the headlines. the last budget before brexit. the chancellor says austerity is coming to an end. philip hammond calls it a budget for britain's future as he announces more money for a universal credit, social care, nhs, and schools. now we have reached a defining moment on this long journey opening a new chapter in our country's economic history where we can look confidently to the future. the reality is that whatever the chancellor claims today, austerity is not over. the of the green party will give us his reaction. in a moment the other main stories. united in grief, the family of the leicester city chairman pay respects

following the helicopter crash. seven men are convicted of sexually applied —— sexually exploiting teenage girls in rotherham. the chancellor has declared a new chapter in the country's economic history seeing the leader of austerity is coming to an end. with austerity is coming to an end. with a large windfall from better than expected tax receipts philip hammond announce more cash for public services and said he will press ahead with tax giveaways for more than 30 million people one year

earlier than planned. 0n the economy there were modest increases in the forecasts for economic growth, borrowing will be lower than expected, releasing more money for public services. there was more cash, as previously announced, for the nhs, an extra money for social care, plus extra money for social care, plus extra money for social care, plus extra money for the ministry of defence, and 1.7 billion to help people switching to the new benefits system, universal credit. and he brought forward by one year a rise in the tax—free personal allowance, which means that from april next year 32 million people will be paying less in tax. butjeremy corbyn said it was a broken promise project. is this really the end of austerity? britain needed a brexit deal to

guarantee its future. we are at the moment where the stakes could not be higher. get it right and we will not only protect britain's jobs cost more, we will also get a deal dividend. he had a new announcement. i can announce that the nhs ten year plan will include a new mental health crisis service with comprehensive mental health support available in every major accident and emergency, children's young people's crisis teams, more mental health ambulances, more safe havens in the community, and a 24—hour mental health crisis hotline. there was more, mps had demanded it, more cash for social care. and for

schools struggling to pay the bills there was this. i recognise that school budgets do not stretch to that extra bit of kit that would make such a difference. today i am announcing a £400 million in year bonus to help our schools by the little extras they need. the opposition was not impressed with that. the chancellor was in full flow. someone had to be, the tech giants, google, facebook. we will now introduce a uk digital services tax. this will be a narrowly targeted tax on uk generated reve nu es of targeted tax on uk generated revenues of specific platform business models, it will be carefully designed to make sure it is established tech giants rather than tech start—ups that shoulder the burden of this new tax. we knew there had been help for high street

traders, that had been helpfully leaked. it is an annual saving of up to £8,000 forup leaked. it is an annual saving of up to £8,000 for up to 90% of all independent shops, pubs, restaurants and cafes. the chancellor was always likely to address big issues, big problems. half £1 billion for housing. and every bit as sensitive, problems for millions claiming universal credit, the single payment. it is said to lead to date through delays in payment, there will be more to ease payments. through delays in payment, there will be more to ease paymentslj through delays in payment, there will be more to ease payments. i am increasing in work allowance for universal credit to £1000 per annum, costing £1.7 billion per annum once complete, benefiting 2.4 million working families with children. then it was over. philip hammond content

with his deep's work. we are at a turning point in our history and we must resolve to go forwards, not backwards and work together to build a britain that we can all be proud of. i commend this statement to the house. tory mps were happy that it is thejob of house. tory mps were happy that it is the job of labour to be unimpressed and jeremy corbyn could not wait to get started. this is a broken promise budget. what we have heard to date are half measures and quick fixes while austerity grinds on. farfrom quick fixes while austerity grinds on. far from people's quick fixes while austerity grinds on. farfrom people's hard work and sacrifice as having paid off as the government has claimed this government has claimed this government has claimed this government has frittered away in ideological tax cuts to the richest in our society. the opponents of the government queued to condemn what they had heard. all the big decisions about how we pay for public services and the so—called end of austerity, it has been put off until next june. wheels was

hardly mentioned at all. the part of the uk that needs investment more than anywhere. we are bottom of the league table and yet it has clams off the table once again. he has not ended austerity, he has continued austerity, universal credit cuts are continuing to be passed onto people. the chancellor has promised brighter days to come. he is also admitting things could get called fast. troubled times in politics are far from over. the chancellor has faced criticism from environmentalists for freezing fuel duty for the ninth consecutive year. i will speak to the co—leader of the green party. are you criticising him

