free. free. free. free. free volunteer to mediocre for your media projects a free meal john darche john tom. time to check out the made international headlines. president obama is to outline his policies for the troubled middle east in a major speech or as the introduction of new sanctions against syria which for the first time target the country's president. scotland is set to consider a break from the united kingdom full independence the polls show voters are still unsure whether they can go to learn the. european union's mainland germany in

these patients with member states that received bailouts demanding stricter austerity measures before they're offered any further date. further a scottish national party now the biggest party in scotland has promised a vote on whether to split from the united kingdom he spoke to justice minister in mccaskill about his vision for a possible full independence. today i'm in edinburgh talking to kenny macaskill who is the scottish justice minister he's a member of the scottish national party which of course recently gained enough to be able to promise a referendum on scottish independence within the next five years kenny macaskill thank you for talking to us now tell me first what would scotland gain from independence well being control of our own resources for you to responsibility for the problems we face in our country and to be able to stand up and speak to the

issues that matter to us. keeping charge at home and making sure that we have a voice abroad and how would it work economically and socially well scott from the rich country we have the largest oil and gas producer in the unit union we not only have a bone to employers of oil and gas but we never go to in terms of renewables or geography for the first time in our history it's probably advantage so we've got great potential in the tragedy of scotland's never been heard bad things are it's home much better things to be and we envy countries like norway that scuppered oil and have been able to transform the economy on their society and we should be able to do that but over sources from oil were used by thought you have to smash organized labor and a depot to enable you to fight an illegal war in iraq is there any idea in your mind that this might start some kind of snowball effect whereby the welsh are the northern irish then want to secede from the union as well that's a matter for the welsh and the northern irish we'll stand for election and support

for the nation of scotland it's for others to decide what the choose to do scotland's in a distinctly unique position we obviously have friendships with other parties elsewhere but we can only comment and speak for the people of scotland but do you identify with their independence movements in europe for example the flare and i'm also thinking of less peaceful groups like the basques and the northern irish or you. we worried that independence in scotland could be an inspiration for those more violent scream all the scottish national party in the whole mess the issue of nationalism scotland has always been peaceful there has no truck with violence or disorder or any shape or form so we do have you to people we are part two of the left of center and we want to make scotland the field of police who want to make sure that those who have the most contribute the most so we loot with envy and indeed friendship to scandinavia and to political parties not just national parties but parties of the say to the left of the globe what about being an inspiration for

those less peaceful but again it's for people or those countries to say what we want to do we would never support or can do in violence in any shape or form clearly a father countries wish to pursue an agenda then they'll get a great deal of sympathy from others but certainly violence will not be probably to do anything she performed and we've been elected to mandates one is to pursue a claim for independent scotland and the right for the referendum people we elected as a government to make scotland the police and we seek to do that by driving a requirement for britain making your country theatre pretty interesting for wealthier and healthier it's got and did gain its independence how do you see your relationship with the european union changing do you not think that you would have been significant path for all of brussels well all countries are interdependent nation no matter how large is an independent in the world in which we live with its

new and with global warming dealing with the market economies with all interlinked but what matters is for the you representing the institutions of power of its only nation states are represented in the european union the only nation states that are represented in the united nations countries such as we can see in cyprus malta in all small of them scotland they all have representation of the european union. they can vote them out of fundamental to scotland even for example of fishing but they don't really have any relevance to them so we have to be a need to be represented so that we can argue and speak for what matters for scotland the european union and so we can also go to the united nations and stand up for what's right and also make clear which wars are not in her name do you think that you would automatically get a seat in the un and representation in brussels well all international law shows that we would this is a matter which seemed built with the terms if you think union representation for germany once the form of the east germany became part of the new generally

