Vaping and smoking, but the Office For Budget Responsibility warns the government could find it hard to balance the books. Heres our business correspondent, emma simpson. Did you catch any ofjeremy s budget . It was a chance to turn around the fortunes of the Conservative Party. But was it enough . I think its good that the workers are going to get money back in their pockets. But then if you think about the Cost Of Living and how everything is going up, then maybe they could have given a little bit more back. Anything that cuts taxes, i wish he would have done something a bit more for savers, were in a position where were living off savings. I think theyre trying to do it in light of a General Election and probably not really thinking about what the benefit to the country is. The centrepiece of this budget was a £2 billion cut was a 2p in the pound cut to National Insurance, a tax paid by workers. So who are the winners and losers if you include all the changes to tax and thresholds
in fact, just standby for a second as we reset this news right now, it is the top of the hour, we have a team of nbc joining us from tel aviv s matt bradley. josh latter man is in london, the chief international correspondent, keir simmons is in erbil iraq. aaron gilchrist staying with us from the white house, erin, i do want you to get as much as you can so feel free if you have to walk away to get that information. keir simmons, we were just talking about this, we have more information, about the breadth of the communication involved in this strike. i want you to give me your take on this. . is this an idea to just spread it, we ve got australia, bahrain, canada, denmark, the netherlands, new zealand, and the united states involved in what aaron has just told us we re now 36 targets in 13 locations in yemen. tonight was all about yemen, your take about that, here? it sounds like, doesn t it, a bigger operation, then we ve seen with regards to yemen so far. but that co
attacks along the red sea by the houthis since late november. tuesday we did see 21 missiles and drones fired by the houthis from yemen being shot down, according to u.s. military officials. the express intention of those u.s. and uk strikes that we saw overnight thursday into friday were to diminish and downgrade the houthis ability to carry out further attacks along the red sea. the houthis, on their part, have vowed to continue retaliating, to continue targeting vessels along the red sea so long as israel s attacks on gaza continue. but of course the target for the u.s. and the united kingdom has been attempting to diminish that possibilities. of course we have seen a further attack by the u.s. and united kingdom. one anti-ship ballistic missile targeting a vessel in the red sea. the hits, according to u.s. military officials, they believe, according to officials in the u.s., that their strikes overnight thursday into friday mean that the houthis haven t
fact that the houthis haven t all committed suicide yet. they would like to see iran driven out of iraq and syria. the only hope they have of any of that happening is by dragging us in to do it for them. tucker: i mean, that doesn t seem remotely in our interest, our national interest at all. why wouldn t we fight that idea why wouldn t we fight that with every ounce of strength we have? well, the problem is that the team of one, once again, is surrounded by these globalists interventionists with ties in many cases to the gulf arabs, to saudi arabia and israel. so think are going to do they are going to do whatever they can to advocate for conflict. that s the problem. the team of one sits there and says wait a minute, why? we have been through this process in the past. there is no evidence that iran had anything to do with the attacks on the tankers, far from it. anybody that knows iranians knows if they were actually trying to sink those ships they would have done it. that lo