:00:07. > :00:09.The Chancellor says a plan of action will be unveiled this week to
:00:10. > :00:14.devolve more power to Scotland, if there's a vote against independence.
:00:15. > :00:17.With only ten days of campaigning until the referendum takes place,
:00:18. > :00:24.One poll has put the yes campaign ahead.
:00:25. > :00:28.You will see in the next few days a plan of action to give more power
:00:29. > :00:30.to Scotland, more tax powers, more spending powers, more plans
:00:31. > :00:41.If the no campaign parties had any serious intention of delivering
:00:42. > :00:43.substantial new powers for Scotland, then why has it taken until ten days
:00:44. > :00:46.before polling day? We'll be asking about the mood
:00:47. > :00:48.at Westminster, amid Also tonight, the cease-fire holds
:00:49. > :00:52.in eastern Ukraine, despite exchanges of fire between government
:00:53. > :00:54.forces and pro-Russian rebels. President Obama says America is
:00:55. > :00:57.ready to go on the offensive against Islamic State, as more air
:00:58. > :01:01.strikes target militants in Iraq. And Scotland are beaten by the
:01:02. > :01:04.World Champions in their Scotland's First Minister, Alex
:01:05. > :01:37.Salmond, has accused the Westminster government of "panicky, last-minute
:01:38. > :01:39.measures", after the Chancellor, George Osborne, said a plan
:01:40. > :01:42.of action is about to be unveiled, devolving more powers in the event
:01:43. > :01:45.of a vote against independence. Mr Osborne said a timetable
:01:46. > :01:47.for devolution would be made public In recent days,
:01:48. > :01:50.the polls have narrowed. A YouGov poll in today's
:01:51. > :01:53.Sunday Times has put the Yes Our Special Correspondent, Allan
:01:54. > :02:02.Little, is in Glasgow tonight. The leader of the better together
:02:03. > :02:06.campaign, Alistair Darling, has said today should be what he called a
:02:07. > :02:09.wake-up call for any pro union supporter tempted to believe that
:02:10. > :02:14.this referendum campaign was a foregone conclusion, and that every
:02:15. > :02:17.vote will count. That one poll you mentioned, giving the yes campaign a
:02:18. > :02:20.narrow lead for the first time, has put a jolt of electricity through
:02:21. > :02:24.this whole business, with many in the yes campaign starting to believe
:02:25. > :02:29.that that very energetic campaign they have been waging not so much on
:02:30. > :02:32.television campaigns between political leaders but on the
:02:33. > :02:36.grassroots level for many months now is starting to pay off at the right
:02:37. > :02:39.time. It is what the yes campaign were saying six months ago, that
:02:40. > :02:43.they would come from behind and draw level in the last two weeks and then
:02:44. > :02:48.take the lead. Back then, it was easy to dismiss as wishful thinking.
:02:49. > :02:52.It doesn't look like that now. If the prounion parties are not
:02:53. > :02:57.rattled, then they should be. They insisted again that a no vote would
:02:58. > :02:59.not mean a vote the no change, but now getting that message across and
:03:00. > :03:04.being believed is certainly more urgent. You will see in the next few
:03:05. > :03:08.days a plan of action to give more powers to Scotland, more tax powers,
:03:09. > :03:15.more spending powers, more plans and powers over the welfare state, and
:03:16. > :03:18.that will be put into effect. The timetable for delivering that will
:03:19. > :03:25.be put into effect the moment there is a no vote in the referendum. Was
:03:26. > :03:31.that riven by this? A you go of poll that gives the yes campaign a lead
:03:32. > :03:38.for the first time. The direction of travel seems clear. The commanding
:03:39. > :03:42.14 point lead that the no side enjoyed so long seems to have
:03:43. > :03:46.evaporated in a month. Both sides need to realise that they are
:03:47. > :03:49.approaching something of a crisis of credibility. We are now in a
:03:50. > :03:53.position where 51% of people say they do not believe what the no side
:03:54. > :03:56.say about the currency, and that number has kept on increasing the
:03:57. > :04:01.more the no side have insisted that they are not bluffing. All three
