:00:38. > :00:41.Welcome to The Sunday Politics. As Rotherham heads for a by-election
:00:41. > :00:43.on Thursday, the Labour-run Council is engulfed by a row over the
:00:43. > :00:50.decision of its social services department to remove three children
:00:50. > :00:53.from their foster parents because the couple were members of UKIP. We
:00:53. > :00:56.will be talking to a former Children's Minister in our top
:00:56. > :01:00.story. This week marks the 70th
:01:01. > :01:04.anniversary of the Beveridge Report, which gave us the welfare state.
:01:04. > :01:09.But is it now time to build a new welfare state? Liam Byrne, Labour's
:01:09. > :01:13.Work and Pensions spokesman, joins us for the Sunday Interview.
:01:13. > :01:16.And to regulate or not to regulate the press by statute. That is the
:01:16. > :01:21.burning question the Prime Minister will have to answer this week, when
:01:21. > :01:25.Leveson reports on Thursday. The two sides go head to head.
:01:25. > :01:28.And on Sunday Politics Scotland... Could you afford to pay for your
:01:28. > :01:38.defence if you are charged with a crime? Holyrood wants to cut the
:01:38. > :01:38.
:01:38. > :28:20.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 1601 seconds
:28:20. > :28:30.Legal Aid budget. So who picks up What ever plan is sketched out, it
:28:30. > :28:30.
:28:30. > :34:19.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 1601 seconds
:34:19. > :34:25.10 us never forget, you cannot really talk about a free press and
:34:25. > :34:34.the situation. I a lot of this was to do with the behaviour of the
:34:34. > :34:44.newspaper group with which you were involved. There are plenty of laws
:34:44. > :34:53.already in place. Except the press still behaves disgracefully the way,
:34:53. > :34:58.for instance, it has treated the McCann family. Why does it deserve
:34:58. > :35:08.another chance in the last-chance saloon, when you have been drinking
:35:08. > :35:08.
:35:08. > :35:18.in there for 60 years and nothing has changed? Their recent cases,
:35:18. > :35:26.but not instantly recent. The newspaper industry is not going to
:35:26. > :35:35.go back down that road. There are other ways of dealing with
:35:35. > :35:45.miscreants and cases of bad conduct. There could be a system of press
:35:45. > :35:46.
:35:46. > :35:49.regulation by the press, but not run by them, but run by outsiders.
:35:49. > :35:55.That they said, we are going to behave ourselves, everyone would
:35:55. > :36:05.say that is OK. But the lesson is that that that does not get a deer
:36:05. > :36:07.
:36:07. > :36:14.to. When it comes to the lock, you can only make use of the lot if you
:36:14. > :36:24.are incredibly rich. But what about people who are attacked to do not
:36:24. > :36:25.
:36:25. > :36:30.have any money. That has to be stopped. They will lose conditional
:36:30. > :36:39.fee arrangements, which was the only way that people who had no
:36:39. > :36:49.money could get redress. The E East have access, the swift response and
:36:49. > :36:49.
:36:49. > :36:53.guaranteed action by the newspapers are to act upon what they were told,
:36:53. > :37:03.in you lot would not force the police to do anything we did not do
:37:03. > :37:05.
:37:05. > :37:09.in the past. To suggest that the rules put forward will work is just
:37:09. > :37:19.nonsense. It is just a contract between the press which the press
:37:19. > :37:25.
:37:25. > :37:29.will not enforce. The is no barrier to entry at all. He is there is.
:37:29. > :37:39.Every newspaper war have an ombudsman. There will be forced to
:37:39. > :37:45.act swiftly. But they will be hired by the press. The law. Is it will
:37:45. > :37:54.not be. The proposals which have been put forward to say that. If
:37:54. > :38:04.you have not seen them, I will give you a copy of them. The full thing
:38:04. > :38:06.
:38:06. > :38:16.is actually quite a long report. Thank you for that. It is all there.
:38:16. > :38:20.But this is the Mafia getting together. It is not the Mafia.
