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That's Evan with Newsnight. Here on BBC One | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
A last-minute deal has secured new tax powers for Holyrood. | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
The agreement completes the so-called "fiscal framework" | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
and follows a day of drama and behind-the-scenes negotiations. | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
The First Minister says it means not a penny will be cut | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
The Chancellor says Holyrood will now be answerable to voters | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
Here's our political editor, Brian Taylor. | :00:26. | :00:35. | |
After a day of intense negotiation, Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs tonight | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
the deal had been done with the Treasury. As a result of these | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
conversations I can report that there is now an agreement in | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
principle that I believe we can recommend to Parliament. The plan to | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
give Scotland control of all income tax rates and bands will now go | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
ahead from next year. The deal sets out how and by how much the | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
Westminster block grant is cut in Goodger. The Treasury had wanted a | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
system which might have meant cuts in Scotland's budget if the Scottish | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
population declined the tax take was Laura. But Scottish ministers | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
resisted that fiercely. The agreement now is there will be no | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
automatic cut in the Hollywood budget for six years and after that | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
there will be a review, without prejudice or without defaulting to | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
the Treasury plan. First Minister said the initial scheme would have | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
cotton -- at the Scottish budget by ?7 million over a decade. -- ?7 | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
billion. There will not be ?7 billion of detriment, this deal will | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
not allow a single pound or even a penny to be taken from the Scottish | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
Government budget. It delivers on the bout we made to the people | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
Scotland. It is better the taxpayers of all the UK. And it gives Scotland | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
one of the most powerful devolved parliaments in the world. I think | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
the debate will now shift from whether Scotland these taxes -- tax | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
spending powers to how they are used to the benefit of the Scottish | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
people. The agreement completes the package set out by the cross-party | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
Smith Commission and opens the door to a new phase in Scotland political | :02:10. | :02:10. | |
story. Well, earlier, Brian explained why | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
making the deal had taken so long. It is a key part of a very big deal | :02:13. | :02:21. | |
indeed. There have been concessions on both sides, the Scottish | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
Government has got all it wanted in terms of paying for the costs of | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
transition, they had to agree there will be independent scrutiny of the | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
Scottish economy, not just fear is generated from within the Scottish | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
Government, but on the other hand, the Treasury had to make big | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
concessions as well, they have had to concede that the proposal they | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
made, for their model, is not happen that way. It will be the model that | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
is typically used but over the next six years it will be tweaked to | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
ensure there is not a penny cut from Scotland's budget as a consequence | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
of devolution. And after that, a review will be predicated upon, and | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
open discussion between the two governments after the next round of | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
elections. The big prize for both sides, the big prize for the | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
Scottish Government and Hollywood, securing those tax powers, securing | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
the control of welfare, securing borrowing powers, to transform the | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
Scottish election into a debate over the use of those powers. The big | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
game for the UK Government, they are able to argue that Scotland is now | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
fiscally responsible. The Hollywood Parliament will be responsible for | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
spending, responsible for tax, that builds a narrative whereby they say | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
Scotland is determining how own affairs and not as they would argue | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
reliant upon the remainder of the UK. | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
The Lanarkshire nurse Pauline Cafferkey is in hospital | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
in London this evening after suffering further | :03:47. | :03:47. | |
She was originally infected whilst treating victims in Sierra Leone | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
and survived a second infection last October, | :03:53. | :03:54. | |
Our health correspondent, Eleanor Bradford, reports. | :03:55. | :04:04. | |
The nightmare continues for Lanarkshire nurse Pauline Cafferkey. | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
Today she was for the third time on her way to specialist care in | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
London. She appeared to be walking unaided but was still surrounded by | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
the highest infection control measures as she was transferred to | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
an aircraft. It marks yet another twist in her extraordinary story. | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
Pauline was admitted to hospital with Ebola at the end of 2014 | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
following her return from Sierra Leone. After a month, doctors said | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
you had made a full recovery. Speaking in early autumn she hoped | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
the worst was behind her. There were thyroid problems to start with. It | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
has taken me a good few months to recover from that. You just don't | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
know long-term idea there. Hopefully this is it. -- either. But nothing | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
could have prepared her for the turn of events. In October the virus | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
re-emerged, having lived on in her brain and spinal fluid and caused | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
meningitis. She survived, for a second time, but was monitored more | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
closely. That routine monitoring picked up something unusual, which | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
has led to did a's admission to hospital. Probably more has been | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
learned about Ebola from Pauline than any other person on this | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
planet. She is probably the most investigated case of Ebola on the | :05:30. | :05:37. | |
planet. That investigation will help our, it will help the medical and | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
nursing team look after her, it will help the rest of us gather knowledge | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
about this infection. Specialists at the Royal Free Hospital in London | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
have said only that Pauline Cafferkey is suffering from another | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
late competition of Ebola. The outbreak in Africa may have been | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
declared over but Pauline's case shows how much we still have to | :06:01. | :06:01. | |
learn. A key report on the oil and gas | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
industry has warned that exploration is at an all-time low and investment | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
in the North Sea is facing collapse. The survey says that | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
unless the oil price rises, almost half the UK's North Sea oil | :06:11. | :06:12. | |
fields will fail to make a profit. Our business correspondent, | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
David Henderson, reports. This is how an oil firm saves $50 | :06:19. | :06:31. | |
million. The boss of Chevron talks to the team on one of his offshore | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
