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Pope Benedict XVI is resigning his leadership of the Roman Catholic | :00:05. | :00:12. | |
Church. He said he was no longer strong enough to fulfil his duties. | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
He'll step down at the end of the month. The 85-year-old Pope is the | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
first pontiff to resign in nearly 600 years. Catholic leaders here | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
say they are shocked and saddened by the news, but know it was a | :00:23. | :00:32. | |
considered decision. I think it is an extraordinary | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
gesture of a man who feels he no can't give the energy, because he | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
no longer has that sort of energy for the sort of job he's trying to | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
The Pope visited Britain in 2010. Prime Minister David Cameron says | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
it will be remembered with great respect and affection. | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
Social care in England. Ministers are expected to announce a �75,000 | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
cap on costs. The horsemeat in beef scandal. The | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
government says there's no evidence of risk to human health, but warns | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
there may be more unwelcome news to come. | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
And, the US-Iran hostage film, Argo, takes three BAFTAs, including best | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
film and best director for Ben On BBC London: An emergency meeting | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
is underway to discuss cuts to London's Fire Service. | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
And, a baby boy, mauled by a fox in his cot, is said to be making a | :01:18. | :01:28. | |
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Good afternoon, and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
Pope Benedict XVI is to resign his leadership of the Roman Catholic | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
Church. The Pope, who's the first Pontiff to step down in modern | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
times, said he was well aware of the seriousness of his act, but he | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
no longer had the strength to fulfil his duties. He will leave at | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
the end of the month, and the papacy will remain vacant until a | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
successor is found. Our first report is from Alan Johnston in | :02:02. | :02:12. | |
Rome. One of the most extraordinary | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
moments end of the modern history of the Catholic Church. Pope | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
Benedict, announcing in Latin he could no longer go on. There had | :02:21. | :02:28. | |
been no hint, no rumour, that this monumental decision was coming. The | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
Pope's health is watched extremely closely and there had been no | :02:31. | :02:38. | |
outward sign of any weakening. But now we know that behind the scenes, | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
intense pressures were mounting. Too much for the Pope to bear. | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
Around the world, Catholics are trying to make sense of the news. | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
It is an extraordinary gesture of a man who feels he cannot give the | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
energy because he no longer has backed for the job he is trying to | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
do. It is unprecedented in the modern era. Here is a man who has | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
clearly examined the office that he holds and has decided this is the | :03:09. | :03:17. | |
right time. Suddenly, the Vatican finds itself | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
in uncharted terrain. No plans will have been made for papal | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
resignation. Events can now be expected to advance rapidly. Into | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
macro weeks, the Pope will step aside in these unusual | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
circumstances, and the Church will move as quickly as it can to | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
replace him. Pope Benedict was elected to the | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
papacy in 2005. In 2010, he visited Britain. In the last hour, the | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
Prime Minister said that visit would be "remembered with great | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
respect and affection". Mr Cameron said he'll be missed as a spiritual | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
leader to millions. Philippa Thomas now looks back at Pope Benedict's | :03:54. | :04:03. | |
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career, and leadership. The German Cardinal was elected | :04:10. | :04:20. | |
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Pope at the age of 78. He was the oldest man for 275 years to assume | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
leadership of the church, and he has a history of ill-health. He was | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
born in a picturesque village in rural southern Germany, but he was | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
just six when the Nazis swept to power and was forced to join the | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
Hitler Youth, spending World War II in an anti-aircraft unit before | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
deserting as Germany collapsed. After the York -- after the war, he | :04:45. | :04:52. | |
committed his life to the church, initially championed -- championing | :04:52. | :05:02. | |
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modernisation. Joseph Ratzinger chose to reject radical liberalism. | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
He was appointed Archbishop of Munich, then Cardinal, before Pope | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
John Paul II gave him leadership of the congregation for the doctrine | :05:11. | :05:18. | |
of the faith. He was increasingly seen as the Pope's envoy Sir, | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
speaking out against abortion, homosexuality, feminism, rock music, | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
even the Harry Potter books. He saw the Catholic Church as the one true | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
