live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 6am in singapore, and midnight in the danish capital, copenhagen where police say several people have been killed in a shooting incident in a shopping centre. this happened just a few hours ago now. there are also many injured. the mayor of copenhagen says it s a very serious situation, and one person, a danish man, has been arrested. eyewitnesses have spoken of chaotic scenes after the man opened fire inside the fields shopping mall, the country s biggest shopping cnetre. police have not been able to establish the attacker s motives. it s not known whether he was acting alone. there is a heavy police presence across the copenhagen region. our security correspondent gordon corera reports. chaos on a sunday afternoon, as gunfire erupts inside the fields shopping centre, in copenhagen. some shoppers fled the complex, other tried to find cover, desperately seeking hiding places. translation: we were just |
Plans for a second Scottish Referendum on independence have been put on ice. First minister Nicola Sturgeon has categorically not dropped the idea of another vote, but said today that no legislation will be brought forward until autumn next year at the earliest. Given the pace at which these things proceed, that means no vote would happen until 2020 and by then it would likely be delayed until after the next scottish elections in 2021. The reset amounts to a setback for the ambitions of the snp, but its arguably also a retreat for the forces of change and disruption that have been dominating politics for so long. It was scotland that led the world into a new era of voter restlessness. A nationalist surge that saw snp Majority Rule in scotland and which paved the way for that Independence Referendum. Scotland has voted no in this referendum on independence. It was a defeat for independence but it came closer than anyone anticipated when it all started. Something had stirred and quickly