:00:00. > :00:11.It's the final day of campaigning before Scotland's referendum
:00:12. > :00:39.The latest polls suggest the result is too close to call.
:00:40. > :00:50.We are and where, we are not drifting off the North Pole. You
:00:51. > :01:03.have be I'm Lucy Hockings live in Edinburgh
:01:04. > :01:05.with the latest. Campaigners on both sides
:01:06. > :01:07.of Scotland's referendum debate are taking to the streets
:01:08. > :01:10.for one final day of campaigning Campaigners on both sides
:01:11. > :01:37.of Scotland's referendum debate are taking to the streets
:01:38. > :01:40.for one final day of campaigning And with the future of the UK
:01:41. > :01:46.hanging in the balance they will be doing all they can to win over those
:01:47. > :01:49.who are still undecided. The overall poll
:01:50. > :01:51.of polls suggests the result is While 49% say Yes to
:01:52. > :02:04.Scotland becoming an independent country. Three polls released within
:02:05. > :02:07.the last 12 hours by British newspapers the Daily Telegraph,
:02:08. > :02:10.Daily Mail and Scottish newspaper The Scotsman all suggest a lead
:02:11. > :02:17.of 52% for No to 48% with undecided Let's cross to Lucy Hockings
:02:18. > :02:33.who is live for us What is the mood like there? It is
:02:34. > :02:37.incredible. The tension in the air is palpable. When you speak to
:02:38. > :02:41.people here in Edinburgh, tears come to their allies, some of them,
:02:42. > :02:45.instantly. Such is the passion that they feel, whether it is a yes or a
:02:46. > :02:50.no fact that it is coming down to the very last day of campaigning.
:02:51. > :02:55.This referendum is simply too close to call. You have showed the poll
:02:56. > :03:00.results but look at the margin of error. Things could go either way.
:03:01. > :03:04.We still have a massive pool of undecided voters in Scotland, people
:03:05. > :03:08.who are yet to make up their minds. They may not make up their mind
:03:09. > :03:12.until this time tomorrow, when they head to the polling stations and
:03:13. > :03:16.make perhaps the biggest political decision of their lives. Whether or
:03:17. > :03:21.not Scotland should be an independent country. It is
:03:22. > :03:25.remarkable, whether you like in a cafe where people are picking up
:03:26. > :03:29.their morning coffees, last night at pubs and restaurants in Edinburgh,
:03:30. > :03:33.it seems to be the only thing that anyone is talking about. Daily life
:03:34. > :03:38.is going on but such is the import of this decision, everywhere you go,
:03:39. > :03:44.there are flags flying, people are wearing buttons on their coats. On
:03:45. > :03:48.the streets last night, walking through the historic heart of
:03:49. > :03:53.Edinburgh, I saw chalk marks on the street, people writing political
:03:54. > :03:56.messages. 16-year-olds will be voting in a referendum tomorrow.
:03:57. > :03:59.They were walking around, late last night, handing out leaflets, trying
:04:00. > :04:05.to convince people one way or another. The mood here is tense,
:04:06. > :04:06.basically. I cannot think of a better word. Passions are really
:04:07. > :04:21.running high. On Friday morning, the eyes of the
:04:22. > :04:27.world will be on this woman. It is Mary who will deliver the result of
:04:28. > :04:32.the Scottish referendum. It is very important in the country's history,
:04:33. > :04:35.yes. It's an important stage. I am honoured to have a part to play in
:04:36. > :04:39.all of that. How comfortable are you about being replayed endlessly
:04:40. > :04:43.delivering the result on the Internet? I'm trying not to think
:04:44. > :04:47.about that. I wouldn't be human if I didn't have lives about that but I
:04:48. > :04:57.am focused on making sure that that of the process goes well. In the
:04:58. > :05:03.streets, on buses, in cafes and pubs, in offices, at dinner tables,
:05:04. > :05:09.the debate here is everywhere. Scotland is split down the middle. I
:05:10. > :05:13.had never spoken to my family about politics before now. It used to be
:05:14. > :05:20.that this was just my job. One of the big things falls the first poll,
:05:21. > :05:25.which reduced a swell of attention around the UK and the world. A lot
:05:26. > :05:30.of people thought it would be a close win for the no campaign, they
:05:31. > :05:33.thought it was possible that the yes campaign would win. The stakes
:05:34. > :05:39.couldn't be higher. Even at the bowling alley in Edinburgh, the talk
:05:40. > :05:42.is of currency, oil, years of voting Labour getting Tory, social justice,
:05:43. > :05:48.fear, hope and the end of infantilism. In a way, Scotland
:05:49. > :05:53.needs to grow up and leave the family home in a sense. I am voting
:05:54. > :05:56.yes because I decided that Scotland is better by itself. We don't need
:05:57. > :06:03.to be led by Westminster. We are strong enough to do it by ourselves.
