:00:00. > :00:09.Tonight at Ten - the escalating dispute between Prime Minister
:00:10. > :00:11.and First Minister on the question of a second referendum
:00:12. > :00:17.Theresa May tells Nicola Sturgeon now is not the time -
:00:18. > :00:20.she says the focus should be on getting a good Brexit
:00:21. > :00:27.The reason I say that is because all our energies should be
:00:28. > :00:32.being put into the negotiations with the European Union.
:00:33. > :00:34.But the First Minister says the democratic mandate
:00:35. > :00:39.at Holyrood is not being respected by Westminster.
:00:40. > :00:42.We have a Conservative government with one MP in Scotland saying
:00:43. > :00:45.that they will stand in the way of the choice of
:00:46. > :00:50.I mean, this is like winding the clock back to the bad old days
:00:51. > :00:55.We'll have the latest as Nicola Sturgeon warns the fate
:00:56. > :01:02.A record fine for the Conservative Party for breaking campaign
:01:03. > :01:08.spending rules in some of the key marginal seats.
:01:09. > :01:15.But it's bad news for Donald Trump - his new attempt to impose a travel
:01:16. > :01:17.ban has again been rejected by the courts.
:01:18. > :01:20.A former Team Sky cyclist tells the BBC he broke the rules
:01:21. > :01:27.on taking supplements, but it was covered up.
:01:28. > :01:29.And what happened when a BBC team faced the volcanic fury
:01:30. > :01:39.On BBC London a man dies at a construction site after an explosion
:01:40. > :01:45.in Highgate. We'll have the latest. Find out why actors are performing
:01:46. > :02:03.for an audience of animals. Theresa May has signalled
:02:04. > :02:09.that she would refuse permission for a referendum on Scottish
:02:10. > :02:11.independence before the UK The Prime Minister said the current
:02:12. > :02:16.focus needed to be on securing the best Brexit deal
:02:17. > :02:19.for all of the the UK. Scotland's First Minister,
:02:20. > :02:21.Nicola Sturgeon, said it was democratically
:02:22. > :02:24.unacceptable to block Scotland's right to choose and that
:02:25. > :02:27.history might look back on today as "the day the fate
:02:28. > :02:31.of the union was sealed". Our political editor
:02:32. > :02:32.Laura Kuenssberg reports on the growing tensions
:02:33. > :02:36.between the two leaders. And even no to talks
:02:37. > :02:52.about a referendum. We should be working
:02:53. > :02:58.together, not pulling apart. We should be working
:02:59. > :03:00.together to get that right deal for Scotland,
:03:01. > :03:01.that So I say that's my job
:03:02. > :03:07.as Prime Minister, and so for that reason I say to the SNP,
:03:08. > :03:12.now is not the time. The Prime Minister's
:03:13. > :03:13.Westminster message deliberately timed
:03:14. > :03:14.to land in Edinburgh. Just moments after the First
:03:15. > :03:21.Minister's weekly grilling. Where Nicola Sturgeon's
:03:22. > :03:23.audacious vow to hold a second referendum
:03:24. > :03:24.was Can the First Minister
:03:25. > :03:34.tell us this...? Does she plan to spend
:03:35. > :03:37.the next few years leading a Will Scotland be
:03:38. > :03:43.guaranteed to be a full membership member of
:03:44. > :03:46.the European Union or not. Can she guarantee that?
