we'll bring you analysis on whether the chancellor has delivered on last year's promises. and a rare northern lights creates a spectacular display in our night skies. 0n newsnight at 10:30pm, we're live in lincolnshire as an audience of voters tell our panel of politicians what matters to them ahead of what may be the last budget before the general election. good evening. the united states�* supreme court has ruled unanimously that donald trump can stand as a republican presidential candidate in colorado. he'd originally been struck off the ballot by the state's supreme court, under a ruling which had held him accountable for the attack on the capitol on the 6th of january in 2021 by his supporters. voters in colorado and more than a dozen other states will go to the polls tomorrow in what some commentators call super tuesday, to pick their party's presidential nominee. from washington, gary 0'donoghue reports. nine supreme courtjustices, one unanimous decision, clearing the way for donald trump to remain on the presidential ballot now and for november's general election. following hard on the heels of last week's decision by the court to intervene in a criminal case over his part in the capitol riots, the former president was today singing the court's praises. i have great respect for the supreme court and i want to just thank them for working so quickly and so diligently and so brilliantly and again, this is a unifying factor. several states had tried to exclude the former president in their primaries, citing a provision in the constitution — passed after the civil war — barring insurrections from holding national office. while the nine justices took no view on whether he had engaged in insurrection, they said the states had no power under the constitution to enforce the provision with respect to federal offices, and congress alone could do that. while donald trump's legal problems have taken a turn for the better, he still faces a criminal trial later this month in new york over hush money payments to a porn star, and a federal trial, possibly in the summer, over his retention of classified documents after he left office. he has also been hit by fines and compensation payments of well over $400 million following his defeat in two civil trials. all these legal difficulties have in fact been a double—edged sword for the former president. he has managed to raise huge amounts of money off the back of them and by politicising the court cases, he has motivated his own supporters. but the polls still show that some voters in those key swing states won't vote for him if he becomes a convicted felon before the election. despite all his legal problems, the former president looks set to sweep the board tomorrow when 15 states vote in the republican primary. his nomination for the candidacy is all but secure, his legal worries still far from over. and garyjoins us now from the supreme court. tomorrow is one of the biggest days for the race to the white house. what can we expect? this case was an existential threat to donald trump's candidacy and no one really believed it would go against him but even so, this win opens the way for him to clinch this nomination. he has already swept the board up to now by the district of columbia where his main rival won, but tomorrow he could do a clean sweep of all those 15 states. it will not mathematically guarantee him the nomination but it will put him the nomination but it will put him practically unassailable. is main candidate, the main opposition candidate, nikki haley, will have to decide what she does next but in terms of his legal strategy, it has been summed up in one word, delay, delay, delay. bear in mind, if he can delay the owes criminal charges, the criminal cases, until after november, and he were to win the general election in november, he could simply make hisjustice department make them go away. gary o'donouhue department make them go away. gary o'donoghue in — department make them go away. gary o'donoghue in washington, department make them go away. gary 0'donoghue in washington, thank you. the us presidentjoe biden has tonight said he'll continue to push for a deal to secure the release of israeli hostages held in gaza and an immediate ceasefire for at least six weeks. one of israel's main conditions is a list of all the hostages still held in gaza. hamas claims it's "practically impossible" to know which of the hostages is still alive. the bbc is currently unable to report from inside gaza. 0ur fergal keane sent this update on the situation there from jersualem, and i should warn you that his report contains distressing images. a grief so calamitous it is deaf to the rumours of peace. this is the 150th day of war. and each day, the images of the grieving and of the dead are beamed to the world. this woman was sheltering with 45 family members when a rocket struck. seven were killed, including two children. a ceasefire might save the living. it won't bring back the dead. nawaf zre'y has lived and worked among the dead since the war began. he is a shrouder. he cleans and wraps the dead for burial — hundreds of them. "yes, but their families don't yet know they're dead." 30,000 deaths have created many widows and orphans. near rafah, they stay together, in a camp of the widows, within a larger camp. new structures are being built. the un estimates 3,000 women have been widowed by war. zahra al—ras, aged 26, has four children. one of them is disabled. another suffered severe burns. her husband, mahmoud, was killed when he went to find food for the family a month ago. zahra found him dying in hospital. often these days there is nothing to eat. like the bereaved of all wars, this family clings to fragments of a world broken beyond repair. the children are zahra's life now, the living world she holds in her arms. fergal keane, bbc news, jerusalem. 