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And coming up in Sportsday On Bbc News a five match ban. Bournemouth defender tyrone mings is given his punishment for stamping on zlatan ibrahimovic. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. The chancellor has delivered his last Spring Budget and announced a few surprises, if no eye catching giveaways. The Overall Economic picture is little changed, giving him limited room to manoeuvre. But Philip Hammond told a packed House Of Commons he had managed to find an extra £2 billion for social care in england to be spent over the next three years. A more controversial pledge was his decision to increase National Insurance contributions for almost 2. 5 Million People despite a conservative manifesto promise that National Insurance wouldnt go up. Mr hammond also tackled criticism of the governments plans to increase Business Rates in england and wales by promising an Emergency Relief Fund for those businesses hit hardest and by capping the increase for most pubs. The labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn described it as a budget of utter complacency. Our deputy Political Editor john pienaar has our first report tonight. Chancellors always hang around in the street on budget day. But brexit, a bit like the weather, turned out nice so far than the forecasters expected. The any spare cash in there . He had more spending power thanks to higher growth and lower borrowing. But brexit will not bea lower borrowing. But brexit will not be a smooth or quickjourney, not that he is too worried about his labour opponents. At westminster, as the time came to the budget, his boss, rightly or wrongly, seemed to see labours labour as a bit of a joke. And more thanjust see labours labour as a bit of a joke. And more than just a see labours labour as a bit of a joke. And more thanjust a bit. And the chancellor allowed himself to keep the tone upbeat. The chancellor allowed himself to keep the Tone Upbeatlj the chancellor allowed himself to keep the tone upbeat. I report today on an economy that has continued to confound the commentators with robust growth. A Labour Market delivering record employment and a deficit down by over two thirds. As we start our negotiations to exit the european union, this budget ta kes forward the european union, this budget takes forward our plan to prepare britain for a brighter future. They call him spreadsheet phil, businesslike, proud to be boring. So, no spending sprees. We on this side will not saddle our children with ever increasing debt. Side will not saddle our children with everincreasing debt. But we would have higher bills to pay and, for millions, that meant higher taxes, on company owners, who pay themselves in share dividends, and a hike in National Insurance for the Self Employed, though the Tory Ma Nifesto Self Employed, though the tory manifesto did promise to keep National Insurance down. Employed and Self Employed alike use our Public Services in the same way. But they are not paying for them in the same way. National insurance, there isa same way. National insurance, there is a tax hike for the Self Employed. Their National Insurance contributions will go up to ii in 2019. The contributions will go up to 11 in 2019. The chancellor says this will help raise £145 million. Other changes raise much more. But some tories are unhappy. Painful social ca re tories are unhappy. Painful social care is now an urgent problem and the chancellor had promised mps he would find cash to buy more time. Paying for social care. The system is clearly under pressure and this, in turn, puts pressure on our nhs. For social care, an extra £2 billion over three years, with £1 billion available in the next year. He said the long term Funding Options would be announced, but what he called labours death tax on estates was ruled out. Companies, including pubs, are being hit with higher Business Rates. That has worried mps and forced the chancellor to pour out a little comfort. Small businesses are taken out of paying rates altogether. The revaluation has undoubtedly raised some hard cases, especially for those businesses coming out of Small Businesses coming out of small Business Rates relief. To ease the burden of Business Rates, local councils will be given £300 million to help the worst hit. No Small Business losing rate relief will see their bill increased by more than £50 a month. There would be a £1000 discount on rates for but, with a ratea ble discount on rates for but, with a rateable value of less than £100,000, 90 of them. There were grounds for new schools, grants for Technical Education and spending on technology and science. Cue another joke at the expense ofjeremy corbyn. Now so far down a black hole that even Stephen Hawking has disowned him. He didnt see the joke at all. But the chancellor was into his stride and feeling upbeat. We embark on this next chapter of our history, confident in our strengths and clear in our determination to build a stronger, fairer, better