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yusuf lee anderson and others. >> russian spies in the uk following the biggest investigation of its kind. six bulgarians are found guilty of working for the kremlin. how worried should we be about whether there are any more authorities? >> issue a statement on the cause of gene hackman's tragic death. >> the end to nimbyism. councillors are going to be stripped of powers to block planning schemes in an effort to build more houses, offices and factories. >> spacex explodes, rocket debns >> spacex explodes, rocket debris rains from the sky, causing chaos for airports. >> march 20th. >> march 20th. >> inspecting the troops, we head to the london central garrison as the bands of the household division receive their annual ceremonial review. >> ancestry chasing is boosting the scottish economy. american
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tourists visiting to discover their roots brings in billions. >> good morning. it's a huge weekend of rugby action, with france travelling to ireland for what's been billed as a six nafions what's been billed as a six nations decider. in the premier league, ruben amorim hopes he'll be given time to turn man united's fortunes around. and in tennis, emma raducanu has another new coach. >> colder weather arrives next week, but before that happens, this weekend is looking warm, dry and bright. find out all the latest details in the forecast coming up soon. >> it'sjust coming up soon. >> it's just gone. 6:00 i'm stephen dixon. >> and i'm anne diamond and this is gb news breakfast. >> see you in a much more sophisticated than what i am. >> oh, yeah. >> oh, yeah. >> so do you like these sort of fashion week things? are you into all that? >> oh, you mean like london. >> oh, you mean like london. >> fashion week? yeah. do you
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like that? >> i used to, i used to ifind >> i used to, i used to i find it all a bit of a bore now, but, i mean, i used to love going along to london fashion week. yeah. because actually sitting there and watching them all on there and watching them all on the catwalk, i mean, it is quite exciting. >> see, i it's just i've seen this in the papers this morning. oh this paris fashion week at the moment. and this bowl, this designer. hodakov who's swedish. >> oh, no. »- >> oh, no. >> well, there's her latest designer. >> it's a lady wearing a cello. >> it's a lady wearing a cello. >> yes. she's wearing a cello. and there's someone else wearing a violin as a hat. >> now the violin. well, actually, the violin is ridiculous because it's so big. >> so. but the. but the cello. but it's just. >> why is but it'sjust. >> why is a but it's just. >> why is a lady wearing a cello? it looks stupid. >> it's a second hand cello. well, so she hasn't designed. what is she designed? well, she put some leg holes in it. >> can't be very comfortable. i mean, how do you sit down in a cello. >> and there's no armholes? >> and there's no armholes? >> no, honestly. >> no, honestly. >> you can't scratch. >> you can't scratch. >> your nose. >> your nose. >> that's. that's how you get a headline, isn't it? but it's not
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fashion. >> but apparently she's. there are all the models are wearing smudged eyeliner, which looks like someone's done their eyeliner with a sharpie . and that's. >> very bieber. >> very bieber. >> that is inspired by punk rock. >> i used to go to the clothes show in birmingham. do you remember that? >> yeah, i remember the clothes. >> yeah, i remember the clothes. >> tim. >> tim. >> vincent. yeah, yeah, yeah. it was a very big deal, but i think those days are a bit over. it's a bit like megan's programme on netflix. those days are over. i mean, it's very, very dated to be pretending to be the perfect hostess. and you just spend hours arranging fruit on a plate. it'sjust hours arranging fruit on a plate. it's just not done. nowadays we're all a bit more practical. but in the 80s and 90s, that was a big deal. so you're not going to have smudged eyeliner? >> no, i won't, but wearing a cello as an outfit. >> you never know. >> you never know. >> invokes fragility and boldness, says creator elin larsson. >> well, yeah. >> well, yeah. >> 32. that's where i think the world's gone blooming bonkers. >> it really has. >> it really has. >> the other thing, i think. have you ever traced your roots? >> no.
