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rather than allow in those who'd made it to Europe.

As the latest migrants adapt to a new life and culture they're

grateful they're alive, as Fiona Walker has been finding

This is what is left of part of the strategic city of Homs in Syria.

This man is not showing his face because he is fearful that family

still in Syria will be harmed if he is recognised. Can you describe what

made you think we need to leave Syria? TRANSLATION: Destroying my

house. I was fleeing from place to place. After a while they started

bombing there to. When Scottish people found out that families like

hers were coming to live here son decided to do their bit.

These people have got together to knit warm cloud or the refugees. It

is good to do it because you are helping someone. Volunteers like

this are helping the Syrians settle in. He is offering friendship.

He also gets familiar food for them. How important is it for people

arriving here to get this kind of help?

It is difficult when you arrive for the first time. The Scottish

Government said it would take 2000 refugees through the city and

resettlement programme co-ordinated by the Home Office in London. So far

400 have arrived. Smaller numbers are expected over the coming months.

This man arrives in Clydebank to visit. It is one of 16 areas in

Scotland where the new arrivals are being housed. This is the oldest Dr.

She is 12. TRANSLATION: I would like to say, thank you and I hope we will

be a good example. I am happy because they settled as with

Scottish neighbours to learn the language. We just miss our family

because we are far away from them. She has already learned her first

100 words of English and she has not got a bad one to say about Scotland.

She is working out which are the key words to help her integrate.

Families in the same block of flats deleted these scooters.

The latter is such a contrast to the sounds of the war.

TRANSLATION: We have come from hell to Paradise. In the context of war

Clydebank is his Paradise. Because this is the alternative. What do you

think would have happened to you if you had stayed in Homs? We would be

dead. Just before we came on air,

the minister for Europe, Humza Yousaf came into

our Edinburgh studio. When I first arrived in Glasgow

airport when one of the planes was touching down at the refugees were

coming through the airport it was an emotional moment, not for ourselves,

but using what they had come from. And the weekend that past I was at a

lunch with a number of refugees that have settled in Scotland and I

cannot tell you how pleased they are to be in safety and sanctuary and

also how faculty are for the warm welcome they have received

throughout Scotland. I read an article published today where a

refugee displayed Clydebank as Paradise. But is a great reaction

and that is down to the people of Scotland. How many more refugees can

we expect over the next few months? Do the local authorities have the

resources to cope Mr Mac my hats off and absolute admiration for the

local authorities in Scotland. 400 refugees out of the 1000th that have

arrived in the UK in the last month have come to Scotland. 40%. A

monumental effort. We have said they would take a minimum of 10% of

refugees in -- that the UK would accept. That is a flaw not a

ceiling. We will take as many as we can. Social housing stock

availability. I am confident we will meet 2000. Anything above and the on

that, apologies have expressed a will to do so.

But governments still have to make tough decisions. You were critical

of David Cameron last year for taking in 20,000 refugees over five

years when Germany was taking in as many in one weekend but is now

Germany is looking at limiting the number of refugees. Some German

local authorities say they are angered over Wales by that number.

Do you think David Cameron took the correct action? I am not trying to

discredit what the UK Government has done in terms of Syrian refugees. I

welcome that. My suggestion was that the UK Government might want to opt

into the EU relocation scheme. I still believe that. We should be

taking refugees come to our doorstep in Europe. I saw for myself the

difficulty facing those refugees, all of them risking their lives to

do so for a safer life. It is an abandonment of our obligation to our

fellow human beings if we failed to assist them. I think the UK

Government should opt into the European relocation scheme and that

would add another few thousand refugees which is still only

scratching the surface. It is now a 4.5 million refugee crisis in Syria

alone. This crisis has had a huge impact in Europe. Do you think this

might have an impact on the European referendum as we head towards that

referendum M do you think the refugee crisis might be changing the

way people are thinking about the European Union? I would hope that

the referendum campaign is not seen through the prism of migration

alone. It'll certainly at issue. My advice to UK Government is to not

make this referendum only about migration. There are many other

issues we should be campaigning on. Job opportunities that it creates.

Opportunities to study and travel. But it would be difficult if the

referendum was only viewed through the prism of what is a very

sensitive issue. But at the same time the solidarity of people across

Europe, the many welcoming images we have seen, is a positive thing.

Thank you. As a nation, we love sugar

and always have done. We refined it by the ton-load

and we still consume far too It means adult obesity levels

could rise to 40% in 15 years. Food Standards Scotland is now

considering the merits of a sugar tax and they're giving the industry

just 12 months to think Sugar - it's the current big bad boy

that everyone is taking a pop at and today Scotland's food

standards body has stepped up The research shows that we are

cutting down to sugary fizzy drinks. But we are still taking in the same

amount of sugar. That might be coming through ready meals or even

tins of beans. But what they are seeing is tough action is needed

now. We cannot rule out either regulation or taxation. It is not

realistic with the present statistics for Bobby city that you

can rule that out. We are saying to Government let us get this entity

are many. -- present statistics for obesity.

