Trees in future it's hope the samples could show signs of past life on Mars but lead expert on the Project Adam camel Letty says the rover is fitted with cameras so the chub can be easily found when know where they are but to actually pick up from the surface we're talking down to a few millimeters accuracy we need to have and these chimps and I have been lying on Mars for a number of years they could have had some dust blown over them that's where the real challenge is Donald Trump has tweeted that he got along great with other NATO leaders despite leaving yesterday's meeting in Watford early and calling the Canadian prime minister 2 faced Justin Trudeau was caught on video at a Buckingham Palace reception apparently mocking Mr Trump That's the new sports headlines for good luck thank you Gary hello again everyone Rangers boss Steven Gerrard says his players couldn't handle the pressure of Deans direct style in the 2nd half of petard his side throwing away a 2 goal lead to draw in the Granite City that coupled with Celtic's injury time winner at home to how Milton last night sees the champions 2 points clear this morning at the top of the table at the bottom sent men are a point behind the rest after a final defeat to Motherwell and David Moyes has under consideration for a sensational return to Everton if the club decide to sack manager Mark or silver later today. 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Let's get the weather forecast now what is in store for us Judith it's wet and windy for many parts of the country today because of rain no pushing in across western Scotland that remove be heavy pretty incessant lasting right through well into the sea evening it does extend across the country as we head through the day although looks like the lighter towards the east particularly the East Coast the northeast who see very little rain here windy for all at the moment we've got good news across a very far north of the country the wind here Dewey's but elsewhere hold on to the strong gusty southwesterly winds touching you force at times for the West Coast and don't towards the southwest corner underneath all that cloud and rain so Ruby mild we're looking at highs of 12 or 13 yes more for me after half past thanks very much and you listen to Good Morning Scotland 8 minutes past 8 now we're on the home straight after 4 weeks on the campaign trail and with one to go the end is in sight polling stations open in 7 days so the parties will be using that time to prompt persuade an prevail upon us to lend them our vote of the pre-fight hype have this done as the most important election in modern history but as the contest lived up to billing Well let's speak to 2 men who probably lost count the number of elections that they've covered between them so John Carter is Professor of Politics at Strathclyde University and b.b.c. Scotland political editor is Brian Taylor morning good morning Daryn Brian what are you made of this campaign it's been remarkable because we generally know there's a week to go in the parties are turning we can destroy inspired by. Putting forward a strong closing message you know today we have for example the s.n.p. Saying you know a week to keep us Johnson out of office the Tories a week to save the Union the Labor Party a week to tackle poverty and the Liberal Democrats a week to preempt independents they're all they're all making a point of this this week to go with with a fundamental message but the thing that's striking is the fundamental message is exactly the same fundamental message as they have been deploying to the entirety of this campaign without shifting generally in an election and this you rises and it becomes a tremendous fuss for for a few days and all the parties clustered around it like like bees around honey but on that on this occasion it has been the single message and that is because this is an election driven by a single question breaks it and in Scotland breaks it was the added spice of independence and might not tell us why we've not seen any sort of seismic shift in the opinion polls John Curtis Well we've not seen a seismic shift in opinion polls but we have seen a shift so if you look at the Britain by polls we've not had much it's got Macumba it's got him out there has been a 5 point increase in conservative support since the 1st polls of the campaign but there's also been a 5 point increase in labor support since the 1st polls of the campaign so we've not had much excitement on the figure on which of course people tend to focus which is the Conservative lead over labor or vice versa that figure 10 points in is exactly the same as it was at the beginning of the campaign but both parties been making ground but I hear one can see the influence of Brecht's it is the gains that the conservatives have made in the u.k. Why polls have occurred essentially amongst Levite is they squeeze the backs of party over the conservative vote among 3 main voters is just remain static during the compact equally for the Labor Party the gains they have may have been among 3 main voters visa v the Liberal Democrats that labor support amongst leave voters is still. No more than about 1415 percent little different from what it was at the beginning of the campaign now some of this but not all of it is then reflected in the 2 polls move only had 2 polls during this campaign in Scotland but they do show that as compared with the position before the election the position of the conservatives is now of all the better running on average in those 2 polls 27 percent just below where they were in 2017 and it's up about 5 or 6 points as compared with where we were a few weeks ago and that essentially is because although there isn't that so much of a Levite in Scotland there is some some people a few weeks ago were going to vote for the BRICs a party they are no more and the conservatives have percentage of the benefits that we see in a very similar process nor the border case the Labor Party have or we have not seen according to the Scottish polls the same revival and the problem the Labor Party has north of the border is that the remain vote is largely being gobbled up by the s.n.p. Who have just over 50 percent of it so they can't make the same gains from the Democrats north of the border in the way that