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Tonight: It's a deal worth more than ?18 billion and described

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by this Government as essential for the UK's energy plans.

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But Newsnight reveals that there are new doubts

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about whether Hinkley C nuclear plant will ever be built.

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And official consultation of the committee which represents the staff

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and unions within EDF is currently going ahead, Newsnight has

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exclusively spoken to the secretary of that committee and we have

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learned that the consultation is not going well. For the company.

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Also tonight: Net migration rises again to its second

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As immigration hits centre stage in the EU debate,

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we'll ask this Government minister and Brexiteer

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And Scotland's First Minister raises the prospect of a second referendum

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If Scotland is in the situation where we are faced with being taken

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out of the year even though we voted to stay in, of course there would be

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many people in Scotland, not everybody, but many who would say,

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we need to protect our EU membership. And, today in the United

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States. It could be that we will run against crazy Bernie, could become a

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crazy Bernie, here's a crazy man, but that is OK, we like crazy

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people! On the day Donald Trump

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all but clinches the Republican nomination, why is the man he calls

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"Crazy" Bernie about to face him We'll debate whether divisions

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in the Democrat party are making We begin tonight with fresh

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revelations about the future of the planned ?18 billion power

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plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset. It had originally been

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due to open next year, but has been hit by delay

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after delay after delay, and now won't open until 2026

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at the earliest. The latest setback came a month ago

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when the company said it was delaying giving the project

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the go-ahead until it had

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consulted its trade unions, Now Newsnight has exclusively been

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told that that consultation has so far done nothing to reassure

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the unions, and that there is little chance

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of them giving their blessing VOICEOVER: A symbol of so much,

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Hinkley C, a huge infrastructure plan, and ?18 million the life which

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could supply 7% of our electricity. -- ?18 billion a liar. It will be

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built by EDF, the electricity company majority-owned by the French

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state, and it is a victory in the attempts to court Beijing, a third

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of the capital will come from China. -- goliath. At the outset, critics

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had concerns about whether we may be overpaying for Hinkley C, but today,

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the real danger to this project comes from France, we are still

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awaiting final sign off. In France, the finance director left EDF over

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concerns about whether the financial risk of Hinkley C was too great, to

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understand why, it is worth looking across the Channel, two other places

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where it is building the same model of reactor as it plans for Hinkley

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C, the so-called EPR. It is an immensely save enormous structure,

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which, however, looks as though it is almost uncontrollable. There are

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two projects around the world where this exactly the same design very

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much the same design being constructive. Both of them are in

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enormous difficulty. The one in Finland is about ten years late, in

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Normandy, being created by EDF, that will be in the order of 12 years

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late at least. The French energy minister has already stated publicly

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that she has concerns about the cost and the risks associated with

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Hinkley C, the unions, who have particularly powerful officials

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within the state-owned company, also have concerns, they want the project

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forward. This week, the French finance minister, wrote to British

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MPs to explain to them that the project was still on track, but

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right now, there is a moratorium on Hinkley C, and that is because an

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official consultation of the committee which represents the staff

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and unions within EDF is going ahead. Newsnight has exclusively

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spoken with the secretary of the committee, and we have learned that

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the consultation is not going well, for the company. We were told:

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unions do not have a veto, could EDF press ahead against their will?

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Going for it would be for the government crossing a red line in

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their relationship with the trade unions, which would make it really

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difficult for the government, especially thinking about the next

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general election, where they will need to get back some support of the

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trade unions. Remember where we started, this is a political project

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as well as an economic project. The political commitments is completely

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confirmed, we back Hinckley point, it is very important for France, it

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is very important for the nuclear sector and EDF. -- Hinkley Point.

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Others are less convinced. I do not believe that it is going to start

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one day, I think that the chance is that it does not come online

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increase. The reason being... Making the decision for the project is not

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possible right now. The political cost, the cost for EDF's financial

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situation is too high. That could leave our government in an odd

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position, accused of paying too much for a nuclear power plant at home

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and in driving a hard bargain that was not deliverable abroad.

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STUDIO: The day the latest migration figures were released by the Office

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of National Statistics was always going to be a big moment

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The increase in net migration in 2015 was 20,000, bringing

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the figure to 330,000, and Boris Johnson called it

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a "scandalous Government failure", his Government's failure.

