:00:00. > :00:00.independence. And that's all from the BBC News at
:00:00. > :00:09.A war of words over the independence referendum
:00:10. > :00:11.intensifies, with the UK and Scottish Governments
:00:12. > :00:16.The Conservatives say any plan for a referendum
:00:17. > :00:22.by the spring of 2019 would be rejected "conclusively".
:00:23. > :00:27.We should be working together to get that right deal for Scotland, that
:00:28. > :00:30.right deal for the UK, that is my job, as Prime Minister, and so for
:00:31. > :00:33.that reason, I say to the SNP, now that reason, I say to the SNP,
:00:34. > :00:37.now is not the time. and that Theresa's May's
:00:38. > :00:48.position is unsustainable. The idea of the democratically
:00:49. > :00:53.elected Parliament of Scotland, led by a party with a mandate from a
:00:54. > :00:56.manifesto being dictated to by a Conservative Government with one MP
:00:57. > :00:59.in Scotland is democraticalliout ray just.
:01:00. > :01:03.Claims that lessons are not being learned by health boards who,
:01:04. > :01:05.it's suggested, are inconsistent in their recording of baby deaths.
:01:06. > :01:07.And departing rugby coach Vern Cotter says he'll wait
:01:08. > :01:09.to assess his impact on the national team's fortunes till
:01:10. > :01:31.The Prime Minister has rejected Nicola Sturgeon's plans
:01:32. > :01:35.The First Minister had wanted to hold the vote between Autumn
:01:36. > :01:41.But Theresa May says that clashes with the Brexit timescale -
:01:42. > :01:44.and it wouldn't be fair to expect Scots to choose without knowing
:01:45. > :01:46.the full implications of leaving the European Union.
:01:47. > :01:50.She said a referendum could happen later -
:01:51. > :01:53.Nicola Sturgeon called the announcement "undemocratic
:01:54. > :02:00.This from our political editor Brian Taylor.
:02:01. > :02:05./TKEPL /KRAT /KHREU outrageous /-FPLT
:02:06. > :02:09.European Union notification withdrawal act.
:02:10. > :02:15.2017. Royal Assent for the act to leave
:02:16. > :02:19.the European Union. But dissent from Nicola Sturgeon's referendum plans.
:02:20. > :02:22.My message is very clear, now is not the time. I have explained the
:02:23. > :02:26.reasons why, I think his we should be working to get the right deal for
:02:27. > :02:29.Scotland and the UK with our future partnership with the European Union,
:02:30. > :02:33.it would be unfair to Scotland, people of Scotland at the moment
:02:34. > :02:36.that they would be being asked to make a crucial decision without the
:02:37. > :02:41.information they need to make that decision. Constitutional issues are
:02:42. > :02:43.reserved to Westminster, Nicola Sturgeon needs Theresa May's
:02:44. > :02:50.agreement, she hasn't got it, and she is not happy. Here we appear to
:02:51. > :02:55.have the Tory party with just one MP in Scotland, thinking that it is OK
:02:56. > :02:59.for them to block Scotland's right to choose. I think that is
:03:00. > :03:03.democratically unacceptable, but I also think it shows that the
:03:04. > :03:07.Conservatives fear the verdict of the Scottish people. Now seems
:03:08. > :03:11.absurd to and them the opportunity to drag us kicking and screaming
:03:12. > :03:15.into an isolated angry Brexit Britain. That is not what voters in
:03:16. > :03:20.Scotland chose. Scottish Tory leaders say it wouldn't be fair to
:03:21. > :03:25.ask Scotland to decide on independence while Brexit was under
:03:26. > :03:29.way. A referendum might be possible when Brexit was completely settled.
:03:30. > :03:33.But what wouldn't offer dates and they deny they feared defeat It is
:03:34. > :03:38.not I fear it. I dread it. That dread is probably shared by a lot of
:03:39. > :03:44.people across Scotland. Remember this from last year? You
:03:45. > :03:48.wouldn't say that constitutionally the British Government... The UK
:03:49. > :03:51.Government should block it though. Though. Alejandro Inarritu said the
:03:52. > :03:55.Prime Minister wasn't completely blocking a referendum she was
:03:56. > :03:59.settingous term. Other parties say hold off on a referendum. Willie
:04:00. > :04:02.Rennie said the SNP went sure whether they would seek full
:04:03. > :04:07.membership of the European Union. She is sucking up to the
:04:08. > :04:10.Eurosceptics on her on side, while cynically selling out the pro
:04:11. > :04:13.Europeans on the sly. And Labour claimed independence
:04:14. > :04:18.would be a disaster. Isn't it the case that according to
:04:19. > :04:25.her own Government statistic, leaving the UK would mean ?15
:04:26. > :04:32.billion worth of extra cuts? Feel the need to relax? Fancy this? It is
:04:33. > :04:35.body boosting bingo promoted at Holyrood today but it takes two to
:04:36. > :04:36.tango and Theresa May isn't for dancing.
