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The Prime Minister says he won't rule out airstrikes against | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and says there are no legal barriers | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
to stop them. As David Cameron joins world leaders | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
at the NATO summit in Wales, he says nations must stand together | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
to confront the terrorist group, which is now threatening to kill | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
British hostage, David Haines, a 44-year-old aid worker from Perth. | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
We shouldn't rule out taking further action. We have supported the | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
American airstrikes that have taken place so far. We have played our own | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
role with aircraft flying surveillance missions. | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
The Head of NATO says leaders are facing an "arc of crisis" with new | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
security threats around the world. The NATO Summit here in Wales will | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
be one of the most important summits in the history of our Alliance. A | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
crucial summit, at a crucial time. Also on the programme: | :00:56. | :01:03. | |
Desperate to get to England. The migrants in Calais trying to | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
force their way onto lorries, as France demands UK help to stop them. | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
A mother of five is found stabbed to death on her farm in the New Forest. | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
Do you know what you're eating? There'll be a national | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
Food Crime Agency in the wake of the horsemeat scandal. | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
On BBC London: Police divers search a canal | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
near the home of missing teenager, Alice Gross, last seen a week ago. | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
And, a woman is found beheaded in a north London garden. | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
A 25-year-old man's been arrested. Good evening. | :01:28. | :01:52. | |
Welcome to the BBC's News at Six. David Cameron says British | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
military action against Islamic State is not being ruled out. | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
He says he believes there would be no legal barriers to stop Britain | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
launching airstrikes against the terrorist group | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
in both Syria and Iraq. The Prime Minister's hosting a NATO | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
summit, in South Wales, which is being described as one | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
of the most important meetings in the Alliance's history. | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
Its Secretary-General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said Alliance | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
members were surrounded by an "arc of crisis" and facing new | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
security threats around the world. They include the threat of | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
Islamic State, in Syria and Iraq, and the conflict in eastern Ukraine | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
between forces loyal to Russia and the Ukrainian government. | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
Here's our political editor, Nick Robinson. | :02:31. | :02:40. | |
If decisions about another war are to be taken anywhere, they will | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
surely be taken here, and now, in Newport. More than 60 Presidents and | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
Prime Ministers have gathered for the summit of the most powerful | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
military alliance in the world. NATO's leaders came here expecting | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
to mark the end of a conflict, the withdrawal of western troops from | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
Afghanistan. You put your lives on the line. You fight so that others | :03:06. | :03:14. | |
can be safe, so that those who resort to terror and violence will | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
not succeed. But the leaders gathered in Wales are absorbed | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
instead by what to do about two new conflicts, one to the east, pitting | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
Russia against Ukraine, another to the south, thanks to the mounting | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
threat of the so-called Islamic State. Surrounded by an arc of | :03:32. | :03:40. | |
crisis our Alliance, our transatlantic community, represents | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
an island of security, stability and prosperity. What has brought the | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
violence much closer to home is the brutal beheading of two American | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
journalists, and the chilling threat that this man, British aid worker, | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
David Haines, could be next. A father of two from Perth, he was | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
kidnapped in Syria last March. Barack Obama and David Cameron say | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
the fight against IS is a struggle which could last until these | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
children grow up and have children of their own. They both insist there | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
will be no instant military action, but both are contemplating | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
airstrikes against those they say pose a threat to our way of life. We | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
shouldn't rule out taking further action. We've supported the American | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
airstrikes that have taken place so far. We've played our own role with | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
aircraft, flying surveillance missions. We have provided aid, | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
vitally needed aid that saved lives. We should go on considering | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
vitally needed aid that saved lives. more we can do. That could mean | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
British tornado fighters attacking Islamic State forces. | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
British tornado fighters attacking were used three years ago to attack | :04:52. | :05:01. | |
Colonel Gaddafi supporters in Libya. In truth, of | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
Colonel Gaddafi supporters in Libya. the man on the right will only come | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
when the man on the left makes up his mind what to do. What makes the | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
American President popular with the British public, his calm | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
consideration, sometimes infuriates those waiting for him to take a | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
lead. The people of Newport are delighted that the Presidential | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
motorcade is rolling into town. The question facing President Obama | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
motorcade is rolling into town. The the world is whether he has come | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
