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This is BBC World News Today with me Daniela Ritorto. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Scotland votes to stay in the UK - ending a two-year fight | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
Scenes of jubilation in the pro-union camp - after a decisive | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
referendum victory - and pain in the independence camp - whose leader | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
- and Scotland's First Minister - announces his resignation. | :00:23. | :00:34. | |
It has been a privilege of my life to serve as first Minister. But this | :00:35. | :00:47. | |
is a process which is is not for the SNP or any political party. It is | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
much more important. Queen Elizabeth has released a | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
statement calling for people to come together again. She spoke of mutual | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
respect. Undeterred by the Scottish No vote - | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
the Spanish region of Catalonia says it is pressing ahead with | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
a vote on independence from Spain. As French jets carry out air strikes | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
in northern Iraq - hundreds of Syrian Kurds flee to Turkey in | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
fear of Islamic State extremists. The United Kingdom will remain | :01:14. | :01:29. | |
united after Scottish voters decisively rejected independence | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
at an historic referendum. The result wasn't as close | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
as polls suggested but that didn't stop the day | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
from being one of the most gripping A couple of hours ago, the man who | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
led the two-year campaign for independence, Scotland's First | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
Minister, Alex Salmond, announced He said he accepted the verdict | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
of the electorate which in the end saw 2 million people vote | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
against independence against 1.6 All up, | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
that broke down to a clear 45 Let's cross to Lucy Hockings who is | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
live for us at Holyrood We have been waiting for the Queen | :02:12. | :02:42. | |
to make her views known. I think people have been waiting for the | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
views of the Queen. She was pointed in staying here in Scotland at | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
Balmoral. Before the independence vote, she remained silent. She likes | :02:51. | :03:00. | |
to be neutral on political issues. But she released a statement | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
saying, knowing the Scots as I do, I'm sure that they are able to | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
express strongly held opinions before coming together in a spirit | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
of mutual respect to work constructively for the future of | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
Scotland and all parts of this country. She adds, my family and I | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
will do all we can to support you in this important task. She, like many | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
others today, are in the sizing unity. This country has been divided | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
by this independence referendum but she, along with Alex Salmond, who | :03:32. | :03:41. | |
resigned a massacre, are calling on the country to -- resigned in -- | :03:42. | :03:49. | |
dramatically, are calling on the country to come together. With our | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
with all the developers here is our political editor. | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
More people cared, more people believed, more voted | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
Scotland has voted no in this referendum on independence. | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
The result in Fife has taken the no campaign over the line | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
and the official result of this referendum is a note. | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
The final result, 45% yes, 55% no, was clearer than most had predicted. | :04:21. | :04:28. | |
This morning, Alex Salmond put on a brave face, | :04:29. | :04:30. | |
But he called the media to the First Minister's office | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
in Edinburgh and announced that he would soon quit the job. | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
For me as leader, my time is nearly over. | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
But for Scotland, the campaign continues. | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
And the dream should never die. The real guardians of progress are no | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
longer politicians at Westminster, or even at Hollyrood, they are the | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
energised actions of tens of thousands of people who I | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
predict will refuse meekly to go back into the political shadows. | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
We have now the opportunity to hold Westminster's feet to the fire | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
on the vow that they have made to devolve further powers to Scotland. | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
This places Scotland in a very strong position. | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
The story of the night was clear almost | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
from the very first result at 1:30 a.m.. | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
The No campaign, subdued for so long, celebrated | :05:32. | :05:44. | |
as result after result in 28 out of 32 areas had them winning. | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
Nicola Sturgeon, Alex Salmond's deputy and surely | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
The news from Scotland's biggest city, a consolation prize. | :05:56. | :06:16. | |
Not so long ago, few would have believed they would | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
But for Alex Salmond as he left home in the early hours, | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
For them, for those who has hoped for Scotland to remain | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
We have chosen unity over division and positive change | :06:31. | :06:43. | |
Today is a momentous result for Scotland, but also | :06:44. | :06:55. | |
By confirming our place within the union, we have reaffirmed all | :06:56. | :07:03. | |
Those watching outside Scotland had simply had to hold their breath. | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
The Prime Minister watched for much of the night, aware that | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
a yes vote would destroy not just as country but his reputation. | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
They kept our country of four nations together. | :07:18. | :07:27. | |
And like millions of other people, I am delighted. | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
The debate will settle for a generation, he said. | :07:32. | :07:47. | |
reruns. Scotland would get more power but change would go much | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
Some will ask, why on earth politicians talking | :07:52. | :08:42. | |
