Nicola Sturgeon faces questions during FMQs
Ruth Davidson asks about positive destinations for young people, Richard Leonard raises high rent costs and Willie Rennie asks about Heathrow's third runway
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Tory MSP Jamie Greene says Scotland's only direct route to China has stopped taking bookings and its future is in doubt.
Ms Sturgeon replies the Scottish government works very hard to protect air routes.
She hopes the flights to China will return in the summer.
Campaigners have called for a specialist surgeon from the US to be allowed to help people with problems caused by vaginal mesh implants.
Hundreds of women say the procedure has ruined their lives.
Dr Dionysios Veronikis has offered to come to Scotland and operate on women who have suffered severe pain since the implants.
The Scottish government said it was open to discussions with health boards on the funding of additional training.
Labour MSP Neil Findlay says many women are receiving partial mesh removals because of a lack of skills to allow full removals to be carried out.
He calls for the first minister to intervene.
Nicola Sturgeon says she will not clinically intervene in any individual’s case but will ask the health secretary to look into it.
The Transvaginal Mesh Implants Expert Group is meeting for a second time tomorrow, she adds, which will eventually deliver recommendations to health boards on mesh.
Mr Rennie says everyone will have noticed the first minister dodged his question, saying a third runway at Heathrow will not help climate change.
The Scottish Lib Dem leader pivots to powers on VAT being "sent back" to Westminster.
The Scottish government is likely to postpone plans for its budget to be assigned a share of VAT revenues, the finance secretary indicated yesterday.
Half of the VAT receipts raised in Scotland had been due to be assigned to the Scottish government's budget from next year.
Mr Rennie says after 12 years in power she is handing back powers to Westminster due to incompetence
The first minister points out the SNP are 30 points ahead of the Lib Dems.
Ms Sturgeon asks what power is actually being devolved in terms of VAT, saying no power to set it will come to Holyrood.
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Image source, PACampaigners have lost a High Court challenge against the government's decision to approve plans for a third runway at London's Heathrow airport.
Five councils, residents, environmental charities and London Mayor Sadiq Khan brought the action after MPs backed the plans in June.
The campaigners said the runway would effectively create a "new airport", having a "severe" impact on Londoners.
But judges rejected the arguments, ruling the plans were lawful.
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Image source, Getty ImagesAviation bosses have criticised the Scottish government's u-turn over the promised tax cut
Controversial plans to cut the amount of tax paid by passengers flying from Scottish airports have been scrapped after a backlash over the environmental impact.
The Scottish government had wanted to reduce air departure tax by 50% before eventually abolishing it.
But concerns were raised that the move could increase greenhouse gas emissions by increasing the number of flights.
The government has now confirmed that the tax cut will not happen.
Finance Secretary Derek Mackay said reducing air departure tax - which will replace air passenger duty in Scotland - was "no longer compatible" with its climate targets.
Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie highlights the Scottish government scrapping it plans to cut air departure tax, but argues it could not have only just realised more flights are bad for the environment.
He asks whether the Scottish government will ditch its support for a third runway at Heathrow.
Ms Sturgeon highlights the recent Committee on Climate Change report which called for raising targets.
This meant it made sense to scrap the plan to reduce air departure tax, she says.
The first minister asks if opposition parties will look at plans for workplace parking levy through the lens of climate change.
Image source, bbcMr Leonard says if you used the powers you've got you might have a better case for more powers.
He says there are 60,000 children living in poverty in the private rented sector and he calls for better control of rent in the private sector.
The Scottish Labour leader calls on the SNP to back its Mary Barbour law, which intends to radically reform the housing sector with bold and ambitious change.
The first minister accepts child poverty rates are too high in Scotland but points out it is lower than in Wales where Labour are in power.
She adds Labour talk about all the things they do in government but when in government they somehow forget to do them.
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Too many children in Scotland are living in poverty, largely due to the welfare cuts from the UK government insists the first minister.
She says action has been taken regarding the private rented sector to improve stability and predictability for tenants.
The last data from the ONS says increases in rent in Scotland across all private tenancies are lower than in England or Wales, she argues.
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Joy Rentoul fears she will be driven out of her property in Edinburgh due to rising rent
Joy Rentoul is sitting beside a bunk bed in the living room of her two-bedroom flat in Leith, Edinburgh, the room drenched in sunlight.
Her children - a girl, 12, and boy aged nine - are at their dad's house for the day and Joy is reflecting on her living arrangements, which are not ideal.
"I am sleeping in the living room in a bunk bed so that my son and daughter can have a bedroom each," she tells BBC Scotland's The Nine.
"My baby girl is becoming a young woman and really needs her own privacy - so I am sacrificing my own privacy.
"There's absolutely no way in the world that I could afford to move to a flat that has three bedrooms," she says.
Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard says the Scottish government policy of rent pressure zones has been criticised by Edinburgh City Council.
The first minister says legislation to reform the private rented sector has been introduced.
Ms Sturgeon says Labour did not invest in affordable social housing in the early years of this parliament.
Mr Leonard insists 35,000 social houses were built when Labour was in power.
Housing costs are eating into people's incomes, he says, asking how many children in the private rented sector are living in poverty.
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Ms Davidson says she believes that we could all agree we are not doing enough for those who don't go to university.
The Scottish Conservative leader asks if the first minister accepts the need for change to training.
The first minister says the Scottish government will continue to invest in apprenticeships, further and higher education, which she reminds the chamber remains free in Scotland.
"We will consider ideas from wherever they come."
If this idea is such a great one why did she not mention it in her leaflet when she mentioned independence 15 times, she adds.
Ms Davidson says the first minister is answering a different question to the one asked.
One in five 16 to 19-year-olds are without any form of education or formal training, she insists.
The Scottish Tory leader says a skills participation age works well in other countries and has even been proposed in Scotland in the past, before being dropped by this Scottish government.
Ms Sturgeon insists more young people are going into further work, training or study.
She suggests that the figure mentioned by Ms Davidson does not include the number of young people in work.
More of our young people than ever before are going into good, meaningful destinations the first minister insists.
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