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Scottish politicians and environmental organisations have | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
been reacting to the international deal to tackle climate change agreed | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
The First Minister Nicola Sturgeon welcomed the "big step forward," | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
but some campaigners argue that it lacks action. | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
The historic agreement struck in Paris followed nearly two weeks of | :00:23. | :00:38. | |
negotiations, and is the first to commit all countries to cut | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
emissions. The agreement sets the ambition and it's now up to | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
countries across the world to make sure we take the action that will | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
deliver on that mission, which is the challenge for all of us. The | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
global measures include keeping the global temperature increase below | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
two Celsius, as well as pursuing efforts to limit further and to | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
review progress every five years and to commit $100 billion a year in | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
climate finance to developing countries by 2020. We'd encourage | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
the government to make inroads to save the planet. They're not going | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
to do anything. I think a lot of what they're doing isn't enough but | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
it is more than individuals can do. The countries have to work it out | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
themselves. Some argue that while the agreement is ambitious, it lacks | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
action. It was almost inevitable the deal would be better than we've seen | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
before but not as good as we need to see. And in many ways the single | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
most pressing issue that has failed to be addressed by this agreement is | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
leaving fossil fuels in the ground. The UK Government has cut subsidies | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
in renewables to provide better value for money but it is being | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
urged to change its approach in light of the pack. The Conservatives | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
have cut some of the subsidies to renewables, losing lots of jobs in | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
the solar industry, and we have to turn that around. We have to play | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
our part in Scotland and the rest of the UK. Environment groups say the | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
talks might be over but national governments must now start to | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
deliver on the first truly global deal to protect the climate. | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
Scotland's transport authority was told of the urgent need | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
to repair the Forth Road Bridge ten months ago. | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
A leaked email has revealed that the chief engineer | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
Barry Colford imposed a restriction on "abnormal" loads and said | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
the curb should remain until all the truss end links | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
One of the links has since cracked, leading to the closure | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
Transport Scotland said there was nothing to suggest | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
the restriction had anything to do with the current problems. | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
We do need the Scottish government but everything in the public domain, | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
to be transparent, and not to engage in the ever-increasing amounts of | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
spin to hide the truth from people about cut budgets and cancelled | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
maintenance contracts. The First Minister made it crystal clear that | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
this problem which was found a few weeks ago hadn't been picked up on | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
previously because it is a new floor in the bridge. | :03:18. | :03:19. | |
Funding for Scotland's schools, hospitals and the police service | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
will be protected in this week's draft budget. | :03:23. | :03:23. | |
The Finance Secretary John Swinney made the commitment while warning | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
Ahead of announcing his spending plans for the next financial year, | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
Mr Swinney cautioned that there is unprecedented pressure | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
on public expenditure, as a result of the recent spending | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
The UK Government has argued that Scottish ministers will have almost | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
?400 million more available to them next year. | :03:42. | :03:49. | |
We will face very difficult choices because of the scale of the budget | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
reductions we are facing from the UK Government. We're going to have, | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
essentially, a decade of austerity with a 12.5% reduction in the | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
Scottish budget, so we have to live within our means, but we have to act | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
to preserve the essential public services that people are relying on | :04:10. | :04:10. | |
in Scotland. Celtic extended their lead | :04:11. | :04:11. | |
at the top of the Premiership to four points with a 3-0 win | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
against St Johnstone in Perth. Nadir Ciftci and Dedryck Boyota | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
scored from close-range either side And although Saints came close | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
to pulling one back, the match was clinched just | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
after the hour mark, Let's get the weather prospects | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
for this evening Judith is at the map. | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
Winter's definitely here. It has been really cold. Very good | :04:32. | :04:43. | |
evening to you. Some places struggle to get above freezing today and we | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
some snow in the forecast. We have a tricky 12 hours coming up with this | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
warm front pulling up from the South introducing rain and milder air. As | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
the milder air hits the whole stubborn air across Scotland, it | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
will turn to snow, even perhaps to lower levels. So the Met Office have | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
issued a yellow warning for snow. They are not concerned about the | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
central belt but the Southern highlands and the Grampian area. The | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
rain pushes northwards in overnight. Initially we could see some snow to | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
lower levels but then the focus will be higher ground and the hills, and | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
then we have something drier by morning. There will be an ice risk | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
tonight on untreated surfaces. It is cold but it is staying dry across | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
the far north. That's snow gradually dies away tomorrow. Something | :05:37. | :05:44. | |
brighter developing in the south, and some sunshine in the north. It | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
is also colder in the north, milder in the South. | :05:49. | :05:49. | |
Our next update's just after the ten o'clock news. | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
Until then, from all of us on the team here in Glasgow, | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
have a very good evening. Bye for now. | :05:57. | :06:01. |