The anger they feel at the way Westminster currently runs things is | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
felt up and down what remains of the United Kingdom. But this great | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
national debate will now happen without him leading Scotland. One | :08:57. | :09:08. | |
thing that is certain is that the voice was clearly heard and turn out | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
was 85%, that is the highest since 1951. That is seen as a real triumph | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
here. We look now at what tipped voters away from independence. | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
The burden of proof from the beginning lay mostly with | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
To too many voters, their blueprint from the dependency incomplete, I'm | :09:28. | :09:40. | |
-- seemed -- blueprint for independence seemed incomplete, not | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
ready. ready, particularly on what currency | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
and independent Scotland would use. Edinburgh, home to Scotland's | :09:50. | :09:51. | |
financial industry -- financial services into industry, | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
but it 61% to stay within the UK. This is quite well-off country and I | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
think a lot I don't get a surprise that parts of | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
the country where people didn't have Even here though, | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
more than one in three voted yes. But I am inspired to know that | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
almost half the people get it. Been heartbroken | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
but also inspired because we know It is weird knowing that half people | :10:15. | :10:16. | |
are scared of change I think overall it has been very | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
beneficial to Scotland, despite I was in no vote when I heard | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
the result but I started crying because I was relieved but also | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
worried about what happens now. In this -- | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
in more prosperous places, In Scotland's business city, | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
Glasgow voted for independence. Here, Labour voters who crossed | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
in large numbers were decisive. Is it oval over for them now, will | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
they return to the Labour fold? The sole reason is that I wanted | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
more than anything a yes vote. A change in labour's policies, | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
they were too close to Tory After what happened with Tony Blair, | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
I don't think the working class In this, the intervention | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
in the last stages of the campaign by a rejuvenated Gordon Brown | :11:05. | :11:14. | |
stemmed the flow of Labour voters to The margin of victory | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
for the union was clear, Does that mean job done, | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
the union is safe? 45% on a high turnout voted to end | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
United Kingdom's stake in Scotland. That would have been unthinkable | :11:31. | :11:40. | |
even 15 years ago, when the Scottish We have to remember that | :11:41. | :11:42. | |
1.6 million of our citizens And the really important thing to do | :11:43. | :11:54. | |
is to try to understand and then respond adequately to | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
the reasons why people voted yes. The Anglo Scottish union has | :12:01. | :12:08. | |
survived the greatest challenge to Scotland has settle the question | :12:09. | :12:10. | |
peacefully and other critically. But the challenge for the UK's | :12:11. | :12:20. | |
legitimacy -- but the popular challenge | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
for the UK's legitimacy in Scotland There are two main thing is to take | :12:25. | :12:53. | |
away from the referendum. The remarkably high turnout. It has been | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
increasingly difficult to get voters to go to the polls. They do not have | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
the partisan sympathies any more that mean that they will turn up for | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
Labour or Conservative come what may. They have to be presented with | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
a choice, they have to be persuaded that the referendum matters. On this | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
occasion, Scotland's voters clearly decided it mattered, therefore | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
nobody can argue that the outcome on Thursday was anything other than the | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
collective judgement of all of Scotland's adults. The second thing | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
that I would take away is that it is clear that in terms of the | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
arithmetic, the yes side lost and Scotland has voted to remain in the | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
union. At I think in many respects, the yes side won the referendum | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
campaign. It was not expected for them to get as many as 20 -- 45%. | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
Because they got as many as that, the no side found themselves under | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
pressure to firm up its offer in terms of more devolution for | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
Scotland within the framework of the UK, making this building here more | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
powerful than it is already. And as a result of that, Scotland is going | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
to change. It is going to find its constitutional check -- status will | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
change anyway. Indeed, public support for the status quo is now | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
down to 20%. We now move on to the arguments about the detail of | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
devolution. In the resignation of Alex Salmond, have we lost a great | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
figure? I think that we have to recognise that this is a man who | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
inherited a party with about three MPs which was in a weak position and | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
he ended up becoming its first parliamentary leader in government | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
and the did not succeed in taking his party across the waters to the | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
promised land of independence, but he certainly brought them to the | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
side of the river bank. For that, he would clearly be remembered. He has | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
also managed to remain -- to become a remarkably popular politician for | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
somebody who has been in power for seven years. But he has form in | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
terms of surprising us by resigning. He first resigned as SNP leader in | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
