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Morning folks. Welcome to the Sunday Politics. The gloves are off, | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
it's all guns blazing as the parties fight it out over Chris | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
Huhne's vacant seat. Eastleigh is turning into one of these British | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
by-election humdingers. We'll be talking to the man leading the | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
Conservative campaign in our top story. | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
Ed Miliband wants to introduce a Mansion Tax. He also wants to | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
reintroduce the 10p tax rate. Policies at last I hear you say! | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
But are they any good? We ask the man who helped Ed get the top job, | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
Shadow Justice Secretary Sadiq Khan. That's the Sunday Interview. | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
David Cameron's off to India tonight. A space-age military power | :01:08. | :01:18. | |
to which Britain still gives aid. But not for much longer. In times | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
of austerity, should we be doling out more aid than ever? And does it | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
really work anyway? The two sides go head to head. | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
And on Sunday Politics Scotland. As Glasgow hosts the first screening | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
of Cloud Atlas, where now for the Scottish film industry - cheap | :01:30. | :01:40. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 1930 seconds | :01:40. | :33:50. | |
location backdrop or haven for We should be transparent and tackle | :33:50. | :33:57. | |
corruption. If we do not know, we are not transparent. The British | :33:57. | :34:03. | |
government suspended aid to Uganda because of corruption. But we also | :34:03. | :34:11. | |
deliver aid in tough places, which are important for British interests | :34:11. | :34:17. | |
like Somalia and Afghanistan. It is a very good and cost effective way. | :34:17. | :34:23. | |
Bill Gates says cutting aid will do irreparable damage it to the global | :34:23. | :34:29. | |
economy, what do you say? It is more likely to do harm to people in | :34:29. | :34:36. | |
the aid industry. The best this is being carried on regardless of how | :34:36. | :34:44. | |
well it does. They are routinely dishonest about how much aid fails. | :34:44. | :34:50. | |
People resent it programmes when a those aid programmes go into the | :34:50. | :34:55. | |
pockets of local officials. Has any country or economy B drugs formed | :34:55. | :35:05. | |
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by aid? -- been transformed. In Arthur, I stood in a market where | :35:09. | :35:14. | |
there were children dying all those years ago, and now it is a thriving | :35:14. | :35:19. | |
market. There are roads, mobile phones, health clinics. Growth | :35:19. | :35:26. | |
comes from private sector investment. Other Chinese building | :35:26. | :35:31. | |
these roads? Some of them, and some of them are being built by the | :35:31. | :35:37. | |
European Union. The tragedy of Jonathan's position is just that we | :35:37. | :35:44. | |
are making dramatic progress, he is building Skipton is -- scepticism. | :35:44. | :35:53. | |
Aid marketing tends to treat the public as idiotic. The that fear is | :35:53. | :36:01. | |
that people will not give money if they realise how difficult it is. | :36:01. | :36:11. | |
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Some of the most of the cod and Many countries have succeeded | :36:13. | :36:19. | |
without it. Country is in Africa have done very well recently. I | :36:19. | :36:29. | |
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agree it with you on that. Somalia... Somalia or, I have just | :36:30. | :36:37. | |
returned from there, nearly half the children are dying and that is | :36:37. | :36:42. | |
an emergency situation, a conflict. If we do not invest, there will be | :36:42. | :36:52. | |
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complete for ever. Thank you for Good morning and welcome to Sunday | :36:56. | :36:59. | |
Politics Scotland. Coming up on the programme. | :36:59. | :37:01. | |
As the baby boomers approach pension age, they're quite | :37:01. | :37:04. | |
comfortable, thank you very much. It's the younger generation who are | :37:04. | :37:09. | |
left crying about their pension provision. | :37:09. | :37:11. | |
And I will be asking whether the debate on Scotland's political | :37:11. | :37:14. | |
future should include a greater role for women. | :37:14. | :37:17. | |
Film festivals, BAFTA awards, lots of screen success, but does the | :37:17. | :37:19. | |
Scottish film industry's future lie in location backdrop or home-grown | :37:19. | :37:29. | |
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talent? If you are young enough, you do not | :37:32. | :37:35. | |
think about it. If you're old enough, you're probably worrying | :37:35. | :37:38. | |
about it. Pensions are a big problem. More people are drawing | :37:38. | :37:44. | |
them and fewer people are contributing. As the UK government | :37:44. | :37:46. | |
warns us to take more responsibility for our retirement, | :37:46. | :37:49. | |
there's a warning Scotland will enter the pension crisis before the | :37:49. | :37:59. | |
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! These infants were the first of the baby boomers. I am considering | :38:06. | :38:14. | |
acquiring. I am one of the baby boomers, born | :38:14. | :38:24. | |
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at start of the Sixties. But my generation could be in trouble. | :38:28. | :38:33. | |
becomes very difficult to make a significant return on any | :38:33. | :38:43. | |
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investment once you are in your Kira Maclean it is a self employed | :38:44. | :38:51. | |
stained-glass artist. She says she has no intentions of planning for | :38:51. | :38:56. | |
retirement. I would rather invest in them tangible things, things I | :38:56. | :39:03. | |