with the strategy for confronting Islamic State which, only last week, | :05:32. | :05:40. | |
he admitted he hadn't got. Allies in the Arab world are what Britain and | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
America are now looking for. Step forward the King of Jordan. | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
Meanwhile, as western leaders talked, Ukraine is still burning. | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
NATO says that Russia has fuelled this conflict, sending in not just | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
weapons, but her own troops. We call on Russia to pull back its troops | :06:01. | :06:10. | |
from Ukraine, to stop the flow of arms, fighters to the separatists. | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
Ukraine's President Poroshenko won more support today, but the West | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
will fight Russia, not with weapons, but with a fresh round of sanctions | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
on companies and individuals to be announced tomorrow. On the streets | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
of Newport a few hundred marched against more wars. Watch this space. | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
Nick Robinson, BBC News, at the NATO Summit. | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
David Cameron says every possible option is being examined to try to | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
protect the British hostage, 44-year-old David Haines, | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
who is being held by Islamic State. The aid worker from Perth, | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
a father of two, went missing in Syria in March last year. | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
But the Prime Minister said the British Government's policy was | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
not to pay ransoms to terrorists. Our security correspondent, | :06:51. | :06:50. | |
Frank Gardner, reports. Held hostage by Islamic State US | :06:51. | :07:02. | |
journalist James Foley and Steven Sotloff, beheaded by jihadists on | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
video. Now, another western hostage is threatened, David Haines, from | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
Scotland, 44 years old, an aid worker and father of two. He was | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
seized last year at gunpoint while working at this refugee camp, just | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
inside Syria. The Government says it is doing all it can to help him, | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
short of paying a ransom. We won't pay ransoms to terrorists who kidnap | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
our citizens. I know that is difficult for families when they are | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
the victims of these terrorists, but I'm absolutely convinced, from what | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
I've seen, this terrorist organisation, and indeed others | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
around the world, have made tens of millions of dollars from these | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
ransoms. It was only last year, at the G8 Summit, that world leaders | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
agreed unanimously not to pay ransoms to terrorists. But since | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
then there has been a steady stream of European hostages being welcomed | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
home by leaders after being released by their captors. Governments deny | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
paying any money directly. This is an Italian hostage held by IS | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
alongside David Haines from Britain. He was released, Haines was held. | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
For a lot of European countries, the option is simple - they give in to | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
demands, pay the ransom, the hostage gets released, the terrorists get | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
rich. British policy rules out making what they call "substantive | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
concessions to kidnappers" that means no ransom payments or prisoner | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
swaps. That leaves two options. Use intermediaries to try and persuade | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
the kidnappers to give up their capives. Option two, hostage rescue. | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
It's hugely rescue. In the case of the western hostages, held in Syria, | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
it's already been tried by the Americans in July and failed. I | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
think the British Government has a good track record of hostage | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
negotiation and release. A lot of expertise. The British Government | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
has been put under a huge amount of pressure in places like Iraq, and | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
currently in Syria, where the traditional method of negotiation | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
and release isn't available to them. They cannot pay ransoms. Islamic | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
State commanders are using their western hostages to pressure America | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
and Britain to back away and let them overrun more of the Middle | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
East. That is not something world leaders seem ready to alaw. Frank | :09:26. | :09:26. | |
Gardner, BBC News. American warplanes have been | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
stepping up their attacks on the Islamic State fighters | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
in Northern Iraq. Many of the airstrikes have been | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
launched from a US aircraft carrier in the Gulf. | :09:39. | :09:40. | |
From there, our defence correspondent, | :09:41. | :09:41. | |
Jonathan Beale, reports. This is how America's unleashing | :09:42. | :09:53. | |
its military might against Islamic State fighters, | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
from an ever moving piece of US territory, now sailing in the Gulf. | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
Warplanes, from the USS George H Bush, have been | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
targeting the extremists in northern Iraq and even though America's been | :10:04. | :10:05. | |
warned of consequences, they're still dropping these bombs. | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
The crew though is all too aware that western | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
hostages are being held and that their citizens have been beheaded. | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
It affects people, obviously personally, | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
but you can't allow those feelings to affect the way we do our jobs. | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
We, basically, follow orders and we execute | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
the plan as our leaders see fit. So we try to keep the emotion out | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
of it and make it pretty much matter-of-fact and do our job | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
the way we're trained to do it. So far, the strikes have been | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
limited, but they're clearly hitting the extremists hard and helping | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
Kurdish forces retake key territory. They're already launching missions | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
round-the-clock, but they're now waiting orders to do even more. | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