historical precedent in a variety of ways we thank you for recognizing that the people of scotland wish to become an independent nation it will be recognised by governments so to the border and over in the world court marcos importance being unfair so far as political parties in scotland probably fusing to give the people of scotland the right to decide their own destiny in a referendum what the outcome will be for the people of scotland to say a little something manifestly for all parties for peer to hold a referendum on the voting system but we're not prepared to load the people of scotland to decide the constitutional future imagine the referendum on the alternative fate that's now been through down does it as a waste of time are you worried that the same might happen to a referendum on scottish independence or do i think you'll be seen as. i think when the referendum columns that will be seized by the people of scotland we don't take anything for granted but we think can we expect that we will win knight people

throughout my lifetime the never be a scottish parliament know that as i was told that we would never be a scottish national party of government yes there is and there's a scottish national party government but some of georgia to government in the scottish parliament people said that could never come a vote because it divides the voting system to try and make sure there would never be a majority they said people and there's been a poll in the sun news. paper that says that the higher percentage of english people want scotland to have its independence than a scottish people want scotland to have its independence or two states that well i will come live in england as a nation in its own right it's a many from when friends who either live in england or english the relationship between scotland england would improve for scott from being in dependant mention the scots would lose perhaps some of the chip and assured of the does come over to me have to address side some of the problems that we face and scots country pleading with their own problems with alcohol abuse it appears on all these difficulties the only people who can solve

a lot of the scots themselves and aleut forward will be in scotland england will have a good relationship as frames recognizing the differences but as a see it's the british fleet that's artificial entity not scotland or england it's scotland yes and i should say that that's not it given the polls show a minority want independence for scotland at the moment do you expect any problems from westminster after all they're not legally obliged to let scotland go even if scots do very yes no i think it's been made clear by every prime minister never means of political figure so for the border a lot of people of scotland vote for independence then they will receive it so i don't believe all these are. for going to. happen a referendum will take police nobody will stand against it that's not being quite clear by the prime minister so to the border people being nice here and suggest that we would win the referendum we'll see we said we've never been into this parliament to be thought we'd never

get a majority government but if we want years as a people for independence and i have no don't get governments not simply souce of the board in the world but welcome us into the family of nations as a start and with all the countries within my lifetime oil and gas from the north sea it's worth around about twenty one billion dollars a year to the u.k. treasury do you really think that they're going to just let that play without any kind of fight. yes but then the day we keep getting told we're subsidized one of the reasons that some things people in scotland are skeptical about independence is that we're told we're too poor we're truly become managed and you just accused the value of the scottish oil and gas reserves of the data kingdom treasury we recognise that these are not just for negotiation but there are matters that are fundamentally right to make a country and people better scotland than nor we discovered oil at the same time somebody has a scotsman cup incumbent an industrial desert that norway has transformed that society and its economy it has billions in the bank we just need to see those at

least to do in the cells and weapons of mass destruction in the illegal wars so it's time for us to have revenues the precise amount of stuff to be dissolved and what coat but it's of oil and gas and it's over nuclear energy you keep mentioning illegal wars and i'm assuming that you're talking about iraq but how london rush towards war in libya pushed sculpts awards demands an independent you know i think north africa is a different situation the water in iraq was illegal it was predicated on a lie told by tony player i just need people to eat less safe police millions die in the world institution so it's a fundamental such as she waited and undermined and as a see it to be the one of the less safe place clearly there are significant problems in north africa has to be protected but i think it's important that britain under think other countries should adhere to they commissions my belief that if you lay completion might be to take civilian life there's not even

a commission for regime change you claim sole responsibility for releasing alan mcgraw he was convicted of the lockerbie bombing given what's happened in libya now do you regret that decision and or durant i stand by that decision it was a decision we've following the laws of scotland and hewing to the values and beliefs that we have here it wasn't an easy decision but i believe it. was the correct decision as justice minister how do you feel about the apparent impetus for the international community to rush into libya what do you think that says about the state of international law but i think at the end of the day we have to protect life from people being brutalized by colonel gadhafi or by anybody else it's your obligation for the world to make sure that we do the los from the size and other things to come about so action has to kick in these things as we have to live the way some form of right and collectively common humanity from the latent transformation to teach to the in monday's so the. consent of both poor matters of