:04:37. > :04:40.The First Minister says her plans for a referendum between autumn next
:04:41. > :04:43.year and spring 2019 will not be derailed by the UK Government,
:04:44. > :04:46.and that if the Scottish Parliament votes for a second referendum next
:04:47. > :04:48.week, then any attempt to block it will be what she describes
:04:49. > :04:52.Nicola Sturgeon was speaking to Jackie Bird at Bute House -
:04:53. > :04:55.a fortnight on from Jackie's interview with the Prime Minister
:04:56. > :05:09.First Minister, Theresa May says now is not the time for an independence
:05:10. > :05:15.referendum. What are you going to do? Firstly, I agree with Theresa
:05:16. > :05:18.May that now is not the right time to have an independence referendum,
:05:19. > :05:20.that is not what I am proposing, what I proposed is that Scotland
:05:21. > :05:23.that is not what I am proposing, should have the right to choose
:05:24. > :05:27.their own futures once the terms of Brexit are clear, but before it is
:05:28. > :05:31.too late for us to choose a different path. Now, on the
:05:32. > :05:35.timetable for the Brexit negotiations at the Prime Minister
:05:36. > :05:39.has set out, that means a window of autumn next year, through to the
:05:40. > :05:44.spring of 2019. So that is the proposition I have is set out, we
:05:45. > :05:48.have in Scottish Government a mandate for that, we were elected
:05:49. > :05:51.less than a year on a manifesto that set that in these circumstances the
:05:52. > :05:55.Scottish Parliament should have the right to hold an independence
:05:56. > :06:00.referendum, and of course there is a majority in the Scottish Parliament
:06:01. > :06:03.to for that. I think it would be completely unacceptable and
:06:04. > :06:06.outrageous and almost anti-democratic for a Conservative
:06:07. > :06:11.Government with one MP in Scotland to seek to block the democratic will
:06:12. > :06:13.of the Scottish Parliament, and stand in this way of the Scottish
:06:14. > :06:19.people having thing right too choose their own future. Although the Prime
:06:20. > :06:22.Minister has not stated a date when she would perhaps accept a Scottish
:06:23. > :06:28.referendum, I think the inference seems to be today, and I would like
:06:29. > :06:33.to get your take on this, that the implication is that it's after
:06:34. > :06:38.Brexit has been done and dusted and is up and running, do you agree with
:06:39. > :06:42.that? That certainly appear to be the case, the deal will have to be
:06:43. > :06:46.done, certainly in the broad terms of it in any event, by the autumn of
:06:47. > :06:51.next year, if the Prime Minister's timetable is to be delivered. So in
:06:52. > :06:54.a sense, you know, if the Prime Minister is genuinely saying here
:06:55. > :06:59.that her concern is that people should know the terms of Brexit,
:07:00. > :07:05.then I agree with that, and that is what I have sent out. What she is
:07:06. > :07:10.saying is, or what she appears to be saying is she doesn't want Scotland
:07:11. > :07:16.to have the right to choose until much later, until long after the UK
:07:17. > :07:19.is out of the EU. Let us assume she does mean potentially an
:07:20. > :07:22.independence referendum after Brexit. You are going to the
:07:23. > :07:28.Scottish Parliament, there will be a vote on Wednesday, if you vote for
:07:29. > :07:33.an independence referendum, and Westminster has said no, what then?