can see and touch that I can transfer into profit for my | :39:03. | :39:07. | |
business. When it you of something, you find a way to make money out of | :39:07. | :39:17. | |
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it. She will be at the age of retiring in 2050. In 1901, there | :39:21. | :39:25. | |
were 10 workers for every one pensioner. By 2010, there were | :39:25. | :39:32. | |
three workers for every pensioner. By 2050, that will drop took one. | :39:32. | :39:36. | |
It will be difficult. But government is trying to anticipate | :39:36. | :39:41. | |
what the problems are likely to be. That is why there is pressure in | :39:41. | :39:46. | |
the public sector to increase contributions. There are also moves | :39:46. | :39:52. | |
which will affect the state pension to increase the age of retirement. | :39:52. | :39:59. | |
Increasing the age of retirement does make a big difference to the | :39:59. | :40:09. | |
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net exporter to pension liability of the state. -- net exposure. | :40:10. | :40:16. | |
this woman believes that women are disadvantaged. Women do not receive | :40:16. | :40:21. | |
equal pay generally. Their work lives are or interrupted as primary | :40:21. | :40:28. | |
care givers. Yes, I think women are at a disadvantage. When you are in | :40:28. | :40:33. | |
your twenties and thirties, you are not thinking about your pension. I | :40:33. | :40:37. | |
know I did not. And it is a bit dull. But if we do not start | :40:37. | :40:47. | |
thinking and planning for our retirement, there may not be enough | :40:47. | :40:51. | |
cash in the pension pot to pay for everyone in the future. The UK | :40:52. | :40:56. | |
Government is forcing employees and employers to put pension schemes in | :40:56. | :41:04. | |
place. Automatic enrolment is the big thing. From October 2012, the | :41:04. | :41:08. | |
largest employers in the UK started to place people into pension | :41:08. | :41:12. | |
schemes. With that came the responsibility that the employer | :41:12. | :41:21. | |
would pay something towards it. The taxman also adds 1% and the | :41:21. | :41:29. | |
employee has to add 4%. By 2000 abating, every employer in the UK, | :41:29. | :41:38. | |
over 1 million employers, will have put in place a pension scheme. | :41:38. | :41:42. | |
If these babies have grown up and made no provision for their future, | :41:42. | :41:49. | |
they might find themselves relying on the state pension and that might | :41:49. | :41:57. | |
be not much more than subsistence. Well, we asked if the UK Pensions | :41:57. | :41:59. | |
Minister Steve Webb or the Secretary to the Treasury Danny | :41:59. | :42:02. | |
Alexander could come on, but neither were available. So instead | :42:02. | :42:04. | |
we are joined by Labour's Gregg McClymont and in our Aberdeen | :42:04. | :42:10. | |
Studio, the SNP MP Eilidh Whiteford. Good morning. First of all, the | :42:10. | :42:14. | |
government gave details of the new simplified single two-tier system. | :42:14. | :42:18. | |
You said you were going to look at what they were proposing and assess | :42:18. | :42:24. | |
it carefully. Simplification is something which has been cold for | :42:24. | :42:33. | |
for many years but the big thing that has not been examined so far | :42:33. | :42:40. | |
is that there is a reduction in state pension over time. By 2050, | :42:40. | :42:44. | |
people will get less from the state than they are currently getting. | :42:44. | :42:49. | |
Which leads into the question of private pension provision. That is | :42:49. | :42:55. | |
something the Government are trying to a cat. Labour did not simplify | :42:55. | :43:05. | |
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the system. -- are trying to do that. The changes made by Labour | :43:12. | :43:18. | |
were very important. But the danger in it simplification is that it | :43:18. | :43:28. | |
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will obscure the reduction in state pension provision. The slack will | :43:28. | :43:33. | |
have to be taken up by private provision and that is not in a good | :43:33. | :43:38. | |
place at the warm-up. Eilidh Whiteford, you must welcomed the | :43:38. | :43:46. | |
simplification? There are still many unanswered questions. Some of | :43:46. | :43:50. | |
the initial analysis that has been done has suggested that in the long | :43:50. | :43:56. | |
term, a lot of people will be worse off, in particular women and part- | :43:56. | :44:05. | |
time workers. Women do tend to end less over their working lives, they | :44:05. | :44:10. | |
are more likely to take time out to look after children and they are | :44:10. | :44:15. | |
more likely to work part-time or. I think one of the big priorities has | :44:15. | :44:21. | |
to be that we do not simply leave women in poverty in old age, which | :44:21. | :44:31. | |
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is a situation may have now. were debating this last month. | :44:32. | :44:37. | |
Women approaching pension age have a problem with the new system. But | :44:37. | :44:47. | |
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is this system will not better for women? Perhaps, except you will | :44:47. | :44:57. | |
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need 35 years' contributions to get full Stich -- full estate pension. | :45:02. | :45:06. | |
That is an increase from 30 years. The House of Commons has confirmed | :45:06. | :45:10. | |
that there will be less eligibility for the new state pension than | :45:10. | :45:15. | |
there is under the current system. That affects women in particular. | :45:15. | :45:23. | |
The UK Government power facing a tight financial settlement, how | :45:23. | :45:31. | |
would things be different in an independent Scotland? It would give | :45:31. | :45:34. | |
us the opportunity to tailor or pensions policy to the need in | :45:34. | :45:39. | |
Scotland. We have a distinct set of challenges. At the moment, we are | :45:40. | :45:49. | |
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spending a lower proportion of our revenues than the rest of the UK. | :45:50. | :45:54. | |
You are speaking their about the Scottish government tailoring | :45:54. | :45:58. | |
pension provision, John Swinney had the opportunity to do that for | :45:58. | :46:03. | |
doctors and health workers and he decided not to, he decided to go | :46:04. | :46:07. | |
