B.B.C. Radio Scott. Hello good morning it's Thursday morning it's the 20th of December welcome to Good Morning Scotland with him and get it Robertson our top story this morning what's up stupid breaks it takes a back seat there is a deep attack. Both from the right from the far left the far right and the far left I think that by products that are coming up thousands affected as drones grind planes again the British Airline Pilots Association has been talking about the risks of quotes a catastrophic crash happening as a result of drones and take a walk on the wild side research finds a link between the high smoggy and its Wilder counterpart I think it's very sad because all day it is possibly one or 2 cats out there that we can't consider to be . Kept from it in Attic perspective the vast majority are hybrids. The summary of the news the Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has publicly suggested another referendum could become a plausible way forward of parliament remains deadlocked over breaks it to reason may has repeatedly ruled out holding another public vote but speaking on I.T.V. Peston programme Mr Rudd said that while she herself did not support another referendum the case for one would grow were found peace could not agree on the way ahead here's the B.B.C.'s political correspondent Nick or Italy or Rod who are supporters of the Prime Minister's breaks a plan he's one of the cabinet ministers who has publicly discussed what might happen if the deal doesn't get Parliament's backing she told I.T.V. She didn't want another referendum but diverging from Number 10 script to defame peace field to reach a consensus there would be a plausible argument for another referendum that will anger ministers who to choose these Cabinet meeting the backing another vote would be naive and cause considerable division. There's continued disruption to flights to and from Gatwick this morning including some from Scotland the airport near London have been forced to close its runway following reports of 2 drones flying over the airfield the shutdown started just after 9 o'clock last night with many passengers being left on planes on the tarmac for hours our correspondent Andy Muar is there it started at about 9 o'clock last night we're aware of the at least 2 dozen flights that were diverted to other airports in the U.K. Places like stones to Luton Birmingham as far away as Manchester and then of course there are all the people sitting in their planes at Gatwick ready to take off many of them were stuck on those planes for 5 or 6 hours detailed plans for tax and spending in Scotland for the year ahead will be published today in a budget bill Scottish ministers are involved in talks to win support from another party to allow the bill to be carried at Holyrood the most productive negotiations are likely to be with the Greens but they want to see plans to replace the council tax plus more money now for local authorities. Britain has distanced itself from President Trump's declaration of victory over the Islamic state group in Syria the White House the 9th D.S. Today that the US have begun to withdraw its remaining 2000 troops from the country the Foreign Office said much remained to be done in Syria while the defense minister Tobias Elwood said he strongly disagreed with Mr Trump's assessment the decision has also been heavily criticized by senior Republicans in Washington including Senator Lindsey Graham my view. Is not repeated in Syria and Iraq I was there just a few months ago they've been incredibly hurt in our troops there are an insurance policy against the reemergence of ISIS in Syria and Iraq. And a chance Grampian has apologized after women's bottle cancer was discovered 3 years late she was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2016 and later died at the Scottish public services ombudsman find that clinical guidance been properly followed she did been diagnosed in 2013 it has urged N.H.S. Grampian to make a number of clinical changes it's also criticised the board's handling of the Ombudsman's requests for information as part of its inquiries. A major genetic study has concluded that Scottish wild cats are no part of the same gene pool as domestic cats the lead author of the research led by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland says it means they're extinct or on the very brink of extinction in the wild Here's our science correspondent Kenneth McDonald interbreeding with domestic counts as long been considered a Meijer of threats to the Scottish wild can't know we know how bad it is the researchers from the wild genes lobert it amid a zoo study the D.N.A. Of almost $300.00 counts and found all of those living in the wild were part of the same hybrid gene pool as domestic animals the key to future conservation efforts appears to lie in the almost $100.00 wild cats in captivity which of a stronger genetic inheritance the International Union for the Conservation of Nature is due to recommend what more can be done to protect the species. A new study suggests that a 3rd of vintage Scotch is fake university experts have been using carbon dating techniques to identify a whole range of fake whiskies they stablished the 2155 whiskeys are not what they claim to be at least one was not even whiskey Morgan Spence reports the techniques used more often to date ice each mammoths have been less steep to reveal the true age of some whiskeys that are marketed as being old and rare $55.00 bottles of Scotch were tested by the Scottish universe these Environmental Research Center $21.00 proved to be either a fake or much younger than labeled on the Simpson event to a whole broker from Rio rescue want to one estimates that more than 40000000 pounds worth of fake West is currently in circulation he's warning would be collectors that Westy bought from online auction sites may not be as it seems and that's the news so far this morning sports headlines now from Phil Good luck fairly good morning to you and good morning to everyone at home Celtics the top of the Premiership this morning after a 3 nil victory at home to Motherwell Tony Ralston Scott Sinclair and Mikey Johnson with the goals while they would winning in the state of Glasgow Rangers for drawing at the other end of the M 8 gold finish with heads at the start road despite Steven Gerrard's men having a number of chances throughout the 90 minutes then the United Steel American owner believes the club is very close to achieving promotion the season mark Aughrim says he'll fund signings when the transfer window opens next month and investigations are under way after the Tottenham an England midfielder barely Ali was struck by a plastic bottle thrown from the Code last night but shooting his side to no win over Arsenal. He was in have this morning's travel news good morning good morning Gary and look into Edinburgh the Belaire know area temperature off it lights cars electricity workers on the go on line