:03:47. > :03:48.If she can't, it's all Well, the band is well
:03:49. > :03:53.and truly back together, Tory and Labour combining again
:03:54. > :04:02.to talk this country down. Number ten's refusal
:04:03. > :04:04.even to discuss another independence referendum
:04:05. > :04:05.for But these two tough,
:04:06. > :04:11.normally cautious, I think it would be completely
:04:12. > :04:23.unacceptable and outrageous, almost anti-democratic, for a Conservative
:04:24. > :04:25.government with one MP in Scotland to seek to block the democratic
:04:26. > :04:28.will of the Scottish parliament. Here's number ten's
:04:29. > :04:31.calculation: a majority of Scots voters chose this centre
:04:32. > :04:34.of power the last time out. And private Tory
:04:35. > :04:39.focus groups over the last few months suggest their
:04:40. > :04:42.message of "Not now" is a relief to some who simply don't want to go
:04:43. > :04:45.through the whole thing again. But for others it
:04:46. > :04:47.will be patronising, Technically, it is down
:04:48. > :04:58.to Westminster to say yes or no, but telling the Scottish
:04:59. > :05:00.Government they can't even talk about another referendum
:05:01. > :05:01.for two years? This miscalculation, this finger
:05:02. > :05:06.wagging at Scotland, this Theresa May laying down the law, thou shalt
:05:07. > :05:09.do this, thou shalt do that, it's not going to work,
:05:10. > :05:11.it's going to backfire spectacularly,
:05:12. > :05:13.and I think Theresa May will rue the day she edged towards telling
:05:14. > :05:15.the Scottish Only a week ago expectations were
:05:16. > :05:26.that the SNP was getting a big move As they prepared for their spring
:05:27. > :05:30.conference that will start Before that stage is even set,
:05:31. > :05:45.the drama whose ending Laura is at Westminster, we'll talk
:05:46. > :05:49.to her in a second. First to our Scotland editor Sarah Smith who is
:05:50. > :05:53.that the SNP conference, due to open in Aberdeen. When we look at this
:05:54. > :05:58.stand-off and the escalating tensions here, what do you think the
:05:59. > :06:02.next moves are for Nicola Sturgeon? Well Nicola Sturgeon was expecting
:06:03. > :06:06.this move from the Prime Minister and they have their next moves
:06:07. > :06:10.carefully planned out. She is basically not going to take no for
:06:11. > :06:14.an answer because she's sure she can probably do well out of this
:06:15. > :06:17.argument with the Prime Minister. So the plan is that the Scottish
:06:18. > :06:20.Government will go ahead with the vote in the Scottish Parliament next
:06:21. > :06:25.week demanding another referendum, and they will win that vote, and
:06:26. > :06:28.they'll still make a formal request to the Prime Minister for another
:06:29. > :06:33.referendum, forcing her to officially deny a request that has
:06:34. > :06:37.come not just from the SNP, but that has been voted through the Scottish
:06:38. > :06:40.parliament. Then there comes an argument it's not about the right
:06:41. > :06:44.and wrongs of whether Scotland should be independent, it becomes an
:06:45. > :06:48.argument about who decides when or if Scotland gets to make a choice
:06:49. > :06:53.about its future. It's an argument that can suit the SNP very well. The
:06:54. > :06:56.Tories know that being too heavy-handed could easily backfire.
:06:57. > :07:01.They are trying to handle this carefully, though it's a pretty
:07:02. > :07:04.risky move they've taken today. They think they can get away with it
:07:05. > :07:09.because they believe a lot of people in Scotland don't want another
:07:10. > :07:13.referendum. As the SNP start to make the argument that Scotland is being
:07:14. > :07:17.denied its choice by Westminster, that could build support not just
:07:18. > :07:24.for having another vote, but for independence itself. Norret dude you
:07:25. > :07:31.detect any kind of possible common ground between these two leaders? --
:07:32. > :07:35.Laura, do you detect? They have a lot in common, they are both highly
:07:36. > :07:40.driven, well-respected, both known for believing in having a tight grip
:07:41. > :07:44.on government. They are absolutely both known for making their own
:07:45. > :07:48.decisions even though they are both, of course, under huge political
:07:49. > :07:52.pressure from their own parties and whoever else wants to chip in with
:07:53. > :07:57.their opinions. But on this issue these two leaders are absolutely
:07:58. > :08:02.miles apart and there are powerful arguments on both sides, of course.
