Engine of growing prosperity and less workers produce more per hour in the long term the economy cannot afford higher wages but it's one of the weaknesses of both the Scottish and U.K. Economies Scotland falls below the midway point of comparable countries management consultancy key P.M.G. In C.B.I. Scotland employers' body today launched a benchmark index to help understanding of the challenge on the reasons for lighting productivity their study finds Scotland falls behind in business spending on research and on investment in worker training broadband speeds and sickness absence among recommendations it proposes mental health be treated by employers a seriously as physical health and that every worker should receive basic digital skills training by 2025 passengers flying with British Airways from Scotland face delays and cancellations this morning as pilots begin a 2 day strike your loan says passengers affected have been emailed and have been offered a refund or a booking with a lot of the airline independents travel editor Simon Calder says the stoppage will be costly for being $75.00 to $18000000.00 pounds in lost revenue over the 2 days of the strike in a few fright saw it on top of back you've got the extra costs involved everything from extra hotels for passengers who were stranded through to the cost of parking 7 jumbo jets in New York J.F.K. For example we're told that flights to London City Airport are not affected Well that's the news here is the sport had to do things but a very good morning to you as by exactions a knife in Scotland as they welcome Belgium in their euro 2020 qualify their chances of automatic qualification now rest on taking points from 5th as top ranked team but head coach Steve Clarke insists its sides have good mental strength going into the game that's impossible Martinez meanwhile says he is expecting to face a wounded animal in Scotland the Belgians have only lost twice in the past 36 matches we will have full of commentary of that game tonight on sports science and Rafa Nadal as one his 19th Grand Slam size after holding off a fight. But from Daniel a Medvedev in the US Open final Nadal defeated the Russian in 5 sets in New York for me at 25 past. Monday morning travel to somebody wants and good morning morning get it looking to Glasgow the meet East span there's a limb close where there's been an accident at the Clyde tunnel that junction 25 so just want to approach here obviously airily and traffic not building up quite yet on the trains there's destruction to services between Glasgow Queen Street and Ma League the track between upper Tyne drum and bridge of or he's being repaired is imagines it appears we need to caddy date destruction I'm told expected until Wednesday morning so this means services between Queen Street and Molly all are going as far as a lot of and restarted from Bridge of Orchy and you'll find yourself on a bus in between new trains then stopping at a pertained for the moment and those to all been from Queen Street the me beat elites ferry so they're looking largely fine with those needs to 95 the elite B.B.C. Radio Scotland travel something's amusing them in the NEWSROOM in a way I. Start to the morning I was doing and do not think it still is a side was the forecast cats and dogs I think it is it is now where it started the Greeks arenacross are really much of Scotland think the East Coast might just escape dry and Shetland staying dry with brighter sunny today as well so it's a wet morning the heaviest of the rain in the West however the rain disease as we head into the afternoon and will see drier indeed brighter conditions feeding into the west and then the West Coast as we head through the afternoon the tendency is for things to become drier breezy for coastal areas and over the North lighter winds in learns us where that rains are not really moving anywhere and as he hides her own 13 to 15 Celsius more for me after half past 6 speaks again soon Judith good morning. Bill but for minutes past 6 the Taliban says the US has the most to lose from cancelling peace talks which they say were on the brink of ending the war in Afghanistan the U.S. Pulled out after the Taliban. Met at a recent attack which killed an American soldier So what happened no let's ask Evan Lawton's can terror expert and senior lecturer in politics the University of Central Lancashire morning face very much for joining us Dr Lon's didn't I mean what's all this boat is it to do with Donald Trump seeing the images of this bombing in Kabul and see why it's that we're not going to talk to these guys. Well I think it's a bit more complicated than that unfortunately. I think Donald Trump doesn't really know what he wants he his whole presidency has been a big dumpster fire if you will and so we're we're now kind of in the trying to figure out what who is actually controlling him or is he controlling foreign policy all of those kind of things but I think what you're seeing with the Taliban the moment is they've had this you know these peace talks going on for a very long time now. But what you're starting to see is this kind of out bidding process where you have different factions within the Taliban who want different things and so who we're actually negotiating with may not be who's actually doing these attacks which brings me to the time the the latest tike. American soldier was killed but also I think you know turn off guns to so many clearly even in Kabul that the sort of heart of the regime isn't safe was the message that the Taliban or a faction within it of them were trying to to make. I think more than anything it was a bit to. Make themselves seem stronger so they have a better negotiating. Stance I suppose and more leverage and so what you're seeing is them kind of saying well we're not going to be cowed by the U.S. And we're going to make sure that you know we get the best deal for you and so you have these factions that will be fighting amongst one another to say some of them will be negotiating while others will say well no we're not going to negotiate with the U.S. Because we want different thing so we're seamanship prospects for these talks. For Peace I mean I think at this point. Very low. Certainly the Afghan government was not involved in the talks which they've always said that that was going to be a necessity and clearly they would need to be involved in a peace process and so when you start thinking about it we've got different Taliban factions we've got a very unstable kind of American political system we've got an Afghan government that's not really involved. Yet it may be the groundwork is starting for this peace process but I don't think we were anywhere near actually having peace in Afghan What about the regime as you point out they're not involved in the talks does the cancellation or