accrued West. For the next couple of days. On Main Street I don't vicars Bridge Road that's one going into the New Year that is looking largely fine at the moment on the trains a number of Edinburgh cancellations across the days because of staffing issues and 39 at the moment and shorter carriages for some services as well as always details on Scorpios website and if you're flying to got to meet are expecting anyone coming in do check the flight as there may still be some disruption following an instant yesterday we. Got the travel and let's catch up with the weather details now for the day ahead here's to dethrone Stern morning good morning fairly clarity from initially this morning with some showers for western and central parts I was present towards the West Highlands and the southwest but in the east it's a dried affair and the far north as well here we see the best of the sunshine and quite a breezy day highs of those brisk winds continue into Shetland and to be fairly brisk down towards the southwest corner as well for me after half a 6 minutes past 6 this morning Scotland there's been an early Christmas present for 2000 U.S. Troops currently serving in Syria they are heading home the announcement of their drawdown comes after one of Donald Trump's tweets from which he declared that so-called Islamic State militants in the country had been defeated his decision to split opinion even from the likes of those usually loyal to the president such as Senator Lindsey Graham. Is not defeated in Syria and Iraq I was there just a few months ago. We heard in our troops there are an insurance policy against the reemergence of ISIS but the Republican but the Republican senator Rand Paul disagreed for the 1st time in my life we have a president with the courage to declare victory and bring the troops I think it takes courage to do this because there's a 1000000 naysayers on both sides of the who always want to remain and that's why we're everywhere we have troops and so many guns. We're fighting everywhere because no one knows how to declare victory the U.S. Troops have largely been stationed in the Kurdish region in northern Syria close to Turkey's border the decision was revealed after President tump and spoken to his Turkish counterpart President Roger tired Well the Guardian's Washington bureau chief is David Smith and joins us now David tell us more a by this plan how much detail did the president announce. As he was somewhat short on details that in the initial tweet at least he explained that troops were only in there in Syria during his presidency because of the need to defeat ISIS and he believe that that job was done as the day wore on and many questions were asked the White House put out a statement. That even released a video and their central argument is that this was always a campaign promise by Donald Trump drawing election that he would try to withdraw troops as quickly as possible we know he spoke about it before in fact. His national security team have dissuaded him but now the White House position is. ISIS so used to control about half the territory of Syria now it's down to less than one percent and. They believe that that is sufficient grounds to pull troops out. Also suggesting or they'll remain part of the international coalition. But it's sensually. It's a major drawdown and as you say there are many senators and others who think it's an extremely bad idea now how significant is this discussion with the Turkish president ahead of the announcement. That's a great question because some foreign policy experts experts in Washington really believe that was pivotal if you're if you're looking for why now. There was this conversation with the president of Turkey just a few days ago and one of the issues there at least was. A military defense system and Turkey was apparently considering buying a Russian system which clearly go down badly in Washington and instead it did in the end by an American system. About 3 and a half $1000000000.00. There were also been other attempts recently. To mend fences with Turkey in that whole text indeed you know this this could be seen as a strong really trying to appeal to Iran and Turkey and part of that of course being that he does have something on an affinity it appears with all solitary and leaders so it's a win for Turkey along with Russia and Iran and possibly a loss for Israel here in the U.K. Has also said that they don't believe that the ISIS threat has been defeated at this point all of these statements Rivera's the official lines about the Pentagon and the State Department and as you mentioned there's been opposition from Republicans and others in the U.S. So how much pressure will the president be under on this. I do think it's significant that. As you mentioned earlier some Republican senators who are normally very loyal to him have even spoken out about this and just in the last few hours there's a joint letter from 6 U.S. Vs including Lindsey Graham and also Tom Cotton they're arguing you know remnants of ISIS in Syria will surely bring new and involved in their efforts in the read in . The strengthens. It also helps advances such as Iran and Russia. It's only bad news but to lose their support on this issue. But there are other voices who are supportive other certain elements of his base to believe it or an isolationist America 1st policy and question why U.S. Troops are. At all this may also be happening now to deflect attention from all the investigations into. Trump and his businesses and indeed you know where just ahead of Christmas he may well take the calculation that this will all blow over during during the holiday season and by 2019 will be you know in the midst of a dozen other crises. Divots I thank you very much the Guardian's Washington bureau chief live from the United States the time is 40 minutes past 6 now there's been a huge disruption to the U.K.'s air network over night planes are currently grind to the Gatwick and all because 2 drones respond at flying nearby police are investigating where thousands of passengers are affected with knock on effects for Scotland expected the independence Charvel editor Simon Calder joins us now good morning Scott morning so what was the sequence of events Well just after 9 o'clock last night the runway was closed at Gatwick as you say 2 drones were spotted flying dangerously close to the airfield they investigated for hours and finally 6 hours later at 3 am the airport open. At that stage there were relatively few flights waiting to leave but dozens had been diverted including the last flight from Aberdeen to Gatwick which ended up in in Manchester or even some diversions to Paris in Bordeaux in France and then when we thought things were getting back together at $345.00 it closed again and now we are in the middle of what should be the 1st wave of departures from the world's busiest single runway airport and nothing is moving already easy Jet has cancelled 44 flights