:08:03. > :08:06.We've seen again today that although Theresa May's message from
:08:07. > :08:10.Westminster was very firm, she was also not ruling out a referendum
:08:11. > :08:14.until the end of time. Her argument is it can't happen before the UK has
:08:15. > :08:19.left the EU and there must be no discussions until that point. A
:08:20. > :08:25.strong message, yes, but also not ruling it out for ever more and a
:08:26. > :08:29.day. As we were discussing only a few days ago when they all exploded,
:08:30. > :08:35.ultimately it's quite hard to see if in the long-term, how and SNP
:08:36. > :08:39.government keeps pushing and pushing and pushing, perhaps for several
:08:40. > :08:43.years, it's hard to see ultimately how Westminster -based government
:08:44. > :08:48.would be able to continually turned that down. One final thought. You
:08:49. > :08:53.know the other thing these two leaders are absolutely known for,
:08:54. > :08:58.despite this week's huge budget U-turn in Westminster, neither of
:08:59. > :09:00.them is known for backing down. Thanks very much again, Laura
:09:01. > :09:05.Kuenssberg at Westminster and Ferris with our Scotland correspondent in
:09:06. > :09:08.Aberdeen. The Conservative Party has been
:09:09. > :09:10.fined a record ?70,000 for breaking the rules on election
:09:11. > :09:13.spending in some key marginal seats The party claims the failure
:09:14. > :09:16.was an administrative error. But the Electoral Commission
:09:17. > :09:18.has referred the case to the Metropolitan Police,
:09:19. > :09:21.saying there was a realistic prospect the money had given
:09:22. > :09:23.the party an advantage. Our home affairs correspondent
:09:24. > :09:33.Daniel Sandford has more details. So let's get out there, let's go
:09:34. > :09:36.campaign... The South Thanet constituency in 2015, where the
:09:37. > :09:43.Conservatives were battling Nigel Farage. Desperate to stop him
:09:44. > :09:45.winning a seat. Any chance of counting on your support? They
:09:46. > :09:49.poured big names and resources into it but now they've been given the
:09:50. > :09:53.biggest ever fine, ?70,000, for breaking the rules on recording
:09:54. > :09:59.election spending. Here and elsewhere. We've never issued
:10:00. > :10:03.findings to that extent before and I think they are some of the worst in
:10:04. > :10:06.the fact that they were unable to provide evidence when we needed it
:10:07. > :10:11.and the reports were inaccurate and the spending returns did not contain
:10:12. > :10:18.things they should have done. 18,800 and 38... Craig McKinley the Tory
:10:19. > :10:24.candidate won the seat, his official expenses after the campaign showed
:10:25. > :10:30.he'd spent ?14,838. Just short of the legal limit in the constituency.
:10:31. > :10:34.Now the party spending here is under question. The Conservative Party
:10:35. > :10:40.spent thousands of pounds on hotels here in the South Thanet, ?15,000 in
:10:41. > :10:44.a single hotel on the hill here in Ramsgate. The electoral commission
:10:45. > :10:49.says at least some of that money should have been included in the
:10:50. > :10:52.local candidate's election expenses. One of the local Ukip leading lights
:10:53. > :10:57.told me they always felt the Conservative Party had cheated. Just
:10:58. > :11:02.the sheer number of bodies, the sheer number of full-time staff down
:11:03. > :11:06.here. The sheer number of buses that were running bringing in volunteers
:11:07. > :11:11.at the weekends, or fed and watered and had money spent on them. I'm on
:11:12. > :11:14.the bus. I'm on the bus. The Conservative Party also had battle
:11:15. > :11:19.buses of activists touring other marginal seats, 29 across England.