It's not just the food producers the agency has in its sights.

They want to say bye bye to biscuit and chocolate bargain bonanzas

Their data found half of our sweet or unhealthy treats

I was buying a colleague a cheat and I ended up buying clean eggs. If it

was more expensive or ' out of the chocolate aisle? I do not think so.

I cannot live without it. There are plenty of snacks that are sweet that

have plenty of sugar within them such as fruit. It is difficult to

know if that is healthy or not. But you somehow think that is better

than seats. Data from the Chief Medical Officer

today suggested that a woman living in a deprived area will drink more

than twice the amount of sugary drinks than her

better off counterpart. But the FSS report shows when it

comes to eating sausage rolls the poorest consumers aren't

the worst offenders. It's the better off,

and that is the same for puddings and cakes and pastries,

the better off are the ones We need to do something about

reaching all the population of Scotland and taking measures that

help them understand how to make the healthy choice. We think that this

measures proposed today, taxation and regulation, help with that

because basically saying that individual environment and help the

consumer to make that choice when they see the place deferential and

for the healthy choice should be, the easy choice for them.

The Scottish Government however don't seem to be keen on slapping

At the moment we do not have the power to permit a sugar tax and

unfortunately a sugar tax would not be the silver bullet that people

would expect it to be. In some countries where it has been in post

it has not made that stance of difference that you might think it

think it would. would.

Whatever the solution, poor diet is blamed as

the major cause of the nation's ever expanding waistlines.

It's how to effectively beat the nation's love of sugar that

Joining me now from our Edinburgh studio is the new CEO

for the Scottish Food and Drinks Federation,

David Thompson, and in the studio we have health specialist

Penny, you saw in the report how so many of us are addicted to sugar and

treats but there is so much hidden sugar as well. Do you think a sugar

tax would help cut consumption? I think it is a powerful tool in the

armoury. There is a need for information for consumers. If you

look at that contents of the average weekly shop, it is extraordinary how

many products like stock cubes have sugar in them that you would not

expect and once you start looking you see this deal of this. A tax, I

am sure the sugar industry would say it is a heavy weapon but it is

potentially a quick one because in Mexico, where they imposed a sugar

tax, sales of high sugar foods have fallen quickly. But you saw Maureen

Watt say it is quite a blunt instrument and perhaps has not

worked so well in Mexico. Mexico say it has worked for them and if we saw

a 12% drop in consumption we would be pleased, but there is

recalibration of the ingredients of food, marketing, putting

restrictions on that, but information for consumers, if you

don't look at the small print how do you know there are sugar in what you

buy? David Thompson, you represent the industry, you'd just heard we

could not rule out regulation or taxation, it sounds like the clock

is ticking. Nobody in the industry is suggesting there isn't an obesity

problem. We want to help tackle the problem of obesity and it will cause

problems in future if we don't, but we think the measures set out today

in terms of ultimatums and the potential for a sugar tax are the

wrong types of measures. We want to work with food standards Scotland

and the Government to deliver evidence-based measures that will

make a difference for people. But as Penny was pointing out, if you have

a tax, consumption will fall by 10%. We would quibble with those figures.

For confectionery and snacks we already have a tax called VAT at

20%. The evidence from around the world on sugar and fat tax is not

convincing. It is almost a question of political philosophy, how much

should government control someone's live? Given that Scotland's obesity

crisis is now acute, we have high rates of diabetes, directly linked

to what we eat. This is a health crisis. You could spend the next 15

years trying to come up with evidence would do what we have done

with the tobacco industry that has had a real impact on changing

people's relationship with tobacco, we could do the same with sugar and

achieve a lot for the help of Scotland. Some people feel the

industry has been allowed to run riot here, like using fruit toast

and corn syrup, the Government has been regulating the food industry

since Victorian times so why not have more regulation when it comes

to something that causes obesity? All sugar has to be shown on the

back of a pack as per regulation and many members of the food industry in

the UK require more information than required by legislation. There is no

evidence that they sugar tax will make a difference in Mexico. While

there has been a drop, it is too early to tell and that drop has been

estimated as five or six calories per person. To put that in

perspective, a slice of white bread is 80 calories, so it is minuscule

change. Penny, I saw your face when David mentioned hidden sugars. Yeah,

if you read the small print and know what the language means you can work

out what it meant in terms of sugar content, but the fact I have the one

looking at that small print and discovering sugar in surprising

products. That constitutes hidden sugar and it has been estimated the

average Briton eats one kilogram of sugar every fortnight without

necessarily knowing it. Thank you both.

It's the ultimate rags to riches story.

When designer Paul Smith opened his first shop in London

in 1970, he could little imagine he'd one day have 300 shops

worldwide, a cult following in Japan, and a knighthood

His story is told in an exhibition which opens at the Lighthouse

Our arts correspondent, Pauline McLean, went to meet him.

