:00:22. > :00:24.Downing Street has dismissed claims that politicians are backing away
:00:25. > :00:28.from a promise to give more powers to Scotland following the
:00:29. > :00:31.independence referendum. Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, said
:00:32. > :00:36.Westminster leaders were already tearing up their pledge to deliver
:00:37. > :00:38.more devolution. This morning, political leaders in Scotland
:00:39. > :00:41.gathered for a church service intended to promote unity after the
:00:42. > :00:50.divisions of the referendum campaign. Michael Buchanan reports.
:00:51. > :00:54.Symbolism matters in politics and this morning rival politicians came
:00:55. > :00:58.to St Gyles Cathedral in the heart of Edinburgh in a show of unity.
:00:59. > :01:01.They lit a single candle to show their willingness to co-operate and
:01:02. > :01:08.move on from the divisions of the referendum. But away from the Kirk
:01:09. > :01:12.the squabbling goes on. The SNP say the pledge by Westminster
:01:13. > :01:17.politicians to devolve more powers to Scotland is already being broken.
:01:18. > :01:23.David Cameron doesn't think he can carry his own backbenchers never
:01:24. > :01:28.mind the threat from UKIP unless he links Scottish progress to England.
:01:29. > :01:32.Labour doesn't want to do that because they would lose business in
:01:33. > :01:37.the House of Commons. That's logjam that Westminster leaders got
:01:38. > :01:42.themselves into. The problem revolves on the Prime Minister's vow
:01:43. > :01:47.that Scottish devolution should take place in tandem with other change.
:01:48. > :01:51.He wants to ban Scottish MPs voting on laws that only affect England.
:01:52. > :01:56.Today David Cameron says a fair and lasting settlement for England is
:01:57. > :02:00.needed. You can't have Scottish MPs continuing to vote on all these
:02:01. > :02:04.different matters which only affect England. Welfare, areas of
:02:05. > :02:10.education, so on and so forth. That's got to be sorted out. That's
:02:11. > :02:17.saying it is common sense and most people agree with that. Far from it
:02:18. > :02:25.says Ed Miliband. He says change needs to be properly considered. I
:02:26. > :02:28.am open to the idea of greater scrutiny and we've got to look at
:02:29. > :02:33.all these issues, but we can't do it on a back of the envelope fag packet
:02:34. > :02:38.way. We spent two years trying to keep our country together. Let's
:02:39. > :02:41.have a proper constitutional convention. Let's admit look at
:02:42. > :02:45.these issues. There's a sense in Scotland that a debate about how the
:02:46. > :02:53.country is governed has become an argument over the future of England.
:02:54. > :02:58.And staged photographs cannot hide the extent that post-referendum
:02:59. > :03:03.bickering continues. Ross Hawkins, given there's a reconciliation
:03:04. > :03:07.church service this does seem to be getting bitter. What exactly is the
:03:08. > :03:13.Government saying about its promise? There's a certain irony to it isn't
:03:14. > :03:16.there. For a while we had the political party leaders agreeing
:03:17. > :03:20.about everything for the sake of a referendum campaign. Things have
:03:21. > :03:27.changed. Some Tory backbenchers were keen on stopping Scottish MPs voting
:03:28. > :03:30.on English-only issues and David Cameron embraced that idea. The
:03:31. > :03:34.Conservatives would like to pressure Labour and say let's see if you will
:03:35. > :03:38.back this concept itself. The great secret of the Westminster leaders at
:03:39. > :03:42.the moment is not quite as noisily as they bicker on the subject of the
:03:43. > :03:46.Scottish vow that they made, they say that they continue to agree. The
:03:47. > :03:50.words of one Downing Street source, it will happen, no ifs, no buts and
:03:51. > :03:55.why is that? Because all three party leaders know that the Scottish
:03:56. > :03:58.people will hold them to the promise they made. There must be a danger
:03:59. > :04:03.that the English or those who represent the English will say they
:04:04. > :04:08.are the ones being lied to because their timetable won't be stuck to.
:04:09. > :04:12.The And that's the view that some Conservative backbenchers took
:04:13. > :04:16.beforehand. It is a view that will be emboldened by David Cameron
:04:17. > :04:19.appearing to explicitly linking the ideas of change at Westminster and
:04:20. > :04:22.change in Scotland when he came out within an hour or so of the
:04:23. > :04:27.referendum result being declared. But while he wants those two things
:04:28. > :04:32.to run side by side, the one is not conditional on the other, they say.
:04:33. > :04:35.Alex Salmond say Scottish people shouldn't buy any of this, but
:04:36. > :04:37.Downing Street Lynn assist that whatever happens to what they would
:04:38. > :04:40.like to achieve at Westminster, those promises in Scotland will be
:04:41. > :04:46.stuck to and that vow will be seen through. Ross, thank you.
