Music plays and the next president of zimbabwe, emmerson mnangagwa, is back in the country and will be sworn in on friday. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news countdown to midnight the ashes series gets underway. England captainjoe root says theyre ready to go. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. A britain fit for the future thats what the chancellor has promised in todays budget. It had a few giveaways but was delivered against the backdrop of a faltering economy with lower than expected growth and falling productivity. Among Philip Hammonds announcements from now, First Time Buyers in england, wales and Northern Ireland will pay no stamp duty on homes up to £300,000, more in london. Scotland has a different system. For the nhs in england, the chancellor promised an extra £1. 6 billion over the next year, though thats still short of what the nhs says it needs. The wait for the welfare benefit universal credit which has attracted criticism from both sides of the house
Been hoping for and less than labour had been demanding. Economic growth has been revised down, productivity growth has been revised down, Business Investment revised down, peoples wages and Living Standards revised down. What sort of Strong Economy is that . Well have the detail, and reaction to the second budget delivered by Philip Hammond this year. Also tonight mr mladic, sit. In the hague, the former bosnian serb commander, ratko mladic, is convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity. Zimbawes former Vice President , emmerson mnangagwa, has returned home to succeed Robert Mugabe as head of state. And, were all set for the start of the first ashes test, in brisbane. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news chelsea are through to the last 16 of the Champions League with celtic and Manchester United also in european action. Good evening. The chancellor, Philip Hammond, has delivered his second budget this year, warning that the economy is expected to grow more slowly than previou
control. some of the symptoms can be so overwhelming. maybe stanley knows from his own experience, sleeping. all that stuff that s disturb and not enough to want to go back in. these 33 will have some problems, aren t they? i think they will for a while. they ll have to get used to it. they ve been in there a long time. it is going to be like coming back out into a new world. because working underground, it is a different world, you know? no one could understand it unless they were there. you go in. you come out every day. they ve been there since august. so they re going to have some readjusting to do. stanley, this is a lot of stanley stewart who survived that upper big branch mine that 29 miners were killed. mike roe of dirty jobs that returns to discovery on tuesday the 19th. will stay with us. dr. charlie sophie, dr. julian bails will return. we ll go back to the mines as well. don t go away.
arrive, if all goes well, in about 11 minutes. for the second one. there is no way to express in words what a story this is for the miners, for the people of chile, for the country, for nasa who helped so much and those people there, the rescue workers who spent all this time. remember they said it would be christmas and here it is early october. they got them out. they were trapped in august. let s take a look at the first miner making it to the surface. watch. [ cheers ] larry: you are watching a second live edition of larry king live on this historic day and morning. it is a little after 1:00 a.m. in chile. joining us is gary tuchman. gary, sometimes word cans fail. reporter: no question about it, larry. tell me if you feel this way. this reminded me of july 20, 1969 when neal armstrong and buzz aldren stepped on the moon for the first time. you are waiting, you are tense. it took 15 minutes. it finally came up, the capsule and out stepped the first miner. not only d