Singapore. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Hello and welcome. Its 9am in singapore and iam in the morning here in london, where in the past few hours British Parliament has given its final approval to a landmark law allowing the government to formally start the process of leaving the European Union. Earlier, scotlands First Minister Nicola Sturgeon dropped a political bombshell, announcing plans for a second Independence Referendum prompted by opposition to brexit. Britains Prime Minister theresa may wasnt too impressed. Lets hear from Nicola Sturgeon first. I will now take the steps necessary to make sure that scotland will have a choice at the end of this process. A choice of whether to follow the uk to a hard brexit, or to become an independent country. Instead of Playing Politics with the future of our country, the Scottish Government should focus on delivering Good Government and Public Services for the people of scotland. Politics is not a game. A little earlier our Politica
Singapore. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Hello and welcome. Its 9am in singapore and iam in the morning here in london, where in the past few hours British Parliament has given its final approval to a landmark law allowing the government to formally start the process of leaving the European Union. Earlier, scotlands First Minister Nicola Sturgeon dropped a political bombshell, announcing plans for a second Independence Referendum prompted by opposition to brexit. Britains Prime Minister theresa may wasnt too impressed. Lets hear from Nicola Sturgeon first. I will now take the steps necessary to make sure that scotland will have a choice at the end of this process. A choice of whether to follow the uk to a hard brexit, or to become an independent country. Instead of Playing Politics with the future of our country, the Scottish Government should focus on delivering Good Government and Public Services for the people of scotland. Politics is not a game. A little earlier our Politica
justified. and an interesting point. read into your answer what they will. what about the point you made, look, you didn t know the where but confident on the when. if you re confident on the when, right, ramadan ends the middle of this week, and then it s over. then the question is, is this just going to open-ended, or is the alert going to go away or are they going adjust to something else? once you do this, you end up in a situation of, when do you open things back up gep, are they going to seize that moment to go ahead with their plans? that is a risk and certainly there be down sides to the disclosure that we ve had, and as more information seeps in to the public awareness in terms of what sources of intelligence may have been, that poses risks in terms of what we can gather in the future. also we ve tipped our hand and may be less prepared the next tile. all of those costs i think are worth it, because we are deferring this plot. hopefully indefinitely. we re protecting our p
but confident on the when. if you re confident on the when, right, ramadan ends the middle of this week, and then it s over. then the question is, is this just going to open-ended, or is the alert going to go away or are they going adjust to something else? once you do this, you end up in a situation of, when do you open things back up? are they going to seize that moment to go ahead with their plans? that is a risk and certainly there be down sides to the disclosure that we ve had, and as more information seeps in to the public awareness in terms of what sources of intelligence may have been, that poses risks in terms of what we can gather in the future. also we ve tipped our hand and may be less prepared the next tile. all of those costs i think are worth it, because we are deferring this plot. hopefully indefinitely. we re protecting our people, and we re buying time to do further intelligence. every day we re getting further intelligence in and some of that intelligence may tell