:04:47. > :04:49.The wife of the British hostage, Alan Henning, has made a public
:04:50. > :04:51.appeal to his captors. In a statement issued by the Foreign
:04:52. > :04:55.Office, Barbara Henning implores Islamic State to release him, saying
:04:56. > :04:58.her husband is a "peaceful and selfless" man. Mr Henning, a taxi
:04:59. > :05:10.driver from Salford, is being held by militants in Syria. Caroline
:05:11. > :05:13.Hawley reports. This was Alan Henning preparing a convoy of
:05:14. > :05:17.urgently needed supplies for Syrians. It was while inside Syria
:05:18. > :05:22.on another convoy that the 47-year-old father of two was
:05:23. > :05:28.captured last December. Now a week after his kidnappers threatened to
:05:29. > :05:32.kill him his wife has appealed for his release, saying he was driving
:05:33. > :05:51.an ambulance full of food and water when he was taken. A Barbara said:
:05:52. > :05:59.On his way Alan Henning explained why he had taken the risk to go to
:06:00. > :06:04.Syria. It is worthwhile when you see what is needed get to where it needs
:06:05. > :06:07.to go. That it all worthwhile. No sacrifice we do is nothing compared
:06:08. > :06:14.to what they are going through every day on a daily basis. Nicknamed
:06:15. > :06:18.Gadget because he helped fix things Alan Henning wasn't a Muslim.
:06:19. > :06:23.Assalaamu alaikum brothers and everybody watching... But the convoy
:06:24. > :06:30.was organised by a Muslim charity and many Imams and Islamic groups
:06:31. > :06:37.have urged his kidnappers to let him free. They've asked them to see it
:06:38. > :06:38.in their hearts to let Alan Henning go.
:06:39. > :06:41.In Turkey, tens of thousands of Kurdish refugees have crossed the
:06:42. > :06:44.border, fleeing Islamic State militants in Syria. The UN Refugee
:06:45. > :06:48.Agency says about 70,000 have crossed in the past 24 hours because
:06:49. > :06:51.of intense fighting between IS and Kurdish forces. The militants have
:06:52. > :06:54.captured more than 20 villages along the border.
:06:55. > :07:00.After three months of negotiations, Afghanistan's presidential rivals
:07:01. > :07:03.signed a power-sharing deal today. Former Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani
:07:04. > :07:07.will share power with former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah.
:07:08. > :07:15.Allegations of massive electoral fraud prevented a government from
:07:16. > :07:18.being formed earlier. Ed Miliband has said that a Labour
:07:19. > :07:23.Government would raise the minimum wage to ?8 an hour by the end of the
:07:24. > :07:25.next Parliament. As the party's annual conference gets under way in
:07:26. > :07:31.Manchester, Mr Miliband said the increase will stop ordinary working
:07:32. > :07:39.people being left behind. The minimum wage for workers over the
:07:40. > :07:43.age of 21 is currently ?6.31. It is due to increase to ?6.50 from 1st
:07:44. > :07:53.October. The Labour leader says a rise to ?8 by 2020 will give
:07:54. > :07:57.businesses time to plan and adapt. Let's go live to Chris Mason at the
:07:58. > :08:02.conference in Manchester. How significant a figure is ?8 given
:08:03. > :08:06.what inflation would do anyway in that timescale? Labour are keen to
:08:07. > :08:10.make the case that this is a significant policy development. They
:08:11. > :08:14.are also keen to elbow out of the debate and the discussion all of
:08:15. > :08:18.this talk about the constitution, the discussion you were just having
:08:19. > :08:23.a few moments ago. It is central to Ed Miliband's economic picture. His
:08:24. > :08:27.idea that the economy isn't working well for ordinary people. He says
:08:28. > :08:31.the the country is hurting and that's central to the whole Labour
:08:32. > :08:36.policy platform on the countdown to the next election. He says this has
:08:37. > :08:40.to change and yes OK inflation will erode some of that, but overall they
:08:41. > :08:45.say on current projections it is greater than the rate of inflation.
:08:46. > :08:49.Put things into context, about one in 20 of the workforce at the moment
:08:50. > :08:52.are on the minimum wage. This is something that affects a decent
:08:53. > :08:57.number of people. The theory is those just above it might see wage
:08:58. > :09:02.increases if the minimum wage was bumped up. Concern from employers
:09:03. > :09:07.this lunchtime, the CBI making the case that the current rate is at
:09:08. > :09:10.high as it can go without putting job creation at risk. The
:09:11. > :09:14.Conservatives pointing out there is an increase above the rate of
:09:15. > :09:19.inflation coming next month. This central to Labour's policy pitch
:09:20. > :09:22.this week in a rather noisy environment outside the conference
:09:23. > :09:26.hall. Some left-wing demonstrators making the case that Labour has left
:09:27. > :09:31.them behind. Plenty more debate to come in the next couple of days.
:09:32. > :09:34.Around 2,000 marches are planned in cities across the world today to
:09:35. > :09:37.demand urgent action on climate change. One of the first rallies
:09:38. > :09:41.took place in Melbourne, Australia. The biggest march is expected to be
:09:42. > :09:43.in New York, where the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, will join
:09:44. > :09:47.celebrities, business leaders and environmentalists. A global climate
:09:48. > :09:56.summit is being held at the UN on Tuesday.
:09:57. > :10:17.The next news on BBC One is at 6.30pm. Bye for now.
:10:18. > :10:21.Good afternoon. About this time last week my colleagues had some stats on
:10:22. > :10:22.just how dry September had been this