welcome back you're watching sophie and co and we are talking to alexander salmond the first scottish minister here in shetland isles scotland were talking about why scotland should get independence well talking about travelling freely if you guys become independent as part of e.u. you would actually have to open your university doors to all the british students who now pay nine thousand pounds a year does this this is where you can see it can be kind of costly for scotland well we believe we can maintain the coming to arrangement we've got legal faced to that effect but i do still have more students coming to scotland think this year because of the policies of the scottish cup we have a record number of scottish students studying in scottish higher education a record number of english students fleeing the high fees studying in the scottish highlands education under record number of international students studying at scottish universities and colleges so we've got three records all in one year that's a great thing for scotland for scope reputation it's a great thing for the scottish e

find the shetland isles and there is a way of harris to talk to the first scottish minister alexander salmond about the defining point of every land it's seventeen it's mr salmond's flagship policy to see scotland become independent from the united kingdom where the benefits and the drawbacks let's take a look. in scotland. and appealing sounds to at least a third of the country's four million voters who want the three hundred year old political union. who dares break with history to pay less to a foreign pocket retain its share of resource riches hundred it's environment of nuclear friction yes many believe strength lies in the union as referendum countdown begins in earnest focus is turning to the key players in the campaign the leaders the media and london's reach. will take the high road and rebuild hadrian's. we talk to alex salmond the first minister of scotland on his personal and political quest for sovereignty. aleksandr salmond the first scottish minister thank you very much for being with r.t. to day i would great pleasure to be to be here what the light to have you fill me in scop

exchange was when alex salmond was asking alistair darling if he thinks scotland could be a successful independent country he was dodging that question pretty much as much as alexander was dodging the currency question he didn't want to give an answer and he did manage to avoid it i don't want to see your children's future i want to have the. world in fact it's not clear and experts say that t.v. debates very rarely have any sway in these very important issues that they rarely make a difference because a lot of scots will have already made up their mind which way they want to vote. to afghanistan now where a u.s. army general who's been killed and several officers wounded in the latest shooting in the capital major general harold green is the highest ranking american officer to die in an overseas war since vietnam talk of course his victims by surprise because he was dressed in afghan military uniform more details now with. more information on the gunmen is yet to be released but we do know that he was shot dead on site now according to a pentagon spokesperson the shooter is believed to be an afghan soldier who has served for quite some time this incident is reporte

exchange was when alex salmond was asking alistair darling if he thinks scotland could be a successful independent country he was dodging that question pretty much as much as alexander was dodging the currency question he didn't want to give an answer and he did manage to avoid it i don't want to see your children's future gambled away i want to have the. world in fact it's not clear and experts say that t.v. debates very rarely have any sway in these very important issues that they rarely make a difference because a lot of scots will have already made up their mind which way they want to vote so the aim of this debate was for the undecided voters to sway into some way or another. one hundred years on the world is commemorating the start of the great war the battles which took place in western europe are taking basically the main form leaving the eastern front largely overlooked. artie's under pharma now assessing the role of russia in the first world war. pran ferdinand's murder in late she set off a chain of events that would lead to the great war within a matter of days the great powers of europe particularly had war on each other and on this day exactly a centur