denomination. After the death of Pope John Paul II in 2005, white | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
smoke from the Sistine Chapel announced his election after just | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
four barracks. Pope Benedict's first overseas visit was to his | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
homeland. He sailed into Cologne, calling upon young people to return | :05:54. | :06:04. | |
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to the faith. Open wide your hearts to God. But this traditionalist | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
Pope faced controversy, violent protests in several Muslim | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
countries after he quoted criticism of Islam by a 14th century | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
Christian leader. Pope Benedict's Vatican faced criticism for its | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
handling of sexual abuse by priests. On visits to the US and other | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
countries, he expressed his sorrow and regret for the scandal. A | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
however, he used this visit to present in 2010 to argued that the | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
Christian moral principles underpinned Western democracies. | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
Back in Rome, the conviction of the Pope's personal butler for stealing | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
confidential papers was an embarrassment. In the end, his | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
resignation is for more personal reasons, his physical struggle to | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
continue. Let's get more on today's | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
announcement from our Rome correspondent, Alan Johnston. Tell | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
us, what has been the reaction in Rome today? | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
This has been the most extraordinary shock, there is a | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
small army of journalists, experts Vatican watchers who follow every | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
move that the Pope makes. There was no indication this monumental | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
decision was coming, and more junior members of the Vatican were | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
taken completely by surprise. No preparation for this. The Pope made | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
this announcement not in a specially prepared moment, but | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
during a meeting which was supposed to be to do with other business. He | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
will be gone in two weeks. Not long to find his successor, what happens | :07:49. | :07:57. | |
next? Normally, every other papacy for the past 600 years has ended | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
with a papal death, funeral, a great gathering of cardinals to | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
elect a successor. In these extraordinary circumstances, we | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
will move rapidly to that great gathering of cardinals who will | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
reflect on the past papacy and decide what they feel that the | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
Church needs next. Eventually, after rounds of voting in the | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
Sistine Chapel, they will elect a new Pope. Our religious affairs | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
correspondent is Robert Piggott, and he joins us now. | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
This has come as a big surprise to many, even when a Pope is in ill | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
health, they rarely resign. What is behind the decision? | :08:42. | :08:50. | |
The first time for 700 years, a lonely decision it seems. The seeds | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
were sown seven years ago when Pope Benedict became Pope. He had just | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
seen Pope John Paul II, his long- lived predecessor, dies slowly of | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
Parkinson's disease and steadily become incapacitated. There was | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
open discussion over whether the Pope should resign. Many thought he | :09:09. | :09:16. | |
shouldn't. But I think Pope Benedict felt that more strongly | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
than other people. There had been the question whether the Pope could | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
go on managing the church. And the spectre of what would happen if the | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
Pope became mentally incapacitated, what would happen then? The Pope | :09:32. | :09:40. | |
has had built health issues before. There are other reasons. He hasn't | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
been a great manager, it is fair to say. The management of the Church | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
has steadily become more for him to manage as well. The issue of leaks | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
from the Vatican, a difficult thing for the battered and to cope with. | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
The Pope has been confirmed about evangelising in western Europe, | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
preventing this tide of secularism, and he feels more energy needs to | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
be devoted to it than he can give. We'll have more on Pope Benedict's | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
papacy later in the programme. And there'll be reaction to news of his | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
resignation, throughout the day on the BBC News Channel. | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
Plans to cap social care bills for the elderly are being outlined by | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
the government today, as part of its plans for the long-term funding | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
of social care in England. It's thought that from 2017, the maximum | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
anyone will have to pay for help at home or in residential care will be | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
�75,000. The changes will be paid for, in part, by a three-year | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
freeze in the level at which people start to pay inheritance tax. Our | :10:40. | :10:50. | |
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social affairs correspondent, Alison Holt, has this report. The | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