they have done south of the border and that therefore means that labor at the moment are still just 18 points on average in the polls well down on 2017 and it not looking like a very bright prospect for them at all and u.k. Wide Brian and the expectation was that there could be upsets at this election and maybe we're not seeing so much of that reflected in the polls because of the the Bracks a party in the position they've taken and also the fact that the Lib Dems haven't had the survival that they hoped for well suddenly Swinson was asked about all of this on the under Neil interview last night to which she subjected her self on like so far the prime minister but I think she will be reasonably content with the way she dealt with it but she she was confronted with this point and she did very much blame the brakes at party she said they had done a deal with Wallace Johnson that is resolutely denied by both the Conservatives and the bricks at party but she said the consequence had been undoubtedly a squeeze upon her. She also faced very tough questions upon the coalition period when she was in in coalition with the conservatives and faced very difficult questions on those but I think on other terms managed to avoid most of the hypotheticals that were put away by Mr Kneale but it has been a challenging election to say the least for the Liberal Democrats on both u.k. And Scottish bases in Scotland I John's point is a very good one the s.n.p. a Contriving to Caroll a large chunk of the Romane vote their way and they are contriving to do that despite the fact that perhaps up to a 3rd of the voters from the 2016 beard were prepared to vote leave so what I think they're doing is they're saying to the remaining years Stay with us to the leavers bear in mind that the we are offering independence isn't independence more important to you I think it's a question of relative priorities and I think the argument that they are making is that the Independence is relatively more important to them than the stance that they took on the European Union there are always room for upsets on election night John Carter said I wonder whether given that there are so many marginals in Scotland whether that might make this election particular difficult call I mean absolutely I mean to be honest anybody who is involved in the game of forecasting should avoid Scot to like a plague because all of the 59 seats north of the border 46 are ones where the majority of the 1st party over the 2nd party in 2017 was less than 10 points so I mean may well find and they're not north of the border particularly as it were the support at least for the Conservatives is some of what it was last time the s.n.p. Look as though they're up a bit but you know not dramatically that we might find for example the s.n.p. Might lose wanted to see 2nd service but then the conserve is equally. Loose I wanted to see if there simply we may see some cross-cutting factors but certainly one of the things that perhaps might be somewhat less in evidence this time and this If so I will be good news for the s.n.p. Is tactical voting between. Voters on the Union his side which we certainly saw in 2015 or 27 particularly between the Conservatives and the Democrats in 2050 some conservative voters clearly tried to help Liberal Democrat M.P.'s trying to defend their seats to defend them against the s.m.p. Tsunami of that election but a great deal of success but then he clearly in 2017 never Democrat voters seem to reciprocate by truck by voting conservative some of the seats were revived Conservative Party now seem to be a charge they differed at this time of course is that those 2 parties in particular and are very very different place on Bret's it and it looks as if in Scotland as in the u.k. As a whole people's views on Bret's it are more likely to be reflected in how they're going to vote this time than 2 years ago and if that is indeed the case then probably less. Toxic writing than years in the one bit of polling we've got on this map as Mari certainly suggests that the reported level of tactical voting amongst those who voted no in the $24.00 to a referendum is lower than it was at this stage in the $27.00 election but interestingly Brian some of the party still using that sort of tactical voting language with Jackson Carla talking about sheeple lending their votes to the Tories and and likewise say the s.n.p. Talking about this being about Boris Johnson not just about independence Well of course what the Tories have done from the outset in Scotland just as it is to go round with kind of a shouting campaign but also whispering campaign the whispering campaign has been look we know you didn't vote for BRICs it we know you're not very keen on it to be absolutely frank neither are we in the Scottish party we know you don't think much of much of bowlers Johnson guess what you know we wouldn't be our 1st choice whisper whisper whisper but bear in mind that what is inst at stake here is the future of the United Kingdom isn't that bigger than than the concerns you have about it and the concerns you have about the Conservative party leadership and similarly with the s.n.p. On the question of you know promoting remaining in the e.u. To those who are supporters of their party naturally but are sympathetic towards. So you have you have you have voters pooled by the question of bricks it pulled by the question of the Union and guess what pool by the small matter of who might form the next u.k. Government Ok Brian answered on Carter thank you both very much for your time this morning of course you will get full coverage of all of the results here on b.b.c. Radio Scotland got a special program bringing you all the results through the night next Thursday night hosted by Bill White Ford and Julie models and of course Hillary and I will be here a week tomorrow next Friday bringing you all of the details as you wake up to that election result it's 70. The general election across the b.b.c. Can you spare a few minutes of your time will you be voting in the general election with so many voices vying for your attention during the election why she's matter to you the more easy to get lost in the noise How will you. But you can cut through it all. For the election explained to check the facts and to make sense of it all