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season of f1 was launched in london last night with a very glitzy event at the 02, and every team unveiling their new cars. and pep guardiola says he lied when he gave man city a i% lied when he gave man city a 1% chance of beating real madrid tonight. they got at least 5%. >> it's turning much, much harder over the next few days, but also much wetter and windier for all of us. find out more in the full forecast coming up. >> hello there! halfway through the week you're watching gb news breakfast i'm eamonn holmes. >> i'm ellie costello. >> i'm ellie costello. >> 75 years of formula one. and there are those people who use there are those people who use the roads, ordinary people who believe they're on a formula one track. ellie. that's what they do. and you know what happens? the police get them, catch them, and they have to attend speed

coui'ses. >> courses. >> they do speed awareness course. how was it? coyte? >> it was three hours. it was three hours of sitting on zoom. but the thing is, though, i did something that the instructor said they've never seen before on a speed awareness course. so they have like a round where you see a little video and you're supposed to have a little look. and so, right, where's all the dangers? can you see the dangers? can you see the dangers? exactly. and i'm looking i'm thinking there's a kid, okay, there's a dog there. so then it ends and it says, what happened next? and i'm like, i have no idea. so they had a, b, c or d. so and it's like, well what do you think happened next. do you see someone coming in the other direction? i'm thinking i don't know. so i said i think the answer is a that. and that was one of the multiple choice that the car in front reverses back in front of you. and they said, right, okay, everybody hold up your pads. and everybody had see apart from me, they had a and the woman says to me, i've got to say, paul, that's the first time anybody has ever said a.

and i said, oh, thanks very much. and she went, no, that's wrong. and i said, well how many people have done the course? she said, thousands. and nobody has ever said that before. >> so really she was saying how stupid you were. >> exactly what she was saying. >> exactly what she was saying. >> so unique. >> so unique. >> that was exactly. well, this is what i said. i said, well, you know, that's something. and then she went. >> i think that makes you stand out. >> i well, thank you very much. that makes them. >> say he's not taking this course seriously. >> i was. >> i was. >> yes, i know you were my friend. but the thing is they're looking and they're thinking nobody could possibly be deliberately as stupid. >> as that. >> as that. >> so therefore he's. >> so therefore he's. >> yes. >> yes. >> that's it. yeah. >> that's it. yeah. >> yeah, yeah. messing around. yeah. >> yeah. so no i think she just thought really? are you serious. so that was it. >> so you've done a speed awareness course. you've done a speed awareness course. speed awareness coui'se. >> speed awareness course. >> oh i had a lovely time at mine. >> did you. >> did you. >> yeah, it was pre—covid. i did have a lovely time. it was pre—covid. yeah. and yes, i'd been going slightly over the speed limit and it was in a hotel in essex and there were lots of biscuits and tea and coffee was free flowing. and

then because it was in essex, everyone was a great character. >> oh, nice. >> oh, nice. >> great day out. but you've never been a great. >> driver. >> driver. >> a great driver. >> a great driver. >> i've never had the experience of doing anything bad like that. i've never, never had a speeding ticket in my life. never had a parking ticket. >> when you drive, you like this? >> no. yeah, yeah, yeah. >> no. yeah, yeah, yeah. >> i'm just very good. >> i'm just very good. >> just very good. >> just very good. >> i love gripping a wheel. i love, i love being behind the wheel, i love driving, i just do it. >> very, very slowly. correctly. >> very, very slowly. correctly. >> correctly. >> correctly. >> correct. yeah. correctly the correct way. >> what speed were you doing? >> what speed were you doing? >> i was doing, i was doing think it was about 70 in a 20 mile an hour. no , no. mile an hour. no, no. >> no coyte. >> no coyte. >> just a couple of miles over. she said, you've got to be because it's all about emotions, she says. you've got to be cool. she said, what's the name of that tennis player? and i'm thinking, well, i should know this. and she. >> goes. >> goes. >> she goes, i know who's the really cool. and she was going, oh! and they went, oh, bjorn borg. she said, yeah, bjorn borg. she said, yeah, bjorn borg. very cool. i said, yeah, but he was a terrible driver. and then that didn't go down too well either. so.

>> okay. >> okay. >> anyway, any stories about your speed awareness course? please do get in touch with them this morning. >> gbnews.com/yoursay to the news. >> british troops could be used to keep the peace in ukraine, as the government explores options to provide troops or typhoon jets to help. >> well, it comes as president trump is demanding that the ukrainian president zelenskyy holds an election that could oust the leader from office, following talks between the us and russia. >> wouldn't the people of ukraine have to say like, you know, it's been a long time since we've had an election? that's not a russia thing. that's not a russia thing. that's something coming from me and coming from many other countries also. you know, ukraine is being just just wiped out. >> president trump also supported keir starmer's call for british peacekeeping troops to be sent to ukraine. >> i do that, that's great. i'm all for it. if they want to do that, i think that's that would be fine. i mean, i know france has mentioned it, others have mentioned it, uk has mentioned it. but yeah, well if we have a peace deal, i think having troops over there for from the

standpoint of europe, we won't have to put any over there because you know, we're very far away. but having troops over there would be fine. i would not object to it at all. we're talking about this now. peace. we have either a ceasefire or a peace itself. and we're looking to do both. >> well, we're joined now by former political adviser james price. good to see you this morning, james. and should we start with president trump and his comments at that press conference last night? very interesting how his appearing to blame ukraine for this going on so long, saying you should have made the deal. >> yeah. it's difficult this isn't it, because it goes against the instincts that many of us in the uk and probably the rest of europe feel in that we would like to see ukraine have a clear and decisive victory. so much of our own national story is based around our victory in world war ii, when it was nice and clear, wasn't it? right? we were the good guys, they were the bad guys. very easy. and then we won and we got to build then we won and we got to build the world after it. the sad reality is that when you have countries like russia that have

nuclear weapons, the calculation is different, right? the aim is really not to lose and to not lose the whole world. if someone is horrible and evil. as putin decides to start launching nuclear weapons, and that has to change these kinds of calculations, and it means then that these negotiations are going to be unpleasant and that 1572 00:08:15,400