what this sums up tonight if that is excitement excitement of days has received eco chic chic of edinburgh award. think simon and barry on its eating his lunch time the wart on the excitement of guys hate getting set to take part in the fall. business end of the million a day feet and one in london. the rule. one time nba commissioner david stern has stepped down after thirty years in charge of the us national basketball association. to his place is a nba deputy commissioner and silver was unanimously approved by nba owners external presided over a period of expansion and growth for the nba both domestically and internationally in two thousand eleven that included a new collective bargaining agreement with players after a five month lockout in spore and silverlight and scared for his work expanding in the business potential and turning professional basketball to delay this today. david has transformed the ministry not just the nba and he's done it over thirty years plus one and remember it's not just as he during his tenure as commissioner is the general counsel before that he was outside

i could give you a list of scottish strengths, their historic universities like edinburgh aberdeen and glasgow in st. andrews great industries from food processing to financial services from shipbuilding to science. it's not about scotland's strengths as some sort of olds on extra. it's about what we the constituent parts of the night again and can achieve together. the power of collaboration. it is there in our past. when the scottish enlightenment met the industrial revolution intellectual endeavor and commercial might combine to shape global economic ideas. and that power of collaboration is there today. together we are stronger at getting out there and selling our products to the world. like scotch whiskey. whether i am in india or china there is barely a meeting abroad when i don't bang the drum for whiskey abroad. now of course the first minister fights hard for those deals too but the clout we have as united kingdom gives us a much better chance of getting around the right tables, bashing down the trade terriers getting those deals signed. and the results, scotch whiskey as 135

friend the member for edinburgh east.ozens of the prime minister's own back benchers have said that tomorrow they will support an amendment to the immigration bill which everyone knows to be totally incompatible with the european treaties, and 95 tory mps have demanded that the british parliament should be able to veto every single european union law, which, as the prime minister knows, is totally unworkable. the prime minister has given concession after concession to his anti-europeans. when will he finally learn that they will never be satisfied with anything but british withdrawal from the european union? >> i do not agree with the hon. gentleman. the fact is that we need to correct, and we will correct, in the immigration bill the fact that it has been so difficult to deport people who do not have a right to be here, and who should be facing trial overseas or deported overseas, but advance spurious arguments about the right to a family life. it is right that we are changing that -- there is nothing anti-european about

. >> edinburgh pulled the car over, the driver was 30-year-old jose castellon.orderly at a local nursing home. >> i saw the forearm with the tattoo of a dagger on it. i was -- two or three seconds, i was speechless, because what's going through my mind now is this is the guy that everybody's been talking about. interestingly, his stepfather was a texas police officer. his only previous brush with the law was a misdemeanor conviction for which he served no time in jail. when questioned, castellon denied any involvement in the murders. employment and motor vehicle records showed he recently moved to texas from colorado and bought a set of commander brand snow tires when he was there. these were similar to the impressions found at the crime scene. >> we saw a lot of uniformity between the tire impressions of the defendant's vehicle to the actual casts that we had taken from the crime scene. as far as tread design, tread size, the logo itself. >> investigators noticed the back window of castellon's car was broken. pieces of that window were compared to the glass fou

are employed and scotland would then be independent in the sense that it could fly zone flag from edinburgh castle but the standard of living of people on both sides of the border with virtually perpetual right wing conservative rule in england shorn as it would be of fifty nine i'm anti conservative m.p.'s taken out of westminster that would be a disaster for working people on both sides of the border and it's the interests of working people that i represent i k. george galloway we'll leave it that thank you for talking to us today for a clear on where you set where you sit on the agenda that thank you very much indeed and another political and economic relationship that is on tender hooks right now this time it's between switzerland and the european union and this is following the swiss parliament's decision to enforce a limits on the number of foreign migrants including citizens of the e.u. the e.u. has already started to retaliate to this by ruling that an energy treaty that could potentially slash swiss household spending in the future on utility bills that has been put on hold at the

the usual demands what has become a city boy the story of jack born in edinburgh on the coldest day ever. when he's not stopped eating because of the cold go to matt since they've seen by replacing it with a mechanical clock. the film is based on an album and illustrated novel by maj s men's unity of the band uni starts. he fitted out as did it. we wanted to stay faithful to the series of concept. then we have to give a tease because otherwise the film has been too long with a full five hours though also because we didn't just want to sum up the vocal of the album in a movie the indigenous. it recorded tortilla in the navy jack spent on the house means he must navigate the angry or excited and crucially mathematically now. when they meet the school's teaching and the second channel. this sunday. it is a walk. given that the database. don't give up custody of the faith he had produced by this point the kakak is competing in the betting on his generation had to re dedicate it to children and young people. we see. it is. since. ch. in at least repeat a clean shot dead during anti government

