24/07/2014 Newsnight

The UN in Gaza accuses Israel of failing to let children evacuate

this shelter before it was targeted. 15 people died when it was hit. We

ask the Israeli Government if they knew civilians were still inside?

We ask the leader of Hamas if they use women and children as shields?

It took him two hours to die. Now America is debating the death

penalty once again. You guys are blowing it all out of proportion

about the drugs. This man conducted a horrifying murder. We will talk to

a man who wants his own daughter's murderer to die.

Stuff, we want it, we get it and we want the next thing we chuck it. We

meet the designers looking to dispose of our throwaway habits.

This is a brilliant women. A Commonwealth confidence boost as

Scotland goes for gold on the first day.

But could success at Glasgow's games spell "yes" in September.

They fled the fighting near their homes in northern Gaza and came to

school seeking shelter run by the UN, it was there they were killed

with a direct hit, it appears tonight from an Israeli shell. 15

women and children died in the attack, 200 others were injured. The

school had been used as a safe haven for the past few days. Israel's

sophisticated weaponry tends to be precise. How did a place of refuge

come to be hit, and how does that change what has happened in the

conflict. We will speak to the Israeli Government in a moment, and

hear from the leader of Hamas too. First a look at what happened today.

Blockaded by Israel and Egypt, and densely populated, hiding places

from the shelling a are few and far between in Gaza.

The United Nations-run school was intended to be one of them. Up to

800 families were sheltering there when it was hit. 15 died reportedly,

including two UN staff, hundreds more were injured. The local

hospital struggled to cope. The multiple medical centres had to

receive the wounded. Many people are scared. Their children, the young

children and women. Israel says there was a four-hour window for

evacuation between 10.00 and 2.00 and Hamas prevented civilians from

leaving, and the building was shelled at two. 30. But a UN

spokesman posted on Twitterer and said precise co-ordinates had been

formally given to the Israeli army. He wrote a few weeks over the day

that UNRWA tried to negotiate a window for civilians to leave and it

was never granted. The UN has reiterated this statement. This was

an emergency shelter. We had given the Israeli authorities the idea of

the co-ordinates of this school on 12 separate occasions, most recently

ten. 56 this morning, they were fully aware it was a shelter. We

knew the situation in the area was deteriorating from a security

standpoint. So over the course of the day we tried to co-ordinate a

period, a window during which we could withdraw our staff and any

displace who had chose to go to a safer location would leave. We never

confirmed that window or time fared. The IDF is now investigating whether

the fatal shell was errant Israeli fire in response to a local Hamas

attack, and accused Hamas of firing rockets in the nearby area at the

same time. Israel also claims it has been warning civilians to leave the

area for days, because of intelligence that Hamas was

illegally exploiting it to store weaponry. What is clear that the

Palestinian death toll today climbed to 50, attempts at a truce appear

more distant than ever. I spoke to the Israeli Government

spokesman before coming on air. This is a tragedy, you see pictures like

this and you can't help but be moved. Israel does not want to see

any civilian casualties in our operation, not one. And of course

these deaths are indeed tragic. It is not yet clear to us exactly what

happened in this location. There are a number of different COMPLASHGS but

we will get to the bottom of it. But you accept Israel could have been

responsible for these deaths? Ut It could have been Israeli fire,

there were rockets landing in the area from Hamas, we can't exclude

the possibility it was Hamas fire, but it could have been our fire. Our

forces were receiving fire from that area, from the immediate vicinity of

the hospital, it is possible if our forces returned fire to that it

could have been our fire as well. But we have to investigate exactly

what happened. You had the precise co-ordinates of that shelter, a UN

spokesman tonight has said over the course of the day the UN tried to

co-ordinate a window with the Israeli army for civilians to leave.