the postponement of any more choices that give them a stronger hand. I think it does it's going to give them the idea that you know actually. They are the government so they need to take the lead on talking with people the problem is the Taliban of always said that the Afghan government is a legitimate they don't want to talk with the Afghan government. So I think you know that would be a bit of give and take there but certainly something that we will have to figure out before we can come to a peaceful solution there so turban law from the universe or Central Lancashire thanks very much it's 12 minutes past 6 to business now thousands of passengers are in the world face disruption today as a strike by British Airways pilots gets underway Jim Acosta has business news and Jamie remind us of what this dispute was actually a bite obviously just a bit pay Gary to remind you of the pay deal which was an offer British Airways offered staff apparently is of $11.00 and a half percent over 3 years most workers accepted but the pilots seemingly deserve more to make up for such a phony says they see the need can be was given it was going through difficult times especially given the signs of profits the company is making no no the 2 day strike is the 1st strike ever by D.S. Pilots in the airlines history which invidious forms goes back a 100 years and it's expected to cost the airline I don't eat 100000000 pounds 145000 passengers could potentially be affected here Elko target is from the holiday price comparison St travel supermarket and she says it's yet another sent back for be a this been the I.C. Systems data compromises cabin crew walkouts and also lots of cost cutting which has really affected the airline and really not differentiate it from its short haul competitors you now have to pay on board $1.00 thing you have to pay for checked bags they've stripped down the fares to try and compete no B.S. Says its pilots. One would class Saudis and one see 11 and a half percent paid to his food be taken effect in 3 years' time the company says some of its captains could be taking home more than $200000.00 pounds a year on loans is included in trouble the car company ness and yes indeed directors of the troubled Japanese carmaker Nisson are meeting today and speculation Goodall's had chief executive who to see karma is about to design that's less than a year after Mr C. Calla placed Carlos good now Mr Ghosn has been charged with Financial Conduct which he denies oaky Jim for the moment thank you very much I'll be back with more business news in about half an hour's time it's quarter past 6 from today a Big Issue sellers across the country will be able to accept contactless card payments as well as cash it comes after a successful trial in 7 cities the publication says vendors taking part in the trials noticed a rise in sales as a result of being able to take contactless payments was big pole Mike the ME editor of The Big Issue morning to you. A big leap forward then for your vendors. Probably would say no or try. Because I just said we try. Over the last year to different places we realize that like the rest to consciousness was accelerating and we needed to provide it and there's some way to continue to make the level really adequate level and the trial goes had some fantastic results up to 25 percent. For some tenders didn't switch to. An increase in sales because of so that's telling you ultimately the consumers find it more convenient to to be casual 100 percent and also it's what the vendors are telling us as well because. People have stopped much more readily they say. It's not just an excuse it's a fact and that's makes it is. One of the practicalities then for those selling the big issue in terms of accepting these Cashel payments will working with comical example Swedish company to provide to the hardware. They as part of this rule out or offer an cheaper technology for the tender So that said the most just really for them to buy the card reader I think they care to provide 9 Pyne's rather than close to 30 pounds regulate them we work with them you know is as people become so big issue have pretty chaotic lives some of them the a lot of them did not thank them for so little of them are buying it a little even have. To be able to get by and so we have to work with Dot and it's part of a broader. Thing that we're trying to to make sure that those at the bottom society are able to live in a way that the rest of the sink of as normal so what do you do in those circumstances if they don't have bank accounts and perhaps don't have access to credit Well the 1st thing we do is we look to try to help them get ID. But the 1st so that they can make sure they can get a kind then we're working with a few. Startup financial institutions who are less rigorous because obviously if you don't have a permanent address that makes it harder to get 84 and a kind so the it's to the wider aspect of it and I wonder from their point of view how did they feel about this because given everything you've said they end up by you know chaotic lifestyles and access to finances doesn't suit them back towards actually physically have money in the pocket. I think that there was a pushbike of this because of the up because people who live in a particular way do want ready access to read a case but. Just so I said it was moving there was no way against just a small example this year I'd say the fall which is a very low for where I had been for Big Issue vendors because of our ties. And so. We provided there was a card reading in one of the guys at such a create a that he came in and said I'm going to go buy one myself and I have seen work starts and then it so they if you can provide examples they can see that the money is coming in and they realize that not just a regular customer has been your customers need to pay. Well Lou thanks very much for speaking to us this morning about Paul mightly He's editor of The Big Issues It's 19 minutes past 6 was better to leave yourself open to those to close just so far really is for everyone they saw them on the B.B.C. Scotland channel as a surfer like I was the only black person in the world you'd open your minds and it be like oh my god you're from Scotland and it's an impossibility after just. Completely destroyed. You know you know at somebody's house oh yeah I think you would see to it I miss my. Good taste I wish. You One least community understand violence is a fact of life here and there research here brilliantly unexpected Multan being on the B.B.C. Scotland channel 20 parsecs less of a look at the papers and of course as you would expect about bricks and other key DAY TO DAY The Daily Telegraph Johnson can legally stop breaks the extension is their headline they see the Prime Minister's drawn up plans to sabotage any breaks extension