:06:04. > :06:08.I am voting no on Thursday because I think there are too many unanswered
:06:09. > :06:11.questions, too many cases where they are hoping and praying.
:06:12. > :06:19.Unfortunately, I think in today's's global economic society, we cannot
:06:20. > :06:24.afford to take that many chances. The arguments will go on forever but
:06:25. > :06:27.it is decision time. And what is likely to be the highest turnout in
:06:28. > :06:37.Scotland's history will determine its future.
:06:38. > :06:40.We are expecting a turnout of 80% tomorrow. People who haven't voted
:06:41. > :06:44.for years will be casting a ballot and those first-time voters as well.
:06:45. > :06:48.One of the phrases that comes up quite a lot from politicians on both
:06:49. > :06:53.side of the divide is what kind of divorce this would be, if Scotland
:06:54. > :06:56.does indeed vote yes. The no campaign is saying it could be
:06:57. > :07:00.bitter and acrimonious. The yes campaign saying it could be a nice
:07:01. > :07:07.kind of separation. I want to take you back 21 years, to a divorce that
:07:08. > :07:13.they called the velvet divorce. That was when Czechoslovakia broke up to
:07:14. > :07:16.be two sovereign nations. Our correspondent is in Prague. He looks
:07:17. > :07:21.at some of the lessons that can be learned from what happened in
:07:22. > :07:23.Czechoslovakia, for those here in Scotland.
:07:24. > :07:28.Prague, seat of Kings, emperors and presidents for ten centuries, able
:07:29. > :07:34.rock stage set for many an historical drama and a meeting point
:07:35. > :07:41.between East and West. But since 1993, also the capital of a much
:07:42. > :07:45.reduced country. At the stroke of midnight on December 31, 1992,
:07:46. > :07:54.Czechoslovakia simply ceased to exist. And astonishingly, the
:07:55. > :07:57.decision to divide it without a referendum, had been taken just five
:07:58. > :08:02.months earlier. Leading the talks for the Czech side was Prime
:08:03. > :08:20.Minister, later president, fax love clouds. -- Vaclav Claus. You are
:08:21. > :08:25.using the wrong arguments. It is very easy to defy the country. The
:08:26. > :08:30.number of people in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic is
:08:31. > :08:41.2-to-1. Everything is divided 2-to-1. But that simple equation
:08:42. > :08:45.could not be applied everywhere. A temporary currency union collapsed
:08:46. > :08:51.after just six weeks and the Slovak currency devalued massively. But in
:08:52. > :09:01.Bratislava, despite their rocky start, the Slovaks have caught up.
:09:02. > :09:07.In time of admission, Slovak GDP per capita was 60% of the Czech GDP.
:09:08. > :09:16.Very recently, Slovakia has the same GDP per capita is the Czech
:09:17. > :09:21.Republic. Today, Czechs and Slovaks regard their velvet divorce as a
:09:22. > :09:26.success. But that doesn't mean there isn't nostalgia for Czechoslovakia.
