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This is BBC World News Today with me Daniela Ritorto.

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Scotland votes to stay in the UK - ending a two-year fight

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Scenes of jubilation in the pro-union camp - after a decisive

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referendum victory - and pain in the independence camp - whose leader

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- and Scotland's First Minister - announces his resignation.

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It has been a privilege of my life to serve as first Minister. But this

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is a process which is is not for the SNP or any political party. It is

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much more important. Queen Elizabeth has released a

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statement calling for people to come together again. She spoke of mutual

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respect. Undeterred by the Scottish No vote -

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the Spanish region of Catalonia says it is pressing ahead with

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a vote on independence from Spain. As French jets carry out air strikes

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in northern Iraq - hundreds of Syrian Kurds flee to Turkey in

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fear of Islamic State extremists. The United Kingdom will remain

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united after Scottish voters decisively rejected independence

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at an historic referendum. The result wasn't as close

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as polls suggested but that didn't stop the day

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from being one of the most gripping A couple of hours ago, the man who

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led the two-year campaign for independence, Scotland's First

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Minister, Alex Salmond, announced He said he accepted the verdict

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of the electorate which in the end saw 2 million people vote

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against independence against 1.6 All up,

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that broke down to a clear 45 Let's cross to Lucy Hockings who is

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live for us at Holyrood We have been waiting for the Queen

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to make her views known. I think people have been waiting for the

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views of the Queen. She was pointed in staying here in Scotland at

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Balmoral. Before the independence vote, she remained silent. She likes

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to be neutral on political issues. But she released a statement

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saying, knowing the Scots as I do, I'm sure that they are able to

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express strongly held opinions before coming together in a spirit

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of mutual respect to work constructively for the future of

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Scotland and all parts of this country. She adds, my family and I

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will do all we can to support you in this important task. She, like many

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others today, are in the sizing unity. This country has been divided

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by this independence referendum but she, along with Alex Salmond, who

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resigned a massacre, are calling on the country to -- resigned in --

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dramatically, are calling on the country to come together. With our

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with all the developers here is our political editor.

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More people cared, more people believed, more voted

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Scotland has voted no in this referendum on independence.

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The result in Fife has taken the no campaign over the line

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and the official result of this referendum is a note.

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The final result, 45% yes, 55% no, was clearer than most had predicted.

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This morning, Alex Salmond put on a brave face,

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But he called the media to the First Minister's office

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in Edinburgh and announced that he would soon quit the job.

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For me as leader, my time is nearly over.

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But for Scotland, the campaign continues.

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And the dream should never die. The real guardians of progress are no

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longer politicians at Westminster, or even at Hollyrood, they are the

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energised actions of tens of thousands of people who I

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predict will refuse meekly to go back into the political shadows.

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We have now the opportunity to hold Westminster's feet to the fire

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on the vow that they have made to devolve further powers to Scotland.

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This places Scotland in a very strong position.

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The story of the night was clear almost

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from the very first result at 1:30 a.m..

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The No campaign, subdued for so long, celebrated

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as result after result in 28 out of 32 areas had them winning.

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Nicola Sturgeon, Alex Salmond's deputy and surely

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The news from Scotland's biggest city, a consolation prize.

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Not so long ago, few would have believed they would

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But for Alex Salmond as he left home in the early hours,

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For them, for those who has hoped for Scotland to remain

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We have chosen unity over division and positive change

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Today is a momentous result for Scotland, but also

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By confirming our place within the union, we have reaffirmed all

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Those watching outside Scotland had simply had to hold their breath.

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The Prime Minister watched for much of the night, aware that

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a yes vote would destroy not just as country but his reputation.

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They kept our country of four nations together.

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And like millions of other people, I am delighted.

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The debate will settle for a generation, he said.

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reruns. Scotland would get more power but change would go much

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Some will ask, why on earth politicians talking

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The anger they feel at the way Westminster currently runs things is

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felt up and down what remains of the United Kingdom. But this great

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national debate will now happen without him leading Scotland. One

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thing that is certain is that the voice was clearly heard and turn out

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was 85%, that is the highest since 1951. That is seen as a real triumph

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here. We look now at what tipped voters away from independence.

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The burden of proof from the beginning lay mostly with

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To too many voters, their blueprint from the dependency incomplete, I'm

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-- seemed -- blueprint for independence seemed incomplete, not

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ready. ready, particularly on what currency

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and independent Scotland would use. Edinburgh, home to Scotland's

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financial industry -- financial services into industry,

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but it 61% to stay within the UK. This is quite well-off country and I

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think a lot I don't get a surprise that parts of

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the country where people didn't have Even here though,

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more than one in three voted yes. But I am inspired to know that

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almost half the people get it. Been heartbroken

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but also inspired because we know It is weird knowing that half people

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are scared of change I think overall it has been very

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beneficial to Scotland, despite I was in no vote when I heard

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the result but I started crying because I was relieved but also

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worried about what happens now. In this --

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in more prosperous places, In Scotland's business city,

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Glasgow voted for independence. Here, Labour voters who crossed

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in large numbers were decisive. Is it oval over for them now, will

