we can t afford to be able to put her in nursery for some days a week so i can go back to work. so it s quite difficult really, but announcing this sounds really promising. big changes to pensions too to encourage people to stay in employment, but the chancellor s plans prompt accusations that his budget favours the rich. also on the programme tonight. markets fall in europe and the us amid concerns about the troubled banking giant credit suisse. it s a lovely ball through to benzema. break s here for vinicius. then benzema. and there s no miracle in madrid as liverpool are knocked out of the champions league. and coming up in the sport, but you left the best of the action from snakes champions league clashes, it is mission improbable liberal pool and nurture it, find out how they fare against the defending champions. liverpool. good evening. the chancellor, jeremy hunt, has pledged to build for the future in his first budget, promising it will deliver growth. he told mp
and why so many palestinians are dying in this operation. so hamas has had a diabolical plan of embedding all of its infrastructure within the civilian arena. we are currently targeting their leaders, from ismail haniyeh, who is the prime minister of hamas, but is actually the mastermind of the massacre in the south, on october the 7th. from him, right up at the top, down all the way down to the terrorists that conducted the infiltration, we are gathering intelligence and seeking them out and destroying them. so wherever they are hiding, congregating, planning their next attack, that is a legitimate target and well within the realm of the laws of armed conflict. we will seek them out. we didn t start this war. we didn t choose to go to war with hamas. they chose it, but we will win it. critics of israel will say that the thousands of people who have been killed, the hundreds of thousands who have been displaced, they didn t choose this war either, what do you say to them? i w
Of a flat economy, of widespread strikes even today, of declining living standards, and some concerns going forward. this is what the government independent forecaster thinks is going to happen with the economy, better up front next year, not a recession, but still down and a touch worse in future years. broadly speaking, the forecast looks better this year, that is mostly luck, the economy doing a bit better, energy prices going up less than expected. 0ver better, energy prices going up less than expected. over the medium term a little bit of the additional growth according to the office for budget responsibility, down to some of the measures we have seen in particular and we are expecting to get more people into work. the chancellor s get more people into work. the chancellor s central aim is a plan for growth that stops the lack of workers and very low investment. the obr workers and very low investment. the 0br has given an early bird that it could boost the workforce by 55 and 2
According to the office for budget responsibility, down to some of the measures that we ve seen, in particular expecting to get a few more people into work. now what s underlying all this? the chancellor s central aim is a plan for growth that implicitly acknowledges two core ongoing problems a lack of workers and very low investment the 0br has given a verdict on the chancellor s measures, an early marking of the homework, if you like, and they say yes it could boost the workforce by between 55,000 to 250,000 as a result of the measures childcare, pensions, sickness benefits comparing to a loss of some 500,000 workers since the pandemic. so that could be material for the economy. but on the other problem investment look at this pattern for the new corporation tax break. those new allowances lead to a boom in investment in the next couple of years. but then quite a sharp correction as the policy is assumed to end and actually in future years,