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Out of the single market and striking its own unique trade deal - | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Michael Gove sets out a vision for the UK out of the EU. | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
He says we could still do business with Europe but not have to abide | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
There is a free trade zone stretching from Iceland to Turkey, | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
that all European nations have access to, regardless | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
of whether they are in or out of the euro or the EU. | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
But those fighting for the UK to remain in the EU have | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
attacked Mr Gove's claims as unfounded and untenable. | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
The father jailed for assaulting his baby daughter. | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
His conviction was quashed, now six years later he's | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
As the death toll in Ecuador's earthquake nears 500, | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
we report from the epicentre of the earthquake. | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
With just over two weeks to election day, we're in the chamber | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
of the Scottish Parliament - fast becoming one of | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
the most powerful devolved bodies in the world - | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
and we'll have the latest on the campaign. | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
enjoying life as the Queen prepares to celebrate an important birthday. | :01:07. | :01:14. | |
Coming up in Sportsday at 10.30pm on BBC News: | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
Action from St James' Park as Newcastle United | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
look to pull clear of the Premier League relegation zone. | :01:21. | :01:43. | |
The campaign to take the UK out of the EU has gone the furthest yet | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
in outlining what so-called Brexit would look like. | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
Michael Gove said the Vote Leave group would take the UK out | :01:52. | :01:53. | |
of the single market - which allows the free | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
movement of goods, services and people across borders | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
Instead the UK would strike its own unique deal, | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
be part of a free trade zone, doing business with the EU but not | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
Those arguing to remain in the EU claim Mr Gove is labouring under | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
a serious misunderstanding about the way the European Union works. | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
Our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, has more. | :02:18. | :02:26. | |
Filling in the blanks, for weeks campaigners who want to leave the EU | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
have been attacked for dodging how life would look outside. I see. | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
Mocked this morning by Remainors as they arrived to hear more at last | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
about the plan. The man with the slightly more detailed plan and | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
ridiculed for his colleagues' warnings, Cabinet Minister, Michael | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
Gove. The idea if Britain voted to leave the European Union, we would | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
instantly become some sort of hermit kingdom, a North Atlantic North | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
Korea, only without that country's fund of international goodwill. It | :03:03. | :03:12. | |
is a fantasy, a phantom, a great, preposterous Peter Mandelson conceit | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
that imagines the people of this country arm your children, capable | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
of being frightened into obedience by conjuring up new bogeymen every | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
night. You could banish them by being as clear as you can be about | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
what the economy would look like if we leave. In the simplest of terms, | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
can you describe what our trading relationships would look like? We | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
would be part of a free trade zone that extends from Iceland to the | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
Russian border, that includes all the nations of the European land | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
mass, by being part of that free trade zone we would have full access | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
to the European market, but we would be freed from EU regulation. They | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
love those ambitions here, outside the single market, but trading | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
freely without EU migration. The message coming out of Vote | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
Leave's anonymous campaign head quarters is a goal of contrasting | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
hope versus fear. They are being a bit more explicit about how the | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
economy might look if we leave the EU, but there is precious little | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
detail over how it would actually work, and over there they say it | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
won't wash. The In campaign scoffed at the idea, we trade in a similar | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
fashion to a country like Albania. And are firm, we would be lonelier | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
and poorer outside the EU. The Leave campaign have said this means being | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
outside the single market. That means a risk of tariffs, it means | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
that as services would not be included, and that is a real threat | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
