Alcohol and the sport . This morning the Champions League is now premier league less after Manchester City and arsenal both go out. Emma raducanu is on a roll. Shes beaten the former world number one and Ronnie Osullivan opens his Snooker Academy in saudi arabia. I wonder why that is. Its a beautiful start out there for many places and theres more sunshine to come this weekend, but before that happens there is some rain to talk about in the forecast coming up shortly. Good morning to you. Good morning to you. Im Stephen Dixon and im Ellie Costello, and this is breakfast on. Gb news. Breakfast on. Gb news. Now, i just wanted to , give now, i just wanted to, give a shout out to take that. Oh this morning. Theyre in trouble today, and i think its unfair. Why . Why . Because theyre doing theyre doing concerts and things again at the minute. And the sun is not happy. Yeah, because someone in the crowd has noticed that they they have a teleprompter at they they have a teleprompter at the back, which is basically just a massive screen with the lyrics on it, like what we have here. Well, yes. But are these scripts arent, you know, we dont know the 30 years old that weve learned off by heart. So, so theyre being theyre being nasty about take that saying, why will they, why do they have to have a teleprompter. Why will they, why do they have to have a teleprompter. Yeah to have a teleprompter. Yeah i mean i found heaven. Mean how mean i found heaven. I mean how long ago was that . I think i was at university when that came out. Its a very long time ago, darling, 30, 32 years ago. So theyve the words for them. Theyve got the words for them. Let me get close to this. Oh, let me get close to this. Oh, it really does have all of the lyrics there. I think thats fair enough. And its definitely for them, not for the audience. Oh, its for them. Yeah. Its not facing the audience. Its facing the stage, darling. But you, you know, you need that. Think its need that. I think its perfectly sensible. Theyve obviously well yeah, theyve obviously got a lot of content to remember. Lots of lyrics to remember. Lots of lyrics to remember. So there you go. So there you go. Its a fair play. Its a fair play. So i think, you know, take that. You hang on in there, boys. Dont take it to heart. Although i have seen, a video of them. You might come for me now if i say this. I did think they were looking a bit. Well, a bit like old man dancing on the stage. Yeah, yeah, i would agree. Okay it was, it was looking a little bit like cruise ship entertainers. I mean, to be you. The idea that they were a boy band in your 50s, i think is, is pushing it a little bit. Yeah. But nevertheless theyre still hugely successful. Hugely. Oh they are. Yeah. Well the same thing for blues. You know the band blue. Oh yeah. Yeah. So they are touring again and theyre just its theyre not really giving a lot the stage. It really is. Lot on the stage. It really is. Thats thats as far as they go. Thats thats as far as they go. And its a similar thing i think ive seen videos on tiktok and its Younger Generation its the Younger Generation seeing the first time. Seeing them for the first time. Theyre old theyre like, who are these old men dancing to . Well, know, the knees go, well, you know, the knees go, dont you . You get little bits of arthritis your joints. Of arthritis in your joints. Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Like youre like me, like me. Me his finger is me fingers, his Little Finger is quite isnt it. Very sore. Quite sore, isnt it. Very sore. I think its osteoarthritis but i think its osteoarthritis but i might be wrong. Enough self. Oh youve diagnosed yourself have you . Im on to the gp. Well ive booked an appointment. Good. 2027. Im in anyway , less of that and more on anyway, less of that and more on this because plenty of Politics Around today. Theres going to be lots of politics every day in the run up to this general election. Just you wait and see because people are desperate for it. It gets it gets another , it. It gets it gets another, lease of life. Any old political story when theres an election on. Anyway, unfortunately for the conservative party, its bad news for them this time round because one of their mps, mark menzies, has lost the whip over the alleged misuse of Campaign Funds. Yes number 10 have launched an investigation into the matter. Menzies is now no longer a member of the tory party and will sit as an independent mp in the house of commons. Yeah, hes the mp for fylde. His issued a statement saying i strongly dispute the allegations put to me. Ive complied with all the rules and declarations. Theres an investigation ongoing, so im not commenting any further. But what are all these allegations, i wonder . Well, lets put that to our Political Correspondent olivia utley, who can tell us more good morning to you, olivia. So another scandal to hit the tory party in an Election Year. This is a headache for rishi sunak, isnt it . Isnt it . It is a massive headache for rishi sunak. And this has the whiff of quite a big scandal, mark menzies , whos the mp for mark menzies, whos the mp for flied and a parliamentary, government trade envoy, has had the whip removed after allegations of fraud. What happened was, mark menzies was at home when , at 315 in the at home when, at 315 in the morning, he called his former constituency local manager, a 78 year old woman, and demanded that she transfer £3,000 of Campaign Money from his Campaign Fund because, he said, he was being locked up by bad people , being locked up by bad people, and the only way he could get out was if he paid them this money. The woman refused and in the morning, mark menzies went to his Current Campaign manager, a woman called shirley green, and asked her to transfer the money. But by this point, the sum had been raised to £6,500. She transfer the money and she did transfer the money and mark menzies was then released , mark menzies was then released, but its not at all clear