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door to talks that could result in £1 trillion payouts. but did this all start back in 2018, when the now foreign secretary, david lammy, said this? >> as caribbean people, we are not going to forget our history. we don't just want to hear an apology, we want reparation. and perhaps you're one of millions at home left wondering is there ever going to be anything left for britain's own? >> to italy's? timeless food culture, so loved here in the united kingdom and across the world? >> yes, the king toasts italian british relations ahead of his state visit to italy, hosting a bevy of celebrations and a dinner with diplomats. >> and have you ever had your heart broken? did you take time off work to get over it? well, we're debating whether it's wise or woke for workplaces to offer heartbreak leave.

>> and an itv scheduling tsunami. gino d'acampo shows are cancelled last minute following shocking allegations. >> temperatures are set to plummet. here we go again as the uk prepares for another cold snap. so what can we expect? >> it's a cold. >> and grey start to the weekend. will it stay that way or will we see some glimmers of sunlight return? i'll have the full forecast coming up soon. >> good morning. there was no revenge for ruud van nistelrooy as old trafford last night, as manchester united left it late to edge past leicester and into the fa cup fifth round. and pressure is the air we breathe. those are the words of england captain mario ottogi ahead of today's six nations clash with france at twickenham. >> it'sjust france at twickenham. >> it's just gone. 6:00 i'm anne diamond. >> and i'm cameron walker and this is gb news breakfast.

>> yes, interesting. we're talking about a cold snap coming. i was in edinburgh dunng coming. i was in edinburgh during the week. i just got home sort of last night and it was a lovely, lovely day in edinburgh. cold, but the sun was out and everything looked wonderful. i came home to snow. really snow in my village. i mean it didn't last but j so

felt strange because it's so cold outside. and here we are in february and there was me and my son is. >> on, and we'll be talking about the six nations later. yes. with you, aidan, what's the weather going to be like for that one? is that one going to be freezing in the stadiums? >> i wouldn't, i'm not sure about freezing, but i think it'll be crisp. but to be honest with you, i mean, we're used to this kind of weather in the six nations. it's an autumn story. it's an autumn winter tournament for a reason. i think it's perfect conditions for rugby. that's what the professionals would tell me anyway. >> yeah, see. >> yeah, see. >> it's perfect conditions. i was filming in edinburgh at the castle. i've been to edinburgh many times. i've never actually done the castle. have you? >> i haven't, no, not inside it. >> it's wonderful. but we're waiting for the sun to come up. and the way the sun was hitting the stone of the buildings, it was absolutely fabulous. so very, very good morning to everybody in scotland and particularly edinburgh. you're clearly very proud of your castle. it's the most amazing place. absolutely fab. talking of royals, which we're going to do later. you didn't go to the dinner. >> last night. i did not go to the dinner. >> last night. i should have. >> last night. i should have. >> invited dinner if only. no, unfortunately it was quite a closed shop, but of course it was a dinner to celebrate the fact that king charles and queen

camilla are off to italy in april for a state visit, and it was entirely british ingredients, but an italian style dinner. and we've got the menu here for you pate and coppa, tuscan style pate and coppen coppa, tuscan style pate and copper. we've got scottish crab as well. we've got isle of wight tomato passata. but we were talking earlier, weren't we, about what's the best way to twirl spaghetti. >> i was wondering there, since the king and queen were hosting, ideally it was about italy, whether they will learn how to properly eat spaghetti, though spaghetti is not on the menu, i noticed. spaghetti is not on the menu, i noficed.so spaghetti is not on the menu, i noticed. so has anyone figured out how you eat spaghetti? and because there are all sorts of different ways you're meant to try it, and i don't know whether they're very british interpretations, but do you spin it on a spoon? do you slurp it? >> what do you do? the first one is the proper way. i'm more likely to do the second. >> i don't think it is the proper way. what's the proper way to eat spaghetti? have you ever figured it out? do get in touch. we might have a go later. yes. anyway, we better get on, i suppose. to our top story. and the foreign office is reportedly

considering holding talks with canbbean considering holding talks with caribbean officials over slavery reparations. that's according to today's telegraph. >> yes, a meeting could be held as soon as april, after barbados prime minister mia mottley previously demanded almost £4 trillion from britain. >> where are they going to find that? for instance, the foreign office insists that the government's position remains unchanged. but of course, the foreign secretary, david lammy, has previously been very vocal in his support of reparations. take a listen to what he said back in 2018. >> as caribbean people, we are not going to forget our history. we don't just want to hear an apology, we want reparations. >> well, at an estimated cost of something like £18 trillion, roughly five times our gdp. what exactly is the government thinking? >> indeed. well, let's get the thoughts now of former conservative advisor james conservative advisorjames price, who joins us in the studio. james, good morning to

you. i mean, i suppose the question is, is it if we did pay reparations, is it just going to open a can of worms? >> i'm not often left speechless when you see stories come up, but this is really just extraordinary. i know it's hard for people. i don't really understand how big a trillion is. it's hard for us to get our heads around that. that's basically what the british state pays in a whole year for everything. and as you say, it's five times the whole gdp of the country. we don't have that kind of money. no one has that kind of money. no one has that kind of money. no one has that kind of money. the americans wouldn't be able to pay that kind of money. it's impossible. these are fantasy numbers just on the surface of it. and that is the weakest argument for saying why weakest argument for saying why we shouldn't pay it. we shouldn't pay these things because these are events that happened hundreds of years ago. and if anybody is going to have any kind of pride in any kind of action that's basically ever happened, it should be the fact that the people of this island, the then british empire, the first people in history to say slavery is bad, slavery is wrong. and not just to say it, but to spend huge amounts of money and expend thousands of lives of british people to end

the slave trade. you'll notice that no holy book has ever really said even that slavery was wrong. although it was a few people on these islands using interpretations from the bible to say that all human life was equal to say that all human life was equal, that said, no, we're going to go and end this. and yet we today in 2025 should feel so bad about things that happenedin so bad about things that happened in the past that we should bankrupt ourselves for it. it's complete madness, surely. >> then the argument then is, is that this meeting or even discussing it is tokenism, which is going to cost, by the way. i mean, it's not going to be cheap to host people over here to have some sort of conference, to start a talk going when you, everybody, all of the parties involved will know that this is pie in the sky. >> yeah, i mean, a good job. the labour party have run the country so well already and they've already in eight months, fixed every single problem that we see in the uk that they can waste their time on this kind of rot. right. as you say, it's complete tokenism. it's ridiculous. waste of time. the thing that really scares me about it, that clip you just showed of the foreign secretary, david lammy there he keeps saying, us as caribbean people, we want this. he's the british

foreign secretary. why is he talking as if he's not? why is he talking? >> well he wasn't when he was talking then. >> yes. >> yes. >> but he's still a british parliamentarian then. and in a week where you had layla moran, who's a liberal democrat mp, saying we are the people of gaza and gaza is our home. why do we have so many british parliamentarians who are either not considering themselves as actually being british or, i suspect in lammy's case, because he 1529 00:09:21,704