alistair darling's colleagues have been saying that that reserves would be running out by 2000. alistair says there is a wholesale value. let's say 20% as revenue that goes to the government. that is 200 billion pounds. six billion pounds a year. the reality is that every other country in europe would give their eye teeth to get the oil and gas. it cannot be that it is anything other than a substantial asset. [applause] >> you're promising on the basis of the source of revenue that is a very volatile -- that would make up a very substantial part of scotland's income. i argue it is a great thing to have come to realize so much on -- rely so much on something when you publish a white paper where you put out 650 pages, there was just one year, and the estimates you made have proved to be wrong. they are much lower than you thought. tell people that somehow we can rely on this. it is gambling our future. [indiscernible] [applause] >> i want to move to our second question on the economy. it comes from kathy. >> i would like to know in an independent scotland -- i would like an answer

[applause] >> our second opening statement comes from alistair darling. mr. rling, you also have two minutes. >> this is it. he is asking us to take his word for it on everything. trust what he says. sorry, i can't. the basic difference between mr. salmond and me, his first priority is to create a separate state, no matter what the risk and what the cost. i want to build a fairer society. while he has been talking the last two years, i've have been listening. i know that people want change, but they also want security on jobs, pensions, on their children's future. that is why my message is that no thanks will not mean no change. there will be more powers for the scottish on taxes, welfare. we have delivered before, and we will deliver again. tomorrow, we scots will start voting by post. so we need answers, tonight, right here, and right now. the currency, no answers. let me tell you why currency matters. currency is about jobs in huge numbers. currency is about what we pay at the shop. it is about interest rates, mortgages, and the value of our pensions. criti

[applause] >> our second opening statement comes from alistair darling. mr. rling, you also have two minutes. >> this is it. he is asking us to take his word for it on everything. trust what he says. sorry, i can't. the basic difference between mr. salmond and me, his first priority is to create a separate state, no matter what the risk and what the cost. while he has been talking the last two years, i've have been listening. i know that people want change, but they also want security on jobs, pensions, on their children's future. that is why my messages that no thanks will not mean no change. that is why the -- on taxes, welfare, it makes sense to decide here. we have delivered before, and we will deliver again. tomorrow, we scots will start voting by post. so we need answers, tonight, right here, and right now. the currency, no answers. let me tell you why currency matters. currency is about jobs in huge numbers. currency is about what we pay at the shop. it is about interest rates, mortgages, and the value of our pensions. critically, the money we use is ab

alistair darling's colleagues have been saying that that reserves would be running out by 2000. listair says there is a wholesale value. let's say 20% as revenue that goes to the government. that is 200 billion pounds. six billion pounds a year. the reality is that every other country in europe would give their eye teeth to get the oil and gas. it cannot be that it is anything other than a substantial asset. [applause] >> you're promising on the basis of the source of revenue that is a very volatile -- that would make up a very substantial part of scotland's income. i argue it is a great thing to have come to realize so much on -- rely so much on something when you publish a white paper where you put out 650 pages, there was just one year, and the estimates you made have proved to be wrong. they are much lower than you thought. tell people that somehow we can rely on this. it is gambling our future. [indiscernible] [applause] >> i want to move to our second question on the economy. it comes from kathy. >> i would like to know in an independent scotland -- i would like an answer -

would be another heated 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 matte

had another heated exchange where the shoe was on the other firth and alex salmond had backed alistair darling into a corner by repeatedly asking him if he thought that scotland could be a successful independent country but alistair darling just wouldn't give him a straight now the leader of the better together campaign has been accused of being slightly negative throughout the debate and talking up the risks of voting for an independent scotland i don't want to see your children's future gambled away i want to have the. world well this debate drew so much interest from around the globe that the website streaming the debate online crashed so overwhelming was people's interest in it but that said political experts say that t.v. debates are really rarely game changing they don't make much difference because there's only six weeks to go until that referendum and most people's opinions in scotland already entrenched in either the yes although no camp so it's the undecided voters that could have been swayed by yesterday's debate. breaking news story this all russia's president just signed a decree

