he says he felt threatened. new research says concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are accumulating "faster than at any time" in human history. the uk's childline — started almost a0 years ago by dame esther rantzen — says it's struggling with volunteers to help the young people who desperately need its support. hello. let's get more now on wednesday's budget. the prime minister will shortly make a speech in which he'll say britain must "embrace the harsh light of fiscal reality". the chancellor's statement on is expected to be one of the most significant in recent history, with tax rises and spending cuts worth tens of billions of pounds. the conservatives have accused labour of lying about not raising tax.

our chief economics correspondent dharshini david has a look at who's likely to be affected by the announcements. rachel reeves�* budget will be the first from a female chancellor, one which she claims will trigger economic renewal. but it may include measures that result in many workers paying more tax on their income. it comes down to this — she will change her rules on borrowing to invest in projects that could boost growth, but may still need tax rises of up to £30 billion to increase spending on services such as health and prevent others, for example, law and order, from a return to austerity. well, some tax policies were revealed in that manifesto, including vat on school fees and there are others expected, such as changes to capital gains tax on assets, but those kind of things don't raise very much. so the national insurance contributions employers pay may rise, raising concerns about the impact on jobs and wages. but the education secretary claimed today people

wouldn't pay more tax out of their pay slips. a working person is someone who derives their main income from going out to work. and coming out of this budget, people in that category will not see higher taxes on their pay slip. and how likely is that? well, the government has ruled out raising rates on these taxes here. but, regardless of the government's definition of working people, one which economists say you won't find in a textbook, millions may see more tax still taken out of their pay, even if tax rates don't change. here's how, normally the threshold for paying income taxes rise in line with inflation, but the previous government froze those thresholds until 2028. the chancellor may opt to extend that to 2030, sucking more tax out of pay, as incomes rise. it's called fiscal drag. well, new analysis done for the bbc suggests that extending the freeze means a worker on £30,000

could actually pay £160 more in taxes by 2031. one on £51,000 today, a higher rate payer, could pay over £400 more. well, that policy, if included, could raise a similar amount for the public purse as putting the basic rate of income tax up by a penny. well, rachel reeves has called this a budget for strivers, and herfocus on public services and investment may deliver long term gains. but, in the meantime, most of us will feel the pinch working or not. the labour backbencher mp, mike amesbury, has been suspended from the party after new video appeared to show him punching a man to the ground. cheshire police, who are investigating the incident in frodsham, said a 55—year—old man had been interviewed, voluntarily, under caution. when earlier video of the incident emerged, mr amesbury, who represents runcorn and helsby, said he'd felt threatened.

0ur political corrspondent, harry farley has more. in the top right of this footage is mike amesbury talking to a man. we can't hear what was said, but the labour mp appears to punch him and then hit him another five times while he's on the ground. on saturday, this video, apparently of the same incident, emerged on social media. yes, iam. and you won't threaten the mp ever again, will you? cheshire police have said they were called to reports of an assaultjust before 3am on saturday morning. they added, "a 55—year—old man has been voluntarily interviewed under caution by police and released pending further inquiries." mr amesbury hasn't responded to requests for comment, but on saturday he wrote on social media that the incident took place after he felt threatened. he added he had reported the incident to the police and would cooperate with them. mike amesbury. mr amesbury first became an mp in 2017.

he was a shadow housing minister in opposition, but now sits as a backbencher. he won his seat comfortably in the election, with reform uk in second. after the second video was published on sunday, laboursaid mike amesbury�*s membership of the party has been administratively suspended. that means he can't attend party meetings or internal votes while the investigation is ongoing. and he's also lost the whip, so will not sit as a labour mp while the investigation is under way. in the week of labour's first budget in 1a years, this is not what they wanted. harry farley, bbc news in westminster. police scotland says allegations of rape has risen by almost 20% in a year. the force is launching the latest phase of a campaign to try to prevent sexual offending, which encourages young men to intervene when they see a friend behaving inappropriately towards women. 0ur scotland correspondent catriona renton reports. if you had the chance to step in and stop a woman being sexually

