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New warnings over the potential price | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
of independence - but Alex Salmond accuses the Westminster government | :00:08. | :00:09. | |
He says Scotland is on the cusp of history in voting | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
for independence - and launches a fresh attack on his rivals. | :00:16. | :00:24. | |
Cobbled up promises from the no campaign which unravel at the | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
slightest scrutiny will not fall anyone in this country. -- fool | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
anyone. There are more questions | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
about the future of Scottish financial institutions in the event | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
of a Yes vote - and sharp criticism Every Scottish bank has announced | :00:37. | :00:48. | |
that in the event of a yes vote, they will move business south of the | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
border. It is not about brass plates, it is about brass tacks. | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
year-olds - voting for the first time - take part in the biggest | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
Also in the programme, a sobbing Oscar Pistorius is told by the judge | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
he is not guilty of murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
But he'll return to court for the final verdicts tomorrow - | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
And as he remembers 9/11, President Obama sets out his plans | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
to tackle Islamic State extremists, including air strikes in Syria. | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
Police say her missing iPhone could hold clues to the whereabouts of | :01:28. | :01:38. | |
teenager Alice Gross. And the head suspended from an outstanding | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
primary, following concerns over the safeguarding of children. | :01:42. | :01:56. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six from Edinburgh. | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
The First Minister Alex Salmond has launched a scathing attack on the | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
Westminster government, accusing it of bullying and intimidation over | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
It follows the decision by several financial institutions - | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
including Royal Bank of Scotland - to move their company registration | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
Mr Salmond insisted that Scotland was on the "cusp of history" | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
and would vote for independence in the referendum next Thursday. | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
Our political editor Nick Robinson has the latest on the campaign - | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
Any decision... He is a week away from a place in history but will it | :02:30. | :02:43. | |
be as Scotland's nearly man or is the father of a newly independent | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
nation? Scotland is on the cusp of making history. The eyes of the | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
world are upon Scotland. What the world is seeing is an articulate, | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
peaceful, energise debate. Scotland will vote yes next Thursday. All | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
that confidence despite a steady and organised drumbeat of warnings of | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
the economic risks of independence, led by a series of banks announcing | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
they will move their legal homes down south. Today, a series of high | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
street retailers warned of a possible impact on prices in their | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
stores of operating across a new border. The boss of Asda said they | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
would have to reflect the costs of operating in two different | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
countries. The chairman of John Lewis spoke of the likelihood of | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
higher prices. But Tesco have denied claims they would charge more. This | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
week, reporters have flown to Edinburgh from all over the world. | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
But Alex Salmond knows that for victory, he needs to reassure voters | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
at home. Why should a Scottish voter believe you, a politician, against | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
the men who are responsible for billions of pounds of profits? He | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
did not answer but he did attack the reporting of those in what he called | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
the metropolitan media. To make his point, he read out a letter from the | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
Chief Executive of Royal Bank of Scotland about its decision to move | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
its registered HQ to London. Let me read the key paragraph. "Based on | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
our current strategy and business plan, it is not our intention to | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
move operations or jobs". No jobs lost and, he insisted, no loss of | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
tax revenues. This was simply a matter of shifting around blast -- | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
brass plates. He went on to say the BBC story had come from the | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
Treasury, handing over market sensitive information. He said there | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
needed to be an official enquiry. They have been caught red-handed, as | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
being part of a campaign of scaremongering. It provides a | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
spectacular example of the kind of campaign tactics of intimidation and | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
bullying. Therefore, I know the BBC, in its impartial role as a | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
public sector broadcaster, will give full corporation to that | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
investigation. APPLAUSE The closer this referendum gets, the | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
