:00:00. > :00:08.Tonight at Ten: Millions of self-employed workers
:00:09. > :00:10.will pay more tax after Chancellor Philip
:00:11. > :00:19.He's accused of breaking a Conservative manifesto promise
:00:20. > :00:22.but he claims the Budget is all about building a brighter
:00:23. > :00:29.We embark on this next chapter of our history confident
:00:30. > :00:33.in our strengths and clear in our determination
:00:34. > :00:37.to build a stronger, fairer, better Britain.
:00:38. > :00:41.It's the last Budget before Britain starts the formal
:00:42. > :00:46.Labour says it fails to address the crisis in public services.
:00:47. > :00:50.It demonstrates again the appalling priorities of this Government.
:00:51. > :00:53.Another year, tax breaks for the few, public
:00:54. > :00:59.But there will be an extra ?2 billion for the social
:01:00. > :01:02.care system in England, spread over three years.
:01:03. > :01:05.We'll have detail and reaction from Westminster and beyond.
:01:06. > :01:12.In Afghanistan, gunmen dressed as doctors killed at least 30 people
:01:13. > :01:20.In South Sudan, the UN warns of a genocide in the making
:01:21. > :01:26.and blames Government forces and local militia.
:01:27. > :01:29.And, we talk to the former serviceman who's making
:01:30. > :01:38.Coming up in Sportsday: There's one match in the Premier League
:01:39. > :01:41.as Manchester City look to beat Stoke at the Etihad to go
:01:42. > :02:07.The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has presented his first Budget,
:02:08. > :02:09.promising to build a brighter future as the Government prepares
:02:10. > :02:15.to start the formal process of leaving the European Union.
:02:16. > :02:19.Among the main news was an extra ?2 billion to be spent on the social
:02:20. > :02:23.care system in England over the next three years.
:02:24. > :02:25.The Chancellor was accused of breaking a Conservative manifesto
:02:26. > :02:27.promise by increasing National Insurance contributions for millions
:02:28. > :02:32.And he offered some help for firms in England facing
:02:33. > :02:36.We'll have details of the speech and we start with our political
:02:37. > :02:51.Number 11 fears rainy days. At this end of the street there are nerves
:02:52. > :02:57.there are more ahead. So there was no chance the Chancellor would
:02:58. > :03:02.emerge to splash the cash. Saving for a rainy day, Chancellor? Coming
:03:03. > :03:10.out for his first day holding the box, less broad smile, more grin and
:03:11. > :03:16.bear it. Grinning and bearing it? From the lonely journey, to the roar
:03:17. > :03:22.of the Commons bear pit. Where his boss hardly looked worried about how
:03:23. > :03:26.he would perform. The right honourable mm. At his first and last
:03:27. > :03:32.spring Budget, next time it will be in the autumn. 24 years ago, Norman
:03:33. > :03:36.Lamont also presented what was billed then as the last Spring
:03:37. > :03:43.Budget. Ten weeks later he was sacked. So, wish me luck today. The
:03:44. > :03:49.country's finances less peaky than expected but as he knows, hardly in
:03:50. > :03:54.the clear. I report today on an economy that has continued to
:03:55. > :03:58.confound the commentators with robust growth, a labour market
:03:59. > :04:03.delivering record employment and a deficit down by over two thirds. As
:04:04. > :04:07.we start our negotiations to exit the European Union, this Budget
:04:08. > :04:11.takes forward our plan to prepare Britain for a brighter future. But
:04:12. > :04:17.no stop to cuts nor a sudden speeding up to clear the debt. Some
:04:18. > :04:22.have argued that lower borrowing this year makes a case for more
:04:23. > :04:29.unfunded spending in the future. I disagree. We on this side will not
:04:30. > :04:36.saddle our children with ever increasing debt. But he did break
:04:37. > :04:40.with the plan and arguably broke his party's manifesto promise,
:04:41. > :04:44.announcing a tax increase on more than two million of the
:04:45. > :04:50.self-employed. The difference in National Insurance contributions is
:04:51. > :04:53.no longer justified by the difference in benefit
:04:54. > :04:56.enentitlements. Such different treatment of two people earning
:04:57. > :05:03.essentially the same undermines the fairness of our tax system. Around
:05:04. > :05:08.2.5 million people will have to pay more. The average loss ?240 a year.