whether he paid back that money. And that isnt the only allegation. Over the last couple of years, mark menzies has demanded that money be transferred over to his own personal bank account to pay for various medical procedures, at one point demanding £35,000 to be transferred. There was a time be transferred. There was a time when there was no money left in the Campaign Fund coffers, and Party Volunteers were paying their own personal savings. One woman cashed in her isa to help mark menzies out. Now, its not clear exactly what was going on, but it sounds like blackmail. Mark menzies has never confirmed his sexuality, but its rumoured that hes gay, and at one point he was accused of , being, paying he was accused of, being, paying a male rent. Boy, that was back in 2014. So this isnt the first scandal to hit this mp and its thought that what happened was he went he met a man on a dating app he went he met a man on a dating app, went home with the man, got into some sort of difficulty and then money was demanded from him. So its a pretty big scandal. Its not going to go away any time soon. And it is the seventh conservative mp that rishi sunak has lost in the last few years. Okay , olivia, for now, thanks okay, olivia, for now, thanks very much indeed. Well, the conservative party have issued a statement saying were investigating allegations was made regarding a member of parliament. This process is rightfully confidential. The party takes all allegations seriously and will always investigate any matters put to them. Them. Now, dozens of suspected cyber fraudsters have been arrested across the uk after authorities brought down an illegal website used by thousands of criminals to defraud victims worldwide. Well, police have identified at least 70,000 victims in the uk alone as sophisticated online enablers train criminals to set up fake websites to scam victims into handing over personal details, mark white has the story for you this morning. Story for you this morning. Across the uk, dozens of suspected cyber criminals had a rude awakening as Law Enforcement here and around the globe moved in to smash a multi Million Pound online scam that defrauded many thousands of victims. Multiple addresses were victims. Multiple addresses were raided and some suspects were pulled off flights at manchester and luton airports have been identified as involved in lab host, an online phishing platform which allows users to set up fraudulent websites in order to impersonate Online Services such as banking. This is now the front page greeting any would be cyber criminal trying to access the services of this illegal online site. The this illegal online site. The website labour seat is part of a hugely worrying development in cyber crime. It aimed to provide an easy step by step guide on how to download and use fake sites your page has installed, and youre ready to spam. And youre ready to spam. Make sure to check that it works before starting your spam. Works before starting your spam. Stay safe and good spamming unsuspecting members of the public would then believe those sites were pages from legitimate businesses like banks and retailers, all with the aim of phishing or fooling victims into revealing personal details which would be used to commit fraud. There are unfortunately many enabling services to fraud. Many enabling services to fraud. However, together with our Law Enforcement partners, we are tackling them to take out an enabler means that we are able to take it out at source and this, we hope, will send out a message to those using Similar Services that we can get their data and we will be onto them. Data and we will be onto them. Law enforcement have identified at least 70,000 victims of this latest cyber scam in the uk alone. The lab host site made more than £1 million from 2000 criminals who subscribed to download its services. Those attempting to access the site now are faced with a bit of online trolling from Law Enforcement. Youve targeted victims all around the world. The police. There may not be too happy with you. Think carefully about where you. Think carefully about where you. Think carefully about where you go on holiday next. That was your 2023 lab host wrapped lab host is dead now with that illegal site now infiltrated and disrupted by authorities , dozens disrupted by authorities, dozens of those. It was training and equipping in the art of cyber fraud are in Police Custody and likely facing prosecution. Mark white, gb news. Well, at 6 11, lets take a look at some other stories coming into the newsroom this morning. Well the governments flagship illegal migration policy, the rwanda bill, had another major setback, suffering another major setback, suffering a fourth defeat in the house of lords peers, maintaining pressure on the government over the deportation plan with continual demands for reassurances in the form of amendments, house of lords ignored ministerial calls to back down and insisted on further revisions to the safety of rwanda. Bill. Bill. Prince william is to return to official public duties today for the First Time Since the princess of wales revealed her cancer diagnosis. He is set to visit a surplus Food Distribution charity, surplus to supper following, followed by a youth centre in west london, which benefits from the organisations deliveries. Samantha davies, founder of the dwarfism Charity Little people uk. Shes the wife of the people uk. Shes the wife of the actor warwick davis. Shes died actor warwick davis. Shes died at the age of 53. In a statement , mr davis paid tribute to his favourite human. The couple met on the set of the film willow in 1988 and married three years later. Now theres been chaos in the uae as thousands of uk travellers are struggling to get home after Dubai International airport was closed due to flash flooding. Yes, some pretty serious flooding as well. Passengers flooding as well. Passengers told to stay away unless absolutely necessary after it was hit with more than a years