It was never granted. Do you accept that? No, I do not. We accepted

there would be a humanitarian corridor to allow people to leave

between 10.00 and 2.00 in the afternoon, we accepted that. Why

didn't the army get that right? Our information is actually the Hamas

terrorists acted to prevent people leaving. Which actually is

consistent with a consistent pattern of behaviour that we have seen in

other places. We have requested people to leave because there is

going to be a combat zone, we don't want innocent civilians and Hamas

has asked them to stay. Did you know the building had not been evacuated?

At the time I don't know exactly we knew, it was a difficult combat

situation when our people were receiving for fire. We had been

calling for three days for civilians to vacate that facility, because it

was being abused by terrorists who were shooting from that vicinity on

our people. Let's be clear the UN... Did you find out if there was

children still in that building before you fired? We're not clear it

is our fire, you are jumping ahead of what the reality is, let's wait

and see. You knew in the morning to evacuate the building, you issued

the warning because you were going to fire on the buildings, did you

check it had been evacuated? Let's be clear, I didn't know what

happened and neither do you, one has to be more judicious before making

that sort I have a sum. Can I -- assumption. Can I say the following,

there are two example, not that Israel says so, there are two

examples that Hamas is storing munitions for their war machine to

fire rockets into Israel. The UN Secretary-General himself released a

statement, and I can quote, he said specifically those doing so are

endangering the lives of innocent civilians. If Hamas is turning UN

schools into area where it conducts its terror war machine against

Israel the UN Secretary-General said the primary responsibility rests

with those terrorists. We don't want to see any fighting around UN

facilities, unfortunately the terrorists have forced that fight

upon us. The UN told us it tried to co-ordinate a window with the

Israeli army for civilians to leave and that was never granted. Now

either the Israeli army is not speaking to the Government, or else

you are calling him a liar, which is it? Well first of all, let's be fair

in a combat situation, reality is very difficult. Anyone in an army

can tell you that and anyone who has seen combat can tell you that. My

information is Israel agreed to a four-hour period for a humanitarian

corridor, and that was disrupted by the Hamas terrorists themselves who

didn't want to let the terrorists leave. And that is a consistent

pattern. You knew there were children in that building? That is a

consistent pattern of behaviour by the terrorists, who deliberately

want to leave civilians to protect their military machine. You knew

there were children inside that building? I don't know that and you

don't know that, I'm sorry that is not correct. You knew it was being

used as a shelter by people fleeing the fighting in northern Gaza, you

knew there were women and children who had come there to seek shelte We

had been asking people to leave. You knew they hadn't been able to leave

that building? Once again you are making presumptions, based on

information that you have or have not, or what you are suggesting that

information you have, we don't know that for a fact. But you said you

were going to hit it, you hit it, you killed them, you knew there were

children in that building? Sorry, how do you know, the UN itself

reported that there was Hamas rocket fire falling in the area, how do you

know it was Israel. I'm not excluding the possibility, but it is

a difficult combat situation, and you have all the answers. If after

the fog of war has passed this does turn out to be the fault of Israel,

will you pause, will you reset your rules of engagment tonight? Our

rules of engagment are very clear, one does not target civilian, one

does not target civilian infrastructure, that is clear and we

hold ourselves to high standards. That is not working, if it is not

designed to hurt civilian, your strategy is manifestly not working?

We are trying to be as surgical as humanely possible in a very

difficult combat environment. But I ask you, if you say we cannot return

fire, that is forbidden for Israel to return fire because Hamas has

adopted these tactic, you are saying Israel has no right to defend itself

in the case of thousands of rockets fired at our people. We are trying

to be as surgical as is humanely possible in that difficult combat

situation, but don't deny country the right to defend itself from the

terrorists who are shooting rockets. You have a very effective defence

system, it is called the Iron Dome, it stops you for the most part being

hit, they don't and they are paying the price with their dead children?