with the recommendation of the UK Government that their contributions | :46:07. | :46:12. | |
had to increase. It is unfortunate that we do not have a | :46:12. | :46:15. | |
representative of the UK Government here today. The UK Government made | :46:15. | :46:25. | |
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it very clear that they would find them for any divergence -- fine. It | :46:37. | :46:41. | |
was made very clear that there was no room for manoeuvre by the | :46:41. | :46:44. | |
Scottish government in that respect. We need more powers to be able to | :46:44. | :46:49. | |
do that. But John Swinney had the power if he wanted to. If they did | :46:49. | :46:52. | |
not want those contributions to go up, he could have used the money | :46:52. | :46:58. | |
from the public pot. John Swinney with them have had to make cuts | :46:58. | :47:02. | |
elsewhere in the budget and, in effect, pay twice for those | :47:02. | :47:05. | |
contributions. He would have had to find the money out of another | :47:05. | :47:10. | |
budget, and budgets are very pressed, and he would have had to | :47:10. | :47:15. | |
pay the fine that the government were imposing. The long-term answer | :47:15. | :47:21. | |
to this is to have control of or pensions policies. Labour are a bit | :47:21. | :47:28. | |
quiet on this when it comes to the Scottish situation. I do not | :47:28. | :47:36. | |
recognise that description of paying twice. The Scottish | :47:36. | :47:42. | |
government could have chosen it not to follow the UK Government | :47:42. | :47:51. | |
position. It is chose not to do that. There are big challenges him | :47:51. | :48:01. | |
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public sector pensions. People are living longer, they have to fund at | :48:03. | :48:09. | |
retirement over a longer period. Labour has put in place at a set of | :48:09. | :48:16. | |
public sector pension reforms which the coalition government ripped up | :48:16. | :48:20. | |
and impose a settlement. It is a tough call for politicians. We are | :48:20. | :48:24. | |
hearing some of the problems laid out there. Do politicians have to | :48:24. | :48:28. | |
say to people, your living standards are going to fall? | :48:28. | :48:32. | |
think the real challenge is to look at this in the long term. That is a | :48:32. | :48:36. | |
big challenge because of our changing demographics. But I think | :48:37. | :48:40. | |
the real challenge is for people who work in the private and | :48:40. | :48:45. | |
voluntary sector. Ever since Labour's attacks have laid on | :48:45. | :48:55. | |
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private sector pensions -- Labour's tax raid, we have to look at the | :48:57. | :49:01. | |
longer term. We have to make this affordable, sustainable and fair. | :49:01. | :49:06. | |
Most of us do not want to be poor in our old age. Most of us want a | :49:06. | :49:10. | |
decent standard of living. But we have to understand that there is a | :49:10. | :49:14. | |
price to be paid for that and that people have the guarantees that if | :49:14. | :49:20. | |
they do save, they will have a standard of living that they have | :49:20. | :49:30. | |
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saved four. A lot of private sector There is a big challenge. There is | :49:48. | :49:53. | |
a big shift at the moment. That was a Labour policy that the Government | :49:53. | :49:58. | |
has taken on. The key thing is that there must be value for money. | :49:58. | :50:04. | |
There is no confidence and private sector pensions. That means taking | :50:04. | :50:13. | |
on market reforms. We will have to leave it there. | :50:13. | :50:16. | |
Could the debate on Scotland's future be an opportunity to push | :50:16. | :50:19. | |
for a more equal society? That was the question posed at a conference | :50:19. | :50:22. | |
in Edinburgh this week - which asked if our European counterparts | :50:22. | :50:25. | |
have the right idea when it comes to getting more women into | :50:25. | :50:34. | |
politics? Hayley Jarvis went along to find out. | :50:34. | :50:38. | |
Delegates hoped that women soon will be war recognised for their | :50:38. | :50:48. | |
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part in shaping Scotland's constitutional future. Where are we | :50:48. | :50:57. | |
now? At Westminster, 22% of MPs are women. Scotland fares much better. | :50:57. | :51:07. | |
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35% up MSPs are women. But some say progress has stalled. Take Spain, | :51:07. | :51:16. | |
in 2007, legislation made it impossible for there to be 40 to | :51:16. | :51:23. | |
60% of candidates. Responses to women's issues are demands to | :51:23. | :51:28. | |
equality. That has been a strong impact. In the Republic of Ireland | :51:28. | :51:34. | |
it took a national crisis to meet this demand. It led to the | :51:34. | :51:40. | |
introduction of 30% female politicians and political parties. | :51:40. | :51:46. | |
That discussion was essential to the debate and it brought the issue | :51:46. | :51:50. | |
of women's under-representation into politics. The economic | :51:50. | :51:56. | |
meltdown also lead to a change in Iceland. And national reform was | :51:56. | :52:00. | |
established made up of equal numbers of men and women. There is | :52:00. | :52:10. | |
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optimism of where this could lead. We are a society that has a less | :52:12. | :52:15. | |
likely repeat of the financial crash that we went through. When it | :52:15. | :52:24. | |
comes to deciding which candidate should be on the menu in the UK, | :52:24. | :52:30. | |
the political parties have to decide that. There is pressure to | :52:30. | :52:35. | |
make the mandatory. Gender quota has other building block. Ensuring | :52:35. | :52:40. | |
that women are present, that women are there is a really good starting | :52:40. | :52:45. | |
point. It is not the end, it is the beginning. It is quite as simple | :52:45. | :52:50. | |
thing to argue, although it is quite difficult to achieve. | :52:50. | :52:53. | |
constitutional convention has played a big part in promoting the | :52:53. | :52:58. | |
role of Women in the evolution. Will we expect to see something | :52:58. | :53:05. | |
someone now? It will be difficult in the next scene -- 18 months and | :53:05. | :53:10. | |