:11:20. > :11:26.The party declared nearly ?39,000 of transport and hotel bills but didn't
:11:27. > :11:32.declare over ?63,000. The electoral commission says some of that
:11:33. > :11:34.?102,000 should've been put on local candidates expenses, possibly
:11:35. > :11:40.pushing them over their spending limits. So far 12 police forces have
:11:41. > :11:44.sent files to the Crown Prosecution Service, though Kent is not one of
:11:45. > :11:51.them. There was other undeclared expenditure, too, more than
:11:52. > :11:55.?108,000. Tonight at an event in London David Cameron, who was leader
:11:56. > :11:59.at the time, insisted his victory was not tainted. In this country we
:12:00. > :12:02.have an independent electoral commission which has demonstrated
:12:03. > :12:06.its independence, quite rightly, once again today. We have the rule
:12:07. > :12:12.of law, no political party is above the law, all have to comply with the
:12:13. > :12:15.law. What began as a Channel 4 News investigation could still lead to
:12:16. > :12:20.criminal prosecutions and even by-elections in constituencies like
:12:21. > :12:24.South Thanet. Recently the Liberal Democrats and Labour have also been
:12:25. > :12:27.fined for illegal expenses returns. The electoral commission is worried
:12:28. > :12:32.parties are starting to see the fines as a cost of doing business
:12:33. > :12:34.rather than a way of keeping British elections fair. Daniel Sandford, BBC
:12:35. > :12:36.News, Ramsgate. President Trump has suffered two
:12:37. > :12:38.setbacks during the day. A Senate committee has ruled
:12:39. > :12:41.there was no evidence for the President's claim
:12:42. > :12:43.that his home at Trump Tower in New York had been put under
:12:44. > :12:46.surveillance by President Obama. And the President's renewed attempt
:12:47. > :12:48.to impose a travel ban against six mainly Muslim
:12:49. > :12:50.countries has again been Our North America editor
:12:51. > :13:09.Jon Sopel has the latest. Saint Patrick's Day is being
:13:10. > :13:13.celebrated in Washington, but Donald Trump doesn't seem to be enjoying
:13:14. > :13:16.the luck of the Irish as his problems pile up. Remember his claim
:13:17. > :13:21.in a series of tweets that Barack Obama had tapped his phone, and that
:13:22. > :13:24.his predecessor was sick and bad? Last night the president gave an
:13:25. > :13:29.interview in which he stood by the claim. The wiretap covers a lot of
:13:30. > :13:32.different things, I think you're going to find some very interesting
:13:33. > :13:36.arguments coming to the forefront over the next two weeks. But today
:13:37. > :13:51.the Senate intelligence committee flatly contradicted him.
:13:52. > :13:57.At the tetchy White House briefing, the President's spokesman said Mr
:13:58. > :14:00.Trump continue to stand by the claim coming even suggesting British
:14:01. > :14:05.intelligence could have been involved. But again, no evidence was
:14:06. > :14:11.offered. Despite the fact that the Senate intelligence committee
:14:12. > :14:13.says... But... Does the President... You stand by it but you are
:14:14. > :14:21.mischaracterising what happened today. Past night in Nashville,
:14:22. > :14:25.Tennessee with just hours to go before his second attempt at a
:14:26. > :14:29.travel ban was due to come into effect, bad news. A judge in Hawaii
:14:30. > :14:34.blocked the measure again and a frustrated Mr Trump let rip. We're
:14:35. > :14:39.going to fight this terrible ruling, we're going to take our case as far
:14:40. > :14:47.as it needs to go, including all the way up to the Supreme Court. We're
:14:48. > :14:53.going to win, we're going to keep our citizens safe. Feed ban from
:14:54. > :14:56.these six mainly Muslim countries has strong support among the people
:14:57. > :14:59.who cheered the president to the rafters last night, but governing in
:15:00. > :15:04.America requires you to work within the checks and balances of the US
:15:05. > :15:08.Constitution. And there may be similar battles to come over the
:15:09. > :15:12.President's budget, which was unveiled today. It proposes a big
:15:13. > :15:16.boost spending for the Armed Forces and border security. But Major cuts
:15:17. > :15:21.to overseas aid and the environment. And the Democrats say domestic
:15:22. > :15:26.programmes which help the most vulnerable. It is billions of
:15:27. > :15:29.dollars at defence while ransacking America's investment in jobs,
:15:30. > :15:35.education, innovation, clean energy and life-saving medical research. It
:15:36. > :15:38.will leave our nation we can. No one can accuse Donald Trump of not being
:15:39. > :15:44.true to his election promises. But turning an easy campaign pledge into
:15:45. > :15:49.something more concrete is turning out to be extremely difficult. If
:15:50. > :15:54.most eye-catching proposals are stuck in a thick judicial and
:15:55. > :15:56.legislative mud. Jon Sopel, BBC News, Washington.