britain. I commend this budget to the house. Jeremy corbyn had his counterattack ready. This was a budget of utter complacency about the state of our economy. But complacency about the crisis facing out complacency about the crisis facing our Public Services. Complacency about the reality of daily life for millions of people in this country. The government was failing in its own ambitions. When she took office, the Prime Minister said, if you are one of those families, if you are just managing, i want to address you directly. This budget does not address them. It fails them this budget has done nothing to tackle low pay, nothing to solve the State Of Emergency that persists with so many people, demanding and needing health and social care now. Extra money for wales and scotland, meant to cement the case for the union, was never likely to head off nationalist condemnation. It wasnt awful budget, the brexit budget that dare not speak its name, it barely mentioned brexit, the biggest risk to the uk and scottish economy. He is wedded to the welfare cuts, and appalling budget. Taxes are at their highest rates, wages are declining, when you mask the creative accounting, that is the reality of economic policy. A strong backlash for a relatively small scale budget. But fierce controversy as normal now, on britains long march to . Brexit. For the economy theres little change. It will grow faster than expected for 2017 but then fall back to grow more slowly. Government borrowing will be lower in the short term but over the coming five years well still borrow over £100 billion more than forecast at the last budget. All that with a Huge National debt which is still climbing. Our economics correspondent andy verity has been studying the numbers and hes with me here. The chancellors Spring Budget brought some reasons to be careful, with extra funds for those needing social care, those hit by higher Business Rates and a little for the nhs. Just like the daffodils At Westminster, it will not last very long. In the autumn, the outlook was gloomy. Convinced that leaving the eu would hit the economy soon, the Office For Budget Responsibility predicted a slowdown. They were wrong. It has brightened up. The chancellor has a giant overdraft, but he is using less of it than he thought. Back in the autumn, the prediction was for weak growth this year, dropping to 1. 4 but picking up again a couple of years from now. Nowthe economys predicted to grow much faster this year by 2 . But after that its expected to slow down with weaker growth 2 3 years from now. The economy has had more momentum coming through 2016 and into the early months of this year than we expected in the autumn. But we havent changed our view about the total growth that the economy can sustain over the next five years. If you have more good news at the beginning of the forecast, you have slightly weaker growth for the rest. That pattern faster growth now, but a slowdown later on is reflected in the amount the chancellor has to borrow because, like most chancellors, he spends a lot more than his income. In the autumn he thought hed have to borrow £68 billion this year. But now hell only have to borrow £52 billion because the economys doing better than expected so hes collecting more in taxes. However, if you look at five years from now, hell still be borrowing £17 billion the same figure we had last autumn. And hes had to find some way to raise money so it doesnt look worse than that. Over the whole parliament, the message today from the Office For Budget Responsibility is the challenge remains. Most of the deterioration in the public finances over the parliament that they forecast before christmas stays in place and, mostly as a result of changes associated with brexit, we still have a really challenging parliament to come. So heres the taxing question will those with the biggest shoulders bear the biggest burden . If you look at corporations, theyre getting a tax cut five years from now worth £2. 6 billion. Meanwhile, those receiving dividends, including 600,000 people who own their own companies, will pay an extra £930 million. And 4 million Self Employed people earning more than £16,000 will pay an extra half a billion. Philip hammond says those Tax Raising Measures make the system fairer. But of course, Self Employed people asked to pay more in tax might not see it that way. The chancellor announced an extra £2 billion for social care, admitting the system is clearly under pressure. The money will be spent in england over the next three years. While the money has been widely welcomed, theres been criticism that its still not enough money and wont fix a system thats no longer fit for purpose. Our social Affairs Correspondent alison holt reports from nottinghamshire. Four times a day, care workers help 76 year old avril with such things as washing, dressing and getting to the toilet. The rest of the time, her husband looks after her in their nottinghamshire home. A stroke left her partly paralysed. This is what the extra £2 