to and from Gatwick and delays of building as you say we've had a conservation from Aberdeen to get wake and from the capital easy gets 1st departures 3 hours late to get wake also to get work but is a ways lunchtime Department shows 90 minute delays if that's all it is I think you'll be doing quite well I'm sorry to say undue think it was an overreaction Well not according to the pilots I've been speaking to I mean the part it's union been causing for a big exclusion zone for drones around airports they say if you've got something which weighs 2 kilograms made of metal and past 6 got a battery in it if that hits an aircraft windscreen or an engine it could be catastrophic and they have called for all drones to be registered and their operators tested now in this particular case I think there is more to it to than simply some idiot flying drones around for a lark and that's why we've seen 2 closures the cost of course to the airlines is now running into several millions pounds of pounds and of course in its in this inestimable for the many travelers who are trying to get away for the Christmas break and now find their plane plans in tatters Well indeed Well you know perfect timing for all of this yeah happened I mean what can passengers expect then well look I've just seen a tweet from somebody who's trying to get to do bro. They say yes you get you just cancelled off like you say there's nothing till after Christmas now that is not strictly the case and European passenger rights rules they can be flown to maybe Malik or and then put in a taxi the easy Jet has to buy flights on other airlines if need be in order to get to where they're going the big problem is this time of year flights are all fully booked and there's very very few seats available and if your flight is canceled I'm afraid you go to the back of the queue Oh my goodness for Levy this will get us a taste of what might be to come with bricks and who knows it well yeah we certainly but it is rude surprise to see the European Commission yesterday when it came out with its announcement say yes you can continue flying but not any more flights next year then you have this year and that means with airlines already advertising hundreds of new extra departures for 2019 that if you're booking on one of those you could just find that you write is canceled you get your money back but by then of course fares have gone up on the flights which are taking off my goodness Simon thank you anyway for that update much appreciated as always that Simon Calder independence child will editor 18 minutes past 6. 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Radio Scotland This is Good Morning Scotland Let's take a. 1st look at today's mean business news under Black is here under the Scottish transport giant stagecoach has pulled out of the US yank our 20 years since state schools decided to expand into the U.S. Running a massive operation providing Megabus services ear transportation sightseeing tours but it's really struggled recently because the competition has been quite tough stagecoach said the other week had written down its U.S. Business by 85400000 pounds that meant the Perth Perth based company swung to a pretax loss of 22000000 pounds for the 6 months to the end of October in its recent results at the time it said it was thinking about getting 8 of the US it's not done that it's sold its North America division for $271000000.00 to an affiliate of variant equity advisors which is a private equity firm says Court says it's going to use that cash to cut its existing and its chief executive Martin Gryphus says the company is no going to focus on real and bustle professions in the U.K. Where it says there are significant opportunities and under subpoena names that interest rates are going up in the United States yet the federal service raised interest rates again in spite of warnings from the US President Donald Trump against the move officials at the U.S. Central bank of voted to lift the key interest rates by not point to 5 percent up to a re a target range of $2.00 to $2.00 and a half percent but he also said the future increases coots come at a slower pace amid concerns global growth President Trump on Tuesday actually warned the Fed against making what he called yet another mistake in raising rates the president has all sorts the buying not to wind a multibillion dollar stimulus program which was brought in after the financial crisis Mr Trump as it happens appointed the Fed chairman Jerome poll has recently blamed the central bank for. Unsettled markets and he has dismissed analysts who cite other factors such as the rise in tree tires with China OK more from you shortly 621 let's take a look through the papers then the front pages are pretty much dominated I suppose by the trees and maze and immigration plans but also more the. Exploits in Westminster yesterday like into pantomime the eyes says Pam to politics furious Reivers Tories accuse Corben of calling the prime minister a stupid woman during PM queues but the Labor leader insists he said stupid people he says meanwhile while all of this of course is happening the E.U. Warns that a new deal Breck's it will disrupt air travel cause border delays and leave Brits abroad living with uncertainty the Telegraph with only 100 days until breaks at M.P. Stage end of term pantomime. Did carbon my stupid woman at me oh yes he did said the Tories and female M.P.'s through the same claim John Barr called the speaker or no why didn't he retorts the Scotsman out of order is the headline that says under the mounting bricks a crisis parliament collapsed into chaos on its penultimate deal of business before Christmas as M.P.'s fought over generally cordons claims that John McCormack called the prime minister stupid woman and again the Thai Eames Kora been under fire over sexist attack on me the Herald front page Chafee brought furious farcical with pictures of Tories and Major me CORBA Nicholas sturgeon along the front of it says may plays to the baying crowd of Tory M.P.'s as she mocks a labor leader with pantomime language Corben forced to deny calling the PM a stupid woman a sexism right overshadows Breck's it issues in Sturgeon Brown's Commons exchanges a distraction and she highlights the immigration disaster and did and those comments on immigration that meet the front page of The National U.K.'s new migration. All a see is an act of vandalism those last words in quotation marks from the 1st Minister Scotland's needs of the North says the national into the white paper which aims to slash numbers coming here and they quote nickel Sturgeon's in the U.K. Government is intent on imposing disastrous policies without consultation the Daily Mail it chooses to break Jeremy Corben over the incident to the Guardian has him pictured on the front page and refers to to the comments he made but the main story really is that Theresa May will be forced to back down over migrant curbs in the