:15:57. > :15:59.The Japanese car-maker Toyota is to invest almost
:16:00. > :16:01.a quarter of a billion pounds to modernise its plant
:16:02. > :16:04.The factory, which makes the Auris and Avensis models,
:16:05. > :16:09.But the company also warned that the future success of the plant
:16:10. > :16:12.would depend on continued tariff-free access to European
:16:13. > :16:19.Our industry correspondent John Moylan has more details.
:16:20. > :16:23.This was Toyota's first plant in Europe.
:16:24. > :16:25.It has been making vehicles here near Derby
:16:26. > :16:31.4 million cars later, and the company is investing again,
:16:32. > :16:33.laying the foundations for the future.
:16:34. > :16:41.That means building cars with quality, high-productivity,
:16:42. > :16:45.low-cost and this investment helps us hugely to be competitive
:16:46. > :16:52.So, we think this is a huge part of preparing for the long-term future.
:16:53. > :16:57.Toyota will invest ?240 million to upgrade the Burnaston plant.
:16:58. > :17:00.In return, the Government is providing ?21 million
:17:01. > :17:07.It's all good news for the 2,500 workers at this site.
:17:08. > :17:11.The truth is, this plant needed to be upgraded simply to be able
:17:12. > :17:15.to compete with Toyota's plants around the world to build new cars.
:17:16. > :17:19.Now they currently make the Auris and Aventis here.
:17:20. > :17:24.A decision on whether to bring a new vehicle to this plant
:17:25. > :17:29.This investment can make all the difference.
:17:30. > :17:32.But as we leave the EU, all UK car manufacturers face
:17:33. > :17:34.the prospect of higher costs, with tariffs on the components they
:17:35. > :17:40.Despite assurances from the Government,
:17:41. > :17:43.Nissan has warned it will re-evaluate its UK operations once
:17:44. > :17:50.Today in Derbyshire, as the Business Secretary Greg
:17:51. > :17:54.Clarke toured the Toyota plant, the company warned that tariff-free,
:17:55. > :17:57.barrier-free access to Europe would be vital for its success.
:17:58. > :18:02.If you look back at history, there were turning points.
:18:03. > :18:10.We don't want Brexit to be another point of those turning points
:18:11. > :18:13.and a hard Brexit, where we end up with tariff
:18:14. > :18:16.barriers, I think, would threaten the viability of some of the plants
:18:17. > :18:23.It was down last year amid the uncertainty
:18:24. > :18:29.So Toyota's decision today will be seen as a vote
:18:30. > :18:32.of confidence in a sector which is facing challenges ahead.
:18:33. > :18:39.A brief look at some of the day's other news stories.
:18:40. > :18:44.A 17-year-old student has been arrested after at least eight people
:18:45. > :18:46.-- four people were injured in a shooting
:18:47. > :18:50.The attacker, who was armed with a rifle,
:18:51. > :18:53.handguns and grenades, is reported to have been involved
:18:54. > :18:58.The man charged with the murder of an Irish woman
:18:59. > :19:01.Danielle McLaughlin in the Indian state of Goa
:19:02. > :19:07.CCTV footage allegedly shows her walking with
:19:08. > :19:09.the suspect on Monday - the day before her body
:19:10. > :19:13.was discovered in a field by a local farmer.
:19:14. > :19:17.The proposed takeover of Sky by Rupert Murdoch's
:19:18. > :19:21.21st Century Fox is to be examined by the industry
:19:22. > :19:23.regulator Ofcom to see if it's in the public interest.
:19:24. > :19:26.The Murdoch family already owns a minority share.
:19:27. > :19:29.A previous attempt to take full control was abandoned in 2011,
:19:30. > :19:32.because of the phone-hacking scandal.
:19:33. > :19:37.A former British cyclist has told the BBC
:19:38. > :19:40.that he broke the rules governing the sport by secretly injecting
:19:41. > :19:44.himself with vitamins when riding for Team Sky.
:19:45. > :19:47.Josh Edmondson insists he confessed at the time
:19:48. > :19:53.Our sports editor Dan Roan has this exclusive report.