No Hamas is responsible for the reality casualties and the

Palestinian casualties. They said no to a cease-fire a week ago, a

cease-fire proposed by Egypt and supported by the UN and the Arab

League. Why is the conflict persitsing because Hamas refuses to

accept an Arab League cease-fire proposal. Thank you very much. A

little earlier we caught up with the leader of Hamas to ask him whether

his organisation uses civilians as human shields, here is his exclusive

interview. What would it take for Hamas to sign

on to a cease-fire now? TRANSLATION: We want a cease-fire as soon as

possible, that's parallel with lifting the siege of Gaza. This is

the demand of the Gaza people, I call on the UN, Ban Ki-Moon, the UK

and the US to go to the people of Gaza and ask them what they want. I

am prepared to accept 100% the consensus of our people in Gaza.

What the Americans seem to be working on is a two-stage deal,

where there will be a truce were the guns the rockets will stop firing

and then there will be a serious negotiation about how to boost the

Gaza economy, how to ease the blockade on Gaza and to give the

people of Gaza a better life. Are you prepared to accept a two-stage

solution to this? TRANSLATION: Regardless of the

mechanism, what is important to me is that there should be a genuine

guarantee to lift the siege on Gaza. These promises have been made in the

past but nothing was done. People cannot go for medical treatment or

to work. Why are the people of Gaza being punished for the slow death in

the world's biggest prison. This is a crime. We want to halt in the

aggression and an end of the siege. We accept clear and precise articles

that the international community will commit to. We are eager that

the bloodshed should end in Gaza today. Talk of resistance, how can

any idea of resistance justify putting rockets in a school

building? TRANSLATION: Frankly this is a lie.

Let Israel show where are the rocket launchers in Gaza. This is not

something that has come from Israel, this is the UN relief and works

agency which has said that up to 20 rockets were deposited in a school

building inside Gaza, they are furious. The secretary-general of

the United Nations has expressed his outrage, he said those responsible

are turning schools into potential military targets and endangering the

lives of innocent children? TRANSLATION: This is not true.

Rocket launchers in Gaza belong to the resistance, they are hidden

underground and Israel is unable to reach them. This is why it pretends

that they are in civilian as so Israel is hitting hospital, mosques

and buildings. The world is sitting idle, it is hypocritical towards

Israel but blames the victim. Hamas stands accused of deliberately

endangering the lives of Palestinian civilians, the Israeli Government

has said you are using Palestinians, men, women and children as human

shields? TRANSLATION: This is a lie, Hamas is defending itself and

sacrificing its leadership for the sake of its people. The one who is

responsible for killing Palestinians is Israel, using F-16s, artillery

and all US and western weapons. Hamas and any resistance movements

when it defend against the occupier is actually defending its people. We

are doing what other people are doing when they are subject to

occupation and oppression. But telling people to stay in their

homes when it is clear that Israelis intend an attack is in a way

condemning them to death? TRANSLATION: This is wrong

information, Hamas does not give orders to people to stay inside

their homes. Hamas encourages people to stand fast and let the

Palestinians show their stead fastness. This is the will of the

people. Go to Gaza and see the people in hospitals and see the

areas destroyed. These people were determined to preserve their land.

You should not put the blame on the victims. The blame should go to the

Israeli that has committed this massacre. We have 700 Palestinians

killed, most of them are civilians. Where as Hamas is focussing on

killing Israeli soldiers who came to Gaza to attack Palestinians. This is

the ethical difference between the Palestinian resistance and the

Israeli aggression. Let me talk about Hamas's determination, it

seems, to continue with the rocket attacks into Israel. This is

statement issued by the outgoing President of Israel, Shimon Peres,

he said no state in the world would be prepared to accept rockets fired

at its mothers and children, or terrorists emerging from tunnels to

kill innocent people. Do you understand why the Israelis are so

utterly determined to end this threat to their civilian population?

