Good evening from newcastle, as the dust settles onjeremy hunts budget, quite possibly the last, before the general election. You join us on the citys Iconic Quayside Overlooking the magnificent river tyne, an area steeped in industrial history, and weve been gauging reaction here, to the chancellors plans throughout the day. Among his biggest annoucements, was a cut in National Insurance, by 2p in the pound, for employees and the Self Employed. Full Child Benefits will be paid to households, where the highest earning parent, is getting up to £60,000. The current limit is £50,000. And, the non dom tax regime, for uk residents whose permanent home is overseas, is to be replaced with new rules, from april next year. Well, the office for budget responsibility, says the overall tax burden, is actually set to reach its highest level for over 70 years. While the government says spending on Public Services will rise by 1 above inflation, some areas could still see cuts in the future. The 0b
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oppositon activist alexi navalny is now charged with terrorism offenses. welcome to bbc news. thousands of people are continuing to flee from sudan while the temperary ceasefire still holds. germany and france say all their citizens have now left the country. three planes carrying british nationals have arrived in cyprus officials have said flights will continue around the clock. the latest is that 301 britons have been evacuated so far. the ceasefire is broadly holding. there were reports of some clashes, but nothing major. there are also reports of prisoners breaking out ofjail, including some facing war crimes charges by the international criminal court. britons are still being told to go to this airbase about 20 miles north of the capital for the flights to cyprus. a total of 2,000 people from 50 countries, have now crossed the red sea from port sudan tojeddah on a ship organised by saudi arabia. meanwhile, tens of thousands of sudanese continue to try and reach neighbo
the paramilitary group the rapid support forces came to that agreementjust hours before a previous ceasefire was due to expire. despite these agreements, clashes have been reported with gunshots heard and fighterjets seen in parts of the country. our correspondent paul adams has more on the origins of the conflict. khartoum obviously was the focus of that popular revolt backin focus of that popular revolt back in 2019, which was, you know, the thing that brought to an end 30 years of alba ts s power. it was followed by a terrible massacre of demonstrators in the aftermath of president 0mar al bashir s alistair but it has not seen the kind of all out military conflict that it is witnessing. what happened in so many other parts of sudan and is now, has now come to the city. it is a real shock for the civilians of that city who did not think that city who did not think that it would come to this but feared that somehow, this rivalry between these two factions was going to result