this is bbc news. i'm julian worricker. the headlines at 11pm: the chancellor uses his last budget before brexit to say the era of austerity is coming to an end. philip hammond calls it a budget for britain's future as he announces more money for universal credit, social care, the nhs and schools. ican i can report to the british people that their hard work is paying off and the era of austerity is finally coming to an end. the reality is that whatever the chancellor claims today, austerity is not over. and for 32 million people, there will be less income tax payable, with a rise in personal allowances a year earlier than planned. we'll have details and analysis, and we'll be asking if this really does herald the end of austerity. the other main stories on bbc news: united in grief — the family of the leicester city chairman pay their respects as players join the tributes following

saturday's helicopter crash. seven men are convicted of sexually exploiting vulnerable teenage girls in rotherham. and at 11:30pm, we'll be taking another in—depth look at the papers with our reviewers anne mcelvoy and ben chu. good evening and welcome to bbc news. in the final scheduled budget before the uk leaves the european union, the chancellor has declared that the austerity of the past decade is coming to an end. philip hammond insisted the economy had turned a corner, and using independent forecasts he said it would grow by 1.6% next year, an upgrade from march. he announced extra funding for mental health services,

social care, and defence, and help for people to switch to the new welfare benefit, universal credit. and he revealed that a rise in tax—free personal allowances would happen in april 2019 — in effect, a tax cut, a year earlier than planned. labour dismissed it as a budget of broken promises. here's our political editor laura kuenssberg. for years, tory residents here have opened the number 11 the door to brandish a red box full of plans to shrink some spending. reporter: is a no-deal brexit haunting this budget? philip hammond wants you to believe there is an end to all that, an end to so—called austerity. is this your budget or the prime minister's? after the prime minister made that promisejust weeks ago, he couldn't give parliament,

and you, empty words. the british people put theirfaith in us to do the job and today we repay that trust with a budget that paves the way for a brighterfuture. i can report to the british people that their hard work is paying off and the era austerity is finally coming to an end. with barely a mention of his biggest assumption of all, how smoothly we can leave the eu. we are at a pivotal moment in our eu negotiations and the stakes could not be higher. we are confident that we will secure a deal, confident but not complacent, mr deputy speaker. and so he's decided to spend, not save. top of the list — cash for health. we made the big choice for this budget four months before it was deliberate, and it was the right decision. our nhs is the number one priority of the british people.

first announced in the summer, it means as much at an extra £20.5 billion for health in england every year by 2023, that will include £2 billion for mental health and there will an extra £650 million for councils to help pay for social care next year. after a chorus from those behind him, the chancellor is not ditching the controversial universal credit welfare changes but... the switch to universal credit is a long overdue and necessary reform. this is notjust a welfare measure, it is a major structural reform to our economy that will help to drive growth and employment in the years ahead. but i recognise the genuine concerns among many honourable and right honourable friends. so, an extra £1.7 billion will go to make universal credit more generous, with £1 billion to soften the change for people switching on to the new system.

there's an extra £1 billion for defence spending, too. £400 million for schools in england, less than the £420 million the government found for potholes. in the wider world, ministers want you to think the government is ready to change tack, to start spending again after years of scrimping, to take on tech companies with a possible digital tax and to let millions of earners keep more of their own money sooner by raising income tax thresholds. so i will raise both the personal allowance and the higher rate threshold from april 2019. delivering our manifesto commitments one year early. a tax cut for 32 million people. £130 in the pocket of a typical basic rate taxpayer. remember, that gives more, a lot more, to higher earners rather

than the low paid, but this is a chancellor who wants you to think he, and we, can have it all. 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. just as there was a squeeze on the front bench, for labour it's laughable to claim constraints on spending are gone. this, mr deputy speaker, is a broken promise budget. what we have heard today are half measures and quick fixes while austerity grinds on. and far from people's hard work and sacrifice as having paid off, as the chancellor claims, this government has frittered it away in ideological tax cuts to the richest in our society.