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He was referring to the Government's aspiration

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to cut the number to under 100,000.

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"The system has spun out of control," he exclaimed.

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So what exactly would the Brexiteers do about it?

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In a moment I'll be speaking to the Northern Ireland Secretary,

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Theresa Villiers, one of the six Cabinet members backing an EU exit.

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But first here's our political editor Nicholas Watt.

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VOICEOVER: From the shores of Sicily to the borders of Ukraine,

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uncontrolled flow of migrants entitled to enter Britain, that is

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the message spelt out in Churchill style language that the main Brexit

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campaign has delivered spell out the core reason for wanting to leave the

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EU, today was a big moment for the vote Leave campaign, the reason the

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final set of migration statistics before the referendum, net migration

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rose rainier record peak of 330,000 last year, illustrating a key theme,

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until the UK takes full control of its borders, it will fail to meet

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the government 's target of reducing net migration below 100,000.

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The blue line shows the greatest portion of EU migration is from all

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the member states, part of the club before the Big Bang expansion in

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2004, the yellow line shows the eight Eastern European countries

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that joined in 2004, the red line shows Romania, and Bulgaria, which

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joined in 2007. One senior Brexit figure believes that wherever they

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are coming from, the numbers must fall. The right number will be in

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the tens of thousands, between the low tens, and up to about 100,000. I

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find it hard to imagine a circumstance where it would be

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beneficial to Britain to have more than 100,000 every year. But, you

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must let the economy drive that. The vote to leave campaign is focusing

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heavily on immigration in the final phase of the campaign to get the

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vote out, a full 58% of the electorate believe that immigration

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would fall if the UK left the EU. Clear red line for the government is

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that the British people are voting to leave the European Union on the

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23rd, on the 24th, the government must recognise that one key

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component of what they voted forward border control. Whatever else we

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discuss and negotiate with the European Union about whatever kind

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of arrangements over trade, border control is our red line, that is

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exactly what they voted. White Vote -- Vote Leave has ambitions beyond

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June 24, they believe that by gaining full control of the UK

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borders, the government of the day will be able to achieve something

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unprecedented in the modern era, consent for immigration. Vote Leave

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source said that he dreams of a day when he will be able to stand up in

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Parliament and make the case for higher immigration on the basis that

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the UK alone would be setting a limit is. -- one Vote Leave source.

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It is not beyond our wits to come up with a system which would be a

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combination, whether it is an Australian points system,

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recognition of historic links and responsible it is, skills needed,

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all of those things, but the key element is that it is decided at

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Westminster and has the consent of the people who have elected us. An

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absence of consent does not allow you to take that kind of leadership.

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Required to say that within controlled immigration can and is a

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good thing. Tonight, the first official debate of the campaign was

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held in Glasgow. Immigration was to the fore. Are you saying that if

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Britain votes to leave, there would be visas or there would not?

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Victoria, we just do not know. We just do not know. BOOING

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Because we have a Prime Minister who has said that there is no Plan B, he

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has not presented a single bit of detail as to what happens, if we

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vote to leave, and he has left it all completely open. These exchanges

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highlighted the need to tread carefully on such a sensitive

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subject, think of immigration as a lily pad, I was told, allowing the

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vote leave frog to jump into less contentious areas, like pressures on

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the NHS, in a way that appeals across the political spectrum, they

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believe they have a path to victory. STUDIO: I am joined by the Northern

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Ireland Secretary, Theresa Villiers, who wants to see the UK

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leave the EU. Good evening, let's go through a few

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of the migration issues. If we vote to leave the EU, we close borders,

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is that correct? We would still have immigration if we vote to leave the

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EU, the different would be that the people we vote to elect at

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Westminster would decide. Would there be fewer people, do you agree

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with the point by David Davis, maximum 100,000 every year? It gives

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us the chance to bring down the current numbers. That is the idea.

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Without taking control of immigration policy again, we have no

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chance of getting a grip on the current numbers. You think the

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numbers are too high. I think they are too high. We have a manifesto

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commitment to get them down under 100,000. Let's say that the economy

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is doing extremely well and you need workers, and you need workers from

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all over the world, if you needed 330,000 workers, you would be happy

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to have 330,000? If you had 350,000 that you need it, would that be

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happy? We have a commitment to bring down the numbers below 100,000, call

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me old-fashioned, we should try to achieve that. That is a principle,

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100,000, no matter if the economy was booming and you needed those

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workers, the door would be closed? The reality is that we would

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introduce a more intelligent system, focused on the skills gap, which

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judges people more fairly, from wherever they come in the world,

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judged on merit rather than if they happen to come from an EU country.