:04:02. > :04:04.prounion parties have already promised to transfer more powers
:04:05. > :04:15.from Westminster to Holyrood. Labour wants to give more power. The
:04:16. > :04:18.Conservatives go further to give Holyrood personal control of income
:04:19. > :04:22.tax. The Liberal Democrats say they would allow the Scottish Parliament
:04:23. > :04:26.to raise most of their own taxes. Scotland has known for some time
:04:27. > :04:29.what the three prounion parties plan to do to transfer more powers to
:04:30. > :04:33.Holyrood. The Conservatives for example announced their plan to
:04:34. > :04:36.devolve income tax more than three months ago. George Osborne today did
:04:37. > :04:40.not announce a new plan, he announced that there would soon be a
:04:41. > :04:45.timetable for implement in the existing plan. It increasingly looks
:04:46. > :04:50.as if the no campaign thinks people in Scotland are daft. If the no
:04:51. > :04:53.campaign parties had any serious intention of delivering substantial
:04:54. > :04:57.new powers for Scotland, then why has it taken until ten days before
:04:58. > :05:02.polling day with the poll showing yes in the lead for them to come up
:05:03. > :05:06.with this? This is a critical, even dangerous, moment for the prounion
:05:07. > :05:09.campaign, for the yes campaign is increasingly convinced it is going
:05:10. > :05:12.the way that months ago they believed a word. It is possible to
:05:13. > :05:16.say now with any certainty who is in the lead, it is really too close for
:05:17. > :05:20.that, but there is not much doubt about where the momentum is tonight,
:05:21. > :05:29.and where the growing confidence is. It is with the yes campaign. Let's
:05:30. > :05:32.turn to our political editor, Nick Robinson. What is the mood at
:05:33. > :05:36.Westminster? Are the parties rattled by what they are seeing in the yes
:05:37. > :05:40.campaign? Of course they are. We carved a week, month after month,
:05:41. > :05:44.Westminster politicians, whatever party they had been in, have been
:05:45. > :05:47.really confident in private that no would win. Yes, of course they would
:05:48. > :05:52.have to get the vote out, but they were certain no would win. This one
:05:53. > :05:54.poll, even though Alan has been telling us it could prove to be
:05:55. > :05:59.wrong, this one poll showing a yes lead has had the effect, along with
:06:00. > :06:02.the closing gap, of making Westminster politicians and
:06:03. > :06:06.everybody realise we could be ten days away from the end of the United
:06:07. > :06:11.Kingdom. A constitutional crisis the like of which this country has never
:06:12. > :06:15.seen, shaking institutions from the monarchy to the Armed Forces,
:06:16. > :06:18.through the business community and of course shaking the two key
:06:19. > :06:23.political parties who formed governments in this country for so
:06:24. > :06:26.long. The key fightback that they are planning, that George Osborne
:06:27. > :06:30.was alluding to, is trying to convince people that if they vote
:06:31. > :06:35.no, they still get change. You will get a timetable for some form of
:06:36. > :06:39.constitutional convention, which will consider more powers for the
:06:40. > :06:42.Scottish Parliament, in other words. But the problem and confusion today
:06:43. > :06:45.is that these rival political parties don't agree who should
:06:46. > :06:48.announce it, where it should be announced, quite what the
:06:49. > :06:52.announcement should be. It is a bit like if you had to have your friends
:06:53. > :06:55.who were planning the break-up, and you called in three people who are
:06:56. > :06:59.barely on speaking terms and said could you sort it out? George
:07:00. > :07:03.Osborne and Gordon Brown and others trying to come to an agreement is
:07:04. > :07:08.not easy. One last thing, Michelle. Part of this yes vote surge appears
:07:09. > :07:11.to be a loathing of politics as usual and Westminster politics.
:07:12. > :07:12.That's why it's so hard for the no campaign.
:07:13. > :07:14.And for more on the Scottish independence referendum,
:07:15. > :07:19.including the latest polling, follow our coverage at bbc.co.uk/news.