:09:27. > :09:32.Of course, nowadays, everybody is happy it happened that way. In the
:09:33. > :09:37.gentle way. That there was no war. But still, there are things which
:09:38. > :09:43.are in my mind. This was not correct in some ways. Comparisons with
:09:44. > :09:55.Scotland? Well, unlike the Czechs and Slovaks, the voice of the
:09:56. > :09:58.Scottish people will be heard. At the moment, those polls are
:09:59. > :10:03.saying that this referendum is too close to call but one thing that is
:10:04. > :10:07.certain, on Friday morning, Scotland will wake up to a very different
:10:08. > :10:10.future and whether you vote yes or no up here, the one thing people are
:10:11. > :10:14.unified honours the fact that they want to change, whether it is change
:10:15. > :10:18.and having independent country or whether it is simply seeing more
:10:19. > :10:23.powers devolved to Holyrood, the Scottish Parliament behind me. More
:10:24. > :10:27.powers on things like tax, health care which is what the no camp as
:10:28. > :10:33.promised. That is a certainty. Scotland is never going to be the
:10:34. > :10:36.same again after this referendum. I suspect Scotland isn't going to be
:10:37. > :10:38.waking up Friday because they will be up all night, along with the rest
:10:39. > :10:41.of us! Thanks for now. And you can keep up to date
:10:42. > :10:44.on this historic vote at There,
:10:45. > :10:47.you'll find the referendum live page which is following every twist
:10:48. > :10:56.and turn of the final 24 hours. Police investigating the murders
:10:57. > :10:59.of two British tourists on a beach in Thailand say they are
:11:00. > :11:02.now considering two other British David Miller and Hannah Witheridge
:11:03. > :11:06.were found dead on the island of Two British tourists are now
:11:07. > :11:14.in police custody but have not been A Chinese economist and champion
:11:15. > :11:19.of the rights of China's Muslim Uighur minority,
:11:20. > :11:22.is due to go on trial in Xinjiang. Ilham Tohti was detained in January
:11:23. > :11:24.after questioning the government's role in a series
:11:25. > :11:26.of violent confrontations between Uighurs and the dominant
:11:27. > :11:29.Han Chinese ethnic group. He's accused
:11:30. > :11:32.of having links to separatists. Fiji has been holding
:11:33. > :11:34.its first parliamentary election The vote is seen as an opportunity
:11:35. > :11:40.to restore democracy to the South Pacific nation, which has seen
:11:41. > :11:45.four governments toppled within the past 30 years, largely because
:11:46. > :12:00.of tensions between indigenous China's president has arrived in
:12:01. > :12:05.India for a three-day visit which is expected to focus on closer economic
:12:06. > :12:10.ties. He was greeted in Gujarat by India's new primers to, who made
:12:11. > :12:13.regular visits to China when he was Gujarat's Chief Minister. He will
:12:14. > :12:18.travel to Delhi tomorrow, on Thursday, and will hold talks,
:12:19. > :12:22.travel to Delhi tomorrow, on focusing on trade, infrastructure
:12:23. > :12:24.and Borders disputes. Let's speak to the BBC's Hindi service
:12:25. > :12:29.correspondent, who was following the trip for us. Whenever I've been in
:12:30. > :12:36.India recently, people say, gosh, look at the infrastructure. They
:12:37. > :12:43.marvel at China and ask why cannot India do the same? What is this
:12:44. > :12:49.visit about? You are right. It is basically
:12:50. > :12:53.issues around economics and it is primarily going to be about trade
:12:54. > :12:56.and investment. That has been billed as the primary issue which is going
:12:57. > :13:02.to be discussed between the two leaders in the next three days. And
:13:03. > :13:08.ever since the new government came into power, there has been a lot of
:13:09. > :13:14.talk of improvement in Indian and Chinese relationships, especially on
:13:15. > :13:21.the economic front. It is also significant because the premiere of
:13:22. > :13:23.very recently went to Japan, where the Japanese government pledged
:13:24. > :13:29.millions of dollars into India over the next five years. There are many
:13:30. > :13:36.experts believe the Chinese will also, in all probability, do the
:13:37. > :13:42.same. The fact remains that both India and China have had a
:13:43. > :13:44.long-standing border issue and despite several rounds of
:13:45. > :13:51.negotiations border talks over the past several decades, there has been
:13:52. > :13:54.no resolution in sight. That is something which is of a very
:13:55. > :14:00.delicate nature between these countries but it is only going to be
:14:01. > :14:03.trade and investment which will be the talk of the time for the next
:14:04. > :14:08.few days in India. Do people in India feel largely like
:14:09. > :14:13.they have no choice but to improve their relationship with China? China
:14:14. > :14:15.has historically been closer to Pakistan and has recently supported
:14:16. > :14:21.from anchor, which unnerves India. Yes. The Chinese visit to Sri Lanka
:14:22. > :14:29.was keenly watched in India. India has appeared to be taking a lot of
:14:30. > :14:32.interest over the last decade, over the growing Chinese investment in
:14:33. > :14:37.Sri Lanka, which has been a traditional ally. India has looked
:14:38. > :14:45.upon all of these factors, with a lot of caution, and it has tried to
:14:46. > :14:49.come up with something which is of mutual interest to both countries.