there were goodies for northern ireland. remember, the chancellor and prime minister depend on support from the unionist dup. the money for mental health provision, the money for our veterans, extra money for universal credit, those are very, very positive. all of the big decisions about how we pay for an improved public services and the so—called end of austerity, it has been put off until next year. he has not ended austerity, has he, he has continued austerity, and we have a situation where the universal credit cut there have are continuing to be passed onto people. this is a slow return to spending, not a splurge, a shift and not a sharp turn. a budget that promises an economy, a country, that will soon feel different but that cannot keep that promise on its own. laura kuenssberg, bbc news, westminster. so, the broad context of the budget, according to the chancellor, was an ending of austerity policies,

but does the detail of the budget bear that out? and where does mr hammond find money for some of the extra spending he announced today? 0ur economics editor kamal ahmed takes a closer look. today philip hammond certainly try to change the economic story of this government. away from cuts and controlling the nation's debts and towards spending and tax cuts. the ending of austerity, he said. next year ending of austerity, he said. next yeaer hammond said ending of austerity, he said. next year mr hammond said the government would spend 2.3 billion pounds on public services and that figure would rise to 30.6 billion pounds by 2024, the biggest change in public spending for at least a decade. well, the prime minister said the chancellor are very difficult challenge with her declaration that it was the end of austerity and i think today he over delivered on expectations. the reason he was able to do that was because he got a big improvement in the public finance

forecast from independent forecasters with the result that i think the budget is the biggest giveaway budget for a generation. think the budget is the biggest giveaway budget for a generationm who are the winners? spending on the nhs rises to 27.6 billion pounds by 2024. there will be more support for people earning while claiming the new universal credit benefit. that will cost 1.7 billion pounds and there will be an increasing the amount of money we can earn before we are taxed. that will cost 9.6 billion pounds over five years. there is also more money for social care, roads education. what —— does that really mean austerity is over? 0ne that really mean austerity is over? one must welcome an increase to and education budget but he doesn't go far enough, it is 50,000 extra for each secondary school. he was quite honest. he said this is for the little extras that schools might need. is it pencils and short boards, or will it produced the

21st—ce ntu ry boards, or will it produced the 21st—century education children deserve? how can mr hammond are forwarded? first of all borrowing is lower than expected by around 11.9 billion pounds this year. that gives mr hatton and some spending room. second, economic growth is to longer than expected for the next two yea rs, than expected for the next two years, rising next yearfrom than expected for the next two years, rising next year from 1.3% to 1.6%, that's better for years, rising next year from 1.3% to 1.6%, that's betterfor the amount of tax the government collect. interestingly the chancellor has said he's not going to say that money, he's to spend it. he is going to have a bit of trouble if the forecasts look worse and, don't forget, you know, what the 0br, what the forecast give, they can very easily take away. so he's not left himself with a lot of scope to respond if things go worse down the road. there will be some tax rises. seh road. there will be some tax rises. self employment rules will be tightened, raising over 3.1 billion pounds over the next five years. and

the possibility of a new tax on technology giants like facebook, which could raise 1.5 billion pounds. this was a budget promising a lot of spending in the future, but austerity is not over today. benefit cuts and cuts to government departments are still to come. and if there is no brexit deal, or the economy takes a different turn for the worse, mr hammond's big spending plans will be put under severe pressure. kemal ahmed. as we said, the budget is meant to be the last one before britain leaves the eu, and it included a series of other measures. the national living wage is to rise from £7.83 to £8.21. duty on beer, cider and spirits has been frozen. and as previously announced, there'll be no rise in fuel duty. there'll be help for the high street, with a cut in business rates. and the amount smaller firms pay towards apprenticeship training is to be reduced. 0ur consumer affairs correspondent colletta smith has been to a car mechanics workshop in chorley,

lancashire, to find out what today's budget means for workers and businesses. today, i present to the house, a budget for britain's future. as the chancellor got started, work was well under way here in lancashire. fred is in charge of the nine staff here but he is not worried that the extra 400 million from philip hammond, spending on fixing the potholes, would put him out of business. no, i don't think so. i think we'll still be here. we're very busy at the moment so i don't think there is a problem with that but it is about time the potholes were fixed really, isn't it? some pretty big potholes around. there are some big ones. you could fall in them and never get out of them, couldn't you? the chancellor confirmed he was relaxing rules to allow councils to build more houses. fred's son sean says a new housing development outside town has really helped the business.

our customer base is so much bigger. it grows every year. new people turn up all the time. we retain our existing customers. it's only going to increase, i think. in the back office is twin sisterjessica. for her the announcement to help small firms afford apprenticeships won't solve their bigger problem. there are not enough people at the minute who are willing to train to do the job. finding good staff is quite difficult at the minute. the freeze in beer and fuel duty got the biggest cheer. there is going to be a lot of happy people. that is excellent, isn't it? but with pay here a little below the national average, local financial adviser sylvia says there is more good news for cash in people's pockets. some people are on more than minimum wage already, or living wage, as they call it, but they will benefit from the tax threshold going up and that will be the main difference for them. phillip hammond: and the era of austerity is finally coming to an end. do you believe him?