to jobs, to investment and to trade. Whatever Michael said, he's right. | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
They agree, and a powerful minority of Ministers at Cabinet believe the | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
obstacles of exit can be hurdled over. There is only a lot of | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
scaremongering going on. If it is desirable, is it feasible for us to | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
be outside but get the benefits of in? It is complicated at best. But | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
however we trade, in what was described as the definitive speech, | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
Mr Gove made the boldest claim yet. Voting to leave would be a | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
galvanising, empowering moment of patriotic renewal. But for Europe, | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
Britain voting to leave would be the beginning of something potentially | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
even more exciting. The democratic liberation of a whole continent. | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
Outers crossing their fingers, if you vote to leave the whole EU might | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
crumble. Their rivals hope luck and logic will end up on their side. | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster. | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
So how does the single market work and what difference would it make | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
if the UK wasn't in it, as Michael Gove suggests? | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
And what about the free trade zones that he wants the UK to be part of? | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
Mr Gove's statement today has raised lot of questions. | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
Here's our business editor, Simon Jack. | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
In 1992, at Maastricht, the modern European Union was born and it's | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
grown into the single market we know today. | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
A Union free of internal border, UK citizens can live, work, trade | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
anywhere if the UK accepts free movement the other way and concedes | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
certain powers to Brussels. But Vote Leave say that arrangement means no | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
control of your borders and submitting to Europe's stifling | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
bureaucracy and Michael Gove wants out, but to where and to what? | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
Michael Gove today said the UK would join an existing free trade zone, | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
which stretches from Iceland to Turkey, but what does he mean? Well, | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
the EU has dozens of free trade deals with neighbours both large and | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
small. It includes countries to the East, some of which are candidates | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
to join the European Union, but perhaps the most relevant to Michael | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
Gove's speech today is something called the European Free Trade | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
Association, it has four members - Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
Liechtenstein. Of these, three are in the European Economic Area, an EU | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
light where almost EU rules apply. You have access to the single market | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
but you pay to be a member and accept the free movement of people. | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
That leaves Switzerland. That also pays into the budget. It currently | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
accepts the free movement of people and, crucially, has restrictions on | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
selling financial services into the rest of the European Union. | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
The City of London is concerned that a Swiss-style deal would require | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
stationing thousands of employees inside the EU and mean London would | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
lose its advantage as a one-stop-shop for European finance. | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
The UK financial services industry is enormous in terms of its | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
proportion of GDP compared to European competitors. There is | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
plenty of opportunities for other EU institutions to come in on Brexit | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
and pick off parts of that business, lucrative business, which is related | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
to the EU and which the UK institutions would find more | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
difficult to execute. The UK is the biggest market for EU exports and | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
Vote Leave said it would be self-defeating for the EU to impose | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
trade barriers. Michael Gove thinks a sweetheart deal is achievable for | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
the world's fifth largest economy. Others may think the UK is trying to | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
have its cake and eat it. Simon Jack, BBC News. | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
Let's speak to our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, | :08:24. | :08:24. | |
Has this statement by Michael Gove, has it changed the terms of the | :08:25. | :08:35. | |
debate? It's a big day. Until now the outers have been backwards about | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
coming forwards with that question, the answer to the question so many | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
voters have. If we leave the EU, how would it affect how we all make a | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
living? They have given us a skeleton but in terms of the | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
practicalities, we haven't quite yet seen the flesh. There is an obvious | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
