内容摘要：The Kremlin has said it will hold discussions with Syria's new administration on the future of both sites.

The Kremlin has said it will hold discussions with Syria's new administration on the future of both sites.

If the river Tweed and Cheviot hills mark that boundary, Scotland would face more friction in trading with England and Wales, which currently form, by far, its biggest "export" market.The SNP remains firmly on the fence when it comes to issuing new oil and gas licences for the North Sea.

Having previously proposed a presumption against new exploration, it has rowed back by saying applications should be dealt with on a case-by-case basis and subject to a climate compatibility test.It's worth pointing out that such a test applies already and only covers greenhouse gas emissions from the production process, not from burning the oil and gas which is then sold - ultimately, after refining - to consumers.The party's bigger focus is on transitioning to a green economy and it is demanding a revival of Labour's abandoned commitment to invest £28bn per year in developing such a sector.

More immediately the SNP is calling for the UK government to match its £500m "just transition fund" for Scotland's oil and gas heartlands.And it says that while it supports a windfall tax, it shouldn't be a "raid" of the north east of Scotland - where the oil and gas sector is based - but should be a wider tax which is "balanced across companies."

The SNP policies on immigration are a reminder of how different the issue looks in Scotland compared with England.

Rather than promising to reduce numbers (as Labour and Conservative parties have), the SNP wants Scotland to have the powers to attract more foreign migrants.The uncertainty is amplified by the change in asylum policy in Europe.

Still, this is a young woman whose experience of life - the experience of serious disability since birth, witnessing the terrors of war, travelling across the Middle East and Europe to safety - has created a capacity for hope.In the near decade that I have known her, it is undimmed. The fall of Assad has only deepened her faith in Syria and its people.

"There are many people who are waiting to see Syria fall into some kind of an abyss," she says."We are not people who hate or envy or want to want to eliminate each other. We are people who were raised to be afraid of each other. But our default setting is that we love and accept who we are."