inside in the analysis in The Guardian says that Philip Hammond and Javitz to fair defiance say shines a spotlight on May's weakness as prime minister it says the immigration white paper lays bare her weakness with the chancellor and his supporters and cabinet demanding that day the $30000.00 pound immigration to the threshold be neutralized while the home secretary refused to repeat the words of Mrs Macy flagship target to reduce annual net migration to the 10s of thousands at the front page the Express says a Scot made dozens of fraudulent insurance claims totaling nearly 180000 crimes including ones relating to the gun fell to a fire and 2 terrorist attacks yesterday she was jailed for 3 years and the P. And G. Says that a manhunt to trace a father and son has been launched by police investigating a serious car fire in Inverness so much a couple couple suffered burns but what about that which is rough and tumble like pitch of the Daily Mail probably the best headline this morning cell to go top but victory mobbed by Eduardo intially Southwick moved back to the top of the Premiership last night but it came at a cost with no doubt for the parkade club's defining fest of matches according to their correspondent John McCarty the tumble but coming. But the story of Rangers night at Easter Road range just frustrated and fishy Cohen countered Steven Gerrard out last night cussed Adam Bogdan after the Habs substitute keeper denied Rangers all 3 points at Easter Road will hear about old out shortly the back page of The Times Celtic consent over had one of the champions back on top but Sol striker is injured and that dominates all the pages of the back pages with last night's action in the Premiership the leaders going into the game rangers drawing away heads south to beating Motherwell to go top but as the sun announces on its back page and injury blow could leave hoops without a striker for 3 games and the head of old pull out section focuses on the the changing nature of Scottish rugby that after Jonathan Humphreys. It was announced he would be leaving the. Scotland set up Scottish rugby set up he's an assistant coach at Glasgow he will be moving to Wales at the end of the season former Wales captain of course and also on one or 2 of the papers this morning the build up beginning for the 872 Rugby Cup much the fuss the 3 this season between Glasgow and Edinburgh this week aimed at for us though the Smalling its analysis of where we are out in the race for the Plame a ship title as we have new leaders at the top of the table following Rangers' goalless draw at heb se at old photos last night was Rob MacLean Rangers lost their place at the top of the Premiership but of only themselves to blame their goal scoring chances run into double figures and while they can point to a couple of great saves from Hibs keeper Adam bogged down who replaced injured off your last ya know early on they had plenty of other opportunities. Get there when it used to road which would have preserved their position as league leaders hips looked tired after beating Celtic on Sunday but young striker only sure still a couple of great chances neither hit the target Hibs though come to have a lot point this goes down as a massive missed opportunity for Rangers and Celtic who won 3 Know it on to Motherwell who have placed them at the top of the league so as Rob says South Tek top of the table after a bout when over Motherwell 1st tough goals from Anthony Alston Scott sent Clinton Mikey Johnson doing the damage at Celtic Park and pleasing home boss Brendan Rodgers an excellent performance of his quarter goals in the 1st half and some very good moments in the game as a lot of our play tonight was very good considering the number of games of the proposed complained bitterly and we both have a very very hard in the game but I had good control over of a Soundex when Thome odds by an injury to add son Eduardo taken off with a growing problem towards the end of the fust half we'll hear from the Motherwell camp along with Rangers and heads and i was time elsewhere this morning Dundee United's new American owner says he'll invest in the club next month to allow money to Robbie Neilson to be active in the transfer window mark Ogden this quarter than an American newspaper this morning a saying any changes he makes won't be made because the team is not far off from where they need to be Tottenham beat Arsenal to make the semifinals of the English League Cup and investigations thought underway after midfield Adelie Ali was hit by a missile from the Clode Spurs after the victory over their rivals will play Chelsea in the last 4 they beat bottom of last night and Olympic champion Adam P.T. Is dating swimming's what'll governing body to ban him after the back to New International Swimming league 421000 the plans where counselled off the field threaten to stops when swimmers who took part from competing at next year's World Championships. Let's catch up with what's happening on the roads this morning here's our Mary Watson in the Highlands to find temperature lights and road work slowing you down on the 82 later Finley and parrot the can Ross stressed actions because of telecoms work on the core on the A 94 need can lock fill each a very sort of can largely find trains aren't too bad but there are a number of Edinburgh cancellations across the day because of staffing issues something like 39 at the moment shorter carriages for some services as well all the details and Scott deals website and if you're flying to Gatwick are expecting anyone coming en to check the flight as there may still be disruption following an incident yesterday with those 995 double it B.B.C. Radio Scott the travel and mimic staff are one of the connections between Scottish Wildcats that their domestic cousins will a major genetic study may have the answers half past 6 a summary of the news their work and pensions secretary Amber Rudd has publicly suggested another referendum could become a plausible way forward if parliament remains deadlocked over bricks that tourism A has repeatedly ruled out holding another public vote but speaking on T.V.'s Peston program Mr Rudd said that while she herself did not support another referendum the case for one would grow if M.P.'s couldn't agree on the way ahead people will say to me you know the referendum was solved but I would say to that different forms of democracy are part of that sovereignty and Parliament absolutely has a voice in this which is why Parliament has to reach a majority and how it's going to leave the European Union if it fails to do so then I can see the argument for take it back to the people again much as it would distress many of my colleagues flights in and out of Gatwick Airport have been disrupted since 9 o'clock last night after reports that 2 drones were being flown over the airfield the airport reopened its runway briefly this morning but then closed it again flights from Scotland or caught