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will 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, gci’oss 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 there by
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then. it could produce persistent rainfora time then. it could produce persistent rain for a time before pulling away eastwards. elsewhere, sunny spells. showers north wales, north—west england, northern ireland. temperatures creeping up some of us. the on thursday we can find some clues as we look at the satellite picture at the moment in the mid atlantic. this is hurricane oscar. not all the computer models, which come up with the forecast, agree with what will happen with oscar, one scenario is that what is left of oscar once it starts to weaken moves northwards through the atlantic will get caught up in the jet stream and head towards the uk. there will be moist or remnants of oscar included in this area of low pressure, which is bearing down on the uk at the end of the week. earlier we saw the jet strea m of the week. earlier we saw the jet stream coming towards us. we could be seeing a spell of more active whether kicking off on friday, with re m na nts of whether kicking off on friday, with remnants of oscar coming in from the west. that means some rain and strong winds for a time. going into the weekends, oscar, no matter how
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close it gets, will start to pull away. we could see another area of low pressure coming in as well. going into next week, the low pressure looks like it will and p rytz pressure looks like it will and prytz off what the north—west of the uk in some form. winds are anticlockwise around the low pressure, that means the air coming into the uk is from the south south—west, so why aren't warmer colour showing it? were used —— exactly coming from the arctic around this area. it is very cold to begin with, but only slightly modified, made less cold because of its journey over the warmer ocean water in the south. the best we can hope for next week are temperatures close to average. still an improvement. with low pressure close by it is unsettled, wet and windy at times, not all the time. there will be drier interludes. it won't be as warm as some of us be drier interludes. it won't be as warm as some of us would like. we have a southerly wind. that is your weather. wouldn't undo the economic damage done by eight years of austerity.
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hello. this is bbc news with julian worricker. we'll be taking another look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first, the headlines: 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. and for 32 million people there will be less income tax payable, with a rise in personal allowances a year earlier than planned. in other news, the wife and son of leicester city's owner have laid a wreath at the club's stadium after he was killed alongside four others in a helicopter crash. the youth team have also been paying their respects at the king power stadium. six men have been convicted of rape and sexually exploiting vulnerable teenage girls in rotherham. a seventh man who can't be
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named for legal reasons was also convicted. rescue teams in indonesia have begun recovering bodies from the crash site where a passenger plane plunged into the seat less than 15 minutes after ta keoff. into the seat less than 15 minutes after takeoff. 189 people were on board and the authorities say it is unlikely there are any survivors. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are anne mcelvoy, senior editor at the economist, and ben chu, economics editor of the independent. welcome back. let's have a look at those front pages for you first of all. chancellor philip hammond had plenty of tricks up his sleeve in his halloween budget, so says the metro, which leads on his income tax cuts and his extra cash for universal credit. only threats, and no tricks, in this budget, says the sun.
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but the paper also reports on the search for the body of suzy lamplugh, who vanished 32 years ago, as police begin digging up the garden belonging to the prime suspect‘s mother. the telegraph hailed what it called, "a brexit bonus" in the budget, which will see 32 million people benefiting from income tax cuts. the times says it was the biggest giveaway budget since the conservatives came to power, with a series of targeted measures aimed to buy off potential tory and dup rebels. the express says the budget marks a major shift in the government's priorities, as the chancellor announced tax cuts and extra nhs cash. the i leads with the chancellor's tax cuts and cash injections for public services. but it says labour leader jeremy corbyn attacked the budget, calling it, "half measures and quick fixes". mirror says it takes money away from councils, but more should be spent on fighting crime. the daily mail
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reports on the uk revenue of global tech firms. the guardian leads on the budget. but the paper also reports that angela merkel is to step down as german chancellor in 2021, following recent election setbacks. that is a fairly content to look at the front pages it leased from the screens behind me. let's look at them here in the studio. ben, take us them here in the studio. ben, take us to the mirror, not a fan of the conservative party, and not a fan of the budget. no, conservative party, and not a fan of the budget. n0, is that it? that is their big question. i was looking at their big question. i was looking at the red book earlier today and it was striking to go down and look at where the extra spending is coming and it is a little bit here and there over two years, some departments get something, and i really understand what they are getting at. if this was supposed to be the big end to austerity, leave aside the nhs, which got a really
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large spending settlement, education, defence, social care, they had a little bit to patch things over, tide them over, but it wasn't the big end of austerity moment that they might have been led to expect from theresa may's rhetoric at the conservative party conference and i ensure philip hammond and theresa may has said we have spending review next year, that is when we will see more progress, and today they will see it as a damp squibi and today they will see it as a damp squib i am mentioned. the mirror highlighting social care and spending on crime. —— i imagine. that isn't enough for the teaching assistant per school and the chancellor seemed reticent when he said we know you are struggling and these are the little things that make a difference. everyone is going to get a new felt tip pen! this is unfortunate, the phrasing undertone. it isa unfortunate, the phrasing undertone. it is a paltry amount of money.