no, not at all. national minimum wage — it isn't enough to cover odds and ends. bills are going up. after years of budget squeezes, it is going to be a little while before people feel the pressure ease. coletta smith, bbc news in chorley. the headlines on bbc news: the chancellor has unveiled his final budget before brexit next march, with a promise that the era of austerity is coming to an end. philip hammond said there would be a rise in tax—free personal allowances from next april — and more money for defence, health, and the flagship welfare reform — universal credit. in response, the labour leader jeremy corbyn said the budget wouldn't undo the economic damage done by eight years of austerity. leicester city's players have been to see the many floral tributes outside the ground, following the death of the club's thai owner vichai srivaddhanaprabha, and four others, in a helicopter

crash on saturday. air accident investigators are examining the flight recorder of the helicopter, which crashed next to the stadium. today, prince william, who's president of the fa, praised the businessman for his contribution to the game as our sports editor dan roan reports. the people of leicester had paid their respects to their clubs owner. today it was the turn of those closest to him. a poignant moment when vichai srivaddhanaprabha's wife and son walked among the 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. he was not your archetypal owner. this guy seemingly was one of those people who gave so much to the football club. he also gave so much to the city. invested huge amounts of money into hospitals. he treated fans like he cared. srivaddhanaprabha's helicopter left the stadium an hour

after leicester's game against west ham. but, seconds later, it crashed into a car park at the south of the ground, bursting into flames. the air accident investigations 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 crash. it all happened so quickly. then there was sort of sparks coming out of the back and then some small flames and then larger flames and then it suddenlyjust blew up. it's just something i think will live with us for ever really. it was one of the most horrendous things i think anybody could ever see. srivaddhanaprabha was one of five people killed when the helicopter crashed. also on board, two staff members — nursara suknamai and kaveporn punpare. the pilot, eric swaffer, considered to be a veteran airman, and his partner, also seen here,

izabela lechowicz, herself an experienced pilot. there is nobody i know that's better skilled at what he does than eric. eric flew that helicopter like it was a limb. he really knew helicopters and aeroplanes and his knowledge did not go just in flying, his knowledge was very technical as well. he was very technical. he knew the systems of all the aircraft he was operating in as well. two seasons ago, the stadium witnessed one of sport's greatest fairy tales when leicester city won the premier league. this afternoon, the current squad spent solemn time with the late chairman's family — a club united in grief. dan roan, bbc news, leicester. 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 in to allegations of child

sexual abuse in the town. bbc look north's tom ingle has the story. 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. 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. 0ur correspondentjenny hill has the latest from the german capital. this is angela merkel, to the westie symbol of stability and continuity, acknowledging, finally, that era is drawing to a close. now mrs merkel, of course, leave this country, she

also lead to hurt cdu party, but she has been losing her grip on power. party is suffering in the polls, the coalition government is often the urge —— verge of falling apart. to silence the critics, mrs merkel has said she is ready to give up her cdu leadership. much, of course, now depends on who replaces as party leader, if it is an ally, mrs merkel may turn things around, she may see out her term as cancer until 2021, if it is a rival, and the vultures really are circling, she may find things rather more tricky —— as chancellor. as well as party leader, they will also potentially be chancellor in waiting. you know, for a long time, predicting the hour of angela merkel‘s political demise has almost become a national sport. today, finally, mrs merkel herself fired the starting gun on the race to replace her. jenny hill in

berlin. 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". the man accused of shooting dead 11 people at a synagogue in pittsburgh has appeared in a us federal court to hear the 29 charges against him. robert bowers, who was shot before surrendering to police, was brought into court handcuffed and in a wheelchair after being discharged from hospital. rescue teams in indonesia have begun recovering bodies from the crash site where a new passenger plane plunged into the sea less than 15 minutes after take—off. 189 people were on board — and the authorities say it's unlikely there are any survivors. the lion air boeing 737 was travelling from the capital jakarta to bangka island. the airline says the plane, which came into service in august, did have a technical problem on an earlier flight,