:14:50. > :14:54.Of course, there is this problem of growing Indian quick dash the
:14:55. > :14:57.growing Indian trade deficit, although China remains one of its
:14:58. > :15:02.biggest partners. That is a delicate balance which needs to be looked
:15:03. > :15:13.upon by the new government in Delhi. Of course, the Chinese president has
:15:14. > :15:17.now landed in Gujarat. Yes, it is significant.
:15:18. > :15:20.Interesting how this silly dash visit is being conducted. It was his
:15:21. > :15:31.birthday. There was a picture treated, which is trending in India.
:15:32. > :15:37.It is quite a personal start to this trip. The Premier has made plain his
:15:38. > :15:43.admiration of the way the Chinese have improved that internal affairs.
:15:44. > :15:50.That is true. When he was the chief minister of Gujarat province, he
:15:51. > :15:58.made four or five visits to China in search of investment. He has
:15:59. > :16:03.promised Chinese investors export zones, setting up special zones
:16:04. > :16:07.throughout the country and in the Gujarat state. Basically, he has
:16:08. > :16:16.been talking about an investor friendly climate in India and that
:16:17. > :16:19.is how he sees the future of Sino Indian relations over the coming
:16:20. > :16:22.decades. China and India represent a third of
:16:23. > :16:29.the population so it could be a powerful alliance of it comes.
:16:30. > :16:31.Stay with us on BBC World News, still to come:
:16:32. > :16:36.New research shows the English king - Richard III - succumbed to 11
:16:37. > :16:39.gruesome blows as he lost the throne and his life on the battlefield more
:16:40. > :16:51.The golden era of America's space age may seem
:16:52. > :16:54.consigned to history, but NASA is gearing up to, once again,
:16:55. > :17:10.July 2011 and a moment in history. The space shuttle Atlantis makes its
:17:11. > :17:16.final landing at the Kennedy space Centre in Florida. The USA's manned
:17:17. > :17:26.mission to the stars comes to a halt, at least for a while. But now,
:17:27. > :17:33.it is left off once again and then a very American touch, the private
:17:34. > :17:39.sector is leading the way. NASA has signed a deal with Boeing to build a
:17:40. > :17:43.new generation of craft, effectively space like taxis to put astronauts
:17:44. > :17:48.into space and towards the space station. This truth be the most
:17:49. > :17:53.ambitious and exciting chapter and NASA's history. From the first day,
:17:54. > :17:59.the Obama Administration has made it clear that the greatest nation on
:18:00. > :18:08.earth should make it its priority to get into space. Especially when he
:18:09. > :18:17.is talking about rivals Russia. It costs America $1700 to finance his
:18:18. > :18:24.astronaut Petra. That is especially when they have to get into the space
:18:25. > :18:29.station. We will have new facilities that will not only be visited by our
:18:30. > :18:35.astronauts but by private citizens and foreign sovereign nations. NASA
:18:36. > :18:41.plans the first launch in 2017 and the hope is that this is only one
:18:42. > :18:44.small step. They hope it will bite to the next giant leap, a mission to
:18:45. > :19:04.the planet Mars. It is the final day of campaigning
:19:05. > :19:09.before Scotland decides on its independence referendum. The latest
:19:10. > :19:15.polls suggest it is too close to call the outcome.