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they return to the Labour fold? The sole reason is that I wanted

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more than anything a yes vote. A change in labour's policies,

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they were too close to Tory After what happened with Tony Blair,

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I don't think the working class In this, the intervention

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in the last stages of the campaign by a rejuvenated Gordon Brown

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stemmed the flow of Labour voters to The margin of victory

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for the union was clear, Does that mean job done,

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the union is safe? 45% on a high turnout voted to end

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United Kingdom's stake in Scotland. That would have been unthinkable

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even 15 years ago, when the Scottish We have to remember that

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1.6 million of our citizens And the really important thing to do

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is to try to understand and then respond adequately to

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the reasons why people voted yes. The Anglo Scottish union has

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survived the greatest challenge to Scotland has settle the question

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peacefully and other critically. But the challenge for the UK's

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legitimacy -- but the popular challenge

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for the UK's legitimacy in Scotland There are two main thing is to take

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away from the referendum. The remarkably high turnout. It has been

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increasingly difficult to get voters to go to the polls. They do not have

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the partisan sympathies any more that mean that they will turn up for

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Labour or Conservative come what may. They have to be presented with

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a choice, they have to be persuaded that the referendum matters. On this

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occasion, Scotland's voters clearly decided it mattered, therefore

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nobody can argue that the outcome on Thursday was anything other than the

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collective judgement of all of Scotland's adults. The second thing

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that I would take away is that it is clear that in terms of the

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arithmetic, the yes side lost and Scotland has voted to remain in the

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union. At I think in many respects, the yes side won the referendum

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campaign. It was not expected for them to get as many as 20 -- 45%.

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Because they got as many as that, the no side found themselves under

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pressure to firm up its offer in terms of more devolution for

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Scotland within the framework of the UK, making this building here more

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powerful than it is already. And as a result of that, Scotland is going

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to change. It is going to find its constitutional check -- status will

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change anyway. Indeed, public support for the status quo is now

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down to 20%. We now move on to the arguments about the detail of

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devolution. In the resignation of Alex Salmond, have we lost a great

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figure? I think that we have to recognise that this is a man who

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inherited a party with about three MPs which was in a weak position and

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he ended up becoming its first parliamentary leader in government

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and the did not succeed in taking his party across the waters to the

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promised land of independence, but he certainly brought them to the

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side of the river bank. For that, he would clearly be remembered. He has

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also managed to remain -- to become a remarkably popular politician for

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somebody who has been in power for seven years. But he has form in

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terms of surprising us by resigning. He first resigned as SNP leader in

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the sum of 2000. He also announced he was leaving the Scottish

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parliament, which he did for a while. And any came back and now,

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all of a sudden, he has decided to leave. I think it means that we will

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see a debate inside the Scottish National party about what its stance

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in terms of Scotland's constitutional future will be in the

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immediate future and in particular, whether it will get involved in

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those talks that the Unionist parties want to hold about more

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devolution. Thank you. One small point I would like to mention, it is

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coming through that 71% of 16 and point I would like to mention, it is

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17-year-olds voted here in Scotland. People here are saying they are very

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proud of that. So,

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the vote in Scotland could have a profound impact on government across

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the United Kingdom with new powers for England, Wales and Northern

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Ireland as well as Scotland. Dr Mark Elliott is a reader

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in public law at the University of Cambridge where he specialises

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in constitutional law. a great big new constitutional

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headache is now just starting? a great big new constitutional

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think that is absolutely right. I think he is very relieved that the

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think that is absolutely right. I Particularly because of the

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think that is absolutely right. I additional powers for Scotland, that

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opens up a new series of questions about how

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opens up a new series of questions UK should be treated. Talk is

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through what those options are because the three main parties are

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all promising something slightly different? I think it is clear

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something is going to be on offer and there will be a transfer of

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additional powers to Scotland. What is not clear at the present time is

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firstly, whether that will happen on the very rapid timescale that Gordon

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Brown promised a week ago and secondly, although it seems pretty

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clear that the powers will include things like enhanced taxation powers

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and spending, precisely how far that will kill remains to be seen. We are

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broadcasting to the UK and internationally as well, we have

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heard a lot today about the so-called induced question, can you

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explain that? England finds itself in a strange position because when

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devolution was introduced in the late 1990s, new parliament were

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cratered in Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland. But no English

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Parliament was created. The issue which that gives rise to raise that

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when for example, Scotland makes laws for itself, the only law makers

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involved in that art the members of the Scottish Parliament. Because

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there was an English parliament, its laws have got to be made by the UK

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Parliament in Westminster and of course, MPs from all four of the

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nations sit in that parliament. So the problem really is that while an

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English MP can no longer influenced the vast majority of Scottish law,

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Scottish and Welsh and Northern Irish MPs still have a in relation

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to the making of English law. One week to think one way to solve that

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would be a federal UK, I am thinking of Australia, with happen? It could

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happen, lots of people have used the Word, federalism, and the last few

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weeks. But that would be a very significant change and that strikes

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me as unlikely. The UK constitution is built on a very long and

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continuous history and the tendency has always been towards incremental