virgin statue to take part in the pilgrimage to honor the teachers to minors the mining city of edinburgh the statues made of fiberglass reinforced concrete skinny three thousand eight hundred and fifty meters above sea level it is said to be one of the tallest in the world continued for nearly every part of the city. the cost one point three million us dollars to build. for the local faithful the statue represents different emotions the first is of february are the two most important in order of some significance in nineteen eighty nine advantage of the virgin mary appeared to be much that it was labeled the miracle legend is now firmly integrated into the liberal culture with many events taking place at the church of the mine shaft in honor of diversion. eye it has a long way to go before becoming an olympic event but several hundred japanese over the weekend took part in an alternative form of exercise hole digging across the country nearly three hundred teams each with a maximum of six members squared off in the campground to compete for cash prizes the golden shovel and become the ja

would automatically mean a no to a shared currency george osborne chancellor of the exchequer says edinburgh would have to leave the pound if it leaves the u.k. artie's laura smith has more. what chancellor george osborne is saying is if scotland walks away from the u.k. it also walks away from the pound he's very clear about that he said that there are four things that are necessary to have a currency really and so for scotland to shed the pounds and then proceeded to demolish the possibility of those conditions being met the first thing he talked about was a banking union scotland of course has a huge financial sector it's worth about twelve times its g.d.p. alone there's no way that scotland would be able to bail out its own balance you've only got to look at the huge world bank of scotland so that the u.k. has only just managed to extricate itself from an obligation to bail out european banks so what on earth would put it back into an obligation to bail out scottish banks fiscal cooperation then osborne talked about a shared agreement on taxation and spending would necessitate the rest o

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chancellor george osborne speaking in edinburgh this morning. the debate, of course, about goblins independence. -- scotland's independence. you will hear from mr. osborne later. ♪ >> welcome back. you're looking at live pictures of the chancellor in scotland. this is george osborne. addressing the issue of scottish independence. i suspect we will hear him say it will not be an option for the scots to postindependence to continue using the pound. >> italy could be on the brink of another new government. yesterday the prime minister presented a new economic agenda. how will democratic party leader matteo renzi respond? let's head back to hans nichols in rome. >> francine, good morning. professor ofh a history and politics. you know this country well. you have your crystal ball. tell me what matteo renzi does today. todayelieve that renzi will say that he wants to become the prime minister. he will say it in a soft way most likely. if he doesn't say that, it will be a surprise. he's going to say that and at that point, i think letta is going to re

that is the same distance i took a little google map here from london to edinburgh exactly so that's that's the size of this area that's the size of the area if you look at the fracking map of the u.k. what the plan fracking map is you see it's about the same size. helped by a scheme for real estate which is a copy of the fannie mae and freddie mac. debacle which caused the subprime crisis of two thousand and seven the british energy corporations are going to take fracking even though in america it's been proven to be completely on economical and environmental disaster but they're going to do it here anyway because why nobody in the media here except for maybe george will be up over there to guard him will say anything about the fact that this is an ecological disaster and more importantly an economic boon doggle that will increase britain's debt to even higher than it is right now the highest to spend a decade well you talk about the health problems now this woman that they cover here limbering she has severe asthma as i said but as the article points out people who live close to oi

very successful as a as a financial center so what's so different about what's going on in glasgow edinburgh and what's going on in london in terms of big corporate companies well i think that we have to look at the situation overall and have to say that what scottish independence will do is it will open up the possibility of the people of scotland saying that once and for all we won't have any more tory governments i mean it's one thing about the question of financial power of course financial public not disconnected from political power and what we want to see in scotland is a political government we shall see which actually starts to challenge the way the banks have been run if you look at the city of london it's been one it's not just that it's supported by the governments makes minister but they are intrinsic to its operation in other words that what we see with waste months is a government by and for the big banks buying and for the super rich which is why of course the richest two hundred people and britain has combined will fall right underneath one billion pounds has increased by ei

the tail winds behind them how do we get these jocks to wake up to this we have to go up there to edinburgh haven't suttles go and shout look we don't have an open forum i think so don't let someone know it for a second because no way of course you compare that with the. and the oil wealth because you mentioned that the part of the equation the triple play of scotland is the oil the the other two things you mention which i've already forgot size regulatory actions a size zero oil regulatory has no weight has these the size and the oil the regulatory options bit dicey very large states you know right now they have managed to put together a sovereign wealth fund one of the biggest in the world hundreds and hundreds of billions and of course they public benefits from this and we're each norwegian a millionaire i think so now in the u.k. which you also had access to the north sea oil going back to the factory or they took that money instead of putting into a sovereign wealth fund that created the most and one of the most indebted states of the past fifty years all the debt inclusive in the u.k.