without breaking the law is fairly complicated but it does does mean I'm taking the letter to the E.U. Summit but with another request saying the government doesn't want to deliver in leaving. The E.U. For any particular reason which they think make it very and the law also on the front page freeze or Tories turning into unelectable SEC This is a quote from model Fraser who they describe as the front runner for the Scottish Tory leadership one in the UKI party just becoming an electable not a sect that times Johnson in retreat over Delhi to break said it says Boris Johnson signalled to cabinet ministers the government would have to accept a 3 month delay to break that if it was forced upon him by the courts the paper says as a private climb down from his repeated insistence that Britain will leave the E.U. On top of the 31st the prime minister has assured senior colleagues he will abide by the law and the times understands Mr Johnson has been has been warned by several cabinet ministers that their positions would be untenable if he floated a Supreme Court ruling ordering him to accept an extension you know the independent or the I rather goes with the just the secretary has issued a manger to Johnson government says it will test the limits of No Deal legislation in say they see that as just it could be heading for a Supreme Court showdown with M.P.'s in the coming weeks under these government plans to test to the limit the new law yes Scotsman goes without light as well the brakes a crisis may be heading for a court showdown It says after the foreign secretary Dominic Robb warned that the U.K. Government will test the law to the limit to avoid a further extension to the U.K.'s departure from the U. The Guardian headline PM heads to Dublin amid fears of more resignations as Boris Johnson's off to Dublin to meet only over an ad called the Irish prime minister as he battles to show his Brecht's that plan remains on track of course after Amber Rudd quit the cabinet with a warning about his brutal advisers amid mounting disquiet inside the government Johnson's gungho approach says the people of the combative style of his chief strategist Dominic Cummings the prime minister hopes to demonstrate that he's serious about negotiating a fresh bricks deal on the front page of The Herald to getting out of. Government car on the 1st for the last time possibly but also on the front page tense time for PM in Dublin after Rudd's no deal Clinton says the policy Johnson will try to persuade designers counterpart that he is genuinely trying to secure a break that deal also the front page of The Herald a completely different story in this is away from breaks that there's no trust left they see as hospital infection rate rose grows as an exclusive by Hannah Rogers seeing the parents claim there's been a fundamental breakdown of trust at Glasgow's super hospital amid calls for a public inquiry that of old. Can reveal that 13 child cancer patients have contracted infections while being cheated Q E U H over the past 5 months and patients have been given bottled water to drink while investigations are going on front page of The National S.M.P. And warning to labor over it in the ref stance they say the parties fired back as McDonnell rules out a deal with the S.N.P. For a new in the vote the next minister turns on Boris Johnson who faces of a humiliating breaks at defeat today also on the front page pictures from Saturday's March in Paris for independence the Koori are likewise has got a picture of a couple of supporters campaigners taking part in the all under one banner March across Perth on Saturday and the Daily Mail has another story about the Q U It's a Scotland super hospital faces being stripped of scores of its junior doctors amid fears for the safety of staff and patients the hospital is under threat from the Yuki's medical regulator they say because that are not enough doctors to care for fish it's been just a year's award from the P.N.T. If you're batting up and down in 9 and I want you little to be well ordered if you've got an unpaid fine that are not there were 1395 offenses in the trunk protests 2 in January and August no action was taken 191 time reverse interesting and interesting cruise control was I think not my top 10. At the front page of The Daily Record they've got exclusive target a story saying a mom has told her she was sexually assaulted in the left by a hotel worker in front of her children during a holiday from hail in Egypt some also has an exclusive tag and they've been speaking to Little Mix star Jessie Nielsen Nelson who claims that she tried to kill herself after being trolled on Twitter. Pretty complex of throughput just one of the preachers who serve well as scholars footballers on about pages this morning as you probably expect as they prepare to 2nd Belgium tonight in a Euro 2020 qualifier let's start with the Daily Mail there was at least something a little bit different to most of the other Back Pages crisis talks is the headline that scalds players held their own summit reveals Robertson's got Captain Andrew Robertson as as is revealed that Steve Clarke scores have their own crisis summit in the wake of last Friday's dismal home euro 2020 defeat of Russian squad had a meeting at the team hotel in Edinburgh following the loss that Leafs hopes of qualifying for next summer's 20 meant by a slender thread we need to be perfect is a lead in the Daily Record this morning Clarke targets flawless display and insists we can't afford any slip ups against world's best Steve Clarke as has admitted his Scotland side lead to floor less performance to avoid crashing into a 3rd straight defeat against Belgium the sun has a similar line we've got to be perfect CLARKE No room for error is the lead there and there's also the main headline in The Scotsman this morning Clarke looks for perfect day only flawless performance will do you against the world's top team at the front page of The Herald meanwhile goes with car calls for perfect performance from Scots and lots of pitches to Belgium's 75000000 pounds striker Romelu Lukaku training last night is the Belgian boss Roberto Martinez insists that his player is ready to wreak havoc on Scotland this evening well that's our main so. Story T. Today is this contest code Steve Clarke insists there's no mental fragility within the national squad the Scots take on Belgium a harm done in a must win game if they are to qualify automatically for Euro 2020 some players spoke after Friday's defeat to Russia by nerves and a lack of belief but Clarke believes the squad is mentally tough with the way the game went away from is more than nervous speak with control of the game tactically more or less because the load Russia Japan is and coarser to an 18 year books they played well off the big stroke and