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The scottish government wants to hold a fresh vote. they have a pro—independence majority in the parliament here in edinburgh and have named their preferred date as october the 19th of next year. their proposed question, "should scotland be an independent country?" judges in the highest civil court in the uk have been asked to rule on whether msps at holyrood can go ahead with this without westminster�*s backing. the hearing is the tip of the iceberg. we also have more than 8,000 pages of written material to consider. therefore, as is usual, it's likely to be some months before we give our...

Therefore, as is usual, it's likely to be some months before we give ourjudgment. butjust six weeks on, they are about to give their ruling. the five judges heard lawyers for the scottish government argue that because any referendum would be advisory, it could not in itself bring about scottish independence. lawyers for the uk government want the court to throw out the case and also argue an independence bill would cut across those powers specifically reserved to westminster. the 201a referendum was not in doubt because of an earlier agreement for westminster to lend holyrood explicit authorit...

To a gala dinnerfor 620 leaders. it is gone nine o'clock in the evening here. he has been meeting world leaders in one—on—one, what are known as bilateral conversations, at a diplomatic level as well as the bigger sessions where all of the leaders were in the same room. i had a chance to ask him about a good old range of topics, including the autumn statement coming up on thursday and indeed the conduct of his deputy. but i wanted to start by asking him what it's like to be a british prime minister at the moment, on the world stage, given everything that has happened this year. prime minis...

Both sides it is a race against time, just as the winter approaches. paul, thank you very much. and we'll be speaking to our bbc ukraine correspondent who is in kyiv very shortly. let's go now to the 620. rishi sunak has admitted the uk's reputation was damaged by liz truss's mini—budget in september. the prime minister said tax rises and spending cuts in thursday's autumn statement are needed to reduce rising inflation and uk public debt. but mr sunak said decisions would be taken in a "fair" way, and everyone would benefit from reduced debt levels. he was speaking to our political editor c...

But they're trusting yourjudgment because they're not going to monitor everything that you do and say on things like going to war, you know, huge, major decisions that are going to change their lives and their family's lives. and when those people don't feel represented at all, notjust by the person who's supposed to represent them, but by the whole political system, that is when the whole system colla pses. and i still don't think to this day that most of the political, i say, establishment... i don't like this sort of elites versus people because i think there's lots of normal people in the ...