These American warplanes have already been | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
on bombing runs over northern Iraq, but they may now be about to take on | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
a much more difficult and dangerous mission, and that's targeting the | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
Islamic extremists in Syria itself. If these jets are ordered to attack | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
the extremists in Syria, they'll also have to worry about | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
the regime's advanced air defences. I think the training that we had, | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
as a ship, and an air wing team, will allow us to operate | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
in any environment we are tasked to operate in. | :11:28. | :11:29. | |
So you wouldn't be worried if you were ordered to go to Syria? | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
Umm... (PAUSE). | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
Worried might not be a word that I would use. | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
I would say that our training has prepared us well to operate anywhere | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
where we're assigned to operate. President Obama says destroying | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
Islamic State won't be quick or easy, and nor can it be done | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
with American air power alone. Jonathan Beale, BBC News, | :11:52. | :11:52. | |
aboard the USS George H Bush. Let's return now to Newport and | :11:53. | :12:03. | |
speak to our political editor, Nick Robinson. Nick. | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
How likely is it that Britain will get involved with these airstrikes | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
against Islamic State? What is clear to me is that David Cameron, the | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
Prime Minister, has made his own personal decision that this will be | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
the right thing to do. But, it's a very important "but" he set himself | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
a whole set of hurdles that need to be crossed before he did try and do | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
that. First, of course, President Obama himself must come to that same | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
conclusion and persuade the American Congress that it's the right thing | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
to do. He will only do that if there is a new, stable Iraqi government in | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
the next few weeks formed which includes Sunni as well as Shia | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
factions. And, they will then have to make a request for that military | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
action. And, there will then have to be a coalition around the Gulf, | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
around the Arab states so that President Obama and Prime Minister | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
Cameron can say - this is no repeat of what George Bush and Tony Blair | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
did when they invaded Iraq in 2003. Not only will he have to cross all | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
those hurdles, the Prime Minister will have to get the support of | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
parliament. Labour have signalled they are not opposed to this. They | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
are open to being persuaded. Tonight we are told that Conservative whips | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
are going around individual MPs saying - would you vote for this if | :13:24. | :13:25. | |
we decide to do? Nick, thank you. The authorities in Calais have | :13:26. | :13:35. | |
accused the rest of Europe of letting them down by failing to help | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
them deal with the growing number of migrants who've flocked to the | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
town as they try to reach the UK. Dozens of migrants tried to storm | :13:43. | :13:44. | |
a cross-Channel ferry yesterday, and the town's Mayor has threatened | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
to close the port unless the British Government takes action. | :13:48. | :13:49. | |
Our correspondent, Colin Campbell, is in Calais for us. | :13:50. | :13:50. | |
Colin. For years migrants have been trying | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
to get across the channel to England. Yesterday, it all came to a | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
head. 80 migrants rushed their way into Porto try to bored Ferris | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
heading to Dover. None were, it's claimed, successful, the Ferris | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
raised their ramps. French police and security guards rounded them out | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
and put them out of the port -- ferries. Sprinting into Calais Port, | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
pursued by French Police. This is the moment scores of migrants | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
stormed the French ferry terminal. There we go. They are going to make | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
a break for it. Filmed by a British driver, the footage appears to show | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
French security overwhelmed. Those who took part say it was an act of | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
desperation. We were in the road to get to the truck. Then the police | :14:39. | :14:47. | |
came to get us. They spray some gas. We organise it together. We decided | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
to run to the port. They just bring us back from the port by pushing us | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
and gassing us. The British Government says it is funding the | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
bolstering of security here. Funding technology to detect stowaways. The | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
local French authorities say their being let down. We need more | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
co-operation. We need help in that as well. Not only from the | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
government, from the French government, we need involvement from | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
England. From Italy, from the rest of Europe. Migrants here believe | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
they can gain a better life in the UK than they can in France. With up | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
to 1,300 in the town, the port is constantly being targeted. These are | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
migrants trying to climb their way into the UK. Day and night migrants | :15:34. | :15:41. | |
are attempting to breach this perimeter fence. It's a vulnerable | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
area. The trucks that rest here have cleared customs and are awaiting to | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
board Ferris for the UK. When caught we witnessed these two were | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
immediately released. You want to go to England? Yeah. You climb the | :15:56. | :16:03. | |
fence? You climb the Yes. Fence? Si. As numbers swell in Calais, | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
desperation to reach the UK is palpable here and all ways are being | :16:10. | :16:10. | |
tested. Our top story this evening: | :16:11. | :16:25. | |
The Prime Minister says he won't rule out air strikes against | :16:26. | :16:27. | |
Islamic State terrorists, and says he believes there are no | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
