Agents got your support this morning. Yes, indeed. At the rugby world cup, there were sensational wins for england and ireland in football. Manchester uniteds season back on track in the premier league with a win at burnley. But there was despair in boxing for britains joe joyce. Joyce. Morning to you. Im Stephen Dixon. And im emily carver. And this is breakfast on. This is breakfast on. Gb news. Now, i want to know this morning, emily. Yes. What brings you joy morning, emily. Yes. What brings you joy . Joy in everyday life . You joy . Joy in everyday life . What do you think that really makes me feel a sense of joy. Makes me feel a sense of joy. Well, apart from coming to work with you, stephen, like this morning, i think its got to be having a very restful sleep. Sleep. Yeah, well, i can understand that. Well, look, in the sun this morning, theres a list of things which apparently in this survey by some brand which ive never heard of , its about what never heard of, its about what bnngs never heard of, its about what brings you joy and the ten best things for brits apparently sleeping in fresh sheets. Thats nice. That is nice. Got to be nice. That is nice. Got to be ironed, though. Ironed, though. How often do you change your sheets . Every week. Every week. Every week. I try to do the same. Try to . Try to . Yeah. If its warm weather, sometimes it has to be more frequent. Oh i see. Oh right. Yeah and ticking off a to do list number two, eating a put favourite pudding. Number three getting a surprise text from an old pal meeting a puppy on a walk , meeting a puppy on a walk, getting a parcel, being inside when its raining. A perfect cup of tea. Heres to that one. A good stretch. No. And shutting your laptop. At the end of the day. A surprise text from a friend. Now that is a joy that is really a joy. Someone you havent heard from for years. Just do it. It will bring the other person joy , dont worry other person joy, dont worry about being awkward , you know, about being awkward, you know, just do it. Just do it. There you go. Youre softening and youre everyone. Everyone at home should send a text to an old friend at 6 00 in morning. In the morning. Not. Maybe not. Maybe not. It early. Do it early. Do it early. Do it early. Do it, but let us know what bnngs do it, but let us know what brings you a little bit of joy this sunday morning. Wed love to from you gb views to hear from you today. Gb views at wgrz. Com. But our at gb news wgrz. Com. But our main this morning may main news this morning this may bnng main news this morning this may bring rishi sunak bring you some joy. Rishi sunak is considering is reportedly considering cutting. Its cutting inheritance tax. Its a new move to try to win over voters, of course, ahead of the next election. Yes, the plans will likely make way for the eventual scrapping of the most hated tax in britain , though downing in britain, though downing street has been playing down the speculation. Lets talk political lets talk to political commentator peter spencer. Morning to you, peter. Look there would be a lot of people cheering on the sidelines about this one. There will be an awful lot of joy in conservative circles if it actually happens. I mean, this this particular tax is emblematic and catalytic as far as the tories are concerned. And it is said that concerned. And it is said that rishi sunak considered touting this during the leadership election. Then he thought it might have felt a bit desperate because he is so far behind. But the reality is if he had done so, i suspect that the tories wouldnt have just made him leader of the party. They would have made him a god as well. And his dog. This tax only impact on those who are relatively well heeled and those who and impacts emotionally , of course, on those emotionally, of course, on those who are older, shall we say. But but then you look at the demographic of the tory party, and thats exactly it. There tend to be slightly more advanced in years and they tend to be better off. And so to give them this not so much a sort of a scrap of meat as half a carcase is something that they would just adore. And its one also its one of the very few things that actually would not actually divide the conservative party. Practically everything party. Practically Everything Else is talked about as appealed to one faction and disgusted another. But this one is absolute win win as far as he is concerned. Concerned. How do you think this will go down with the general public, not just conservative voters . Not just conservative voters . Because a lot of people will look at this and theyll think rishi sunak very rich man, cabinet ministers, very rich men. They want to pass on as much as they can to their children. But what about, you know, the tax burden on the average working brit . Well, absolutely. I mean, of course , the labour party are course, the labour party are spitting nails about this, not least about the fact that of course it does ever so slightly put keir starmer on the back foot because this is so far from his agenda when it comes to the broader electorate. I mean, thats thats an interesting question. I mean, a note that 70 question. I mean, a note that 70 savanta last week published a poll in which they suggested that the tories, the labour lead is higher now than it has been any point this year. So we are possibly talking a certain amount of desperation here. And if nothing else, i suspect that if nothing else, i suspect that if rishi sunak does come up with this stuff at the Party Conference, not so much the rabbit out of the hat as a whole fleet, a whole, whole herd of them , then it would please the them, then it would please the party. But it would. But it party. But it would. But it might do more than that. I think it might consolidate its support within the conservative party because as things stand, ed, its very clear from all the polls that theres quite a lot of tories who think, actually ive had enough of this lot, lets give the other lot a go. Maybe the maybe the labour party, maybe dems, and party, maybe the lib dems, and then say anything. Hang then theyll say anything. Hang on a minute, a bottom on a minute, this is a bottom line. Stick with the tories. Yeah, i mean it is an interesting tax, isnt it . Peter weve it and its often weve called it and its often been called the most hated tax in britain. In some it in britain. In