hating but we strongly support action to preserve life petersburg is hosting an international conference on legal issues and president medvedev has put the application of the rule of law at the center of his agenda what do you think they should be concentrating on as justice minister at that conference well i think what we have to do is to try and restore some belief and faith scots i'm still not represented on the international stage and until then you know we allow others to do their part we will speak up for what we believed important to the interests of scotland and sports right and proper we don't see because it seemed to go to other countries i think that's a matter that hopefully this will produce some good because there are difficulties we do have to meet sure that wafers preserve not simply in north africa but in africa and indeed elsewhere so we wish to present it where we hope that matters will be what toto i don't think it's for myself or any member of the scottish government. that we should plead hope that matters will coat

and we look forward to the day when we will be able to be represented as an independent nation and to clear a part this won't be solved by one country or the united states all russia every country has to please part and we look forward to us part we all would be a small nation but we have nation. with a proud history and wish to put it all over attributing to me about all the better places kenny macaskill thank you very much thank you. for that. he is least. fifty if he feels. least. for.

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a man who looks and sounds a bit like josie marine yet he's making all the headlines right he's a former assistant and. his boss has become of the youngest ever manager to win a european trophy his side beat braga last night crowned europa league champions are what the details of. hello there welcome to the sport and this is what is coming up over the next few minutes go hero falco hand porto the europa league crown after a one nil when braga. russian champions in eight lose their first home game with the year at the hands of buy new. and behind you presumably all of russia to support the police ahead of the london and start feeling picks. first porto other europa league champions after beating braga one nil in an old portuguese

final in dublin on a night when several records were broken ramadan girl was his seventeenth in the competition this season making him the tournament's highest ever score he also picked up the man of the match award and. became the youngest manager to win a euro. pink at the age of thirty three it's his first season in charge and it could not have gone any better his side are also the portuguese champions are more go for the treble in sunday's portuguese cup final it's my first final in. my experience incredible feelings in games away who believe that the players and same feelings as well it's a pity that it wasn't a good sport the group that's the reality is nothing new in european finals the spectacle not being fantastic. united midfielder nani has stressed the importance of denying barcelona time on the ball ahead of their champions league final at wembley stadium are made at twenty eight united made history by winning the english

top flight title for the nineteenth time by drawing one one blackburn on saturday leapfrogging liverpool to become the most successful english domestic club and now united secure their fourth european championship title as they face a league champions barcelona in the finals portugal will now only has been one of the stars of the united squad this season under threat for a good midfield it is aware of the difficulties holmes by allowing plaster time on the ball. this is the problem because. no one likes to run. the ball. try to get the ball all the time and it very difficult when that happened. we have to do to try to get the ball to the most quickly as possible because if we have the borg cannot do the position then we can score a goal you. wish if we have the war. before that manchester united face relegation

to threaten blackpool on the last day of the english premier league season with seaside his manager in holloway reacting angrily to reports the league champions would be fined if they fielded a weakened same on sunday. look back of an achievement if we did it. yes poor i mean you still got it i read in a paper that they will be fined if if blackpool when you play a weaker team and when it does not matter what if i played a weaker team in aston villa and actually won with their finely. so what you're saying we might find out united even if we. do every picks we one of them it's in petersburg tasted their first home defeat of the year the russian champions lost a friendly and cross and stadium for two at the hands of german giants by new nick and watching the wisconsin theme park off. despite the prana status of the nation

thousands of st fans flocked to packed up across to steady him to watch thing counts against by and mimic and there were no doubt hoping for a repeat of the two thousand and eight with a cup semifinal where the same players were hammered the german team for neil on how good. the beginning of the first half was up to mystic for the home side as alex on the foot of dribble past the defender and form the core of the man i howell bar and didn't even think of giving up and a quick response from frank crewe bri levelled matters as he's found himself a mark for him is it finished. early in the second half with recourse to men i saw flaws and the men excite to believe. and ten minutes later i think chris did want a cause a shot was see but thomas milner was quick as on the rebound to make it three one. zinni try to come back and see but managed to score only from sport the referee