timing she spent with her mother is important. Her mother has dementia | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
and lives in a residential home. To pay more than �30,000 in fees each | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
year they had to sell the family home. The government claims today's | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
announcement means, in future, people will not have to do that. | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
Certainly, Ingrid feels the current system is not fair. | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
None of the family had come from poor circumstances, labourers, | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
clerks, it was a joint effort to live together, to save this house, | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
to have this nice house. Their only asset. I think it is unfair. Today, | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
the government will set out the details of its plans for reforming | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
social care. It is expected a cap will be set so no one pays more | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
than sending �5,000 for help at home or in residential care. Anyone | :11:46. | :11:55. | |
with less than �120,000 in asset will get help. It is expected the | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
new system will be introduced in 2017. Care costs will not be | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
backdated. There are many who are disappointed by the level of the | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
cap but for the first time it could give people clarity about how much | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
they might be expected to pay for the care. The government believes | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
that will encourage people to plan for the future. One in 10 of us | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
will spend more than �100,000 on a social care costs. By putting a cap | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
on the limit of how much anyone has to be a, we make it possible for | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
people to plant earlier in their life, whether through insurance | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
products, through a change in their pensions policy, to plan for that | :12:36. | :12:43. | |
amount of money. In homes like this one visited today by the Health | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
Secretary, residents will still have to pay for food and | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
accommodation, even if they qualify for support. Labour says that the | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
reforms are a small step forward but not enough. I am very concerned. | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
It is not going to be fair for people with modest homes, and it | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
won't do anything for the thousands of families that are really | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
struggling in the current care system. The �1 billion cost of | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
social care reform in England will be partly paid for by freezing the | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
level at which people have to pay inheritance tax. There are | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
different systems elsewhere in the Our home editor, Mark Easton is | :13:24. | :13:33. | |
here. Who will be affected by this cap? The government reckons about | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
one in 10 pensioners will be affected. It means and 90% will not. | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
Pensioners, about a quarter of us will need residential care. That is | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
where the big bills racked up. But that doesn't necessarily mean that | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
they will be able to hold on to their home. They still have to pay | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
the hotel and accommodation costs, often a great deal more than the | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
amount spent on care. A minimum of �12,000 a year. Depending on the | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
kind of care home you RN. You can still actually end up having to | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
sell your home. The other thing about this announcement, it doesn't | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
answer the big question, how society will fund care for our | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
elderly? We know that the population is getting older. Demand | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
is rising. The amount of money local authorities are spending on | :14:33. | :14:43. | |
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adult social care is being squeezed. The big question remains unanswered. | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
Consumers, anxious about the horsemeat scandal, should "be | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
prepared for more unwelcome news", according to the Environment | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
Secretary, Owen Paterson. He said all processed beef products were | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
safe to eat, and that "nothing so far presented a health risk". But | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
he added that 16 other countries had been issued warnings about | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
possible contamination. And Downing Street insists there's "no evidence | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
of a risk to human health" and therefore there's "no legal case | :15:07. | :15:17. | |
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for an import ban from the EU". Ben The contents could be horsemeat. | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
Supermarkets in different European countries have been clearing their | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
shelves of products which may be contaminated. | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
In the UK, thousands of beef products are being tested this week | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
for horse DNA. Some results may not be available until April. | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
The UK's Environment Secretary, is to brief MPs later for the moment, | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
the Government insists that this is not a health scare but a labelling | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
fraud. There is nothing we have seen that | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
