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Over the roads and some of the rain early on he says Thanks John in the highlands the 89 north by in December ness is been very busy on the approach to long run rowing the boat with reports of standing water on the conditions are not ideal here in Aberdeen a 90 Anderson drive is congested both ways that man a field around a 93 Great Western Road that 82 North Road at Fort William has heavy traffic between the fuel Ben Nevis distillery and Bell for draw the Highland Center travel time is almost 10 minutes and a North Lanarkshire the high street a near trees busy but moving between North Bridge Street and Alexander Street a 5 to 10 minute hold ups reported here however were not too many accidents today despite the way their fingers crossed touch wood all that sort of thing that's B.C.D. To Scotland travel same for the weather isn't it because the inhibitors cross touchwood How is it well you know much of western and southern Scotland this afternoon doesn't look too bad at all dry with some spells of brightness and sunshine quite a different prospect the across parts of the east and north which it'll be rather cloudy with frequent heavy thunder he don't poor is developing with light winds the show is will also be slow moving dumping a lot of rain in a short period of time but as a Met Office yellow warning in place from midday until 9 pm off thunderstorms as these will bring the risk of localized flooding and difficult driving conditions as well as the risk of poet OTOH it is a mist and low clouds will linger around parts of north sea coasts and it'll be a warm and rather humid feeling afternoon again with highs about I'm $21.00 or $22.00 so. Forecast thank you very much indeed drunk started to hello yes I am and I'm dry survive the rain the deluge of. So far today coming up in the 1st of the afternoon she was movie theater Thursday so we're looking at the dead don't die which is an all star cast zombie movie happening in the Europe but after that you know it is on before but there's a lot going for it we'll discuss that after to do Burke is an beast a film about a cop who heals and while he's on the trail of a killer and the adventure that unfolds after vats and only use a film that was shot in Glasgow about a couple who beat fall in love and trying to have a baby that's when things are forced to begin to go are right for them Simon found out from watching Coliseum but said for each other after 3 o'clock the go back on the road some Deets in Scotland. Has just released a book called fried in Justified it's an insight into the music industry the record business between 70 and 90 and everything that went on as in his job as a as a press officer working with a 2nd one even the kill F. And the Ramones Talking Heads sure plenty to chat about with him and as we're talking about. Our Stuber our film looking for songs about to release 2 cars for a topical chain for today in the list is soldiering and all things bulging right ground stop at 2 o'clock it was probably Let's get back to an open sided able deal that was probably the last chance we'll get to see Bush Johnson and Jeremy Hunt on a stage together arguing over which of them is best placed to run the country the 2 candidates went head to head for now and Tuesday evening on Britain's next prime minister the I T V debate now let's start with you and it was it a good program was a good viewing Yes I thought it was and I thought it was interesting how. How different it was and how the candidates have evolved and the campaign has evolved from their frankly chaotic 1st debate with all. All these candidates show Tim the ords. With his tie and all that carry on this was something completely different it was very slick very highly produced there was still a bit of shouting over each other but I thought it was. Better moderated easier to moderate when there was just too only the letter and it was I felt with 2 people it's much easier to be more focused and also the difference actually came from the candidates both had clearly been schooled and briefed and given much more of a media workout on this no. I'm trying to give Boris Johnson that kind of media training I would imagine would be like trying to put an octopus center string bag and you could see you could see it points that he was trying to follow is briefing points but then he kind of burst them but Hunt hunt more receptive to this kind of treatment and I thought to his advantage actually and he came over much better he had been told briefed and trained and how to attack Johnson and he followed instructions and actually it was effective you know just saying why don't you answer the question and taking every opportunity to point Johnson avoids questions I actually was very effective and so that that I thought you know just worked really well and I thought also that to hunt credit and this also I think was one of the things that made it a better program is that he acknowledged that although it's only conservative members that are going to be voting in this leadership election this is hugely important to the country and he he kind of broke the 4th wall if you like and talked talked to viewers at home and said you know I'm talking to the public and to non conservative voters and to a whole of the U.K. And directly made that appeal and and I thought that came through from all of what you said where I was Johnson clearly despite whatever some poor or so has tried to teach him to the obvious you know just as design the main prize is purely addressing and dog questioning you know his. His core support and I thought the way it was struck to dots it was quite easy to see that you know you could unpack that quite clearly and so from that point of view I thought it worked quite well payment I did you watch the program did you think it was a good program what made it different what what happened it was good very little thought it was I mean I'm fine of these programs at the best of times I think they achieve very very little I think they become like a sort of Crofts for politicians and as much as it's a bit of a social case for whale litter hashed lanes these 2 guys have been up in the country in the last things and a bubble in the BE protected and they've got didn't know each other well the colleagues are able to understand each other's body language or lack of and all the rest of it