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piece by piece change and switching to a federal system would involve

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the adoption of a written constitution and it would be a

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seismic change of the Constitution at a time when we don't usually

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adopt here. The vote and its result has been

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watched closely across the world, especially in regions wanting

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independence, perhaps nowhere more Our correspondent is in the Catalan

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capital, Barcelona. The main message from Catalonia's

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president reacting to that no vote in Scotland was that he still plans

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to hold a Scottish style referendum here in Catalonia on independence

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from Spain on November 9. Pressed from journalists over

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whether the Scottish no vote was a defeat or setback for him

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personally, he said it was not, despite having said a week ago that

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he wanted a yes vote in Scotland. Why does he claim it is not

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a setback? He is focused on the right to

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a vote here in Catalonia. The Spanish government had said

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a vote in Catalonia would be illegal, it doesn't fit with

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the Spanish constitution. The Spanish constitutional court is

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expected to rule exactly that in a matter of days but he praised

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both Scotland and Britain. He said it shows that Britain is

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a mature society, He said we seek a similar choice

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and it is the only way, the right way in the 21st-century, but it is

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still unclear whether the vote here in Catalonia will take place and

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if it does, what will it mean? A look now at some

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of theday's other news. The authorities in the West African

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nation of Guinea have launched an investigation after eight people

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including doctors, local officials and journalists died while trying to

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raise awareness about Ebola. They are believed to have been

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killed with machetes and clubs by villagers who feared they had

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come to spread the disease. Guinea's Prime Minister said those

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responsible will be punished. Thousands of people have been forced

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to leave their homes in Northern California after

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a wildfire burning out of control The blaze is the biggest

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in what officials describe as the A man has been arrested

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on suspicion of arson. The Syrian Observatory for Human

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Rights is reporting that Islamic State militants have seized 60

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Kurdish villages near the Turkish The report comes

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as Turkey is allowing thousands of Syrian Kurds fleeing IS to cross

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its southern border. Meanwhile in neighbouring Iraq,

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France has become the first country to join the US campaign

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of air strikes against IS fighters. The French have now joined the fight

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against Islamic State. Inside northern Iraq, fighter jets like

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these struck a logistics depot and apparently killed dozens of

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militants. I think there are always risks in taking responsibility. I

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have reduce these risks as much as I can. The onus is always on trying to

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extinguish terrorism but this form of terrorism is not exclusive to the

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Middle East. It threatens us all stop the French intervention will be

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welcomed by the US and its allies. The Kurdish forces in Iraq on the

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front line up the fight against Islamic State. But inside

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neighbouring Syria, Kurds find themselves under and even more

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immediate threat. Face-to-face with more guns on a Turkish

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paramilitaries block Kurdish refugees from crossing into Turkey,

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shots were fired and not all into the air. One man showed the wind

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from one of the bullets. These Kurdish refugees have just fled the

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spreading violence in northern Syria and were greeted by arms and barbed

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wire. These are the people now with nowhere to go. Families is giving

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the advance of Islamic State fighters and fearing for their

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lives. Militants had besieged a Kurdish town in northern Syria and

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seized many villages. On the Turkish side of the border, the Kurds were

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angry at the Turkey army. This man said the people on the other side

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are our cousins. They are running away from war and they came here to

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seek shelter. We demand our relatives are let in. The flow of

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people has stirred up deep anxieties inside Turkey about Kurdish

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separatism and Turkey already shelters around 1.5 million Syrian

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refugees. Under pressure, Ankara has now opened the border. These Kurds

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at least will be able to join their families. But with the advance of

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Islamic State at, there is likely to be more turmoil and clinical

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questions of the future of the Kurds will intensify.

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The former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has

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announced he is returning to politics after two years away.

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He has said he will stand for the leadership of the centre-right

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He resigned in 2012 after losing France's presidential election.

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Nicolas Sarkozy is back? Indeed he is. It was expected, he has let it

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be known over the last few months that this was going to happen. It

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happened as an announcement on his Facebook page. A text in which he

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pours pity on the current state of France and says it has reached a cut

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of Tropic state and pose is therefore as a kind of saviour of

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the nation, he wants to come back and basically he feels he cannot not

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come back, given the state of the country and what he wants to do now

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is run for the leadership of the UMP party, the opposition centre-right

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party but which has been Roger less since the last election. He wants to

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be the leader of that party and the election is coming up in November

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and from there he wants to launch a bid for the presidency. It is a big

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moment because we have a return to French politics of the biggest beast

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there is. The man who defeated him of course is Francoise Hollande, he

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has ordered these air strikes in Iraq, what is the public mood?

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People are pretty much behind it but I think one

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People are pretty much behind it but need to make is how deeply unpopular

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President Hollande is. need to make is how deeply unpopular

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unpopular and ironically, for an action is the one

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From me and the rest of the team, goodbye.

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There has been some lively storms across parts of the UK today and

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some of these are running into the night. The humid air will be

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replaced by fresh conditions find this cold front as we go into the

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weekend. We are stuck with that humidity through the next few hours

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and into tomorrow morning across England and Wales. For Northern

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