represents a health scare, but there will be testing going on | :15:53. | :16:00. | |
through the week and ultimately it is down to the retailers to | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
convince customers of the quality and the validity of the products. | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
The Government says that a criminal conpir asy could lie behind the | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
contamination. There are no plans to ban imports of meat from Europe | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
but legal action is expected soon. In France an investigation is | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
focusing on this company, Spanghero, but getting answers about who is | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
responsible for this scandal will mean unravelling a complex web of | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
trading relationships. It is thought that the source of the | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
horsemeat is two abattoirs in row mannaire. From there, it is | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
believed that a Dutch trader acquired the meat, who sold it to | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
another trader from Cyprus it was then bought by a French company who | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
processed the meat at its factory in Luxembourg. 16 countries, | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
including Britain, have been warn bad products containing horsemeat. | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
It is surprising, the people, the complexity of putting processed | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
foods together. Ingredients, sourced from the four corners of | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
the earth. Bought with the cheapest materials possible. | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
Among the abattoirs, fact tris and dealers that produce the food, | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
criminals have found a way in. Once again, questions are asked about if | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
the right safeguards are in place to stop them. The Romanian Prime | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
Minister insisted there had been no violations of European law or | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
standards in his country. Let's talk to our correspondent who joins | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
us from the capital of Bucharest. So no breach of the rules and from | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
the Romanian Prime Minister, anger that suggestions have been? Yes. | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
The Romanian government put forward a robust response. They are | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
exercised about the allegations thrown in their direction by France. | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
Let's talk first about the investigation. They were asked to | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
look into two abattoirs. One that traded in horse, one that traded in | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
both horse and beef. They have looked at it, a paper trail that | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
goes back to the beginning of 2012. There is sertcation for slaughter | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
and there is sertcation for export that was checked by the Ministry of | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
Agriculture. As far as they are concerned it all adds up. There are | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
two other things to say. Firstly, the abattoirs were exporting horse | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
carcass. Not minced beef. So it is identifiable as horse when it | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
leaves the plant. The second thing, the French company that threw the | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
allegations this way did not have a direct contract with the remain -- | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
with the Romanian abattoirs. I asked the Romanian Prime Minister | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
if he was angry, he was so. He said that this are being kicked | :18:44. | :18:51. | |
by those with strong are PR than theirs. He added that the French -- | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
he said that they could not be held accountable for meat that is traded | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
beyond their borders. Thank you. | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
Two men have been charged in connection with the death of a | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
police woman who's car was struck by a stolen vehicle in Londonderry. | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
Philippa Reynolds was killed when the unmarked car she was travelling | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
in turned into the path of a car in the early hours of Saturday morning. | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
Five hill walkers, missing in the kaurn cairn overnight have been | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
rescued. The party, thought to be university | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
students from the Leeds area set out near Aviemore yesterday but | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
failed to return. The alarm was raised when one was injured in a | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
fall. Now the top story: | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
Pope Benedict XVI is resigning his leadership of the Catholic Church. | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
He says he is no longer strong enough to fulfil his duties. | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
Coming up: A great night for Britain at the BAFTAs, including | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
Daniel-Day Lewis who won Best Actor for his role in Steven Spielberg's | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
epic, Lincoln. On BBC London: A charity says | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
around a third of the capital's newly diagnosed cancer patients | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
lack support from family and friends during their illness. | :20:02. | :20:12. | |
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Daniel-Day Lewis has won Best Actor for his performance in Steven | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
Spielberg's Lincoln. British movies Skyfall and Les Miserables also won | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
awards. It is British film's biggest night | :20:37. | :20:44. | |
of the year with many of cinema as most famous faces walking the rainy | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