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No matter how things are going, you say you cannot see a situation where

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we would need more than 100,000 every year? Beyond the next general

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election it is up to the party to put forward their numbers, but we

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have a manifesto commitment, obviously we are determined to

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deliver on that. Below 100,000? Obviously in the future, after a

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general election, those commitments can change, at the moment, our

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commitment is to bring numbers down below 100000 and there is a lot of

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support for that. Let's talk about how this will work.

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Let's just talk about how this would work. Let's say you have Britons

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working in France, would they have to come back home and apply for

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visas? It is very clear that if immigration rules change, they can't

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apply retrospectively, so no one who is already working in France would

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be forced to come back. That is what you say, but the French might not

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say it. We are all banned by international conventions, so it is

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clear that whether you are an EU worker in the UK or a work in the

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rest of Europe, rules on freedom of movement do not apply

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retrospectively. So let's say that there is a Polish nurse here now,

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but she wants to bring her mother over after we would hypothetically

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leave the EU. Would you have to get a Visa? That will be down to the

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Government that we elect. The principle here is not leave campaign

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mandating a new immigration system. We want to give power back to the

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Government to take decisions on immigration. So is it possible a

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family member could just come in? If you listen to that debate tonight,

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Diane James from Ukip were saying we just don't know about visas for

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people. And people are concerned, if you are a young Polish worker here,

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your mother is sick in Poland and you want to bring her over, would

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you need a tech backstreet? What this debate is about is who takes

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the decisions on migration. There is a great amount of support in this

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country for taking our own decisions on migration. The beauty of that is

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we have democratic accountability, at the moment these decisions are

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made by a council of Ministers, the European court of justice, not by

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people who are elected. So a young Polish person who can vote in this

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EU Referendum Bill but a young person from Britain can. So say you

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are a young architect, you want to go to Berlin or Prague. You would

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need a tech backstreet ago, presumably? We are not mandating the

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rules would will be applying in the rest of the EU in the event of a UK

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exit, but there are thousands of citizens from around the world who

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work in Europe, many of whom do not come from EU member states, there

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were thousands of the Jewish people who worked in the EU -- thousands of

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British people working in EU before we joined. But this is putting

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pressure on our public services and housing. But people thinking about

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how they are going to vote want answers. Every young person wants to

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go to Europe to be an architect, or if a young German person wants to

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come here and learn to be an architect, they will have to have a

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visa, is that right? There may be changes in the terms on which people

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can travel, but these would be decided in Britain as a result of

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democratically accountable decisions, and we ought to take into

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account another problem for young people and that mass migration from

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Europe is depressing wages in this country, that is a fact. Let's talk

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about security. We already know the French have said that there will be

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no border in Calais, the border will have to go back over here. The

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French government have said various different things about this. The

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Justice Minister has been supportive of those arrangements. The reality

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is the French camp all the plug... The Financial Times, March the 3rd,

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Emanuel macron, the French Minister said, the day this unravels,

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migrants will no longer be in Calais, they will be on the dish

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coast, won't they? The French home affairs Minister has been very

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supportive of this. It is a bilateral arrangement, the French

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could all the plug right now they wanted to, but the reasons the

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arrangement is in place is because it is in the interests of both

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France and the UK, so there is no reason for them to pull the plug.

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But the point is, the migrants who want to come here, why would the

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French bother stopping them, locking them up, having them in the

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so-called Jungle at Calais? It will be up to Britain to deal with them

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when they wish. But this arrangement is in France's interest as well as

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the UK's, otherwise it wouldn't be in operation now. Let's look

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somewhere else, and this is your territory, where we have a land

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border between Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland, and there is no

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question of the Republic of Ireland leaving the EU. Will that border the

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entirely open? I would say it will be entirely open. We had a common

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travel area allowing free movement of people between the Republic of

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Ireland and the United Kingdom ever since the creation of the Irish

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state 100 years ago. But there wasn't free movement of peoples and

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the rest of the EU. So in your view, should there be an open border

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between Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland? Definitely. The