two years to get the agenda in the debate. The constitution has been | :53:10. | :53:20. | |
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arid and under sold. It is dull and very, very heated. It is not having | :53:20. | :53:27. | |
more women in politics would have a trickle down and encourage more | :53:27. | :53:33. | |
equality in everyday life. Converting that from the debating | :53:33. | :53:40. | |
hall into real life will be the real challenge. | :53:40. | :53:43. | |
With me is the Chairman of the Scottish Human Rights Commission - | :53:43. | :53:46. | |
Professor Alan Miller. And in our Edinburgh studio is the | :53:46. | :53:52. | |
Constitutional Law expert - Professor Christine Bell. We are | :53:52. | :53:56. | |
facing economic change, it produces opportunities to consider where we | :53:56. | :54:01. | |
are when it comes to women in politics, whatever side of the | :54:01. | :54:06. | |
constitutional debate you find yourself on. That is right. | :54:07. | :54:11. | |
Interesting wake polls are showing that women are on a whole much less | :54:11. | :54:15. | |
decided about which way they are going to vote. In some senses, I | :54:15. | :54:20. | |
think that reflects people wanting to know what is it that this debate | :54:20. | :54:25. | |
and that either side of the debate is offering in terms of their nests, | :54:25. | :54:30. | |
political representation and in essence some capacity to deal with | :54:30. | :54:35. | |
some of the bread and butter issues the women are facing today. | :54:35. | :54:39. | |
doesn't matter what side of the debate you fall down on. There | :54:39. | :54:44. | |
seems to be a lot of discussion about women's role in politics | :54:44. | :54:50. | |
which there probably wasn't a few years ago? I think there was but I | :54:50. | :54:58. | |
think we stalled after that. Women are facing a dish proportionate | :54:58. | :55:08. | |
:55:08. | :55:09. | ||
attack on budget cuts just now. Dass mack -- dish proportionate. | :55:09. | :55:16. | |
The point of it is, to enable women and everyone in society to have | :55:16. | :55:19. | |
equal access to internationally recognised human rights. The next | :55:19. | :55:23. | |
stage in the journey is increasingly going to be debated as | :55:23. | :55:27. | |
being providing international in recognised human rights like | :55:27. | :55:32. | |
economic and social rights, adequate housing, high standard of | :55:32. | :55:36. | |
healthcare. These are the sort of rights that need to be in our | :55:36. | :55:43. | |
constitutional framework, never the less whether that is constitutional | :55:43. | :55:48. | |
independence. Hearing about these rights that Allen is speaking about, | :55:48. | :55:54. | |
can you give me a snapshot of how things are just now, how women fare | :55:54. | :55:58. | |
in society and politics does now when it comes to these rights? | :55:58. | :56:08. | |
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is that there is a failure in its representation. In public bodies, | :56:12. | :56:18. | |
there is still a big gender pay gap and also in terms of the economic | :56:18. | :56:24. | |
crisis and austerity measures. Just how women are being hit | :56:24. | :56:29. | |
disproportionately by these measures. Also, something that was | :56:30. | :56:34. | |
strongly reflected in the events of other last two days was that while | :56:34. | :56:38. | |
in many cases the policies that are quite good, there is a big gap | :56:39. | :56:43. | |
between having those policies and laws and actually getting them into | :56:43. | :56:53. | |
practice. So things like impact on inequality. Some of the measures of | :56:53. | :56:56. | |
representation, it is just difficult translating that into | :56:56. | :57:01. | |
practice. On that point about politicians and women leading | :57:01. | :57:07. | |
quangos. If there are a large number of female politicians, does | :57:07. | :57:12. | |
that be done to these non departmental bodies? Do women start | :57:12. | :57:17. | |
to think, there are opportunities there? I think it does in terms of | :57:17. | :57:21. | |
politicians. Sometimes you need different measures in the framework | :57:21. | :57:25. | |
that sets up non-departmental public bodies and political | :57:25. | :57:30. | |
representation. So there are ways to require. In Northern Ireland | :57:30. | :57:36. | |
where I originally come via, there is a community balance in non | :57:36. | :57:39. | |
departmental public bodies that is enshrined in the Northern Ireland | :57:39. | :57:49. | |
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Act. Unfortunately in Northern Ireland that has been represented | :57:54. | :57:58. | |
as... It is possible to have a law that says on a constitutional level | :57:58. | :58:03. | |
that there has to be equality of representation and these should | :58:03. | :58:08. | |
reflect the society's reserve. was slaughter of representation | :58:08. | :58:18. | |
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could we have in Scotland? -- sort. Either route is capable of | :58:18. | :58:28. | |
:58:28. | :58:32. | ||
advancing the situation in Scotland. 60 countries around the world | :58:32. | :58:36. | |
already do that. It is possible under furthered evolution and | :58:36. | :58:43. | |
broadening the Scotland Act, to incorporate into law in Scotland, | :58:43. | :58:47. | |
those international rights that the UK has ratified but has been | :58:47. | :58:51. | |
criticised consistent by the UN to bring interlock and to allow people | :58:51. | :58:58. | |
to benefit from it in the UK and Scotland. A better campaign to | :58:58. | :59:06. | |
outline what proposals it has. people may say, all we have our | :59:06. | :59:12. | |
goods female presentation -- representation in Scotland. Some | :59:12. | :59:16. | |
people may say, or what is the issue here, women are well | :59:16. | :59:22. | |
represented in Scottish politics? lot of those gains may be on a | :59:22. | :59:30. | |
slightly backward track. There isn't really representation. The | :59:30. | :59:34. | |
Point Allen makes is important. It is about seeing women in the | :59:34. | :59:39. | |
positions and having an effect in their role in public life. It is | :59:39. | :59:42. | |
about achieving a broader and freer framework that deals with issues | :59:42. | :59:48. | |