red carpet, waiting to find out who had won and lost with the race | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
being open, few were predicting what the winners would be. So all | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
eyes were on BAFTA, not just here but on the other side of the | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
Atlantic. A good showing here gives the film the edge in the Oscars in | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
two weeks' time. The film that got the edge did not win the most | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
awards but took the biggest awards, Best Film and Best Director. | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
For Argo, Ben Affleck. Best Film, Best Director, how does | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
it feel? Wonderful. Thrilling. It is such a great organisation. To be | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
here with partners who we started off together with this. It has been | :21:26. | :21:32. | |
exciting. A little cold but that is on the outside! The drama is about | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
American diplomats trapped in Iran should go into the Academy Awards | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
as the favourite for Best Film, ahead of Les Miserables and Lincoln. | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
Despite its ten nominations, in the end Lincoln won one for Daniel-Day | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
Lewis's portrayal of the American President. | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
I am so very grateful to BAFTA for this. | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
And for all of the encouragement you have given me over the years. | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
It has meant a great deal to me. The big screen adaptation of Les | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
Miserables won the most awards. Including Best Supporting Actress | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
for Anne Hathaway. She fell in love with the musical at aged eight when | :22:14. | :22:21. | |
watching her mother performing the part on the theatre stage. | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
I, looking back, decided that was the moment that I would do what my | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
mum did. So this feel, to have this recognition for this role. I don't | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
know what to make of it but I'm starting to think that dreams do | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
come true. The Bond movie, Skyfall, the most | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
successful film every at the UK box office won two awards, including | :22:45. | :22:52. | |
Outstanding British Film. 1,292 people worked on this movie. | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
I stand here on behalf of all of them. We all had high expectation | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
force the film. It is fair to say that all have been exceeded. This | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
is really the icing on the cake. Thank you very much, BAFTA. | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
And another film with strong British ties, Brave. Set in the | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
Scottish Highlands, it won the Best Animated Film. | :23:16. | :23:24. | |
No more fighting! Well, the BAFTAs were taking place | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
in London and the stars of the McWorld were in Los Angeles for the | :23:29. | :23:36. | |
Grammys. Mumford & Sons were among the winners taking home the Album | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
of the Year prize for Babel. They received the award from Adele who, | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
won for her song Set Fire To The Rain. | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
The UK Government published advice that suggests an independent | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
Scotland would be treated as a new state under international law. The | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
legal opinion, described as arrogant by the SNP suggests that | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
Scotland will have it renegotiate membership of international bodies | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
including the EU and the United Nations. Our Scotland correspondent, | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
Lorna Gordon, joins us from Edinburgh. | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
Yes, today the UK Government took the highly unusual move of | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
publishing that legalled a viets, from two eminent experts of | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
international law, here in the setting of the library in Edinburgh. | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
The arguments were being fleshed out. The main one seems to be that | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
the majority of international precedence favours the opinion that | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
Scotland would be treated as an entirely new state if Scots were to | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
vote in favour of independence in the referendum of last year. | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
According to the Secretary of State for Scotland, Michael Moore, there | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
would be serious repercussions for Scotland if it chose to leave the | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
UK. He used the arguments to underline the fact that he believes | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
that devolution has served Scotland well. | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
This offers our country the best of both world, devolution. We are | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
strong, a proud nation with a modern devolved country. Devolution | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
has enabled those of us who live and work tpwh Scotland to take on | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
important decisions on issues that affect our daily lives, for what | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
our children are taught in school, to the way in which hospitals | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
provide care, to how many police officers are on the streets. | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
Too often we have taken for granted what we have. | :25:29. | :25:36. | |
Well, Scotland's Deputy First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, accused | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
the UK Government of breathtaking arrogance. Saying this was one set | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