rainfall in just 24 hours. Well, one man has tragically lost his life as a result of the torrential weather. Lets talk to british expat chris bryant, whos there for us this morning. Chris bryant, whos there for us this morning. Great to see you, this morning. Great to see you, kyrees. Whats the situation . Kyrees. Whats the situation . Whats been going on . Oh my goodness. It has been chaos indeed. Weve seen so much happening in 24 hours. I think were still in shock. The roads have been flooded, cars are still stranded in the streets , still stranded in the streets, you can see the aftermath of blown down, signs and boards all over the city. Unfortunately, some people are still stuck in their properties. Some peoples homes have been flooded. It homes have been flooded. It really has been a very scary time for us all here. Kyrees how have you been affected as your apartment been flooded . Have you been able to get out and about . Oh goodness no. In the words of batten down the hatches, we was closing the windows and doors with all of our force barricading ourselves in with towels , its safe to say some of towels, its safe to say some of the older apartments in dubai have not been built for this weather, so we have a very big laundry bill, coming our way for the towels and blankets used to stop the rainfall coming in. I mean, presumably somewhere like dubai just isnt built for this. Hasnt got the, i dont know, even the sort of the drain edge to deal with this level of rainfall in such a short amount of time. Correct . I mean, we are in the middle of the desert, and the middle of the desert, and the Sewage Systems have been thought about. Its something that a lot of people have reached , researched. But you reached, researched. But you must remember, if its not going to filled with water, it will to be filled with water, it will be filled with sand. So we have to have a compromise. Was to have a compromise. We was never expecting type of never expecting this type of rainfall. Been over 75 rainfall. Its been over 75 years weve had such years since weve had such rainfall the uae and 75 years rainfall in the uae and 75 years ago. What you see now was just a vision , just a dream. Vision, just a dream. And what the authoritys been telling you there. I mean, were heanng telling you there. I mean, were hearing about the airport there and the disruption to people trying to get out, but what advice are you being given . The advice weve been given from our local authorities, has been to stay safe and stay indoors for as long as possible to stock up on all utensils and food just to make sure you are safe if you are trapped anywhere. And also just to kind of look out for one another as well. Well. Okay. And look. Kyrees. Really good to see you this morning. Thats what things improve, pretty quickly. Thanks very much indeed. Heck, have you seen the videos . Oh, its terrible. I mean, honestly awful. I mean, honestly awful. I mean, honestly awful. I mean, you see that little if youre watching on the tv, theres one of the videos, theres one of the videos, theres a little cat i thought that would affect you hanging on to little timmy, hanging on to a car door handle. Right up waters, right up there. Thank heavens someone there pick heavens someone is there to pick him her up. Him up or her up. Looks like a little timmy, it looks like a little timmy, doesnt bless it. I mean, it doesnt it . Bless it. I mean, it is such, such a worry for People Living because, as living there because, as you say, the infrastructure just isnt designed for level of isnt designed for that level of rainfall. Theres rainfall. No. And theres so many expats living many people, expats living out in koresh. And i was in dubai like koresh. And i was starting to see the videos on social media. Have been a social media. Must have been a few it was, oh few days ago now. And it was, oh please, its just storm, but please, its just a storm, but it has obviously, as we can see from the pictures on the screen, become quite serious in from the pictures on the screen, bec� past quite serious in from the pictures on the screen, bec� past couple uite serious in from the pictures on the screen, bec� past couple ofe serious in from the pictures on the screen, bec� past couple of days ous in from the pictures on the screen, bec� past couple of days , us in the past couple of days, flooding across dubai and its affected a lot of peoples homes. You cant even get around. A lot of people have lost their cars in the water, awful. Awful. Yes. Pretty grim. Thankfully. Whatever we want about the weather over here, its not as bad as that at the moment at least. Lets get the forecast with aidan mcgivern. With aidan mcgivern. A brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Hello. Good morning. Welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. A chilly start in many places today. Cloudier in the north with some outbreaks of rain moving in this morning, especially for northern and western scotland. But a few light outbreaks of rain reaching Northern Ireland later in the morning. And then this area pushes into Northern England and eventually north wales by the middle of the afternoon, turning cloudier places then, cloudier in many places then, but but staying sunny in the east midlands, east anglia, southern england as well where it will feel pleasantly warm. 15 perhaps 16 celsius not feeling pleasantly warm in the northwest with the and the rain , and with the wind and the rain, and that rain tends to topple its way southwards during the evening, but it also tends to fizzle away, so not a great deal of rain reaching the south or parts of wales even. And it will be followed by showers, bluster showers as the wind picks up overnight with the breeze. Overnight temperatures will stay up in the mid to high single figures so generally frost free, but its going to be a blustery start to friday. Areas of cloud moving south some light showers for many places. The most frequent showers wil