more heated it becomes. Today on the streets of Glasgow, Ed Miliband | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
struggled to be heard. That is a lie! Earlier, dozens of Labour MPs | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
travelled up together on the train from London to join a Scottish | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
colleagues. There is a sign of real belief that we are better together. | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
Their cases that Alex Salmond is playing down very real risks. Every | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
Scottish bank has now said that if there is a yes vote, they are going | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
to move business south of the border. It is not about brass | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
plates. It is about brass tacks. This will cost jobs and will cost of | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
the funds we need to pay for the help service and schools. Asda have | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
just announced that prices will go up if there is independence. All | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
Alex Salmond can do is shrug his shoulders and say it does not | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
matter. It does matter. Alex Salmond knows the eyes of the world are on | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
him. He says this is the beginning of something, and not the end. As | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
for all of those questions, all those doubts, he dismisses those as | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
scaremongering. So Alex Salmond has played | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
down questions over the future of some Scottish financial institutions | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
in the event of a Yes vote. But what impact - if any - would | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
the changes have on the companies, Our business editor Kamal | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
Ahmed has this assessment. It is a bank, nearly as old as the | :06:28. | :06:42. | |
union itself. The Royal Bank of Scotland today joined Lloyds and TSB | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
in saying it was considering moving some of its business interests to | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
London, if there is a yes vote in the independence referendum. But is | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
this just a technical matter of little consequence? I asked one man | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
who speaks in the industry north of the border. It is important to any | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
international jurisdiction to have large companies registered in that | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
jurisdiction because it sends a signal that it is a good and stable | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
place to do business. Scotland has a long and proud history as a | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
financial capital. Today, that future has been questioned. This is | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
what has been announced. RBS will consider moving its headquarters to | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
London. Lloyds has said it is looking at setting up new businesses | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
south of the border. TSB is considering a similar move. All | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
three have made it clear that the moves will have no impact on jobs, | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
and where they pay their main business taxes will not be affected. | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
Whether a bank's headquarters is in Edinburgh or 400 miles away in | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
London may seem of little importance but high street banks are saying | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
privately that a vote for independence could affect essential | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
services like mortgage applications and people's personal savings. The | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
reason? Uncertainty over the currency and independent Scotland | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
would use, and whether the Bank of England would back the banks north | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
of the border if there is another financial crisis. The Bank of | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
England governor, Mark Carney today wrote to the Treasury Select | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
Committee, suggesting that without a currency union, an independent | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
Scotland would have to raise billions of pounds in reserves to | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
maintain economic stability. Many leading business figures are | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
positive about the prospect of a yes vote. Scotland's largest fund | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
manager said an independent Scotland would be a big success. I don't | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
think anyone suggests that Scotland would not be assessed cess in the | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
event of a yes vote. -- a success. I probably subscribe to that view as | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
well. Whether you agree with independence or not, it is now | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
becoming clear that the yes vote on September 18 will have major | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
imprecations for Scotland's history as a home of banking. | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
Our political editor Nick Robinson is with me here. | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
Despite economic uncertainties, Alex Salmond certainly came out fighting | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
today. At times, it resembled a press conference not by Alex Salmond | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
but Alex Ferguson. Why is he fighting? It is because he is | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
convinced that there is an organised campaign coming from London, to | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
scare Scotland into voting no. There's a bit of evidence for that | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
claim tonight because the BBC has just revealed that my colleague | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
Robert Peston, that a meeting was held at number ten this afternoon | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