:07:20. > :07:21.There have been more clashes between Ukrainian forces
:07:22. > :07:23.and pro-Russia rebels in Eastern Ukraine, threatening
:07:24. > :07:28.The agreement is still in place, despite fresh shelling today
:07:29. > :07:33.That came after rebels bombarded government positions in the port
:07:34. > :07:44.Our correspondent Fergal Keane reports from there.
:07:45. > :07:51.A sustained barrage to break the cease-fire. We felt the power of
:07:52. > :07:57.explosions rumble across the city. And in the light of morning, the
:07:58. > :08:03.bloody aftermath. An army truck still smoking. The civilians in this
:08:04. > :08:08.car were hit as they approached a checkpoint under shellfire. This
:08:09. > :08:11.checkpoint is the closest to Mariupol city centre. It's about ten
:08:12. > :08:16.Minutes Drive that way. The fact that the rebels have been able to
:08:17. > :08:20.shell this area has substantially increased people's nervousness. They
:08:21. > :08:24.feel the war is now coming to them. For the people of this area, the
:08:25. > :08:33.cease-fire held out the best prospect of peace. But it seems to
:08:34. > :08:35.be rapidly evaporating. Reinforcements arrived, but Russian
:08:36. > :08:41.backing has given the rebels a big military advantage. Ukraine says it
:08:42. > :08:44.has been promised weapons and military advisers by some NATO
:08:45. > :08:50.countries, but the threat of attack is imminent. Are you going to be
:08:51. > :08:55.able to hold them back? If we will be attacked, we will react
:08:56. > :09:01.objectively, so we will defend ourselves, and defend our territory.
:09:02. > :09:07.Then panic near the checkpoint. The shelling started again. But as
:09:08. > :09:12.people fled past us, one woman was refusing to leave. She is the aunt
:09:13. > :09:18.of two children killed by shellfire just before the cease-fire. Two days
:09:19. > :09:22.ago, we tell the story of how Carolyn, aged six, and ten-year-old
:09:23. > :09:30.Nikita were cut down. Now they are aunt was trying to get home to find
:09:31. > :09:34.clothes in which to bury them. Last night when the bombing started, she
:09:35. > :09:37.told me, we ran into the corridor. My daughter was crying. She has been
:09:38. > :09:43.really affected by the death of her two cousins. These are rebels
:09:44. > :09:46.besieging government troops at the main regional airport at Donetsk.
:09:47. > :09:56.Fighting here has breached the cease-fire. Houses in rebel
:09:57. > :09:58.territory were hit by shellfire. As the war flares again, the People's
:09:59. > :10:06.struggle against its destructive power. TRANSLATION: I don't know why
:10:07. > :10:12.this has happened. There is no cease-fire and there never will be.
:10:13. > :10:16.Despite the breaches, neither side is willing to formally declare the
:10:17. > :10:23.cease-fire over. And, in parts of the East, there is calm, and some
:10:24. > :10:25.hope. But as tanks deployed near Mariupol, the sense of foreboding
:10:26. > :10:27.was hard to escape. President Obama says America is
:10:28. > :10:30.ready to go on the offensive against Islamic State militants, and
:10:31. > :10:33.that he will set out his plans to He says he wants to explain to
:10:34. > :10:47.the American people What I want people to understand is
:10:48. > :10:54.that over the course of months, we are going to be able to, not just
:10:55. > :10:58.blunt the momentum of ISIL, we are going to systematically degrade
:10:59. > :11:00.their capabilities, we are going to shrink the territory that they
:11:01. > :11:02.control, and ultimately were going to defeat them.
:11:03. > :11:05.Our North America Editor Jon Sopel is in Washington.