that are not just of concern to women but society as a whole, such | :59:48. | :59:52. | |
as social economic rights. I am afraid we will have to leave it | :59:52. | :59:59. | |
there. Thank you very much for joining us. | :59:59. | :00:03. | |
Coming up after the news: We'll be looking at the State of the | :00:03. | :00:05. | |
Scottish Film Industry. Is Scotland just a location backdrop for big | :00:05. | :00:08. | |
blockbuster movies or can the local industry manage to grow and hold | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
onto its own talent? You're watching Sunday Politics Scotland | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
and the time is coming up for Midday. So let's cross now for the | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
news with Sue Thearle and Sally McNair. | :00:17. | :00:26. | |
Coming up after the news: We'll be looking at the State of the | :00:26. | :00:36. | |
:00:36. | :00:39. | ||
Scottish Film Industry. Is Scotland just a Thearle and Sally McNair. | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
Malcolm Malcolm Walker said that local authorities gave contracts | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
based on cost. He insisted supermarkets went to great lengths | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
to ensure safety and were not responsible for the crisis. There | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
is a whole part of that industry which is invisible. That is the | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
catering industry. Local authorities award contracts based | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
on one think - price. If you are looking to blame someone, it is | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
invisible. It is schools, hospitals, prisons and local authorities that | :01:17. | :01:25. | |
are driving this down. Police in Northern Nigeria sake several | :01:25. | :01:32. | |
people have been kidnapped. A prison was targeted first before | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
the construction firm. A teenager has died after he was | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
shot in East London last night. The 19-year-old boy was attacked in the | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
street. A 32-year-old man was also shot and injured. He is in hospital | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
in a stable condition. An investigation has been started | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
after a woman was killed after being hit by a car. She was | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
watching that rally yesterday when a vehicle at the track and hit | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
spectators. Two other people including an eight year-old boy | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
were injured. A British teenager who was lost in | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
the Australian outback for more than three days says he was on his | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
last legs when he was eventually found. He went missing on Tuesday | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
after he left the cattle station to go jogging. He lost more than two | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
stone in weight. He stayed alive by drinking contact lens solution. | :02:23. | :02:32. | |
That is all the news for now. Good afternoon. Police have named | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
the woman who died when a car collided with spectators at the | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
annual Snow Man rally in the Highlands. Joy Robson was 50 and | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
from the Isle of Skye. An eight year old boy was injured in the | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
crash. The driver and co driver were not hurt. The rally in | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
Glenurquhart Forest near Loch Ness was abandoned by the organisers. | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
The Rural Affairs Minister Richard Lochhead wants retailers to review | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
their sourcing and purchasing policies. He said that product | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
testing was "the very least" they should be doing to reassure | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
consumers that the horse meat issue was not widespread. Mr. Lochhead | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
was speaking ahead of a meeting in London tomorrow with retailers, | :03:05. | :03:12. | |
processors and the UK Government. Figures obtained under Freedom of | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
Information legislation confirm the number of part-time places in | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
Scotland's colleges has fallen sharply since 2009. The Liberal | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
Democrats say their research suggests there's been a drop of | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
around 85,000 part-time places in the past four years. They blame the | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
shortfall on multi-million pound cuts in funding. The Scottish | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
Government say that budgets are higher than first planned, and | :03:27. | :03:37. | |
there are thousands more college places. Here's the weather now with | :03:37. | :03:47. | |
Good afternoon. The weather is looking fine across the country | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
this afternoon. It is going to remain dry with some lovely spells | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
a brightness and sunshine. There will be varying amounts of cloud | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
coming and going along West and coastal areas. High is generally of | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
around nine or ten Celsius, Perhaps 11 Celsius in the prolonged | :04:06. | :04:13. | |
sunshine. Wins will generally be light, just a fresh southerly | :04:13. | :04:22. | |
Coastal areas. That is all from the newsroom for now. The Glasgow Film | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