:38:20. > :38:29.when we talk about the disgraceful treatment of the McCann family by
:38:29. > :38:39.some British tabloids, will that not happen again. Mr X will always
:38:39. > :38:41.
:38:41. > :38:48.be made. -- mistakes will always be made. But there will never be a
:38:48. > :38:57.case like that of the McCann family ever again. Their report is
:38:57. > :39:01.Good morning and welcome to Sunday Politics Scotland. Coming up on the
:39:01. > :39:05.programme... If you ended up in a criminal court,
:39:05. > :39:15.could you afford a lawyer? Changes set to come in will mean fewer
:39:15. > :39:15.
:39:15. > :39:25.people will qualify for legal aid. The Justice Secretary says the
:39:25. > :39:30.small not undermine access to justice. And I will be finding out
:39:30. > :39:34.how a skills shortage in the renewables sector threatens
:39:34. > :39:37.Scotland's energy targets. And will Spain and Catalonia live
:39:37. > :39:41.happily ever after? We will be live in Barcelona, the day they go to
:39:41. > :39:46.the polls. Could you afford to pay for your
:39:46. > :39:49.defence if you are charged with a crime? The government wants to make
:39:49. > :39:53.more people stump up, but critics say they are targeting those who
:39:53. > :39:56.can least afford it. So is this a simple tweak in the Legal Aid Bill
:39:56. > :40:03.or a dangerous challenge to access to justice? Hayley Jarvis is at
:40:03. > :40:07.Glasgow Sheriff Court. If you end up in here, will you be
:40:07. > :40:10.able to afford to pay for a lawyer? The criminal legal aid bill last
:40:10. > :40:14.year was �98 million. The Scottish government says this has to change
:40:14. > :40:17.and more people will have to come up with the cash.
:40:17. > :40:22.Under their plans people who, at the moment, would get their defence
:40:22. > :40:25.costs paid will face bills of hundreds of pounds. And if you have
:40:25. > :40:29.a disposable income of more than �68 a week, you are in the frame
:40:29. > :40:32.here. Lawyers are threatening to strike
:40:32. > :40:40.over the plans, but those who support the bill say the Justice
:40:40. > :40:46.Secretary has to balance the books somehow. He has made the policy
:40:46. > :40:52.choice that he wants to provide civic legal aid. I personally think
:40:52. > :40:59.it is the decent thing to do. We are any recession.
:40:59. > :41:02.So who will have to pay? Not those on benefits would fall below the
:41:02. > :41:04.threshold and not middle income families, who would not qualify for
:41:04. > :41:08.criminal legal aid anyway. Critics of the plans say it is
:41:08. > :41:18.those who can least afford it - people who are working, but do not
:41:18. > :41:25.make much money. Now is is about access to justice. It is about the
:41:25. > :41:33.21-year-old on the minimum wage who would be represented in court, but
:41:33. > :41:37.who might not be. It is not a contribution, it is the removal of
:41:37. > :41:39.legal aid. The government wants to save �3.9
:41:40. > :41:42.million on the criminal legal aid budget, saying the system must
:41:42. > :41:45.become more efficient. They insist the changes will widen access to
:41:45. > :41:48.justice. But their critics say they will have the opposite effect. They
:41:48. > :41:50.are predicting chaos in the courts with more people defending
:41:50. > :42:00.themselves and innocent people pleading guilty because they cannot
:42:00. > :42:06.
:42:06. > :42:14.afford a defence. Very often, people do not have sympathy for a
:42:14. > :42:18.solicitor's. But there is the case that a fair trial could be
:42:18. > :42:21.interfered with and this is a test of the Scottish legal system.
:42:21. > :42:24.Everyone in Scotland has a legal right to a fair trial. For a
:42:24. > :42:26.government hoping to save money, the cost of denying people an
:42:26. > :42:29.adequate defence could prove extremely expensive in the appeal
:42:29. > :42:32.courts. Just before we came on air, I spoke to Justice Secretary Kenny
:42:32. > :42:40.MacAskill, who was in our Edinburgh studio, and suggested to him there
:42:40. > :42:49.was an obvious danger that access to justice would be compromised.