:11:06. > :11:14.Is this the beginning of that elusive strategy, then, John? We are
:11:15. > :11:17.getting there slowly, aren't we? President Obama has effectively
:11:18. > :11:21.three domestic audiences he has needed to win over, the American
:11:22. > :11:24.public, the Congress and the third is himself. And it looks like he is
:11:25. > :11:28.finally winning that particular battle. It wasn't that long ago that
:11:29. > :11:32.he was talking about Islamic State as being minor league terrorists,
:11:33. > :11:37.and that he had no strategy to deal with them. On Wednesday, we'll hear
:11:38. > :11:41.the detail of how he plans to degrade, diminish and ultimately
:11:42. > :11:44.destroy them. Two things he is at pains to make clear that he won't be
:11:45. > :11:47.setting out is that he won't be announcing that there will be tens
:11:48. > :11:52.of thousands of American troops being sent there to fight on the
:11:53. > :11:57.ground. And the second thing is that America won't be acting alone, he's
:11:58. > :12:04.very keen that this should be seen as a huge cross country Alliance,
:12:05. > :12:07.involving all sorts of other people, involving the UAE, Turkey, Saudi
:12:08. > :12:12.Arabia. And just one other thing to note, use choosing to make this
:12:13. > :12:18.announcement on the EE of the 13th anniversary of -- on the EE is of
:12:19. > :12:19.9/11, a date that shows no other like the vulnerability of America to
:12:20. > :12:22.terrorism. Police trying to find the missing
:12:23. > :12:24.schoolgirl, Alice Gross, have Specialist divers have been brought
:12:25. > :12:28.in to search a canal in Hanwell, west London, where
:12:29. > :12:31.the 14-year-old was seen before she Detectives are continuing to
:12:32. > :12:34.question a 25-year-old man Protests have taken place in Calais,
:12:35. > :12:46.over the continuing influx Riot police were deployed,
:12:47. > :12:50.as two separate groups of activists, one from the extreme left,
:12:51. > :12:52.defending the migrants, and another from the extreme right,
:12:53. > :12:55.marched through the French port. From Calais,
:12:56. > :13:07.Lucy Williamson reports. CHANTING
:13:08. > :13:15.Sunday afternoon in Calais. And far left protesters are taking on the
:13:16. > :13:18.riot police. We are protecting -- they are protecting the fascists,
:13:19. > :13:22.they charm. This is who they are talking about: Far right activists,
:13:23. > :13:27.gathered at the town hall, just 15 metres away, come to shout their
:13:28. > :13:31.opposition to the growing number of migrants camped around the town.
:13:32. > :13:36.Neither side can resist a glimpse of the other. Behind these police here
:13:37. > :13:40.are the far right protesters, and just across this road behind me are
:13:41. > :13:44.some far left protesters. They have just been separated by the police
:13:45. > :13:47.but it really tells you that anger here in Calais is growing over this
:13:48. > :13:52.issue, and now it's trawling in groups from outside as well. Some of
:13:53. > :13:58.these are Calais residence. Others travelled from Paris or elsewhere in
:13:59. > :14:03.France. Officials say this is not a local problem, and the solution must
:14:04. > :14:05.be shared too. We are blamed by everybody that situation but nobody
:14:06. > :14:12.wants to deal with it. Nobody wants to deal with it. Calais is not a
:14:13. > :14:15.destination. They don't fall from the sky in Calais. I think they
:14:16. > :14:20.could fall from the sky somewhere, that would probably be in England.
:14:21. > :14:25.But Calais is where Europe's open border system ends. Britain's border
:14:26. > :14:29.fences are the first migrants in counter after landing in Italy or
:14:30. > :14:34.Spain, and some are asking whether that needs to change. For the
:14:35. > :14:38.migrants own demonstration today, a football match. No riot police here,
:14:39. > :14:45.just Sudanese jungle taking on the dream team. Nobody is quite sure who
:14:46. > :14:50.is winning. We are against the fascist demonstration, that is why
:14:51. > :14:55.we want our rights, our right is peace, our right is freedom, freedom
:14:56. > :15:00.of choice. Dream Team, we are told, was a reference to their dreams of
:15:01. > :15:06.England. The match, a game where chances are made and rules are
:15:07. > :15:13.broken, all for one elusive goal. Time now for some sport.
:15:14. > :15:19.Scotland's campaign to qualify for Euro 2016 has started with a defeat.