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school budgets are under immense strain and that is when you look into the grammars and the comprehensive system, or indeed the treasured academies. they haven't really decided what they want to prioritise in education policy and reform and as ben alludes to maybe that will happen next year in the spending review. it is a bit disappointing thing. and on crime, ditto, they left something for the future. we should not undersell they have had a massive boost for frontline health spending, 3.4%, you know, over five years. we know that there will be a lot more money at there will be a lot more money at the frontline every year, a lot more money in the hospitals and the health service. that didn't make the front of the mirror. the argument on thatisit front of the mirror. the argument on that is it will help the social care issue to a degree. yes. that is how the argument would go. it is usually the argument would go. it is usually the other way around, but plenty more social care helps the nhs because we have all of these people
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who can't leave their hospital beds, so who can't leave their hospital beds, so it's a false economy to slash it from the council budgets because it simply gets... pushed into a&e. exactly. if we are looking at headlines that are critical, questioning whether they are fair or not, take us to the huffington post verdict, describing this as a sticking... i would if i verdict, describing this as a sticking... i would ifi could verdict, describing this as a sticking... i would if i could find it. sticking plaster budget for the bleeding hearts of the public service. never holding back. this analysis is interesting as always. making the point that if this was really supposed to be the rescue of the public services, it falls short. for the reasons are mentioned, that is unfair if you look at health, the metaphor might take that away, and one other point we haven't alluded to, the mod gets £1 billion to
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modernise armed forces on cyber capabilities to stop everyone doing bad things to us in the digital sphere and on submarines, which i know from mod sources, they are very worried about. russia, china particularly, that's interesting, but that's money you'd expect to go into reforms. he's making an interesting point, that there is the itsy—bitsy feeling to some of this, that no big push on policing — i imagine labour will have more on that injeremy corbyn‘s response today. what of that headline, ben? for reasons outlined, it is reasonable and i take anne's point, health has a decent settlement, although it is not as much as the health lobby was asking for. they we re health lobby was asking for. they were asking for another £10 billion on top of that and they said this will enable us to tread water. it won't enable us to improve services
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to the standards patients are demanding. health has sucked up the entire windfall virtually that he got from the upgrades today. and it isjust got from the upgrades today. and it is just testament to the demographic pressure on the health service. really, coming through. the health secretary does however have some money which was denied elsewhere u nfortu nately, ha rd money which was denied elsewhere unfortunately, hard to do thatjob in the lean years. and the high street package, that was one of thoseissues street package, that was one of those issues highlighted in advance. it isa those issues highlighted in advance. it is a classic one because it is a giveaway. they don't emphasise that fa ct. giveaway. they don't emphasise that fact. it is temporary relief, which isa fact. it is temporary relief, which is a welcome fact for smes, because they suffer from high end business rate bills, but it's not a fix for the problem, and i think that feeds into the idea that they are just getting by, rather than having a strategy to deal with this.|j
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getting by, rather than having a strategy to deal with this. i think you were pointing out, looking at the red book, they have foreground of things going on for lots of reasons. there is plenty of room to revisit this next year. and take us to the times. hammond's giveaway gamble. yes. the analysis being that he needs to do something ahead of brexit and also the political sort of sensibility behind it that something has to happen. and that too much political turf has been eroded by those wearisome brexit battles, that the country is tired of them, and imagine what it's like to be in the government. i think something that's interesting is how many of these small measures are intended to alleviate political pressure. so intended to alleviate political pressure. 50 more cash intended to alleviate political pressure. so more cash for belfast in what the deeply claimed was part ofa in what the deeply claimed was part of a boost for northern ireland, this was through this mysterious