assaulted, would you? the that guy campaign aims to encourage men aged between 18 and 35 to speak out and step in if they see inappropriate behaviour towards women. 0verall, reports to police in scotland of sexual crime were up 3.2% between april and september this year. of the nearly 7,600 reports, 1,400 were alleged rapes, a 19.5% increase, with 60% said to have taken place over the last 12 months. police say they hope the increase in reporting means victims have more confidence in coming forward. do i think that the reported crimes that we currently have in police scotland are the full picture? no, it's not. it's probably the tip of the iceberg. and if we listen, as we do, to victims and survivors, we know that it takes a long time for people to come forward to report crimes of this type. i'm really confident that i don't think things are getting worse out there, but i do think

that there is a long way to go before we get 100% of the picture of this sort of offending. rape crisis say the figures show a notable rise in reports of rape. i think these are really shocking figures. this is a very considerable increase in the level of reported rapes. i think that's extremely worrying, and it shows how urgent it is. i think that we have campaigns like this, and we have a really sustained focus in trying to prevent sexual violence and challenge a culture that at times i think can condone sexual violence. so next time you see a mate saying... - the that guy campaign is designed to address attitudes and behaviours that put women at risk of sexual violence and men at risk of offending. the message: don't be that guy who stands by and says nothing. speak up and help stop sexual violence before it starts. catriona renton, bbc news. speak up and help stop sexual violence before it starts. catriona renton, bbc news.

some breaking news that steven yaxley—lennon, known as tommy lennon has admitted contempt of court at woolwich crown court. that comes after a two—day hearing concerning allegations that he breached a 2021 high court order which barred him from repeating libellous allegation against a syrian refugee who successfully sued him. the 41 far right activist was accused of being in contempt of court, after the airing of a film at a protest in trafalgar square injuly. that news that he has admitted contempt of court. we will bring you more on that story in a short while. a new analysis from the world meteorological 0rganisation says that concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are accumulating faster than at any time

in human existence. the wmo says that carbon dioxide levels have risen by over 11% in the last two decades, surging to a new high in 2023. the finding comes as the un says that efforts by governments to tackle the causes of global warming are wildly off track. 0ur environment correspondent, matt mcgrath, has more. the wmo global greenhouse gas bulletin looks every year at concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. and those concentrations are the amounts that are left after the gas has been soaked up by the seas or by trees and those are the ones that do the damage in terms of warming over the decades and centuries to come. now they will say that every year is a record year, because we're adding more to it every year. but what they say in this analysis is that over the last 20 years those concentrations have gone up by about 11%, and that means they're at the highest level in human recorded history. and they're likely to stay for quite a long time and concentrate, those concentrations will increase warming across the planet.

and i guess the question remains then, what are the efforts that are being called on to try and reverse this? yeah, there are a whole range of things that countries are doing, but i think in the wmo would point to 2023 as being a particularly difficult year because not only did we have ongoing emissions of carbon dioxide, which countries are trying to bring down, but we also had massive vegetation fires, forest fires in countries like canada, in in greece and many other parts of the world. we had the onset of el nino. and we had this worrying idea that forests are not able to soak up as much carbon as they once did, that temperatures are somehow making those trees less able to soak up carbon, and therefore we're getting more concentrations in the atmosphere. if that holds true and is proven over the next number of years, that could accelerate warming and leading to a very destabilised planet in the decades to come. almost 38 years since it was founded by dame esther rantzen, childline is issuing a plea

for more volunteers. the helpline, which provides vital support to anyone under the age of 19, has seen an increasing demand as well as a rise in the severity of the calls it receives — asjayne mccubbin reports. it's called childline. it's a free service... for 38 years, childline has been there to listen. a telephone helpline - a telephone helpline - for children who are locked for children who are locked in their own unhappiness. in their own unhappiness. a non—judgmentalfriend a non—judgmentalfriend at the end of the phone. at the end of the phone. when the secret has never when the secret has never passed your lips before... passed your lips before... but today they're but today they're facing real challenges. facing real challenges. this is the nspcc this is the nspcc hargrove centre, and upstairs is all childline. hargrove centre, and upstairs is all childline. hi. hi. so here is where we have so here is where we have volunteer briefings... volunteer briefings... and now they're responding and now they're responding to those challenges with one to those challenges with one of the biggest recruitment drives of the biggest recruitment drives since the helpline�*s launch. since the helpline�*s launch. who is it that they can because there's a big chunk because there's a big chunk of kids you can't help of kids you can't help right now, isn't there? right now, isn't there? not at the moment, not at the moment, but we really want to. but we really want to. and the need for and the need for volunteers is vital volunteers is vital for that to continue. for that to continue. currently, we're reaching currently, we're reaching two thirds of the young two thirds of the young people that come through, people that come through, which, you know, is all which, you know, is all we can do at this time. we can do at this time. you do wonder, like, you do wonder, like,