:07:34. > :07:38.In the last 48-hours we have seen Theresa May perform the most
:07:39. > :07:42.embarrassing and screeching U-turn on an Iran of her own budget. We
:07:43. > :07:46.have a mandate. We are likely next week to have a majority in the
:07:47. > :07:50.Scottish Parliament and you are really asking me now before that
:07:51. > :07:55.majority has been expressed, to accept that a Conservative Prime
:07:56. > :07:57.Minister who has one MP in Scotland, has the right just unquestionablibly
:07:58. > :08:03.Minister who has one MP in Scotland, has the right to lay down the law to
:08:04. > :08:07.Scotland's... That is is unacceptable. That means you will
:08:08. > :08:12.hold an independence referendum. Will consider my options and what I
:08:13. > :08:16.should do if we get into the position where the Scottish
:08:17. > :08:18.Parliament, having voted, we have a Conservative Prime Minister saying
:08:19. > :08:23.she will defy the will of the Scottish Parliament. You are not
:08:24. > :08:27.ruling out going it alone. I am not getting into that right now. I think
:08:28. > :08:31.it is important to allow the Scottish Parliament to have its say.
:08:32. > :08:36.Alex Salmond says you will have one of your timescale. I am determines
:08:37. > :08:39.we less have one on my timescale. I am determined to do that because the
:08:40. > :08:44.will of the Scottish Parliament will be respected. I saying I don't think
:08:45. > :08:51.Theresa May's position right now is a sustainable position. We have seen
:08:52. > :08:55.her change her mind this week, this is no The Iron lady, this is someone
:08:56. > :09:03.whose Government is in chaos and is chopping and changing. 23 you start
:09:04. > :09:07.campaigning with, for an independent Scotland, will you be campaigning
:09:08. > :09:14.for that for full membership of the EU or part of the single market? My
:09:15. > :09:18.position is Yao partnership. We have to recognise we are in different
:09:19. > :09:24.circumstances to the circumstances we were in in 2014. We set out the
:09:25. > :09:29.process by which an independent Scotland would become a member of
:09:30. > :09:33.the EU at a time hen the UK was in the EU. We will be in a situation
:09:34. > :09:39.where the UK will be coming out. We will set out the process by which we
:09:40. > :09:43.will seek to secure our relationship with the UK. Suring coming out of
:09:44. > :09:48.the market is a crazedy thing to do, that is why which try to see if we
:09:49. > :09:52.can come to a compromise with the Prime Minister round single market
:09:53. > :09:55.membership. She ruled that out with no consultation with the Scottish
:09:56. > :10:02.Government. 55% of Scots voted to stay in the UK, then the UK voted to
:10:03. > :10:06.come out of the EU. You can't have one democratic process you agree
:10:07. > :10:11.with and one you don't and therefore you disregard. I am not disregarding
:10:12. > :10:17.either of the referendum. In 2014 we didn't know the UK would come out of
:10:18. > :10:25.the ewe. Scotland was told vote no, to stay in the EU and then in 2016
:10:26. > :10:30.Scotland was told vote Remain to stay in the ewe. Scotland did both
:10:31. > :10:37.but we are still face being taken out. Will you campaign for Scotland
:10:38. > :10:41.to stay in the ewe or would you accept Scotland listen the single
:10:42. > :10:45.market We will have to set out the process, the transition to Scotland
:10:46. > :10:48.being in the European Union. The policy of the SNP is clear about our
:10:49. > :10:53.desire to be in temperature European Union, because of the jobs and the
:10:54. > :10:58.investment and collaborations that depend on that. I am recognising
:10:59. > :11:01.that through no fault of hour ours we are facing a few colour where the
:11:02. > :11:06.UK, the current member state is coming out and we will have to set
:11:07. > :11:10.out the process and the transition towards the future relationship we
:11:11. > :11:13.have with Europe. None of that could be any clearer.