:19:54. > :19:55.He was one of British cycling's top young talents,
:19:56. > :20:01.But below the surface, former Team Sky rider Josh Edmondson
:20:02. > :20:02.was struggling to deal with the pressure, and,
:20:03. > :20:05.for the first time, the 24-year-old has broken his silence
:20:06. > :20:09.about the depression he suffered, telling me he linked it
:20:10. > :20:11.to the controversial painkiller tramadol, which he secretly took
:20:12. > :20:15.The dangerous thing about it is you don't know
:20:16. > :20:19.So I'd be pushing and pushing and pushing.
:20:20. > :20:22.Normally you just would be like, I can't keep going.
:20:23. > :20:24.But you just go a little bit further than that.
:20:25. > :20:26.It's not a performance enhancing drug, it doesn't
:20:27. > :20:28.make you any better, you're dead next day,
:20:29. > :20:34.And I think the withdrawal from that, just immediately
:20:35. > :20:39.I was at a point where I didn't leave the house for two months,
:20:40. > :20:42.you know, so it doesn't really get much worse than that
:20:43. > :20:46.While it's not banned, Team Sky have had a strict no
:20:47. > :20:48.tramadol policy since 2013, and there is no suggestion
:20:49. > :20:52.they were aware of Edmondson's use of the painkiller.
:20:53. > :20:54.But he then says he went a step further and broke
:20:55. > :20:57.the sport's no needle rule, by self injecting a cocktail
:20:58. > :21:00.of legal vitamins he bought from Italy in the build-up
:21:01. > :21:13.I bought the butterfly clips, the syringes,
:21:14. > :21:15.carnitine, folic acid, Tad, damiana compositum, and B12.
:21:16. > :21:18.And I'd just inject that two or three times a week maybe.
:21:19. > :21:20.Especially when I wanted to lose weight, I'd inject
:21:21. > :21:24.carnitine more often because it was very effective.
:21:25. > :21:26.Actually putting the needle in and making sure there are no
:21:27. > :21:32.bubbles in the butterfly clip, because if there is air in it,
:21:33. > :21:35.it can give you a heart attack and people can die that way.
:21:36. > :21:37.It is a very daunting thing to be doing.
:21:38. > :21:39.Edmondson was then reported to Team Sky when vitamins
:21:40. > :21:43.However, Team Sky say Edmondson denied using the needle and,
:21:44. > :21:47.because of concerns over his mental health, their former clinical
:21:48. > :21:50.director told me he'd advised senior management not to report
:21:51. > :21:59.If I'd done that, and I suppose I'm looking at safety issues,
:22:00. > :22:03.I did think there was a really big risk this lad would be
:22:04. > :22:07.He told us very clearly at the time he hadn't done the injection
:22:08. > :22:09.because he didn't know how to use the needle.
:22:10. > :22:12.He said, I've never used needles, I've never seen the needles before.
:22:13. > :22:15.This is what he told us at the time and, as I say,
:22:16. > :22:17.you've got to remember that without going into too much detail,
:22:18. > :22:21.I haven't got a person who's in a good place in front of me.
:22:22. > :22:22.I've got someone who is breaking down.
:22:23. > :22:25.Edmondson, however, claims he did confess at the time,
:22:26. > :22:27.but that senior management covered it up.
:22:28. > :22:30.They would have had to say publicly, you know, there was a kid,
:22:31. > :22:36.Injecting anything's bad, it wasn't that they were banned substances,
:22:37. > :22:41.it is against the rules to inject, self administer anything, I believe.
:22:42. > :22:44.What he is suggesting is that the team covered up what had
:22:45. > :22:46.happened because they wanted to preserve the reputation
:22:47. > :22:53.I mean I can see his interpretation, I'm sure some of the public
:22:54. > :22:58.We did it in good faith, and we did it on two counts,
:22:59. > :23:01.one is that the team discussion was we didn't think he had actually
:23:02. > :23:03.violated, and the second, the most important was,
:23:04. > :23:08.These revelations come with British cycling under unprecedented scrutiny
:23:09. > :23:15.Edmondson, meanwhile, said he will cooperate
:23:16. > :23:17.with the authorities and hoped his story serves
:23:18. > :23:23.In Sicily, eight people - including a BBC television crew -
:23:24. > :23:26.were injured in an explosion on Europe's most active volcano,
:23:27. > :23:29.Mount Etna, which began erupting yesterday
:23:30. > :23:33.for the third time in the space of three weeks.