with supermarket bosses. In other words, some of the very people who | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
have warned that prices could go up. He says the Scots should have faith | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
but of course, the no campaign is saying something quite different. | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
They say that this matters, it does not matter if it is recycled, if it | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
has been heard for two years, it is the meat and drink of what | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
independence could mean, and people should focus it. | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
We'll have more from Edinburgh a little | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
editor, Brian Taylor. talking to our Scotland political | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
But for now - it's back to Reeta in the studio. | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
After a six-month trial, the South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
been cleared of murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
But the judge said he used excessive force, and that | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
his conduct was negligent when he shot her through a toilet door. | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
It's raised the possibility that the Paralympian could still be facing | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
years in jail if the judge finds him of guilty of manslaughter tomorrow. | :10:17. | :10:24. | |
He could also be found guilty of Cobble Bull homicide. -- culpable | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
homicide. Our Africa correspondent | :10:31. | :10:31. | |
Andrew Harding has been in court. A lot of people arrived at court | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
this morning, commits the stories could not escape the murder verdict. | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
But the judge, and remember, there are no jury trials in South Africa, | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
the judge had other ideas in what has been a day of extraordinary | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
drama and suspense. He has admitted to killing Reeva | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
Steenkamp, but does that make Oscar Pistorius a murderer? Today, it was | :10:57. | :11:06. | |
the day for answers. In the early morning hours of 14th debris, 2013. | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
In court, Judge Thokozile Masipa began to outline how she had reached | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
a verdict. Here the accused was charged with the murder of Reeva | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
Steenkamp. This is where it happened, Pistorius rushed from his | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
bedroom down the narrow corridor towards his bathroom. Reeva | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
Steenkamp was in the corner toilet with the door locked. We know that | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
Oscar Pistorius was standing about here with his gun pointed towards | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
the toilet door. What the trial has had to decide is if he deliberately | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
killed Reeva Steenkamp, or was he startled by noise and fired almost | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
without thinking? The prosecution says it was premeditated murder but | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
today, the judge brushed that aside. There are just not enough facts to | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
support such a finding. She dismissed the evidence of neighbours | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
who said they had heard a woman scream, and said there was no proof | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
Oscar and Reeva Steenkamp's Lycian chip was on the rock. Normal | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
relationships are dynamic and unpredictable. -- relationship was | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
on the rocks. Human beings are fickle. The objective facts, she | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
said, supported Pistorius' own timeline of events. I sat over her | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
and I cried. But remember the athlete's tearful evidence? She was | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
not breathing! Today, Judge Masipa accused him of dishonesty and giving | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
contradictory explanations for why he pulled the trigger. The accused | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
was a very poor witness. As the athlete sat quietly sobbing, the | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
judge declared the state had failed to prove the story is meant to kill | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
anyone. She cleared him of murder. -- failed to prove Pistorius. Reeva | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
Steenkamp's family watched from the gallery. Here I have no vengeful | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
feelings and I have forgiven Oscar for what he has done. He has killed | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
her. Even if he made a mistake, it is a huge mistake. It has cost her | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
her life. And the athlete is not out of the woods yet. The judge strongly | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
implied she would declare him guilty tomorrow of the lesser charge of | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
culpable homicide. It has been an extraordinary day in court. The | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
judge rejected almost the entire prosecution case. And yet, she still | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
found Pistorius guilty of negligence. That could yet see him | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
spend years in jail. Alex Salmond accuses | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
the No campaign of scaremongering - after fresh warnings over | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
the possible costs of independence. Richard Kiel, | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
known for his unforgettable role as Jaws in the Bond movies, | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
has died at the age of 74. Later on BBC London, good recycling | :14:01. | :14:12. | |
graves in the B the answer to London's growing shortage of burial | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
plots? And uncertainty for fans, as Spurs prepared to move away from | :14:18. | :14:19. | |
