he was the person who'd earlier shot and injured a police officer

during a routine traffic From Orly, our Paris correspondent

Lucy Williamson sent this report. Paris has got used to seeing

security forces everywhere. At one of the capital's most

protected sites today, an attack on As passengers queued

for early-morning flights, a 39-year-old man from Paris's

northern suburbs wrestled a female soldier to the ground

and tried to grab her weapon. Before being shot dead

by her colleagues. An eyewitness in the airport

at the time described what happened. TRANSLATION: He was holding the

soldier by the neck, and at the same When we saw that we realised it was

really serious and we ran away. Police say the suspect,

named as Ziyad B, shot at officers with a pellet gun early

this morning during a traffic check. The Paris prosecutor confirmed

he was on a criminal watch list and that intelligence services believed

he'd been radicalised. His father and brother

are now being questioned President Hollande said France's

extra security measures had TRANSLATION: Anyone who was

questioning the presence of military personnel in public

places, like the airport, must understand that

the military to reinforce our security it is essential that they

responded to the orders given by me and the government.

Tonight, the southern terminal here at Orly has reopened,

as anti-terrorist investigators begin their work.

The cordon of security that has gone up around

this country over the past two years held firm today.

But it's another reminder of the fear that still

Finance ministers from the world's leading economies have failed

to endorse free trade at their annual meeting in Germany.

The G20 group made no commitment to fighting

protectionism, when countries impose tariffs on imported goods,

after the United States refused to sign up.

Analysts say the move is unprecedented.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, on the second day of their

official visit to Paris, have met survivors of the Paris

Our royal correspondent, Nicholas Witchell,

Royal visits are all about the big picture and the shared experiences

And so at Les Invalides, the military hospital in Paris,

the Duke and Duchess met some of France's Second

The will to stand together then remains strong today.

On a morning when Paris was dealing with the incident at Orly airport,

William and Katherine met two people who were victims of the Paris

attacks in November 2015, when Islamist gunmen killed 130

people at the Bataclan theatre and other locations.

They spoke to a fireman, who was in the audience at the Bataclan.

Which is the hardest thing, the physical injuries

They had both been a challenge, he said.

Then they met a woman who was shot seven times that night.

How is it for you re-adjusting to everyday life?

Alongside personal encounters like these is the visit's overall

purpose, and for once, as Brexit negotiations

William and Katherine launched a programme

called "les voisins", the neighbours, emphasising

all those things from youth and sporting programmes to defence

and economic issues which bind Britain and France together.

The underlying message of a royal visit is often quite a subtle

The message of this visit is that the relationship

between Britain and France is so robust that Brexit need make

Or as the Queen herself put it, in a message William read

to a dinner at the British Embassy last night,

"The ties which have stood the test of time will continue to prosper."

It's the final day of Rugby's Six Nations championship,

and England have the chance to enter the history books, facing Ireland

Victory would secure England back-to-back Grand Slams

and would also mark their 19th successive Test win,

It's currently approaching half-time at the Aviva Stadium and Ireland

have their noses in front leading by 10-3 thanks to this try scored by

Iain Henderson. And earlier Scotland beat Italy

29-0 at Murrayfield. Tommy Seymour scored the last

of their four tries, as Scotland finished

the Championship with a convincing win that gives them a chance

of finishing second There was a dramatic finale

in Paris, as France beat Wales 20-18, after scoring a converted try

in the 20th minute of overtime. Arsenal have suffered another defeat

in a Premier League. The North Londoners lost 3-1 away to West

Bromwich Albion. The match saw a fly-past by planes showing banners

both for and against manager Arsene Wenger.

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