offensive messages? to sending offensive messages? the pressure is on sir keir starmer to act. >> the government's immigration plans are in chaos. kemi badenoch demands an amendment that could see the whole bill thrown out. >> is it ever okay to lie in a relationship? well, it turns out 40% of us see no harm in a little white lie. tell us your thoughts. will be debating that this morning. >> and in the sport this morning. huge underdogs plymouth argyle go into some. well have a bit of giantkilling. yes they do. liverpool out of the fa cup. aston villa are into the fifth round for the first time in a decade by beating spurs. and in new orleans, the philadelphia eagles win super bowl 59. >> there's a scandinavian high in charge of our weather this week. what does that mean for you? well, i'll have the full details later on. >> hello there. very good morning to you. on this monday morning to you. on this monday morning i'm eamonn holmes.

>> i'm ellie costello and this is gb news breakfast. >> paul it could be worse. it could be worse. you could have been beaten in the fa cup by plymouth. true. yeah. yeah. true. you know i mean man united. we were victorious on friday night. >> you were victorious. >> you were victorious. >> a magnificent. >> a magnificent. >> let go. yes. >> let go. yes. >> let on site. >> let on site. >> on site, of course. no var. but it was on site. of course it was. yeah. >> people a lot of people are saying why is there no var in the, in the fa cup? and is it because you've got lots of small teams? >> i think. >> i think. >> that's it. who wouldn't be able to afford it. >> so then they try and make it fair across the board. so if there's, there's no point having a couple of couple of games of a couple without you know, i watched on saturday which kept away from football. i watched doctor zhivago. have you ever seen doctor zhivago? >> never. >> never. >> you've never seen doctor zhivago? >> omar sharif. >> omar sharif. >> no interest in. >> no interest in. >> it, have you not?

>> it, have you not? >> no, i think it's a film. i turned it on. and like laurence olivier, lawrence of arabia. sorry. it's spoilt by really bad makeup. >> no, you see bad makeup. >> no, you see bad makeup. >> you see the makeup on the actors. just so obvious. really, really bad. >> tonya. obvious. >> tonya. obvious. >> tonya. obvious. >> tonya. honestly, did you know. then doctor zhivago. and if you ever see it, it's all set in russia. you know, around the turn at the time of the russian revolution. freezing cold. there's snow, ice everywhere. it was actually shot in spain in 80 degrees heat. and it's all wax. and even omar sharif and he's got he's got the ice on his moustache. >> the makeup looks bad. >> the makeup looks bad. >> i'll tell you what. that's magnificent makeup. so i won't have you knocking david lean and the makeup for argo. seriously? honestly, all these years on, do me a favour. give it a go. it's fantastic. >> wonderful film. why did we bnng >> wonderful film. why did we bring that up? why are you talking about it? >> only because i probably should have been watching football and rugby on saturday. and i was drawn in by zhivago. >> he's telling you what he's doing on saturday. >> oh. >> oh. >> in a roundabout way.

>> in a roundabout way. >> and guess what i saw this morning at 330. >> doctor zhivago. >> doctor zhivago. >> in the rain. all right. and it felt like sleet. it wasn't. it was just very cold. a tractor coming down the motorway, heading to london. early doors. >> oh, yes. well, we're about to tell everybody. >> about it. it would be a nice little. >> yes. >> yes. >> how fast was that tractor going? >> well, not very fast, but i thought that's quite clever, you know, get ahead of the traffic. very good. i don't know what they're going to do once they're set in london. >> and it had lights on it. it had. >> lights, lights. it had a big sign saying back british farming in front. >> well, the reason ellie saw that tractor is that farmers are going to stage another protest in westminster as they continue this campaign against inheritance tax rules. >> yes. the changes, which are due to come into effect in april next year, means that farms worth more than £1 million will be hit with a 20% inheritance tax. >> now the protest coincides with mps debating a petition calling on the government to keep current tax exemptions for farms. >> well, the government say their commitment to farmers is

steadfast and there is an urgent need to repair the public finances in a fair way. >> but is it fair, or is it another tax on british business? dougie beattie with the background to all of this. >> farmers across the uk are ramping up the opposition to the business inheritance tax and those from the next generation have real concerns about the problems they will face. >> the family farm is a cornerstone of the rural economy. many of our members, though not involved in primary farming, are involved in the agri food industry. >> my husband is one of six brothers who is working with their dad, and they are working 20 hour days. some days they are literally doing everything that they are doing for the next generation. it's not thousands, it's hundreds of thousands and thatis it's hundreds of thousands and that is asset. that's not cash. that's not money in the bank. we'd have to sell ground to pay off the inheritance tax that

makes our farm unviable. >> given that the average age of a farmer is 64, there is a real possibility that those farms who spread the tax payments across ten years may have to pay a new tax when the first is incomplete. carla lockhart mp says government is unclear on this issue. >> treasury don't seem to know themselves what is happening. when you look at the figures that they're bandying about and you look at even the process that they're using for this, for implementing this april, this isn't being introduced in this finance bill. there is a technical consultation going to happen, and it's going to be introduced in a future finance bill. so i don't even believe they're clear in what this actually means for farmers. >> david gibson is a beef producer who is sceptical of supermarket support for the farming protests. >> when we look at how farmers are paid, they're price takers

in the market. so whenever something leaves here, we often don't know what we're going to get. we find out afterwards. and that's the way it is. the processors in the supermarkets have the supply chains completely wrapped up , have the supply chains completely wrapped up, and farmers, there's no profit guaranteed in anything that leaves any farm. >> over the last three decades, farming has faced challenges like no other business regulation and legislation, and the failure of a tory government to deal with a common agricultural policy. post brexit, the linking of net zero with the single farm payment has left their coffers empty. if farmers are now to make money, they must so in the business inheritance tax to their end product, and the national farmers union has to be very careful about how it goes around that the very fact that so many investment companies have bought land from 1980 4th may mean that if they sell, the price of land

will drop and the farmers ability to borrow will be greatly reduced. dougie beattie gb news, belfast. >> thank you douglas. theo usherwood, a political commentator, joins us in the in the studio now to talk about this. and it really never ceases to amaze me just how indifferent politicians are. and we're going to be debating it in the programme later this morning. we've got a guy coming in and really they couldn't care less. they do not see how the food chain works. and i would say to anybody, because i've been up close and personal with this, if you would be a farmer, good luck to you because there are very, very few people that would have a go at it. >> it's a tough job. you're up. you're up at 2 or 3:00 every morning. and of course walking, working through right until late into the evening and then a little bit of sleep because you have to then get back up. it's a really hard job. and this exemption exists for a reason. the reason it exists is because

actually, whilst farmers may be asset rich, they may have tractors which cost hundreds of thousands of pounds, or harvesting or harvesting or of course, the land which they farm, they are not cash rich. so inevitably when and these are family businesses, these this is expertise which is held, which is passed from father to son and asset from father to daughter. this is not something that simply can be sold off or passed on just to, to anybody. it's a difficult job and it's a skilled job. so when it comes to the, you know, a farmer dying, they want to pass it to their children. that's what you would that that makes sense. but of course, because they don't have a huge amount of cash, course, because they don'