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This is BBC World News Today with me Philippa Thomas. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
It's decision day for Scotland - a vote that could shake up the nation, | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
the United Kingdom and Europe. A record turnout is expected | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
of voters answering the single simple question, Should | :00:15. | :00:22. | |
Scotland be an independent country? We have a special report from the | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
frontline where the Syrian Army is fighting Islamic State militants. | :00:26. | :00:40. | |
The Syrians say the soldiers are experienced, battle hardened and | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
fighting every day. Also coming up: | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
Ukraine's president tells the US Congress that | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
his war is not Ukraine's alone, it is also Europe's and America's. | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
But will they give him much more than warm applause? | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
And is the food in your fridge really still fresh? | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
We'll talk to the prize-winning inventor of a hi-tech safety check. | :01:00. | :01:11. | |
Hello and welcome. After months of campaigning | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
and passionate debate, the people of Scotland are finally | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
casting their vote to decide whether Scotland should become | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
an independent country. Queues formed outside polling | :01:24. | :01:24. | |
stations from first thing this morning. | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
A record turnout is expectedwith more than 4.2 million people | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
registered to vote. In just three hours time | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
the polls will close and the vote counting will begin. | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
By Friday morning we should know the result of this historic ballot. | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
The BBC's Special Correspondent Allan Little reports. | :01:42. | :01:49. | |
This long campaign has reached into every remote corner of Scotland. | :01:50. | :01:58. | |
Today it is time to decide. This ballot box was on its way to an | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
island with a population of less than 100. An unprecedented 97% of | :02:04. | :02:12. | |
the electorate are registered to vote. In Edinburgh the grey autumn | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
weather did not keep voters away. This is an important state for | :02:20. | :02:21. | |
Scotland. I think so, for This is an important state for | :02:22. | :02:32. | |
generations as well. It is probably the most important day of my life, | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
the future of the country and all of Britain. It will be exciting and | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
interesting to see which one will win. Those at the top of the | :02:42. | :02:51. | |
campaign voted early. So did two others who played key roles. The | :02:52. | :03:03. | |
former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Deputy First Minister Nicholas | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
Virgin. The votes from 5500 polling stations will be counted from | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
Shetland to Dumfries and Galloway. Here at Ingliston on the outskirts | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
of Edinburgh is clear the announcement will be made. I am | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
focus on making sure the process go well and even if people do not like | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
the result at the end of the day they will at least trust it. My job | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
is to insure the integrity of the process. Reporters and television | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
crews from around the world have come to Edinburgh for what is | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
happening here is unprecedented in a modern European democracy. The BBC | :03:54. | :04:01. | |
will have live coverage as all the results come in. In the other vote | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
taking place in Scotland today we can give you a result now. The | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
famous and ancient golf club in St Andrews has voted to allow women to | :04:14. | :04:21. | |
become members. 85% of those who voted were in favour. The cop said | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
there where a significant number of women who would be fast tracked to | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
membership in the coming months. Julie Peacock is in our Glasgow | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
newsroom. What has it been like? The polls | :04:33. | :04:45. | |
opened at seven this morning. But reports from the polling stations | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
are that it has been busy all day. No reports of any major queueing at | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
the moment but a steady and firm number of people coming in to vote. | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
Around 97% of the Scottish electorate have registered to vote, | :05:05. | :05:14. | |
that allows -- amounts to 4.2 million people. They will be asked | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
the question should Scotland become a independent country with the | :05:19. | :05:26. | |
simple choice of yes or no. We will not know the result until the polls | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
close at ten o'clock tonight which is when we will get some idea of how | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
many people have voted, what the turnout will be like and eventually | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
what the result will be. Do we know if people still in line at ten | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
o'clock will be allowed to Fort? Yes, the law has changed because of | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
problems with recent general elections in the UK. Anyone at a | :05:55. | :06:03. | |
polling station, either inside or in a queue outside, they will be | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
allowed to vote. People will still be able to vote because it is | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
something that has engaged the entire population and many people | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
want to put the vote today whenever they can. You are in for that very | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
exciting few hours. Thank you. Islamic State militants have | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
released a new video featuring a British hostage. | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
The man is not Alan Henning, the British hostage threatened with | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
death by the militants at the weekend. | :06:35. | :06:35. | |
The footage of John Cantlie is different | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
from previous videos as it does not feature anyone being beheaded, | :06:39. | :06:40. | |
and no IS militants are seen. Our security correspondent | :06:41. | :06:41. | |