gave a dubious penalty and give the home side a chance to equalise. it didn't seem like boy and have just finished an exhausting and disappointing season as they came back for more and when you have players like who are very and not in the open to produce instant chemistry on the beach the result is clear and you can just sit back and enjoy for to the final score. the match was a good chance for the form isn't it kept them on the telly too much to move to mimic two years ago to return to the stadium and get a warm reception from the home crowd in the three to command the coach said you will know the toll you have played here is a need so let's do something for him let's play for him and that they happy that the team showed up and play good football me they were today we had more opportunities for what we won with a two goal difference but these game was a friendly and seen every game and that we can't so the result is not so much.

brian munich didn't forget that he was a friend and were enjoying their play and scored four goals well for those in need it was a good training exercise and this defeat will probably be for the better as in the next question the russian premier league there will be eager to prove that this loss was nothing more than a blip in the name brought up of our team same peters will. catch up with what has been happening in the n.b.a. playoffs where miami heat have tied the eastern conference final when she cargo is now one of peace in the series after their eighty five seventy five away victory at the bulls had tied the game with seven minutes to go but they couldn't stop a late surge by le bron james and top scored twenty nine points to the miami to the win. one hour jenson button and lewis hamilton are confident mclaren can narrow the gap to formula one championship a setter sebastian vettel of the sunday spanish grand prix in barcelona button and hamilton spent tuesday at mclaren base in england trying to improve the speed of

their car to keep former world champions in looking for event red whose best to make up a runaway the this year's drivers' championship the german is already thirty four points clear of second place hamilton who stopped the podium once in china while button is fourth in the standings and wants and is looking for a turnaround at luna circuit in a race he's yet to win. and when spring would be here it would be great to experience i'm going to be closer. second. until the last lap in the car or he will or broke anyway so i think it will be competitive there has been working this morning. for that specific wrecker. remarked bending champion vettel was at sunday's grand opening of a new red bull ring in austria the german driver already has three wins and a second place from the four races so far this season but the twenty three year old

insists he spat from invincible. thinking everyone is beatable and you know we have learned a lot in the last couple roses and if you take shanghai you know obviously we didn't have a one hundred percent clean sunday we had some some problems i lost radio connection to cetera and you see immediately there's someone who will be too so you know you cannot approach that we can take anything for granted now in other news family members fellow riders and fans have bid farewell to fewer of cyclists found a valence and died in a crash at leisure italia last week a ceremony took place at valence native city of ghent elected to ride was only twenty six he fell off his bike during the third stage of the ongoing tour of italy and died within the seconds he leaves his pregnant partner and behind him bones death was the first fatality in twenty five years to the hero and sparked a new wave of concern over security during road races the last ride it die at

a major cycling event with italy's olympic gold medalist fabio karsa telly who was killed at the top of france in nineteen like and five now president dmitry medvedev says all the ingredients are in place to help the country's athletes deliver the goods the next summer and winter olympics mr president was speaking at his first question and answer media conference at russia's future silicon valley skolkovo just outside moscow. station my children of it i think we must believe in victory that's the only option otherwise or doubts could be transmitted to our athletes but we must support them and believe in them to live very empty even when the chances look slim we watch sporting events and it is possible job to help our plates to support them as for their perforations i think they've been working the way they should and we do have chances to perform well. next year and

in sochi in two thousand and thirteen funds have been allocated a lot of important decisions have been made so we'll cheer for them and i hope they give us reasons for jury duty and finally thousands of people will enjoy their fifteen minutes of fame next year when they take part in the olympic torch relay ahead of the twenty twelve london olympics the first seventy four locations on the route have been revealed in the british capital more places have yet to be confirmed but the relay already covers every nation and region within united kingdom they can call for being the first on the list of the flame or travel almost thirteen thousand kilometers in seventeen days eight thousand torchbearers will participate ninety percent of them will be local paypal will be nominated from our own community something boxing champion david a here believes it's a very inspirational thing. it's great but it doesn't have to be a celebrity or someone who's a really cool well known or well established you know somebody in their life really

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