:00:00. > :00:08.Here, on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.
:00:09. > :00:12.The First Minister says fundamental issues about Scotland's future have
:00:13. > :00:15.been raised by the Supreme Court ruling, that Holyrood does not need
:00:16. > :00:20.The court found that MPs should have a say
:00:21. > :00:23.on triggering Article 50 - but ministers are not legally
:00:24. > :00:27.compelled to seek approval from the devolved administrations.
:00:28. > :00:30.In a moment we'll ask whether this takes us closer to a second
:00:31. > :00:34.But first, our Westminster correspondent Nick Eardley has this
:00:35. > :00:49.Time to find out who has the power to fire the starting gun on Brexit.
:00:50. > :00:53.This morning, all eyes were on the Supreme Court as it delivered a
:00:54. > :01:00.landmark ruling on the legal basis for triggering Article 50. By a
:01:01. > :01:06.majority 8-3, the Supreme Court rules that the government cannot
:01:07. > :01:10.trigger Article 50 without an act of Parliament authorising it to do so.
:01:11. > :01:15.On the devolution issues, the court unanimously rules that UK ministers
:01:16. > :01:18.are not legally compelled to consult the devolved legislatures before
:01:19. > :01:29.triggering Article 50. This case was never Brexit whether that read about
:01:30. > :01:31.whether Brexit happens, but how. The Prime Minister showed last week pass
:01:32. > :01:37.towards the hardest of hard Brexit is. I do believe there is a majority
:01:38. > :01:40.for that in the House of Commons, and certainly not across the
:01:41. > :01:43.country. This is an opportunity for a House of Commons to assert itself
:01:44. > :01:49.and have a say, but not just on the narrow question, but the board are
:01:50. > :01:52.of negotiation as well. The Scottish parliament will still vote on
:01:53. > :01:57.article 54 political pressure still matters. Legally, it will be in
:01:58. > :02:06.Westminster that they all have joined a shredder and article -- on
:02:07. > :02:09.Article 50. We will within days introduce legislation to give the
:02:10. > :02:13.government legal power to trigger Article 50 and begin the formal
:02:14. > :02:17.process of withdrawal. Other parties won't make that simple. The SNP
:02:18. > :02:22.wants unanimous agreement from devolved governments. Without that,
:02:23. > :02:24.it will vote against Article 50. Scotland's Labour MP says he's
:02:25. > :02:29.prepared to vote against the government, too. The Labour leader
:02:30. > :02:34.says his party will... Support Article 50 being triggered, we have
:02:35. > :02:37.made that clear. That is a result of the referendum we have to respect
:02:38. > :02:47.that. It doesn't mean we have deep debt and we abdicate the field, it
:02:48. > :02:52.means we pressure on the long-term direction this country wants to go.
:02:53. > :02:59.This implies that the process will be backed. With your depth possibly
:03:00. > :03:06.voting against two, it means just perhaps one of Scotland's MPs will
:03:07. > :03:10.vote for. I believe the people of Scotland want the two governments to
:03:11. > :03:14.work together and get on with ensuring we can negotiate with a 27
:03:15. > :03:19.other countries that best possible deal for leaving the EU. The UK
:03:20. > :03:23.Government hopes it can get approval to start the process, and quickly.
:03:24. > :03:28.The legal questions over Article 50 are over. It's back to politics. And
:03:29. > :03:31.that politics continues this week. It is expected on Thursday that the
:03:32. > :03:35.government will publish the legislation it hopes will allow it
:03:36. > :03:39.to trigger Article 50. It then hopes that it can get that through the
:03:40. > :03:43.House of Commons within a fortnight. As we have heard, there will be
:03:44. > :03:48.amendments. The SNP alone say they could table up to 50, Labour and the
:03:49. > :03:52.S agree the UK Government needs to provide more detail. Whatever
:03:53. > :03:57.happens in the building behind me, the tensions between the Scottish
:03:58. > :04:01.Government and UK Government -- and the SNP. Over Brexit show no signs
:04:02. > :04:04.of abating. We are still at the start of the process of finding out
:04:05. > :04:07.what the ramifications of a Brexit vote are. And what the future holds.
:04:08. > :04:10.The First Minister has repeatedly warned that a second independence
:04:11. > :04:19.Andrew Black has been trying to find out.