0ur our special correspondent fergal keane. 0ur senior international correspondent, 0rla guerin, joins me from tel aviv. and, 0rla, how do negotiations over a ceasefire in gaza stand tonight? there has been no progress today, thatis there has been no progress today, that is clear from both israeli sources we have spoken to in the last few hours and from the hamas delegation. it is a strange process taking place, you cannot really call it negotiation. you have the hamas delegation in cairo for the second day running talking to the egyptians and the qataris without the israelis, they are not present. a member of the hamas delegation told us tonight they are showing what he called maximum flexible teeth to try to get a deal but he said there were key conditions that had to be met. —— flexibility. that includes the return of palestinians to homes in the north gaza and a pull—out from israeli forces from cities and camps inside gaza. and israeli source told me they will not budge on their key demand, their key sticking point which is to receive a list of the a0 hostages that would be freed if a deal went ahead, and also a list of the hostages that remain alive inside gaza. there is huge us pressure on hamas, the americans repeating again tonight there is a deal on the table and that hamas should take it. the us national security advisorjohn kirby said again that america still hopes to reach a deal before ramadan, which begins on the tenth or 11th. huge pressure also from america on the israelis because of the dire situation in gaza which we were hearing about in fergal�*s report, one quarter of the population is one step away from famine according to the un so huge pressure but no breakthrough so far.— the un so huge pressure but no breakthrough so far. the government has suffered a series of defeats in the house of lords over its flagship rwanda bill to send some migrants to africa. peers voted for amendments that place restrictions on the plans, including a demand for proof that rwanda is a safe country, and that the legislation is fully compliant with domestic and international law. 0ur political correspondent harry farleyjoins me from westminster. harry, how serious is this for the government's flagship rwanda plan? mps will get a chance to overturn the lords changes later this month but remember, it has been nearly two years since the government first started talking him in westminster about a plan to send some migrants coming on small boats to rwanda. at the end of last year, rishi sunak said he wanted to get flights off the ground in the spring but the first signs of spring are here and they got a bit of a kicking tonight. at the start of this year, the prime minister told the house of lords not to, in his words, frustrate the will of the people, by blocking legislation. five times this evening peers voted to defeat the government. ministers argue the bill is essential to get the rwanda scheme up and running and they say it is essential to deter people from making that dangerous journey across the channel. what happens now? peers will debate more changes on wednesday before the bill goes back to the commons where mps are likely to the commons where mps are likely to overturn the changes they have made. but ultimately, the house of lords will not block this legislation from the debate that has ended just behind me, many are very unhappy about its content and senior lawyers, bishops and former government ministers have registered their discontent tonight. thank government ministers have registered their discontent tonight.— george galloway has taken his seat in the house of commons after winning the rochdale by—election last week. he was sworn in this afternoon. i swear by almighty god i will be faithful and bear true allegiance to his majesty king charles. mr galloway overturned a 9,500 labour majority after the party withdrew support for its candidate over an allegation of anti—semitism, during a campaign dominated by the war in gaza. 0ur political editor chris mason is here. chris, george galloway later gave a news conference to waiting media. he did. george galloway won that by—election last week by a mile, i was there and there were plenty of people in rochdale really excited about him as their mp and others who were horrified and joining those it being critical was the prime minister who gave his own news conference on friday, the very day mr galloway was elected, describing it as beyond alarming. in the mr galloway a news conference today, he talked about rochdale, about what he hopes to achieve for the town and also