White Hart Lane while their new stadium is being built. | :14:20. | :14:29. | |
President Obama has set out plans to combat the Islamic State extremists | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
who have seized large parts of Syria and Iraq. | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
It follows recent criticism that he didn't have a strategy. | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
In a televised speech he said he was authorising air strikes in Syria, | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
insisting that America would hunt down terrorists wherever they were. | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
He said the United States would give $500 million to moderate Syrian | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
And he's promised more military aid for Iraqi and Kurdish forces. | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
Our North America editor Jon Sopel reports from Washington. | :14:55. | :15:03. | |
On the Whitwell -- White House lawn this morning, everybody came | :15:04. | :15:15. | |
together to remember those who died on September the 11th 13 years ago | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
when this country was under attack. But it is today's threat from | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
Islamic State that was on the President's mine tonight when he | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
addressed the nation from the White House. I have made it clear we will | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
hunt down terrorists wherever they are. I will not hesitate to take | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
action against IS in Syria as well as Iraq. This is a core principle of | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
my presidency. If you threaten America, you will find no safe | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
haven. These planes have been in action in Iraq, but launching air | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
strikes against Syrian targets will be immensely complex. For a start, | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
President Assad has sophisticated air defence systems and the Foreign | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
Ministry in Damascus has made clear that any military action would be | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
seen as an act of aggression. Also it has been described as an | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
intelligence black hole. How easy will it be to pinpoint Islamic State | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
fighters from the air? The Free Syrian Army says their role on the | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
ground will be crucial. Air strikes will never be enough to tackle | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
crisis in Syria. There has to be coordination with the Free Syrian | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
Army on the ground. Syrian fighters who know when and how and where to | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
hit crisis. John Kerry has now arrived in Saudi Arabia to look at | :16:35. | :16:43. | |
the operation. Slowly a broad coalition is starting to take shape. | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
Back in Washington, where some 9/11 commemorations are quieter than | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
others, there is broad support for military reaction. -- action. And | :16:53. | :17:00. | |
polling of American people finds people think themselves directly | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
threatened by the Islamic State, just as they were 13 years ago by | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
Al-Qaeda. President Obama is a reluctant war leader. He hoped his | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
legacy would be bringing troops home from overseas conflicts. Instead | :17:14. | :17:15. | |
America is embarking on another campaign that could last until well | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
after this President leaves the White House. | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
Here, the Foreign Secretary has said the UK would not take part in air | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
strikes in Syria, but Downing Street insisted no military options had | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
been ruled out. James Landale joins me now. There seems to be some | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
confusion about what Britain's role might be. Yes, there is. We know the | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
Foreign Secretary is not keen on British forces taking part in air | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
strikes against militants in Syria. He said it would be a high risk | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
strategy, technically, legally and militarily more, located at air | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
strikes in Iraq. Today he went further by saying, and I quote, | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
Britain will not be taking part in any air strikes in Syria. The only | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
problem, that is not the Government's policy. The Foreign | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
Secretary messed up. The Prime Minister has made it very clear that | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
nothing is ruled out when it comes to air strikes. It is possible back | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
down the line the Government will decide not to launch air strikes in | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
Syria but we are not there yet. They are being much more cautious than | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
that. The first rule of British diplomacy is never disagree with the | :18:28. | :18:29. | |
President of United States just after he has announced a new | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
policy, which is what the Foreign Secretary did today. , thank you. | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
An inquest has heard how a nurse was found hanged after | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
presenters from an Australian radio station made a prank call to a | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
hospital in London where the Duchess of Cambridge was being treated. | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
Jacintha Saldanha told a colleague she thought it was her | :18:49. | :18:50. | |
fault that details of the Duchess's treatment for morning sickness two | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
Our royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell reports. | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
She was the meticulous night nurse who made one mistake | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