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>> no. you >> no. you traced. >> no. you traced. >> your roots? no friend of mine did. he wasn't happy with what he discovered. >> oh, really? >> oh, really? >> i'll say no more. >> oh. in our family, we knew that my dad was a scot. except that my dad was a scot. except that he was of irish descent. but he spoke with a strong scottish accent all the time. but we found out when we started to trace roots that actually it was my mother who had the strongest scottish ancestry. yeah. and we were able to trace that back to the original clan, that back to the original clan, that her family came from, the clan gunn. gunn, which has its own tartan. so one of my sons has actually had a kilt made from that tartan and got a scarf that's in that particular. >> time might be related to reagan, that famous breakdancer. >> oh, i probably am. angus. nice. yeah. >> angus gunn is the scotland national team goalkeeper right how. >> now. >> oh, there you go. >> oh, there you go. >> so the guns. >> so the guns. >> are there was his father. >> are there was his father. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> well, actually, the one thing i do know about my family is my great great grandmother or someone like that went off to service to work for the royal family when she was very young.
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yeah. came back pregnant. >> that used to happen quite a lot as well. if you watch upstairs, downstairs or downton abbey. >> this is why i have an affinity with the royal family. >> because i have royal roots. >> because i have royal roots. >> i think i've got royal blood in me. >> oh. >> oh. >> i wouldn't be surprised. >> i wouldn't be surprised. >> i wouldn't be surprised. >> i think that would be fascinating. >> went off to work for the royals. came back with a baby. >> you could trace it back, but that's really interesting. we'll be finding out a bit more about how so many americans are coming to britain, going straight up to scotland to try and trace their family roots. i've come i've met so many people who do that and it is fascinating. >> was it a genealogy test? was it? >> yeah. yeah. if you of course, the. yes, the genealogy test, the. yes, the genealogy test, the dna. dna does help. gives you a start. but mostly it's looking through records and having some advice on how to do all of that. but if you've ever traced your family roots, have you ever been surprised by what you ever been surprised by what you might have found or or thrilled to find that you are actually not scottish, you're irish or something like that? it's a it's a fascinating business. >> you've got to be very careful though, because a lot of this, it's some ridiculous percentage of people, their fathers are not
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their fathers. >> oh, that's. >> oh, that's. >> something like it's something like 15% or something. >> that's what i. >> that's what i. >> might discover are not their actual fathers. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> well, this. >> well, this. >> that's life, isn't it? well, maybe that happened to you as well when you traced your your ancestry. do let us know. anyway, there's a lot that you'll have views on today, including what we're going to be talking about next. >> yeah. you will. reform. rempe. well, former reform mp rupert lowe suspended amid allegations that he made physical threats against party chairman zigi yousaf. >> now, mr yousaf confirmed the party had also received complaints from two female employees about serious bullying in mr low's parliamentary and constituency offices. >> well, mr low said he was disappointed but not surprised to learn of what he said were false allegations. he also said the allegations of bullying at his offices are not about him. >> it's all very icky, isn't it? and i know it's upsetting a lot
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of people who are really beginning to believe in reform. let's talk to former adviser to nadhim zahawi james price, who joins us now. hi. i know a lot of people watching today are desperately disappointed to see this infighting going on in reform. >> absolutely right. reform have such an open goal at the moment. they're leading in most of the national polls. the conservative party has decided to take a long time to work out what its core beliefs are, and to not really kind of provide the sort of opposition that a fully formed opposition that a fully formed opposition might do. the labour party have obviously hit the ground, not running, just hit the ground, and therefore reform had such a great opportunity. and it seems with five mps, they can't even help themselves but fight like rats in a sack. and that would be disappointing for the, what, 27% of people at the moment who in some polls are saying they're going to be backing reform and over what childishness is it actually a serious report? >> yeah. well, come on, though, because the other side of this is if there were allegations of bullying and a physical
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altercation, and if there are allegations of bullying at the constituency office, and reform were seen to not act on that swiftly, there'd be all hell to pay- >> yeah, that is a very important point, and we should wait for any proper investigation to be done and all the rest of it. the problem, of course, is that these allegations were from 3 or 4 months ago and were only made two days ago, just after rupert lowe, the mp in question came out lowe, the mp in question came ou
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