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deal with the dup, when she had that election result, she had to have them on board to shore up the government, but it is certainly true that at the moment not much can happen without the dup going along with it, so i'd expect when we get into the dark magic of that, that it is to the benefit of aileen foster. this takes us forward to when, if, a brexit deal is done, where philip hammond and theresa may are looking for the support and how they can persuade those who are not on board at the moment to come along despite that. yes, he has a double strategy at the moment. on the one hand he is saying, look, if you go along with what theresa may's plan, and we get a deal, it could unlock these good things, more spending, more tax cuts. but also, he is saying if you don't go along with it, his other strategy, the other spectre he is
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waiting around, that it could be a lot worse, so you might have to have spending cuts, which constituents wouldn't like, maybe tax rises to pay for things they are demanding, so pay for things they are demanding, so the double strategy to try to push pragmatic conservative mps, because, as we said, the headbangers won't be persuaded either way, they think it is project fear. as they are technically known. the pragmatic ones he hopes to peel them off with this budget and that double strategy. what he put forward today was based on a reasonable deal being done. yes, it is certainly true in the way that he has framed it, to look at it slightly less kindly, he might not be there much longer, it could be his last budget and theresa may's last time sitting alongside him watching, so it is a double deal, but you can flip it around and say, to the extent that it works out with the brexit deal, something that
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can be sold as such, or a lot of it might look like the budget from the chancellor, but it is quite a political budget, one of the more political budget, one of the more political budgets i have seen him do, and from that point of view he knows which strings he is trying to. why do you think it was obviously political, as he delivered it. when we read between the lines, he is not a showman in that sense, is he? he doesn't lay it on the line, does he, but there is the hint in the phrasing, and in a terrible jokes! laughter we will spare you them. he doesn't want to be seen... he is not a political chancellor in the way that george osborne was.|j a political chancellor in the way that george osborne was. i was struck by how the political message has changed in terms of the economics because george osborne, when he had the surplus, for eight yea rs, when he had the surplus, for eight years, and it was 2019—20, that was
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when it was going to happen, that has gone out the window, hammond had a chance to get that coveted surplus, and he for went it because he understood, he thought the politics had changed, and people weren't interested in black ink on the ledger, they wanted spending, and the papers have gone with that as well, there is no, i haven't seen criticism of him for not getting that surplus. alastair heath in the telegraph on the front page. quite heated. he said rupert harrison, chief of staff, to george osborne, writing a piece in the financial times, which i recommend, he says this is the new reality, also for conservatives, that public services are driving the politics, and you are driving the politics, and you are absolutely right, the idea of the balanced budget, let alone the surplus, it is looking jam, not even tomorrow, after to tomorrow. we
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started with critical papers, take us started with critical papers, take us to the sun, ben, which is rather happy about it all. hammonds didn't wa nt to happy about it all. hammonds didn't want to do it on wednesday because of the trick—or—treat budget headlines and he has them anyway, so headlines and he has them anyway, so he should have done it wednesday at 12:30pm and we could have had two hours to cover it, so it is positive, no tricks, just treats, he would be extremely pleased with this coverage. what you're seeing in the pro— brexit papers like the sun and telegraph is a move to say let's get a hide it now, let's seize the positive news, that's how i'd interpret this. obviously they're in favour of tax cuts at any time and they have real vim in this interpretation of what happens today. and there is a vampire on the inside. take us inside, we have a vampire inside, this is to do with attacks targeting web giants. this is mark suckberg, get it? keep up!
