:00:00. > :00:09.Here on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.
:00:10. > :00:12.The Prime Minister has rejected Nicola Sturgeon's plans
:00:13. > :00:16.The First Minister wants to hold the vote between Autumn
:00:17. > :00:23.But Theresa May says that clashes with the Brexit timescale
:00:24. > :00:26.and it wouldn't be fair to expect Scots to choose without knowing
:00:27. > :00:27.the full implications of leaving the European Union.
:00:28. > :00:29.She said a referendum could happen later
:00:30. > :00:32.Nicola Sturgeon called the announcement "undemocratic
:00:33. > :00:35.This from our political editor Brian Taylor.
:00:36. > :00:39.European Union notification withdrawal act...
:00:40. > :00:46.Royal Assent for the act to leave the European Union.
:00:47. > :00:50.But dissent from Nicola Sturgeon's referendum plans.
:00:51. > :00:52.My message is very clear, now is not the time.
:00:53. > :00:55.I have explained the reasons why, I think we should be working
:00:56. > :00:58.to get the right deal for Scotland and the UK with our future
:00:59. > :01:02.partnership with the European Union, it would be unfair to Scotland,
:01:03. > :01:05.people of Scotland at the moment that they would be being asked
:01:06. > :01:08.to make a crucial decision without the information they need
:01:09. > :01:13.Constitutional issues are reserved to Westminster,
:01:14. > :01:16.Nicola Sturgeon needs Theresa May's agreement, she hasn't got it,
:01:17. > :01:22.Here we appear to have the Tory party with just one MP in Scotland,
:01:23. > :01:25.thinking that it is OK for them to block Scotland's right to choose.
:01:26. > :01:28.I think that is democratically unacceptable, but I also think it
:01:29. > :01:36.shows that the Conservatives fear the verdict of the Scottish people.
:01:37. > :01:39.Now seems absurd, simply to hand them the opportunity
:01:40. > :01:45.and screaming into an isolated, angry Brexit Britain.
:01:46. > :01:48.That is not what voters in Scotland chose.
:01:49. > :01:51.Scottish Tory leaders say it wouldn't be fair to ask Scotland
:01:52. > :01:54.to decide on independence while Brexit was under way.
:01:55. > :01:57.A referendum might be possible when Brexit was completely settled.
:01:58. > :02:04.But they wouldn't offer dates and they deny they feared defeat
:02:05. > :02:10.That dread is probably shared by a lot of people across Scotland.
:02:11. > :02:21.You'd oppose having a referendum, but you wouldn't say
:02:22. > :02:22.that constitutionally the British Government
:02:23. > :02:25.Constitutionally, The UK Government should block it though.
:02:26. > :02:27.Ruth Davidson said the Prime Minister wasn't completely
:02:28. > :02:29.blocking a referendum, she was settingous out terms.
:02:30. > :02:32.Other parties say hold off on a referendum.
:02:33. > :02:34.Willie Rennie said the SNP weren't even sure if they'd seek full
:02:35. > :02:38.She is sucking up to the Eurosceptics on her own side,
:02:39. > :02:43.while cynically selling out the pro Europeans on the sly.
:02:44. > :02:46.And Labour claimed independence would be a disaster.
:02:47. > :02:50.Isn't it the case that according to her own Government statistics,
:02:51. > :02:57.leaving the UK would mean ?15 billion worth of extra cuts?
:02:58. > :03:14.It's body boosting bingo promoted at Holyrood today but it takes two
:03:15. > :03:16.to tango and Theresa May isn't for dancing.
:03:17. > :03:19.The First Minister says her plans for a referendum between autumn next
:03:20. > :03:22.year and spring 2019 will not be derailed by the UK Government.
:03:23. > :03:25.And that if the Scottish Parliament votes for a second referendum next
:03:26. > :03:28.week, then any attempt to block it will be what she describes
:03:29. > :03:35.Nicola Sturgeon was speaking to Jackie Bird at Bute House,
:03:36. > :03:38.a fortnight on from Jackie's interview with the Prime Minister
:03:39. > :03:43.First Minister, Theresa May says now is not the time
:03:44. > :03:49.Firstly, I agree with Theresa May that now is not the right time
:03:50. > :03:52.to have an independence referendum, that's not what I am proposing.
:03:53. > :03:55.What I propose is that Scotland should have the right
:03:56. > :03:58.to choose their own future once the terms of Brexit are clear,
:03:59. > :04:03.but before it is too late for us to choose a different path.