the sum of 2000. He also announced he was leaving the Scottish | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
parliament, which he did for a while. And any came back and now, | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
all of a sudden, he has decided to leave. I think it means that we will | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
see a debate inside the Scottish National party about what its stance | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
in terms of Scotland's constitutional future will be in the | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
immediate future and in particular, whether it will get involved in | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
those talks that the Unionist parties want to hold about more | :15:42. | :15:49. | |
devolution. Thank you. One small point I would like to mention, it is | :15:50. | :15:51. | |
coming through that 71% of 16 and point I would like to mention, it is | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
17-year-olds voted here in Scotland. People here are saying they are very | :16:00. | :16:00. | |
proud of that. So, | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
the vote in Scotland could have a profound impact on government across | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
the United Kingdom with new powers for England, Wales and Northern | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
Ireland as well as Scotland. Dr Mark Elliott is a reader | :16:13. | :16:22. | |
in public law at the University of Cambridge where he specialises | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
in constitutional law. a great big new constitutional | :16:26. | :16:37. | |
headache is now just starting? a great big new constitutional | :16:38. | :16:46. | |
think that is absolutely right. I think he is very relieved that the | :16:47. | :16:55. | |
think that is absolutely right. I Particularly because of the | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
think that is absolutely right. I additional powers for Scotland, that | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
opens up a new series of questions about how | :17:05. | :17:06. | |
opens up a new series of questions UK should be treated. Talk is | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
through what those options are because the three main parties are | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
all promising something slightly different? I think it is clear | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
something is going to be on offer and there will be a transfer of | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
additional powers to Scotland. What is not clear at the present time is | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
firstly, whether that will happen on the very rapid timescale that Gordon | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
Brown promised a week ago and secondly, although it seems pretty | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
clear that the powers will include things like enhanced taxation powers | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
and spending, precisely how far that will kill remains to be seen. We are | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
broadcasting to the UK and internationally as well, we have | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
heard a lot today about the so-called induced question, can you | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
explain that? England finds itself in a strange position because when | :18:00. | :18:01. | |
devolution was introduced in the late 1990s, new parliament were | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
cratered in Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland. But no English | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
Parliament was created. The issue which that gives rise to raise that | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
when for example, Scotland makes laws for itself, the only law makers | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
involved in that art the members of the Scottish Parliament. Because | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
there was an English parliament, its laws have got to be made by the UK | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
Parliament in Westminster and of course, MPs from all four of the | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
nations sit in that parliament. So the problem really is that while an | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
English MP can no longer influenced the vast majority of Scottish law, | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
Scottish and Welsh and Northern Irish MPs still have a in relation | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
to the making of English law. One week to think one way to solve that | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
would be a federal UK, I am thinking of Australia, with happen? It could | :19:00. | :19:06. | |
happen, lots of people have used the Word, federalism, and the last few | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
weeks. But that would be a very significant change and that strikes | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
me as unlikely. The UK constitution is built on a very long and | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
continuous history and the tendency has always been towards incremental | :19:23. | :19:30. | |
piece by piece change and switching to a federal system would involve | :19:31. | :19:32. | |
the adoption of a written constitution and it would be a | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
seismic change of the Constitution at a time when we don't usually | :19:39. | :19:39. | |
adopt here. The vote and its result has been | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
watched closely across the world, especially in regions wanting | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
independence, perhaps nowhere more Our correspondent is in the Catalan | :19:48. | :19:49. | |
capital, Barcelona. The main message from Catalonia's | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
president reacting to that no vote in Scotland was that he still plans | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
to hold a Scottish style referendum here in Catalonia on independence | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
from Spain on November 9. Pressed from journalists over | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
whether the Scottish no vote was a defeat or setback for him | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
personally, he said it was not, despite having said a week ago that | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
he wanted a yes vote in Scotland. Why does he claim it is not | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
a setback? He is focused on the right to | :20:25. | :20:26. | |
a vote here in Catalonia. The Spanish government had said | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
a vote in Catalonia would be illegal, it doesn't fit with | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
the Spanish constitution. The Spanish constitutional court is | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
expected to rule exactly that in a matter of days but he praised | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
both Scotland and Britain. He said it shows that Britain is | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
a mature society, He said we seek a similar choice | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
and it is the only way, the right way in the 21st-century, but it is | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
still unclear whether the vote here in Catalonia will take place and | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
if it does, what will it mean? A look now at some | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