Festival's underway and the first UK screening of the Hollywood movie | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
"Cloud Atlas" will take place tonight. It's one of a raft of US | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
block-busters which chose Scotland as a location. But given the recent | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
success of some of our home-grown talent, is it too much to consider | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
whether these big films could be developed here too? Christine | :04:37. | :04:47. | |
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Macleod's been trying to find out. Ion drive to understand why we keep | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
making the same mistakes. It has the power and infrastructure to | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
deliver to a cinema near you. In the past two years, Glasgow streets | :04:59. | :05:06. | |
have attracted many of its films. Cloud Atlas and World War has led | :05:06. | :05:16. | |
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to name a couple. They have boosted helped put Scotland or on the map. | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
It was the Scottish on that one which stretched the boundaries of | :05:30. | :05:38. | |
possible to. This film was conceived, produced and delivered | :05:38. | :05:48. | |
:05:48. | :06:04. | ||
I think to aim for Holyrood, that is quite an aim. But they could | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
have a healthy film industry like London house. We just need to | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
support our people and invest. think the dream is working on | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
features, being able to actually develop those and bring them | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
through to completion in Scotland. That would be fantastic. But this | :06:26. | :06:33. | |
art student believes it is not a short-term possibility. For her, it | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
means looking further afield. to go to London to look for an | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
internship. There is not enough work here. But the appeal of the | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
big time is not to the taste of all of her future talent. There are so | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
many individual voices and strong characters. I do not think we need | :06:56. | :07:06. | |
:07:06. | :07:11. | ||
the Holyrood machine in order to have the industry. -- Holyrood. | :07:11. | :07:21. | |
:07:21. | :07:24. | ||
Are Northern Lights is Scotland's first crowd feature from. Is this | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
the future? You can leave at the small but of the city behind you | :07:30. | :07:40. | |
:07:40. | :07:43. | ||
and come out here and feel properly Scottish again. Know what I mean? | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
With me this afternoon is Allison Gardner, co-director of the Glasgow | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
Film Festival, and Nick Higgins, the driving force behind the new | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
film We Are Northern Lights which you have just seen in the package | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
there. First of all, We Are Northern | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
Lights is a unique film production, are you trying to work around the | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
traditional system? In some sense. In other ways, we are responding to | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
the reality out there. People have cameras already, the technology is | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
there. We wanted to enable people to bring that together into one a | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
wider vision of Scotland today. Could we be seeing more of this | :08:22. | :08:30. | |
walk new method -- more of this new method? I wonder if it is an | :08:30. | :08:37. | |
industry model. I like to see at part of a civic media culture where | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
people participate, where they make a video of responses to what is | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
going on in their community. What is at the state of the industry in | :08:48. | :08:55. | |
Scotland at the moment? We have seen that cloud source film, quite | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
innovative. What is the real behind-the-scenes look at the | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
industry? I think we punch above our weight in Scotland in terms of | :09:04. | :09:11. | |
talent. But it is difficult to get those big feature films are made. | :09:11. | :09:19. | |
It is the financing however. Digital is great. But it does not | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
mean that everything is good that his shot. There has to be an | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
editing process as well. But we do have Tullett here. When it you look | :09:28. | :09:37. | |
at the financing, how is that in Scotland just now? We used to have | :09:37. | :09:47. | |
:09:47. | :09:48. | ||
Scottish Kareem, Creative Scotland. We are a small nation so we have to | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
co-produce. We have to have that investment to go out to the | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
international market and find partners. It is happening. The | :09:58. | :10:08. | |
:10:08. | :10:09. | ||
Glasgow Film Festival is showing some. There are not sufficient | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
funds available at the moment. But we have to create our own domestic | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
market for that. That is what film festivals are fantastic for. There | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
are two aspects to this. Going to see our own films and learning | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
through making things. The trouble seems to be that the money still | :10:26. | :10:36. | |
:10:36. | :10:38. | ||
lies in Holyrood. They filmed at World War Z here in Glasgow, but | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