go to b.b.c. Doco to u.k. Slash election the power is yours you're listening to Good Morning Scotland an 18 minutes past 8 no week ago we were reporting on the launch of doing goes latest language course offering hundreds of millions of people around the world the opportunity to learn Gallic Today I knew university course in Scott's believed to be the 1st of its kind has been launched and we're going to talk about this in the studio now for a blethering fact by Sylvia Vanocur who is a senior lecturer in languages at the Open University and Dr Michael Dempster who's Scott's griever with the National Library of Scotland Good morning to you both mom and Sylvia 1st of all you're describing this is the 1st university course of its kind what's involved I think the different from all of the things that are around and scored in the Quite a few is that this course aims to not just you know address. People who are ready speak Scots but it's also an opportunity for people who don't know Scots and they can learn the language actually and basic because Scots is a nonstandard language it needs to be taught differently from you know your traditional kind of language courses and we tested this with people one of them didn't even know Scots exist that with the confidence good speakers and the good news was they also got something out of it I don't know and you things how do you go about teaching Scots then you know how do you do it differently so I think that the main difference is that we teach the language through the culture in which it is spoken so you really engage with a weight range of. Facts that is cooking in Scots there is Wales from the Middle Ages we've got and other life in Scotland for 20 years you know I've seen Scotland in a new lights and I was just telling Michael. I learned that football was part of Highland marriage customs in no way you know that timber trade was quote this got to handle and because the Scots dominated in the 17th century it's like yeah I'm sort of new There is a lot to learn what do you make of it Michael what do you make of that the course then and this they attempt to teach it to to known Scots speakers so I think it's a brilliant course it's approachable for the folk are known Scots because on Scots because Israel has always come a what language we all want to know it you know we've grown up in this tradition we speak English but an actual fact all is speak scores so the us can know broadens few of them so if it's been in a war what can get my dick cross-sectional folk if you Scots language speaking and writing community contribute to the us as a thank you unions but yeah we have 50 North us including Billy Kadim Strober to listen of and Michael who's here with us today and you know you know and so what so what's important. And for you Michel and all of this you know how do you how do you make this accessible and you know exciting to people then to want to learn it I think there's loads of things about actually all working it aligned which is something we communicate with different communities so even if even across Scotland so we've got a couple units on. Your scores so often you get folks to speak spoke the door to the northeast who feel very but cut off for the rest of scores because then you get that once courts and then because of their weight and so there's all the difference in the dialects within it then young high school Scots is back differences often die away not part of my you know I dress is that not consistent differences between dialects so given the game away too much but there slake in the Northeast you tend to what's in what's called rather been called. That and the kind of thing but these words also extend right across Europe so we've got connections and even what we saw over his 1st languages German were fun and connections they also and I think that is one of the main things we want to get across Scots is a proper language it has so the whole mix of what the language. Has to have you know and we just want to kind of hopefully raise awareness that this is a language that should feature as prominently us English and other languages in education and elsewhere and yeah by linking it by looking at similarities or perhaps you know its roots in other as you say European languages then does it almost put it on a power with all the languages that I suppose children would be taught in school yeah and that would be a real success that you know we have to achieve that with this course you know so we have feet just like language wings every unit has she was links to a lot of the languages because a lot of. Words Michael are very you know they just got a wonderful side and haven't they this is sort of you know sometimes you could almost you know guess the meaning in a way just for the sound of a like that so we not must have a great appeal to children I think I think so I would get some credible words like what really common ones what bodily Well stramash got well what we've got in sins are not severe and though you know so Buddha when things went out of course the bit of here's another one that's come up well recently so that we have the access to access to them and what we've got in school and if we've got a Norwegian Scotia least the English we can actually top and you know for 2 different languages so it's it's a great knowledge it's on that exploited the Scottish education system set up to be more willing go. Yeah much better way and that is actually we're not trying doesn't you know when I speak with teaching speakers of Scots and English are bilingual you know so and that is never going to be recognised to date enough and have you had much uptake of much interest in it so far still there is it too soon and well actually we're working closely with Education Scotland and this and the Scots language center and one of the queries the Scots language and the has on a daily basis is there of course what I can and so we've already had lots of interest in Michael recently spoke to a group of people in Perth Yeah it was some that also the director of the Scots language center and I was speaking to a group of it's a group of 500 retired professionals in payoff and they do mix. In the way open online courses Ok. So they've So these are available not for the score you know and the like this is going t