Gordon Corera has more. The latest release from the group | :06:42. | :06:53. | |
calling itself Islamic State is another propaganda video. It is | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
different from the last. This one features the British journalist who | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
says he is a prisoner and his life hangs in the balance as he reads | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
from a script. After two disastrous and hugely unpopular wars in | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
Afghanistan and Iraq why is it that our governments seem so keen to get | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
involved in another unwinnable conflict? There is criticism of | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
British and American intervention in Iraq and the current policy. This | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
video is different from others we have seen recently, it is filmed | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
inside and not in the Desert, no-one is killed in it. The group's aim is | :07:39. | :07:46. | |
similar, using a hostage to try to affect public opinion and challenge | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
policy. This was the freelance journalist, John Cantlie, in Syria | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
before he was first detained in 2012. He tried to escape and was | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
short but was eventually freed by a read by the free Syrian army where | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
he was held. He went back in November 2012 and was captured | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
again, this time with James Foley, the American journalist seem killed | :08:18. | :08:26. | |
in a video a month ago. His family have now been informed about | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
today's video which the government has condemned. | :08:31. | :08:40. | |
Police in Australia have carried out one of their largest ever | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
anti-terrorism raids after allegedly receiving intelligence that | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
militants connected with Islamic State were planning to kidnap | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
and behead a member of the public. Details of the operation, | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
which involved hundreds of police officers in Sydney | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
and Brisbane, were announced by the Prime Minister Tony Abbott | :08:56. | :08:56. | |
who said his country was at "serious Our Middle East correspondent has | :08:57. | :09:21. | |
been given a rare access to the Syrian army. A district on the edge | :09:22. | :09:31. | |
of Damascus city centre. It has been fought over since rebels seized it | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
two years ago. A new government offensive is happening now. The way | :09:39. | :09:48. | |
Sony and is used to live is a memory. The Syrian army allowed us | :09:49. | :09:58. | |
into a small corner of the front line. A Minute Drive from the south | :09:59. | :10:07. | |
of Damascus. This village was recaptured recently from rebels | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
after hard fighting. This is a small outpost, 300 metres separate the | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
front lines. What happened here it says a lot about the war and how do | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
the fight against Islamic state might go. These Syrian soldiers said | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
they were volunteers and the West was finally catching up with the | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
belief that on the opposite sides of the lines were religious extremists. | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
Morale was high. These Syrian general guarding this sector who | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
seemed popular with his men, did not want to identify himself. Islamic | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
State is a threat on the wall world. They control Syria and will | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
take us back to the stone age. Said he can crush them without the help | :11:00. | :11:09. | |
of the Americans. The afternoon firefight started when bullets came | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
in from rebel positions. The Syrian army has been much more effective | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
than its enemies expected. The Syrian's say any attempt to fight | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
the soldiers will not work because they are experienced, battle | :11:29. | :11:37. | |
hardened and fighting every day. The US and UK believe this army is the | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
tool of a brutal dictator. The Syrian soldiers were shooting at a | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
mix of Al-Qaeda sympathisers and supported moderates who the | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
Americans want to use to fight Islamic State. Syrian soldiers say | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
the West should help them fight jihadists. Because I come here to | :12:02. | :12:09. | |
fight people who want to destroy our country. I want to save my sisters, | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
brothers and father, the great Syrian people. The politics are | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
getting more tangled and more bloody. Staying with the situation | :12:24. | :12:36. | |
in Syria, the United Nations are saying they will have to cut food | :12:37. | :12:47. | |
rations to Syrian people because of the lack of funding. This comes as | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
Syrians are preparing for the fourth winter of the Syrian civil war. | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
Now a look at some of the days other news. | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
Francois Hollande says France is ready to carry out air strikes | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
against Islamic State militants in Iraq. | :13:07. | :13:08. | |
But the French President insists he will not deploy ground troops there, | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
and he will not intervene in Syria. Mr Hollande's comments come | :13:12. | :13:13. | |
in response to a request for aerial support from the Iraqi government. | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
The Chinese President and Indian Prime Minister have | :13:17. | :13:18. | |
announced landmark economic deals, on the second day of | :13:19. | :13:20. | |
Mr Xi Jinping's visit to India. China plans to build two industrial | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
parks in India, as part of its overall investment of twenty billion | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
dollars in the next five years. Fire crews in California's Sierra | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
Nevada are battling a blaze that threatens at least 2,000 homes and | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
has displaced hundreds of residents. The so-called King Fire is the most | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
menacing of 11 major wildfires currently threatening California | :13:38. | :13:45. | |
after a prolonged drought. Thailand's prime minister has | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
apologised for suggesting that it's 'unsafe' | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
