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Here on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are. | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
The Prime Minister has rejected Nicola Sturgeon's plans | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
The First Minister wants to hold the vote between Autumn | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
But Theresa May says that clashes with the Brexit timescale | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
and it wouldn't be fair to expect Scots to choose without knowing | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
the full implications of leaving the European Union. | :00:27. | :00:27. | |
She said a referendum could happen later | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
Nicola Sturgeon called the announcement "undemocratic | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
This from our political editor Brian Taylor. | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
European Union notification withdrawal act... | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
Royal Assent for the act to leave the European Union. | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
But dissent from Nicola Sturgeon's referendum plans. | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
My message is very clear, now is not the time. | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
I have explained the reasons why, I think we should be working | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
to get the right deal for Scotland and the UK with our future | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
partnership with the European Union, it would be unfair to Scotland, | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
people of Scotland at the moment that they would be being asked | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
to make a crucial decision without the information they need | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
Constitutional issues are reserved to Westminster, | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
Nicola Sturgeon needs Theresa May's agreement, she hasn't got it, | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
Here we appear to have the Tory party with just one MP in Scotland, | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
thinking that it is OK for them to block Scotland's right to choose. | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
I think that is democratically unacceptable, but I also think it | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
shows that the Conservatives fear the verdict of the Scottish people. | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
Now seems absurd, simply to hand them the opportunity | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
and screaming into an isolated, angry Brexit Britain. | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
That is not what voters in Scotland chose. | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
Scottish Tory leaders say it wouldn't be fair to ask Scotland | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
to decide on independence while Brexit was under way. | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
A referendum might be possible when Brexit was completely settled. | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
But they wouldn't offer dates and they deny they feared defeat | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
That dread is probably shared by a lot of people across Scotland. | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
You'd oppose having a referendum, but you wouldn't say | :02:11. | :02:21. | |
that constitutionally the British Government | :02:22. | :02:22. | |
Constitutionally, The UK Government should block it though. | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
Ruth Davidson said the Prime Minister wasn't completely | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
blocking a referendum, she was settingous out terms. | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
Other parties say hold off on a referendum. | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
Willie Rennie said the SNP weren't even sure if they'd seek full | :02:33. | :02:34. | |
She is sucking up to the Eurosceptics on her own side, | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
while cynically selling out the pro Europeans on the sly. | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
And Labour claimed independence would be a disaster. | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
Isn't it the case that according to her own Government statistics, | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
leaving the UK would mean ?15 billion worth of extra cuts? | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
It's body boosting bingo promoted at Holyrood today but it takes two | :02:58. | :03:14. | |
to tango and Theresa May isn't for dancing. | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
The First Minister says her plans for a referendum between autumn next | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
year and spring 2019 will not be derailed by the UK Government. | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
And that if the Scottish Parliament votes for a second referendum next | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
week, then any attempt to block it will be what she describes | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
Nicola Sturgeon was speaking to Jackie Bird at Bute House, | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
a fortnight on from Jackie's interview with the Prime Minister | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
First Minister, Theresa May says now is not the time | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
Firstly, I agree with Theresa May that now is not the right time | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
to have an independence referendum, that's not what I am proposing. | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
What I propose is that Scotland should have the right | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
to choose their own future once the terms of Brexit are clear, | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
but before it is too late for us to choose a different path. | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
Now, on the timetable for the Brexit negotiations | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
that the Prime Minister has set out, that means a window of autumn next | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
So that's the proposition I've set out. | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
We have, in the Scottish Government, a mandate for that, we were elected | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
less than a year on a manifesto that set that in these circumstances | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
the Scottish Parliament should have the right to hold | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
an independence referendum, and of course there is a majority | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
I think it would be completely unacceptable and outrageous | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
and almost anti-democratic for a Conservative Government | :04:38. | :04:39. | |
with one MP in Scotland to seek to block the democratic | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
will of the Scottish Parliament, and stand in this way | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
of the Scottish people having thing right too choose our own future. | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
Although the Prime Minister has not stated a date when she would perhaps | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
accept a Scottish referendum, I think the inference seems | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
to be today, and I would like to get your take on this, | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
that the implication is that it's after Brexit has been done | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
and dusted and is up and running, do you agree with that? | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
Do I agree that that seems to be what she said? | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
That certainly appears to be the case. | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
The deal will have to be done, certainly in the broad | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
terms of it in any event, by the autumn of next year, | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
if the Prime Minister's timetable is to be delivered. | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
So in a sense, you know, if the Prime Minister is genuinely | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
saying here that her concern is that people should know the terms | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
of Brexit, then I agree with that, and that's what I have sent out. | :05:31. | :05:39. | |
What she is saying is, or what she appears to be saying | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
is she doesn't want Scotland to have the right to choose | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
until much later, until long after the UK is out of the EU. | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
Let's assume she does mean potentially an independence | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
You are going to the Scottish Parliament, there will be | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