TRANSLATION: Is there a state in the world that accepts an occupier and

enemy and usurper to come and occupy their land. Who has occupied

Palestinian, is it not the Palestine movement and Israel. Doesn't

international law state that the West Bank is an occupied land. What

has the international community done, the crisis is the problem that

the Palestinians are suffering from is the occupation, as Palestinians

we accept the international law. But it should be applied to us and the

Israelis. Israel is occupying, it is building settlements, Israel is the

one w kills, it is making people homeless. Is not the truth that

Hamas in many ways is weaker now than it has been for a very long

time. You have lost key allies, I'm thinking of the Muslim Brotherhood

in Egypt, I'm thinking of your allies in Iran no longer close to

you, you are in desperate financial trouble. You can't even afford to

pay the salaries of public sector inside Gaza?

TRANSLATION: Hamas will not surrender, yes Hamas is going

through a difficult time. This could be a wrong miscalculation by

Netenyahu, encouraged by sides here and there, that Hamas is weakened

and the Gaza people are weakened and exhausted through the siege. He

thought that Hamas would be an easy prey, and then he was surprised that

the people of Gaza and Hamas are stronger. Difficult circumstances

will not break us. Hamas does not fight because it has allies, it

fights because it has a just cause. Recession, what recession? The UK is

now set to grow faster than any other major economy this year,

according to the latest IMF forecast, which even suggests the

country has surpassed its previous peak. In terms of output we are back

to pre-2008 crash levels. But the financial crisis has radically

reshaped the way people are working and who they are working for. We

have this report. # A little bit independent

# In your walk # A little bit independent

# In your talk Figures out tomorrow shows the

economy returning to pre-recession peak. Employment was already higher

than when the recession began six years ago. More people are choose to

go stand on their own two feet and work for themselves. Fewer people

are working for the state. This Bristol cafe is owned and run by a

former teacher. Eight months ago Melody Beard left the public sector

and, with a little help from a local enterprise organisation called Brev,

set out for herself, opening The Hungry Catterpillar Cafe. I always

wanted to work for myself. I have that personality, maybe it takes a

certain type of personality to do that. Working for yourself is not

exactly child's play? You need to manage the cashflow and watch that

very closely, that is the difference of whether you will stay afloat or

not. All of those things you are going Toffler the to have to have

the initiative to do it. The three biggest self-employed strayed here

but the new self-employed are different. The largest rise is from

professional occupation, that is jobs like accountant, consultants

and lawyers. 5% of the self-employed describe

themselves as happy to be so. Although on average their earnings

are 25% below those of employees. The rise in self-employment has been

one of the most remarkable features of the recession and recovery.

People become self-employed for very different reasons. For some it is a

fourth forced choice, others value the freedom and get struck by a

great idea. And sometimes find it works better with childcare. In many

ways you have the best of bo worlds. There is days when it is a dream,

and other days are bonkers. Obviously I'm still providing the

lion's share of the childcare, as well as trying to juggle my own work

around things. And that can be really quite hardcore. I ask myself

do I want to get back into a company, and often the answer is,

yes, simply because security does mean a lot. You have a lot more

control over the work that you are doing, you can manage your projects

without extra pressures added to you, in the public sector everyone

wants you to do for more less all the time. That can lead toe a lot of

pressure. The big story of the 20th century was the rise of the state

and the increase in public sector employment. Already there are signs

that the 21st century might look very different. By 2020 more people

could be working for themselves than working for the Government. That's a

profound change in our economy, which could cause an equally

profound shift in our politics. The RSA think-tank has been examining

rises in unemployment, and believes it -- the rise of self-employment,

and believes it could herald a change in society. We are becoming

more individualistic as a society, because we know that one thing that

self-employed people enormously value is the freedom to make their

own successes and mistakes. They want to be accountable for their own

lives. It also has potentially quite big political implication, because

we know that people who work in the public sector are more likely to

vote Labour. But the research shows that around about 350% 35% of

self-employed people believe the Conservative Party to be best for

their business, where only 10% say Labour is. The smaller state and the

large rise in self-employment are two of many changes in our economy.