billion announced for social care will help pay for. The couple believe it is something the chancellor had to do. Its notjust me that needs it, its chancellor had to do. Its notjust me that needs it, its people that cant do nothing. What would you say to the chancellor . Get your hand in your pocket. How would he like it if he was sat at home and cant move . And of the money the chancellor has found, councils will get £1 billion in the coming financial year, with the rest in the following two years to ease the pressures. Care Companies Welcome this, but say the money must reach front line staff. Staff need to be paid a salary which represents the work that they undertake in the community, travelling around, visiting people like mrs smith, day in, day out, sometimes four times a day, to give them the care that they need. We need to be to support that in terms ofa need to be to support that in terms of a proper living wage. At nottinghamshire county council, they started doing their son the moment the Budget Speech was finished. They say they currently have a Funding Shortfall of about £70 million. Doing their sums. They calculate that todays announcement will use those pressures to the tune of £70 million. The Labour Leader of the council had written to the Chancellor Warning that the system was at Breaking Point after years of cuts to local authorities. His welcome today is cautious. We have still got a temporary money in the system, and there still needs to be a longer Term Solution because, one thing is for sure, we cant carry on the way that we are, treating this almost as crisis management. And with more younger adults with disabilities needing support, the demand for different types of care is also increasing. The government has promised there will be a green paper which looks at the funding of social care for the future. Well, among the most eye catching announcements today, are the changes to National Insurance for almost 2. 5 million Self Employed and the cut to the tax free dividend allowance. The number of Self Employed people has been rising steadily over recent yea rs. Reeta chakra barti has been talking to families in shipley in west yorkshire. No need to worry about the sums when you are small, that is what your mum is for. Charlotte and sarah are Self Employed, starting separate businesses after having children. Charlotte says the chancellors hike for National Insurance contribution is for people like her is bad news. I think it is affecting Kitchen Table businesses, you know, mums starting up after maternity leave. You dont get the same benefits as an employed person, if we are sick, we are working through, there is nobody to take over. The chancellor says it is fair and bring you to levels that other people have to pay . I guess so, ifi levels that other people have to pay . I guess so, if i was working, i would be paying that level anyway. I cant feel too bad about it. Ruth also started out as Self Employed, but she now runs a larger business selling bidding pools, and the National Insurance increase will affect her. But it should be offset by cuts in Corporation Tax. The chancellor is taxing Business People on eight personal level more. But he is sneaking in the Corporation Tax going down. Overall, the question is where the balance lies. Overall, it sounds like you will be roughly. Where we were, absolutely. Todays reforms to National Insurance contributions and previously announced changes means that there are winners and losers. Somebody that are Self Employed with average earnings of £12,700 will be £70 per year better off in 2019 20. For a Self Employed person earning an average of £17,300, they will be £20 worse off. A Self Employed Management Consultant on an average of over £51,000 would be £620 worse off per year. There is not much sympathy down the road in keighley, asafamily sympathy down the road in keighley, as a Family Business that is three generations old. They are all classed as employees and all taxed as pay as you earn. They say it is quite right, to the chancellors changes. At the moment, they are paying a lot less for very similar amounts of cover and help from the government. They get the same State Pension now and they have a lot more flexible at the in their own lifestyle. You think it is right and fair that the chancellor has done this . Absolutely, it is the way forward. Blue sky over yorkshire today. As always on budget day, only for some. Other measures from todays budget there were no new announcements for tobacco but increases announced previously mean that from tonight, the price of a packet of cigarettes will go up by 35p. And from monday, a pint of beer will go up by 2p, a bottle of whisky by 36p and a Bottle Of Wine by 10p. There will be £100 million to fund more gps in accident and Emergency Departments in england next winter. And there will be £270 million for science and innovation, which includes research into robots and driverless cars. There will be £90 million for transport in the north of england and £23 