:42:49. > :42:56.do not believe so. What we have got to remember is that the legal-aid
:42:56. > :43:00.budget was the second highest on record. Two-thirds of that was
:43:00. > :43:07.spent on criminal legal aid. We have been faced with massive cuts
:43:07. > :43:15.from London and we have to look at the role of every organisation. We
:43:15. > :43:19.need to preserve the integrity of the legal system - not go down the
:43:19. > :43:26.road of south of the border where you cannot get legal aid for a
:43:26. > :43:30.whole range of things - and that is why we support the principle of
:43:30. > :43:35.contributions to the victims of domestic violence, there should be
:43:35. > :43:42.contributions from the alleged perpetrators. These contributions
:43:42. > :43:48.would be the same. There is obviously a legal obligation on you
:43:48. > :43:52.to run a system which guarantees a fair trial. If we look at the
:43:52. > :43:56.potential consequences of what you are proposing, if people plead
:43:56. > :44:02.guilty because they feel they cannot afford legal aid, that is
:44:02. > :44:06.one issue. Another one is that if people defend themselves and come
:44:06. > :44:10.up against a professional prosecutor and a thrill weight of
:44:10. > :44:19.the government prosecuting machine, you are saying you have no concerns
:44:20. > :44:24.about this would breaching fair trial considerations? Nor, I do not.
:44:24. > :44:34.I do not want to be where we are, but we have the huge legal-aid
:44:34. > :44:35.
:44:35. > :44:41.budget and we are facing huge cuts. We need to have a shared burden. 82
:44:42. > :44:49.% of people who apply for work legal-aid do not have to make a
:44:49. > :44:53.contribution. After that, the contributions would be fairly minor.
:44:53. > :45:01.This has been made clear by Parliament, why should the victim
:45:01. > :45:06.of domestic violence have to pay for getting a protection order when
:45:06. > :45:10.the alleged perpetrator does not have to pay? That has been a
:45:10. > :45:15.manifest injustice in Scottish legal aid. We are going to change
:45:15. > :45:19.that. We want to create a level playing field. As I said, the vast
:45:19. > :45:25.majority will not have the contribution to pay and others will,
:45:25. > :45:30.but it will be assessed on their ability to pay and, in most cases,
:45:30. > :45:33.the contributions will be modest. That way, we protect the integrity
:45:33. > :45:41.of the system and there is no evidence that similar systems which
:45:41. > :45:46.operate elsewhere that justice is interfere with. It is the 20 % that
:45:46. > :45:52.you are talking about who will be called on to contribute. It could
:45:52. > :45:56.be argued that people who are regularly in court to not have jobs
:45:56. > :46:02.and a guaranteed to fall below this threshold. It is low income
:46:03. > :46:12.families who will be most affected by this. For example, someone with
:46:12. > :46:17.an income of �160 a week will pay �473 as the contribution to the a
:46:17. > :46:27.legal aid. That is just a few pounds short of the entire fixed
:46:27. > :46:30.
:46:30. > :46:34.fee. That is not a contribution figure which is known to me. Back
:46:34. > :46:44.interior of someone who earns more than �200 who will have nothing to
:46:44. > :46:44.
:46:44. > :46:53.pay. The figures you for what are not recognisable to me. It does
:46:53. > :46:57.seem to me that there has to be some parity. At the moment, we're
:46:57. > :47:04.getting children who have to be taken into care should have to pay
:47:04. > :47:10.a contribution. Victims of domestic violence should not have to pay
:47:10. > :47:19.when the alleged perpetrator does not. They should have to pay. It is
:47:19. > :47:29.wrong that they should not be in the victim should have to. What
:47:29. > :47:32.
:47:32. > :47:37.about the expenses park? We are never had that system in Scotland.
:47:37. > :47:42.He faced the sanction that the court pits upon you. It is not a
:47:42. > :47:52.question of expenses. For instance, someone who is privately paying
:47:52. > :47:52.