The economy might be back where it was in 2008, but the impact of the

reshaping of the last six years, will be felt for generations to

come. Whether or not you believe in the

death penalty, only a hardened few would suggest that those who die on

death row should take a good two hours to go. That is what happened

to double murderer Joseph Wood in a zone national cirriculum the third

botched execution in the US this year. Witnesses said he was left

snotting and gasping for air, under sedation, as a new cocktail of drugs

was administered to him. The cocktail of drugs has changed as a

result of embargoes of drugs in the EU who have made the drugs used on

death row illegal. This was no miscarriage of justice,

25 years ago Joseph Wood killed his ex-girlfriend and her father. He was

said to be smiling when he shot both in cold blood at their garage in

Arizona. So everybody here from what I heard said it was excruciating.

You don't know what excruciating is. What's excruciating is seeing your

dad lying there in a pool of blood, seeing your sister lying there in a

pool of blood. That's excruciating. This man deserved it. But Wood's

execution wasn't straight forward by any means. He hung on for two hours.

Gasping for air 600 times. Another controversial death as authorities

struggle to get hold of the chemicals needed for a lethal

injection. You guys are blowing this all out of proportion about these

drugs. This man conducted a horrifying murder and you guys are

going let's worry about the drug and how it affected him. Why didn't we

give him a bullet, some Draino, why not something else, everybody is

worried about the drugs. Drugs have been used on death row since 1982,

the idea was to make the process as quick and painless as possible.

Until recently three were used, first a sedating agent, then a

neuromuscular blocker to cause paralysis, and then a lethal dose of

potassium chloride, but a campaign by activists has brought a shortage

of one of the drugs. The key moment came in to 12 when a blanket EU

export ban came into force. We are seeing states scrambling around to

find any drugs and mixing them together in untested and

experimental combination, pulling this heavy shroud of secrecy around

the whole process. We don't know the quality of the drugs and whether

they have been tested to a sufficient degree and the effect it

will have on a human being when you inject these drugs. This is the

third botched execution this year. Clayton Lockett tried to get up 14

minutes after he was injected with a new drug mix. He later died of a

heart attack. And Dennis Maguire appeared to gasp and choke for half

an hour after he was given Minizolan and hydromorphone, the same two drug

combinations used last night. Ten Tennessee brought in new drug

cocktails. But they could be challenged in court named cruel

punishment which would be unconstitutional. The lethal

injection has never been humane, that is a myth. We are seeing the

debunking of the myth. The original cocktail had a par littic agent --

paralythic agent and that was only to prevent us seeing the torment the

victim was in. Now the medical veil is being pulled back and we are

seeing the reality of what is happening in the execution chamber.

The Governor of Arizona has ordered an investigation into last night's

execution, but she said justice had still been done. And Joseph Wood had

still died a better death than his two victims on another evening some

25 years ago. With me now is the head of Reprieve,

and Mark Class whose 12-year-old daughter Polly was raped and

murdered in 1993. Mark, where is your daughter's killer now? My

daughter's killer has been residing on death row at San equipment tan

prison in Northern California, only about fives mimes from my home for

the past 17 years. He's in a process of appeals now. The law in

California has recently changed which means he won't be executed?