up in the disruption. Britain has distanced itself from President Trump's declaration of victory over the Islamic state group in Syria the White House announced yesterday that it had begun to withdraw its remaining 2000 troops from the country here's our diplomatic correspondent James Robins the British government is stopping just short at least in public of condemning President Trump's decision to pull U.S. Forces out of Syria on the basis that Diane shore I-S. Fighters have already being defeated a Foreign Office statement says important advances have been made in recent days in the last area of eastern Syria which Di ashes occupied but much remains to be done and we must not lose sight of the threat they pose even without territory says the British government will remain a threat the Club hosted one of Scotland's oldest golf clubs has been destroyed by a large fire the alarm was raised at micromanaged golf club at Argyle and beauty yesterday afternoon no one was injured find an $876.00 the club is famous for the opening tee shot on its championship course which requires players to hit the ball over the sea. Air accident investigators have recovered pictures taken by a group of British tourists prior to the crash of a seaplane they were charging in of Sydney almost a year ago businessman Richard cousins 4 members of his family and the pilot were killed when the aircraft came down on New Year's Eve Griffiths reports from Sydney the sea plane crashed minutes after taking off on a sightseeing flight toward Sydney entering the water nose 1st in a near vertical position investigators recovered a camera from the wreckage which they believe belong to one of the passengers it contained pictures taken from the cockpit moments before the crash the images have been used by the police to reenact the flight the interim report suggests that there were no no mechanic all faults all problems were the pilots health final findings are due to be published in the next 6 months. A record 1100000 people have visited Charles Rennie Mackintosh venues in Glasgow the highest ever recorded the figures have been released at the end of a yearlong festival marking the 150th anniversary of the architects birth our arts correspondent Paula McClain reports 20000 has been a milestone year from I can tell us from the 1st start chewing his owner to the restoration of his city center T.J. Holmes it's been a year long program of events and exhibitions marking the 150th anniversary of his birth it's also attracted record numbers 1100000 visitors to Macintosh venue's but the celebrations were marred in June by the fire which devastated Glasgow School of Art only months away from reopening off to refurbishment Glasgow has no launched a 10 year plan but the promotion of McIntosh and the protection of the surviving buildings that's B.B.C. Radio Scotland news let's get details all my weather front here has it looking it's looking fairly shady through western Scotland certainly and we'll see those showers pushing through the Southern Highlands and towards press just telling share as well the odd one in the east but for much of eastern Scotland Northern Aberdeen Sherrick up towards the far north and Orkney and chairs here dying which should be largely die the best of any sunshine here fairly Clady elsewhere Shetland seeing brisk southeast of the wind keeping shares going here is a bright spells in betweens As for the wind to be breezy generally today the strongest winds will be shipped and of course as I mentioned and across the southwest corner quite a strong blustery south westerly wind here that will keep showers quite frequent across the southwest to the highs for and 6 to 8 Celsius into this evening showers will continue for a time especially for western parts but they will ease I mean the dry overnight will see clear spells for the north and east A Touch of Frost here cloud steadily thickening up of the South and the Southwest although the eastern borders should hold on to some clear spells but that closed into. Using the threat of some rain here by morning across the frost south west corner temperatures for intervent freezing in the north and northeast with possibly see a few missed patches developing here higher in the So I think our own 4 Celsius there Friday will be cloudy with a threat of some rain across the southwest extending into the western borders 1st thing mean the dry elsewhere with spells of sunshine for the East Coast and the Far North Africa like Lady lighter winds toward a big tip which is similar to these fires highs of itself is quite a quiet look to be canned and the run up to Christmas. And digital revealed 92 to 95 F.M. . We've B.B.C. Radio Scotland Thursdays Good Morning Scotland 24 minutes to 7 I have to say I was hoping the impending Christmas break would forge a collective sense of unity in our cabinet it appears she was mistaken the time it was her newly reappointed cabinet colleague Amber Rudd who's broken ranks she told id's Peston programme another breaks that referendum would become a plausible way forward if those deadlock in Parliament and all added to the sense of pantomime at Westminster yesterday with the oh no he didn't and oh yes he did of Jeremy Corbin's comments on to reserve me Well joining us now our political correspondent under care morning 200 morning Gary let's start with Amber Rob then what's your assessment of the significance of what she's had to say. Yes I think it is quite significant Paradis quite a figure in British politics at the moment she was of course remain are and I was Parliament embarks on a 17 day Christmas holiday now as she was making these comments to Robert Peston the I.T.V. Political editor on his program yesterday saying that if that the deadlock cannot be broken on terrorism is proposed Bragg's the deal then as the idea of a 2nd referendum is plausible going back to the country to ask the people there opinion once again she's in favor of testing the different options when it comes to Plan B. Before Parliament and of course one of those options could be the idea of a 2nd referendum of course many of her colleagues are resolutely opposed to that and so indeed is Downing Street in fact B.C. There are 100 percent opposed and it puts Labor in quite a difficult position of course because that is one of their options on the table but of course their preferred option is still to have a general election and still something that they are in a way holding out for so yes significant that comes out with a call about I think to resume plaing on with the idea of getting her deal the checker deal through parliament set to that Angel was meeting Nicholas sturgeon yesterday but the 1st minister resolute and her approach. Yes of course when it comes down to that meeting at the joint when you see you cancel meeting in a dining Street yesterday one of the big topics on the agenda was immigration the U.K. Government publishing their immigration white paper their