of theday's other news. The authorities in the West African | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
nation of Guinea have launched an investigation after eight people | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
including doctors, local officials and journalists died while trying to | :21:14. | :21:15. | |
raise awareness about Ebola. They are believed to have been | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
killed with machetes and clubs by villagers who feared they had | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
come to spread the disease. Guinea's Prime Minister said those | :21:22. | :21:23. | |
responsible will be punished. Thousands of people have been forced | :21:24. | :21:31. | |
to leave their homes in Northern California after | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
a wildfire burning out of control The blaze is the biggest | :21:35. | :21:36. | |
in what officials describe as the A man has been arrested | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
on suspicion of arson. The Syrian Observatory for Human | :21:41. | :21:50. | |
Rights is reporting that Islamic State militants have seized 60 | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
Kurdish villages near the Turkish The report comes | :21:54. | :21:55. | |
as Turkey is allowing thousands of Syrian Kurds fleeing IS to cross | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
its southern border. Meanwhile in neighbouring Iraq, | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
France has become the first country to join the US campaign | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
of air strikes against IS fighters. The French have now joined the fight | :22:07. | :22:21. | |
against Islamic State. Inside northern Iraq, fighter jets like | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
these struck a logistics depot and apparently killed dozens of | :22:27. | :22:37. | |
militants. I think there are always risks in taking responsibility. I | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
have reduce these risks as much as I can. The onus is always on trying to | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
extinguish terrorism but this form of terrorism is not exclusive to the | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
Middle East. It threatens us all stop the French intervention will be | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
welcomed by the US and its allies. The Kurdish forces in Iraq on the | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
front line up the fight against Islamic State. But inside | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
neighbouring Syria, Kurds find themselves under and even more | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
immediate threat. Face-to-face with more guns on a Turkish | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
paramilitaries block Kurdish refugees from crossing into Turkey, | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
shots were fired and not all into the air. One man showed the wind | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
from one of the bullets. These Kurdish refugees have just fled the | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
spreading violence in northern Syria and were greeted by arms and barbed | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
wire. These are the people now with nowhere to go. Families is giving | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
the advance of Islamic State fighters and fearing for their | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
lives. Militants had besieged a Kurdish town in northern Syria and | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
seized many villages. On the Turkish side of the border, the Kurds were | :23:50. | :23:58. | |
angry at the Turkey army. This man said the people on the other side | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
are our cousins. They are running away from war and they came here to | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
seek shelter. We demand our relatives are let in. The flow of | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
people has stirred up deep anxieties inside Turkey about Kurdish | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
separatism and Turkey already shelters around 1.5 million Syrian | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
refugees. Under pressure, Ankara has now opened the border. These Kurds | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
at least will be able to join their families. But with the advance of | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
Islamic State at, there is likely to be more turmoil and clinical | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
questions of the future of the Kurds will intensify. | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
The former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has | :24:42. | :24:43. | |
announced he is returning to politics after two years away. | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
He has said he will stand for the leadership of the centre-right | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
He resigned in 2012 after losing France's presidential election. | :24:50. | :25:02. | |
Nicolas Sarkozy is back? Indeed he is. It was expected, he has let it | :25:03. | :25:12. | |
be known over the last few months that this was going to happen. It | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
happened as an announcement on his Facebook page. A text in which he | :25:17. | :25:24. | |
pours pity on the current state of France and says it has reached a cut | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
of Tropic state and pose is therefore as a kind of saviour of | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
the nation, he wants to come back and basically he feels he cannot not | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
come back, given the state of the country and what he wants to do now | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
is run for the leadership of the UMP party, the opposition centre-right | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
party but which has been Roger less since the last election. He wants to | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
be the leader of that party and the election is coming up in November | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
and from there he wants to launch a bid for the presidency. It is a big | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
moment because we have a return to French politics of the biggest beast | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
there is. The man who defeated him of course is Francoise Hollande, he | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
has ordered these air strikes in Iraq, what is the public mood? | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
People are pretty much behind it but I think one | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
People are pretty much behind it but need to make is how deeply unpopular | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
President Hollande is. need to make is how deeply unpopular | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
unpopular and ironically, for an action is the one | :26:32. | :26:40. | |
From me and the rest of the team, goodbye. | :26:41. | :26:56. | |
There has been some lively storms across parts of the UK today and | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
some of these are running into the night. The humid air will be | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
replaced by fresh conditions find this cold front as we go into the | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
weekend. We are stuck with that humidity through the next few hours | :27:11. | :27:17. | |
and into tomorrow morning across England and Wales. For Northern | :27:18. | :27:18. |