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and a very fierce looking mark zuckerberg and it says greedy tech giants, not too difficult to read the agenda of the sun. it is obviously, like, a lot of the newspapers, particularly going hard after these tech tightens, you sort of feel they are killing of journalism, it says it is about killing off the high street, but i think it's about killing off the media, you know, what used to be known as newspapers back in the day. it's quite a good ferocious rattle through and it does bring that to the foreground, really i don't think philip hammond was intending for those morally punitive purposes, he just wanted the money. there is an element of nick clegg here with a voice bubble, is it going to affect my salary? i don't think he said that, that's what the sun appears to suggest. how workable, ben, do you think this will be? the trouble with these taxes, on a
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national basis, when you are targeting multinational corporations, if they have been quite lieke. that is why they have a lwa ys quite lieke. that is why they have always dread it through the oecd or multilateral basis. they are taking a bit ofa multilateral basis. they are taking a bit of a risk. going alone, they hope it will nudge the rest of europe. europe has been talking about tojoin up and say we want to bea about tojoin up and say we want to be a part of this and we don't want to miss out on our share the revenues. it will ultimately be done ona revenues. it will ultimately be done on a multilateral basis. which he hinted at. it has done some is first internationally, might do that. he did that a couple of times. it is an interesting way of chancellors possibly sacrificing their own authority to state if you do i will leave you alone. he did it on single use plastic cups. it was constructive and was about to ban and we found out he wasn't, as long as something else, basically overdue
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high street copy james, as something else, basically overdue high street copyjames, you sort it out or i might come back. it was like a headmaster who gives a final warnings all the time —— coffee chains. i think it is quite hard to collect, lots of loopholes that companies can lose, the dreaded tech vampires. it is a bully pulpit, you put more and more pressure on in the hope that, i suppose netflix and others are affected, not just the bad old ones fiddling with the news algorithm that a lot of the major media countries having after. interesting with actors. we started critically, we will enter full of praise. the daily mail feelgood factor. tax breaks for middle england's is the strap over the top. we were looking at the distribution of these income tax cuts, the raising of the thresholds and the other drysalter 50,000. as is the way all these things, especially income tax cuts, they go generally
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to the middle and the top. the mail has accurately, i suppose, is owned in on that. their people in the middle will benefit more than the people at the bottom. in that sense, maybe if they were thinking about elections, maybe it was a shrewd move on philip hammond, the idea of helping people at the bottom was very important in the coalition yea rs, very important in the coalition years, it has dropped away a bit since. they have got used to being criticised for having regressive policy and now they're just going with it. it is a red line with labour. the middle england reference. what middle england is depends on what you try to sell at the time. i read it very much as a red line with jeremy corbyn on tax. you are going to say this benefits the rich, tax cuts for the rich, it was on twitter. if you go up the distribution that is what is going
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to happen. i would imagine what he's tried to say is if you are below that you will still do better with us that you will still do better with us than with jeremy corbyn, who will focus on those further down the earnings scale. thank you both very much. that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you — seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers — and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you, anne and ben. goodbye. iamjohn i am john watson with the latest from the bbc sport centre. leicester players went to see for themselves the tributes left in memory of bika's owner. the family of vichai srivaddhanaprabha pay
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tribute at the ground where he and four others were killed on saturday. his son and wife met players inside the ground. they read tributes left by fans. peter shilton was leaving the stadium on saturday night and witnessed the tragedy. we realised it was out of control. all of a sudden it started coming towards us. my sudden it started coming towards us. my wife started panicking, saying it was coming towards us. and it was like shok, fear, and all of a sudden it seemed to drop a little bit and then obviously crash. it has all happened so quickly. then there were sparks coming out of the back and small flames. and then larger flames. this all happened very quickly. and then it suddenlyjust blew up. bika's first-team squad, many of whom have written heartfelt tributes on social media, also visited the stadium —— the club. they also went inside the stadium to