Glasgow is being used as a cheap location backdrop, it is not see | :10:42. | :10:50. | |
him at the real Scotland? Perhaps. But lots of countries come to | :10:50. | :11:00. | |
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Scotland to work here because of the talent. But there are so many | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
co-producers that countries are banding together. Holyrood and | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
studios are really the only people that have the money to make a big | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
film. He is, they do you Scotland, but it gives our cast and crew an | :11:14. | :11:23. | |
opportunity to work on a high end product. They get good experience. | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
What kind of crude to be happier in Scotland? So many Scottish film- | :11:29. | :11:39. | |
:11:39. | :11:42. | ||
makers have to travel south to ply their trade. I am not going to | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
knock anything that brings more money into the economy for film- | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
makers, but I only make documentaries. I do not often work | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
with those sort of big news. Documentary is something that is | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
booming in Scotland. Animation is something that we have got a great | :12:00. | :12:08. | |
name for. Documentaries, we are becoming leaders in Europe. But for | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
that to be sustainable, we need more Scottish audience to pay to go | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
to see those films. Scotland as a market for films has not quite | :12:16. | :12:24. | |
established. We need to work on that. How do we do that? | :12:24. | :12:34. | |
:12:34. | :12:36. | ||
difficulty is there is not... Multiplexes proliferate. We need to | :12:36. | :12:45. | |
support small theatres, community cinemas. It is a great way to | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
engage your community and see things that are different. You need | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
an outlet so that people can see things that are charming, different, | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
foreign-language. Looking at these different films, based purely | :12:59. | :13:09. | |
:13:09. | :13:10. | ||
Scottish films, in a way, we are often situated in Scotland by | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
Holyrood dollars and we do not reflect our selves. We let other | :13:12. | :13:19. | |
people do the work for us. In some ways. Our project, We Are Northern | :13:19. | :13:26. | |
Lights, is a celebrity free zone. There is something about letting | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
people tell the truth of their own stories, that people still want to | :13:31. | :13:40. | |
go and see. That is how it cinema started. We still believe Bebo will | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
come and see the stories if they are told in an interesting, | :13:44. | :13:54. | |
:13:54. | :13:56. | ||
engaging and passionate way. What other Scottish films will we see? | :13:56. | :14:06. | |
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Shell, a very good Scottish strand at the Film Festival. We support | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
our industry by giving them an outlet to be seen in an | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
international film festival context. Are you positive about the future | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
of the industry? I am, but I do not think industry is the way to fame | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
at this. It is about our media and cinema culture. As people make | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
things, we learn how things are made and they will watch and you | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
different products as they come out. It is not just about the economy, | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
it is the part of the culture as well. With digital culture, that is | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
probably easier to achieve it. Cinema audiences are still up and | :14:47. | :14:55. | |
go to the cinema despite the effects of piracy. Yes, the cinema | :14:55. | :15:03. | |
is a growing industry. It is a cheaper form of entertainment. But | :15:03. | :15:11. | |
you cannot will make great films if you do not watch a great films. You | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
have to see at the diversity of product to make a great film. | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
you. In a moment, we'll be looking ahead | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
to the next seven days, but first, let's take a look back at the week | :15:24. | :15:34. | |
:15:34. | :15:38. | ||
in Sixty Seconds. Holyrood was on holiday. But that | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
British government looked at their legal situation of an independent | :15:44. | :15:52. | |
Scotland. Scotland is separating from the United Kingdom. The United | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
Kingdom will remain in the same state. The fiscal Commission | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
working group established by the Scottish government said the pound | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
would prove best for an independent Scotland and the rest of the UK. | :16:05. | :16:15. | |
:16:15. | :16:16. | ||
looked very hard at three options and Stirling fitted the bill best. | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
The Rural Affairs Secretary welcomed it a European Union wide | :16:20. | :16:28. | |
meet at testing scheme. Is it a bird, a plane? No, a spectacular | :16:28. | :16:38. | |
:16:38. | :16:42. | ||
Let's now take a look at the big political events coming up in The | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
Week Ahead. Joining me this week is Professor | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
Ailsa McKay, the economist from Glasgow Caledonian University. And | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