had another heated exchange where the shoe was on the other foot and alex salmond had backed alistair darling into a corner by repeatedly asking him if he thought that scotland could be a successful independent country and he really budget him about it but i mr darling just wouldn't give him a straight now the leader of the better together campaign has been accused of being slightly negative throughout the debate and talking up the risks of voting for an independent scotland we can take a listen to him talking about those risks now. i don't want to see your children's future go i want to have the. world. well despite the outlook the polls today seem to show that i listed darling came out on top by quite a narrow margin but he was the one that sort of been spoken about as the winner in this debate which is a surprise because bookmakers had been predicting that it would be alex salmond who would be the winner but point out how important can such t.v. debates like the speed. well this debate drew so much interest from around the globe that the website streaming the debate online crashed so overw

alistair darling. >> of course we could use a -- >> aha.ha. >> the problem is -- [applause] you do not have a central bank. so our financial services cannot exist. [indiscernible] the second problem you have is people'shat use other countries, they have to run a surplus. they cannot ro. you have a huge deficit, you it have to -- you would have to -- that would come out of -- , if the restarling of the united kingdom refuses a currency union, doesn't it leave it laiable? >> [indiscernible] if your first message in the new world the syria, here is,, and new currency, and we just defaulted on our debt, what do you think that would do to people who are lending us money in the future? [applause] >> the treasury expected liability for all u.k. debt -- you cannot default on a debt that is not yours in the first place. tair a few seconds ago admitted we could use the pound anyway. the chancellor said a few months out ofn he said you walk u.k., you walk out of pound. they cannot stop us using the pound, the most important revelation on this debate.

particular in relation to a scottish currency and the economy he was asked several times by alistair darling and by members of the audience what currency an independent scotland would use if it can't keep the pound as westminster has been saying that it won't be able to alex salmond couldn't come up with an answer he just kept repeating that he thinks that the best option for scotland would be to use the pound and it didn't seem like a satisfying oncet for many scottish people who are wondering how they'll be paying their mortgages and their bills if scotland does become independent now we had another heated exchange where the shoe was on the other foot and alex salmond had backed alistair darling into a corner by repeatedly asking him if he thought that scotland could be a successful independent country but i just adored him just wouldn't give him a straight now the leader of the better together campaign has been accused of being slightly negative throughout the debate and talking up the risks of voting for an independent scotland i don't want to see your children's future go by one of the.

would be another heated 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 alex salmond 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 best of both worlds in fact it's not clear and experts say that t.v. debates very rarely has 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. a senior u.s. army general who's being killed in the afghan capital major general how old green is now highest ranking officer to die in an overseas war since vietnam all the victims taken by surprise though the attacker was dressed in a military uniform is all of these honest. more information on the gunmen is yet to be released but we do know that he was shot dead on sit

throughout the debate but the gloves came off from both the leaders actually pretty quickly alistair darling the leader of the benteke together campaign was accused of being quite shouty throughout the debate as well perhaps the best soundbites to come out of the evening was of alex salmond explaining why he thinks scotland should become an independent country more ponderous in the. tory m.p. from scotland but we still get the tory government but he had a bit of difficulty on during specific questions about the currency and about the economy he was asked repeatedly both by alistair darling and by members of the audience about which currency scotland would have if it couldn't retain the pound as westminster is saying that it can't he didn't have a concrete oncet to that he avoided the question about what his contingency plan b. c. or d. would be another heated exchange was when alex salmond was asking alice the darling if he thinks scotland could be a successful independent country he was dodging that question pretty much as much as alex salmond was dodging the currency question he didn't wan