There was a federal judge that deemed the death penalty in

California cruel and unusual punishment. I would personally take

exception with his definition of cruel, as was previously done in the

piece that you just showed. But I'm very confident that ruling will be

reversed upon appeal. So if your daughter's murderer had been Joseph

Wood, who we saw in that film from Arizona who took two hours to die,

would you have had a problem with that? No, not at all. From what I

hear, and I have heard, in fact, that he did suffer pain during

death, but nobody really knows that. The family members of his victim

said he died snoring, or that he was snoring for two hours, as did the

Sheriff and other representatives from the state. It was only his

defence attorneys that claim it w cruel and unusual. Claire? I'm not

sure that, my understanding is that various independent reporters also

said that it was very disturbing to watch, that he gasped over 600

times, and that it seems to me that this being the third one of these

botched executions in the past six months, the US really has to look at

whether it still gets to execute people, if such execution has to

pass the cruel and unusual punishment. Do you accept this is an

unintended consequence of the ban that you fought so hard to get, the

ban on the export of lethal drugs that has, if you like, left people

writhing in agony? It is not the European Union ban, it is the

pharmaceutical companies who have said, these guys make medicine, they

said they don't want their medicines used to kill people. That is

something an organisation can do and I believe it is commendable. What is

your response to Claire after hearing that? It is the European ban

on the drugs, on the sale of the drugs to the United States. So

frankly, there is the blood on the hands of people like Claire for all

of these botched executions. I personally wish they would step

aside and let us ajudicate justice as we deem fit in our country. It

does seem if they are going to kill them way, if they believe in the

death penalty it is only made worse for the ban, not better? It is not a

European ban, it is American companies that manufacture the drugs

and put these agreements in place. You support that? Yes, of course, I

believe the death penalty is not something that a state should... And

it makes it worse? I think Obama is looking into the question of the

death penalty, and the Governor of A Rhone to that is looking at it to --

a zonia is looking at it to -- Arizona is looking at it to see if

it should continue. Of course people affected by these crimes, including

the gentleman on the show, of course they will want to see the people who

have caused them that sort of pain torn limb from limb. I have a

daughter, if my daughter was killed I would absolutely want that to

happen. But I in that situation shouldn't be part of the criminal

justice system that deals with that. You could support the death penalty?

If somebody killed my daughter I would want the death penalty carried

out. That said I don't think I as that victim should get to dictate

what happens. Do you believe, that do you think the victims do have any

part to play in whether the death penalty should be carried out or

not? The word "victim" doesn't exist in the United States constitution.

But there are all kinds of rights put forward for the perpetrators of

crime. The only way I have in this system at all is if I'm approached

by a prosecutor as he's trying to make up his mind about imposing the

death penalty or to look for it. I want to be really clear here, I

don't want to see anybody torn limb from limb. I do want to see

individuals who have been found guilty of heinous murders to be

executed if in fact that is what a jury of their peers said and there

is no question as to whether or not these individuals are guilty. There

is a vast chasam between what she said and I just said. Do you believe

that every method used is equally acceptable, would there be a better

way, if you like of execution? Yes, absolutely, if people want to do a

painless execution that is not going to be prolonged or cruel or unusual,

they can do firing squads, that's pretty sure fire, or they can do the

guillotine, for odness sake, there is no ambiguity about that, once the

head rolls off there is no pain whatsoever, that is a done deal. The

guillotine may be a step too far, what about the firing squad, you are

not dealing with companies and not putting people in a place where they

have to ban exports? There is a specific problem with lethal

injection in that it appears to make executions surgical, it appears to

make it humane, and it is not. As you were saying earlier the effects

are actually horrible. The fact that people receive anaesthetic at the

beginning means nobody gets to see that. It is absolutely not the case

that lethal injection or execution is humane. At least if one were to

be talking about a firing squad or whatever, there would be something

less disingenious about that. I think in reality America has

invested a great deal in the idea of humane execution, and if someone

brought in the guillotine or the fire squad there would be

significant investigation around that.

Around ?75 million of salvageable material is buried in UK landfill

every year. Much of it the old toaster, the laptop and old model

cellphone. It includes precious metals too. How did we become such a

throwaway society. An audit committee says we need to re-think

our economy. We have this report. A kettle with a switch that doesn't

work, chuck it. One key on your keyboard not working, begin it. We

love our electronic gadgets and gizmo, but one tiny thing going

wrong or a new shiny model coming along, the old one ends up on the

scrap heap. Electronics is the fastest growing waste stream in the

UK. Every year thousands of tonnes of lap tops and other gadgets end up

in landfill. Our throw away culture is bad for the environment but good

for the economy. It drives innovation because new stuff is

better. Imagine if mobile phones hadn't changed in 20 years... Hello.