:04:04. > :04:07.Now, on the timetable for the Brexit negotiations
:04:08. > :04:11.that the Prime Minister has set out, that means a window of autumn next
:04:12. > :04:16.So that's the proposition I've set out.
:04:17. > :04:19.We have, in the Scottish Government, a mandate for that, we were elected
:04:20. > :04:23.less than a year on a manifesto that set that in these circumstances
:04:24. > :04:27.the Scottish Parliament should have the right to hold
:04:28. > :04:29.an independence referendum, and of course there is a majority
:04:30. > :04:37.I think it would be completely unacceptable and outrageous
:04:38. > :04:39.and almost anti-democratic for a Conservative Government
:04:40. > :04:42.with one MP in Scotland to seek to block the democratic
:04:43. > :04:45.will of the Scottish Parliament, and stand in this way
:04:46. > :04:49.of the Scottish people having thing right too choose our own future.
:04:50. > :04:53.Although the Prime Minister has not stated a date when she would perhaps
:04:54. > :04:57.accept a Scottish referendum, I think the inference seems
:04:58. > :05:01.to be today, and I would like to get your take on this,
:05:02. > :05:05.that the implication is that it's after Brexit has been done
:05:06. > :05:10.and dusted and is up and running, do you agree with that?
:05:11. > :05:13.Do I agree that that seems to be what she said?
:05:14. > :05:15.That certainly appears to be the case.
:05:16. > :05:18.The deal will have to be done, certainly in the broad
:05:19. > :05:21.terms of it in any event, by the autumn of next year,
:05:22. > :05:23.if the Prime Minister's timetable is to be delivered.
:05:24. > :05:26.So in a sense, you know, if the Prime Minister is genuinely
:05:27. > :05:30.saying here that her concern is that people should know the terms
:05:31. > :05:39.of Brexit, then I agree with that, and that's what I have sent out.
:05:40. > :05:42.What she is saying is, or what she appears to be saying
:05:43. > :05:44.is she doesn't want Scotland to have the right to choose
:05:45. > :05:48.until much later, until long after the UK is out of the EU.
:05:49. > :05:51.Let's assume she does mean potentially an independence
:05:52. > :05:57.You are going to the Scottish Parliament, there will be
:05:58. > :06:00.a vote on Wednesday, if you vote for an independence
:06:01. > :06:05.referendum, and Westminster has said no, what then?
:06:06. > :06:08.In the last 48-hours we have seen Theresa May perform the most
:06:09. > :06:12.embarrassing and screeching U-turn on an issue in her own budget.
:06:13. > :06:19.We are likely next week to have a majority in
:06:20. > :06:22.the Scottish Parliament and you are really asking me
:06:23. > :06:25.right now before that majority has been expressed,
:06:26. > :06:28.to accept that a Conservative Prime Minister who has one MP in Scotland,
:06:29. > :06:31.has the right just unquestionablibly has the right to lay down
:06:32. > :06:52.I am saying I don't think Theresa May's position right now is
:06:53. > :06:55.sustainable. This is not the iron Lady, it is somebody whose
:06:56. > :07:00.government is in chaos and is chopping and changing all the time.
:07:01. > :07:04.If you start campaigning for an independent Scotland, will you be
:07:05. > :07:12.campaigning for full membership of the EU, or as part of the single
:07:13. > :07:16.market? My position has been membership of the EU. We have to
:07:17. > :07:22.recognise we are in different circumstances now than 2014. In 2014
:07:23. > :07:26.we set up the process in which an independent Scotland would become
:07:27. > :07:30.part of the EU at a time when the UK was in the EU. We will be in a
:07:31. > :07:35.situation where the UK will be coming out at the EU. We will set up
:07:36. > :07:41.the process by which we will see to secure a relationship with Europe.
:07:42. > :07:43.55% of Scots voted to stay in the UK and then the UK voted to come out of
:07:44. > :07:47.the EU. You cannot have one and then the UK voted to come out of
:07:48. > :07:50.democratic process and you agree with and one you don't agree with,
:07:51. > :07:54.and therefore disregard. I am not with and one you don't agree with,
:07:55. > :07:59.disregarding either of the wreck the Rendon is. But in 2014 we did not
:08:00. > :08:10.know if the UK was going to come out of the EU. In 2014 Scotland was told
:08:11. > :08:15.to vote no to stay in the EU. Then Scotland were told to vote to come
:08:16. > :08:18.out of the EU. Will you be campaigning unequivocally for
:08:19. > :08:24.Scotland to stay in the EU or would you accept Scotland within the
:08:25. > :08:27.single market? We'll have to set out the process, the transition from
:08:28. > :08:32.where we are now the Scotland being in the European Union. The policy of
:08:33. > :08:37.the SNP is clear about our desire to be in the European Union because of
:08:38. > :08:41.the jobs, investment and the collaboration that would depend on
:08:42. > :08:50.that. I am also recognising, through no fault of ours, are facing a
:08:51. > :08:53.future where there member state is coming out and we will have to look
:08:54. > :08:59.at the future relationship we have with Europe. Non-op that could be
:09:00. > :09:01.very clear. First Minister, thank you.