snap poll and the results seventy one percent of voters thought that he came out on top and alistair darling receiving just twenty nine percent of the votes now when it comes to the whole topic is this cost of course we have the future of nuclear weapons or oil revenues as well as the currency let's not forget that last time alice the darling had challenge salmond over issues support example the future of the economy as well as the future of the pound and this time it appears that mr solomon was more prepared to answer those questions and he offered the currency options that would be suitable but he said it would be best to stick to the pound and also he actually managed to get alistair darling to admit that scotland would be able to use that to the pound as a water need to get permission from the u.k. to do that but then alison dolling head back saying that this would in fact leave scotland at the mercy of a foreign country to limit how much it could spend for example like yours on countries which have to put their budgets to be signed up by brussels well this is a very important day becaus

tomorrow, bbc scotland posts the second debate between alex sam and alistair darling.een advocating for an independent scotland. david cameron thinks scotland should stay in the u.k. 51% of voters support staying in the u.k. 38% support independence. live coverage of the debate begins at 3:30 p.m. eastern on c-span. next, the results of the poll on american attitudes towards public education. with charles rangel of new york. see a another chance to scottish parliament discussion on the upcoming independence referendum. delta kappa a phi international and gallup poll, standardscans oppose but are in favor of standardized testing like the s.a.t. and a. c.t. they discuss possible solutions for public education equity and reform. this is one hour and 25 minutes. >> how is it going? all right. ok. first of all, on behalf of gallup, welcome to our beautiful, great hall. i am these active director of gallup education and i am delighted to kick off the results from the 46th annual p.d.k. gallup poll. in 1969, many years before i was born. you have a deeper appreciation for how

but monday night, as he faced alistair darling, it was time to get serious and set out his vision for an independent scotland. >> we are a rich nation, a resourceful people. we can create a prosperous nation and a fairer society. this is our time. it is our moment. >> his opponent, or inside independence campaigner alastair darling went on the attack immediately. >> this is it. he is asking us to take his word for it. on everything. no plan b for anything. trust what he says. sorry, i can't. >> among the issues under debate was currency and whether an independent scotland would be allowed to use the british found. >> only a few months ago, he says if you walk out of u.k., you walk out of the pound. it cannot stop is using the pound, the most important revelation in this debate -- >> for a currency unit to work, both sides have to agree. you see that in the eurozone. why would you expect them to say -- we do not want to join the euro, but we would join a currency union with what would then be a foreign country? you're taking a huge risk if you assume it will all fall into place. >> how

it is between scottish national party leader alex salmond and alistair darling.pan, created by america's cable companies 35 years ago and brought to you as a public service i your local cable or satellite provider. >> the book is called "the people's platform, taking back power and culture in the digital age." the author is aster taylor, who joins us from our new york studio. abouts book, you write openness and you say that new-media thinkers have claimed openness as an appropriate utopian ideal for our time and the concept has caught on. does that apply to the internet as well? >> that is exactly what i'm asking. it seemed like the internet was going to magically solve all the problems of the old media, and for me, i am independent. my background is in documentary filmmaking. i make films about philosophies. kind of obscure educational films. these films were not on television, they were not on commercial media. the

now the head of the better together campaign alistair darling head back saying that that would leave scotland at the mercy of a foreign country telling then how to spend its money just like eurozone countries which have to get their budget signed off in a brussels. videos you see you don't have a central bank so our financial services can exist in salt and now other topics the two clashed on the war oil revenues the future of nuclear weapons as well as a health care the hour and a half the base ended up being a little bit of a slanging match as the pair repeatedly shouted over each other to be heard there was very clear that the scottish national party leader was adopting a more emotional but more confident approach some said that the fact that he was shouting over his opponent could put off some voters but as we can see but the results of the snap election that seem to work in his favor well a fifth of scotland's electorate will start receiving their ballots as early as this tuesday and many of them could be making their decision today based on the debates. coming up in r. and t. in