that causes a lot of problems so I'm not sure what it meant to show good mental strength Well the Belgium boss Roberto Martinez is expecting to face of wounded animal in Scotland as they try to keep their Euro 2020 group hopes alive the Belgians have only lost twice in the past 36 matches while Scotland are struggling for form but Martinez believes Scotland have enough talent to threaten his side. Because. The 1st thing I read which is the best I've seen for many years for the fans is the quality of the work there is a members of the motion. Sometimes you got something to lose and you start performing on different mamma and I think that is what we need to be very very careful would you tune into sports center for live commentary small psyching off at top US 6 now let's turn to tennis as Rafa Nadal has won the U.S. Open a New York to claim the 19th Grand Slam title of his career he beat to Russia has done Medvedev in 5 sets 756-357-4664 championship point Rafael Nadal So when a 4th U.S. Open title serves on the forehand of Medvedev other target is. The outcome that they don't always back the U.S. Open champion for both sides that is what I mean by it sets up if they all vote for their right that's that's the trophy out of the sad it was a most. By the rush of an amazing find on the series that I had the much under control but honestly I have that I have to say. Tonight everybody is the number 4 player in the world already although with 23 years also medical model agents would have a fit well in the wheelchair finals there was success for Britain's Alfie Hewitt and. Retained his singles title beating France's a Stephane Uday Hewitt then won the doubles title with Scotland's Gordon Reid in goal from American tar finish joined the 2nd at the European Open in Hamburg he ended on 13 under par one of the winnable case A and England's counting Jo Reed says he's been actually disappointed after they lost the 4th Ashes to us by $185.00 runs at Old Trafford that defeats Australia retain the Ashes sport for me at 7. In Glasgow on the Ameet Eastburn there's a lean cause where there's been an accident at Junction 20 five's around the clade tunnel now it's fairly obviously so not a big build up of traffic just watch yourself on the approach on the train's destruction to services between Glasgow Queen Street and Molly the track between Opera time demand bridges or he is being repaired now this destruction is imagine city peers so expected until Wednesday morning I'm told I mean services between Queen Street and Molly only going as far as and restarted from Bridge of Orchy and you find yourself on a bus in between new trains then stopping at home and services to open it may be delayed as a result of this as well there is at the moment from what I'm seeing looking largely fine didn't 5 double it B.B.C. Radio Scott to travel at lunchtime Michelle McManus meets more fascinating people in our lives she chats to Lesley who's worked her way through grief by taking photographs and also kicks from the I will loose who's running swim and exploring has taken are close to the months of sharks it's half past 6 so many of the news M.P. . It will be asked for a 2nd term to agree to us not general election what's expected to be a fresh defeat for the U.K. Government it could be one of Parliament's last acts before being suspended legislation which compels the prime minister to seek a delay to breaks it is to deceive royal assent and become law with ballers Johnson exploring ways to nullify it he's meeting the Irish prime minister Lee of our current Dublin this morning to discuss Blake said and the contentious issue of the Irish bike stop there's an island correspondent Chris page Boris Johnson and Leo for a career say they share the year of keeping the Irish border open but they very different ideas know how to do that Mr ferrata says the only way to guarantee it will be new checkpoints is the backstop which will come into force if there's no deal between the U.K. And the E.U. Mr Johnson wants the backstop to be scrapped because it would in effect keep the U.K. In the European customs regime mean Northern Ireland has to follow the rules of the single market the Irish prime minister stressing that the meeting with Mr Johnson is not in the goosey Asian because only the E.U. Does that. The U. Kid risks losing Scotland unless it offers a new relationship between the governments and Edinburgh and London from the head of the brakes a department full upright craft has issued the warning seeing the process of leaving the E.U. Has further destabilize the Union he thinks the devolved Nations should have a bigger see in how the U.K. Is run after we leave the European Union. The devastation in the Bahamas caused by her can Dorian has been compared to a nuclear bomb by the U.S. Agency for International Development at least 43 people are confirmed dead and that figure is expected to rise Colonel Tom Quest is the head of the Red Cross in the Bahamas. Or very likely an earmark dam it goes about total destruction of homes etc Like we've never had in our history we were not ready for what this I mean look cannot plan for this responsibility for a fund to help believed families on low incomes with funeral expenses has to be handed over to the Scottish government later this month more money is to be made available when Social Security Scotland takes over the funeral support payments scheme one of Mike's will has more from later this month funeral support payments will be paid by Social Security Scotland replacing those from the Department for Work and Pensions to be eligible for the payments applicants who had the closest relationship to the deceased must already be on some form of benefits such as universal credit income support or disability allowance the payments can cover 3 elements burial or cremation costs a flat rate for expenses such as a funeral director fees or coffins in addition to certain transport costs the fund is expected to cost around $6000000.00 pounds in its 1st year pilots at British Airways have begun a 2 D. Strike in a dispute over pay and 200000 passengers have had their flights cancelled and a 3rd day of industrial action has been a nose for later in the month a transport correspondent Tom Bodett reports B.A. Has canceled 1600 flights over the past 2 weeks it has been refunding customers booking them on to rival airlines or on alternative dates the dispute is principally about pay the average be a pilot earns around $100000.00 pounds a year the airline offered an 11 and a half percent pay rise over 3 years but the pilots want a deal under which they would benefit more when British Airways owns a decent profit like it did last year. Extra train carriages will be added to services going to Homs and tonight ahead of Scotland's Euro 2020 qualify with Belgium It follows