for this freeze? i am furious. this should have been a budget that secured our future, should have been a budget that secured ourfuture, instead it jeopardises our future. we are just the meets on from that ip cc report, that landmark un climate change report that said we had 12 years to avoid climate change catastrophe. this should have been an emergency budget. instead the chancellor did not mention climate change once in his budget statement. he has played on the £30 billion more for roads. he is continuing fossil fuel subsidies across—the—boa rd. there he is continuing fossil fuel subsidies across—the—board. there is no home insulation policy. there is no home insulation policy. there is no transition to green energy that we desperately need. and no reversal of the cuts he has made to the ta riffs of the cuts he has made to the tariffs that are discouraging solar and wind power. wind is now the cheapest form of energy that we have. this is a dereliction of duty.

0n transport are you saying that he should be penalising drivers financially to arrive at some of the areas that you have other to? the department for transport says clearly since 1980 in real terms the cost of motoring has gone down 20%, the cost of rail and bus travel has gone up 62%, and 63% respectively. at this rate that we bring forward the fees out of diesel, we have to do that, and that we get people out from being trapped in their cars and give decent public transport, decent local transport, to give people the option to leave their cars at home and have the freedom to travel and also the freedom from climate change. the reason i raise this is if you are watching this conversation and you need your car to get to and from work and you are going down a road that has a pothole and that is constantly congested, you want more money spent on those

rules to make yourjourney smoother. you are not telling me that £30 billion is going to be spent on potholes. it is clear what is going on. it is about airport expansion, new roads around heathrow airport. these are new rules that will increase the supply of traffic. when you build new roads you get more ca i’s you build new roads you get more cars on them. i have a son who is disabled and i cannot use my local transport station because it does not have wheelchair accessibility. we need to get decent asp services for local communities, decent public transport, scrap hs2, puts money into towns and cities so that people have options. on the broader picture, you will have heard him talking about the age of austerity coming to an end. you do not look as if you are convinced by that but would you acknowledge at least that there is a change here? this is a

conservative chancellor doing something different from the ones that we have seen at that dispatch box in the last seven years? let us have an honest conversation about public finances. in 2017 there was just 2% difference in gdp in labour and conservative spending plans, at the chancellor had not frozen fuel duty we would have £9 billion per year already each year which would be enough to com pletely each year which would be enough to completely reverse of the welfare cuts that we have seen. the problem is not a lack of money, the problem is not a lack of money, the problem isa is not a lack of money, the problem is a lack of political will to take money from the wrong hands and put it in the right hands, the chancellor is not making the right choices. the national living wage as to rise. duty on beer, cider, spirits is being frozen. there will

be no rise in fuel duty, as previously announced. there will be help from their high street with a cut in business rates. the chancellor also a nice £420 million will be made available to highways authorities in england to help tackle potholes and other minor works. with the talk of ending austerity what does that mean in high numbers for the economy and where will the money be found? faster growth means more tax money coming in and less need to squeeze

spending. the government is getting a big fiscal windfall in this budget, reflecting the fact that tax reve nu es budget, reflecting the fact that tax revenues are looking stronger this year and they are likely to remain sore in the next five years. the choice the chancellor has made us to spend that windfall rather than to see that. since the financial crisis the government has been trying to reduce the deficit, the gap between spending and income, but because there is more tax money rolling and now than expected the official forecast is that philip hammond will only have two borel 31.8 billion in the next tax year, a lot less than previously predicted. the amount borrowed adalat to the debt, as a proportion of the economy debt has been falling from a peak of 85% of the economy to use a go, then it came down to just under 84% now, as you can see here, and now it is going to go down to 74% five years from now. philip hammond wants that

to keep falling that he also wants to keep falling that he also wants to boost spending on the nhs by 20.5 billion. 0nce billion. once you take account of spending on the health service other spending is not being cut in total, but it is not being cut in total, but it is not going up, and we have still got some cuts to social security coming through. 0n some cuts to social security coming through. on a very tight definition you might be able to see austerity is over. you might expect that the chancellor would be able to raise taxes to stay on track to cut the deficit but instead philip hammond has announced further spending measures and tax cuts including boosting the amount you can earn before you pay tax one year earlier than planned. and if you add in the extra nhs spending decided injune, then five years from now there is an additional item of spending, spending 30.5 billion more altogether as a result of the measures announced today, that is a huge spending boost, not any steer

