. >> i'm stephen dixon and i'm anne diamond, and this is gb news breakfast.t what age did you sort of look in the mirror one morning and think, i'm. i've turned into either mum or dad. in other words, what age do you. >> about a decade ago. oh, yeah. >> about a decade ago. oh, yeah. >> really? >> really? >> yeah, i think so. >> yeah, i think so. >> how about you? or have you. not yet. >> no, i think i have, but only in the last couple of years. i think 43 is not bad. yeah. not a bad staging post, actually. >> apparently that is the age that we really start turning into our parents. and the telltale signs. i mean, there are a number of telltale signs. number one is you complain about the weather all the time. yeah. i think don't we do that from birth? almost. you fall asleep on the sofa in the evenings. >> oh, no, i don't do that. >> no, i don't, but that's because you live a weird timetable. >> well, that's true, but i fall asleep on the sofa. >> i've been doing that since i was 15, actually. >> yeah, okay. you've started dressing for comfort. oh, yes. >> def

. >> i'm stephen dixon and i'm anne diamond, and this is gb news breakfast. >> although i didn't stayp for it last night, i was very. it's the first thing i checked when i got up this morning. me too, was to see how luke littler had got on. >> and i've never been that interested in darts in my life before, and i've met so many people who are suddenly really interested. yes. >> brilliant. extraordinary performance. i mean, you have to consider it wasn't a shock in terms of the actual result. he was the 11 to 4 odds on favourite, but michael van gerwen has won three world titles. he didn't actually perform last night that badly. he averaged over 100 throughout. >> he's had a bad year. >> he's had a bad year. >> he's had a bad year. >> he has. he has. but he was he was the holder of the record for the youngest player to win it in 2014, aged 2025. luke littler beats it by well over six years. >> i mean, he's a sensation, isn't he? i know, and he's going to be more and more of a sensation, because you can see that he's got a long career ahead of him. >> well, you can also. that was the big

. >> well, it's just gone 6:00 i'm anne diamond and this is gb news breakfast. well, his cup of tea is here and it's all ready for him there. and steven isn't here yet because i mean, as we all know, snow and icy weather conditions and black ice on roads is throughout britain. a lot of britain anyway. and steven's rung in to say he'll be a bit late today, because i think it's proving to be a pretty bad journey for him. >> it is. i imagine it's probably a bit worse an hour or two outside of london as well, isn't it.7 i think in central london snow doesn't really settle. i certainly didn't find that this morning. i came in from the wimbledon area, which is probably about half an hour from here. yeah, i came in just wet. >> more like south midlands. yes, yes. and the snow was bad. >> i'll tell you what. there was a parking space though, where i where i am and everyone avoids it. and if it's, if it's dry, i think. why is everyone avoiding it. yes. okay. there's a few branches hanging over. but what what actually happens is that when it rains, a puddle generates all

. >> 6:00 i'm stephen dixon and i'm anne diamond and this is gb news breakfast. >> i'm filled with moralutrage this morning. oh, gosh. >> moral outrage. why.7 >> moral outrage. why? >> ladies and gents, is this is this that i've read? and it's in the observer this morning. so, you know, the gig economy. so it's like people who work in bars and restaurants and things and all that sort of thing anyway, and retail people. anyway, there's this new payment system being brought in for, for one company. and whereas if you want to be paid quickly, you have to give them 5% of your wages. what? yeah. so if you want to be paid within 24 hours or i want to be paid within 24 hours ori minute. i beg your pardon? it's one minute. you have to pay 4.8% of your earnings. you pay 2.9% to be paid in three days, or you have to wait 30 days. >> no pay. no, that's. that is appalling. >> i don't see how that can be legal. no, i really don't. previously within this company, you were paid within three days. no, i know i don't want to, because he's just. oh, just legal reasons, really. >> but but if this is the so

. >> i'm stephen dixon and i'm anne diamond and this is gb news breakfast. >> morning, morning. i was just thinking we should all have ambition. does ambition keep you going? yeah. do you know what's different? >> sorts of ambition. >> sorts of ambition. >> do you know what's prompted me, brian blessed? you must have met him. you must have interviewed brian. i said, dude, ihave. interviewed brian. i said, dude, i have. i've interviewed him a couple of times, and it's just the scariest thing because he's just scary, you know? he's like a mountaineer and everything has been. >> he goes up everest without oxygen, doesn't he? >> anyway, he's 88 now. >> anyway, he's 88 now. >> oh, wow. >> oh, wow. >> and he's said he wants to climb olympus mons, which is a mountain on mars. twice as high as everest. so he says he wants to go to mars and climb olympus mons. and he did training in russia. >> if anyone can do it, he can do it. but he'll have to talk to elon musk about being on board the first flight. but he's the sort of guy who could. >> i sort of think he might be pushing your luck a

. >> 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. >>

. >> i'm stephen dixon and i'm anne diamond, and this is gb news breakfast. >> morning to you. we're going to kick straight off with the breaking news this morning. of course, that ceasefire between israel and hamas was due to come into force in 630 o'clock, 6:30 am. this morning. our time. but in the last few minutes, the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has said it won't go ahead unless hamas releases a list, the names of those 33 hostages that it plans to release in the first six week phase of the ceasefire. >> well, it was hoped that the last british hostage, emily dephen last british hostage, emily depher, would be on that list, and now her family can only imagine what they're going through at the moment, grappling with this morning's developments. >> well, there was chaos yesterday on the streets of london, leading to the arrests of 77 pro—palestine protesters who breached a public order act. >> so it's all up in the air and we don't really know what's going on, i guess. and you almost could have predicted that. we're joined in the studio by defence editor at t

. >> and i'm anne diamond and this is gb news breakfast. there's some some.s rather charming news about kirstie allsopp, the tv presenter, you know. >> oh, right. yes. >> oh, right. yes. >> who does properties? basically, she invited a load of her very best friends to the birthday party for her boyfriend. like property tycoon boyfriend. like property tycoon boyfriend. and when they got there, it was their wedding. they were decided to get married, but they didn't want to tell anyone. so it was all a very big surprise and i just thought that was absolutely charming. i mean, you can't help but be happy for her. she's found somebody she never thought she ever would again. and she's found somebody that she's fallen in love with and wanted to get married. and so they planned the wedding as a total surprise to all their friends and relatives. >> oh, well, that's. >> oh, well, that's. >> quite nice. >> quite nice. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i sort of quite like that. >> i sort of quite like that. >> yeah, it must have been a shock because you must have turned up thinking,