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pay further tribute. the players have described vichai srivaddhanaprabha as a legend, with the biggest heart, a truly greats, kind, and loving man. gary lineker is amongst those who reflected on his legacy. he wasn't your archetypal owner or your stereotypical foreign owner that comes in and you think, yes, they have invested the money in the club, but they take a lot out. this guy, seemingly, was one of the people who gave so much to the football club, but also gave so much to the city. invested huge amounts of money into hospitals. he treated fans like he cared. whether it be a free beer in the game, whether it be a number of season tickets given away to supporters. he invested in the club massively. he turned leicesterfrom a run of the mill club to a club thatis a run of the mill club to a club that is known all around the world. winning the title, the miraculous
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title that they won, which, for me, is the most unlikely sporting achievement of any team in any sport anywhere. now, riyad mahrez's gold made the difference. patrick geary was watching. wembley was always going to pause and reflect tonight. but events in leicester may be minute of remembrance are still more poignant. football at its best can be escapism, especially when manchester city are in full flow and especially for riyad mahrez. the goal scorer until early this year had been a lesser player. tottenham and wembley looks slightly worn. the mud and markings told of the nfl game laid on the speech only yesterday. maybe that explains harry kane's touch. pep guardiola has built manchester city's success on perpetual motion, passing until there is a chance. the only problem is, they did not get
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around to wedge shot until it was too late. that is what the boss would have done —— to a shot. have enjoyed —— having enjoyed their best ever start to a season, they were waiting for a crack. here it was. derek wann. erik lamela would not get another go. this was a gritty rather than particularly pretty city. they are once more on top of the league. patrick geary, bbc news. richo pochettino has been linked with three on the —— the real madrid job. 51 loss to barcelona is a common loss to barcelona yesterday, they fit defeat in six games. they were starting 18 seasons. the former chelsea manager antonio conte is believed to be their main target. finally, kyle edmonds won't play again this season after a minor injury to his left knee. edmund has been advised to rest and has
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withdrawn from the paris masters. he has had his best season to date reaching you straight in open semifinals and a world ranking of 14. and semifinals and a world ranking of 1a. and that is all the sport for now. the weather is very chilly out there at the moment. temperatures dropping like a stone across western parts of the uk, cumbria down to —5 or six degrees in the last couple of hours or $0. degrees in the last couple of hours or so. that means that tuesday will be another chilly start. you can see where the frost is, across western areas. in yeast, not quite so called. norwich, ithink, will be around five degrees first thing in the morning on tuesday —— in the east. there is a weather system close by, that is pushing some slightly milder air out of the north sea. not frosty in the east, the frost will be in western areas of the uk. the web itself on tuesday, we will notice that the rain are flirting with east anglia during the
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day. —— the web itself. it could be reining in kent or the areas of lincolnshire. the further west the better the weather will be. there are some fabulous weather on the way on tuesday. wednesday's weather forecast, a loss of whether or front circling the british isles. one across the west, that is going to bring some cloud and spots of rain to western scotland, possibly wales as well, around the irish sea, i suspect. maybe liverpool catches some rain on wednesday. wednesday is halloween as well. some of us will be out in the evening trick—or—treating. the weather is looking pretty good be further east you are and the southerly winds mean that the temperatures will rise a bit on wednesday, 13 in london, still pretty nippy in edinburgh, around nine celsius. that is midweek. how about per se? here is the big view across the continent. there is cooler air coming out of
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the north atlantic and this very warm air that is bringing rough weather to the mediterranean, some snow in the alps, actually, and warm all the way up into scandinavia. warm air across western and central parts of europe. unusually warm. we are still in that cool air coming out of that north—west, out of the north—west from the north atlantic. i think temperatures, after briefly rising to maybe 13 in london, backed down to 11 on thursday. generally speaking, as we headed towards the end of the week and into the weekend, the weather is going to be turning more and more unsettled, towards the weekend it could turn quite stormy across some north—western parts of the uk. that is it. goodbye. i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore,
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the headlines: the grim search continues after an indonesian passenger jet crashes into the sea. all 189 people on board are feared dead. search and rescue teams say they will work through the night to recover the degree as well as search for survivors. as relatives wait for news, the bbc obtains a technical log — showing the air jet had instrument problems the day before the disaster. i'm babita sharma in london. also in the programme: sri lanka's unfolding political crisis — as the president sacks his cabinet and suspends parliament. and how football diplomacy has helped with the thaw in relations between north and south korea.

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