talked about what he described as a genocide in gaza and why it was so central to his message in rochdale. if the by—election had been in february of 1940 or '41, would anyone seriously have condemned me for putting the crimes of the holocaust at the centre of my election campaign? tonight the campaign against anti—semitism has said mr galloway knows exactly where the line is and purposely strides over it, adding that it diminished —— diminishing the holocaust through this appalling comparison is repulsive although at this point we should expect nothing less from britain's newest mp. 0ther less from britain's newest mp. other senior less from britain's newest mp. 0ther seniorjewish because i've spoken to tonight privately are in no doubt whatsoever it was anti—semitic and they point to the international holocaust remembrance alliance's working definition of anti—semitism which lists, "drawing comparisons of the contemporary israeli policy to that of the nazis." that is amongst its examples. a spokesman for mr galloway said tonight he would not be dignified the allegation with a response. be dignified the allegation with a resonse. . ~' be dignified the allegation with a resonse. . ~ i. a woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder, after a ten—year—old girl was found dead at a property in rowley regis. west midlands police say officers attended an address in robin close in the town, where the child was pronounced dead at the scene. a woman, believed to be known to the girl, has been arrested and taken into custody for questioning. an investigation is under way in germany after a highly confidential discussion between military officials became public. a recording was published by state media in russia on friday. it appears to feature sensitive information about germany's allies, including britain. jessica parker is in the east of germany and has been following the story. jessica, how much of an embarrassment is this? this is embarrassing for germany but ministers today have certainly been defending themselves. they say this is part of a disinformation attack. they are not disputing a conference call between senior air force officials was intercepted. it is unclear whether they think it was tampered with but on friday, a 38 minute tape was published by russian state media. in it, german officials appear to be discussing information certainly not intended for the public domain, including the possibility of sending tourist cruise missiles to ukraine, something only schultz has ruled out. they also seem to imply there could be a few british personnel on the ground in ukraine helping with the ground in ukraine helping with the operation of storm shadow missiles. the uk government isn't saying too much about that but downing street has said it is up to germany to investigate this leak. russia is seizing on all of this to reinforce its narratives about the west's involvement and intentions in ukraine. for germany though it raises serious questions about its security protocols. it has exposed some domestic political differences about support for ukraine and what to do next, but politicians here are also emphasising they think this whole saga is designed to destabilise and divide. jessica, thank yom _ a 72—hour state of emergency has been declared in the capital of the carribean island, haiti, after two mass jailbreaks. armed gangs stormed the prisons — they freed nearly 4,000 inmates from the mainjail in port au prince, where at least a dozen people died. gang leaders say they want to force haiti's prime minister to resign — he had been out of the country, on a visit to kenya. james landale has the latest. gunfire. haiti has long been lawless and violent, but now it's getting worse. in the capital, port—au—prince, people ran for their lives as what law and order there was broke down. thousands have fled their homes. powerful armed gangs already control much of the city, but yesterday they overran two prisons, freeing — it's estimated — about 4,000 inmates. some stayed behind to avoid the shooting. translation: the riot in the prison put our lives at risk. _ we hid because there was a lot of firing. we were afraid for our lives. the government declared a state of emergency in the capital, with curfews in place, but they may be hard to enforce. the gangs, which so often fight each other, have come together to try to oust the prime minister, ariel henry. he was in nairobi trying to persuade kenya's president to send him police officers as part of a un security force. he is thought to be returning to haiti now. but a notorious gang leader known as "barbeque" said the armed groups were united against the prime minister. translation: we ask - the haitian national police and the military to take responsibility and arrest ariel henry. haiti has long experience of dictatorship... i have been elected for president for life. ..but recent years have been particularly bloody. in 2021, the president was assassinated, leaving a political vacuum, largely filled with the gangs. killing, rape and kidnap are widespread. elections have been promised but not held, and it seems the gangs are losing patience. james landale, bbc news. us technology giant, apple, has been fined one point five billion pounds by the european union for breaking competition laws over music streaming. the ruling said the company had abused its dominant position in the market for a decade and it was ordered to remove all the restrictions. apple has said it will appeal against the decision. police in manchester say an officer who dragged a rough sleeper along the ground, before treading on his stomach, behaved in an unacceptable manner. bbc news has been passed video of the incident, which a homeless charity has described as appalling. 