of legal opinion and there are many others. That the international view | :25:43. | :25:50. | |
is not clear. If you want to find out more about | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
the cases for and against Scottish independence, as well as the | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
background to the referendum go to the futures section of the BBC News | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
website at bbc.co.uk/news. Five members of the same British | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
family have died after a car crash in Saudi Arabia. It was understood | :26:10. | :26:18. | |
that they were on a privilege to mecca. They have been named locally | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
as Newport-based Shaukat Ali Hayat. A one-year-old baby is believed to | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
have survived the crash. Let's get more now on the top | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
story: The impending resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. He is to leave | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
his post as the head of the Roman Catholic Church at the end of the | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
month as he says he no longer has the strength to carry out his | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
duties. So, surprise then at the decision, | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
Robert but understanding too from church leaders here? Yes. It is | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
being described as a shock by the Archbishop of Westminster, the | :26:52. | :27:00. | |
leader of the Catholic Church in Wales but he said he paid tribute | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
to the Pope's clarity of thought and courage in taking what must | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
have been a lonely step indeed, and the dignity in which he had done it. | :27:09. | :27:17. | |
That was echoed by Justin Welby, the new Archbishop 6 Canterbury. | :27:17. | :27:23. | |
And he said that he spoke also of Pope Benedict XVI's courage in | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
doing this. The dignity that he had eVinced. He spoke about his visit | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
here, the witness he had given to the Christian faith, not just for | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
the Roman Catholic Church but for all churchs when he came to Britain | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
in 2010 and was such an example of Priestley ministry, as the | :27:41. | :27:46. | |
Archbishop put it. So all around the world there will be a sense of | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
sympathy for the Pope, and a sense of him having done a huge job in a | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
very short space of time. Robert, how will his leadership be | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
view snd what about his legacy? Well, I think in the end he was a | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
caretaker Pope. We will have to remember that history will show he | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
came after the monumental reign of Pope John Paul II who left a big | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
mark on the church. Was such a huge figure on the world's stage. At the | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
end of that, in illness, with the church beginning to wonder where it | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
was to go after Pope John Paul II, I think it was a big job for him to | :28:21. | :28:29. | |
take over. I think that he will look back as unfinished work, but | :28:29. | :28:33. | |
in the end he will be seen as someone who held the course of the | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
ship steady at a very difficult time. Thank you. | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
time. Thank you. Before we go, a look at the weather. | :28:41. | :28:46. | |
Well, for some of us it has been a snowy start to the new working week. | :28:46. | :28:51. | |
This picture, a beautiful scene it was taken by Brian Garnet from bar | :28:51. | :28:55. | |
net. It show as beautiful scene here, but it was a slippy journey | :28:56. | :29:01. | |
to work this morning. As far as how much snow you will have seen, | :29:01. | :29:05. | |
altitude played a very important role. It is cooler up the mountains, | :29:05. | :29:11. | |
that was key in giving up to 13 centimetre of snow over the | :29:11. | :29:21. | |
:29:21. | :29:21. | ||
Chilterns. Snow across Nottingham too but at | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
lower levels, hit and miss. The area of snow is continuing to work | :29:25. | :29:29. | |
over the central and southern areas of England. It is moving to the | :29:29. | :29:33. | |
west. The snow falling into southern | :29:34. | :29:39. | |
parts of Devon at the end of the afternoon. A few more snow flurries | :29:39. | :29:43. | |
in the them estuary. Also across the Midlands. Pushing | :29:43. | :29:47. | |
to the north, brighter weather across the north and Scotland with | :29:47. | :29:51. | |
the clouds breaking. Sunshine around but it will be on the cold | :29:51. | :29:55. | |
side. The temperatures up to four Celsius. Drab conditions for | :29:55. | :29:58. | |
Northern Ireland. Here is few showers and spots of rain working | :29:58. | :30:03. | |
into the western counties. In Wales, back to the cloud. The cloud | :30:03. | :30:07. | |
thicker over parts of south-west England and parts of Devon and | :30:07. | :30:12. | |
Dorset. There may be a little snow, but staying cloudy. | :30:12. | :30:16. | |
Overnight tonight we are expecting the cloud to thicken up further | :30:16. | :30:20. | |
over areas of Wales. There we may see a little bit of snow working in | :30:20. | :30:24. | |
overnight. Apart from that it will be a cold | :30:24. | :30:28. | |
night with a widespread frost developing in rural areas. That | :30:28. | :30:33. | |
will lead to icy stretches on untreated roads and pave thements | :30:33. | :30:39. | |
on Tuesday morning. For Tuesday, cloud for England and Wales. Then | :30:39. | :30:47. | |
the odd showers to the north south- east coasts. | :30:47. | :30:51. | |
Whether it stays cloudy or if you see sunshine it will be a cold one | :30:51. | :30:55. | |
on Tuesday. For Tuesday night, the cold air | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
firmly in place but through the night and into Wednesday, the | :30:59. | :31:05. | |
Atlantic weather system is coming from the west. About two to six | :31:05. | :31:10. | |
centimetres of snow falling there. Strong winds and more snow at | :31:10. | :31:16. | |
higher levels, the snow could then higher levels, the snow could then | :31:16. | :31:18. | |
turn back to rain. Now the top story: Pope Benedict | :31:18. | :31:24. |