:11:14. > :11:17.When you became First Minister you said my pledge today to every
:11:18. > :11:23.citizen in our country is simple and heart fell. I will First Minister
:11:24. > :11:28.for all of Scotland, regardless of politics or point of view. How does
:11:29. > :11:33.a referendum achieve that? It gives people a choice. This has... Do you
:11:34. > :11:39.think it was divisive? No I don't. Do you think a family watching this
:11:40. > :11:43.at home that thinking it was anything than a festival of
:11:44. > :11:46.democracy. There will be people who think we don't want to go through
:11:47. > :11:50.this again, but democracy is not divisive. It is how you decide the
:11:51. > :11:58.future of country. What I said the other day is something that has
:11:59. > :12:04.weighed ever-ly on me. If I were to sit here and say, OK, I rule out a
:12:05. > :12:09.referendum, then, I am unilaterally deciding that Scotland will follow
:12:10. > :12:14.the hard Brexit path come what may, no matter how damaging that is. If
:12:15. > :12:18.that is something Scotland chooses to do that is Scotland's choice. It
:12:19. > :12:23.shouldn't be many me that he decide that. What I am saying is when the
:12:24. > :12:28.time is right, when there is clarity, that is a choice the people
:12:29. > :12:33.should make. It is not a choice one single poll situation should make. I
:12:34. > :12:36.know there is different opinions about independence and whether or
:12:37. > :12:40.not people want a second referendum. I understand that, I absolutely
:12:41. > :12:46.understand that. But fundamentally we have change coming. We no longer
:12:47. > :12:50.have the option of no change, Brexit means change is coming. What we
:12:51. > :12:55.still have power to decide is what type of change. Is it the change of
:12:56. > :12:58.hard Brex or the change of independence we we take the future
:12:59. > :13:03.in our hands. That should be a choice for all of the people of
:13:04. > :13:08.Scotland. You will have an independence referendum on your own
:13:09. > :13:12.timescale. That is my plan. The logic I have set out is one that in
:13:13. > :13:16.the interest of the people of Scotland and let us not lose sight
:13:17. > :13:20.of the fact that whatever your views on dense, the idea of the
:13:21. > :13:25.democratically elected Farrellment of Scotland led by a party with
:13:26. > :13:31.mandate from a manifesto being dictated to by a Conservative
:13:32. > :13:35.Government with one MP is outrageous and again I think it tells us that
:13:36. > :13:40.the Conservatives fear the verdict of the Scottish people.
:13:41. > :13:43.Let's see what our political team make of today's events.
:13:44. > :13:45.Brian Taylor is at the Scottish parliament and David Porter
:13:46. > :14:03.What we are seeing is pretty high wire political manoeuvring, playing
:14:04. > :14:07.for very high stakes, Theresa May chose her words very very carefully
:14:08. > :14:11.today, and make no mistake, the occupant of that building behind me
:14:12. > :14:17.decided she was going to choose today to try and make her statement
:14:18. > :14:20.on Monday. Nicola Sturgeon took the political initiative by her call for
:14:21. > :14:23.a second independence referendum. Today Theresa May thought she would
:14:24. > :14:29.return the favour by trying to regain that political initiative.
:14:30. > :14:34.And what we have seared from Theresa May is a fairly highly calibrated
:14:35. > :14:40.rebuff of Nicola Sturgeon, but not of the Scottish people. Theresa May
:14:41. > :14:45.is not ruling out for ever and a day a second Scottish independence,
:14:46. > :14:47.referendum, what she is rejecting is Nicola Sturgeon's timetable for that
:14:48. > :14:52.potential referendum, and the argument from the people in the
:14:53. > :14:56.building be mind me goes along these line, they say Theresa May will be
:14:57. > :15:00.looking to get a very good deal for Scotland and the rest of the United
:15:01. > :15:06.Kingdom on Brexit and it would be a distraction to put it mildly, and
:15:07. > :15:09.the people of Scotland need to know what by-elections, the UK is going
:15:10. > :15:12.to come up with -- Brexit, before they can talk about constitutional
:15:13. > :15:18.questions and the future of Scotland. So that is the rational
:15:19. > :15:23.from Downing Street. They are also, I think trying to go over the head
:15:24. > :15:27.of Nicola Sturgeon and appeal directly to the voters of Scotland.