0ur social affairs correspondent michael buchanan has the details — and just to warn you, his report contains some distressing footage from the start. early morning outside manchester town hall. a rough sleeper is dragged into the street by police... ..before this happens. the man, a refugee from sudan who wants to remain anonymous, says he was injured by the officer. "i was telling her i need to sleep, so she stamped on my "stomach with her foot. "it caused me problems. "i had a fever, and in the following hours, "i had blood in my urine." dozens of homeless refugees sleep outside the town hall each evening. the 31—year—old was among them when the incident occurred in september. it comes amid a spate of abusive behaviours towards rough sleepers in recent months. in london, this homeless man was soaked by mcdonald's security guards. a man sleeping in this underpass in birmingham was set alight. the manchester incident has appalled homeless charities. if the police are treating people in the way we see in this video, how do we expect to improve the way the public treats people whilst they are rough sleeping? because we know there is a problem here. we know that people are regularly abused and some awful things happen to people on the streets. greater manchester police told us that the officer's behaviour fell below the standard they expected. they say it had been made clear to her that what she had done was unacceptable and must not be repeated again. they say that she and other employees have been given refresher training on how to deal with similar situations in the future. the refugee in the sleeping bag has now managed to get accommodation. he says he's also received an apology from the police for the officer's behaviour. michael buchanan, bbc news, manchester. campaigners are warning that the closure of a fund for people struggling with the cost of living will be "catastrophic". the household support fund provides food banks and warm spaces for people in need in england but it's set to end in four week's time — unless it's extended in the budget. the government says benefits and the local housing allowance are rising. here's our cost of living correspondent colletta smith. every week, 400 households are given parcels at this food bank. you every week, 400 households are given parcels at this food bank.— parcels at this food bank. you don't come to a food _ parcels at this food bank. you don't come to a food bank— parcels at this food bank. you don't come to a food bank because - parcels at this food bank. you don't come to a food bank because you . parcels at this food bank. you don't i come to a food bank because you want to, you come because you need to. we are a catch all for people who aren't able to provide food for themselves or their family and we are that last safety net for them that's vital. are that last safety net for them that's vital-— are that last safety net for them that's vital. ~ ., ., ., , ., that's vital. with donations falling on the cost _ that's vital. with donations falling on the cost of _ that's vital. with donations falling on the cost of food _ that's vital. with donations falling on the cost of food increasing, - on the cost of food increasing, nearly half of their funding comes from the household support fund. you've got 40% of your funding they're just disappearing at the end of march. :: :: :: :: they're just disappearing at the end of march. :: i: :: :: , they're just disappearing at the end of march. :: :: :: :: , ., ., , they're just disappearing at the end ofmarch. :: iiiiz: ., , , of march. £20,000 is a really big hole to fill- _ of march. £20,000 is a really big hole to fill. you _ of march. £20,000 is a really big hole to fill. you are thinking - of march. £20,000 is a really big | hole to fill. you are thinking about the people who come through the doors who haven't had a meal that day, who sit there and have three pennies and that their food for the day and five biscuits because they haven't eaten that morning. for us, those people won't get that support. we just about keep the lights are now and if that money is taken away, i don't know what is next. this is just one food bank, echoed across the city. in liverpool, tens of thousands of the most vulnerable households are currently supported by thisfund. the household support fund has enabled us to keep pushing the edge of the cliff further away for households across the city, so i think out of that money, lots of the organisations that we support and feed in liverpool will have to reduce the amount of food support they give households. inflation is beginning to fall, and the government say that will make life easier for people, but