legal barriers to taking action. And still to come: | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
how a tweet from a school in Newport resulted in a visit | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
from the president. Later on BBC London: | :16:38. | :16:39. | |
Just what sort of appetite do Scots living in London have | :16:40. | :16:41. | |
for an independent homeland? We find out. | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
And paying tribute to a comedy genius - a host | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
of stars turn out for the unveiling of a Spike Milligan memorial. | :16:49. | :16:57. | |
After the horsemeat scandal last year, do you feel any more confident | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
about the food you're eating? A new report says gangs have found | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
a market with "huge profits and low risks," and that the UK food | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
industry shows "a worrying lack of knowledge" about what's going on. | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
As a result the Government says it is now going | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
to set up a dedicated food crime unit to protect consumers. | :17:20. | :17:21. | |
There will be more unannounced spot checks on suppliers and retailers, | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
and laboratory testing to check what's in food will be improved | :17:25. | :17:26. | |
and speeded up. Our science correspondent | :17:27. | :17:27. | |
Claire Marshall reports. This was the biggest food fraud of | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
recent times, involving This was the biggest food fraud of | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
most well-known brands and retailers. Consumers were buying | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
horse meat when they thought it was beef. Processed products were rushed | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
off the shelves. Public confidence lunged, the apologies came. To make | :17:50. | :17:57. | |
sure we know the food on our shelves is what it says it is, today's | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
report argues that much more needs to be done, and the guv rack agrees. | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
A to be done, and the guv rack agrees. | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
powers should be set up, and this must be in the context of more | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
comprehensive reform. It is one strand of a food crime prevention | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
strategy. On its own, it will not function. It has to be supported by | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
the work of industry and different Government agencies. These pictures | :18:25. | :18:32. | |
show Interpol raids earlier this year across 33 countries in Europe. | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
It was their biggest operation into the food crime business so far. | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
Criminals engaged in producing this food have no care at all for the | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
hygiene, whether acting is in the product, they have no care at all | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
for the end product. They simply want to get this product in the | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
street to get their money. Here in the UK, our food is | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
extremely safe. It is food inspectors like Rebecca who are on | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
the front line making sure. This farm shop got top marks. Teams like | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
Rebecca's across the country have suffered 45% cut is, while the | :19:17. | :19:24. | |
criminals grow more sophisticated. Where you have big business, you | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
will probably have big crime. It is definitely a worldwide issue. Could | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
new technology help? The latest equipment can now very rapidly | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
identify meat, but only before it is processed. So that is our minced up | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
pork chop the new exam and by the machine, and this is how quickly it | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
gathers its data. A few seconds, and here we are - not beef. It isn't a | :19:49. | :19:56. | |
catchall solution. But who should pay? That bit is not so clear. | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
A 25-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
after a woman was killed in a back garden in North London. | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
It's understood she was beheaded. The victim was found | :20:10. | :20:11. | |
at an address in Edmonton. Police say there is no suggestion | :20:12. | :20:12. | |
that the killing is terrorist-related, | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
and they are not looking for anyone else in connection with | :20:17. | :20:18. | |
the death at this stage. Police have in Hampshire have | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
launched a murder hunt after a mother of five was found stabbed to | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
death in a field in the New Forest. Pennie Davis, who was 47, | :20:29. | :20:30. | |
had been tending her horses near Beaulieu when she was killed. | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
Her husband discovered her body. Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
is at the scene for us. Duncan. | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
As you can imagine, there is complete shock, not only from the | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
family of Pennie Davis, but all those living here. She was found by | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
her husband, her new husband. They had only got married in May. She | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
died of multiple stab wounds. Police asked for witnesses not only from | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
local people but also the thousands of tourists who visit the National | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
Park. They say this is an extremely rare crime in auroral area. They | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
have asked people to be vigilant, but not to worry, they have a big | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
police operation going on here. There are also appealing for | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
witnesses among tourists, local people and others, anybody with any | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
information to come forward as soon as they can. Late this afternoon, | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
Pennie Davis's family released a statement saying, she was a | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
remarkable person, we are overwhelmed by the outpouring of | :21:36. | :21:37. | |
love and grief that her death was caused. The police operation | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
continues into the morning as her family come to terms with this | :21:42. | :21:42. | |
brutal attack. With just two weeks to go | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
until the referendum on Scottish independence, both sides are trying | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
to win over undecided Labour voters, who are believed to be one | :21:53. | :21:54. | |
of the keys to victory. Ed Miliband says Scots should vote | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
no to independence and vote for Labour at the next general election | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
if they want a more equal Scotland. But the SNP leader, Alex Salmond, | :22:02. | :22:03. | |
claims Labour supporters across Scotland are " | :22:04. | :22:05. | |
turning their back on Westminster". From Glasgow, Allan Little reports. | :22:06. | :22:13. | |