:15:28. > :15:32.What we are increasingly seeing is growing animosity in this
:15:33. > :15:37.relationship, between London and Edinburgh, both politicians by
:15:38. > :15:41.nature or careful but they are playing for high stakes, there will
:15:42. > :15:43.be one Iker and the one who loses will have to make a real compromise
:15:44. > :15:57.on this issue. Brian the battle lines could be
:15:58. > :16:03.hardly be clearly. Why wr do we go? This is a very complex business. You
:16:04. > :16:05.have competing mandates being cited. You have competing parliaments,
:16:06. > :16:08.competing governments, you have Article 50, you have section 30, you
:16:09. > :16:14.have Brexit, you have all that complexity but within that, you also
:16:15. > :16:17.have a fairly fundamental political calculation. The Conservatives,
:16:18. > :16:25.relatively emboldened by their relative success at the Holyrood
:16:26. > :16:29.elections, are of the view that sufficient numbers of the Scottish
:16:30. > :16:32.people, a sufficient quoeshent, particularly those of a unionist
:16:33. > :16:36.inclination will be relieved that there is not the prospect of a
:16:37. > :16:40.referendum within that 18 months to two year time scale set out by the
:16:41. > :16:43.First Minister. For Nicola Sturgeon's part she is also
:16:44. > :16:48.calculating, calculating that sufficient numbers of the people of
:16:49. > :16:52.Scotland will feel thwarted and frustrated by May Mays announcement,
:16:53. > :16:56.will feel sufficiently thwarted and frustrated that they can be cajoled
:16:57. > :17:00.and persuaded towards support for holding that referendum and that's
:17:01. > :17:06.the status position that we've reached frent moment. Do I expect
:17:07. > :17:09.the First Minister to hold a referendum raldless, one without
:17:10. > :17:12.official statute, I don't? I don't expect her to go down the gesture
:17:13. > :17:17.politics road whatsoever. Do I expect her to try to pursue her time
:17:18. > :17:20.scale in pressure upon the Prime Minister, absolutely, starting next
:17:21. > :17:21.week. Brian Taylor in Holyrood and David Porter at Westminster, thank
:17:22. > :17:23.you very much. Figures obtained by the BBC show
:17:24. > :17:28.that just over a third of the most serious adverse events recorded
:17:29. > :17:31.in Scottish maternity units - including the deaths of babies -
:17:32. > :17:33.have been fully reviewed. The health secretary said
:17:34. > :17:35.she will write to all health boards Our correspondent Lucy Adams has
:17:36. > :17:49.this exclusive report. We've been given a number of
:17:50. > :17:54.reasons. This man's son died during childbirth a year-and-a-half ago.
:17:55. > :17:57.The hospital in Kilmarnock admitted failings and said his death was
:17:58. > :18:03.unnecessary but refused to carry out a full significant adverse event
:18:04. > :18:08.review. Luca's death sown, as far as we're aware of being investigated as
:18:09. > :18:11.a root cause analysis, an in-house departmental investigation. It
:18:12. > :18:16.should have been escalated to a significant adverse event. What that
:18:17. > :18:20.means is, that gives us some answers in terms of of the clinical failings
:18:21. > :18:25.that contributed to Lucas's death but it doesn't go into the systemic
:18:26. > :18:29.failings, within the wider governance and management of the NHS
:18:30. > :18:32.which I believe underpinned the clinical failings. What are the
:18:33. > :18:38.repercussions of, that if they are meant to be learning lessons? The
:18:39. > :18:42.repercussions is that Lucas won't be the last baby to lose his life
:18:43. > :18:47.unnecessarily and we won't be the last family to be left totally
:18:48. > :18:52.devastated unnecessarily. There is a K-wide project to half the number of
:18:53. > :18:55.avoidable baby deaths by 2020, its work has already found
:18:56. > :18:58.inconsistencies. It's extremely important, not just for the
:18:59. > :19:03.profession, obviously, but for the parents that have experienced the
:19:04. > :19:07.tragic loss of a bibe. So it is extremely important that health
:19:08. > :19:11.professionals get together in a multidisciplinary fashion and review
:19:12. > :19:15.the case, to see if lessons can be learned and often listens will be
:19:16. > :19:20.learned and that can be fed about back to the parents. The statistics
:19:21. > :19:24.are almost impenetrable because #45e89 boards have been using
:19:25. > :19:29.different criteria, different definitions and different types of
:19:30. > :19:31.reviews. We found there were 7238 significant adverse events in
:19:32. > :19:37.Scottish maternity hospitals in the past six years. -- 723. This
:19:38. > :19:45.includes deaths of babies. But formal respruce conducted into just
:19:46. > :19:48.271. But formal reviews. National guidelines suggests the most serious
:19:49. > :19:52.events should be subject to full reviews. Some boards say they
:19:53. > :19:55.conduct other types of review or hold regular meetings to discuss
:19:56. > :20:00.events but this is not about figures, it's about families. The
:20:01. > :20:04.Scottish Government says it will now write actual health boards to ensure
:20:05. > :20:10.all cases like Lucas' are fully reviewed. Next year, from 1st April,
:20:11. > :20:15.a new duty of candour will come into place, that will put a legal
:20:16. > :20:19.requirement on board to report and publish significant adverse event
:20:20. > :20:23.reviews in the same manner. So that will bring a legal requirement for
:20:24. > :20:27.consistency but meantime it is absolutely right and proper that
:20:28. > :20:30.health boards report on these in a way that is consistent and I'll
:20:31. > :20:35.certainly follow up on these figures to ensure that that happens. For
:20:36. > :20:38.Fraser Morton, the most important thing now is to ensure that other
:20:39. > :20:43.families don't have to go through the same process.