appeal in saying yes, we could have the goodies without some of the | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
nasties that come with the EU. In terms of those other questions, | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
there are still blanks that are yet to be filled in. His vision has been | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
roundly dismissed by the Remain campaign, described as utopian | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
rubbish. The Bank of England Governor has given another warning | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
about the risks of leaving. But for the Out campaign it was important | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
today that they started to answer some of their critics and | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
interesting, too, Michael Gove suggested something more radical, | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
that we vote to leave, that could begin a process that unravelled the | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
whole European Union. A reminder of that big political picture that | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
could be at stake as we decide how to make up our minds. Money talks | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
and for undecided voters, there are still questions on the economy that | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
Vote Leave are yet to answer. Laura at Westminster, thank you. | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
And the BBC's Reality Check team has more of the facts on the | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
A father who was convicted of assaulting his six-week-old | :09:58. | :10:07. | |
daughter, but whose conviction was then quashed, is now accused | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
Ellie Butler died from a "catastrophic" head injury | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
allegedly inflicted by her father Ben at their home | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
He and Ellie's mother are accused of staging an elaborate cover up | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
Alison Holt reports from the Old Bailey. | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
On the upper level of these South London maisonettes, | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
the Butler home was, according to the prosecution, | :10:33. | :10:34. | |
The Old Bailey jury was told life was dominated by Ben Butler's anger, | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
It is claimed in October 2013 he murdered his six-year-old | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
daughter, Ellie, in a violent outburst. | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
The jury also heard that in 2007 Butler was found guilty of harming | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
She was taken into care, but on appeal, the conviction | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
Inside Court 8 at the Old Bailey today, the prosecution painted | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
a picture of life with Ben Butler and Ellie's mother, Jennie Gray. | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
She denies child cruelty but has admitted perverting | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
Their texts in the months before their daughter's | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
In one Ben Butler says, "I can't cope anymore. | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
One more mistake, I'm going to lose it." | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
He was frequently abusive to Jennie Gray. | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
In another he said, "You're dead when I come home. | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
She would try to calm him saying, "I really do want you more | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
But the court was told how Internet searches gave an insight | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
"I'm with a bully man who beats me and tells me I'm ugly and fat | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
Prosecuting, Edward Brown QC described how on the day that Ellie | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
died, Butler made four quick calls to Jennie Gray at her work | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
The court was told that within minutes of Jennie Gray | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
getting the phone calls from Ben Butler, she was here | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
on Ludgate Hill just, round the corner from her work, | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
The prosecution say that was part of a frantic reaction | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
It is claimed at home the two staged things to look like Ellie | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
had had an accident, then made a desperate 999 call. | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
The jury was told Ellie had died two hours earlier. | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
Ben Butler denies murder and the case continues. | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
At least 28 people have been killed in a Taliban suicide bomb and gun | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
assault on a government security building in the Afghan | :12:50. | :12:51. | |
More than 300 people were wounded in the attack | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
A car bomb was detonated near a security headquarters, | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
and there was gun battle with police. | :13:00. | :13:01. | |
The police said most of those killed were civilians. | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
The General Medical Council has urged junior doctors in England | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
to think hard about plans to take part in next week's first ever | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
strike involving A, intensive care and maternity units. | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
Junior doctors have taken part in a series of strikes | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
as part of a bitter dispute with the Government over | :13:20. | :13:21. | |
The growth of dementia in the UK may not be | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
Research, published in the journal Nature, suggests new cases | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