:05:09. > :05:14.There are other changes to National Insurance too. Some Tory
:05:15. > :05:17.backbenchers have cried foul, are furious at an attack on the Tory
:05:18. > :05:21.tribe but the Health Secretary had reason perhaps to be pleased at what
:05:22. > :05:25.was coming. Our social care system cares for over a million people and
:05:26. > :05:31.I want to pay tribute to the hundreds of thousands of carers who
:05:32. > :05:35.work in it. But the system is clearly under pressure and this in
:05:36. > :05:40.turn puts pressure on our NHS. He will spend ?2 billion of taxpayers'
:05:41. > :05:43.money on social care in England. ?1 billion available in the next 12
:05:44. > :05:49.months. And there is a longer term review of how to pay to look after
:05:50. > :05:53.the elderly. After pleading to Number 11 about changes to business
:05:54. > :05:59.rates, the Chancellor accepted there had to be a stop to those facing the
:06:00. > :06:03.biggest hikes. The revaluation has undoubtedly raised some hard cases.
:06:04. > :06:08.Especially for those businesses coming out of small business rates
:06:09. > :06:13.relief. ?300 million will go to local councils to help small firms
:06:14. > :06:18.with business rate rises. None of them will face hikes of more than
:06:19. > :06:22.?50. There was extra cash for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
:06:23. > :06:27.and for technical education in schools but with the seeds of a row
:06:28. > :06:32.about National Insurance sown behind him the Chancellor's final words may
:06:33. > :06:37.not be allowed to stand. We embark on this next chapter of our history
:06:38. > :06:44.confident in our strengths, and clear in our determination to build
:06:45. > :06:52.a stronger, fairer better Britain. I commend this Budget to the House.
:06:53. > :06:58.The opposition lead's visible anger didn't mean he took the Government's
:06:59. > :07:02.arguments apart. This was a Budget of utter complacency about the state
:07:03. > :07:06.of our economy. When she took office the Prime Minister said if you are
:07:07. > :07:10.one of those families, if you just are managing I want to address you
:07:11. > :07:15.directly. This Budget does not address them. It failed them. This
:07:16. > :07:20.Budget has done nothing to tackle low pay, nothing to solve the state
:07:21. > :07:26.of emergency that persists with so many people demanding and needing
:07:27. > :07:29.health and social care now. Others saw opportunity after only glance
:07:30. > :07:32.mentions of the biggest issue around town. There is 100 billion extra
:07:33. > :07:36.borrowing because the Government has chose a hard Brexit. You can't have
:07:37. > :07:39.a strong economy with a hard Brexit. You can't have strong well funded
:07:40. > :07:45.NHS social care or education with a hard Brexit. The Government has made
:07:46. > :07:49.wrong choices snoochlt it was an awful Budget, it was the Brexit
:07:50. > :07:53.budget that dare not speak its name, he barely mentioned brink. He has
:07:54. > :07:56.confirmed he is wedded to the welfare cut punishing the poorest
:07:57. > :08:02.and most vulnerable. An appalling Budget. Safety first? Not quite,
:08:03. > :08:05.with the dispute over National Insurance, no Government wants
:08:06. > :08:09.accusations it hasn't kept its word. Did you break your promise, Prime
:08:10. > :08:12.Minister? It's rare any Chancellor and the
:08:13. > :08:15.next door neighbour escape Budgets totally unscathed.
:08:16. > :08:20.Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster.
:08:21. > :08:22.In his first Budget, Mr Hammond told MPs that
:08:23. > :08:24.in the near term economic gret was expected to be higher
:08:25. > :08:26.and borrowing lower than forecast in November.
:08:27. > :08:28.But he said debt remained too high and the Government's
:08:29. > :08:32.Our economics editor Kamal Ahmed is here with analysis
:08:33. > :08:41.So, the Chancellor stood up at 12.30 and he had some good news and some
:08:42. > :08:47.Let's look at the growth figures first.
:08:48. > :08:49.Last November, peak gloom for economists
:08:50. > :08:56.following the referendum, this was the growth forecast.
:08:57. > :09:00.Just 1.4% this year, before slowing, climbing back to around 2% by 2020.
:09:01. > :09:06.Today, better news, at least for this year, 2% growth for 2017.