a televised debate between alex salmond and alistair darling has declared salmond the winner. 71% believednd made a stronger point for independence. vote is an opportunity to themselves as independents. and in the process which has been agreed and consented. an opportunity which may not come our way again. >> the presidents of ukraine and russia meeting in a summit. no separatist discussions are expected between petro poroshenko and vladimir putin. poroshenko called for snap elections. another government in disarray, the french government -- and the french president hollande will members. which is\against a -- a wider rift which is against german led austerity. >> the government asking for 147 days. less than five months. clash between the different members of the socialist party a president hollande. the economy minister who was responsible for this cabinet -- affle said of france sad france needed to do more. france needed to do more. he said the austerity measures were going in the wrong direction. you may be surprised that president hollande. since the beginning of this year , tax cuts

all that remains is for me to thank alistair darling and alex hammond, to thank our audience in glasgow and to thank you for being with us at this debate tonight. from all of us here, good night. [applause] >> next, remarks by former president jimmy carter. discussion on terror threats to the u.s. assesses the state of iran under rouhani. on the next washington journal, washington examiner kleintary editor philip discusses president obama's foreign and domestic policy challenges and previews the upcoming midterm congressional elections. adam green, cofounder of the compressive chain committee outlines the political and legislative agenda of progressive groups for the 2014 elections. senior staff writer gordon lubold talks about the threat with isis. we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. journal, live at 7 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> former president jimmy carter gave a keynote speech on the first day of the islamic society of north america's annual convention in detroit. he talked about the work the carter center is doing, including the involv

we will be seeing the first minister taking on alistair darling, the former chancellor.er or not scotland should remain within the union. at the moment, the polls seem to favor the union remaining as is. i.e. scotland staying in. can mr. hammond change that? we will have coverage of that tomorrow. he hasr darling, well honed his skills in the houses of parliament. don't underestimate him. hammondnow what alex can deliver when he joins these debates. it will be interesting. we will bring you plenty of coverage tomorrow. that is it for "the pulse." keep it right here on bloomberg television. "bloomberg surveillance" is up next. live from new york with tom keene and his team. martin sorrell will be joining the show from wpp. looking forward to that conversation. follow me on social media. we will take a break. enjoy "bloomberg surveillance." we will see you tomorrow. ♪ >> this is "bloomberg surveillance." >> israel and hamas are in truce . will frightening recommence -- fighting recommence on friday? 20,000 troops on the u.k. border. the ruble turns. facebook, google, twitt

alistair darling, this is what he had to say. >> i know that people want change, but they also want securityd jobs and pensions and their children's future. that's why my message is that, no thanks will not mean no change. that's why there will be more powers for the scottish parliament on tax, on welfare, on everything that makes sense to decide here. we've delivered before, and we will deliver again. now, tomorrow we scots will start voting by post, so we need answers tonight, right here and right now. the currency, no answers. let me tell you why currency matters. currency is about jobs in huge numbers. currency is about what we pay for the weekly are shop. it's about interest rates, mortgage rates and rents and the value of our pensions. and critically, currency -- the money we use -- is about being a able to pay for public services upon which we all depend. that's the real threat to our national health service, not the ones he's trying to scare us with. and the questions have grown. what about oil? last week the north sea oil export issued a stark warning. quite simply, he says they're

minutester made a comeback in last night's televised debate after finishing second previously to alistair darling. they sparred over the nhs and welfare reforms. the currency issue reared its head again as darling pressed salmond on whether they would be able to keep the pound if the country chooses to split from the union. >> i think the currency union would be bad for scott legion because our budget would have to be decided and approved not by us, but by what would then be a foreign country because that's what happens in the eurozone. every country has to send in its budget for approval and it wouldn't be good for the rest of the uk, either. if we don't have a currency union, what's plan b? now, i had no luck three weeks ago when i kept asking him what plan b is. more likely, he doesn't think it's within a likely answer. it's not a matter for us to examine what the alternative is. it's -- >> the model, i'd like to know because i don't want to be using somebody else's currency with no central bank, rotten public services. if it is the euro, i don't want that, either. and as for a separate scotti