of dementia are up to a fifth lower than might have been | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
The improvement in male health is thought partly to be | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
responsible for the decline in the incidence of new cases. | :13:39. | :13:47. | |
In just over two weeks' time voters in Scotland will go | :13:48. | :13:48. | |
to the polls to elect a new parliament at Holyrood. | :13:49. | :13:50. | |
All 129 seats in the Scottish Parliament are up for grabs | :13:51. | :13:52. | |
and while the Scottish Nationalist are widely expected to win | :13:53. | :13:54. | |
another majority, the race is on between Labour | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
and the Conservatives for second place. | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
Huw Edwards is live inside Holyrood, Huw. | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
access to the Chamber of the Scottish Parliament. | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
It's fast becoming one of the most powerful devolved bodies | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
anywhere in the world and it's going to get even more | :14:16. | :14:17. | |
powerful in the years ahead, with more control over taxation | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
That's the all-important context to this year's elections | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
which take place in just over two weeks' time. | :14:27. | :14:28. | |
Scottish voters will be electing members | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
to sit in this Chamber - a Chamber dominated | :14:32. | :14:33. | |
by the Scottish National Party for much of the past decade. | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
Our Scotland editor, Sarah Smith, reports now on one | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
of the main talking points of the campaign so far. | :14:42. | :14:50. | |
The famous Forth Bridges - road and rail - are being joined | :14:51. | :14:52. | |
Here, Scots can see what their taxes are being spent on. | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
Before this bridge is finished, Scottish voters have a choice to | :15:00. | :15:01. | |
Whoever wins this election will, for the first time, have the power | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
to set income tax rates and that's what's dominating the debate. | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
The Scottish Labour leader is making a bold pitch, | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
Proposing to put a penny on the basic rate and higher rates | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
of tax, while putting the top rate up to 50p. | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
It is a very clear and simple message that we have | :15:28. | :15:29. | |
for the Scottish electorate, if you want to stop the cuts | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
and end austerity, invest in your children's future, | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
you have to use the powers of the parliament to make different | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
The SNP leader is playing a different game. | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
Last year she too was arguing for a 50p top rate, now | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
she is proposing far more modest changes. | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
Saying only that she would not pass on the tax cut for higher earners | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
The real difference between the SNP's tax proposals | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
in this election and Labour's tax proposals, it is not at the top end, | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
but how we are propsing to treat people on low and average incomes. | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
Labour wants to increase tax on everybody, even if they earn | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
We want to protect those on lower incomes - | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
It is a curious feature of this election that the SNP, | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
the party who have always argued for more powers for | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
the Scottish Parliament, are taking a remarkably cautious | :16:23. | :16:24. | |
approach to using the powers over taxation the parliament | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
What is quite clear now with the SNP is despite the rhetoric - | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
the wild rhetoric - condemning everybody else | :16:35. | :16:36. | |
from the left, they are not prepared to do anything - far too cautious | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
and timid and not ambitious for Scotland. | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
The Lib Dems, like Labour, propose a penny on the basic | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
and higher rates of tax, with a top rate of 46p. | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
The Greens want to go further, with a 60p top rate, and a tax cut | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
We do think it is absurd that very, very high earners, people | :16:57. | :17:05. | |
on astronomical incomes, way beyond what most | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
people will ever earn, are being undertaxed. | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
We see an incredible gulf between rich and poor. | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
The Tories had hoped to squeeze some tax cuts into their platform, | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
but have decided Scotland can't afford that right now. | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
They are enjoying being the only major party that does not | :17:27. | :17:28. | |
We don't believe that you should have to pay more tax in Scotland | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
We think it is bad for individuals, the money in their pocket, | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
and we also think it's bad for the Scottish economy, | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
to make us the highest taxed part of the UK. | :17:44. | :17:45. | |
The new bridge, the Queen's Ferry Crossing has cost almost | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
?1.5 billion of public money and will open later this year. | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
All the political parties who propose higher taxes, | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