:04:20. > :04:25.Just before the last Westminster election, Nicola Sturgeon revealed
:04:26. > :04:31.what it might take to call a second independence referendum. I don't
:04:32. > :04:35.know. Perhaps if the Tories wanted to drag is out of the European Union
:04:36. > :04:39.against our will, for example. APPLAUSE
:04:40. > :04:44.After most of Scotland voted to stay in the EU, she said this... I think
:04:45. > :04:48.an independence referendum is now highly likely. She then said that
:04:49. > :04:52.staying in the single market would remove the short-term prospect of a
:04:53. > :04:58.second independence referendum. If we can find a way of protecting
:04:59. > :05:00.Scotland's economic interest, protecting our democratic interest
:05:01. > :05:09.within the UK, I'm up for trying to do that. And taking independence of
:05:10. > :05:13.the table in the short-term? In a Brexit, that is what I have been
:05:14. > :05:20.clearer about. When the PM it out, she hit back. Some regard make a
:05:21. > :05:27.second referendum all but inevitable for independence? I think that is
:05:28. > :05:31.very likely the case. Why likely and not definitely? The S never wanted
:05:32. > :05:36.a referendum under the circumstances. -- the SNP. The rest
:05:37. > :05:39.of the UK's outside Europe, you've got a single market, a European hard
:05:40. > :05:45.boundary between England and Scotland, which we wouldn't have had
:05:46. > :05:48.last time. So there was -- they wanted a referendum with both
:05:49. > :05:55.countries inside the EU. The polls are showing support for independence
:05:56. > :05:58.pretty much where it was in 2014. I have made it very clear that that
:05:59. > :06:02.option is very much on the table, and as I have said before, I think
:06:03. > :06:06.with every day that passes right now, it's becoming clear that
:06:07. > :06:10.Scotland's voice cannot end is not able to be heard within the UK on
:06:11. > :06:17.this question. Nicola Sturgeon says she will ever get what -- give up on
:06:18. > :06:19.independence in the long term. The question of when we might get
:06:20. > :06:23.another referendum remains unanswered.
:06:24. > :06:25.Earlier our political editor Brian Taylor was at Holyrood,
:06:26. > :06:27.and we asked Why doesn't Nicola Sturgeon call
:06:28. > :06:37.Nicola Sturgeon doesn't want to hold a referendum, she wants to win one,
:06:38. > :06:40.and these are not particularly good circumstances, nor the time of her
:06:41. > :06:44.choosing. If she is to hold one, and I think she will, then there has to
:06:45. > :06:49.be preparing the ground beforehand. I think she wants to several things.
:06:50. > :06:53.First, she is genuinely seeking in discussions with the UK Government
:06:54. > :06:56.to get concessions towards Scotland's interests as she sees
:06:57. > :07:04.them. Second, she wants to prolong those discussions in order to enable
:07:05. > :07:07.the late. Third, if there is to be a referendum, she was to be able to
:07:08. > :07:11.say to British people, the Scottish people, I did everything in my power
:07:12. > :07:17.to try and strike a deal within the UK, and it proved impossible. She
:07:18. > :07:19.wants to set the grounding for that referendum if and when it occurs.
:07:20. > :07:22.How to keep Scotland's lights on, as our energy demands increase.
:07:23. > :07:23.Today the Scottish Government published its vision
:07:24. > :07:26.for the transition away from oil and gas, towards an emphasis
:07:27. > :07:30.on renewable sources - and its most ambitious target yet.
:07:31. > :07:33.But a return to coal could be on the cards.
:07:34. > :07:42.Our environment correspondent Keven Keane reports.
:07:43. > :07:44.It was the end of an era as Scotland's last
:07:45. > :07:53.coal-fired power station was finally shut down.
:07:54. > :07:58.But now this and other locations could be reborn from the
:07:59. > :08:11.ashes as ministers propose repowering some infrastructure.
:08:12. > :08:14.This site is due for demolition, but is the location which is of value,
:08:15. > :08:16.right in the middle of a power line network.
:08:17. > :08:19.If carbon capture can be revived, ministers are not ruling
:08:20. > :08:28.When it comes to carbon capture and storage,
:08:29. > :08:31.we may trial in Scotland, but we have enough resource with the
:08:32. > :08:33.technology we have today to meet our carbon emissions within this
:08:34. > :08:41.Many of today's announcements were in last week's
:08:42. > :08:44.climate plan, but a new target was set, creating half of our energy
:08:45. > :08:46.needs from renewables by the end of the decade.
:08:47. > :08:48.It is ambitious and it will be challenging, but the
:08:49. > :08:50.modelling we have done suggests that we are
:08:51. > :08:51.in the right ballpark between
:08:52. > :08:55.With the initiatives we put in our climate change plan, we
:08:56. > :08:59.The target is a tough one, not least because of
:09:00. > :09:00.a drive to rely more on
:09:01. > :09:02.electricity for our heating and to power
:09:03. > :09:03.our cars, so the demand is
:09:04. > :09:11.And there is still no intention to extend the lives of
:09:12. > :09:13.our nuclear power stations at Torness and Hunterston,
:09:14. > :09:20.This could have been written on the back of a beer mat.