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Common travel area survived a civil war, World War I30 years of the

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Troubles. It will survive the exit. So theoretically, any member from

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European state could come to Southern Ireland and go straight

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into Northern Ireland and into the United Kingdom? There is nothing to

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stop them doing that. , travel area gives rights to Irish citizens which

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would be absolutely maintained in the event of a Brexit. I don't mean

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are citizens. I mean other people who wish to enter the UK, can

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somebody do it through the Northern Ireland Southern Ireland open

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border? There would be certain risks to be managed in retaining an open

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border in the event of a Brexit vote, but very similar risks already

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occur and are appropriately managed through Corporation between the

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authorities... What are those risks? Individuals coming into Ireland who

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may not have an entitlement to come into the UK, so those risks occur

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today. The idea that suddenly we will have hundreds of thousands of

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citizens from other EU countries heading across-the-board between

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Ireland and the UK, it is fanciful, to be honest. If we change the rules

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on free movement, there would be constraints on the rights of those

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EU citizens to enter the UK. But if you tighten borders elsewhere, while

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even this border open? Because of the close relationship that we have

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between the UK and Ireland. Because that open border has served us well

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for 100 years, there is no need to scrap it, and it is important for

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border areas of Northern Ireland that we keep it. Let's move on to

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the last hurrah before purdah, the last piece of Treasury analysis. The

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analysis is that people will be worse off in terms of their pensions

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between 220 ?330 per year if we leave the EU. You are the former

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Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Is that a reasonable

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assumption? I don't believe that it is, and I don't believe people are

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taken in by what I'm not neutral reports. We can trade these

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forecasts from here until referendum day, but the last time the Treasury

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predicted a shock in the way they are doing at the moment was when we

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were members of the ERM, they said they would be an inflation Russia

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and the economy would crash, the truth, inflation came down, interest

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rates came down, we had a decade of growth, they were wrong then and

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they are wrong now. Theresa Villiers, thank you grow much for

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joining us. Now, if you're sick of referendums

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already - surely not! Polls tell us that Scotland is more

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in favour of remaining in the EU But there's been some suggestion

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that if the UK votes to leave, Scotland might, in turn, hold

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another independence referendum. Who better to tell us

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than Scotland's first Put in the words "our country"

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instead of "Scotland", and that is a pretty powerful

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argument for leaving One of the reasons, one of the many

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reasons I want Scotland to be an independent country is so that

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as an independent country in an interdependent world,

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we decide for ourselves the extent to which we share sovereignty

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and the organisations that we choose I am somebody who believes

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in Scottish independence, I want Scotland to be

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outward-looking and play a full part in the world,

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and the European Union is an organisation I want Scotland,

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whether it is independent or part But you could argue,

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and have some sympathy for the argument, presumably,

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that the EU is a distant force that doesn't actually understand

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different countries' cultures For me, that is an argument

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for countries to be in there trying to change and reform the union

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and make it more responsible I do just think this

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argument that being a member of the EU is inconsistent

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with being an independent All 28 member state of the EU

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are independent countries, and if you go to Germany

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or France or Sweden... But Scotland is not an

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independent country. And actually no

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prospect of being so. We may agree to differ on that,

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but let's not go there just now. What I'm saying is, whether Scotland

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is an independent country or part of the UK, I think it is better

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for our interests overall to be playing a part in the world,

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cooperating with other independent countries to deal with the issues,

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climate change, energy security, refugee crises, that

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countries themselves can't The scenario would be that

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Scotland votes to remain, but overall, the United

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Kingdom votes to leave. You have been repeatedly asked

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about whether or not there would be I am not going to get dragged,

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no matter how hard you try, I am not going to get dragged

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too far into the realms of the speculative,

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because I actually don't want It is only four weeks out,

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you have to be public, surely. With the greatest of respect,

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I think I'm entitled in those four weeks as somebody who believes

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that there should be a Remain vote to argue the case for

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a Remain vote not only I have argued that

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for my whole adult life. But I don't want to see the UK vote

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to come out of the union. On that basis, would you do

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anything it took? Would you share a platform

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with David Cameron? I will take part over the next few

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weeks in some debates around the European Union and membership,

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but I will make the case that Would you share a platform

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with David Cameron? There are no plans as far

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as I am aware... Look, I'm not planning to share