but it had been cleared to fly again. 0ur correspondent rebecca henschke reports from jakarta. there were over 180 people on board when the plane crashed into the sea just 13 minutes after take—off. theirfamilies now desperately waiting. "are there any survivors," this woman asks. "we can't tell you that," replies the airline official. out at sea a debris field marks the site of the crash. and, along with the wreckage of the plane, search and rescue teams are recovering bodies. they are being taken to a police hospital. the families have been asked to try and identify them. the plane crashed in daylight

and in good weather. real—time tracking showed that it was struggling to retain height. and that the crew had asked to return to the airport. the director of the budget airline admitting that there had been a problem on the previous flight. the airline, one of indonesia's youngest and biggest, has a chequered safety record. a ten—year ban on its planes entering the european union due to safety concerns was only lifted in 2016. search and rescue teams say they will work through the night to recover the debris as well as search for survivors. but hopes of finding anyone still alive are fading. rebecca henschke, bbc news, jakarta. president trump has warmly congratulated brazil's new president

— after a sweeping victory over the left—wing workers' party. jair bolsonaro's supporters, many from the hard—right, have taken to the streets in celebration after his hugely popular promises to crack down on violent crime and corruption. but he's accused of admiring brazil's former military regime, saying he favoured dictatorship to democracy, and been criticised for inflammatory comments about race, women and homosexuals. mr bolsonaro won 55% of the vote — compared to 45% for his left—wing rival. among his ideas, he wants free—market reforms of the economy, looser gun laws for what he calls ‘honest citizens', and to open up the amazon rainforest for development. 0ur correspondent katy watson reports from brazil on the man known as the ‘trump of the tropics'. the party began even before the results were out. so sure they were of victory. bolsonaro! and a moment of triumph,

yet more celebration in campaign hq. bolsonaro's middle name is messiah, fitting for a man who painted himself as the only person who could save brazil. he's nicknamed the trump of the tropics. the us president is a man bolsonaro admires and one of the first people he spoke to after his win. bolsonaro draws both admiration and anger. this was a tense campaign that got worse when he was stabbed in a rally last month. jair bolsonaro promised he would clean up politics and get tough on crime. this pose became a symbol of his campaign for his gun toting supporters. a former army man, many of his fans are linked to the military and he has made no secret of his admiration for the country's former dictatorship. his friends say they'd

back it again. if it is necessary, we're going to get in arms to defend our country. we don't want the communism here. never. the hatred towards the left—wing workers' party and its poster boy, lula da silva, who is in prison for corruption, propelled him to the very top. but the opposition says it will keep fighting for democracy. translation: i was tortured for 20 days. they electrocuted me on my tongue and my penis. bolsonaro has said he is in favour of torture. i never imagined that, at the age of 75, i would have to return to this. mr bolsonaro campaigned to make brazil great again, to kick—start its struggling economy, and he sees the amazon as brazil's cash cow.

but environmental groups worry he will destroy the rainforest in the process and disregard the rights of indigenous brazilians too. when he takes office injanuary, jair bolsonaro will have a long list ofjobs to get on with, but his biggest challenge by far will be bringing his bruised, divided country back together again. katie watson, bbc news, in rio de janeiro. now it's time for the weather. hello. if you don't like the cold, and you have looked online and at the weather at and have seen the wind changing around to a southerly and think it must be turning warmer, all is not as it seems, as we will find out in a moment. right now we are in the cold air. monday morning, widespread frost, tempted as low as minus six. the uk is on the cold side of thejet minus six. the uk is on the cold side of the jet stream, which has dipped well to the south. as we go towards the end of this week the jet strea m ta kes towards the end of this week the jet stream takes a more direct track towards us. temperatures will recover a bit, but things will turn wetter and windier. let us look first of all at tuesday's weather

and the cold air in place giving a frost in the west to begin with, across the eastern side of the uk, not as cold as recent mornings, more cloud around towards the coast. we could see outbreaks of rain. temperatures still stuck in single figures for most of us, quite a brisk breeze for the rain. that area of low pressure bringing any rain will move away. we start to look at this weather front on wednesday, coming in from the atlantic. it is western areas on wednesday that will see the thicker cloud and begin to see the thicker cloud and begin to see some outbreaks of rain moving in. could be avoiding much of the east and south—east of england. so sunny spells towards the end of the day. the front starting to move in from the south that could turn things cloudier and whether going into wednesday. a pretty messy picture as we go from wesser into thursday. we have a weather front close to eastern and south—east england, that is still