i could give you a list of the scottish strengths -- their historic universities like edinburgh, aberdeen, glasgow and st. andrews, great industries -- from food processing to financial services, from ship-building to science. but it's not about scotland's strengths as some sort of bolt-on extra. it's about what we, the constituent parts of the u.k, can achieve together. a power of collaboration. it's there in our past when the scottish enlightenment met the industrial revolution -- intellectual endeavor and commercial might combining to shape global economic ideas. and that power of collaboration is there today. together we're stronger at getting out there and selling our products to the world. take scotch whisky. whether i'm in india or china, there's barely a meeting where i don't bang the drum for whisky abroad. of course, the first minister fights hard for those deals too but the clout we have as a united kingdom gives us a much better chance of getting around the right tables, bashing down trade barriers, getting deals signed. the result -- scotch whisky adds 135 pounds to the uk's

george osborne is currently speaking in edinburgh. he says the pound is not an asset to be divided up if scotland votes for independence. there's no legal reason why the rest of the uk would need to share the currency with an independent scotland. and in zotland walks away from the uk, it walks away from the british pound. scottish nationalists offering to walk away from the debt would mean punitively higher interest rates for scottish debt issuance. so a major threat from the british chancellor last night. looking to see what the labor you video is on that, as well. now, staying in the uk, lloyds banking group has announced a return to profit. the ceo says he believes the lender is ready to return to private ownership. and because of that, helia, he's paid himself a nice bonus, as well, 1.7 million pound bonus. >> 1.7 million. he was absolutely convinced that he deserved it. he said he came here three years ago to repair the bank and that it has performed exceptionally well. share price up 70% last year. he said in the last 24 months

but at a church in nearby edinburgh, father feit would be accused of sexually assaulting this young womana america guerra. the 20-year-old woman told police she came into the church, which was empty at the time, to pray. the communion rail used to be right up here near the chairs. she knelt down, and then she was attacked by a man. she told police he had dark hair and horned-rim glasses. she bit him in the finger and drew blood, and then she ran away. father feit matched maria america guerra's description of a suspect. she identified him to police, and he had what appeared to be a serious bite mark on one of his fingers. in this sworn statement, feit said the injured finger was from a mimeograph printing machine, an accident. after a jury deadlocked on a felony charge of assault with attempt to commit rape, feit would plead nolo contendere, no contest, to misdemeanor aggravated assault. the judge found him guilty and fined him $500, no prison time. just 24 days after maria america guerra was attacked, father feit was working at irene garza's church. on the saturday before easter, irene we

he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2010 and treated in edinburgh but the judges refused to take that into account. the foreign secretary yesterday, now to assure me that the minister will take everything they can to support this man can't see him returned to the u.k. where he can get the treatment he needs it? >> i can give the hon. lady the assurance she asked for. i am deeply concerned about this debt sentence passed on mr. muhammed ended the longstanding policy to oppose the death penalty in all circumstances. the pakistani authorities, the seriousness with which we view these developments, the chief minister on monday, high commissioner continues to raise this case with the relevant authorities, officials are meeting pakistani high commission officials in london as they discuss this and other cases. we take this extremely seriously and we are making that clear at every level. >> delivering the drop of 20 points, 25% over the last year, with this in mind is the prime minister aware, going forward today to build a number of specials to revolutionize and facilitate the

we have business units from exeter to edinburgh. we do cover the entire country.that we cover the whole country. we are seeing increasing strength in most markets outside the southeast, from the middle of last year you saw on bromance in the midlands and the final quarter you begin to see them in the northeast and scotland. by the end of the year, we are seeing those improvements starting and whilst -- in wales. the quality of all inside, and some of the government-help homebuyers, a whole mixed that is contravening to a healthier environment. eh speaks positively of t economy as well. we have always said that the help to buy scheme is effective as a relatively short to medium term help to what was a troubled mortgage market. a cliff edge withdrawal is not healthy because it is reasonably successful and scale schemed. we would not want to see it continue long-term. ofh the current planned and the scheme in 2016, we would not like to see it extended long-term or we would like to see some sort of hyper affect over the course of 18 months that means homeowners did no