So how can we continue producing better things without throwing away

old ones. World record-breaking yachts woman, Dame Ellen McArthur

believes the answer lies in a circumstance hall economy. When you

sale around the world you take everything you need, and all you

have at the end of it is all you have. I have never thought about

that concept when I stepped off the boat and I realised the global

economy was similar and we have a fine night number of resources and

perpouring through them. We have a linear site, we take, make and

dispose, when we talk about a circular economy, we design it from

the outset for the cone components to flow within a system, rather than

stake, make and dispose, you take and make and then feed back into the

economy. Some forward-thinking designers are already embracing

circular economy ideas. Take the simple light bulb, the new ones are

energy efficient, LEDs are made from a complex mix of rare materials. At

the moment if you want a new light bulb, you take the old one out,

throw it in the waste bin and buy a new one. We create a bulb that means

you can update the LEDs in the middle, press the butt onnen to in

the middle and as a customer you get the latest one. New ones arrive in

the post and the old ones go back. Rather than something going off in

the waste treatment and you have no value from. You have can

remanufacture it and resell it as a new product.

I'm Dave, a designer from the Netherlands, I had an idea for a

modular smartphone. Smash the screen, clip on a new one. Want a

better camera, no problem. With the modular phone you only replace the

parts you need, not the whole handset. Currently they usually only

last for two years or something like that, this one you can upgrade every

time you get old or repair a part if it gets broken so you don't have to

throw it away. The problem is most manufacturers make money by selling

lots of products. Not by investing in designs that make their products

last longer. But some economists believe this

business model will change. That model of creating profits by

manufacturing material stuff and pushing it through the system relied

on the idea that we had cheap resource prices but resource prices

that were continually coming down. Since the millennium things have

changed dramatically. Commodity prices are rising fast, more

volatile than they ever were before. Two things are driving the change in

commodity price, massive expansion of demand, more people wanting more

of this material stuff, particularly in the emerging economies, and the

second is higher costs associated with supplying it. Our beloved

electronics are packed full of precious metals. Making them slim,

light and smart. Circuit boards rely on gold to conduct electricity.

There is one hundred-times more gold in smartphones than a tonne of gold

ore. Each year we dump about 20 tonnes of precious medals in

landfill. It would be more if it were for recycling plants like this

one in Kent. Many broken and unloved gadgets end up here, where their

precious contents are salvaged. What if our electronic goods didn't fail.

I'm going to cut this to generate really severe damage. As you can see

there is a crack and the only thing I have to do is close the crack and

wait for one minute. After one minute I tried to open the crack

again. As you can see it is very strong.

If we made our gadgets from self-healing plastics they would

always look shiny and new. And researchers in America have

developed an astonishing self-healing material that can fix

electronic circuits. This is a circuit brain, and the electronic

brain inside all of your gadget s. If one of them break everything

stops works. How the healing capsule works you have teeny amounts of

metal, and when it breaks it puts what is necessary in here. It is

products like this which will create a circular economy, to use throwaway

item, something we love and feel happy about and we don't have to

feel the guilt of throwing them away.

In case there was a danger that you forgot what was going on in

Scotland, a quick reminder of the Commonwealth Games so far.