some respects it might not affect that many people. And yet its affecting more than , than it ever did more than, than it ever did before. And it its whether youre going to end up paying it or not. Its just that general understanding or conception that it is not fair to be taxed and taxed again. Taxed again. Yeah, precisely. I mean, that yeah, precisely. I mean, that is the point that is made repeatedly. Of course, you paid your taxes all of all your life and then suddenly youre going to pay it when you die. Death tax, that is really not fair at all. And its worth noting historically that of course, its for the great its what did for the great families downton and think families think downton and think how the that how towards the end of that series they a pretty impish series they were a pretty impish genius. But i come back to the point about the tory support here that when. Gordon brown, here that when. Gordon brown, the year that gordon brown was considering holding a general election and cameron and osborne had floated this idea and there was such a huge uptick in tory support that gordon brown bottled the election and the rest is history, as indeed was a labour government. Labour government. You said you suggested earlier that this might be a bit of a maybe a bit of a desperate move from rishi sunak to try and claw back some support. But its also, as steven said , its also, as steven said, its a matter of principle for people. Matter of principle for people. Its like ulez, for example, didnt affect many people really when you look at the statistics, but that feeling of, you know what, ive worked hard. I think what, ive worked hard. I think other people shouldnt be slapped with extra costs and do you think that this could actually bring on board people who who werent otherwise going to vote conservative . Or is this just something for conservative voters . Voters . I think its very much for conservative voters. I suspect conservative voters. I suspect that those who were mined, who were who were not minded to vote conservative anyway, will be even less minded to do so on the strength of this, because lets face it, it is a tax cut, which is good news for the rich and has no impact on people who are not not so well heeled. I mean , not not so well heeled. I mean, what does it mean to people who are renting for example . What does to people whove does it mean to people whove got little got a little place got a little got a little place that that much . That isnt worth that much . Absolutely. Mean while the absolutely. Zero mean while the economy manifestly strapped economy is manifestly strapped for cash. If you cut that for cash. And if you cut that tax, then what . Then then how does that impact on, say, cutting income tax, which would which would be good for news everybody there isnt that much money to splash the cash to splash around if you give it to the rich, you cant give it to the rich, you cant give it to the others. Simple as that. Okay, peter, for now, thanks very much indeed. Love to get your thoughts on that this morning. And especially if you morning. And especially if you dont think youre going to be affected tax. Do affected by inheritance tax. Do you still think it should go on . I dont quite. How much money it raises. Its not actually a vast amount of money in the great scheme. Amount of money in the great sch apparently raises amount of money in the great schapparently raises about £7 apparently it raises about £7 billion. So thats less than i of the governments total revenue. Revenue. Thats more than i thought, to be fair. But its not. But the problem, as you said, more and more people are having to pay for this because obviously asset prices have gone up much, housing costs, up so much, housing costs, i think its principle and its quite interesting to note that many, other similar many, many other similar countries to our own scrapped this long, long ago. Well, there is no what you think. Would you back it . Would it you back towards the it swing you back towards the tories in the general election or it just one of those or is it just one of those things that youre not really that us know that fussed about . Let us know this now the russian this morning. Now the Russian Foreign minister has told the United Nations that ukraines proposed peace plan is not really a stick. While its foremost ally, belarus, slams ukraine as a pawn of the west. Ukraine as a pawn of the west. That was in an address to the general assembly. Lets have a listen to them. Listen to them. London of brazil, zelenskyy and everyone who is governing him in washington, brussels and london firmly say that there is no other basis for peace other than the zelenskyy format. A formal zelenskyy. And this zelenskyy blueprint can be described in different ways, but it is completely not feasible. It is completely not feasible. It is not possible to implement this. Its not realistic. This. Its not realistic. Ukraine eu fortunately, ukraine and its people have become a pawn in the great game of the west to preserve its own global hegemony. Hegemony. Global hegemony. Hegemony. Well, as ukraines counter offensive makes minuscule progress and tensions erupt between it and its european allies, questions are now being asked about the way out of this stalemate and how a deal can be achieved, if at all. Well, lets see what robert fox defence editor of the evening standard, makes of all that morning to you, robert. Robert is i mean, is there a chance for any sort of peace plan at this stage or do we have to remain on a military footing, do you think . Was very do you think . Well it was very interesting what the gob , if interesting what the gob, if i can put it like that, of russian propaganda and policy, because its not clear with lavrov. But clownish, always not quite one suspect in the inner inner circles of putin and the secure autocracy. Its people like patrushev, the secretary of the security of the security council, who really counts. But council, who really counts. But what he was saying was this no, we dont like this. We dont we dont like this. We dont like. And several deals have been discussed and one was discussed with saudi arabia, which really took russia a bag. Everybodys insisting its got to be rules based. Youve got to play to be rules based. Youve got to play the game. Russia they dont like that love. Lavrovs terms were wont work because