10/03/2017 Reporting Scotland

Now on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.

They thought their son was dead - killed in a bombing raid in Syria.

But a refugee family now living in Midlothian have been reunited

with their eldest child who was trapped, alone

Mohamed Karou's father said it was the end of a five year

nightmare and praised those who helped rescue his son.

Cameron Buttle has been to meet them.

It is hard to believe the horrors that this young boy has seen.

Today, playing in a park, a stick and a log are

He never strays too far from his father, enjoying being part

of the family he had not seen for five years.

It is a miracle to have him with me here.

They lost Mohamed during a bombing raid.

They searched for him but were told he was dead.

Years later, after the rest of the family had fled Syria,

a relative got a message out to say their son was alive.

TRANSLATION: It has been a long time.

He really felt desperate until he would come

His father twice smuggled himself back into Syria

Now relocated in Scotland, the family pleaded for help,

and against all the odds, a rescue mission was mounted

and Mohamed arrived in Scotland a few weeks ago.

TRANSLATION: The operation went a very secret way and no

information was revealed to us, just for his protection.

The lack of information made me sometimes worried,

sometimes concerned, but I always knew that it was going

The family's plight hit the headlines when it was raised

in Westminster by their local MP last year.

In the background, a support team from Midlothian Council lived every

On the phone to the Home Office everyday in my office.

The team was there to make sure the family was supported and no

stone left unturned to make sure Mohammed could get here.

Beyond that, there are those we do not know, people on the ground

We will never know who they are and we can't thank them

We will probably never know how he was brought here to Midlothian

Syria is still incredibly dangerous and the agencies involved will not

talk about it because it might jeopardise future operations.

TRANSLATION: He has been denied from his childhood life so I hope

this new life will bring him back some childhood memories.

The funeral has taken place of the Celtic great

Hundreds of fans turned out to pay their last respects

as the funeral procession set off from Celtic Park this morning.

Fellow Lisbon Lions were amongst the pallbearers.

Among the thousands gathered outside Celtic Park,

Others have only seen it on TV, Tommy Gemmill in 1967 scoring

in Celtic's European cup final victory, the first by a British

I am a Celtic fan through and through.

He was a fabulous player and look at the pride he brought a Glasgow.

When the time came to say farewell, the reaction was spontaneous,

the funeral cortege making the journey to the crematorium

where family, friends, former team-mates and rivals gathered.

Green blazered against the sombre backdrop, his fellow Lisbon Lions.

There have been many fine fullbacks who have worn the hoops

with distinction but undoubtedly the name of Tommy Gemmill

will be right up there with the best of them,

A tall, athletic full-back in his prime, a close friend

described his attitude as illness took its toll.

One of his favourite sayings was, why should

I didn't think there was anything left for Tommy Gemmill to do

I was in awe of his courage, strength and character.

In two months, on the 50th anniversary, the Lisbon Lions

Missing will be a cherished team-mate, a life today

This would have been right up his street.

A pilot has been jailed for 10 months for boarding a flight

from Scotland to the United States while under the

45 year old Carlos Roberto Licona from Texas, was due

to serve as First Officer on a United Airlines flight

He was jailed after pleading guilty to the charge

The Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie has claimed his party

now represents "majority opinion" on Scotland's future.

At the party's annual conference in Perth,

Mr Rennie said the LibDems were the only ones now giving full

support to Scotland's place in both the UK and the European Union.

From Perth, here's our political editor Brian Taylor.

Sharing this venue with the curlers, the Liberal Democrats reckon

they are entitled to make a bit of noise, too.

Liberal Democrats speak for the majority of people in Scotland.

We are pro-United Kingdom, but we also wanted to stay

62% of Scots want that, so we represent the majority

of public opinion, and our ambition is to get that high

He talks of healing divisions, but the party's only Scottish MP

reckons nationalism is well out of kilter.

Alex Salmond will tell you that all he wants is for decisions

about Scotland to be made by people living in Scotland.

How is that different from Nigel Farage wanting to take

Or even Donald Trump wanting to do deals, great deals,

Nick Clegg formally led the Lib Dems and is now

He told me of plans for a further EU referendum on the Brexit terms.

If the British people were to say, we don't want to jump off the cliff

and would rather stay on terra firma, clearly, it would then

be for us as a nation to decide whether we actually

after all want to stay in the European Union.

You can see that as a prospect, that Brexit does not happen?

Only if the British people change their mind.

To be clear, a second referendum is roundly rejected

Nick Clegg argued that liberalism was still alive

Party leaders believe they can remedy that in Scotland

by supporting two unions, the UK and the EU.

Well, It's over to Christopher now with the weather outlook

Fairly cloudy and damp tonight with a band of rain moving in of the

Atlantic. This is the chart, the rain edging in across the mainland,

further south and east any wet weather is light and patchy but

fairly cloudy. Tomorrow morning, Saturday gets off to a cloudy start

but should improve because the Rome is clearing away towards the North

Sea. Behind it, a legacy of drizzle holding on. Brightening up across

the far north-west and for parts of Northern Ireland, the North of

England, Wales and the south-west, cloudy and in the south and East

some sunshine, 16 to 18 Celsius. Nothing quite that high here but

nine or 11 Celsius covers it in the south, quite murky at times, the

central belt cloudy, clouding up for Edinburgh. Best of the sunshine in

the north, like wind, 13, 14 Celsius. Perhaps stilts Shari

Shetland. The rest of the afternoon, evening and overnight, mist and murk

on the hills and wet weather edging in across the south. Another weather

front on the Atlantic so Sunday starts cloudy, damp and drizzly. The

rain edges in eastwards through the day and then brightening up so by

the afternoon some sunshine coming in across western Scotland, further

east a few showers but both days it is the afternoon that will fare best

in terms of anything dry and bright. From everyone on the late

team - goodnight. Let's Sing And Dance exploded onto

our screens,