in Edinburgh, the columnist and theatre critic Joyce McMillan. | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
Joyce McMillan, a very interesting discussion on film and the nature | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
of the Scottish film industry. What is your assessment of it? A cheap | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
place for occasion back drops or somewhere that is nurturing home- | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
grown talent? I think there are issues over how well we nurture | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
home-grown talent. For the last decade, the structures for | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
supporting things like the film industry in Scotland, the arts and | :17:25. | :17:32. | |
the creative industry, has that been in this long drawn-out | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
transition with many reports between the Arts Council, Film | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
Council and the new Creative Scotland has set up. Their new | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
Creative Scotland is a top does not have a happy start. There were a | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
lot of problems in the first couple of years. They are only now being | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
resolved. We are a long way from a solution as well. No country the | :17:57. | :18:07. | |
:18:07. | :18:09. | ||
size of Scotland has a successful film industry. I think we are at | :18:09. | :18:17. | |
the beginning of being able to get it right. The people who work in | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
the industry are the ones who know where that help can be best placed | :18:21. | :18:30. | |
and they have to be consulted. Sadly, we have waited and wasted 10 | :18:30. | :18:37. | |
years in tried to get that going. But there is still colossal | :18:37. | :18:44. | |
potential. Yes, it is a tough industry, one that is trying to | :18:44. | :18:54. | |
:18:54. | :18:54. | ||
create and sell dreams but have to face hard cash realities. It is not | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
my area, but in terms of the media in general, your previous piece | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
about the equality conference indicated that there are a lot of | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
voices to be had out there. There was good coverage yesterday morning | :19:09. | :19:16. | |
of the conference and well informed and intelligent debate. It was | :19:16. | :19:23. | |
guided a bit by the presenter introducing the next piece by | :19:23. | :19:33. | |
:19:33. | :19:39. | ||
saying, now a piece for the boys. - - stymied. That is irresponsible | :19:39. | :19:47. | |
journalism. This conference has not received a lot of coverage. There | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
is a constitutional flux, economic uncertainty, whichever side of the | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
debate you come down on, it is a good opportunity to discuss the | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
issue. There is never a long time to discuss the issue of why women | :20:02. | :20:12. | |
:20:12. | :20:12. | ||
are poorly represented at public life. That comment yesterday | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
morning is typical of what happens. I think people would have said that | :20:18. | :20:28. | |
:20:28. | :20:30. | ||
in the 1970s. But it is like the clocks have gone back. It is a good | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
moment to raise the subject, but it is a very difficult moment to | :20:33. | :20:42. | |
achieve anything with that. Unlike the devolution debate of the 1990s, | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
when you could have a constructive conversation of how you want to | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
that new parliament to be, which included a very wide range of | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
people, this time you have got a debate that is being structured by | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
the Unionist political parties to be divisive. The SNP started it, | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
unionist parties have made it worse. The debate divides Scottish Women, | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
Scottish civil society and makes it very difficult for any group who is | :21:10. | :21:18. | |
interested in NPower mode to have a say in the debate. -- empowerment. | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
Yesterday, the piece on Radio Scotland indicated that very well, | :21:22. | :21:32. | |
:21:32. | :21:35. | ||
that women's voices are there, it is just how they are being reported. | :21:35. | :21:44. | |
You have to resolve disputes by moving beyond simple no or yes. We | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
have a responsibility to make that happen. At the conference yesterday, | :21:49. | :21:59. | |
:21:59. | :22:00. | ||
there was an interjection from the floor saying, as a woman in | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
Clydebank, where do ago to buy my human rights? What do human rights | :22:06. | :22:14. | |
mean? What does it mean for women in Scotland? What difference will | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
constitutional change make? We need to be asking those questions. | :22:20. | :22:29. | |
talking about the debate, in several papers this week, has the | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
debate moved on? I think not. The UK paper was so peculiar in his | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
fear of what the union is that it takes things back rather than | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
forward. The idea that Scotland was extinguished by the union, which | :22:44. | :22:53. | |
:22:54. | :22:54. | ||
appeared in that paper, it was not extinguished at all. It seems to me | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
that the paper... They are getting the legal advice they are paying | :22:59. | :23:09. | |
:23:09. | :23:14. | ||
for. The Fiscal Commission, an interesting use of the pound. | :23:14. | :23:24. | |
dry, all of that process, not about policy. Thank you. | :23:24. | :23:31. |