:47:52. > :47:58.would not get any costs back. someone defends himself in court
:47:58. > :48:03.and Barnes really expensive court time and if it turns out you have
:48:03. > :48:10.to then go to the Appeal Court, this amount in savings will be a
:48:10. > :48:20.drop in the ocean? That is right. If the scenario panned out that way,
:48:20. > :48:23.
:48:23. > :48:30.but the evidence from elsewhere is that there are not many more people
:48:30. > :48:37.appealing. There are always some people who choose to appear
:48:37. > :48:47.unrepresented in Scotland. But evidence from elsewhere suggests
:48:47. > :48:48.
:48:48. > :48:58.that people do not become more unrepresented. Are you reviewing
:48:58. > :48:59.
:48:59. > :49:02.the threshold? He yes, they are. This threshold is the same
:49:02. > :49:08.threshold for a similar legal aid. I have made it clear I would like
:49:08. > :49:12.to see an increase in the threshold. It would be manifestly unfair if
:49:12. > :49:15.the victim of domestic violence should have to pay a higher
:49:15. > :49:20.contribution than the alleged perpetrator. I am prepared to
:49:20. > :49:25.increase that threshold. We will have discussions with the loss
:49:25. > :49:30.society on that. But we have no more money for that, so it will
:49:30. > :49:35.have to come out of the legal aid budget. Her which she described
:49:35. > :49:42.you're relationship with Scotland's solicitors, who are threatening to
:49:42. > :49:48.go on strike again. I do not like to see us and the situation. But we
:49:48. > :49:53.are having to cope with cuts from Westminster. I do not like to see
:49:53. > :49:58.injustice anywhere. But we have to come to terms with the consequences
:49:58. > :50:06.of cuts from Westminster and we have to look at that budget. The
:50:06. > :50:12.budget from my office says that legal aid will have to be cut by
:50:12. > :50:22.seven % in its budget. But that compares with a cut of 17 % south
:50:22. > :50:26.
:50:26. > :50:34.of the border. The but it will mean that we retain all the situations
:50:34. > :50:38.where back people will still be able to get legal redress. He know
:50:38. > :50:48.that in civil actions you can get expenses and you can get damages
:50:48. > :50:55.from that. Do you accept that you where it defence solicitor that you
:50:55. > :51:01.will be astonishing them with this proposal? You can have your
:51:01. > :51:05.children taken from year by the powers that are available and the
:51:05. > :51:09.consequences that up apply to civil matters. I have never
:51:09. > :51:17.underestimated the amount of trauma in relation to the likes of
:51:17. > :51:27.domestic violence. There is a manifest injustice there. A work
:51:27. > :51:27.
:51:27. > :51:35.legal-aid budget is the highest ever. 14 legal firms received over
:51:35. > :51:41.�1 million from legal aid. But it is their own fixed fees and this
:51:41. > :51:45.idea that they are all making money hand over fist is not right. If
:51:45. > :51:52.they are learning that, they are doing it the requisite number of
:51:52. > :51:58.cases. I have not seen the are a earning money hand over fist.
:51:58. > :52:06.suggesting we are in difficult times and the need to take a share
:52:06. > :52:10.of that band that burden. We will protect those who need to be
:52:10. > :52:19.protected. That goes for the victims as well as the perpetrators.
:52:19. > :52:22.Thing to very much. -- thank you very much.
:52:22. > :52:25.A leading engineering company has called on the Scottish government
:52:25. > :52:28.for help to bridge a skills gap in the renewables sector. This comes
:52:28. > :52:32.as a report from Holyrood's energy committee says that gap and other
:52:32. > :52:34.key areas are hurdles to ambitious green energy targets. It is hoped
:52:34. > :52:37.the equivalent of 100% of Scotland's electricity needs will
:52:37. > :52:45.be generated from renewable sources by 2020. There are some flashing
:52:45. > :52:53.images at the beginning of this report. Degree is a bright future
:52:53. > :53:02.in a growing industry for these apprentices. But training from this
:53:02. > :53:05.college courses not enough to get people up to scratch. We would like
:53:05. > :53:11.them to be here for the remainder of the week that there is no
:53:11. > :53:21.funding mechanism for that to happen. We need to do more tough
:53:21. > :53:21.
