sweeney who is also deputy first minister and we are grateful you have been able to join us grateful you have been able to join us here in bbc news. let's talk about the restrictions that nicola sturgeon announced in the scottish parliament first of all if we may. she had announced a set of measures a couple of weeks ago. what has gone wrong that has made you think you need to impose additional restrictions? we have been saying it for some time, seeing it a level of covid infections rising in scotland and we published data today from our chief medical officer which indicated that if the current pattern of increased carries on, it is likely that we would be back by the end of october at the levels that we were at in march and quite clearly we cannot allow that to happen. so we offered up measures a couple weeks ago to stop visiting from household to household in scotland. today we have taken steps which we accept will be difficult to restrict the opening of pubs and restau ra nts restrict the opening of pubs and restaurants indeed and much of the central belt, they will close for the