at all. bear in mind all of those numbers are based on the government signing a deal with the european union before brexit date next march, without that all predictions for what happens to the economy next year cannot be relied upon. we can speak now to simon french, who's chief economist at the stockbroker and investment bank, panmure gordon. he's also held roles in the government in the past — including working for the coalition between 2010 and 2014. there might be political reasons as to why the chancellor is spending more now, economic reasons? there is a lot of uncertainty about how the economy will perform over the next six months. a lot of what you saw philip hammond talk about today in terms of bringing forward that personal allowance income tax cuts which will be the headline for a lot of households, that is designed to get a bit of economic mints into what our economic and uncertain

times. that is a political gamble but also an economic gamble because we simply do not know what the nature of that trade deal will look like, if there is a cheap deal with europe. even though he did not mention brexit he was thinking about it? the shadow cast heavily across this budget. borrowing will go up in nominal terms next year. it will be back up towards £35 billion before starting to come back down. that is designed to see, when we go through the withdrawal fees, the designed to see, when we go through the withdrawalfees, the uk designed to see, when we go through the withdrawal fees, the uk economy, which has been weak in terms of business investment and net export growth, wants an offsetting impact, he has hoping that householders will boost consumer spending without income tax cut. staying with growth, the forecast are not moving much. they are not. if you look at the five—year average, 1.5% growth, those have not really shifted. you

get a little bit of higher growth next year. but if you compare 1.5% growth compare to what we have been used to over the last 20 years, 2%, 2.596, used to over the last 20 years, 2%, 2.5%, that is still a local economy and that will concern the chancellor because law growth economies do not need much of an economic headwind before you are talking about nor growth or something worse. what about the line, austerity is coming to an end, how true is that? it is true if you take all of government departmental spending as an aggregate but if you are looking at this from what you the front line, the nhs experience will be different to that of local government, difference to if you are a teacher in schools. 0ne of the things that comes across strongly is that austerity is certainly not over for the nhs strongly is that austerity is certainly not overfor the nhs in the near—term. it is not overfor

services that were used to getting 396, services that were used to getting 3%, and are now getting a flat rate, it is better than recently but not back to pre—crisis norms. some of the other news — and there were emotional scenes outside leicester city's stadium earlier as the wife and family of the club's owner as well the leicester players all came to lay flowers in his memory. hundreds of floral tributes have been left at the ground following the deaths of vichai srivaddhanaprabha and four others in a helicopter crash on saturday. air accident investigators are examining data from the flight recorder. today prince william, who's president of the fa, praised the businessman for his contribution to the game. our sports editor dan roan reports. the people of leicester had paid their respects to the club's owner. today it was the turn of those closest to him. a poignant moment when vichai srivaddhanaprabha's wife and son walked among a sea of tributes to lay their own wreath. shortly afterwards, and with the crowds growing, came the players,

led by goalkeeper kasper schmeichel and followed by strikerjamie vardy. a very public display of reflection. this is the first time that leicester city players have been back here to the king power stadium since the tragic events of saturday night. a squad and a city in shock. he was not your archetypal owner. this guy seemingly was someone who gave so much to the football club and also gave so much to the city. he invested huge amounts of money into hospitals, he treated fans like he cared. vichai srivaddhanaprabha's helicopter left the stadium an hour after the game against west ham. but seconds later crashed into a car park at the south of the ground bursting into flames. the air accident investigation branch has recovered the digital flight data recorder from the aircraft and said it would begin analysis immediately. the tragedy was witnessed by one of the club's former greats. all of a sudden it seemed to drop a little bit and then obviously crashed.

and it all happened so quickly. then there was sparks coming out of the back and then some small flames. and larger flames and then itjust blew up. it is just something i think will live with us forever. it was one of the most horrendous things i think anyone could ever see. vichai srivaddhanaprabha was one of five people killed when the helicopter crashed. also on board, two staff members. the pilot, considered to be a veteran airmen and his partner, also seen here, herself an experienced pilot. there's nobody i know better equipped at what he does and eric flew that helicopter like it was a limb. his knowledge was notjust for flying but it was technical as well.