:23:34. > :23:37.This image from a European Space Agency satellite
:23:38. > :23:39.caught the ferocity of this explosion.
:23:40. > :23:40.The BBC's science correspondent, Rebecca Morelle, was one
:23:41. > :23:44.of those present and she sent this report.
:23:45. > :23:48.It's one of the world's most active volcanoes.
:23:49. > :23:53.And for the last few weeks, Mount Etna's been erupting again.
:23:54. > :23:56.We were filming a lava flow that had formed overnight.
:23:57. > :24:03.The lava's so slow-moving it's usually considered safe.
:24:04. > :24:15.The hot rocks mixed with snow and ice, causing
:24:16. > :24:26.Our camerawoman, Rachel Price, filmed as rocks, boulders and steam
:24:27. > :24:38.And there were cuts, burns and bruises.
:24:39. > :24:54.But incidents like this, involving people, are rare.
:24:55. > :24:58.A vulcanologist said it was the most dangerous event he'd experienced
:24:59. > :25:02.We've made it back down the mountain, and what happened
:25:03. > :25:04.is only really just starting to sink in.
:25:05. > :25:09.This hole was made by one of the incredibly hot pieces
:25:10. > :25:13.of volcanic rock that rained down upon us.
:25:14. > :25:16.We really thought we were all going to die.
:25:17. > :25:22.Scientists will now continue to track how
:25:23. > :25:29.Our close call only shows how dangerous these
:25:30. > :25:35.Rebecca Morelle, BBC News, Mount Etna.
:25:36. > :25:37.China has declared that Islamist separatists
:25:38. > :25:40.in the far west of the country are the greatest threat
:25:41. > :25:45.The president has promised to build what he calls
:25:46. > :25:50.a great wall of iron to safeguard the country's
:25:51. > :25:53.vast western region of Xinjiang - home to a community of some
:25:54. > :25:54.ten million Uighurs, mostly Muslim people,
:25:55. > :25:57.and the government is concerned that they are vulnerable
:25:58. > :26:00.to radicalising propaganda from Syria and Iraq.
:26:01. > :26:05.Widespread intimidation makes reporting from the region
:26:06. > :26:07.difficult, but our China editor Carrie Gracie
:26:08. > :26:12.gained exclusive access and sent this report.
:26:13. > :26:13.Southern Xinjiang, once the fabled Silk Road
:26:14. > :26:25.Now, the front line in China's war on terror.
:26:26. > :26:31.They call it an all-out offensive, a new great wall of iron.
:26:32. > :26:36.Thousands of troops pledging to lay down their lives and shed blood.
:26:37. > :26:41.We are heading for the scene of the only confirmed attack this year.
:26:42. > :26:44.China doesn't want the world to see the police checkpoint.
:26:45. > :26:51.Body searches in every public building.
:26:52. > :26:58.We are the only foreign reporters to get to Pishan County.
:26:59. > :27:00.Three young Uighurs knifed a group of Han Chinese
:27:01. > :27:14.The government offers huge rewards for information and some are glad
:27:15. > :27:20.You don't need to be afraid, she says, this place is full
:27:21. > :27:26.of police, you can feel safe, it's a lot better than before.
:27:27. > :27:33.Recent attacks here have all been local and low-tech.
:27:34. > :27:38.A handful of young farmers armed only with knives.
:27:39. > :27:42.They show no sign of delivering the kind of large-scale atrocity
:27:43. > :27:45.that will explain the government's call for an all-out offensive
:27:46. > :27:50.and sending thousands of troops to this so-called front line.
:27:51. > :27:53.But some say there are more attacks than the government admits to.
:27:54. > :28:05.They say it is backward here, they would get out if they could.