:09:02. > :09:05.A documentary on the founder of Europe's first Tibetan Buddhist
:09:06. > :09:17.At 19, with Tibet occupied by China and his life in danger,
:09:18. > :09:21.he walked through the Himalayas into exile in India.
:09:22. > :09:23.We have very strong beliefs we are not going to kill anything
:09:24. > :09:47.Akong reached the UK and formed the school at Eskdalemuir S now
:09:48. > :09:49.From here he spearheaded humanitarian projects
:09:50. > :09:56.Akong was murdered in China in October 2013, just
:09:57. > :10:01.after authorising the film of his life to be made.
:10:02. > :10:07.When you get to meet someone with such quality that he had,
:10:08. > :10:11.it's impossible, as a film-maker, not to think of making a film
:10:12. > :10:17.The premier was attended by the current Abbott,
:10:18. > :10:22.Akong's younger brother who survived the long walk to freedom with him.
:10:23. > :10:26.All his siblings will be very proud that this film was made.
:10:27. > :10:28.It'll go all over the world because he is known
:10:29. > :10:34.The film has become Akong's memorial a lasting tribute
:10:35. > :10:51.Today was BBC's School report day. More than 50 schools in Scotland
:10:52. > :10:55.took part in the scheme that gives secondary school students the chance
:10:56. > :10:58.to make their own news reports. This ear, many of the film is focused on
:10:59. > :11:02.mental health. Cassell Douglas high ear, many of the film is focused on
:11:03. > :11:06.school's way of encouraging young people to speak about mental health
:11:07. > :11:11.has been to get older students to mentor and tutor younger ones. You
:11:12. > :11:16.learn more, because you feel included. If it is a teacher, they
:11:17. > :11:18.think that is their job and that is what they are supposed to do to help
:11:19. > :11:29.others. Now let's get the weather. There has been blustery showers
:11:30. > :11:34.across the North West. We have had this beautiful picture in the
:11:35. > :11:39.highlands of the Northern lights. But for the rest of the nights,
:11:40. > :11:44.there will be mixtures of clear spells, mainly across the of where
:11:45. > :11:48.they are frequent, falling snow over the hills and even down to lower
:11:49. > :11:53.levels for the Highlands and a risk of icy stretches and a Met Office be
:11:54. > :11:59.aware warning is in force until tomorrow morning. Temperatures can
:12:00. > :12:04.dip down close to freezing. For towns and cities it will be two to
:12:05. > :12:10.three Celsius. Breezy around the west Coast. The ice warning is still
:12:11. > :12:14.with us until 9am. Showers across the Northern Isles, mainly across
:12:15. > :12:19.Orkney throughout the day. Brighter spells across the black Isle and
:12:20. > :12:24.Caithness and Sutherland. Longer spells of rain in the western part
:12:25. > :12:29.of the central Belt. It will be cloudy here for much of the day.
:12:30. > :12:34.Temperatures will be ten or 11 Celsius at best. This is the wider
:12:35. > :12:37.picture for the rest of the UK. The cloud across Northern Ireland and
:12:38. > :12:41.northern England as well. Falling snow over the hills across the
:12:42. > :12:46.Highlands. The driest conditions across the south-east of England.
:12:47. > :12:51.Temperatures reaching ten to 13 Celsius. Tomorrow evening, cloudy
:12:52. > :12:57.conditions remain for Scotland, damp and drizzly affair. The winds will
:12:58. > :13:02.ease and by the time we look to the start of the weekend, there will be
:13:03. > :13:07.quite a bit of cloud Iran, wet weather, mainly persistent across
:13:08. > :13:11.the West. The drier weather will across the North East in the
:13:12. > :13:18.afternoon. Temperatures climbing to 11 or 12 cents 12 Celsius. It
:13:19. > :13:20.remains quite windy. Our next update is during Breakfast
:13:21. > :13:26.at 6:25 tomorrow morning. But, from everyone on the late team
:13:27. > :13:29.here in Glasgow and around