polls the proposals to take forward Britain's immigration policy after Bragg's it because of course freedom of movement will be ended when we leave the European Union and factories of me had been at Heathrow earlier exploding on her proposals there but of course as with everything to do with Briggs It seems to be a rapidly shifting in a way I think what Nicholas Sturgeon was mostly picking out really to her fury was this 30000 pounds minimum salary threshold that has been spoken about it's not exactly clear if this was government polls that such a jab at the Home Secretary was not exactly clear if that was going to be the case to resume a was not exactly clear herself but that's a Trying to a lot of controversy and of course the 1st minister saying it's an act of economic vandalism in a way the Scottish secretary David Mendell of course pointing out that these are proposals they're going it's a consultation for 12 months and I think perhaps suggesting that a lot could change but also that meeting of course Bragg's very much on the agenda to make a start in looking for a delay in the article 50 notification of a person actually leaving the European Union and of course yesterday many of the newspapers today are talking about the the scenes in Parliament being like a pantomime this did he or didn't he say that was a stupid woman Jeremy called been denying these allegations. Yes and indeed it was a bit like a punch to mine that yesterday of course a series of me the prime minister was on her feet at Prime Minister's Questions criticizing Germany Coburn for not coming forward with a vote of no confidence in her and she was making a pantomime reference and behind you the people behind Jemmett Coburn and then as he was sitting there and she sat there in the camera cuts him of course like he was perhaps a stupid woman of course he denies and said he was nothing stupid people polled Scully had seen a Tory M.P. Brought up with the prime minister towards the end of PM queues but she was a bit baffled by that it was then raised as a point of order in the speaker kind of struggle to control that night she was struggling to almost control I positions of bias on his part with Tory M.P.'s saying that he would actually be very quick to pick up on Labor M.P.'s if they were doing that and then of course Mr Speaker brought Mr carbon back into parliament Mr carbon denied it but of course the whole thing to SAME get into a farce in a sense and of course as I was mentioning M.P.'s now I'm barking on this 17 Day holiday some M.P.'s were remarking on that of course they were talking about this almost pantomime takes them to when this breaks the deal was still not being done so it's the last day for Westminster before Christmas last night holy likewise and we've got the last 1st Minister's Questions. Yes of course and the procession will be taking questions from the opposition leaders in the Holyrood as well and of course it is a very quiet do it with most of the focus does move to hold it indeed that is the biggest kind of political question of the day for some of these questions 12 midday we'll have to see what the conservatives bring up Jackson Carlow the interim leader will he be bringing up brags that I am not sure if that will be his Christmas surprise when he takes on the 1st minister of this afternoon and to thank you very much that our political correspondent Andrew cow then of course coverage of course minister's questions with John Beattie from midday 19 minutes to 7 now in Yemen a hard one truce in the western city of her data not appears to be holding the cease fire was intended to pave a way to peace and to end nearly 4 years of war earlier I spoke to Gillian Smith who is with the International Rescue Committee in Yemen and she told me more about the situation on the ground so we've had reports from our teams and had that a cease fire has come into effect there's been no reports of clashes in the past few days we've had nutrition teams in the city over the past few days and reported everything has become little colleagues who live in different parts of the city and also told us that the clashes that start up so this is very encouraging but the end of the hostilities did fall a weekend of quite heavy combat in the city so we are aware that the situation is still quite proud trial and returned to heavy fighting could possibly occur and is there any sense that this sort of if not a complete cessation in violence for the time being at least it has reduced Is that helping aid agencies to to get help to people at this stage yeah absolutely I think what's important to understand why it didn't work is so critical at this time is to understand that. Within Yemen so Yemen is already the worst humanitarian crisis in the world I mean almost 4 years of conflict but the country is even. No net and civil infrastructure in ruins there's a significant threat to find then and we were recent and poor are having to find that over 10000000 people are on the brink of another quarter of a 1000000 people already experiencing founded conditions this is only going to get worse in action to save lives and livelihoods and taken so he does incredibly important because Yemen is almost entirely dependent on the importation of supplying the vast majority the few minutes here need enters through that port and many families of find themselves dependent on aid to survive because the rising inflation has put the closest would be on their means cutting off the poor so cutting off the essential supply of import into the country that would just mean that doesn't reach people who desperately need it given that you're seeing something of an improvement in the Bella T. To get aid through the poor to food data how long would the cease fire need to hold for to see a significant difference on the ground and try to get aid to those who need it most I think when it comes into the fire has to get into the violence and concrete steps towards peace I think the biggest reason for all to is the sites have agreed to meet again and Johnny because ultimately this agreement is a by a humanitarian short term solution relative political solution so if we're talking about. This you start would have to come into effect ultimately it as long as need to eat until a political solution can be found and securing a further agreement on the extending issues which are urgent and the suffering has to be the next step and the you know the ceasefire being extended across the whole country salaries which haven't been paid in over 2 years are public health workers or teachers need to start being paid an agreement to the airport and meeting the entire environment in Yemen easier for everybody I was chillin Smith who's with the . International Rescue Committee in Yemen speaking to me a little while ago it's a quarter to 7 this morning's news headlines a senior government minister has publicly suggested a mother you referendum could become a plausible way forward