throughout britain in a bid to protect the sector. >> one person dies after a tree falls on a car in county donegal dunng falls on a car in county donegal during storm eoin as winds reached 100 miles an hour. more than 1 million homes, farms and businesses in northern ireland are left without power. >> it is still very windy across northern scotland, but as storm arwen continues to pull away, most of us are having a much calmer day. today. will it last through the weekend? join me later for a full forecast. >> hamas set to free four israeli hostages later today in exchange for 200 palestinian prisoners during the second wave of releases.

>> and a new bill could ban benefits cheats from driving. but is this fair? we'll be debating that later. >> and it's burns night celebrations will be under way to celebrate 265 years since robert burns was born. >> good morning. pep guardiola says nobody is scared of his manchester city side anymore as he faces up to life without england defender kyle walker. and in tennis, it's finals weekend at the australian open, with novak djokovic unsure if he'll return to melbourne next yeah >> it's just gone. 6:00 i'm stephen dixon. >> and i'm anne diamond and this is gb news breakfast. >> the latest figures have come out. for what? >> slugs. slugs in the uk. would you believe? worst ever year last year. well, people losing

almost half of their potato crops and things down to slugs. but of course, it follows on from the banned slug pellets. >> that's right. yeah, they've got to find a better way, haven't they? in rome, i read in one of the big papers today that the, you know, the beautiful trees that are particularly good in rome. they're, they they're tall and then they have an umbrella canopy and they have been attacked over the years, recently by some horrible beetle of some sort. and they are beginning to die off. and a lot of the people in rome are very worried that rome won't look like rome without these trees. and you know what? they've tried insecticides. they've tried injecting the trees with some sort of thing. none of it's working. but the one thing that probably will now and they're going to try that is swarms of ladybirds. >> oh, well, that's a good idea. >> oh, well, that's a good idea. >> ladybirds are aggressive. >> ladybirds are aggressive. >> little things. they are. they're nasty. yeah. >> they are nasty. and apparently if they bring those in, apparently they might save the trees of rome. which is nice, isn't it? >> mind you, i was in rome a couple of years ago. i don't

remember anything about trees. >> well, that's probably because they're dying off. but apparently rome is very well known for these beautiful umbrella trees. yeah, yeah. >> well, there you go. >> well, there you go. >> some interesting birthdays today. happy birthday to volodymyr zelenskyy. is that right? yes. it's birthday today. >> how old is he? >> how old is he? >> well, exactly how old do you think? >> 47. oh. oh, is that right? >> 47. oh. oh, is that right? >> right. >> right. >> well done, well done. you knew that. >> you must have read. i didn't know that. no, but. >> and there's another really nice one. hang on. i'll find it for you. it's one of those really interesting people who's done something cool. oh, peter tatchell, by the way. it's his birthday today. >> i'm going to go 66, 73. >> i'm going to go 66, 73. >> oh, really? been around a long time. he has. yeah. yeah yeah. wow. yeah. and no, i'll find this interesting one for you in a sec. >> 30 years ago today, by the way. very famous incident in football. somebody went into a crowd and attacked a fan. >> somebody went into. >> somebody went into. >> a crowd. crowd in an attacked a fan. and it was. yeah. 30 years ago today. yeah. managed

playing for manchester united against crystal palace. and it spawned. 30 years. i know. and it spawned that famous quote afterwards when after the hearing. >> the seagulls. >> the seagulls. >> yeah. when the seagulls follow the trawlers, it's because they think sardines will because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. >> yes. it's all very odd. >> but this is one really worth celebrating. okay, sir. boyd. tunnock. >> oh. what? tunnock's. >> oh. what? tunnock's. >> teacakes. >> teacakes. >> yes, absolutely. scotland. he invented the tunnock's teacake invented the tunnock's teacake in 1956. how old is he today, do you think? >> 56. he invented in 56. oh, he must be well, in his 90s, then. >> 92? yeah. well done. so there you are, a tunnock's teacake. >> well, we should all have a tunnock's teacake to celebrate his birthday today. >> and the fact that it's burns night tonight. >> it is. >> it is. >> burns night. so it's a scottish thing to do. actually, if you don't fancy plunging into a haggis, you could have a tunnock's teacake instead. >> yes. i think it'll be a much better thing to do. the idea of a vegetarian haggis. now, even that. >> even the point i. >> even the point i. >> say even that doesn't. well, even that doesn't appeal. no. >> it. >> it.

>> doesn't really. anyway, happy burns night if you're in scotland this morning. farmers from across the uk are staging a national day of unity. tractors are preparing to be in convoy throughout britain in a bid to protect the sector. >> it comes, of course, as pressure is mounting on the government to halt that controversial family farm tax that could see some forced to sell their land to foot the bill. >> one sheffield dairy farmer has joined the stop the family farm tax campaign by stickering 10,000 milk cartons that will go to shops and supermarkets in the region. >> our yorkshire and humber reporter anna riley has more. >> stop the family farm tax. that's the message stamped onto milk cartons at this sheffield dairy farm. our cow molly suppues dairy farm. our cow molly supplies milk directly to locals and to supermarkets, shops, universities and cafes. and now they're bringing the national farmers union campaign to kitchen tables across the region. >> we thought that, you know,

the food packaging was a really good way of communicating the message. so there's a qr code on that. you can scan while you're sitting eating your breakfast, and then you can read through the information on the nfu website that tells you, you know, april bpr explains all the jargon. the consumers are there. the most important people in this, they're the ones that are buying the products, and they're the ones that will be most upset if they're not there to buy. >> plans were made before the autumn budget to modernise the barns and equipment here, but the proposed inheritance tax changes now mean eddie's family farm is under threat. >> we're going to put up a new modern building. we're going to go into having robots in there, you know, more modern technology. and then we've got a loan to do that. we're on with building the building. everything's going grand. and then there's this new tax. so now we're kind of faced with we know we've got to pay a loan back for the for the building, and we've possibly might have a

tax to pay as well. it's stalled an entire industry. we just want to carry on producing food for people. and this situation and being in limbo is really, really unhelpful. >> what are you so ashamed of, steve? why are you so ashamed that you can't engage with farmers? >> environment secretary steve reed has apologised to farmers for the changes to agricultural property relief. >> we were shocked by the size of the financial black hole we were left to fill, and i'm sorry that some of the action we had to take shocked you in turn. >> the nfu campaign is growing in momentum. the uk's major supermarkets backed the farmers, and 270,000 people have signed the stop the family farm tax petition. today's national day of unity will see more farmers gathering across britain to thank the public for their support. anna riley gb news. >> let's talk to the deputy

political editor for the mail on sunday. anna mikhailova. who's here? good to see you. good morning. this morning. this is an issue which is not going anywhere. and yet it would seem it's just not being addressed by government. yeah, absolutely. >> i think i mean, it'll be encouraging to see the nfu now this today take what seems like quite positive steps just in terms of i mean, from what i can see, the events today will be effectively farmers pulling out their tractors, pulling up a stool in the town centre and just highlighting what they do, how they do it, and raising awareness, which is all what this is about. i think it's in quite stark contrast to what we've seen before, which was when i remember i was there, all the tractors blocked whitehall and it was extraordinary. but people don't love roads getting blocked and all of that, so they. >> don't love roads being blocked. but i tell you what, it was a wonderful sight. >> it was actually i walked i walked down along the side, all of them. and it was extraordinary to see. but you can't do 1560 00:08:59,952 -