for tourists to wear bikinis - unless they are unattractive. | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
His widely-criticised comments, came as the police continued | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
their search for the killers of two British holidaymakers. | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
David Miller and Hannah Witheridge were found dead on a beach | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
on Monday. Ukraine's president Petro Poroshenko | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
has appealed to members of the US Congress for military help | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
for Ukrainian soldiers fighting pro-Russia separatists | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
in the east of Ukraine. His address to the joint session of | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
Congress followed a meeting with the US Secretary of State John Kerry. | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
He told Congress that non-lethal material was not enough, | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
that his soldiers needed more than night-vision goggles | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
and blankets to win. He said that support for Ukrainian | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
soldiers was in America?s interest. these young men are fighting today | :14:33. | :14:43. | |
is not only Ukraine's war. It is Europe's and it is America's | :14:44. | :14:45. | |
too. Today aggression | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
against Ukraine is a threat to global security everywhere, | :14:49. | :14:57. | |
hybrid proxy war terrorism. the erosion of the national | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
and international agreements, the blurring and even erasing | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
of national identities. All these threats now | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
challenge Europe. If they are not stopped now, | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
they will cross European borders and spread absolutely throughout | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
the world. To prevent this, | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
Ukrainian soldiers are in the line of fire exactly right now | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
when we have a so-called ceasefire. Willis Sparks is from the | :15:25. | :15:33. | |
Eurasia Group research firm Do you think the Ukraine president | :15:34. | :15:48. | |
will get that militaries sport, that lethal aid that he is asking for? | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
No. He warned. I think that the extended lead in on Iraq and Syria | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
makes clear that the president of the United States and a lot of other | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
leaders around the world have their plates full with not only this | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
conflict but others as well. Frankly, Iraq Obama believes | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
correctly that he was elected to end war is not to start new ones. That | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
is not to say that the US will not help Ukraine. They will continue to | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
provide financial support for the new government in Kiev which is | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
vitally important for the Ukraine government's long-term survival. | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
There will be sanctions on Russia to increase the price for the Russians | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
of every action that they take that threatens Ukraine. Blankets and | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
night goggles may not be enough but for the moment he is unlikely to see | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
more than lethal forms of aid. How much do you think the White House | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
worries about provoking Russia? Well, I don't think they worry about | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
provoking Russia in the broader sense, because if they were they | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
would not have gone as far, frankly, as they have already gone in | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
sanctions on Russia's energy sector, it's a natural sector, and it's the | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
natural sector. I think what the US wants to avoid is to be a good it | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
did in a shooting war where it is not clear how that conflict would | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
play out, what reaction on the ground is my provoke, and in | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
general, when you add more weapons into a conflict zone, it is always | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
very difficult to say where those weapons will end up in any given | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
circumstance if the balance of power shifts. Ukraine's new leaders have | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
made it clear they would like to join the European Union. They would | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
like the Natal security guarantee. If there are any chance of the | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
things happening? -- Natal security guarantee. Rob Lynott. There is very | :17:42. | :17:54. | |
little appetite in Europe at the moment to support countries as | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
unstable as Ukraine, given all the other worries going on. The various | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
separatist movements that we are seeing in the UK today and in Spain, | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
Belgium, and elsewhere. There has been an agreement signed between the | :18:09. | :18:15. | |
EU and Ukraine that will certainly keep in both trade and political | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
tides, but membership of the EU is a very long-term project, and | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
membership of NATO is even more theoretical. If you would like to | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
appease the Russians, it might be some sort of guarantee that | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
Ukraine's membership of NATO is postponed indefinitely. It has not | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
been offered yet, but it is probably the best thing available for the | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
long-term struggle. Banking. -- thank you. | :18:51. | :18:51. | |
The sister of a Russian soldier killed near the Ukrainian border has | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
She says that the Russian authorities gave her conflicting | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
accounts of what happened to her brother, with one official saying he | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
was killed by artillery from ukraine, but another that he | :19:02. | :19:03. | |
The alleged involvement of Russian troops in fighting against Ukrainian | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
After filming the BBC team was attacked and then arrested. | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
The BBC has lodged a formal complaint to Moscow | :19:11. | :19:12. | |
Our correspondent there Steve Rosenberg picks up the story. | :19:13. | :19:27. | |