theyre really stung because they cannot get back into the swift banking system. And this is why he swept off the table, which i think is very damaging for russia. The resumption of the grain deal. Sorry to be a bit not too complicated , but the house that complicated, but the house that jack built were for is zelenskyy today hes talking to the strongmen of sudan because he knows darn well all that russia is not doing very well on the propaganda front by holding up hundreds of thousands of tonnes of ukraine grain chief of Defence Staff admiral tony radakin said to me the other week that 260,000 tonnes is the equivalent of offering starvation to about a million in africa in terms of food aid. So there is this game going on. I think there will be some meaningful negotiations, but the winter will have to come first and thats when the fighting will the lines will freeze. Theyre just about frozen at the moment. There are gains being moment. There are gains being made. And the big propaganda gain, of course, is being made in crimea with sebastopol because the russians are squeaking like mad about that. Squeaking like mad about that. So youre optimistic there will be meaningful negotiations. What does that what does that mean . Mean . It starts the process, but gosh, going back , the real fear gosh, going back, the real fear is that it will be like north and south korea. The ceasefire and south korea. The ceasefire in 1953, no real treaty, no real meaningful negotiations. And meaningful negotiations. And thats why theyre the great armourers of this conflict, potentially or even actually south korea. Enormous amount of south korea. Enormous amount of artillery. Whereas lavrov going artillery. Whereas lavrov going next, we understand hes going back to north korea to try and seal the deal with the guns and rockets there. Meaningful rockets there. Meaningful vietnam started in 1968 and it endedin vietnam started in 1968 and it ended in collapse in 1975. No, im not wildly optimistic, but i do think there will be talking. Well, george or not, war. War. Yeah, thats the thing. Its got to make got to help in some way, whether whether everybody runs out of ammunition in the meantime, its going to be the big question. The thing for the thats the big thing for the west. But its very interesting. This rather weve been here before and i think zelenskyys big fear is the papers say and i think its quite right that youre going to ukraine youre going to have ukraine fatigue dropping of fatigue. Its dropping out of the he knows that. And the news. He knows that. And its very difficult for a terrific showman like zelenskyy he mustnt sound hysteric now because he will have people peeung because he will have people peeling away. Weve had poland peeling away. Weve had poland with this row over the grain. We have hungary, we have austria , have hungary, we have austria, we have potentially in slovakia. Okay. It adds up. You know that its not very nice to have people being nasty on your doorstep. No. Robert, thanks very much no. Robert, thanks very much indeed. No. Robert, thanks very much indeed. Good to see you this indeed. Good to see you this morning. It is 615. Lets just remind you of the top stories this morning. And the Prime Minister is considering cutting inheritance tax as one of a raft of vote winning policies being considered of conservative considered ahead of conservative Party Conference. Russia has slammed ukraine peace plan proposal as well as attempts to revive the grain deal at the United Nations and aid coming up, as the former head of the Covid VaccineTask Force Warns of a new unknown pandemic that could kill up to 50 million people. Just what you want to hear. Want to hear. So an unknown and unknown pandemic , 50 million people, you pandemic, 50 million people, you know, its much worse than than covid 19. What is going on . Why are these claims being made . Lets talk to associate professor, professor of cardiovascular medicine at oxford university, betty rahman. Good to see you this morning. Good to see you this morning. How concerned should we be about these sort of comments . Betty. These sort of comments . Betty. Oh, okay. Shes frozen. Weve oh, okay. Shes frozen. Weve got 1 or 2 gremlins in the system at the moment. I want to know how theyve how theyve got to this figure of 50 million, 50 million, i dont know. I mean, there has to be the problem is with this of thing is there with this sort of thing is there has to be prediction and we need to prepared and we need to to be prepared and we need to learn, obviously, the last learn, obviously, from the last one out what went wrong one to work out what went wrong and how could all work out. And how it could all work out. But is just scaremongering at but is it just scaremongering at this what can this stage . Because what can we what do about it . Presumably they know this is going to go into the press. And so looks me like fear so it looks to me like fear mongering , so it looks to me like fear mongering, maybe 50 million. I mean, how how are modelling . Isnt always exceptional, is it . In this country and in the world . No. So im hoping that is a vast, vast exaggeration. But well speak to an expert at some point. Yeah , its a probability, not yeah, its a probability, not a possibility. Which sounds, but its kate bingham whos been saying this. One of the vaccine boffins is. Yeah. So shes been warning about this. So there you go. Yeah, well, its interesting. Well say well try and get analysis. Sorry about that line with down, well with betty went down, but well well get that all up well try and get that all up and running for you at some point. In the meantime, time lets on the weather lets get a check on the weather for you this morning with craig. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Weather on. Gb news. Good morning. Welcome to your latest gb news weather forecast. Well, today, very different day to yesterday. Day spells of day to yesterday. Day spells of heavy rain, especially across the northern half of the uk. Best of any brightness really across the south. So as we start the day, weve got this area of rain across parts of wales and the midlands. This will gradually spread its way northwards as go through the northwards as we go through the course morning, turning course of the morning, turning quite times. Then quite heavy at times. And then this then transfer this rai