million for the midlands, to ease congestion on the roads. And the Scottish Government will be £350 million better off , there will be £200 million for the Welsh Government and £120 million for the Northern Ireland executive. Lets take a moment to look at the budget overall with our Political Editor laura kuenssberg, whos At Westminster for us. This was a very cautious budget with no showy giveaways a reflection of the Prime Ministers vision as much as the chancellors. I think very much a reflection of the chancellors style. Philip hammond has been a senior Cabinet Minister for a hammond has been a senior Cabinet Ministerfor a long time but this was his first budget. That is a Red Letter Day in number 11. He was relaxed and confident enough to be cracking jokes practically all the way through. But the overall picture is not necessarily happy. Slightly better. More cuts to come and tough times ahead for families. Millions of voters feeling it is pretty tough to make ends meet. Politically, there is a row brewing. We heard about the rises in National Insurance payments for some people who are Self Employed. That is damaging, potentially, not just because the people affected, it might not be too much money but they might not be too much money but they might not be pleased about paying more attacks, but also in the Tory Ma Nifesto more attacks, but also in the tory manifesto in 2015 the conservatives made a clear promise not to raise National Insurance contributions. The dispute, on a technicality, exactly whether theyve broken a promise, but Tory Backbenchers are worried about this notjust because of the image of breaking a promise but also there are fears that it goes after the tory tribe, so for a budget that was supposed to be safety first, i dont think the government is going to escape unscathed. It is far too early to say that this budget is going to unravel in the way that some dramatically have. More on the budget later in the programme and more of course on our website. Thats at bbc. Co. Uk budget. All the details of the chancellors announcements are there with updates and analysis from our editors and senior correspondents. The top story. The chancellors budget he hits 2. 5 million Self Employed with higher National Insurance contributions. An extra £2 billion is found for social care in england to be spent over the next three years. Coming up in Sportsday On Bbc News Jose Mourinho says the rostov pitch isnt good enough to play on, but uefa says Manchester Uniteds Europa League tie will go ahead as scheduled tomorrow. Are you being spied on as youre watching the news tonight . Is your television hacked into so that the Intelligence Agencies can listen to your conversations . Thats the extraordinary suggestion in documents apparently from the cia released last night by the organisation wikileaks. Today the companies which make the devices say theyre urgently investigating the claims. Heres our security correspondent gordon corera. Could your tv be spying on you . If youve got an internet connected tv, that might be possible. Secret documents show how the cia have turned tvs into Bugging Devices, giving the capability a codename, weeping angel, named it seems after characters in the doctor who tv series. A team of Security Researchers showed me how theyve replicated the cias capability. So how is it possible to turn a tv like this into a Bugging Device . Modern tvs are basically powerful computers. Theyve got lots of processes on there. But most importantly they have microphones and interanet access. So we have written an application here, the screen is almost blank, it listens to everything we are saying. And sends it off to a third party. Hopefully not the cia. Once the apps installed, it makes it look like your tv is off when its actually on. We have infected it with malware and now we have a microphone here that listens to anything you say. Hello, is anyone listening . Hi, tv. It is possible that your tv is being used as a spy, as a big brother in your living room. But how likely is it . The leaked documents show the cia worked with britains mi5 to develop this capability, to target specific individuals. Mi5 will not comment but surveillance is a key tool in its work to catch terrorists. Bugging buildings and cars is something it has been doing for decades. The latest Digital Technology simply offers new ways to do that. And they say, to keep us safe. For the cia the leak of hundreds of pages of documents is certainly embarrassing. Highlighting its failure to keep its own secrets. And a former head of the agency told the bbc the leak would have consequences. This seems to be an incredibly damaging leak in terms of the tactics, techniques, procedures and tools that we were used by the Central Intelligence agency to conduct legitimate foreign intelligence. In other words it has made my country and my countrys friends less safe. The latest technology has turned on new ways to monitor people. But the debate over what that means for all our privacy is not one that is