Products to start in october 2026. And. The chancellor says its in order to maintain the financial incentive to choose vaping over smoking. Lets move on to the broader picture for the uk economy. In the office of budget and responsibility has predicted that. Remember, were in a technical recession at the moment. Lets move onto debt. Lots of figures in numbers but its important we take you through the main developments from todays budget. In a moment ill be discussing is in finer detail with my colleague. Ill also bejoined by our Economics Correspondent who is in the newsroom for us. First our Political Correspondent looks back at todays development here in West Minister. I5 at todays development here in West Minister. ,. ,. , minister. Is this an Election Winnin minister. Is this an Election Winning budget, minister. Is this an election | winning budget, chancellor . Minister. Is this an Election Winning budget, chancellor . As jeremy hunt pose for the last photo, dues before the budge
But we know we can make things work better. That is the way well open ultimately get the rising Living Standards we all want to see. You talk about wanting to get that revenue in and increase spending on Public Services, but your u turn, if we can call it that, or this this moment of that green Prosperity Plan just sort of indicates the challenges that all Political Parties face at the moment. Many things like the green Prosperity Plan just cant be costed at the moment. ,. , moment. After the disaster of the liz truss minibudget moment. After the disaster of the liz truss minibudget and moment. After the disaster of the liz truss minibudget and the moment. After the disaster of the j liz truss minibudget and the rise Liz Truss Mini Budget and the rise in Interest Rates, we had to change some of those plans. But our plan remains a fundamental part of our offer. Its our National Fund and four gigabytes energy to work on the front tier, new technologies in the future. Gb gb engery. Any b
Scientists say our oceans have hit their hottest recorded temperature largely because of Climate Change, with alarming implications for the planet. This week the average daily global Sea Surface Temperature hit almost 21 degrees celsius. Thats far above the average for the time of year and it beats the previous record set in 2016. The oceans are a vital regulator of the earths climate. Heres our climate editor, justin rowlatt. Theyve been taking measurements of Ocean Temperatures here in plymouth for more than a century. And for the last 50 or so years, theyve shown a slow but steady increase up about a third of a degree a decade. Have we got a reading for today yet, do you know . I heard them Say Something around 18 or 19, which is four Degrees Higher than it should be. Its been a similar pattern globally. Rising Sea Temperatures and increasing numbers of marine heatwaves. And it has just reached a new peak 20. 96 degrees celsius, the highest Global Average sea temperature ever record
with laura kuessnberg, paddy 0 connell and henry zeffman. it seems every time you turn on the news, there has been another strike somewhere, there was a strike on an american military base this morning in iraq. so, this hotting up of tensions continues apace, and this morning we had grant shapps the defence secretary on the programme, who said earlier this week we are in a prewar world, who said earlier this week we are in a prewarworld, in who said earlier this week we are in a prewar world, in other words, who said earlier this week we are in a prewarworld, in otherwords, he was anticipating that there will be more conflicts coming down the tracks before too long. which sounds like a pretty alarming message, but i think most politicians you talk to at the moment would say actually thatis at the moment would say actually that is probably true. i at the moment would say actually that is probably true. that is probably true. i heard it summed up that is probably true. i hea
afternoon, and said a man in his 40s has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter. our correspondent duncan kennedy is in bournemouth this morning. duncan, what more can you tell us about this? good morning. it had been a glorious day here in bournemouth yesterday. the sun was shining, the beach was packed with people on their half term break. then this incident, this major incident, was declared about half past four when all the emergency services were called. the police tell us they recovered ten people from the water. we don t know if they were swimming or on some sort of vessel. ten people were recovered from the water. two of them, a 17 year old boy and a 12 year old girl, had somehow suffered what they called critical injuries. they were taken to hospital where later they both died. the police tell us that their families have been informed. that they are liaising with their families to help them through what they called this difficult time. the other eight people invo