:20:44. > :20:47.Lucy Adams, reporting Scotland. Two men have gone on trial
:20:48. > :20:50.in the Borders, accused of hunting foxes with hounds,
:20:51. > :20:52.which has been illegal John McManus reports
:20:53. > :21:01.from Jedburgh Sheriff Court. On the first day of the trial here
:21:02. > :21:09.in Jed borough the chef e Sheriff ease a court was shown a film which
:21:10. > :21:16.had been made by an poliee at the League Against Cruel Sports. :
:21:17. > :21:20.It was said the film showed a hunt flushing a fox out of cover using a
:21:21. > :21:24.terrier which was then chased by hounds and Mr Hill said it was
:21:25. > :21:29.illegal under Scottish law because hounds can only be used to flush a
:21:30. > :21:33.fox out, not to chase and attack T Mr Hill said that guns should be
:21:34. > :21:37.used to despatch the fox but he had not seen evidence of any guns being
:21:38. > :21:42.used that day but he said he had seen members of the hunt trying to
:21:43. > :21:45.distract and get in the way of the fox as it tried to eskip with one
:21:46. > :21:50.member even sticking his leg out to try to trip the fox up. Later in the
:21:51. > :21:53.afternoon, Terence Hill was cross-examined by the defence
:21:54. > :21:58.council, and he showed him an e-mail which had been sent by one of the
:21:59. > :22:01.accused Jonathan Reilly, to 140 people, telling them about the date
:22:02. > :22:04.in time and the location of this hunt in February. Terence Hill was
:22:05. > :22:09.asked if that surprised him but he said, no, he said that the accused
:22:10. > :22:13.had been breaking the lute in plain sight and that telling people about
:22:14. > :22:16.the date and time of the hunt didn't really mean anything, because he
:22:17. > :22:20.said a lot of people didn't follow hunts these days, especially if they
:22:21. > :22:24.were during the week, so that in his opinion, law breaking could and was
:22:25. > :22:25.taking place right across Scotland. The trial continues here at Jed
:22:26. > :22:28.borough. Scotland's departing rugby coach
:22:29. > :22:30.says he'll wait to assess his impact on the national team's fortunes till
:22:31. > :22:34.after his final game. It's against Italy in
:22:35. > :22:37.the Six Nations this weekend. While Cotter's reluctant to pass
:22:38. > :22:40.comment on his legacy, others are more forthcoming,
:22:41. > :22:51.as David Currie reports. He's been nick-named Stern Vern,
:22:52. > :22:58.his last prematch media conference was never likely to be a weepy.
:22:59. > :23:02.You've picked your final starting 15 as Scotland head coach, is there a
:23:03. > :23:12.wee tear in your eye and a panning of emotion in your heart when you
:23:13. > :23:16.were doing it? W on the team sheet we had obviously a number of
:23:17. > :23:19.players, who we prnted sure if they were going to take the field this
:23:20. > :23:22.weekend and we couldn't really name the team until this morning. In his
:23:23. > :23:26.first season the Scots lost all of their matches, finishing bottom. In
:23:27. > :23:31.his second, they won two, and came fourth. With two wins already in the
:23:32. > :23:36.bag so far this year, he could bow out with a tournament best. Would
:23:37. > :23:44.you judge three wins in your final Championship as a success? I said
:23:45. > :23:55.two wins before the competition. The New Zealander said he will wait
:23:56. > :23:59.until after Saturday's match it assess his overall time in charge.
:24:00. > :24:09.Others are happy not to wait that long. I think just the work ethic,
:24:10. > :24:13.and what he instills in boys and the way he carries himself has been a
:24:14. > :24:17.huge influence in the squad. He has made a huge difference to the team,
:24:18. > :24:20.the mentality of the team and there is a feel-good factor in Scottish
:24:21. > :24:23.rugby now T wasn't there before he arrived. Could thor doesn't
:24:24. > :24:27.officially leave his post until June. -- Cotter. How will he spend
:24:28. > :24:31.the rest of his time for Scotland? Stand by for a robust response Try
:24:32. > :24:37.to make myself useful until they tell me to hugger off.