going to be turned off. Gordon correra, bbc news. More than 30 people have been killed, and dozens wounded, in an attack by Islamic State militants, at a hospital in the Afghan Capital kabul. Local Officials Say the three gunmen were dressed as doctors. The Security Forces killed them after several hours of fighting. Two people a man and a woman have died and a second woman has been critically injured after a stabbing at a flat in wolverhampton. West Midlands Police used Stun Grenades to break into the flat. Another woman, believed to be the mother, is in hospital. A Senior Executive at toyota has suggested the japanese carmaker may delay deciding whether to build the next auris model in the uk. He said the decision would be made when more is known about the outcome of britains negotiations to leave the european union. Toyota currently builds the Auris Hatchback at its Burnaston Plant in derbyshire. What happened to 23 year old Corrie Mckeague . He was working as an raf airman when he simply vanished during a night out in Bury St Edmunds last september. Now new evidence has come to light linking the signals from his mobile phone to a bin lorry and the police say they are now confident his body will be found in a local landfill. Our correspondent ben ando sent this report. Its a dirtyjob but could provide the answers to a mystery that has baffled police for months. The search is focused on this landfill site. He was serving at raf waddington. He went on a night with friends in Bury St Edmunds and said he would walk home. He never made it. Corrie was last seen entering a service area at 3am behind some bins. Bin lorry called and then travelled, where his phone pinged. It ended the journey at the landfill site. The please know that they will be criticised for not starting this sooner be criticised for not starting this sooner they said originally they we re sooner they said originally they were told the bin lorry was only carrying waste of 11 kilograms. When they learned it was nearer 100 kilograms, that changed everything. That was a sobering moment. Weve been committed to this investigation for nearly six months. And the investigating officer. I cannot imagine what it feels like. His family admit theyve been frustrated by the investigation but all that matters is finding him. It is not the agony of not knowing. You can still believe that they are alive. We just still believe that they are alive. Wejust got to still believe that they are alive. We just got to find him first. As the search continues, so does the waiting. More now on our main news the budget announced by the chancellor this afternoon. Philip hammond said there would be more money for social care in england and he announced increases to National Insurance contributions for millions of Self Employed workers. Our economics editor kamal ahmed has been tracking every detail and hes with me here whats the big message from this budget . There are a couple of big things to think about as we look back on todays event. Firstly, Economic Growth is better, but that is short term. This was actually a very small budget. 28 measures compared to 77 this time last year. Lets expect a lot more for the autumn budget. It raised two huge issues. This issue about the taxing of work. The world of work as more people are Self Employed. Digital Companies Operate in different ways. I think the setup as well as the chains today on that issue will be a huge Debating Point over the next few yea rs of Debating Point over the next few years of this government. The second big issue was social care. The Tax Increases are almost equal to the amount of new money to be spent. The treasury knows it is a temporary fix. There will need to be a huge debate about how we pay for an ageing population. Two things announced on how we tax ourselves. Those big issues will come back to us those big issues will come back to us when we talk about this and we have more substantial things to say. Lets ta ke have more substantial things to say. Lets take a look at the weather. Sunshine across england and Northern Ireland with temperatures heading up to 13 celsius. Weve been topped and tailed by cloud and it has produced showers. Strong Gale Force Winds may clip the north of Northern Ireland. We see outbreaks of light rain for Southern England and wales. Still around, during the first part of the day, tomorrow, those showers are confined to the far north. You see the extent of the fine weather. You can see this risk of patchy light rain. We could see 16 celsius in parts of england. Wherever you are it will feel very pleasant indeed with temperatures getting into double figures. For scotland, good sunshine. I have to say, it will turn chilly down the east of the uk whereas in the west we have thicker cloud. Heavierfor a time in order Northern Ireland. Even though friday is mild, it will look good. For the weekend, it will be changeable. There will be sunshine and bands of wet weather. Not a wash out but by sunday it will turn called. Back to you. That is all