are now making pledges to spend the money raised | :17:56. | :17:57. | |
Giving voters in Scotland a choice - about whether they are prepared | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
to pay more for the promise of increased public spending. | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
Sarah Smith, BBC News, North Queensferry. | :18:06. | :18:13. | |
We will be talking to Sarah in a few minutes' time about the campaign. A | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
There A are 4 million people registered to vote in these local | :18:21. | :18:22. | |
government and parliamentary elections and they include | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
They'll be going to the polls some 18 months after the people of | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
Scotland voted against independence in the referendum of 2014. | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
The SNP has seen a big surge in membership in the meantime | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
and there's confidence in many quarters that a second | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
I've been speaking to two very experienced observers, | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
with contrasting views, on the inevitability | :18:41. | :18:41. | |
So we came to Parliament House in Edinburgh, built | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
in the 17th-century to house the old Scottish Parliament and law | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
courts, to discuss Scotland's future with one of the architects | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
of devolution, and one of Scotland's leading | :18:54. | :18:55. | |
Leslie, we are 18 months after the referendum, | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
is it your view that Scotland is, nonetheless, still on the road | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
I think it is, because Scotland has been getting more | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
of a sense of itself, of a Scottish way of doing things, | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
more confidence with all the process we've been through, and then | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
watching as the rest of the UK - especially | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
with a Conservative Government - is waltzing in the | :19:18. | :19:19. | |
I don't think there's anything inevitable about this at all. | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
History is only inevitable after it's over. | :19:26. | :19:27. | |
What we've got is something that's evolving into what's as close | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
as you can get to a federal arrangement, in a country | :19:32. | :19:33. | |
in which 85% of the people are in one nation. | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
If you look at the powers that the Scottish Parliament has, | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
it has more powers than a federal unit in almost any federal state - | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
more than the Swiss, more than the Canadians. | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
So, what you can't say is it's not for looking. | :19:49. | :19:50. | |
Looking from Edinburgh this feels more federal than it feels | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
Does it have more borrowing powers than a local council? | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
No local council in Scotland - or anywhere in the UK - | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
Jim, given your role right at the start of this devolution | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
journey back in '99, are there things that you would have | :20:14. | :20:15. | |
done differently, given what has happened in the meantime? | :20:16. | :20:17. | |
I think the thing that should have been done differently | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
is that the Scottish Parliament should have had more tax powers | :20:21. | :20:22. | |
A body which simply spends money and doesn't raise it, is not really | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
With each iteration of an attempt to try and solve the Scottish | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
problem, the legislators have been behind the curve. | :20:34. | :20:35. | |
That's been true at the beginning, with the Scotland Bill, | :20:36. | :20:37. | |
I just wish that somewhere along the line, British politicians had | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
seen the opportunity that was presented for the whole | :20:45. | :20:46. | |
of the UK, by beginning to think more systematically | :20:47. | :20:48. | |
So to conclude, Jim, where do you think Scotland will be | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
I'm rather disappointed that we won't be more different | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
I think the record is that the Scottish Parliament, | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
under all parties, to be fair, has been a cautious | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
And in the next five years it will still be that. | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
Because I don't think anyone in government has the incentive | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
to do the radical thing, particularly if your long-term aim | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
is constitutional change, you don't want to rock | :21:19. | :21:20. | |
But if you're never going to reach that aim, at some point you have | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
to face up to the choices that you have. | :21:27. | :21:28. | |
Leslie, your sense of where Scotland will be in five years? | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
Well, it all depends on the European referendum. | :21:32. | :21:33. | |
If we do end up in the situation of the UK voting to leave | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
but Scotland voting to stay in, that does look like a pretty healthy | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
trigger for a reassessment of whether Scotland really fits any | :21:41. | :21:42. | |
So it's hard to answer it now, because that is looming | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
If we look at the polls, most anyway, this place will be dominated | :21:48. | :22:03. | |
by the SNP for another five years. What is going on? What is your take | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
on that? Well, whoever wins the election, they will have far more | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