he technically knew the systems of all the aircraft he operated. a couple of seasons ago this is stadium witnessed a fairy tale when leicester city won the premier league. this afternoon the current squad spent some time with the late chairman's family, a club united in grief. seven men of pakistani heritage have been convicted of the sexual exploitation of five girls in rotherham between 1998 and 2005. one of the victims told the trial she had sex with at least 100 men by the time she was 16. this is the biggest number of convictions so far for operation stovewood — the ongoing investigation into allegations of child sexual abuse in the town. bbc look north's tom ingle has this report. stovewood is a vast operation. it follows clover, an operation run by south yorkshire police which saw a few convictions, but stovewood is in a different league. there are currently 22 separate investigations running at the same time and they are dealing with around 300 young people who may have been

the victim of abuse during 1997 to 2013. there could be as many as 1500 victims in the town, as discovered by the professor alexis jay report in 2014. this trial today convicted seven men. it is as always distressing to listen to the details. i should warn you about that. it follows a familiar pattern, young people befriended and then abused. a wretchedly familiar story, a new parade of names. iqlak yousaf, nabeel kurshid, asif ali, mohammed akhtar, salah el—hakam, tanweer ali. and a seventh man, who we are not legally allowed to identify. between them, they sexually abused five girls. they would meet them in town, offering them friendship, drink and drugs. the attention turned sexual, turned demanding, turned threatening. i don't think they gave a thought for their victims.

and i think that they have not shown any remorse since that time up to now. that is probably exemplified by the fact that they have all pleaded not guilty to their actions and they have made the victims, who have shown immense courage to come forward and to tell their story, they have made them go through the ordeal of repeating that in front of a jury. one of the women in this trial told the jury how she was raped in a forest and threatened with being abandoned there. 0thers described being passed around amongst the men, who all knew each other. the abuse in this case took place between 1998 and 2005. at their incident room in sheffield, officers from the national crime agency are working on another 22 investigations, seeking to provejustice is now being delivered in rotherham. the council leader has urged other people who want to report abuse to come forward. the whole community in rotherham, we want to see people who were let down in the past get the support they need and be able to access justice.

that is what this whole process is all about. but we will not be able to move on from that if people still feel like there are stories untold, justice undone, people who have not had their day in court. so i urge people to continue to come forward and we will support them. the jury were told these girls believed sex was the price of friendship. decades later, they still bear the emotional effects of what their abusers did to them. today's convictions were the result of a two—month trial. the jury spent around six hours on their deliberations and there was silence in court as the jury foreman stood and read aloud the verdict over ten minutes. the men who had been on bail were formally remanded today and they will be sentenced after prosecution reports on 16th november. but there are more stovewood trials to come, and they are gathering pace as rotherham seeks to move forward. search operations in indonesia have continued into the night following a passenger plane crash. indonesian authorities say

it is unlikely that any of the 189 people onboard the lion air flight survived. the plane came down over the sea, only 14 minutes after take—off from the capital jakarta. rescue teams have been recovering bodies and personal items from the water. lion air's ceo said there had been a technical problem on a previous flight but that the issue had been resolved. a man accused of carrying out saturday's mass shooting in pittsburgh in which 11 people were killed has appeared in court. 46—year—old robert bowers was shot and injured by police officers after the attack at the tree of life synagogue, he appeared in court today in a wheelchair. a 97—year—old woman and a husband and wife were among the victims of the shooting. a british academic charged with spying in the united arab emirates has been released on bail this evening. matthew hedges, who's studying for a phd from durham university, has reportedly been held in solitary confinement for nearly six months. the 31—year—old has been told to remain in the uae,

until his next court appearance at the end of next month. his passport hasn't been returned to him. his wife has told the bbc she felt happy but sceptical. angela merkel has announced that her current term in office, which ends in 2021, will be her last as germany's chancellor. the veteran leader, whose fragile coalition government has been rocked by a series of recent crises, told a news conference in berlin it was time for a new chapter. she will stand down as head of her centre—right christian democrats party in december. now it's time for a look at the weather. it is cold list over night in western parts of the british isles. there will be frost. in the east cloud is increasing with outbreaks of rain overnight. some pushing into

the far south—east at the end of the night. there are baby and hourly touch of frost and if you spots. temperatures will go up. —— there might be an early touch of frost in a few spots. north of that there are sunny spells, away from coastal towns. it is windy, particularly in east anglia and the south. it is wet in places also. the combination of all of that means it will be quite chilly. this is bbc world news america. reporting from washington, i'm laura trevelyan. as pittsburgh mourns, the man suspected of killing 11 worshippers in a synagogue makes his first court appearance. president trump will visit the city tomorrow. a brand new plane crashes in indonesia with 189 people on board. rescue teams are recovering

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