if they haven't if they haven't got us to reach out to, got us to reach out to, who is it that they can reach out to? now they're filling 50 new paid positions within the helpline and seeking very many more volunteers.

there's some kids that call you seven or eight times a day. yeah. so it might be before school, it might be during lunchtime, it might be after school, and then later on at night as well, because the need that they feel is so overwhelming. children will confide - in a telephone helpline. and the problems facing children today are unlike anything that could have been imagined almost four decades ago. we're under the impression that somebody�*s about to be sentenced tomorrow linked to some ai... today, volunteers are being briefed about a trial. a man is being jailed for creating deepfake explicit images of children and threatening to share them online. just to pre—warn you, we might get some influx of contacts. thejob can be hard. because he was... he was desperate. but volunteers know what they do can change a child's life. you were that voice that he needed that particular day. yeah. could you have imagined what you were going to sit across? no idea.

because, you know, i've got a happy family life, - and all our friends have happy family lives. - and the children that contact us are going i through experiences in their lives- which i wouldn't have found... i wouldn't have thought - was imaginable, quite honestly. um, and, you know, it's quite incredible, really,| to me how little support some children get. - what do you get out of this, ray? i've got friendsl who play bridge and golf, and i, to be honest, rather comel in here and do a shift for four hours or so. i it's a very worthwhile thing to do. - hiya, holly. hi. and to see the impact of this work, we meet holly. she's just graduated, but ten years ago she called childline after trying to take her own life. if they hadn't have been there, you just don't think you'd be here today? no. i was in such a state when i called them.

i remembered their posters on the school walls. they calmed me down, and i don't think i would have made it through that night if it weren't for them. do you remember the name of the person that picked up the call to you? they never told me, so i often wonder, and i think about the last ten years of my life and all the lovely things that i've done, and i have no idea who it was out there who's kind of made all of that possible. and it's a really bizarre thought to think that i could walk past someone on the street and i'd never know it was them. for the 188,000 children who called in the last 12 months, this is an essential service, but one which needs many more secret heroes to keep going. good luck, holly. thank you. it's been really lovely. jayne mccubbin, bbc news. take care. security video has captured the terrifying moment an electric vehicle burst into flames outside a family home in northamptonshire. the bayliss family and their five dogs had settled in for the evening when their car, which was parked on their driveway, exploded and caused a fire which then engulfed part of their home.

mousumi bakshi has this report. how does a car parked on a driveway left uncharged, go from this to this? so my son, probably about a 9:15 on the evening, heard a loud bang. thought it was fireworks. looked out of his window and could see that the car was ablaze here. and when i say ablaze, it really was an inferno. the heat, uh, the fire. um, it literally engulfed the car in seconds. the intensity of the fire warped windows, melted doors, incinerated every single surface close to the front door when you look back at the cctv. when you look back at the cctv, i mean, does it feel real? no. it's incredible, really, to see that vapour escaping from the car and then to see it ignite into such an explosive scene within seconds, that the pace and ferocity at which the fire took hold and engulfed the entire

