plenty of rain, but some great success for a very familiar sporting face today. success for a very familiar sporting face toda . ., . , success for a very familiar sporting face today- face today. exactly, sarah. the heavens have face today. exactly, sarah. the heavens have opened - face today. exactly, sarah. the heavens have opened here - face today. exactly, sarah. the heavens have opened here at l heavens have opened here at cheltenham, but little down dampen the spirit of sir alex ferguson. he hasn t had a festival winner before today, and that he had one with him on morale at the start of the day, and that he had second in the ryanair chase. you could see the look on sir alex ferguson s face when he celebrated those two winners. it looked like the joy that we were used to seeing when he was a football manager. i asked dan skelton if he had ever spoken to sir alex about the impact of being a winning owner and what it means to him. of being a winning owner and what it
vaping and smoking, but the office for budget responsibility warns the government could find it hard to balance the books. here s our business correspondent, emma simpson. did you catch any ofjeremy s budget? it was a chance to turn around the fortunes of the conservative party. but was it enough? i think it s good that the workers are going to get money back in their pockets. but then if you think about the cost of living and how everything is going up, then maybe they could have given a little bit more back. anything that cuts taxes, i wish he would have done something a bit more for savers, we re in a position where we re living off savings. i think they re trying to do it in light of a general election and probably not really thinking about what the benefit - to the country is. the centrepiece of this budget was a £2 billion cut was a 2p in the pound cut to national insurance, a tax paid by workers. so who are the winners and losers if you include all the changes to tax
it s six in the morning in singapore, and one in the morning in turkey where voting has closed in one of the most critical elections. the country is deciding whether president erdohan remains in power after 20 years. it is expected to be a close race between him and an opposition leader kemal k l cdaroglu. he is a former civil servant who heads an alliance of six opposition parties, both secular and islamist. he promised to scrap many of the powers acquired by mr erdogan and return turkey to a parliamentary system. and also called for better relations with the west including renewal of turkey s bid for membership of the eu. the current leader recep tayyip erdogan first came to power as prime minister in 2003 and became president in 2014. under him turkey enjoyed strong economic growth, but it s been hit by high inflation, and the recent earthquakes in which tens of thousands died. he s also become increasingly authoritarian with more powers in the hands of the president,
if president recep tayyip erdogan should remain in power after 20 years may end in a run off vote. the islamic party of the incumbent president erdogan is being challenged by a secularist candidate, kemal kilicdaroglu. both men have dismissed the other side s claims to be in the lead. counting has continued throughout the day. this is one of the country s most critical elections. the country is dealing with soaring inflation, and is still reeling from two earthquakes in february in which more than 50,000 people died. these are live pictures from the streets of turkey where people are awaiting a result. let s cross live to our middle east corrrespondent anna foster, who joins us from outside the governing ak party s headquarters in the turkish city of adana. voting has been going on for quite a while now, we have had one side claiming they are in the lead and then the other side, so i suppose it shows usjust then the other side, so i suppose it shows us just how tight it is? i
palace. he s meeting his french counterpart, emmanuel macron. a statement from the elysee palace said mr zelensky and mr macron will discuss french military and humanitatian support for ukraine. it s mr zelensky s third visit to a major european power this weekend. he was in germany earlier and on saturday he was in rome meeting italian leaders. live now to france where we can join hugh schofield our paris correspondent for more on zelensky s visit. we heard a big announcement from germany about nearly $3 billion worth of aid on his visitjust before his visit to germany but are we expecting anything similar, any similar announcements from france? not that we have been led to believe, that is all i can say. there will be some kind of official press statement at the end of this dinner in a couple of hours and it may be that there is mention of more munitions and arms from france to ukraine but we have not been led to suspect that will happen in any major way. suspect that will