reports of overcrowding and delays last week when the national side to call Russia queuing systems will be in place at Glasgow Central and that moat Florida station following the match that speed B.C. Radio Scotland use wells get details all my forecasts due to Syria has it looking as a rather wet start to the rain that for many parts the country it's overcast as well as you can imagine of course eastern coast of leaders probably skipping the rain today and for the West Coast does start to become dry and brighten up as we head through the afternoon particularly over the west and out there the rain across the mainland for gradually ease becoming confined more in one part of the far north as well but Shetland escaping the rain it sees dry and sunny here for daylight terror certainly breezy for KUSA Lidia's lighter winds inland and we're looking at highs for around about the 15 southeast mark pretty much across the board into this evening the rain Easy's all together eventually clearing leaving a legacy of cloud tonight for eastern Scotland to clear spells for the West and the West and the far north to overnight lows of 68 Celsius with me in the light wind so a largely dry bright sunny start in fact tomorrow any really anything close to should see in the east will Distin and break so pretty much find the across the country however all change as we see cloud increasing from the west of rainfall going on later in the afternoon here along with strengthening winds now this is the remnants of how to conduct the and so what that means for us is a rather wet and windy spell during tomorrow night but that all clears away by Wednesday and then a bright day with a few blasts the shares in the forecast and some sunny spells as well temperatures again around about the 1415 Celsius mark that as we head into Thursday more rain to come sweeping in across the country and fairly windy as well and that to see as we head towards Friday and the recant looks like high pressure will start to exact its influence settling things down meaning a plenty of dry weather in the forecast for the coming weekend. Digital radio F.M. Medium wave and B.B.C. Sounds B.B.C. Radio Scotland You're listening to Good Morning Scotland it's 24 minutes to 7 quite a weekend at Westminster resignations defections and a lot of discussion as to how the U.K. Gets itself to the current breaks at stalemate and quitting the cabinet on Saturday night the former working pensions secretary under Rudd left with a stinging attack on the government's approach to how we leave the E.U. What I have seen in government is that there is this huge machine prepared for no deal which is fine you might expect in the balance between getting a deal no deal 5050 in terms of work but it's not that it's like 8090 percent of government time going into preparing for a new deal and the absence of actually trying to work to get a deal is what has driven 21 of my colleagues to a bell I need to join was an opposition bill requiring the prime minister to seek an extension from the E.U. If a deal isn't reached by the 19th of October is set to become law later M.P.'s are also due to vote again on whether or not to have an early election let's be told Westminster correspondent David Porter morning to David good morning so quite stinging criticism from a rod but the government say that she's just not correct in what she says you know the government insists that they still want a deal and they are working to a deal but they have to look at all sides of the equation and they also have to plan for no deal as well now that is the argument they put forward as we've just heard from others that cuts very little ice the focus today I think will be on a number of things renewed attempt by the government to try and get a snap election they will bring this the House of Commons for the 2nd time in a week in what could be one of Parliament's final acts all the indications are because they are bringing it under something called the fixed term Parliament aren't they. Or need a 2 thirds majority if they are going to get approval for a snap election and there is no sign at the moment that they will get that it also comes on a day as you said in your introduction when the move the bill to delay breaks it past the 31st of October will actually come into law it will get what is known as royal assent and then it will become law it will become the law of the land and that is what will govern what ministers do and that is a really very moot point to ministers except the law or they try and find a way around yeah that's the big question isn't it lots of the newspaper front pages this morning addressing that issue and we had Sajid Javid on television yesterday saying that the government wouldn't break the law that they would follow what the law says but at the same time they're looking for some way I guess if you want just an example of a disagreement I think which is going on within go when you only have to look at 2 newspapers this morning The Times says that the Prime Minister Barak Johnson is about to retreat The Daily Telegraph says that no that is not the case that they are considering finding a way round it Yesterday the foreign secretary Dominic Rob said that the government would test the new law to the limit lots of ideas being put around at the moment is that. The house to the prime minister Boris Johnson would write a letter to the European Union asking for a delay but then he would send a 2nd letter saying that no really this is not what the government wanted. So at the moment there is a huge amount of speculation going on as to what will happen and how it will be done quite frankly I think what is going on is that Downing Street is looking at every option as it would see not to get boxed in those opponents of Boris Johnson wanting to end. Sure that they bind his hands as tightly as they can and that vote on Election Day Va It's the it's the last chance for M.P.'s to do that because of course Boris Johnson I'm so couple of weeks ago much to the consternation of some in opposition that he was in Parliament he's suspending parliament and that's likely to happen from either today or tomorrow yeah the sequence of events will be today that that law preventing no deal breaks it on the 31st of October will get Royal Assent that will probably happen this afternoon and I manage and the speaker will make some kind of announcement to that effect to the House of Commons that is quite normal by the way that when a piece of legislation gets royalist that the speaker informs Parliament we will then get this vote probably still not to a quite late tonight perhaps as late as 10 o'clock tonight on whether there should be a snap election because the opposition parties are coming against it it seems impossible that the government will get a 2 thirds majority