after two years of being squeezed, more people than ever are now depending on the safety net this pot of money provides. in 0ldham, some of the money is being given out as cash grants to families most in need. hello, ria. and in this household... hello, jadine. ..life's delivered even more surprises. hi, giovanni. so the grant has gone straight on nappies, baby formula, and paying the energy bills. you've never needed that help before. we have worked. we both worked. we never needed it. right now, i felt bad for those who cannot afford it, because it is one of the things that can help. the government say this fund will end, as benefits and the local housing allowance rise in april. but those delivering the help are desperate for the chancellor to change his mind in the coming days. colletta smith, bbc news. well, the chancellor will deliver his latest budget on wednesday. but hasjeremy hunt delivered what he promised in 2023? bbc verify has been looking back at last year's budget pledges. nick eardley is here to tell us more. let's start with the theme back in 2023 — a budget for growth. growth has been flat — as has been well publicised. in the first two quarters of the year it was pretty flat and then in the final two quarters, growth was negative so we went into recession. this hasn't been achieved so far. the other big economic priority was to cut inflation. that did happen — you can see here. it fell over time, it more than halved. so one tick, one cross — a mixed picture on the economy. there was also a big promise in the budget to expand childcare in england. you can see here the planned roll—out. ministers say this is on track, particularly the part due to happen next month, but some in the sector warning there are problems with recruitment and fears some nurseries might go past so this one we think is still in the balance. another aim last year was reducing economic inactivity — people out of work. look at this, the number of people in this category has gone up slightly. the treasury isn't counting students, but even if we take them out, there's only a small fall. this one is likely to take time, so again, it's still in the balance. next up — prepayment energy meters. the government promised to make sure people on these weren't paying higher standing charges. this has happened, ministers initially subsidised it. 0fgem confirmed permanent new rules a couple of weeks ago. finally, the price of a pint. there were tax changes designed to keep the price of a pint in pubs down. well, it's gone up, as you can see here. that's not as much as the price increase in shops. it could have been more, but it's another one where the picture is mixed. remember these measures can take time to work, but from these priorities, it's a mixed bag, with more to do. and after wednesday, there will be more priorities for ministers to concentrate on. thanks, nick. these spectacular images of the northern lights were captured by weather watchers all over the country last night. the aurora ended up being visible during an ongoing weak solar storm, from the highlands all the way down to cornwall. we've been speaking to three photographers who captured last night's incredible images. music: finlandia by sibelius i can describe it as seeing, like, pillars of...white beams shooting into the sky when it was at its peak storm — this was about 8.20 last night — and i also seen pinks and greens along the horizon. i was just in awe. it was a mixture of screaming with joy and tears ofjoy as well. last night, i just... i sat there watching people watch the northern lights, and it made me realise how many people actually are quite, quite into it, to be honest. it was... it was a great night. we saw this amazing sight of a said, which is a sub—aurora iron drift. - it's a red tower that appears in the sky. i so to catch that and to find outj that i've caught that on camera and on a picture isjust fantastic. parts of the united states have seen some extraordinary weather in the last few days with snow and high winds causing major disruption. more snow is forecast after a blizzard battered parts of california and nevada. the snowstorm closed major roads and thousands are without power. in one area seven feet of snowfall was reported. and high winds in parts of nevada and utah swept up huge amounts of tumbleweeds, causing disruption wherever they rolled. in the town of southjordan the tumbleweeds were blown in great number into residential areas engulfing houses and cars. incredible scenes there. time for a look at the weather. here's matt taylor. 0ur weather looks rather benign this week but this area of cloud set to bring more to california. head to our shores, bring more to california. head to ourshores, is bring more to california. head to our shores, is cloud not producing snow but rain and denying anybody any chance of seeing the aurora should it appear again tonight. the cloud will move northwards and eastwards with outbreaks of rain, coming to a halt over eastern scotland and eastern england but clear skies across central and western areas, a touch of frost around first thing and where the ground is damp, it could be on the icy side. into tonight, tuesday into wednesday and beyond, high