:15:20. > :15:23.They lost 2-1 to Germany but it was a gutsy performance from the Scots
:15:24. > :15:30.against the current world champions. Christmas dockland reports. Unbeaten
:15:31. > :15:37.in six games, Gordon Strachan's side and 5000 travelling fans could dare
:15:38. > :15:40.to dream in Dortmund. Despite early Germany domination, Scotland had
:15:41. > :15:44.their chances. It provided hope but also provided the home side with a
:15:45. > :15:48.reason to switch gears, and having missed an earlier header, Thomas
:15:49. > :15:53.Muller was not in a mood to miss the second. The travelling fans, though,
:15:54. > :15:56.were refusing to panic. Just a minute after the break, Steven
:15:57. > :16:02.Naismith came agonisingly close to equalising. Then Ikechi Anya
:16:03. > :16:05.sprinted onto Steven Fletcher's through ball, composed himself and
:16:06. > :16:08.all of a sudden Deutschland had become Dreamland for the Tartan
:16:09. > :16:11.Army. Scotland had the world champions on the ropes. Before
:16:12. > :16:17.flower of Scotland was finished, Thomas Muller divided the sucker
:16:18. > :16:20.punch. The Scots refused to bow down, James McCarthy should have
:16:21. > :16:25.done better. In the end it was defeat, but a message from Scotland:
:16:26. > :16:31.The gloves and the jackets are off in the fight for a place at France
:16:32. > :16:34.2016. Northern Ireland got their European campaign up and running
:16:35. > :16:37.with an impressive 2-1 win in Hungary. All the goals came in the
:16:38. > :16:42.closing quarter. Kyle Lafferty scored the winner with two minute
:16:43. > :16:46.ago, as the team secured their first away win in 18 matches. Lewis
:16:47. > :16:50.Hamilton recovered from a poor start to win the Italian Grand Prix,
:16:51. > :16:53.finishing ahead of his Mercedes team-mate, Nico Rosberg. The pair
:16:54. > :16:59.collided in Belgium two weeks ago, and today was another high-pressure
:17:00. > :17:04.battle. The Mercedes fallout from Belgium dominated the weekend at the
:17:05. > :17:08.historic Monza circuit. The drivers were told to adopt a more cautious
:17:09. > :17:11.approach. Would that be the case? COMMENTATOR: Lights out, away we go,
:17:12. > :17:20.the battle between the Mercedes team-mate is on. Hamilton's lead
:17:21. > :17:23.evaporated in seconds due to another mechanical failure. Instead of
:17:24. > :17:27.sulking, the 2008 world champion clawed his way back from fourth to
:17:28. > :17:30.second. This brave manoeuvre on Felipe Massa meant he could now
:17:31. > :17:38.attack Nico Rosberg with 43 laps remaining. The Britain's pace and
:17:39. > :17:43.consistent pressure perhaps broke the nerve of Rosberg. Hamilton's
:17:44. > :17:48.chance to take the lead of the Grand Prix and he does at! For Hamilton,
:17:49. > :17:51.the sixth win of the season was particularly satisfying. Mo today I
:17:52. > :17:54.still had a problem but to be successful with that problem is a
:17:55. > :18:00.great feeling. Even more in powering. With just six races
:18:01. > :18:04.remaining, Hamilton is back in the title race but he still needs to
:18:05. > :18:10.claw back 22 points. This win will at least make him believe it is
:18:11. > :18:15.possible. Mo Farah has become the first British man to win the Great
:18:16. > :18:20.North Run since 1985. The double Olympic champion held off Kenyan
:18:21. > :18:24.Mike Kigen to take the half marathon title in a new record of exactly one
:18:25. > :18:29.hour. Britain's Gemma Steel came second in the women's race.
:18:30. > :18:32.Cricket, England's women completed a T20 series whitewash of South
:18:33. > :18:37.Africa, before England's men won their 2020 match against India. It
:18:38. > :18:42.came down to the last ball. India chasing 181 to win. They needed a
:18:43. > :18:43.six, but MS Dhoni's effort did not quite get there and England won by
:18:44. > :18:48.three runs. That is all the sport. You can see more on all of today's
:18:49. > :18:49.stories on the BBC News Channel.