polls than they did. The polls suggest it will be the SNP. But | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
whichever party. They will have control over income tax. That means | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
that the Parliament will finally have responsibility for raising a | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
lot of the money that it spends. So, every politician, going into this | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
campaign, if they want to promise increased spending on health, | :22:27. | :22:28. | |
education, anything else, they have to spell out exactly where the money | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
is going to come from and that's a fairly profound change in Scottish | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
politics. So that's what is at stake. If we think again, it is 18 | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
monthsp since the SNP and its allies lost the referendum, what is the key | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
to its continued electoral success? We are still feeling the effect of | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
the referendum, it transformed Scottish politics and polarised | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
people. Scottish voters are basically divided in yes and no | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
supporters and that has a big impact in what parties are likely to vote | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
for. The SNP can expect most of the 45% who voted for independence to | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
vote for them. That leaves Labour, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
all fighting over the remaining 55% of unionist votes which shows you | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
one of the reasons why they are trailing so far behind the SNP in | :23:12. | :23:13. | |
the polls. Thank you very much. A quick reminder that there's | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
plenty of material online about the Scottish elections | :23:18. | :23:19. | |
and also about the elections That's bbc.co.uk/news | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
and follow the links. But for now, from the Chamber | :23:23. | :23:31. | |
of the Scottish Parliament, The number of people known to have | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
died in the earthquake that hit Ecuador on Saturday has | :23:35. | :23:49. | |
risen to 480, with around The country's president said | :23:50. | :23:51. | |
it was the worst tragedy to hit the country for a decade, | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
and estimated the cost of rebuilding The epicenter of the quake | :23:56. | :23:57. | |
is the coastal city of Pedernales. Our Central America correspondent, | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
Katy Watson, has been there today. The shocking devastation brought by | :24:04. | :24:15. | |
nature. Less than a minute this quake lasted and hardly any house is | :24:16. | :24:23. | |
in tact. This was the commercial centre for Pedernales. The shops and | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
bars. They have been trying to clear bodies from the rubble in the past | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
few days. They are still working on it there. People tell me there are | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
many bodies trapped inside. They tell me there has been a lot of | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
looting and community residents are coming back here to take what they | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
can of their belongings before thieves get them. This man owned a | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
small bar on the corner. He lost five of his family on Saturday. "It | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
was so strong I lost my balance. I went to see my family and they were | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
all huddled in a corridor. It seems they were trying to come downstairs | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
but didn't make it," he said. His daughter-in-law was found cradling | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
her six-week-old baby. Both were still alive. She pleaded with him to | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
stay but when the authorities issue a tsunami warning, he had to run. | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
When he returned mother and baby were dead. As diggers clear the | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
rubble, residents are clearing up their lives, taking what is left to | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
a safer place. International search and rescue teams have finally | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
arrived but have only just started their work and so much is still | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
unknown As we get access to more remote places, we are going to find | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
more people, more needs, more people that have died, etc. The coffins are | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
piling up at the local football stadium. On hand for each new body | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
that is brought out from the rubble. With no homes to go back to, | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
watching the clean-up is all that most residents can do, just waiting | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
to sea whether anybody else can be found, dead or alive. | :25:54. | :26:04. | |
In the last half hour, bosses at Tata Steel plant have announced they | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
are planning a management buyout. A buyer would need to be backed by | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
significant private investment and it is thought it would need support | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
from the UK Government. The manage thement buyout bid is said to | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
support retaining steel production in Port Talbot's furnaces. | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
It's voting day in the presidential primary in New York state, | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
where Republican candidate, Donald Trump, is aiming | :26:32. | :26:33. | |
to get his campaign back on track after a major stumble in Wisconsin. | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