[applause] >> alex hammond, you now have eight minutes to cross examine alistair darling. >> how many children in scotland are estimated to move into poverty by 2020 given the u.k. governments spending cuts? >> too many. the time i was in government you could count -- >> how many? >> it depends on the government policies. >> a strong and secure economy is needed. >> there are too many children. >> 100,000 children in scotland moving into poverty. is that up price -- is that a price worth paying for the westminster government? the labour party -- they said that they will continue with labour -- the labour policies area, is that a price worth paying? >> as a society i said we had it an obligation to get the children out of policy. stop interrupting. you as a government have cut one billion pounds from the anti-poverty program. most of whom only have one way out of poverty. you as a government have cut one >> 100,000 people with a and so, why are you standing here defending this success? disability, these are the people suffering the westminster government. they can start with the resour

the burden of proof is on the nationalists here, but i think that those in london, people like alistair darlings running the no campaign, they have good reasons to say we're not going to simply lie down in any sort of negotiation with alex sammond. for example, take the pound. he says it would be easy for an independent scotland and the rest of the uk to continue sharing the pound. that's all very well and there would be obvious economic benefits to having a currency union. on the other hand, scotland has a very large financial sector. does a london government want to stand behind that sector, effectively stand behind the scottish government and create the moral hazard that would entail? so, i think the london government and the unionist campaign at the moment have good reasons for saying that it wouldn't be easy going for an independent scotland. >> look, one thing i do know is the scots are pretty smart and they're smart about money as well. i mean, goodness me, they came up with some of the rules of the wealth of nations. so, they know the rules of this as well. so, why are such a large perc

when bbc scotland will host a debate between alex salmon and better together campaign leader alistair darling. you can see that debate live beginning at 3:30 p.m. eastern also on c-span. and tomorrow is primary day in a number of states -- arizona, florida, oklahoma and vermont -- where voters will go to the polls. you can follow c-span for results and speeches tomorrow night. >> this week, special prime time programming on the c-span networks. tonight on c-span, from glasgow a debate over scottish independence. then on tuesday, issues spotlight on irs targeting of conservative groups. wednesday night the principal of hartford connecticut's capital preparatory magnet school on educating children from disadvantaged backgrounds. thursday a house bum committee hearing -- budget committee hearing on private anti-poverty programs. and friday night native american history. on c-span2 this week, booktv in prime time. tonight at 8:30 eastern a discussion about school choice. tuesday night at 8 writer john hope bryant on his book, "how the poor can save capitalism." and wednesday at 8 p.m., an intervi

alistair play you darling last night.talking about scotland's place in the union. , a currency was union without a political union is stupidity on stilts. , for theuropeans european union, to get the eurozone to work, they need a closer political union. can britain be part of that? the currencynot on basis. that is not the chosen route for them. is it? >> we will leave that there. the mayor of london joins us now bloombergoor of the london offices. we are going to take a short break. we will carry on the conversation when we come back at the mayor of london. we are back in two .5 minutes. see you then. ♪ >> good morning, everybody. welcome back to "the pulse." johnson has made his way upstairs to talk to us now. good morning to you. >> good morning. i made my way easily upstairs. >> well, we have a lift. i asked them to turn on the air conditioning. anybody listening to that speech in brussels and you appeal directly -- >> i appealed to my friends. there is an opportunity to change things and do a better. >> then you turn

indiscernible] --[gavel pntdown ounds] [applause] you now have eight minutes to cross examine alistair darling how many children in scotland is it estimated that will move into poverty by 2020, 'sven that the u.k. government welfare spending cuts? >> too many children are moving into poverty. >> when i was in government -- >> it depends on what the government policy czar, but -- policies are, but -- >> how many is the estimate of the children. >> there are too many children living in poverty. extra children0 in scotland moving into poverty with the welfare reforms. do you think that is a price worth paying? >> i do not agree with the present government's welfare policy. i am a labor politician -- l abour politician. labour party said they would continue the policies of the tory government. 100,000 would be affected by the welfare reforms. we have got a lot of birds down there. some of which i recognize. some of which i think i recognize. better which i have a idea of what they are. i put this in my jacket pocket as i walked through the field. when i spot an interesting bird, i can pull it out