city year. in other news president biden will give his state of the union address tonight to a divided congress and flanked by a republican speaker of the house. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin in the devastated region of southern turkey and northern syria, where the search for survivors from monday s huge earthquake has entered a second night. the death toll continues to escalate rapidly. more than 7 thousand people are known to have lost their lives and officials are warning that number could rise significantly in the days to come. thousands are thought to be trapped under collapsed buildings and the rescue efforts are being hampered by power supply disruptions, damaged roads and freezing temperatures. there s particular concern for those in syria, a country where the infrastructure has already devastated by years of conflict. our middle east correspondent anna foster has spent the past two days travelling alone towards the epicentre of the earthquake in sout
Were at westminster in our Budget Studio on the day chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his first budget. As the government prepares to start the process of leaving the eu within weeks the chancellor said the budget prepared britain for a brighter future. Borrowing forecasts have been revised downwards for the next few years. Theres more money for social care in england and a controversial move to raise National Insurance contributions for Self Employed workers. Labour accused the chancellor of producing a Budget Of Utter Complacency which ignored a crisis in Public Services. Well have details and reaction from westminster and beyond. But first lets take a look at those key announcements made by the chancellor earlier this afternoon. The chancellor announced a 1 increase in National Insurance bills for many Self Employed people plans that would raise £145 million a year by 2021 22 a pledge which appears to contradict a conservative manifesto pledge not to raise National Insurance. He
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that with an ageing population taxes would not be coming down. the chief secretary to the treasury, simon clarke, has spoken of a philosophical shift in conservatism and says he makes no apologies for investing more in public services to stimulate growth evenly across the uk. 0ur political correspondent, chris mason, has this report. any budget is a delicate mix of ingredients. first comes the chancellor s address to the commons. then it s a selling job. here we go. taxes on alcohol are being simplified. cheers! ..so a trip to a brewery was in order. to rishi! and the chancellor is out and about again this morning in what is so often a crucial time after any budget the day after as people start to plough through the budget documents to ferret out the details that weren t mentioned in the speech.
first comes the chancellor s address to the commons. then it s a selling job. here we go. taxes on alcohol are being simplified. cheers! ..so a trip to a brewery was in order. to rishi! and the chancellor is out and about again this morning in what is so often a crucial time after any budget the day after as people start to plough through the budget documents to ferret out the details that weren t mentioned in the speech. the obr says you ve raised more tax this year than any chancellor since 1993. are you happy to have that title? no, and i acknowledged it. yesterday during the budget, and i was very clear about it. i m not. i m not happy about that and i m not comfortable about it but it is the result of the country and the economy suffering - an economic shock, the likes i of which we haven t seen in 300 years, and our response to that i