:24:38. > :24:39.A documentary on the founder of Europe's first Tibetan Buddhist
:24:40. > :24:41.Centre at Eskdalemuir has premiered there today.
:24:42. > :24:43.The feature-length film tells the remarkable story of the man
:24:44. > :24:46.who was identified as a reincarnated Buddha master as a child
:24:47. > :24:49.and murdered three and a half years ago at the age of 73.
:24:50. > :24:56.At 19, with Tibet occupied by China and his life in danger, he walked
:24:57. > :24:59.through the Himalayas into exile in India. We have very strong beliefs
:25:00. > :25:01.we are not going to kill anything in India. We have very strong beliefs
:25:02. > :25:21.order to survive. Akong reached the UK and formed the
:25:22. > :25:25.school at Eskdalemuir S now there is a spectacular temple. From here he
:25:26. > :25:30.spearheaded humanitarian projects through his charity. Akong was
:25:31. > :25:36.murdered in China in October 2013, just after authorising the film of
:25:37. > :25:41.his life to be made. When you get to meet someone with such quality that
:25:42. > :25:46.he had, it's impossible, as a film-maker, not to think of making a
:25:47. > :25:51.film about him, you know. The premier was attended by the current
:25:52. > :25:58.Abbott, Akong's younger brother who survived the long walk to freedom
:25:59. > :26:02.with him. All his siblings will be very proud that this film was made.
:26:03. > :26:07.It'll go all over the world because he is known in every part of the
:26:08. > :26:09.world. The film has become Akong's memorial a lasting tribute to a
:26:10. > :26:30.remarkable life. Now let's look at the weather.
:26:31. > :26:34.This was the rain from the morning clearing and by the afternoon we
:26:35. > :26:36.were left with the showers in the north-west but decent sunshine in
:26:37. > :26:40.between especially for southern and eastern areas. In the north-west the
:26:41. > :26:43.showers were more frequent and heaviest. This poor sheep looked
:26:44. > :26:48.equally confused with this passing shower. For the rest of the evening
:26:49. > :26:52.we will continue to see clear spells and showers mainly across the
:26:53. > :26:56.north-west, turning to snow over the hills and wintriness to low levels
:26:57. > :27:01.in the Highlands and the Met Office have issued a yellow be aware
:27:02. > :27:03.warning for icy patches mainly across the north-west as
:27:04. > :27:08.temperatures for roads dip close to freezing. By the end of the night
:27:09. > :27:11.showers merging into longer spells of rain across central belt.
:27:12. > :27:16.Temperatures in towns and cities around 2-3 Celsius. Still breezy for
:27:17. > :27:21.the west coast but tomorrow then, cloudy with some outbreaks of rain
:27:22. > :27:25.mainly across the west. Quite a dismal day in store for south-west
:27:26. > :27:28.and central belt. Only really the far north seeing some glimmers of
:27:29. > :27:32.brightness. Here is the picture for tomorrow afternoon. Shetland not
:27:33. > :27:36.fairing too bad. Most showers across Orkney. North of the Black Isle
:27:37. > :27:40.seeing spells. South of the central Orkney. North of the Black Isle
:27:41. > :27:44.belt and south-west, persistent rain for a time, a grey afternoon. And
:27:45. > :27:48.temperatures 8-10. The winds will tend to ease and for tomorrow
:27:49. > :27:52.evening, too, quite cloudy and wet weather continues. Some clearer
:27:53. > :27:59.spells perhaps Forestieri the north-east. Ahead to the start of
:28:00. > :28:06.the weekend, an area of low pressure developing a complicated weather
:28:07. > :28:08.system -- for the north-east. A cloudy picture, the best of any
:28:09. > :28:12.system -- for the north-east. A brightness most likely across the
:28:13. > :28:16.far north and north-east corner. The rain persistent in the south-west
:28:17. > :28:18.but it'll become milder, temperatures reaching 10 or 11.
:28:19. > :28:21.Thank you very much. I'll be back with the headlines
:28:22. > :28:26.at 8, and the late bulletin just Until then, from everyone
:28:27. > :28:29.on the team - right across the country -
:28:30. > :28:32.have a very good evening. It was the most beautiful view
:28:33. > :28:37.I've ever been through.