and I thought the former itself I thought Julia chin on chemo The Who is this of course and this of interrogator of the 2 of them better than the other program which she just got completely out of control and I think one of the things always hits me is there's a complete lack of imagination on the television producers part in terms of coming up with me come on and what do they do well we should have a panel the should have a panel of people I'm going to take it. Over the over one and P.V. The if you're seeing that you can have maybe 4 breaks every 40 minutes or something like that what I would do is actually shift the panel and I would have different people on the panel with experts over the bucket they mix all in there and other journalists on Israel from different backgrounds questioning them so you eventually ended up with something like 1212 people questioning the other 2 candidates name you may start to see the sweat in the drawing you makes up to see that the wobbly top going that's what you want to see instead what you got here was. Various names video on it defying and I don't think I would have done any better myself having to step in and actually scream at them or the 2 of you behave which is exactly what they want and the quite happy to so play along with it and they're watching the clock because. To them a very different objectives Hunter's just trying to appease. So that he comes over looking walking is going to get a senior ministerial job and you board is Johnson's the classic cliche of the guy walking across the the Parkie floor with a pair of socks and calling the place listening vies and trying to make sure he doesn't drop out because all these got to do survive and he's going to get and what also struck me was the fact that you know asking for 12 people to question oh my goodness so revolutionary but that be I mean this is a deeply on democratic process we're witnessing here where you've got him in a T.V. Studio under the lights with one asking some questions when in actual fact the rest of the country is going to be affected by the outcome of this but it's going to be by and large it's going to be older white men from so if these things are going to have members of the shrinking can see over the party who are going to judge whether or not when it is going we should have these debates and I think we need to have a rethink about what can it be. On a do you think we should have these debates on telly Yeah definitely I mean you do you think we shouldn't No I think it it I think we should yes but we should what change the. Name of us you change the format Yes Yes Yes I mean obviously the format can be improved and it would be I mean that kind of that kind of spend a lot smarter with him in suggesting you know you do have that in the general election where you cut into. Different commentators It would also be good to involve just more members of the public and just to hear more voices but not with the B.B.C. Tried and everyone said that the. Didn't work. Well you know you have to then you have to try again because it doesn't work in form in one form doesn't mean it's a bad idea and it doesn't mean that it's not an important part of the of the thinking process of vetting vetting as it was the vetting that was the problem with that wasn't it yeah. You know it's a difficult difficult when when where 50 miles apart you know was the vetting that didn't work without and you know you learn from that and you move on you don't you know just say well we can't have members of the public involved in this because they're too volatile and you know that because of their possible media you know. That the process itself is completely excluding anyone who isn't a paid up member of the Conservative Party so anything that brings and the people who are actually going to be led by these people it's got to be good. I want to move on want to move on OK I want to move on to that could this place one actually fascinates me as equally some of the heavyweight political analysis this is the German chancellor Angela Merkel name and. We were in the studio the other day and the camera. She was seen shaking for the 3rd time during a public appearance This is video footage of a trembling shaking back and forth alongside Finland's prime minister during a ceremony in Berlin. And it struck me and those of other people going through these are this myth even with me that here we are a man 1st of all examining in close detail a woman's health panning up and down the body then endless articles of speculation what do you think of the way we're covering this well it's a more don't phenomenon as much as it's something that the media have only started doing in the last century regional centers like yours but as the spine of more than history usually it will absorb a 100 years I'm sure and that's because we've all need equipment to do and we've had the access to do that there's also been on the political sede know well or attempt to try and stop you doing it recently but there was you know the best part of a century ago where there were leaders who were in Perth who were physically something L D still could do the job I'll give you 2 quick examples of that very feeble 3 examples of very well known 1st of all of course you've got if the Alger in the 2nd World War who was a pulley or suffer didn't stop him like any polio survival to get on with the job fantastic but it was deemed not Presidential to show how many. Would actually prop him up sometimes with calipers when he was in the back of trains and so on and later on he was suffered from terrible smoking really emphysema and lung problems which were given had been from the public the 2nd one of course was Winston Churchill who in these 2nd term in office the prime ministerial role struck which was completely hushed up no one talked about it he was part lies don't one say and it took a number of months for him to come back to the top of his game again a lot people would say never really got to say it again and the press were complicit in covering the top as well that it was basically almost like a. Link you fifty's was almost like a gentleman's agreement we will not talk about the old man still up for that and he had to wait for months at the same and no one actually placed Wheeler's the prime minister the thought example of course the most famous one of all was join if Kennedy was extremely L. And