$115000000000.00 in cost of living support this year. term has budget announcement, finance minister jeremy holmes said inflation rates would fall from almost 11 percent to under 3 percent this year. well, those are the headlines on al jazeera. do stay with us studio, be unscripted is coming up next. thank you very much for watching it's been 20 years since the united states led invasion of iraq, which overthrew president saddam hussein a widely controversial military operation that killed hundreds of thousands of your rockies and displaced millions me a conflict whose consequences are still being held to day the rock or 20 years on, on al jazeera. ah, in those early days it was a real battle to do something other than what i was supposed to do. because i was a fiend as a faithful. what music should have. my name is skin. i'm the lead singer and so i saw a multi 1000000 selling, pretty short band skunky nancy, and i'm also at the digital age as one of the few black women in the rock industry . i passionately believe that music is a force that can break down barriers and move beyond stereotypes abo

turn holler, ports from coventry where communities are watching to see if jeremy holmes budget does enough to improve their livelihood. among the world's most advanced economies, it may be, but the u. k. faces the worst economic outlook in a generation. people like jasmine almond and her husband, chris have found that to full time salaries no longer sustain a family of 4. very, that's great. the high cost of living, especially childcare, means that jasmine was earning enough to pay the nursery fees. it worked out less expensive to give up her job as a teacher and care for daughter carina herself. is i a wife and a mother? and i have to do the right thing for our household. i am just going week to week. we survive like that and it's just life nowadays. on wednesday, britton's finance minister jeremy hunt will deliver his 1st spring budget since taking the job last autumn. child care will feature but must take its place in a long queue. public sector workers on strike, again, even as the budget he's announced in an economy left, really by kobe briggs and the war in ukraine. i think $11.00 ar

during his budget announcement, finance minister, jeremy holmes said inflation was at the root of fi. some strikes. he said, inflation rates would fall from almost 11 percent under 3 percent this year hung toll parliament. the british economy is now on the right track from to find country the u. k. will not now enter a technical recession this year. oh, the very we will meet the prime minister's priorities to home inflation, reduce debt and get the economy growing. we are following the plan and the plan is working. yeah. i'll cost monetary for joining us live from london. plenty of optimism there from the chancellor, harry. but do many others share it? well that would be the question, i think for those who are still struggling with a major cost of living crisis in this country, you had the from the chance to the finance minister here that the economy would not be going into a technical recession. that means 2 quarters of consecutive negative growth. that's obviously different from what was being forecast towards the end of last year when he took the reins. but it still represents a 0.

after jeremy tax burden since the second world war. afterjeremy holmes world war.after jeremy holmes budget announcements on wednesday with the chancellor insisting plan is insisting that his plan is necessary rebalance nation's necessary to rebalance nation's finances. so we're heading towards a decade stagnating living standards or are there reasons to celebrate at the budget? well, we're joined now by paul johnson, director of the institute for fiscal studies . institute for fiscal studies. morning there paul. now usually by today things are unravelling in the budget. people will find the things that we call the nasties lurking in the fine print . is there anything bad print. is there anything bad that spotted that you think we should be wary about or is it cause for celebration for you ? cause for celebration for you? well, it's a fairly normal kind of budget, which is a huge relief off in some of what we had last year. i mean, there are good stuff in there. if you're the parent of a young child or, you know, a child, soon you're going to be celebrating the spe

but before we go to the next part of the jeremy holmes interview, we just got a few views from our viewerse jeremy hunt interview talking about access to. now martin says, awesome to tokyo is five kilometres london to birmingham is 150 kilometres 20 minutes saving for £100 billion utter nonsense is what he says. but algie says why shouldn't the uk have a modern railway? france, japan ? all of those do. france, japan? all of those do. why don't we, in the sense of fairness , both sides of the fairness, both sides of the argument. alistair an interesting point. as if mr. horne wants raise the level of corporation tax and balance this off by creating zones that have a lower corporation tax levied this could be part of the levelling process to enrich levelling up process to enrich the country north of the watford gap. i think he's got a point. yeah. now, in this next section, we start by asking jeremy hunt. it was a long serving secretary for state after all, and who would put in place upon demick plan? it abandoned ? move plan? why was it abandoned? move on finally to about the pandemic. you

this is breakfast on goods with eamonn holmes and isabel webster here is what is leading the news this morning on this budget day , morning on this budget day, jeremyat he calls a budget for growth with an energy bills freeze and free childcare for one and two year olds included in this package of measures right. olds included in this package of measures right . and our measures right. and our reporters will be up down

this is breakfast on goods with eamonn holmes and isabel webster here is what is leading the news this morning on this budget day , morning on this budget day, jeremy hunt will unveil what he calls a budget for growth with an energy bills freeze and free childcare for one and two year olds included in this package of measures right. olds included in this package of measures right . and our measures right. and our reporters will be up down reporters will be up and down the country finding out hopefully want to see hopefully what you want to see from chancellor today . it from the chancellor today. it comes warnings of a comes amid warnings of a conservative rebellion over rising corporation tax due to come into effect next month. jeremy hunt will argue in parliament that major tax cuts could destabilise public finances . tens of thousands of finances. tens of thousands of workers will go on strike today in the biggest wave of walkouts this year. the industrial action by teachers , junior doctors, by teachers, junior doctors, university lecturer and london underground staff, amongst others, has been timed to coincide with the budget . the coincide wi