Details here on breakfast. Its sunday 3 march. Our top story The Chancellor, jeremy hunt, has tried to play down expectations about tax cuts in wednesdays budget, telling the Sunday Telegraph he has to act responsibly. With three days to go until mr hunt lays out his plans, the treasury says measures worth millions of pounds will be introduced to boost productivity in the public sector. Here is our Political Correspondent hannah miller. Police drones that can assess Road Traffic Accidents one solution chosen by The Chancellor as he takes an overview of the economy that doesnt make easy reading. But jeremy hunt says £800 million worth of Technology Like this will help to make police and hospitals more efficient and save almost £2 billion in five years it was time. Five years time. At a time when he has less money to play with them he would have hoped for, he is weighing up would have hoped for, he is weighing up what he can do to win votes. The chancellor is under pressure to make tax
hostages out and aid in, red cross gets access. so again, we have one more day today, hopefully we can get this thing extended and we ll see. any other way they feel they can determine the condition of the hostages, especially the americans? that s why the red cross access is so important because it s eyes on, it s an independent view and look to see how these people are doing. and that s why it s so important, why we have been fighting for it. thank you, john. regarding the attack in jerusalem which hamas has taken credit, does the u.s. view the attack to be a violation of the ongoing truce between israel and hamas? i don t want to get i m not a lawyer here, this attack happened in jerusalem, the pause is in the fighting more specific to gaza. so simple as that. it wasn t therefore it didn t violate. didn t technically violate the deal in place but obviously it s a stark reminder of who they are facing and wa kind of enemy they are opposing. back to the pho
11 more children and women released today, but the numbers, they don t begin to tell the story. tonight, in the second hour of laura coates live. now, for every one of the 11 women and children released today, there are loved ones who have been suffering along with them. who know whether that will see their family members again. for every one of those 11 people who are experiencing their first day of freedom, from october 7th, there are others being held hostage. just think of it, all the kids released today by hamas still have fathers in captivity. for seven weeks we have all been waiting. we ve talked to mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, while so many of their loved ones are still unaccounted for there are others who, tonight, their prayers have been answered. remember who turned 12 in captivity along with a 16-year-old sister, sir? i talked to their mother had not just three weeks after they were taken. you can imagine, you know, it was just celebrating his bi