when she thought she was talking on the telephone to the Queen. | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
Today nearly two years after the death of Nurse Jacintha Saldanha, | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
her husband Benedict, third from the left, and two children | :19:08. | :19:09. | |
on the right, came to the Royal Courts of Justice in London to hear | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
Also there, Mel Greig, one of the two Australian radio DJs | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
She had come, she said, to honour a promise she had made to the family | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
to attend the inquest in case there were any questions she could answer. | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
On the night of the 3rd of December 2012, the Duchess of Cambridge was | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
being treated at the King Edward VII Hospital for acute sickness | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
In Sydney, Australia, the two radio DJs thought it would be funny to | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
ring the hospital pretending to be the Queen and the Prince of Wales. | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
Nurse Saldanha was taken in by the hoax. | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
Three days later, her body was found in the nurse's home. | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
The inquest heard from the nurse's husband Benedict who read | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
a short statement about the woman he described as my beloved wife. | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
Then he was asked by the coroner if she ever suffered psychological | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
problems or had ever tried to harm herself before. | :20:10. | :20:11. | |
Inside the hospital, there were protocols for dealing with VIP calls | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
but Nurse Saldanha, who was in charge of the hospital that | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
night, put the call straight through to the nurse treating the Duchess. | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
That nurse told the inquest about an email Jacintha Saldanha | :20:26. | :20:27. | |
I feel very bad about getting you involved. | :20:28. | :20:35. | |
I'm very upset and don't know what to do. | :20:36. | :20:37. | |
Things are going in the wrong direction. | :20:38. | :20:39. | |
Nicholas Witchell, BBC News, at the Royal Courts of Justice. | :20:40. | :20:57. | |
The American actor Richard Kiel, best known for playing the Bond | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
The American star appeared in two Bond films, | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
thrilling audiences with his steel-toothed character. | :21:07. | :21:08. | |
Here's our entertainment correspondent Lizo Mzimba. | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
At 7 ft 2, he was probably the most physically imposing villain ever | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
featured in a Bond film but that wasn't what made him memorable. | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
The steel-toothed killer proved so popular when he appeared in The | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
Spy Who Loved Me, that unusually Bond's producers brought him back | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
for the next film, Moonraker, to once again face Roger Moore's 007. | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
When I spoke to Richard Kiel in 2012, the 50th anniversary year | :21:34. | :21:44. | |
of the Bond franchise, he told me what he thought set Jaws apart. | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
What was it about your character that made him so popular that he was | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
He was a fun character and he had a lot of personal qualities. | :21:52. | :22:00. | |
Perseverance, frustration, determination. | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
Today Sir Roger Moore said, I am totally distraught to learn of my | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
We were on a radio programme together just a week ago. | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
Kiel, who was married with four children, did make appearances | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
in other movies thanks to his Bond success, but it was Jaws he remained | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
best known for, often appearing at Bond events and conventions, | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
celebrating a villain who almost uniquely turned from being Bond's | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
enemy to being his ally and who even had his own love story. | :22:33. | :22:44. | |
And despite speaking just four words in the films... | :22:45. | :22:46. | |
Richard Kiel will be remembered as the man behind one of | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
the most popular characters in one of cinema's most popular series. | :22:53. | :23:03. | |
More now on our main story, the referendum in Scotland, with Sophie | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
in Edinburgh. Thank you and welcome back. | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
Today thousands of 16 and 17 year olds who will be voting for the | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
first time have been taking part in the biggest political debate that | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
Whatever the outcome of the referendum, these teenagers will | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
It'll be the first time that anyone their age | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
has been given a vote in a national election in any part of the UK. | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
And because of that there's been a lot of focus on their views. | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
Our Scotland correspondent Lorna Gordon reports. | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
This is not your usual day trip away from school. Thousands of first-time | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
voters from across Scotland coming together to discuss their future. | :23:47. | :23:54. | |
Their argument about who is voting yes and no. Some posters, and some | :23:55. | :24:02. | |
come down. 100,016 and 17-year-olds have registered to vote. This will | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
be their first time at the ballot box and they are going to make it | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
count. I am pretty decided that I will vote no. I doubt anything will | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