It gives me great pleasure to re-Claire the 20 Commonwealth Games

in 2014. # On to the Highlands

# We're leaving the lowlands # The mountains and glens stretch

before you She's done it

# Nessie # I believe in you Ross Murdoch will

take the gold for Scotland. The Loch Ness monster and the tea cake, it

was a celebration of all things north of the border. Team GB does

not exist and Scotland has struck gold four times. But the games

finish six weeks before the country, Scotland that is, goes to the polls

to decide its future, will the patriotism and the pride play a role

in the ultimate result in the referendum. Joining me now musician

and commentator Pat Cane, and former minister Brian Wilson. Pat do you

believe it will ultimately help the yes campaign? I didn't until I

wandered through the streets of Glasgow today. If you are a Scottish

football fan you are at best ironic and at worst fatalistic about the

outcome of major sporting events. But the city was abuzz today. I

thought the ceremony last night was a combination of Gallicness and

beauty. The sense of conviviality and well being and gentle

positiveness of being a nation in the world whether it is sporting or

anything else, I got a sense of the "yes" campaign as well. Why does

conviviality and sunshine and happiness mean that Scotland is

better alone? Why do you feel and want your country to have a future.

Why do you want your country to have a positive future, and how do you

think you will get there. That has been the core of the yes campaign's

case for the last three years. I think there is an element of

demonstrating competence. If everything goes well with the event

it is a bit like the spectacle of the Scottish Parliament over the

next ten or so years, we have demonstrated we can govern

ourselves, one of the things about the event is we can show ourselves

off to the wider world. That is quite connected to wanting to be in

the world as a nation state. I would say that. I am ain the yes campaign.

I think these people in the streets of Glasgow their joy of the event is

unrelated to their political opinions and we should keep it that

way. What we should be celebrating is the internationalism of the

event. The sport, the wonderful weather, Glasgow showing its face to

the world, wonderful things to celebrate. Let's pay tribute to the

people with the vision to set all this in motion. Anyone who tries to

bring politicians into it or draw interm stations around people

enjoying themselves will pay a price for that. What I would say is don't

do it. Nobody is interested in talking about politics in this

context, we're interested in talking about the Commonwealth Games. It is

a cynical ploy isn't it, where the public think they are being pushed

into a feeling of happiness by a big event and they will resist that? The

original definition of the Olympics is 12 days of peace. It is slightly

niave to think you can separate international sporting events from

political processes. Come on! I think it is a demonstration of how

people of Scotland and Glasgow can demonstrate the friendliness and the

competence and ability to pull fantastic things off at a global

level to the wider world. People can connect that to politics if they

want. I will because that is my bent, but other people are happy to

enjoy the event. Of course. A lot of the debate up until now has been

over the dry macro-economics of what happened to Scotland, this is about

identity, pride, passion, it is hitting a different note isn't it?

You just stand very strongly against it trying to connect the two things.

We all know the timing of a referendum was meant to take account

or come off the back of this and the Ryder Cup coming up and so on. It

was always planned in that timetable. But I think even within

these two years things have changed, I think people have become very

resistant to the idea that sports events should be used or manipulated

by politicians in that way. Pat says you can't separate them, I think we

should all try to. I think 99% of the people out there in the streets

of Glasgow are having a great time and want to separate them. We should

celebrate the internationalism of is it all and have a good time. You

can't have internationalism without nations Bryan, forgot's sake?

Nations and states are different things. I believe we have a

disagreement on that in the Scottish context. Is there a moment where the

tot in you wants to change -- the Scot in you wants to change your

mind and say this is brilliant? What about independence? Go on Bryan,

break the habit of a lifetime. I didn't get the question, you keep

even which raising the question you are trying to introduce something in

it, and I don't think people want to be in it. There is more reaction to

introducing it as Bryan does, my attitude is suspend the hostilities

and let's not judge people on their private and patriotism. Everyone in

that swimming arena tonight and in Glasgow, they have exactly the same

sentiments of private and patriotism no matter which countries they are

supporting, let's celebrate it rather than being divided in any

way. Just time quickly to whizz through

the papers: That's all from us tonight, hope you

can join us again, from all of us here good night.

Hello again after another warm night it could be a grey start in the

morning for eastern England, the low cloud will get burned back to the

coast. More than we had today, mind you. Elsewhere lots of sunshine,

building heat triggering a few showers in the south. It is possible

we could get a shower along the north coast of Northern Ireland. It

will be the last hot day for Northern Ireland