car, and pretty much then the entire front of our house was just scary beyond belief. my wife had been out in the car in the morning. there was no signs that there was any problem. no alert on the dashboard, no lights or indicators to suggest that there was a problem. no contact from mercedes to suggest there was a problem that could have happened out and about in a public car park around other families. it doesn't bear thinking about the the danger and the catastrophe. and the catastrophe. and the catastrophe of what and the catastrophe of what could have happened. could have happened. so why did so why did the bailey's electric the bailey's electric car burst into flames? car burst into flames? of the vehicle. well, the family well, the family is still waiting is still waiting to hear it was just to hear it was just two years old. two years old. but the severity of an ev fire but the severity of an ev fire meant only specialists meant only specialists could recover the car. could recover the car. the constant worry being the constant worry being that it could reignite. that it could reignite. we contacted mercedes benz we contacted mercedes benz uk and in a statement, uk and in a statement, they told us they were sorry they told us they were sorry to learn of the incident, to learn of the incident,

that they were taking it very that they were taking it very seriously, having set seriously, having set up an examination up an examination of the vehicle. a joint inspection would now follow. but in the meantime, we have offered mr bayliss a loan car as a gesture of goodwill. we wanted to speak to your wife, georgie, before, but she is clearly still very traumatised. absolutely. i think probably how that's played

lucy bakshi, bbc news. england's amputee lionesses are hoping to make history at the first ever women's amputee world cup in colombia next week, after raising enough money to cover the cost of taking part. they almost didn't make it to the tournament as just a month ago they were £50,000 short. that all changed when they appeared on bbc breakfast. john watson has been looking at their story so far. # all my girls, - all my girls with me. yeah. with me. all my girls with me. they're ready to rule the amputee. to roar — the amputee lionesses preparing for the first women's amputee world cup. they were, though, days away from not making the tournament at all. as a charity, they're reliant on public donations and faced a race against time to raise the £50,000

needed to get them there. with former england and chelsea captainjohn terry offering his support, having seen their story. they've been on a journey for the last year, trying to raise funds for being able to go to the world cup in colombia. a journey that goes all the way back to last year's eurovision. # a mountain found in the valley below. | musician sam ryder wrote his song mountain about the amputee community and when theyjoined him on stage in liverpool to perform it, it was here one of the team encouraged others to give amputee football a go, taking them from this stage to the international stage. where they pushed poland close in a recent match. they leave for colombia this weekend, having hit their target. theirs is a story of resilience, perseverance and togetherness, now ready to write the next chapter in their story.

you may remember a couple of years ago we told you about mr doodle ? a hugely successful british artist who had decided to doodle over his entire house. now a new film about the life of mr doodle ? or sam cox to give him his real name — has been made. in it sam talks about the enormous difficulties he s experienced alongside his huge success. tim muffett 5 been back to the house for another visit. this is more than a home. hey, how are you doing? please come in. hello, mr doodle. it's the fulfilment of a lifelong goal. i just... i had this dream to do it for so long, and ijust really wanted to live in a world filled with my doodles. and all these characters are kind of referencing noah's ark. so it's two of every animal. people kind of think it's unbearable to sort of live in, but actually it's really comfortable. and yeah, we really enjoy it. hello there, mr doodle here.

it all started when sam cox, mr doodle�*s real name, began doodling on his parents' furniture. i've loved drawing since i was a little kid, and i loved video games, cartoons. they inspired me so much to draw these kind of characters. and so these are loads of old sketches and doodles. it's just fun to draw wherever i go. it's a very accessible art form. accessible, popular and lucrative. today i'm going to doodle a wormy type thing. mr doodle�*s videos get millions of views — his artworks often sell across the world for hundreds of thousands of pounds. this is my suitcase — briefcase. it was filled with a4 paper doodles and i was trading them for a pound. worth a bit more than that now. yeah, i guess so. but there have been bumps along the way — big bumps — as revealed in a new film about sam's life. i think that sam found

himself caught up in a nightmare, somewhere in some land that he no longer had control over. he just looked at us - and said, "sam cox is dead, and i'm mr doodle, now." ijust wanted him to go away. i had a psychotic episode — the difficulties i had with mr doodle kind of taking over. ijust kind of lost sense of reality. i didn't know where i was or who i was. as a mother, the worst fear you have is losing a child. losing him mentally wasjust as scary. was that caused by — or partly connected to — your doodling? people might feel drawing is the problem, but really for me it was the solution. it wasn't. .. it wasn't drawing that kind of made me lose my mind, it was more not being able to separate work from any other part of my life. it could happen to anyone in any field of work, really.