This is the start of the exhibition, and all my shops around the world

have what we call art was, so there is always inspiration, from the age

of 11 until 18th I didn't have a lot of interest in fashion because I

wanted to be a racing cyclist and I was doing OK, I didn't think I would

ever have been a professional, I wasn't good enough for brave enough

but at 17 I had a bad crash and was in hospital for three months, came

out of hospital and agreed to meet a few of the other patients who were

coming out at the same time and one of them, luckily for me, selected a

pub in my home town of Nottingham that was where all the art students

went. I think the 60s was a very interesting period because it was

about second or third generation after the horror of war and it was

just first-time people could let their hair down and say of course,

I'll paint the building think or I will wear flowery shirts. How did

Nottingham compared to that? You were still between the two. I stood

out probably in a bad way in Nottingham because one day a man

stopped me in the street because I had long hair and a flurry shirt and

velvet trousers, you looked like a girl and he was right, absolutely

right, and it was self-expression. What was lovely was that it was

self-expression through how you look, what you sign, what you did.

You were one of the first designers to become yourself, almost as famous

as what you were making, which sounds like the bit your wife is

more uncomfortable with. What was going on? The cars I worked in the

shop, I ran my friend's Little shop, did the windowdressing and then when

we first started the collections I used to sell the clothes, then audit

the fabric and arrange to get them made somewhere, then I had to pack

the box and write the invoice, so all these jobs that made my way more

rounded, so that is why I think I've managed to have good continuity and

progress and also because we are in 73 countries now, very popular in

Japan. That is an understatement, I'm afraid. How do you feel about

that? I did a talk at a university there in October and they said there

might be about 600 people and I said that was great, then we arrived in

our little as the forehand and there were thousands of people outside the

University. I asked if there was an event on and they said, yes, you! I

thought they had the Ron Paul, Paul McCartney and not me. The fact there

were so many celebrities who wear these clothes, somebody like the

much missed David Bowie. He was a good pal of mine, we produced a

T-shirt on his birth date to do with the album because he called me

before Christmas to ask if I would do that and I had done it before for

him with the last album and I dressed him urgently, not for stage,

for 79 or something. but he just came to this shop,

and we never gift clothes. A lot of undergrounds gift clothes

to attract celebrity but we've never done that, not because I'm a meanie

but because I want people to like the clothes

because they like them. I made trousers for Jimmy Page of

lead supple and, 24 inch waist, can you believe it? -- led Zeppelin. I

was 18. For anyone who comes into this exhibition and enjoys learning

about your life, what would you hope they take away from it? Goose bumps,

serious goose bumps, when they leave, they go...

So we started with a little 12 foot square shop, ?600,

only open Fridays and Saturdays, and you can progress

which sets out the rules and responsibilities so the process of

devolution by consent will be fairer and more comprehensive ball. We are

trying to find a devolution and more comprehensive ball. We are

deploy that language, but something that acknowledges it is a looser

union is much needed. And could we be looking at something more

federal? How would that work? Tricky that group is listed by peers, a lot

of people did not like the F word but I think we have a quad is I

federal status quo, and moving towards a more federal version is

something I could bear. Before the referendum, I thought the UK

Government would have a more holistic approach to the UK but then

we ended up with Smith. Might some ministers regret that and want to

look at the UK as a whole when it comes to devolution? Possibly but I

think now we have the Scotland Bill coming through, we had English votes

for English laws, David Cameron wants to look at the referendum on

the EU and not have more discussion about what we do with the governance

of the UK, he wants to concentrate on that EU referendum and staying in

power. The land reform bill is being debated at Holyrood. 49 amendments

were tabled, the leadership of the SNP suffered a defeat from members

of the conference in October, people wanted it toughened up. They wanted

it to be more radical, although that is an overused word, not just in

Scottish politics. The bill is not radical, it is like a lot of

legislation that claims to be radical but is not and if you look

at the amendments it is tweeting, the Government has been trying to

dazzle with the number of amendments, 49 sounds impressive but

individually does not amount to much. It agree with what David is

saying, 49 amendments put Ford, one from the Green Party which was

looking at taking away the possibility for people and companies

and tax havens to own land in this shady way without knowing who they

are without paying tax in this country, the Greens but that Ford

but the Government do not support that. You could say that would be a

radical move that the Government have not gone for. Let's look at

something more fun from stateside. Are you ready for a commander in

chief who will let our warriors do their job and go kick Isis as? Even

Donald Trump looking embarrassed there. I have always been a bit AV

Sarah Pailin fan, say what you like about her politics politics needs

personalities, it needs more senior women and I thought she was great

value. What does it mean politically for Trump having her support? It

means name recognition, everyone knows who she is and what she stands

for, I think she is quite well liked with Conservative Republicans and

maybe a natural and political partner for Donald Trump, so I think

it is good for his nomination. Thank you both for joining me tonight.

Shelley will be here at the same time tomorrow night.

From all of us tonight, have a very good night. Bye-bye.