:53:21. > :53:31.bridge that gap. It is agreed that the skills gap could hurt the
:53:31. > :53:34.
:53:34. > :53:42.industry. Some environmental groups say that the targets are to
:53:42. > :53:48.bureaucrat of too bureaucratic and counter-productive. We want to be
:53:48. > :53:57.good places for communities and to his arm. There is adequate space
:53:57. > :54:05.for us to be developing an infrastructure. That was not a few
:54:05. > :54:15.shared by everybody. The committee took the view that the independence
:54:15. > :54:19.
:54:19. > :54:23.debate was not having a negative The Scottish government see the
:54:24. > :54:33.report as a vindication of their green policy. It is about
:54:33. > :54:37.generating income for communities, jobs for many people in the nation.
:54:37. > :54:42.Not 18,000 as the First Minister stated, then corrected this week.
:54:42. > :54:46.Of those jobs will be subsidised by households across the UK.
:54:46. > :54:53.Westminster makes clear how much that bill will be in the future.
:54:53. > :54:58.are investing into cream -- green energy. At the moment it is 2% of
:54:58. > :55:06.people's bills by 2020 it will be 7%. Infighting has made the
:55:06. > :55:13.decision about setting green targets has been delayed until
:55:13. > :55:20.after the next election. Ed Davey has been diminished and his
:55:20. > :55:26.defensive about this delay. Opposition parties have been angry
:55:27. > :55:35.that targets have not been made. Crucial hurdles need to be met
:55:35. > :55:43.before they can be achieved. Joining me from our Dundee studio
:55:43. > :55:49.is Mike Weir and the MSP Tavish Scott. Mike, if we look at the
:55:49. > :55:51.subsidy structure, how much is a problem is to secured long-term
:55:51. > :55:58.investment if there is not a certainty about the subsidy
:55:58. > :56:02.structure coming out of Westminster. Investors want to know the long-
:56:02. > :56:06.term structure because these investments are for the long term.
:56:06. > :56:11.The energy bill has put forward a new structure, we have yet to see
:56:11. > :56:15.the detail. There are already worries about how which will work
:56:15. > :56:21.and whether the price for Nuclear will be higher than for offshore
:56:21. > :56:27.wind. We need to detail this to see how we go forward. We need -- we
:56:27. > :56:32.are keen to build up renewable energy. But we need to have the
:56:32. > :56:37.structure correct. Tavish Scott, access to the grade is being called
:56:37. > :56:43.for, but it looks as if the islanders will not get reduced
:56:44. > :56:49.costs at this stage? Yes, that issue needs to be resolved. But
:56:49. > :56:56.Shetland has agreed to set up a working group to tackle the
:56:56. > :57:00.island's issues. The two governments should work together on
:57:00. > :57:05.this vitally important thing, that renewables coming into Scotland can
:57:05. > :57:10.feed into the grid. The regulator is right to roll-up -- to insist
:57:10. > :57:15.that happens at a cost which does not put this projects in jeopardy.
:57:15. > :57:21.De you feel that the independence to pay -- debate is itself creating
:57:21. > :57:24.controversy and putting off investors? That is the view of
:57:24. > :57:32.Scottish and Southern Electricity, one of the biggest players in the
:57:32. > :57:42.industry. Their views, the industry views, are more cautious than the
:57:42. > :57:42.
:57:43. > :57:51.political ones. It means that there is uncertain future simply because
:57:51. > :57:55.why could England rely on this, they could purchaser from anywhere.
:57:55. > :58:01.Is there evidence that the debate in itself, or where energy would be
:58:01. > :58:08.bought from in the future, would be a problem? No, there is none. If
:58:08. > :58:15.you look at a Viva, who invested in Scotland to build wind turbines.