need so he will fail for a 2nd time in a week in that and then in all likelihood parliament will be suspended or Perrotte until the 14th of October when we will get a new Queen's speech but just because Parliament doesn't city here is pretty safe prediction for me to make to you that doesn't mean that politics is going to go quiet if it is anything like the past 7 days who knows where we will be a week on Monday there never a dull moment David thank you very much I was once the correspondent of a porter there the time 1000 minutes to 7 days straight by British Airways pilots has begun an ongoing dispute over pin conditions the majority of the airlines flights from the U.K. Have been cancelled so I know by the B.B.C.'s Emily Rooney and Emily what do we know of how many people out of factored in. I think we're talking about tens of thousands of passengers that's the number of people who've been told not to go to airports this week the vast majority of be a flights taking off from the U.K. Today and tomorrow have actually been canceled if your flights affected the Civil Aviation Authority says you've got to get legal right to a replacement flight to be a sixpence and it doesn't matter which airline you end up traveling with you just need to be able to get to your destination and the cost of other things like hotels car parking and so on May not be claimed in that way but you could get them from your travel insurance and be hard to contact lots of customers obviously only want on whether that's working where the customers feel they're being updated. When I was a mess a couple of weeks ago the end of August August when they actually announced this strike action we had passengers who were not affected being told their flights are being canceled and then they were frantically trying to book alternative travel so it's been chaos be a actually received $40000.00 calls in the 1st 24 hours during that bank holiday weekend and the company has said now the vast majority of affected customers have either wrist accepted a refund or rebooked but they're also very unhappy people out there what about the dispute at the heart of all the Certainly chance that the could be any progress on the well both sides have indicated that they are willing to start new talks but they seem fairly far apart at the moment. The airline pilots' union says its members have been taking lower pay rises and made sacrifices during more stringent times for British Airways and they say that now the company's financial performance has been improving that pilots should see that reflected in their pay there was a proposed paying crease of $11.00 a half percent over 3 years back in July that would see some captains taking home more than $200000.00 pounds a year including allowance is but that offer was rejected interestingly cabin crew ground staff and Engineers for be a Their unions unite in the G.M.B. Have accepted that pay officer B.S. Argument if it's good enough for them it should be good enough for pilots and those to do the strike are ballpark planning more. Yeah there is another stoppage planned for the 27th of September I think that the hope is that maybe cooled off if they can get back on the table and for the normal into the autumn. Potentially I think we'd have to wait and see. On that B.S. Strike thank you very much it's 16 minutes to 7 that's one of our headlines this morning a number of British Airways flights from Scottish airports canceled today as pilots stage a 2 day strike the other top stories M.P.'s will be asked for a 2nd time to agree to a general election and what's expected to be a fresh defeat for the U.K. Government and the reports calling on bosses to pay more attention to the mental health or workers as a way of improving national productivity before 7 the social media storm over a grab bag. Grab some travel news or Mary Watson it is Bill Stonehaven the A 90 at the Stonehaven junction those roadworks are still there and that's causing a north burn delays at the moment as a contraflow an operation to a major if you're on the line it sure stretched East burned its junction 6 that's new house 3 the junction for there and Glasgow that breakdown are accident rather on any east tunnel that's been cleared and on the trains there's destruction to services between Glasgow Queen Street and Molly its because the track between them and bridges work is being repaired imagine city Piers so destruction expected until Wednesday morning so to check ahead of the special planned trip for the next couple of days with those needs to 95 double it B.B.C. Radio Scotland travel please get a huge work the B.B.C. Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stephen Barrett. Returns to Glasgow Green join me to MacDougall an East tell a real. Including Scottish music legend Barbara Dickson American law school youth choir as the cold season culminates music lovers come together for the premier celebration has been a wonderful evening hasn't delivered. Films in the past 2090 there's radio coverage with me Janice for sight Saturday night from 7 on B.B.C. Radio Scotland or watch from 730 on the B.B.C. Scotland. Channel. Is 14 minutes to 7 it's claimed women who feel sexually discriminated against are 3 times more likely to suffer depression research by University College London says a 5th of all women have reported being victims of sexual discrimination by being insulted attacked made to feel unsafe or forced to avoid certain locations the study says it's most commonly happens on the street on public transport and in an hour wind train and bus stations this week the lead author of the report from U.C.L. Dr Ruth Hackett Good morning to you. Thanks for having me good to speak to you that's quite a staggering figure a 5th of all women reported being victims of sexual discrimination. Yes it is it is and you know as well I think you know it's quite a large study is a sample of nearly 3000 women and as you say one in 5 proportioning experiences of sex discrimination in the past year and tell us more by this relationship that you find between the sexual discrimination and mental health problems so we find that women have reported experiences of sex discrimination they were 3 times more likely to report suffering from depression status clinical depression we also find that women who reported the sex discrimination are more like these help or their mental health issues psychological distress correlate satisfaction and poor mental or mental functioning and they also were rationed their health more poorly in general but I think the most striking finding from the study really is that not only is it not only at the time of the just directory of rams that they were portion more handle mental health issues the most striking result we find was that women who had reports of the discriminatory of marriage were more likely to experience mental health issues 4 years later regardless of what their mental health stations was at the toilet sex that So we're watching seeing here is that perceptions of Skirvin ation are actually a risk factor for you mental health issues in women who experience those type of that so you're seeing a direct link from those events and subsequent mental health issues Yes well that's what really you know this was an observational study so a large survey base. Of the U.K. Of U.K. Where when and what we find you know it's really as I said regardless of what their mental health status was at the time of the sexes bags and also we also in our analysis considered things like this is he an age socioeconomic status the kind of taking those other factors into account as well we're still seeing this link between sexes experiences are later mental health issues in our study and interesting you. In essence not O.