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a platform with David Cameron, but this is much bigger than just

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individual politicians. I am having to try hard

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to keep up with all these Scotland votes to remain,

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England votes narrowly to go, and Scotland's vote pulls

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England over the line. What would the atmosphere be

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like then with the Again, I'm not going to get dragged

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into the speculation around I hope, and what I'm going to focus

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on for the next four weeks is playing my part,

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albeit my small part, in trying to make sure

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that there is a big overwhelming vote in Scotland, and I hope

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there is also an overwhelming vote But if there is a vote in Scotland

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to remain and a vote throughout the rest of the UK to go,

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can you see a situation in which there wouldn't be

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the possibility of a referendum? I think, and I have said this

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before, if Scotland is in the situation where we are faced

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with being taken out of the EU even though we voted to stay

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in, particularly given the fact that we were told

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that it was independence that imperilled our EU membership,

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then of course I think that there would be many people

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in Scotland, not everybody, but many people in Scotland,

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who'd say, we have to protect our EU membership and look again

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at independence as the way If you were free to do so,

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and I say this because, as you know, migration is one of the big issues

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around this EU referendum, if you were free to do so,

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would you take more non-EU I think countries should

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have the ability, and Scotland should have the ability,

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to set its immigration policy based People come into this country

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from other EU countries and make a net positive

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contribution to our economy. The figures that are published

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today, the increase in net migration on my reading is as much to do with

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a fall in emigration as it is to do There are as many people coming

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from outside of the EU as that are from inside the EU,

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so let's have a fact-based Let's not lose sight of that central

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point, that EU migrants actually make a net positive

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contribution to our economy, and that is before we talk

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about the cultural and social advantages of having people able

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to come here and people from here able to go

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to other European countries. Looking at who you think

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your main opposition The principal party

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of opposition is the Tories. And that says, I think,

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actually more about the state of the Labour Party in Scotland

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than it does about the state But I'm more interested

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in what my job is as the Government of Scotland to lead Scotland,

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to tackle the challenges we have is a country and to seize

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the massive opportunities If, the day after the referendum,

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Scotland is out of the I hope that is not the case,

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and if that is the scenario we find ourselves in on the 24th of June,

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I will guarantee I will sit down with you and we will have

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this conversation. But I'm going to spend as much

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energy as I can in the almost four weeks now between now and the 23rd

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of June making the case for that I hope people vote, and I hope

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people vote in large numbers to stay Nicola Sturgeon says that she will

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be on Newsnight on the 24th of June. Republican and Democratic

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presidential candidates traditionally do not debate each

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other until both parties have selected their nominees,

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but then there's not much that's So perhaps it shouldn't be

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a surprise that today we learned that Donald Trump wants

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to debate the underdog Democratic Party challenger,

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Bernie Sanders. The move will further

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frustrate his rival, frontrunner Hillary Clinton,

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who wasn't invited to this particular showdown, and who has

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plenty of her own troubles. Today the State Department's

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Inspector General found that Clinton ignored clear guidance

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that her e-mail set-up broke agency rules and could have left government

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secrets vulnerable to hackers. Joining us to discuss these

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developments are Nomiki Konst, O journalist and broadcaster who

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used to in turn for Hillary Clinton. I'm not sure why you introduced me

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as an intern, I did that when I was in college, 15 years ago. It was

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rather than simply being a supporter, you were somebody who

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knows Hillary Clinton. No, I don't, I interned on her campaign as a

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college student. I was booked to discuss my column on Bernie Sanders.

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If you are looking for someone to speak for the campaign, I should

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probably encourage you to book summary of. I'm very happy to talk

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about the entire idea of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, we are

:30:16.:30:18.

live on television, and that is what we would like to talk about. Is

:30:19.:30:22.

there anything wrong with Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump going

:30:23.:30:23.

head-to-head just now? It is kind of adding to the reality

:30:24.:30:30.

show nature of this campaign, I have got to be honest, I was under the

:30:31.:30:34.

impression I was here to discuss a column I wrote for the daily beast

:30:35.:30:38.

about race and Bernie Sanders, I did not know that I was here to talk

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about the reality show nature of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump

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ready to have a verbal wrestling match. -- Daily Beast. Really we are

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just here for your knowledge on the campaign, looking across from the

:30:53.:30:55.