:58:15. > :58:22.England will still need energy. Maybe -- Tavish Scott Scott says
:58:22. > :58:26.maybe they won't buy it from Scotland, who knows. But Scotland
:58:26. > :58:33.has a huge black -- potential for renewable energy. The capability
:58:33. > :58:43.gap between what is produced and what is needed within Great Britain
:58:43. > :58:53.is producing. But Scotland can continue to sell energy to the rest
:58:53. > :59:02.of the UK. It is not unusual to sell energy across Borders. Tavish
:59:02. > :59:07.Scott, let me ask you about the other potential hurdles, is the
:59:07. > :59:12.planning or training? The crucial issue is training. We have had a
:59:12. > :59:17.discussion over college funding in recent weeks. Your report
:59:17. > :59:21.illustrated the need for funding of colleges. It has been cut in
:59:21. > :59:27.government -- in Scotland by the Scottish government. I want the
:59:27. > :59:31.government to get their ducks in a row. I think it is right to have
:59:31. > :59:37.these desirable long-term targets but they also have the -- have to
:59:37. > :59:40.have the other building blocks in place, the skills. The college
:59:40. > :59:47.sector is under pressure from the government and they need to be
:59:47. > :59:57.given the flexibility to get on. Mike comedy next accept that there
:59:57. > :59:57.
:59:57. > :00:02.is a problem with training at this point? -- Mike, do you accept.
:00:02. > :00:07.should look at what the oil and gas industry are doing. They have their
:00:07. > :00:13.own training bodies. People in my constituency are getting
:00:13. > :00:18.apprentices. It is a competitive industry and there are crossovers
:00:18. > :00:22.between it the renewable industry and oil and gas. It is not only the
:00:22. > :00:29.government, the industry itself also should look at how it trains
:00:30. > :00:33.up the skills that it needs. What about construction and generation,
:00:33. > :00:39.what you think the picture is at the moment at the moment? In
:00:39. > :00:44.different parts of Scotland, is there enough of a spread? Projects
:00:44. > :00:51.are delivered by individual companies making assessments of the
:00:51. > :01:00.best capabilities. In other words, where it is best to put wave and
:01:00. > :01:07.tidal energy. The West Coast and the Northern Isles of Scotland are
:01:07. > :01:12.important in terms of the ways and tides. In terms of the construction
:01:12. > :01:17.contracts, would that have to be a these localised places, or could
:01:17. > :01:22.there be a better spread? I don't think it is for the government to
:01:22. > :01:27.start laying down will wear Industry decides where it wants to
:01:27. > :01:31.build wind turbines Towers or other infrastructure that they need for
:01:31. > :01:38.these projects. We didn't tell Aberdeen to become the offshore
:01:38. > :01:43.centre of Europe. The industry did that. That's the way it should be.
:01:43. > :01:49.Mike, we are out of time but do you think you'll meet your electricity
:01:49. > :01:52.target by 2020. We will, in a way we have already exceeded our
:01:52. > :02:02.interim target and there is a bright future for renewal energy in
:02:02. > :02:03.
:02:03. > :02:06.Scotland. Coming up after the news, we visit
:02:06. > :02:09.the Spanish region of Catalonia as voters go to the polls as the
:02:09. > :02:19.governing party seek a mandate to hold their own referendum. Let's
:02:19. > :02:22.
:02:22. > :02:31.cross now for the news with Maxine Good afternoon. One woman has died
:02:31. > :02:41.and hundreds have been driven from their homes in storms. Scotland has
:02:41. > :02:41.
:02:41. > :02:46.form -- has borne the brunt of the weather. -- the South West.
:02:46. > :02:49.The rain has stopped but the market town of Malmesbury is under three
:02:50. > :02:57.feet of water. People had to be rescued from the worst floods in
:02:57. > :03:03.decades. We had around eight or nine inches on Wednesday night.
:03:03. > :03:11.Everybody has said they had never seen anything like this before.
:03:12. > :03:20.Dozens of businesses have been -- homes have been left under water.
:03:20. > :03:24.All we could do was mark the position of the flood water. At the
:03:24. > :03:28.height of the storm, high winds brought down the streets in Exeter.