-W. Of these unfortunately common occurrences are happening. Yes So we found that the most the most common session for this we reporters was on the streets public transport. Stations and you know this is experiences of sex less frequently reporters you know work places where there is legislation in place so I mean there have been some coals on the back of this type of research to potentially make things like street harassment illegal in the U.K. As it is in other countries because it is you know really in these kind of public sessions rather that it work places where there's legislation in place where where we're seeing in this study. And reports reports of sexist experiences that we would you like to see the research going from here well I mean I think that I think the thing is now that we now that we know that there is this link between sex experiences and mental health issues I mean I think it's I think it's good you know in light of things like the need to move but you just have awareness about it that that is the case but I also think it's interesting to understand why that might be so for example you know if women are you know avoiding a certain sashing For example maybe they don't feel exercise like feel like they're safe to exercise on the streets and I tell our coach maybe a gym session or. That sort of thing in maybe that you know that is the barriers that engage in healthy activity. We're linking to the mental health issue but we don't know that right now so I think I would like to research really understand what is happening in the intervening 4 year period that maybe the particular linking the sexes experience to a mental health issues don't have with Hackett from University College London thank you for your time this morning it's time to. Time for business use not use gymkhana have a bill who Good morning to you at home well the business news in recent weeks has been dominated by bricks it's down south and T. Has had a significant impact on cotton see markets but less so on the food C. $100.00. When many of the potential risks seem to have already been factored into the share of the share prices of major companies but with many know we're anticipating a general election soon if not necessarily in October naturally there's a fresh focus on where the UKI economy may be heading but here this morning is animal Donald from a Matty global investors who Good morning or good morning is it a bit of a sense here that in the city they won't be unduly interested in what will be happening in Parliament today the issue that's obviously dominating the news this morning but at the same tame they'll be weighing up the chancellor of spending pledges last week the possibility of a change of government or or well huge economic factors yes all those things the chances spending review last week was certainly pretty much overshadowed by general political news and the sort of the craziness that was going on in the House of Commons but actually started Javid announced an increase of spending of 4 percent for next year which is the highest for 15 years and I suppose some of that might be in preparation for an election I guess also investors are are are aware that we might get a change of government we know the conservatives are ahead in the polls the moment for the U.K. Of rule but certainly things are very uncertain as we saw in the 2718 election things can change very quickly and I was quite interested that recently the Financial Times which is kind of you know essential reading for institutional investors and bankers have been running a series on how Labor's proposals might actually affect investors and the economy in general you know the data is suggesting a weakening environment both at home and overseas who greet just one is that risk of a recession well we saw in the 2nd quarter that not only the U.K. Dipped into recession but also Germany and there has certainly been no weakening. Sure globally this morning we hear that China's exports to the U.S. Have fallen by 16 percent because of the the terrorists that have been introduced in the and the trade difficulties are happening there which are having a global impact now so we are we are certainly seeing quite a lot of weakness we expect that this week the E.C.B. Which is the European Central Bank will probably reduce rates again to try and counteract some of that we know that's been faced by Europe in general and certainly there will be a lot of interest in the next set of G.D.P. Numbers giving us a sense of economic output Yes We we get a monthly data point today we get July's G.D.P. Data for the U.K. So after the Q 2 weakness sorry the 2nd quarter weakness I should be a bit clearer. Then we might well see some see further further weakness we've the news from the high street as well as been has been pretty pretty weak Yes Well indeed do you mention the news from the High Street big losses are kiddy are there retail empire $170000000.00 pound loss or that just goes to show some of the turmoil the retail giant has been facing Absolutely they have announced a significant restructuring in May which involved rent to reductions which were pretty torturous to get past the landlords and significant store closures and a new online strategy to try and turn the business around to some extent but I suppose that what was quite worrying at the order to noted on those numbers on Friday that you know there is a risk that if the turnaround doesn't work that the group will have insufficient liquidity to meet financial obligations which is not a happy place to be and this week we should be hearing from J.D. Sports water very likely to hear from them all day the Sports is a actually it's you know if you're talking about. Retail stocks this is a bit of a shining light I think it's quite interesting. It's there you know one of the stocks that went up to the C. 100. This year which meant