What is staring in the old Labour heartlands of Scotland? How many | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
traditional Labour voters are planning to vote yes? The | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
pro-independence campaign has been very active in these communities, | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
arguing that an independent Scotland would be a fairer, more socially | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
just got that. The polls suggest that message is getting through. Ed | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
Miliband came to Glasgow today to talk about social justice, too, | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
saying it would be better served by an elected Labour government at | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
Westminster next year. We are going to build social justice | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
across the UK, freezing energy bills, raising a minimum wage, | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
having fairer taxes, more powers for the Scottish parliament. That is | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
what I will be doing. I hope that Labour voters will vote no in the | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
referendum and be part of a Labour government next May. Labour | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
activists know that they are under pressure to get a prounion vote out | :23:06. | :23:15. | |
on the day. They are union values that are beginning to take root. I'm | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
sure there are people who are turning their back on a daily basis | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
on it together and their scare tactics and bullying. | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
# Better Together. It used to be said that you didn't | :23:27. | :23:38. | |
count the Labour vote in places like this, you weighed it. Labour won | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
every election here for half a century until losing to the SNP in | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
2007. There is no accumulating evidence that the yes campaign have | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
made real inroads into this once solid Labour vote. It is here in the | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
Labour heartlands that this referendum will be decided. If it is | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
a yes vote, it looks like your partners in Better Together are | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
already lining up to blame you. We have people right across Scotland | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
mobilising people, knocking on doors, going out and making the | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
case. I think the most important thing for me to say is the no case | :24:19. | :24:30. | |
is not a case for no change. For the prounion campaign, convincing | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
traditional Labour voters of that is now the most urgent priority. | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
And you can find out more about the | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
referendum with our website bbc.co.uk/Scotland | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
And finally, children at a primary school | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
in South Wales have discovered just how useful social media can be. | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
Last term the school in Newport tweeted NATO knowing world leaders | :25:00. | :25:01. | |
were coming to the city for a summit. | :25:02. | :25:03. | |
They said they'd love to have a visit from a VIP. | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
And they got one, as Hywel Griffith reports. | :25:07. | :25:07. | |
The school run as you've never seen it before. 22 car cavalcade carrying | :25:08. | :25:22. | |
the world was -- the world's most powerful politician. These pupils | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
had spent months learning about the NATO leaders coming to their city, | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
but didn't expect to end up face-to-face with the President of | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
the United States. I was really nervous! But after all, my own dad | :25:34. | :25:42. | |
said he is an ordinary guy. I was overwhelmed. They just kept smiling | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
at me. You can't pay for that to happen. Money can't buy that. This | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
school was chosen because back in June it sent out a tweet to NATO | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
saying it would quite like a VIP visit. Little did they realise then | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
that that would end up with the resident walking into their | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
classroom. They also had the Prime Minister in the bargain, but only a | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
few of the staff were allowed to know who the VIPs would be. We were | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
told that something significant would probably happen, but in terms | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
of keeping it a secret, one or two people in school knew from the | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
start, and it was very James Bond, a need-to-know basis. What these | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
children need to know is that the rest of term probably | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
children need to know is that the as exciting. Getting back to work | :26:34. | :26:34. | |
Time for a look could be tough. | :26:35. | :26:42. | |
Right now we are in a window of Here's Tomasz Schafernaker. | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
Right now we are in a window of whether we are in a window of | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
weather where, but locally, it is a difference between the sunshine and | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
the gloomy skies. Today on the satellite picture, some areas had | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
beautiful patches of sunshine, across the Midlands it was more | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
cloudy. Cloud is one of the most difficult things to forecast for | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
meteorologists. It really is a case of areas of cloud floating around. | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
But a little rain coming into Scotland and Northern Ireland. We | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
have fresh air coming in from the north, so through tomorrow, a little | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
rain in Scotland and Northern Ireland will splash its way through | :27:29. | :27:35. | |
and end up in the low lands. But it will be fresh and sparkling sunshine | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
to the north of that. To the south, very little wind. It is a story of | :27:39. | :27:46. | |
cloudy skies, maybe a little sunshine. The rain will be from | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
Newcastle all the way to the Lake District. For Saturday, that same | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
weather front in the North will sink a little further south, and also | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
East. So for example across Lincolnshire or Yorkshire. The same | :28:01. | :28:08. | |
goes for Sunday, but unfortunately, one of these weather fronts swerves | :28:09. | :28:11. | |
back into Scotland through the course of Sunday. If you are running | :28:12. | :28:17. | |
the great North run, good luck to you. Newcastle, around 15 Celsius at | :28:18. | :28:25. | |
lunch time, light winds as well. On balance, not that bad. Tomasz, thank | :28:26. | :28:31. | |
you. | :28:32. | :28:38. |