Atlantic. You think that Hillary Clinton should bite the bullet,

:30:56.:31:00.

should she get Memento and going, even if she has to take on Donald

:31:01.:31:03.

Trump now, do that, get some momentum? Yes, I think that she has

:31:04.:31:11.

been critiquing Donald Trump in her speeches, which indicates she's

:31:12.:31:14.

looking ahead to the general, not really focused on the primary

:31:15.:31:18.

anymore, it is unrealistic that Bernie Sanders can catch her in the

:31:19.:31:22.

delegate count, that is what matters in terms of who will be the

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Democratic nominee. We are in a situation now where Bernie Sanders

:31:28.:31:31.

himself could actually make some traction with this kind of debate,

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you are keen to talk about Bernie Sanders and race, what is it in

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particular that you think that he is achieving? The column that I wrote,

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that I was under the impression I was here to discuss, was the level

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of harassment that African-American journalists like myself have faced

:31:49.:31:51.

when they have dared to criticise Bernie Sanders, one of the reasons

:31:52.:31:54.

I'm disappointed in how your produces chose to introduce me is

:31:55.:31:58.

one of the misconceptions that Bernie Sanders supporters have been

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spreading is that anyone who is critical of him must be a supporter

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of Hillary Clinton or paid by the Clinton campaign. Part of the

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misinformation of that is that people like myself, who in turn for

:32:09.:32:12.

the Clinton campaign 15 years ago, when I was in college, was described

:32:13.:32:16.

as someone who was a secret supporter of Hillary Clinton. People

:32:17.:32:20.

like Diane Sawyer worked for president Nixon when she was young,

:32:21.:32:24.

she went on to become a very accomplished journalist, her

:32:25.:32:27.

integrity was not questioned. And so I was talking about my piece about

:32:28.:32:33.

how the level of insult attacks and derogatory claims made by Sanders

:32:34.:32:36.

supporters against female journalists and African-American

:32:37.:32:43.

journalists really spoke to a level of indecency and a lack of civility.

:32:44.:32:47.

In the campaign cycle, which we have not seen before. Who is instigating

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it? Well, look, one of the things I learned in my column is that it was

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not one person or two people, it was a coordinated effort, I have someone

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who works in me who reads my mail, the read a lot of my e-mail and

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social media, and really goes through it, I was attacked so badly

:33:07.:33:09.

for about a week after I wrote several months ago that I did not

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consider Bernie Sanders particularly electable because polling shows that

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socialists in America have a very tough time being accepted. By

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voters. What I found is that the level of attacks were so bad that

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there were Sanders people that said my Facebook page, please stop

:33:26.:33:29.

attacking her, and after that, one of the Sanders supporters responded

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in kind, she is a journalist, anything short of violence should be

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acceptable...? Taking this to the last question which I want to ask,

:33:39.:33:40.

is there something that Hillary Clinton can do to unite this very

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fractious, if we are to be believed, very fractious Democratic race,

:33:48.:33:49.

obviously you have faced that yourself.

:33:50.:33:56.

The onus is on people like Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump to

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discourage violence at rallies, the onus is on Bernie Sanders to

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vigorously denounced the threats that female Democratic official in

:34:07.:34:11.

Nevada has received from many of the supporters, death threats that she

:34:12.:34:14.

received, which he did not vigorously denounced, the onus is on

:34:15.:34:18.

him to say that we can disagree, you can hate her writing, you can think

:34:19.:34:21.

Kelly Gough is a terrible writer, I'm sure when the people do, but

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there is a level of decency, and civility that we need to maintain in

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our society full. -- Kelli Goff. Thank you very much a joining us.

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-- that we need to maintain in our society.

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On Friday President Obama will travel to Hiroshima,

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becoming the first American president to visit the city

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where the US dropped the first atomic bomb during World War II.

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It's a trip his ten predecessors since Truman have avoided.

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The White House says there will be no apology.

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But some survivors of the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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We spoke to some survivors about their memories

:34:57.:34:59.

Viewers may find some of their stories distressing.

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The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base, that was

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because we wished in this first attack to avoid insofar as possible

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the killing of civilians. We have used it in order to sharpen the

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agony of war. That is all we have time for, good

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Sky being lit up in the south by a series of thunderstorms, could well

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be heavy showers around. Across Wales and Southern counties.

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Steadily fading, then the afternoon

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