:03:28. > :03:33.A woman had been camped in the tent underneath. Two men were also
:03:33. > :03:41.injured. It was the south-west which bore the west of the
:03:41. > :03:46.overnight rain. At one point there were four severe flood warnings in
:03:46. > :03:51.this county. There are still more than 200 alerts in place. In Devon,
:03:51. > :03:56.hundreds of homes were deluged by the floodwaters, with the residents
:03:56. > :04:02.using any means to keep the flood waters down. It is coming in all
:04:02. > :04:11.the rooms. The flood waters may have begun to recede for now, but
:04:11. > :04:15.there is more to come. Another band of heavy rain is expected.
:04:15. > :04:18.Our correspondent is in Cornwall where the river burst its bank --
:04:18. > :04:23.its banks. More bad weather on the way?
:04:24. > :04:30.Yes, and things were pretty bad last night in the whole of Cornwall.
:04:30. > :04:34.Overnight, the river levels here rose dramatically, resulting in a
:04:34. > :04:38.severe flood warning, the most severe that the Environment Agency
:04:38. > :04:43.give. That has been downgraded in the last hour. The skies are still
:04:43. > :04:48.looking pretty leaden. The rain it may have stopped but we know that
:04:48. > :04:54.more bad weather is on the way. A fresh weather system is due to come
:04:55. > :04:59.through bringing more rain to the south-west and heavy and persistent
:04:59. > :05:02.rain to the north-west of England and the north of Wales this
:05:02. > :05:07.afternoon. A new law criminalising stalking
:05:07. > :05:13.has come into effect in England and Wales today. Those convicted will
:05:13. > :05:17.face up to six months in jail. The change followed a parliamentary
:05:17. > :05:22.inquiry which showed that 120,000 people, mostly women, are stalked
:05:22. > :05:27.every year. People have died in a clothing
:05:27. > :05:37.factory fire in Bangladesh. People jump from windows to escape the
:05:37. > :05:44.
:05:44. > :05:48.blaze. It was in the capital. Good afternoon. BAE Systems could
:05:48. > :05:50.decide to close one of their major shipyards next month. The future of
:05:50. > :05:53.Govan, Scotstoun and Portsmouth are in doubt after the completion of
:05:53. > :05:56.two new aircraft carriers. The chief executive has warned
:05:56. > :05:58.manufacturing may stop at one of the sites. BAE are in discussions
:05:58. > :06:08.with ministers about the future - union leaders say they're
:06:08. > :06:09.
:06:09. > :06:15.apprehensive. We have had talks with the company and that has been
:06:15. > :06:19.the suggestion. In reality, the sooner the decision is made, the
:06:19. > :06:22.better. It is just fuelling speculation.
:06:22. > :06:25.Scottish Women's Aid is launching a campaign to highlight why women do
:06:25. > :06:28.not leave violent homes when they're being abused. It's called
:06:28. > :06:31.Together We Can Stop It and looks at ways the public can stop abuse.
:06:31. > :06:36.Victims' real stories have been recorded and released on the
:06:36. > :06:39.charity's website. Rugby - and Andy Robinson has
:06:39. > :06:42.stepped down as Scotland coach. The Scottish Rugby Union made the
:06:42. > :06:45.announcement in the last hour. Yesterday's defeat to Tonga was the
:06:45. > :06:49.19th in Robinson's 35 matches in charge and comes at the end of a
:06:49. > :06:59.calendar year which began with the RBS Six Nations wooden spoon.
:06:59. > :07:02.
:07:02. > :07:07.After all the fine weather yesterday, a rather dull affair. A
:07:07. > :07:17.lot of rain around central Scotland and eastern Scotland. That will go
:07:17. > :07:26.into the North Sea. It would turn to snow near Aberdeen. A trying
:07:26. > :07:32.picture from the West. It will fill rather cold today under all that
:07:32. > :07:42.cloud temperatures will go to about six Celsius. We are picking up a
:07:42. > :07:44.
:07:44. > :07:48.fresh northerly wind across the Now it is that time of the day
:07:48. > :07:54.where we take a look back at the highlights of the Week in 60
:07:54. > :07:57.Seconds. It was a wet start to the week for
:07:57. > :08:00.many people across Scotland, with flooding causing major disruption
:08:00. > :08:02.to roads and towns. The further education saga
:08:02. > :08:09.continued, when Education Secretary Mike Russell apologised to MSPs for
:08:09. > :08:11.giving wrong information on college budgets.