Constantine fought in Chechnya. This summer, he performed his final | :19:28. | :19:29. | |
mission. When he called to say he was going | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
away he sounded kind of scared. He said, | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
I will be heading south west. I thought he meant the Ukrainian | :19:35. | :19:36. | |
border. I told him to stay safe. Three weeks later, | :19:37. | :19:48. | |
her brother was killed in exercises I asked that official, | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
"Do you believe the words you are I just want to understand how | :19:52. | :20:01. | |
my brother was killed. Perhaps not everyone here is | :20:02. | :20:11. | |
so keen to know the truth. A few hours after that interview, we | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
were attacked by at least three men, They hit our cameraman, smashed | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
the camera, and drove off with it. We didn't expect our day to end here | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
in the hospital, we are here because our cameraman is having x-rays and | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
being checked out after the attack. Someone clearly didn't want | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
our report to be broadcast. After four hours | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
at a police station, back in the car, we discovered our | :20:41. | :20:42. | |
equipment had been tampered with. Someone cleaned the hard drive | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
on my computer. Luckily, we had made copies | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
of the interview. State-controlled media portrays | :20:54. | :21:11. | |
these soldiers as volunteers who've taken leave of absence to go and | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
fight. Those independent Russian journalist brave enough to conduct | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
their own investigations face threats and intimidation. They say | :21:22. | :21:31. | |
there is no war. They say our soldiers are not involved. So who's | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
to blame his death? How did this happen? I am tortured by this | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
question. It is a simple question. All she wants is an answer. | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
When the James Dyson Foundation asked young people to | :21:48. | :21:49. | |
"design something that solves a problem" for an engineering | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
competition, they received some remarkable submissions. | :21:56. | :21:57. | |
Winners included the PrintAlive BioPrinter, which 3D prints complex | :21:58. | :21:59. | |
structures mimicking human skin layers that can be used to close | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
the wounds of severe burn victims, Solari, a solar powered outdoor | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
cooker, and Mima, a kit to inspect a beehive without | :22:11. | :22:12. | |
An overall winner will be announced in November. | :22:13. | :22:20. | |
With me is Solveiga Pakstaite a Lithuanian Industrial Design | :22:21. | :22:22. | |
Technology student from Brunel University who was one | :22:23. | :22:24. | |
She designed 'Bump Mark' a bio-reactive food expiry label which | :22:25. | :22:32. | |
shows you exactly when your food is going off so you don't have to rely | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
Tell me why we needed this. I noticed that we waste a lot of food | :22:37. | :22:56. | |
annually. It is clearly an issue and the current expiry labels are not | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
working so well to prevent this. Another problem is visually impaired | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
people are not able to gain this type of information at all. They | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
have no clue about the freshness of their food. Yes, they have to | :23:11. | :23:18. | |
guess, and perhaps end up throwing food away to be cautious, and that | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
is money they don't have. One third of blind people are not in paid | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
employment, so it is a struggle. This is why this is tactile. I | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
wanted the texture to change, to let them know. So this is an food | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
packaging, you will have a little marker, and tell me about the | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
texture. What should you feel? If the food is fresh, it should feel | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
solid. When it expires, you will start to feel bumps. The way it | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
works is that you put a solid gelatin gel on top of the bumps, the | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
Yukon QB bombs, and then the gelatin has this property, because it is a | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
natural substance, it expires just like food, it turns back into a | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
liquid when it expires, so that enables you to feel the dumps. So if | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
it feels smooth you know your food is safe. Sometimes we do all we food | :24:17. | :24:25. | |
that is too fresh. Exactly. My research found that 87% look at the | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
expiry date and if it has expired, they want even check the condition | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
of it, they want smell it, they will just throw it away. You have used | :24:37. | :24:44. | |
gelatin. Have you had interest from industry, from business, you think | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
this is a workable idea as well as a brilliant concept? I have currently | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
got a patented pending for this, so it is protected, and I was able to | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
do that because I won a scholarship with the James Dyson foundation. | :24:58. | :25:05. | |
That's let me finance... It was an extensive recess, so I was able to | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
file for patents. Now I can get to the next age of finding an investor, | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
so I am talking to a view different comedies about this. Commercial | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
confidence gelatin. This kind of scheme, I suppose, allows you to | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
work without a big company behind you at the beginning. Yes, I was | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
able to take this as far as it could go within my university. And now | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
you're going to a global edition. How exciting. You could get | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
inspiration from the other products as well. Yes, it is Williams firing. | :25:39. | :25:49. | |
-- it is really inspiring. We are going to regroup with the astronomy | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
photographer of the year awards. This year is no exception to the | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
stunning images that have been provided. It is as good as | :25:58. | :27:01. | |
as we look ahead to the weekend, it looks a lot fresher with some | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
welcome sunshine coming from the north. With this weather | :27:08. | :27:08. |