:19:16. > :19:19.China visits India and both countries hope it will improve the
:19:20. > :19:25.relationship between them. A new experimental vaccine for Ebola
:19:26. > :19:28.is to be tested on humans The British trial has been
:19:29. > :19:31.fast-tracked in an attempt to stop The planned trial in Oxford will see
:19:32. > :19:36.60 healthy volunteers being tested against the Zaire species of Ebola
:19:37. > :19:39.which is circulating in West Africa, The vaccine does not contain
:19:40. > :19:42.the infectious Ebola virus and can't cause a person who is
:19:43. > :19:45.vaccinated to become infected. The first phase of the trials,
:19:46. > :19:48.which could also see people from the Gambia and Mali taking
:19:49. > :19:51.part, is expected to be completed Up to 10,000 doses
:19:52. > :19:54.of the experimental vaccine are being produced
:19:55. > :19:56.while trials are taking place. That will mean the vaccine could
:19:57. > :19:58.be made available immediately to Dr Edward Wright is a senior
:19:59. > :20:02.lecturer in Medical Microbiology at the University of Westminster,
:20:03. > :20:04.who's involved in the trials. He says clinical trials of this
:20:05. > :20:16.vaccine are moving very quickly. It's normally takes years of
:20:17. > :20:20.development for a new vaccine to come into effective use. There's a
:20:21. > :20:24.new vaccine to come into effective use. Studies have been done on
:20:25. > :20:31.animals already. They have proven that this is an effective vaccine
:20:32. > :20:38.for stimulating an antibody response in monkeys. The vaccine itself is
:20:39. > :20:47.perfectly safe. It is not going to cause the Ebola disease in people.
:20:48. > :20:51.All the vaccine comprises of it a harmful chimpanzee virus that has
:20:52. > :20:56.been engineered to incorporate one of the proteins, one of the genes of
:20:57. > :21:03.the Ebola virus, so it cannot cause the Ebola disease. The virus itself
:21:04. > :21:10.only causes cold and flu like symptoms. It is one protein, one
:21:11. > :21:15.small part of the Ebola virus, how can that park then generate a proper
:21:16. > :21:23.response in the human body? We have to look at the natural history of
:21:24. > :21:27.the infected individual. When the person becomes infected, the body
:21:28. > :21:31.recognises the virus and stimulates antibodies that will target a
:21:32. > :21:36.protein on this offers of that virus. The gene decodes that protein
:21:37. > :21:42.and incorporates it into this chimpanzee virus and so when the
:21:43. > :21:46.volunteers receive this vaccine, the vaccine will infect cells and that
:21:47. > :21:55.stimulates the antibody response to the infection. That is what we hope
:21:56. > :22:01.at least what happened. -- will happen.
:22:02. > :22:03.A senior Ukrainian rebel leader has told the BBC that
:22:04. > :22:06.a new law granting self-rule to parts of the East will not change
:22:07. > :22:10.Andrei Purgin said there were no plans to develop any political
:22:11. > :22:13.The bill - which was approved by the Ukrainian
:22:14. > :22:15.Parliament on Tuesday - also offers an amnesty for some rebels.
:22:16. > :22:18.The measures are part of a ceasefire deal seeking to end five
:22:19. > :22:22.The BBC's Paul Adams is in Donetsk, a separatist stronghold,
:22:23. > :22:25.and he explained the reaction in the city to the new autonomy law
:22:26. > :22:30.It's kind of interesting - both here in Donetsk and in the other main
:22:31. > :22:33.rebel stronghold of Luhansk - we've had at times some carefully nuanced
:22:34. > :22:37.statements saying that rebel leaders are interested in some of the
:22:38. > :22:40.proposals that they do not dismiss them out of hand, but they are also
:22:41. > :22:45.making it clearer that after everything that has happened
:22:46. > :22:48.in the past few months, they are not about to abandon their cause
:22:49. > :22:51.They have declared their own peoples' republics both
:22:52. > :22:58.They also talk about New Russia as a kind of overarching structure
:22:59. > :23:05.which is also indicative of the fact that they are looking towards
:23:06. > :23:08.the East and not the West for their political and economic allegiances.