a vote on Wednesday, if you vote for an independence | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
referendum, and Westminster has said no, what then? | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
In the last 48-hours we have seen Theresa May perform the most | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
embarrassing and screeching U-turn on an issue in her own budget. | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
We are likely next week to have a majority in | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
the Scottish Parliament and you are really asking me | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
right now before that majority has been expressed, | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
to accept that a Conservative Prime Minister who has one MP in Scotland, | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
has the right just unquestionablibly has the right to lay down | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
I am saying I don't think Theresa May's position right now is | :06:32. | :06:52. | |
sustainable. This is not the iron Lady, it is somebody whose | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
government is in chaos and is chopping and changing all the time. | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
If you start campaigning for an independent Scotland, will you be | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
campaigning for full membership of the EU, or as part of the single | :07:05. | :07:12. | |
market? My position has been membership of the EU. We have to | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
recognise we are in different circumstances now than 2014. In 2014 | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
we set up the process in which an independent Scotland would become | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
part of the EU at a time when the UK was in the EU. We will be in a | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
situation where the UK will be coming out at the EU. We will set up | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
the process by which we will see to secure a relationship with Europe. | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
55% of Scots voted to stay in the UK and then the UK voted to come out of | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
the EU. You cannot have one and then the UK voted to come out of | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
democratic process and you agree with and one you don't agree with, | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
and therefore disregard. I am not with and one you don't agree with, | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
disregarding either of the wreck the Rendon is. But in 2014 we did not | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
know if the UK was going to come out of the EU. In 2014 Scotland was told | :08:00. | :08:10. | |
to vote no to stay in the EU. Then Scotland were told to vote to come | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
out of the EU. Will you be campaigning unequivocally for | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
Scotland to stay in the EU or would you accept Scotland within the | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
single market? We'll have to set out the process, the transition from | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
where we are now the Scotland being in the European Union. The policy of | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
the SNP is clear about our desire to be in the European Union because of | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
the jobs, investment and the collaboration that would depend on | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
that. I am also recognising, through no fault of ours, are facing a | :08:42. | :08:50. | |
future where there member state is coming out and we will have to look | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
at the future relationship we have with Europe. Non-op that could be | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
very clear. First Minister, thank you. | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
A documentary on the founder of Europe's first Tibetan Buddhist | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
At 19, with Tibet occupied by China and his life in danger, | :09:06. | :09:17. | |
he walked through the Himalayas into exile in India. | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
We have very strong beliefs we are not going to kill anything | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
Akong reached the UK and formed the school at Eskdalemuir S now | :09:24. | :09:47. | |
From here he spearheaded humanitarian projects | :09:48. | :09:49. | |
Akong was murdered in China in October 2013, just | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
after authorising the film of his life to be made. | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
When you get to meet someone with such quality that he had, | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
it's impossible, as a film-maker, not to think of making a film | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
The premier was attended by the current Abbott, | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
Akong's younger brother who survived the long walk to freedom with him. | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
All his siblings will be very proud that this film was made. | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
It'll go all over the world because he is known | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
The film has become Akong's memorial a lasting tribute | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
Today was BBC's School report day. More than 50 schools in Scotland | :10:35. | :10:51. | |
took part in the scheme that gives secondary school students the chance | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
to make their own news reports. This ear, many of the film is focused on | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
mental health. Cassell Douglas high ear, many of the film is focused on | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
school's way of encouraging young people to speak about mental health | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
has been to get older students to mentor and tutor younger ones. You | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
learn more, because you feel included. If it is a teacher, they | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
think that is their job and that is what they are supposed to do to help | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
others. Now let's get the weather. There has been blustery showers | :11:19. | :11:29. | |
across the North West. We have had this beautiful picture in the | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
highlands of the Northern lights. But for the rest of the nights, | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
there will be mixtures of clear spells, mainly across the of where | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
they are frequent, falling snow over the hills and even down to lower | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
levels for the Highlands and a risk of icy stretches and a Met Office be | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
aware warning is in force until tomorrow morning. Temperatures can | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
dip down close to freezing. For towns and cities it will be two to | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
three Celsius. Breezy around the west Coast. The ice warning is still | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
with us until 9am. Showers across the Northern Isles, mainly across | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
Orkney throughout the day. Brighter spells across the black Isle and | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
Caithness and Sutherland. Longer spells of rain in the western part | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
of the central Belt. It will be cloudy here for much of the day. | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
Temperatures will be ten or 11 Celsius at best. This is the wider | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
picture for the rest of the UK. The cloud across Northern Ireland and | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
northern England as well. Falling snow over the hills across the | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
Highlands. The driest conditions across the south-east of England. | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
Temperatures reaching ten to 13 Celsius. Tomorrow evening, cloudy | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
conditions remain for Scotland, damp and drizzly affair. The winds will | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
ease and by the time we look to the start of the weekend, there will be | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
quite a bit of cloud Iran, wet weather, mainly persistent across | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
the West. The drier weather will across the North East in the | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
afternoon. Temperatures climbing to 11 or 12 cents 12 Celsius. It | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
remains quite windy. Our next update is during Breakfast | :13:19. | :13:20. | |
at 6:25 tomorrow morning. But, from everyone on the late team | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
here in Glasgow and around | :13:27. | :13:29. |