independence referendum. speaking in holyrood, she said she still believes the country needs to be given a choice about its future — but not until after the brexit process. the scottish government remains committed strongly to the principle of giving scotland a choice at the end of this process. i want to reassure people that our proposal is not for a referendum now or before do is sufficient clarity about the options. but rather to give them a choice at the end of the brexit process when that clarity has emerged. i am therefore confirming today that having listened and reflected, the scottish government will reset the plan i set out on march the 13th. we will not seek to introduce the legislation for an independence referendum immediately. i'm joined on the line from holyrood by mike russell, the snp's minister for uk negotiations on scotland's place in europe. good evening. you wonder if the snp

have learned any lessons from the election in which lost 21 seats, with nicola sturgeon saying in hollywood today when the terms of brexit will be clear we will come back to parliament to set out our judgment on the best way forward at that time. including our view on the precise timescale for offering people a choice over the future of the country. the fact is the election was the public saying they we re election was the public saying they were not interested in another referendum vote. and that was the clear message. you lost 21 seats. we're still the largest party by fire in scotland and indeed have a majority of the seats in westminster. this was nicola sturgeon being pragmatic and sensible based on the evidence is mounting of the complete shambles thatis mounting of the complete shambles that is brexit. british insurers

said they are fearful of insecurity and that is probable. we have the circumstances in which we need to get people security and if we can do that by trying to get uk government to reset this appalling process they are engaged in then that is what we should do. and that's what the first minister was talking today. but at the end of the process there will be a choice. we do not know what will come from this process, there has never been more on stable times will work hard to get something from the shambles and will face the people of scotla nd shambles and will face the people of scotland would have done our best. what are the circumstances then you believe will warrant in two years' time at the end of the brexit process , time at the end of the brexit process, a second independence referendum? we do not know if it will be two years, that was the much vaunted position some months ago. we know the negotiation on the first pa rt know the negotiation on the first part of this must be finished by may

200019. i was in brussels last week and people openly speculated that it could take up to five years. there's a lot of insecurity. so we need to know what the position is in two yea rs. we know what the position is in two years. we need to know what the offer is and whether it has been accepted and if there is a deal. because incredibly the prime ministers still talking about the possibility of no deal. right across the uk people are saying let's approach this in a different way. let's get together. the archbishop of canterbury said at the weekend, the cbi said it, trade unions have said it. we need to be able to work this out. and the first minister said today, fitting in with that general consensus. this must be done ina very general consensus. this must be done in a very different way from the way it has been done by theresa may up until now. but you're not going to be sitting on your hands and neither is nicola sturgeon for the next couple of years while theresa may and david davis sort this out. you will put forward your ideas and potentially you would have thought you would have read lines. does that

include potentially still being part of the customs union, access to the single market and so on? the single market is important, we have argued that for many months and published a serious paper about that for the whole uk in december. but i'm not going to be sitting on my hands, my welsh equivalent and i have written to david davis suggested how the process should go forward. nothing has happened in those two weeks. there was a mechanism for getting these four nations of the uk together in the same room to start talking. the uk government have not activated back mechanism. it is meant to meet every month and has not met since february. so we're clear steps that now can be taken and the first is to get the joint ministerial committee structure up and running again. get the discussion going and draw people into this and look at what is happening and say we have got to sort this out because it is disastrous at the present moment. thank you. the european commission has fined

the technology giant google more than two billion pounds for breaking competition laws. it said the company had abused its dominance as a search engine by giving priority to its own shopping comparison service. google said it was considering appealing the ruling. with me is rowland manthorpe from the technology magazine wired, who interviewed the european competition commissioner before the google verdict. just explain what it is that google have done wrong. i suspect many people when they try to get a search site and they go on to google, this bad that has the google shopping list does not necessarily appear.m will appear if you're looking for a product. you said when people look up product. you said when people look upa product. you said when people look up a search tag, will look at google. so when you search for any product, let's say a pair of shoes,

what you'll see at the top is a bunch of photographs and links. and a tiny little saying sponsored. but you might not realise that that is not a price comparison site but adverts and that is the product of google. and every time you fit on one it makes money for google. the commission said that google has been favouring its own shopping product over those of its rivals. 2.1 billion of a fine, it looks pretty hefty. google is massive, it is not going to dent the company. someone worked out it will take the parent company until next wednesday to earn enough money to pay this back. so no, it is not about the money in a direct sense but think back to microsoft which had a case much like this 20 years ago. they were materially damaged by the eu measures of competition measures against them. it was not so much the

fine but the changes they were forced to make to the server. allowing for more competition and affecting the bottom line? and in fa ct affecting the bottom line? and in fact the winner of that in the end was google. moving on to beat cyber attack, another ra nsomwa re was google. moving on to beat cyber attack, another ransomware attack it seems. and the folks in ukraine seem to have been especially hard hit with shipping and the airport and so on in that country. and we've just heard that a group that make bigger household products such as debt all, clearasil and so on, they have been attacked in this as well. is this the same ra nsomwa re attacked in this as well. is this the same ransomware whistle affecting the nhs? it seems to be a variant of that. looking at the same exploit, the same defect you might say. the previous one. so that link is now out of the public domain, and people were warned that this would happen and it seems to be happening again. but details are still emerging. we do not want to rush to

judgment yet. again the reasoning, why these places in ukraine or wherever and indeed this company in the uk has been affected. that is perhaps because they have not downloaded the software that would improve security. yes, indeed. and we really need to think more widely about how we protect companies. in security terms this is a fairly simple exploit. and for people not to protect themselves, how can we create systems that enable that. it is difficult and we need to look at that no systemic level. thank you for us. time for a look at the weather with louise lear. summer has banished by the time being at least. a pretty soggy end to the month ofjune. the first signs of that, some sharp downpours moving up through the south of england as we speak. drizzly further north and that continues overnight. but the real wet area moving north

and west across the whole of england and west across the whole of england and wales overnight. not a cult might, in fact quite humid. and wales overnight. not a cult might, infact quite humid. —— nota cold night. the rain gradually drifting north and west and grinding toa drifting north and west and grinding to a halt close to the scottish borders and northern england, north wales. not doing too badly for much of scotla nd wales. not doing too badly for much of scotland and northern ireland although not especially warm. the highest values in the south—east once the rain eases away. low pressure stays with us, rain moving up pressure stays with us, rain moving up into scotland and northern ireland for thursday. the unsettled weather stays with us. good lad, nice to see you, mate. come on in. i thought you were going to do the whole147

come on in. i thought you were going to do the whole 147 thing there. we have not got time at! you did it in just over five minutes 20 years ago. it is crazy. i have made better ones. my this could lead to, essentially, too big to innovate. rory cellan—jones, bbc news. hello and welcome to 100 days plus. the pentagon has intelligence that syria is planning another possible chemical attack — the white house says it would retaliate. russia is quick to denounce the american threat, describing it as "unacceptable." president assad doesn't seem concerned — he spent the morning examining a russian airfield in syria, taking a climb into the cockpit. the us health care bill is on life support as key republican senators denounce their own plan. google is slapped with a record breaking fine. the european commission says it is breaking competition rules. early days, but it would seem a new cyber attack is under way. the target was ukraine, but the problem is now spreading across europe and into russia. airports, banks and power systems are being affected.