:28:06. > :28:13.But Beijing worries about where they would go.
:28:14. > :28:17.The so-called Islamic State posted this video of Uighurs in Iraq,
:28:18. > :28:19.promising rivers of blood in China's heartland.
:28:20. > :28:23.Beijing fears they will come home to kill.
:28:24. > :28:28.And so religion in Xinjiang is under ever-growing pressure.
:28:29. > :28:33.No young people in the mosque, no beards, except the very old,
:28:34. > :28:37.and propaganda slogans urging the public to thank their
:28:38. > :28:55.Ablajan sings a tune that Beijing likes.
:28:56. > :29:06.They call him Xinjiang's Justin Bieber.
:29:07. > :29:09.A reminder that Uighurs were once more famous for song, then violence.
:29:10. > :29:12.He tells his fans to seize every chance the government offers.
:29:13. > :29:17.But the relationship between Uighurs and Han Chinese?
:29:18. > :29:33.Foreign critics warn this repression is the recruiting
:29:34. > :29:43.And, until then, every Uighur is suspect.
:29:44. > :29:54.An estimated 20 million people in Britain have
:29:55. > :29:57.at least one tattoo and at the current rate,
:29:58. > :30:00.it's reported that around one and a half million works of body art
:30:01. > :30:04.The industry is reported to be worth ?100 million a year.
:30:05. > :30:07.An exhibition at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall is devoted
:30:08. > :30:14.Our arts editor Will Gompertz has been to Falmouth to take a look.
:30:15. > :30:17.Tattoos, as you know, are all the rage nowadays.
:30:18. > :30:25.You have the geometric all-over design, the Star Wars
:30:26. > :30:30.Stormtropper and, of course, your classic love heart.
:30:31. > :30:32.Do you know what, Lal, I'm as pleased as punch with that.
:30:33. > :30:37.Back in the late '70s, Lal Hardy made his living
:30:38. > :30:41.Today he's taking part in a major museum exhibition,
:30:42. > :30:49.I think the perception of tattoos has changed because there is so much
:30:50. > :30:56.I mean, every genre and subject is covered with tattooing now.
:30:57. > :31:01.There's so much beautiful stuff, you know there isn't a stigma
:31:02. > :31:04.like there used to be attached to it any more.
:31:05. > :31:07.It's this shift in the perception of tattoos that the exhibition
:31:08. > :31:10.charts, as well as taking on what the curators feel,
:31:11. > :31:16.We start with disspelling the myth that is Captain Cook brought
:31:17. > :31:19.British people had been tattooed for hundreds of years before.
:31:20. > :31:22.We start to see evidence of that in the pilgram tattoos that
:31:23. > :31:25.people were going to have in the Middle East,
:31:26. > :31:27.when they were going out in the pilgramages in the 1600s.
:31:28. > :31:32.This is one of my favourite parts of the exhibition,
:31:33. > :31:35.we are trying to challenge the idea that tattooing is gender
:31:36. > :31:39.It's not just people that are getting tattooed but also
:31:40. > :31:44.Justine Knight the tattooist was once the target in a circus
:31:45. > :31:48.Now she's at the business end of the target no more.
:31:49. > :31:51.It must have been really hard for her tattooing
:31:52. > :31:54.in what was predominantly a man's world at the time, in as early
:31:55. > :31:58.as the '20s, '30s, '40s, but her art is so beautiful and it
:31:59. > :32:05.So the exhibition finishes with 100 hands.
:32:06. > :32:09.It's a snapshot of what's happening in Britain and I think it shows not
:32:10. > :32:12.just the diversity of styles, but the true beauty and artistic
:32:13. > :32:17.Not everybody will agree with that appraisal.
:32:18. > :32:23.Some see them as a symbol of moral decline, an image this exhibition
:32:24. > :32:25.seeks to altar by presenting them as an expression of
:32:26. > :32:30.Of course, mine wasn't a real tattoo.
:32:31. > :32:35.Lal Hardy said if I just rub it with this, it'll come...
:32:36. > :32:45.Will Gompertz there getting a little more than he bargained for.
:32:46. > :32:48.Here on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.