i feel like i was born to draw, but i am a human being. in that moment, i realised that i need mr doodle as part of my life. people just see kind of the positive parts of what i do, because that's what i tend to share on social media. but this film goes into all the intricacies and the dark parts of what's kind of happened in my life. there is this point in the film when bbc breakfast is in the film, when we were here a couple of years ago. it's quite busy, that's all. sunglasses? yeah. reporter: busy is one way to describe this — it is a living room unlike any other now. it is the work of this man here, sam — otherwise known as mr doodle. cheering. when you guys were here last time, that was kind of like the peak of everything i'd been building towards. my family were watching bbc breakfast, and i'd kind of fully felt

like i'd beaten what had happened to me triumph over a difficult period. # you will find out.# so this is the stair gate for our son. even the baby gate has got to be doodled when it's in the doodle house. he's been doing drawings on this bin. you can't really tell him to stop drawing on things, can you? no, it's hard for him to understand that, really. especially when he goes to other people's houses and he thinks he can draw on all their walls and stuff. is there another big thing you would love to doodle? maybe one day if i can build some sort of small town, that would be an amazing thing to happen. a doodle town. yeah. you're dreaming big. and for mr doodle, big dreams can come true. tim muffett, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather

hello again, it has been a gray and murky start to the day for many of us. and this week will continue with the cloudy conditions. mostly dry, some patchy rain and drizzle in the forecast, some sunshine and overnight mist and fog. you will notice it is mild for the time of year, both by day and night. you can see that reflected on the chart to go through the week. the yellow and oranges prevail until the end of the week, when we see some blue moved in across the north of scotland. today we continue with a lot of cloud, some patchy light rain and drizzle. some brighter breaks developing in northeast england, southeast scotland, to the east of wales and possibly the far southeast. the yellow and oranges prevail until the end of the week, when we see

some blue moved in across the north of scotland. today we continue with a lot of cloud, some patchy light rain and drizzle. some brighter breaks developing in northeast england, southeast scotland, to the east of wales and possibly the far southeast. it will be breezy across england and wales, later wins across scotland and northern ireland. temperatures 10—17 . to this evening and overnight, very cloudy conditions. we will have mist and fog over the hills, but where we will see that cloud break, northeast scotland, temperatures could fall away to about five or 6 degrees. widely we are looking at seven to about 13 degrees. as we head into tuesday, there is a ridge of high pressure across us, look at the spacing in the isobars. there is hardly going to be a breath of wind. later breezes in england and wales today, but we start with cloud and also the mist and fog and patchy light rain. tomorrow we should see more sunny intervals develop and we are looking at today, with highs of 12-17 . moving from wednesday and into thursday, we have got this big area of high pressure across us. this is a weak weather front bumping into it and another one waiting in the winds. on wednesday, for england, wales, we are looking at mist fog and low cloud. it will lift and we will see tiny spells developed.

northern ireland and scotland cloudy with light rain or drizzle, brightening up towards the west. the weather front waiting in the wings. temperatures 11 to 16 celsius. into thursday, we start off on a murky note but we will see more sunshine develop as we go through the course of the day. 0ur weather front moving across the north and west of scotland will introduce some rain and preserve conditions. temperatures 12—16 degrees.

live from london, this is bbc news. prime minister keir starmer is expected to warn of �*harsh fiscal realities', but promise �*better days ahead' in a speech setting the tone for wednesday's budget. donald trump's campaign distances himself from comments made by a comedian at his rally in new york — which kamala harris condemned

as racist and divisive. the labour mp, mike amesbury has been suspended from the party, after new footage emerged showing him punching a man to the ground. welcome. in the next ten minutes, the prime minister sir keir starmer is due to prepare the ground for wednesday's budget in a speech in which he's expected to warn of "unprecedented" economic challenges but will say the government will "run towards them". the government is expected to announce a series of tax hikes including national insurance paid by employers and spending cuts worth tens of billions of pounds. sir keir starmer will also promise "better days" ahead. the chancellor's statement is expected to be one of the most significant in recent history. the conservatives have already accused the government of "broken promises". let's speak to our political

correspondent helen catt.