platforms. To maximise production. However things going offshore? | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
platforms. To maximise production. Improving. The company has | :06:44. | :06:45. | |
platforms. To maximise production. more than 300 jobs | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
platforms. To maximise production. plummeting oil prices. | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
platforms. To maximise production. hating us from a number of angles. | :06:52. | :06:53. | |
platforms. To maximise production. It is important we continue to work | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
collaboratively. We work with It is important we continue to work | :06:56. | :07:05. | |
over time. The industry It is important we continue to work | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
to adapt the low oil prices. Last year, it cost nearly $30 to produce | :07:13. | :07:20. | |
a barrel of oil. But now, thanks to efficiencies, and tens of thousands | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
of job losses, that cost has been driven down to around $20 a barrel. | :07:24. | :07:31. | |
But is still not enough. Around half of all the oil fields are still | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
running at a loss and if that is worrying, consider future investment | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
plans. It gives an idea about the future. Over the last five years, | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
the industry has spent around ?8 billion a year on new projects, that | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
is the level of investment. This year, they only plan to invest | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
around ?1 billion. With everything that means for jobs and production. | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
around ?1 billion. With everything And that has prompted a clear | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
warning. The industry is trying to fight for survival in the years | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
ahead. What we see is investment falling so that new investment has | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
come to an all-time low, and indeed exploration is very low. A more | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
positive view, production is up and getting better, but unless we keep | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
investing, we have a very stark future. So, what help does the | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
industry need to cope with the low price of oil? There are growing | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
calls for cuts in the rate of tax which are paid by oil producers. | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
Right now the industry is paying 30% corporation tax, which is 10% more | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
than the normal rate. Everyone else pays 20. On top of that there is a | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
supplementary tax which was introduced on account of higher oil | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
prices and what they called excess profits. It doesn't make sense to | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
have both of these. So if less than a month -- with less than up until | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
the Chancellor unveils the budget it is clear where oil firms want George | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
Osborne to go and stop further tax breaks may we on their agenda but it | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
is not yet clear if they are on his. A 16-year-old boy is to go on trial | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
at the High Court in Aberdeen next week, charged with | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
the murder of a pupil The youth, whose identity | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
is protected by law, appeared during a preliminary | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
hearing in Glasgow this morning. Here's our home affairs | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
correspondent, Reevel Alderson. 16-year-old Bailey Gwynne was a | :09:19. | :09:30. | |
pupil at Cults Academy in Aberdeen when he was fatally stabbed at the | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
school in October last year. Today another 16-year-old, whose name is | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
protected by law, appeared before the High Court in Glasgow charged | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
with Bailey's murder. In an eight minute hearing at the High Court in | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
Glasgow, the judge was told that the teenager, who appeared in the dock | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
wearing a grey sweater and black trousers, admitted killing Bailey | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
but denied murdering him. Alec Prentice QC, the prosecutor, told | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
the court, the Crown declines to accept that offer of guilty to the | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
culpable homicide charge and will proceed to trial on the murder | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
charge. The accused youth is alleged to have carried knives and | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
knuckle-dusters into the school on various occasions over a two-year | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
period. He denies the charges and also fighting with Bailey and | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
murdering him with a knife. His trial, which is expected to last | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
five days, will begin in Aberdeen next Tuesday. | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
Celtic have been fined 13,000 euros - just over ?10,000 - | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
That's after supporters set off flares during a game | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
It happened during their Europa League match against Fenerbahce. | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
Part of the fine is for the conduct of the team, | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
Staying on football, and in the Premiership, | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
And Dundee won their Scottish Cup replay against Dumbarton 5-0. | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
Dundee will face Rangers at Ibrox in the quarterfinals. | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
Well, it's over to Christopher Blanchett now with the weather | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
Thank you. Good evening. Those sunny skies LME increased hours tonight, | :11:11. | :11:25. | |
quite chilly and frosty. A lovely picture from one of our weather | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
watchers. Not only cold and frosty but also if you wintry showers. -- a | :11:30. | :11:37. | |
few. Most of those shows confined to northern parts of the mainland. A | :11:38. | :11:39. | |
couple pushing down towards the West Coast. Here is what we expect to | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
happen. Showers continue, the yellow warning for the risk of snow showers | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
and icy patches. But for many Central, southern and eastern parts, | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
dry, clear and cold with freezing temperatures. Tomorrow morning, rain | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
showers in the South West and risk of ice. Wintry showers continuing in | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
the far North. But for many, a dry and start. More cloud across the | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
South West. Further East, a sunny and bright start to the day, similar | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
to most of the central lowlands. Further North, more cloud with | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
wintry showers continuing. A cold start to the day. The wind coming | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
from the Northwest. As we head through the course of the morning, | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
showers continuing for a time and again cloudy conditions in the South | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
West compared with today. But for Central, southern and eastern parts, | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
or other sparkling day of sunshine. Across the UK, we have a weather | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
front producing some cloud and showers for Northern Ireland towards | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
the North of England. Further South, largely dry and bright. More cloud | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
across parts of East Anglia. We are a little bit below average but with | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
light winds, you get the sunshine but showers continuing across the | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
far North and the Northern Isles. Looking ahead towards Thursday, very | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
few isobars on a charge so little in the way of wind. Another largely dry | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
and bright day with sparkling sunshine. A few showers around, most | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
across the far North and the Northern Isles. For most, dry and | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
bright. Chilly but if you get the sunshine and the light winds, | :13:16. | :13:16. | |
feeling rather pleasant. Our next update is during Breakfast | :13:17. | :13:18. | |
at 6:25 tomorrow morning. But from everyone on the late team | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
here in Glasgow | :13:23. | :13:26. |