:23:09. > :23:10.But when I spoke to Andrei Purgin, who is the first
:23:11. > :23:30.Vice Prime Minister, effectively the number two of the Donetsk
:23:31. > :23:33.People's Republic last night, he gave me a rather guarded answer at
:23:34. > :23:45.On the one hand he expressed optimism
:23:46. > :23:48.but on the other hand he made that wider purpose clear.
:23:49. > :23:51.Right now, we are learning about this a lot.
:23:52. > :23:54.There are a lot of positives which we can use for dialogue
:23:55. > :23:58.and the foundation for negotiation, but that does not mean that we have
:23:59. > :24:01.altered our direction on the way to independence and the Russian world,
:24:02. > :24:03.and we really do not plan on building any political
:24:04. > :24:05.relationship with Ukraine, not federal or any other.
:24:06. > :24:07.But we can discuss economic cooperation, social,
:24:08. > :24:11.He also made it clear that he dismissed some
:24:12. > :24:14.of the proposals about an amnesty and he said that the rebels were not
:24:15. > :24:18.He said Ukrainian forces had to withdraw from their territory first
:24:19. > :24:26.and when I put it to him that effectively what they are looking
:24:27. > :24:29.towards is some kind of separate entity, a bit of a forgotten
:24:30. > :24:32.remnant, he said that there were many small countries in Europe that
:24:33. > :24:35.are proud and they do not think they are little or forgotten.
:24:36. > :24:37.He also described Ukraine as one of the poorest countries in Europe,
:24:38. > :24:40."A rotten, poor, corrupt country, the cesspool of Europe."
:24:41. > :24:42.So it is pretty clear, talking to Mr Purgin,
:24:43. > :24:45.that he has absolutely no intentions of agreeing to anything that would
:24:46. > :24:56.bring this part of Ukraine back under the control of Kiev.
:24:57. > :24:59.New research has shown that King Richard III died in the thick
:25:00. > :25:02.Detailed scans of the king's bones, published in The Lancet,
:25:03. > :25:05.show he sustained 11 wounds at or near the time of his death,
:25:06. > :25:09.King Richard's skeleton is due to be reinterred at Leicester Cathedral
:25:10. > :25:24.Let us hope David Cameron does not suffer the same fate! You can watch
:25:25. > :25:29.all of the life polling results from the Scottish independence referendum
:25:30. > :25:35.election tonight on BBC One. Here is Jeremy Vine with the latest news on
:25:36. > :25:41.that. Yes, join us tonight for the results
:25:42. > :25:45.of life as they come in. You can see the map here Scotland. We have
:25:46. > :25:52.covered dust and the results of the last election held in Scotland. You
:25:53. > :25:54.can see what we have got is essentially a three-dimensional
:25:55. > :26:03.Spain 's operating in two dimensions. But actually it is just
:26:04. > :26:09.a screen. Inside this board we will show due to the voting areas. They
:26:10. > :26:16.are in alphabetical order from Aberdeen to West Lothian. It is
:26:17. > :26:21.green for yes, read for now, we will put through the percentages as they
:26:22. > :26:27.come into others. This is where the referendum results will be decided.
:26:28. > :26:38.We will use this other bot to tally the raw number of votes as the night
:26:39. > :26:42.continues. I will then take the councils of the battle ground board
:26:43. > :26:47.as they declare and by the end of the night you will know whether it
:26:48. > :26:59.is a green for yes or a read for now that has won the day. -- read for
:27:00. > :27:02.now. Thank you for joining us. Goodbye.