probably would have ended up of going into. 2nd term and survived. Even the probably ended up in a wheelchair because of his back problems and also he was getting a cold concoction of drugs for his eye distance disease as well which probably plead and T. Is rampant womanizing at the time so there was a number of different things going on with always and it was covered up there with angle a medical part of the problem you've got As and the more that needs when often for example America because of the J.F.K. Legacy the president undergoes a medical unless you're a trump and you go crazy talk we're on says you only make if a couple of minutes but usually what they do is they do a medical to sure that the commander in chief the leader is in good physical neck and everything's OK and that's one less thing for you to worry about for example when Tony Blair was in for the operation we knew a boat and of there was other people going in for the fun things we would do about it so in the modern age why you then would angle a miracle has been filmed openly shaking not give a straightforward answer but why that is not she is seed 32 different things and she's very important with a new geopolitical scene in Europe the 1st thing is she's 1st thing she said was she was dehydrated people said what's OK then she has water and she was very sure it was better afterwards she was filmed again and there was no answer schema of the chancel exactly what was wrong with her and again the most recent one the Hulett to the press piled up and going to short doing it and she said she's in the process of psychologically recovering from the previous shaking incidences and that's why she's doing it no no that my rough interpretation of that would be she's in some sort of psychological warp where she keeps flashing back to the 1st team and anything she's standing up no she sort of panics it comes and she stopped shaking was it was an edifying say to the camera going up and nor should the press do it that's the beatable because what do you think my personal opinion would be I thought they linger too long and I think a brief show of it with a been failing that would have proved that with the should in the story would have tamed the today for the fact it was happening but they keep. Hiding up and going I thought was not very dignified did not feel if you mean it was a budget it was your judgement call but there was legitimate questions in the US It was very salacious you know it was just all the angles there's no need for there was no need for an all burned side then as a news paper person having watched the television pictures in the way that you know all the broadcasters panned up and down the German leader and then there would have been numerous will have been you must newspaper articles what you make of the way we're covering it yeah. It's a difficult one isn't it because obviously I mean she's a hugely important figure and. Her health is part as part of her ability to do her job I agree that. I did feel it was it was unnecessary and a bit invasive. But I did feel that when she was asked about it her answer was not very impressive and and you did feel that she was. Yes she was kind of trying to she was trying to. Wriggle out of the same time I didn't find it very convincing it left you didn't do the all politicians want to do in these circumstances is close it down that's what you want to do any of that kind of personal speculation you want to close it down and move on to the substantive matter of whatever about that you're dealing with and I didn't think that she managed to do that and that in itself is very unusual for her because she's an extremely assured operator supercooled just has an aura of confidence and kind of self-contained dignity about it and the 1st time that I've noticed that really being absent and her so I think we have a right to know them. Well right to know is quite a strong thing I'm not sure we have a right to know but I think we definitely we definitely know want to know more than we would have done if she had closed don't more effectively if she'd come out and said you know no it's this it's that it's been diagnosed as this it's been that I'm getting this treatment and you know End of story. By not clarifying that I do think we know it now becomes a live an ongoing issue and she'll have more of this camera piling up and Diane wherever she goes into we have a right to know it depends it's a complete judgment call most of the principle in the culture of the country involved as you know John I'm a great form of fun of the series The West Wing and that's very prove the theory issue was actually trailed through a couple of C.D.'s with a fictional President Jed Bartlet suffer from the recording multiple sclerosis. Yes and he was taking medication and he hadn't told the nation about the UN being straight with them and this became a huge sort of moral maze and the in the series about whether or not he should tell them and it was a great way Plato because you could see it from both sides which was look at doesn't interfere with the job none of us are absolutely perfect. Surely if you have that's the key the keys and that's the normal employment laws should her health be see of the point a plate for everybody to pick over like a caucus and it says this is some cultures like fines for example don't really embrace this at all Spain's The seem. That Germany is probably the same as well but a lot of it goes back to the suspension to be used to have of the Cold War of Soviet leaders used to be propped up like El said or the horse began and they were sore and bombed looking that they probably went on bombed they probably died 6 months before nobody wanted to tell anyone but ration of was the one they used to see it looked as if he was literally on wheels so when they brought a moat so the press is always at the back of approving and just knows some of it's not proving or some of his legitimate because J.F.K. Is his father so it was sold like a box of salt flakes and it was only after he died in fact decades later that Ted Kennedy signed the law which journals Dipak over his medical records to see what exactly was going on because would you have wanted the president in office who was the father of the store medicine in bank vaults all over the world and keys of a rider in America so the son could get access to it to keep him alive not sure what w