:09:21. > :09:22.It is not going to tackle the issue of where our
:09:23. > :09:24.industry in Scotland gets its energy from.
:09:25. > :09:27.It is not going to tackle how we keep the lights on and the
:09:28. > :09:30.Scottish Government admit we have a problem with how we produce
:09:31. > :09:33.It is not going to with fuel poverty.
:09:34. > :09:36.In the 1970s, this was the future, and would change our lives.
:09:37. > :09:39.Ministers are to explore replacing the natural gas in our
:09:40. > :09:47.pipes with hydrogen, but that's a long way into the future.
:09:48. > :09:49.An Aberdeenshire restaurant manager who killed a chef in a row over
:09:50. > :10:04.a takeaway order has been jailed for 32 months.
:10:05. > :10:06.Hidayet Ozden repeatedly punched Shahzad Shah
:10:07. > :10:09.at the Mirchi Indian takeaway in Mintlaw in April last year.
:10:10. > :10:11.Ozden, who is from Falkirk, was charged with murder but later
:10:12. > :10:15.Up to 80 jobs are under threat at an Inverness company
:10:16. > :10:17.which makes products for the treatment of Diabetes.
:10:18. > :10:18.Lifescan's parent company Johnson and Johnson announced
:10:19. > :10:21.it is reviewing its options and it could sell the business.
:10:22. > :10:25.Lifescan currently employs 1,100 people in the Highland capital.
:10:26. > :10:27.The public watchdog Transport Focus says there's been
:10:28. > :10:31.a big fall in customer satisfaction with train services in Scotland -
:10:32. > :10:34.however levels remain higher, than in the UK as a whole
:10:35. > :10:42.ScotRail continues to face pressure over late and cancelled services.
:10:43. > :10:44.More than 1300 passengers were interviewed
:10:45. > :10:47.towards the end of last year, as part of a UK-wide survey.
:10:48. > :10:49.Its publication comes a day after ScotRail announced it had
:10:50. > :10:53.appointed Alex Hynes as its new boss.
:10:54. > :10:55.Sir David Attenborough, met Inti the Armadillo
:10:56. > :11:00.He posed with the hard-shelled creature to recreate a famous
:11:01. > :11:06.The veteran broadcaster is in the capital to collect
:11:07. > :11:10.a donation for the charity Fauna and Flora International,
:11:11. > :11:14.which works to conserve wildlife around the world.
:11:15. > :11:16.Well, It's over to Judith now with the weather outlook
:11:17. > :11:29.Good evening. We haven't seen much rain so far this month, and not much
:11:30. > :11:33.in the forecast over the next few days either. We did see the sun
:11:34. > :11:39.breaking through, here is a lovely sunset. Red sky at night, Shepherd's
:11:40. > :11:46.delight, it will be largely die leg dry day. The ever brings fairly
:11:47. > :11:51.cloudy and -- Friday. We'll see extensive freezing fog across the
:11:52. > :11:55.south-east of England, just be aware of that, because the fog will cause
:11:56. > :11:59.travel disruption tomorrow morning if you're heading down towards
:12:00. > :12:03.Gatwick, Heathrow or other airports down south. Tomorrow morning starts
:12:04. > :12:10.cloudy, breezy. A few spits and spots of rain, perhaps. It'll be a
:12:11. > :12:13.mild start, too. Temperatures rising to 7-9 C first thing tomorrow
:12:14. > :12:20.morning. I think we'll see 10 degrees. Thing are really shifting
:12:21. > :12:23.either. Gales over Shetland at some point during the day, too. This
:12:24. > :12:30.Lazarus of the morning is concerned, the cloud will thin and break.
:12:31. > :12:34.Something brighter tomorrow, Northern Isles not faring too badly
:12:35. > :12:41.either. As was the rest of UK's concerned, a similar story across
:12:42. > :12:44.the best of some trend towards Wales, staying cloudy and cold
:12:45. > :12:48.across south-east England. Temperatures here struggling,
:12:49. > :12:52.really, and that cloud. Come further north, you will see those values
:12:53. > :12:58.rising, as you can see. In Scotland, there is a potential tomorrow to see
:12:59. > :13:02.temperatures of 13 Celsius along here, widely reaching ten sources as
:13:03. > :13:06.well. Range is pushing into the Western Isles by the end of the
:13:07. > :13:11.afternoon. The rain leaves towards the north to ride, then dry with
:13:12. > :13:15.clearing skies tomorrow. The winds start to back into the south-east,
:13:16. > :13:20.drawing in colder air from the near continent. It has been very cold
:13:21. > :13:23.this winter so far. A window day -- windy day. Temperatures
:13:24. > :13:26.around five successes. That is your forecast.
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