of parliament remains deadlocked president trumps announcement that he's withdrawing American forces from Syria has been heavily criticized home and abroad and there's a warning that some vintage whiskey could be freak before 7 world connection to the household. Has to travel news update Here's our Mary Watson Healy on the trains is a problem at Hamilton central it's a problem with the electricity supply so that it's destruction to all services through here through the peak so that's the lights of Motherwell Mogae rather quaint Blantyre services buses replacing some trains to do check your journey a number of cancellations across the day as well that's down to staffing and she is counting 39 at the moment shorter carriages for some services to if you find you got to be not expecting anyone coming in to check the flight as there may still be disruption following an instance yesterday and on the roads if you're leaving 5 on the M 90 so that southbound just starting to slow up onto the Queens ferry crossing That's B.B.C. Radio Scott the travel. So now it's already Hartshorn a special best of edition of the key sessions I've got some real Christmas crackers S'pore you couldn't legends of Scottish and deep or the blue bells. Celebrating a decade since their iconic album was big a star. Plus some alternative Christmas cheer from it but R.E.M. Had. Prisoners at the keys with body parts tonight on the P.C.B. To Scotland's. You're listening to Good Morning Scotland it's a 30 minutes to 7 no major genetic study has concluded that Scottish. While cats are not part of the same gene pool is domestic ones the lead researcher from the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland says it means they're extinct or on the very brink of extinction in the wild but as our science correspondent Kenneth McDonald reports that doesn't mean conservation efforts will stop. Is this a wild card or a hybrid interbreeding with domestic cats has long been considered a major threat for the Scottish wild card no this the 1st large scale genetic study of Scotland's while living counts is from the old part of the seam gene pool it's been led by Dr Helen Sam of the wild genes law but it in Brazil I think it's very sad news because although possibly one or take a few cats out there that we could consider to be may still a wildcat from my genetic perspective the vast majority are hybrids and even if we find these he casts even you got to sort of fast forward one generation to think cascade to mate with so I think we would say from a functional perspective this population is is extinct when the brink of extinction the past moves in the study included Scottish not true heritage Oakford University National Museum Scotland and the last of these is a clue to how the new what a wild card genome should look like by extracting D.N.A. From long dead stopped museum exhibits but Dr Alex Ball says Dobbs not as big a challenge the sun's D.N.A. From highly degraded samples is what we specialize in here at the wild genes lab we basically have to work with D.N.A. From faecal samples or from ancient museum samples for a lot of processes and their D.N.A. Is not intact is fragmented it's broken down isn't really small sections the key to future conservation efforts never appears to lie in the almost 100 wild cards in captivity which of stronger genetic inheritance the conservation partnership Scottish wild cat auction has commissioned a. From the International Union for the Conservation of Nature little recommend for more can be done to protect the species. But if it walks like a wild cat looks like a wild cats on the deed terms like one to mix genes really model Dr sense and remains on norm which is not optimistic is highly likely that it's not going to be positive for the Wildcat population this is a species it's on the brink it has to live in very difficult habitats in climatic conditions and probably hybridization with a species that originated in much warmer climates in the Middle East North Africa and it isn't going to be positive for it survivorship in the wild What's clear is that even if most of Scotland's wild living specimens are to a greater or lesser extent mixtures of domestic and wild counts the conservation efforts will not stop at the table and Wildlife Park the royal Zoological Society of Scotland has a pool of compt of wild cats in fact there are almost $100.00 in captivity across the U.K. On the strength of their genes Tom but I think it's really important that we protect days of few remaining cats that we can identify in the wild and we know that as we can from them but I think we will have to start to think about an insurance policy and atolls that aspect we've always kind of thought that that would be a potential issue and say we've been working on that captive breeding population trying to me that population expand this to that it does best Hey and move it into a position where perhaps in the future it might be suitable for introduction to send a team of present to the frame things in the general evolutionary OP locations they conclude that in future we'll have to be clear but we're talking about we're talking about wild cards. As the cat came to. Make the most reporting it's a 9 minutes to 7 let's take a look at least business news now with bike. Thank you guys more lobby for investment farm invest like with me Good morning Lord boiling the know your Christmas shopping yes all sorts is must forgive me I'm going to be excellent Well firstly then stage courses at the schools transport giant is pulled out of the US after 20 years as sold off its North American boss the vision referring to the competition there are quite tough Yes I think this will be greeted with a bit of relief by investors and because they're going to use the proceeds some $270000000.00 US dollars to pay off date and they're going to refocus on their Yuki business which I think probably sounds like good news for for the share price and also lower the Bank of England's going to Nine's for other interests or it's going to change a bit later on come a press you for a prediction on what might happen I reckon probably we're not going to see any change I think Mark Carney will be waiting to see what happens with the breaks in which she sions before making a decision and there's no great rush to do anything at the moment and so do nothing is probably the best course of action and in terms of the U.K. Economy at the moment before what we need to happen for them to think of an interest rate change probably going to have to see inflation bubbling up a bit more and I mean the tears of of growth for the U.K. It's been it's been quite an impressive 12 percent this year that's not really been inflated in markets I mean if the ocean is don't have a 12 percent year on year Sue I don't think that the corporate world is really being reflected in markets because of investor nervousness over things like things happening in the States and overseas