that its you know its share price has been improving its market capitalization is greater whereas Marks and Spencers as we probably heard. Fell out of the last week J.D. Sports has been really benefiting from the trend to athletic and trainers for all occasions and they're not just in the U.K. They're also doing. Well in Europe and they've made a significant acquisition in the US and I thanks very much indeed for joining us this morning and a MacDonald there from a mighty global investors if it starts to make it 7282 bit who in the studio this morning has been trainers not me nope not. What are you going to run oh so much to me no it was meant to be a message helping to reassure the public as part of September Preparedness Month but a tweet yesterday by police Scotland was causing best consternation and at worst mild panic as it suggested Be prepared a grab bag in case of emergency at the post included an image outlining all the essential is needed to survive including food water an emergency plan a flashlight a whistle and a radio we did ask Police Scotland for their thoughts on this but they were unable to provide a comment at the moment here to talk about us to talk to us about what makes a good or bad online campaign is a social media and marketing expert Phon what Chile and for and what do you think of this. I think you probably had. Number one cause a lot of cancer and worry from a lot of people but of course an enormous amount. On Twitter the level of marker that has arisen has been absolutely stupendous and I suppose some of it is because it does look rather as if it's just the sort of the harsh or U.S. Homeland Security Information blitz that they did some time ago Yeah exactly so I mean it's kind of come out. Though where although they did say that it was done last year and it happens every year for a September Preparedness Month but nobody seems to remember anything from the previous year. And I think and for this year I mean it's been a concerted campaign coming from all kind of police forces and fire services and councils or could all coordinating these kind of emergency messages all coming out on that on Sunday so that's why it's driven a lot of consternation and number one tread trending on Twitter at the moment and I guess alarms people because this is there something that we should really be concerned about any specifics Yeah exactly because obviously people are a bit alarmed about what's happening with banks it and what people should be preparing for and that all of us an emergency services are telling us to grab to prepare a grab bag. Well that's obviously good advice if you don't know how to console or not of tornadoes bottling don't know new but. I suppose this shows that the right message in the wrong place can result in a real backfire for you yeah absolutely I mean social media is a place where you tread very lightly as any kind of corporate or social entity you know you have all the big social media fails that happened over the years like for example British Gas Twitter campaign which had a hash tag ask me that they launched at the same time as announcing a 9.2 percent price hike so you can imagine the comments were were held there is a very pointed then you don't have like Adidas congratulating people for a quote surviving the Boston Marathon so you know when it comes to social media you've got to be prepared for. A lot of free speech let's call it that way because you also have to. Build in mind people who are attempting jokes are going to approach you're quite serious tweet. Yeah exactly I mean we hold budget hole art thing going on so you cook comments like after Let me saying use having a nice breaks it I you know has your preparation for your grab bag and that there's a whole but whole range of subjects they're going on where people are offering ideas on what they would put in their grab bag so everybody suggesting things like least morgue would put in top hat and silk ties and the latest works of Geoffrey Chaucer and things like that so everybody's coming out with their own 5 versions of what they need to grab back to indeed who have been among us can I cannot say with the top part you know grab I thank you very much for what surely online social media and marketing expert. Ditto radio F.M. Medium wave AM B.B.C. Sound B.B.C. Radio. 7 o'clock Monday then bang for September this is Good Morning Scotland were both white Ford and gallops this morning a former head of the U.K. Government's breaks a Department warns against ignoring opposition plans to rule out a new deal like this would take is into really unprecedented territory. Would be a very big Constitution and coming up another weekend of clashes that marchers in Glasgow's 11 are charged on the police officers who are use in Glasgow eclipse even Belfast in terms of marches of these kind of that something really isn't sustainable for the study calls for more mental health support at work to tackle Scotland's low productivity. Of the company or somebody of the news the prime minister will try again today to trigger a general the likes and dollars Johnson wants to go to the polls and medical Tobar but the S.N.P. Labor and other opposition parties say they'll vote against the move here's our political correspondent Lindsay abuse the prime minister says his opponent's plan to stop a new deal Breck's it has tied his hands when it comes to negotiating a deal with Brussels he wants an election before an E.U. Summit begins on October the 17th in the hope of winning a fresh mandate for taking the UKI out of the E.U. Boris Johnson failed to win the backing of at least 2 thirds of M.P.'s to trigger an election in the 1st court last week and it looks likely he'll be defeated for a 2nd time later on meanwhile the bill to prevent new deal on October 31st is expected to become law today the Irish prime minister says he doesn't expect to break that breakthrough when he meets Polish Johnson in Dublin later both leaders are expected to discuss alternatives to the bikes dop which has been designed. To prevent a hard border between northern Ireland and the public DR on a Mali is politics professor at Dublin City University the pressure. Of the nation is to try to get our arms and. Bringing in that isn't going to happen because you can only negotiates with the European Union can go serious are actually very different and the U.K. Risks losing Scotland unless it offers a new relationship between the governments in Edinburgh and London former head of the brakes a department Philip Reich Croft has issued a warning saying the process of leaving the E.U. Has further destabilize the Union he thinks the devolved Nations should have a bigger say in how the U.K. Is run after we leave the European Union the US Air Force has in a start a view of its guidance on overnight accommodation.