:08:11. > :08:14.MSPs from Scotland's three largest opposition parties launched their A
:08:14. > :08:21.New Union plan, to find agreement on further powers for Holyrood if
:08:21. > :08:23.Scots vote no to independence. Labour's Michael McMahon was banned
:08:23. > :08:28.from the chamber for a day after heckling the Speaker, Tricia
:08:28. > :08:38.Marwick. Mr McMahon said he felt the punishment did not fit the
:08:38. > :08:48.
:08:48. > :08:51.crime. Order! Order! I would ask you to withdraw it that remark.
:08:51. > :08:56.And no agreement on the European Union's budget. Prime Minister
:08:56. > :08:59.David Cameron insisted the deal on offer "was not good enough".
:08:59. > :09:03.The people of Catalonia vote today after a bitter and hard-fought
:09:03. > :09:06.campaign dominated by the issue of independence from Spain. The
:09:06. > :09:09.elections were called by Catalan president Artur Mas, in a bid to
:09:09. > :09:14.get a mandate for a referendum, something the government in Madrid
:09:14. > :09:17.has ruled out. But there has been a furious response, with one Spanish
:09:17. > :09:27.newspaper accusing Mr Mas of corruption just a week before the
:09:27. > :09:30.
:09:30. > :09:40.poll. Our political correspondent is in Barcelona. Sealed with a kiss.
:09:40. > :09:42.
:09:42. > :09:52.A happy couple celebrate their wedding day. Modern Spain was
:09:52. > :09:55.
:09:55. > :10:00.united. Their political successors have fallen out. President Artur
:10:00. > :10:10.Mas called for a referendum to get the mandate on independence. It was
:10:10. > :10:11.
:10:11. > :10:19.rejected by Madrid. A sea of red and yellow Catalan flags came out
:10:19. > :10:26.demanding a new place within the country. Even if he does get
:10:26. > :10:31.support at the ballot box, it does not mean it is going to happen. The
:10:31. > :10:41.Spanish constitution blocks the road to independence. Independence
:10:41. > :10:44.
:10:44. > :10:54.campaigners say they need to have their say. TRANSLATION: We need to
:10:54. > :10:57.
:10:57. > :11:07.be given the chance. Things got rather messy after a leading
:11:07. > :11:13.
:11:13. > :11:19.newspaper accused Artur Mas of corruption. Companies are come here
:11:19. > :11:29.because what it is like and have people find that the government is
:11:29. > :11:32.
:11:32. > :11:36.putting up walls around the region, it would be catastrophic. Those in
:11:36. > :11:44.favour of independence hope that the vote goes their way and the
:11:44. > :11:51.force Spain to give them a fort on independence few. What kind of
:11:51. > :11:59.result is expected? What are the early indications? It is clear
:11:59. > :12:06.enough that there will be a majority in favour of independence.
:12:06. > :12:14.The real question is whether Artur Mas gets the out right majority he
:12:14. > :12:21.needs. He is having to deal with these corruption allegations. He is
:12:21. > :12:25.accusing the Spanish President of been behind these allegations. But
:12:25. > :12:35.of course, there are also having to deal with their share of the
:12:35. > :12:38.
:12:38. > :12:45.austerity of which is gripping all of Spain. As Scotland been
:12:45. > :12:55.mentioned in this? Yeah, it is very interesting. Artur Mas has called
:12:55. > :13:02.
:13:02. > :13:06.for an Alex Salmond style push for independence. Now, at regarding the
:13:06. > :13:11.NATO situation, they have become very clear on this, as opposed to
:13:11. > :13:21.Scotland, when Alex Salmond became very defensive when asked on the
:13:21. > :13:21.
:13:22. > :13:29.issue. Thank you for that. Sorry that we were slightly off sink on
:13:29. > :13:33.that report. We will have to leave it there. We will get early polling
:13:33. > :13:37.and L indications of their results later this evening.