and talking about the states we just heard the U.S. Interest rates of inputs up by the central bank there so what is the thinking about well there was before one poll who's head of the Fayed and began a speech explaining why they were putting interest rates up by a quarter of a percent markets were very positive he then intimated that interest. It would only be going up to times next year rather than 3 and not say it markets back so the markets were off instead of one and a half percent I think just on fears that. Their me will that me will signal that the US is slowing faster than we anticipated so that's really I think what's prompted the sell off there has been a bit of talk recently about a possible recession in the US maybe a soon as next year is a credible prediction do you think can see that happening within the next couple of years I mean talking about the U. Key growth that 12 percent the U.S. Growth has been 23 percent I mean that's fairly eye watering I mean nothing that is less than not is perhaps going to disappoint them but I wouldn't expect to see corporate earnings in the U.S. Sustained at that level so we are going to see a tipping off in growth and President Trump is not very happy up by interest rates going up the idea of course you give to your own peril his job and it's tricky then for the Central Bank when the president is is setting out your decisions I think the for most of this the administration can be quite good at ignoring Mr Trump's comments because it relates to credit when markets are going up the lakes to blame somebody else when the markets are going dying so I think possibly take all of these comments with a pinch of salt and glass Will Smith claims well or this is me a mega merger that they've been involved in what's what's the reason by all this is them hiving off their consumer health care site from the drug site and they will merge it with Pfizer's consumer health care and that will be quite a force to reckon with they're really competitive with Johnson and Johnson and Reckitt Benckiser and the money that they will they will get from this will be used to boost their drugs pipeline which has been a bit weak over decent years they really need to get some good pipeline business in there so good for both sides of the business and in about 3 years time they hope to hive off in a separate company the consumer side of things and just just to emphasize the scale . I mean that some sort of it's a mass of. Those big numbers involved yes I mean that combined sales of just under $10000000000.00 and so it's huge Smith plain glass A Smith claim one of the controlling stake about 60 percent and the reshooting think that investors was they committed to maintaining the dividend which is so that was good and Facebook in the spotlight once again yes it is under investigation as we know the U.S. Is the are looking to investigate it for data breaches and the New York Times was running an article on continued Ricci's. With Microsoft being allowing access to Facebook users brains which is an additional leak that we didn't know about so going from bad to worse I think for fees OK thanks very much for now that's Laura Lumbee there from investor can more business news for me a bit later on time now 4 minutes to 7 other ports into the deaths of 5 British tourists and the pilot in a C.P. Sea plane crash in Sydney last year says investigators have recovered pictures taken on board by the passengers but not one which cousins and US family were killed when the aircraft crashed on New Year's Eve but the cousin is the chief executive of a food C. 100 catering company Compass Group Well foam is in Sydney and joins us now and Phil just take us back to those events surrounding the crash well photographs that have been released by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau have really chronicled the last fateful moment solve this seaplane flight it left Rose Bay in Sydney in the morning of the 31st of December last year taking the family to Cottage point to have lunch Should a very nice Lakeside restaurant and after taking off for this is what has been confusing investigators the plane veered away from its stand it flight path and though. Photographs to show its final moments witnesses say they saw the aircraft star start a steep right hand turn and plunge almost vertically into the water and for about 10 minutes or so the tail in the floats were above the surface but it was fully submerged within about 10 minutes and this report does states that all 6 of those on board suffered fatal injuries and what might these photographs do in terms of the investigation into the cause just giving the investigating team an idea all of the height that the plane was traveling the location and its direction in January of this year the seaplane company said that the direction the plane was taking when it crashed was inexplicable So investigators have found no obvious cause for this sea plane crash what they're doing now is digging deeper into the medical history of the pilot he was 44 years of age Gareth Morgan from North Vancouver in Canada very experienced he began his flying career in Canada in 1997 his friends said he was happy upbeat and in very good health but the investigating team is now saying that it will investigate his health and his medical records to try to get some understanding as to why this tragedy happened and they're working on any theories at this particular stage not at the moment they don't really have a lot to go on this seaplane will was involved in another fatal crash in 1996 when it was being used on a farm it was rebuilt a few years later and converted into a seaplane then it was certified as being the in the investigating Kate team say that it appears to have been properly maintained so no maintenance issues they don't believe that it hit a bird or that the controls failed so now attention as we say is turning to the pilot were. His thoughts as the plane sharply bang to the right as those witnesses have described and the investigating team says that their inquiry is far from over and they're expected to hand down a final report in the early part of next Phil thank you very much for the film our sorrow our correspondent in Sydney. 1995. B.B.C. Radio. It's 7 o'clock you're listening to Good morning Scott Robertson our top story this morning is another edu referendum on the horizon a member of the P.M.'s cabinet breaks ranks and has to reach a majority and how it's going to lead the European Union if it sails to do so I can see the argument for take it back to the people again much as it would distress many of my colleagues coming up the fallout of the president's decision to pull U.S. Troops out of Syria troops there are an insurance policy against the reemergence of ISIS in Syria and Iraq and reflections begin as we near the 30th anniversary of Lockerbie over. Christmas presents why the role of the. 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