He is expected to win by a big margin. | :26:37. | :26:38. | |
It's his home state, where he lives in a building bearing his name. | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
His name is emblazoned all over the city. | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
This is where he built his corporate brand. | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
But the politics of Donald Trump can also be traced back to New York | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
and the seismic events that had such a traumatizing effect. | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
Manhattan Island was not only the site of the destruction | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
of the Twin Towers in September 2001, but also the collapse | :27:00. | :27:01. | |
of Lehman Brothers in September 2008. | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
All these years on from 9/11 and the financial crash, | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
those two massive convulsions continue to shape the contours | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
of American politics and Donald Trump has exploited fears | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
about Islamist terrorism and frustrations about the economy. | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
Take the ferry to Staten Island, where you will find the blue-collar | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
"Make America great again", is a slogan that | :27:27. | :27:33. | |
His autorepair business is yet to rebound from the great recession. | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
Like so many working Americans, his income has been stagnant. | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
People come in to repair their cars or whatever they are going to do. | :27:46. | :27:54. | |
It is always, "I just haven't got it right now." | :27:55. | :27:56. | |
Do you think Trump can turn it around? | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
I think we've got a good guy going there. | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
Friday prayers in uptown Manhattan, where worshippers come dressed | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
in the flag of their country and the uniform of the NYPD. | :28:11. | :28:16. | |
No city has a richer tradition of ethnic diversity but the memory | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
of 9/11 continues to stir fears of the other | :28:22. | :28:23. | |
A recent poll suggested a majority of voters support Donald Trump's | :28:24. | :28:31. | |
proposed ban on foreign Muslims entering the country and that's made | :28:32. | :28:35. | |
these Americans feel like outsiders in their homeland. | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
I think he is trying to do what he wants to do to get votes. | :28:40. | :28:49. | |
You know, he's trying to sort of pander to his audience. | :28:50. | :28:52. | |
This is the land of God, not land of Trump. | :28:53. | :28:54. | |
New York has always stood as a symbol, not just of America's | :28:55. | :28:59. | |
brash self-confidence but also its optimistic spirit. | :29:00. | :29:03. | |
Fear and frustration have propelled the presidential ambitions of one | :29:04. | :29:07. | |
of its most famous sons, but not enough, perhaps, to take him | :29:08. | :29:10. | |
The Queen celebrates her birthday this week, joining the growing ranks | :29:11. | :29:23. | |
There are almost three times as many people over 90 in the UK | :29:24. | :29:29. | |
And for every 100 men aged 90, there are 249 women. | :29:30. | :29:34. | |
Our Home Editor, Mark Easton, went to meet two of | :29:35. | :29:36. | |
They're the last of what's been called, "The greatest generation." | :29:37. | :29:44. | |
At 90, wing-walking John from Leicester and sky-diving Stella | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
from Exeter, display characteristic tenacity and sheer pluck. | :29:50. | :29:55. | |
What was it like when you were on the wing? | :29:56. | :29:57. | |
And I just wanted to go just to have the feeling that they've got | :29:58. | :30:08. | |
See where there is a bus going and get on the bus and go. | :30:09. | :30:32. | |
It's wonderful because you have a free bus ticket. | :30:33. | :30:39. | |
It is a generation whose formative years were dominated by war. | :30:40. | :30:45. | |
At 17, John found himself in the rear turret of a Lancaster, | :30:46. | :30:49. | |
There was a lot of flashes and bombs and of course it was | :30:50. | :30:56. | |
You couldn't see a lot of the ground. | :30:57. | :31:00. | |
What would be going through your mind? | :31:01. | :31:04. | |
The people at home were the fighters, | :31:05. | :31:21. | |
as well as the ones that went to war. | :31:22. | :31:23. | |
Just as they defied the Nazis, so this generation confronts | :31:24. | :31:30. | |
For John, it's been dealing with the agony of losing his | :31:31. | :31:34. | |
We were three weeks off our golden wedding anniversary and after being | :31:35. | :31:44. | |
all that time together, then they don't know you, | :31:45. | :31:48. | |
You have to shake it off and get on with life. | :31:49. | :31:56. | |
The rebellious youth movements of the '50s and '60s were troubling | :31:57. | :31:59. | |
to a generation which never enjoyed such care free days. | :32:00. | :32:03. | |
Technology, too, seemed a threat to simpler times. | :32:04. | :32:07. | |
Before television came, you'd have friends around | :32:08. | :32:09. | |
When television came, people stayed in their own homes. | :32:10. | :32:14. | |
Britain's 500,000 90-somethings tend to see public service as a duty. | :32:15. | :32:24. | |
After leaving the Air Force, John volunteered to become | :32:25. | :32:27. | |
a Special Constable, rising up through the ranks. | :32:28. | :32:33. | |
People did in those days, helped out. | :32:34. | :32:37. | |
They had to do if you were in the war. | :32:38. | :32:43. | |
In our generation, it sort of carried on. | :32:44. | :32:45. | |
That commitment to service, such a feature of the Queen's own life, | :32:46. | :32:50. | |
brought John and his beloved monarch face-to-face when he | :32:51. | :32:52. | |
She is so lovely, calm and I had no problem talking to her. | :32:53. | :33:03. | |
The fortitude and discipline that epitomises the so-called greatest | :33:04. | :33:05. | |
generation are often seen as qualities of the Queen and those | :33:06. | :33:09. | |
who've grown old with her retain a deep respect. | :33:10. | :33:14. | |
I would like to wish my Queen a very happy 90th birthday. | :33:15. | :33:22. | |
Being 90 is a great challenge for many. | :33:23. | :33:25. | |
But for those who still can, there is an inspiring | :33:26. | :33:29. |