sway me because both campaigns seem to be saying the same things over | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
and over again. I am voting yes because it is a better thing for | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
Scotland's future and the yes campaign have a stronger argument. | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
What is the point of going down the route Westminster are taking us when | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
it is not the right one for Scotland? There has been a lot of | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
information coming out but not enough to push people towards either | :24:36. | :24:47. | |
side because usually the same arguments come out in each debate. | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
This is what today is all about. This venue is normally packed with | :24:51. | :24:52. | |
people here for pop concerts and sporting events. These 16 and | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
17-year-olds are here to watch, listen and engage with prounion and | :24:56. | :24:57. | |
pro-independence politicians who are debating with each other and with | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
them. How would independents affect job opportunities? If we have | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
control over our economic levers we can create more opportunities. | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
People in Scotland of any age know there are jobs that exist because we | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
work with other parts of the UK. Questions on jobs, tuition fees, the | :25:17. | :25:23. | |
NHS, and then this. Is there a statement that the Better Together | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
and yes campaigns would like to make that will help me make my decision? | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
There will be challenges and ups and downs but we will have control over | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
our resources. We have huge control over our health, education and | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
policing but we stand together with other people, too. Big issues for | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
the next generation to consider. In seven days time, these 16 and | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
17-year-olds will be voting for the first time in a referendum that is | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
all about their future. Lorna Gordon, BBC News, Glasgow. And there | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
are a number of ways to watch The Big Big Debate on BBC One. In | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
Scotland it is on at nine o'clock, in England and Wales it is 10:40pm, | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
and 11:15pm in Northern Ireland. Wherever you are in the UK, it is on | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
the BBC News Channel at nine o'clock. Brian Taylor is in Glasgow | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
tonight. Exactly a week to go before Scotland decides and it could go | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
either way. It is an astonishing campaign, this. Those young voters | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
that we just heard there are part of 4.3 million people registered to | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
vote in Scotland for the referendum. It is a record | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
registration and likely to be a record turnout. What will they say | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
and decide? These business arguments, will they be a wall of | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
noise as supporters of independence suggest? Will they hear that wall of | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
noise and gather a sense of anxiety and perhaps vote no? Alex Salmond is | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
saying tonight that the campaign and concerns being raised by business | :26:55. | :27:18. | |
are being orchestrated by Downing Street. He has seized upon reports | :27:19. | :27:20. | |
that the Prime Minister met market leaders this afternoon before | :27:21. | :27:22. | |
statements were issued about costs possibly rising in Scotland. Downing | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
Street is saying it was a scheduled meeting about feeding the future and | :27:26. | :27:27. | |
Scotland was not mentioned. This is going to go to the wire. This is big | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
stuff. A lovely, warm evening in Edinburgh. John has the weather. | :27:31. | :27:32. | |
Yes, fine and settled, isn't it? And that is the forecast for several | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
days to come. I will run the satellite sequence because you can | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
see this Catherine wheel of cloud to the South West going nowhere fast. | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
Eventually it will edge towards us and break down the fine spell but | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
not for another week or so. It is another large area of low pressure | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
but at the moment we have high pressure across the UK, hence the | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
fine weather. Yes, it has been sunny in Scotland but more cloud further | :27:57. | :28:04. | |
South. The cloud will come and go and we could see some breaks but | :28:05. | :28:11. | |
clearer skies will be further North. Towns and cities in double figures | :28:12. | :28:14. | |
but just like last night, in the Glens of Northern Ireland and | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
Scotland, we could get down to two. Milder further South where we keep | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
the cloud. There could be fog in Northern Ireland and Scotland which | :28:25. | :28:27. | |
could lift tomorrow. Then the cloud will fill in to some extent. Further | :28:28. | :28:33. | |
South, where it starts cloudy, there will be breaks developing, so things | :28:34. | :28:37. | |
could even out by the afternoon. That is a snapshot for 4 o'clock. | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
Some cloudy spells and sunny spells and I will not attempt to much | :28:43. | :28:47. | |
detail. The main thing is that it will be dry and pleasant with light | :28:48. | :28:50. | |
winds and sunshine and temperatures into the low 20s and high teens, | :28:51. | :29:00. | |
which is pretty good. More fine weather for this weekend and some | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
cloud around. There will be some sunshine but the risk of a shower | :29:05. | :29:10. | |
later this weekend. Thank you. That is all | :29:11. | :29:11. |