:09:07. > :09:12.But then a dip as Britain negotiates its way out
:09:13. > :09:16.of the European Union, before recovering again back to 2%.
:09:17. > :09:20.Well, the economy has had more momentum coming through 2016
:09:21. > :09:23.and into the early months of this year than we expected back
:09:24. > :09:26.in the autumn, but we haven't changed our view about the total
:09:27. > :09:30.growth that the economy can sustain over the next five years.
:09:31. > :09:33.So if you have more good news at the beginning of the forecast,
:09:34. > :09:36.you have slightly weaker growth through the rest of it.
:09:37. > :09:41.Last November, it was predicted the deficit, that's the difference
:09:42. > :09:45.between what a government spends and what it receives in taxes,
:09:46. > :09:49.would hit ?68.2 billion, on the far left of the graph,
:09:50. > :09:56.before falling every year, to ?21 billion, by 2022.
:09:57. > :09:59.Now, just for some context, it costs about ?100 billion to run
:10:00. > :10:07.Again today, in the short-term, good news.
:10:08. > :10:11.Borrowing this year will be better, at ?51.7 billion, but the picture
:10:12. > :10:15.worsens next year before again borrowing falling to about
:10:16. > :10:23.Around the same amount that was predicted in November.
:10:24. > :10:25.Remember, George Osborne initially wanted to get us
:10:26. > :10:31.Then he took that out to 2020 and Philip Hammond now says he's
:10:32. > :10:37.So we could end up with 15 years, 15 years of austerity to get
:10:38. > :10:42.Now, social care was the big spending commitment today
:10:43. > :10:48.and there were two tax rises to pay for it.
:10:49. > :10:50.A ?2 billion tax rise over the next five years,
:10:51. > :10:55.paid by the self-employed in higher national insurance contributions
:10:56. > :11:02.and a ?2.6 billion tax increase for business owners and investors
:11:03. > :11:08.who take what's called dividend income from the shares they own.
:11:09. > :11:13.Now, one thing was left out of the Budget box today and
:11:14. > :11:16.that was any real mention of Brexit, but that doesn't mean companies
:11:17. > :11:19.Businesses are feeling the weight of uncertainty very strongly.
:11:20. > :11:23.They would like to have seen more to shore up short-term confidence,
:11:24. > :11:27.particularly around business rates, but they will welcome
:11:28. > :11:29.the investment in some of the longer term areas,
:11:30. > :11:32.like skills and the recommitment to infrastructure investment.
:11:33. > :11:36.This was actually a pretty short Budget, just 28 tax
:11:37. > :11:41.and spend measures this year, compared with 77 in 2016.
:11:42. > :11:47.But it was significant, big reviews are now in place on how
:11:48. > :11:50.we tax the new world of work and the self-employed and how
:11:51. > :12:00.The Chancellor's main tax change has proved controversial,
:12:01. > :12:06.His decision to increase National Insurance contributions
:12:07. > :12:08.for millions of self-employed people appears to go against
:12:09. > :12:13.He's going to raise more money by targeting the dividend payments
:12:14. > :12:17.Our business editor, Simon Jack, reports
:12:18. > :12:29.Up and down the country small businesses, the bedrock of the
:12:30. > :12:33.economy, got a surprise today when the Chancellor launched a tax raid
:12:34. > :12:37.on the self-employed. Being your own boss means you pay a lower rate of
:12:38. > :12:41.national insurance but today the Chancellor announced that lower rate
:12:42. > :12:46.is going up to almost the same rate as a paid employee. That will cut
:12:47. > :12:50.into salon owner Robert's take home pay but another type of national
:12:51. > :12:53.insurance is being abolished so lower earners like some of his
:12:54. > :12:56.stylists will be slightly better off. We have a number of
:12:57. > :13:03.self-employed stylists here and I am pleased for them if their costs are
:13:04. > :13:07.going down. But for me personally my bill is going to be several hundred
:13:08. > :13:11.pounds a year more. Overall changes to national insurance for the
:13:12. > :13:18.self-employed will mean that those earning ?12700, for example, will be
:13:19. > :13:22.?70 a year better off in 2019. Someone earning ?17,000 will be ?20
:13:23. > :13:29.worse off. And higher earnings making ?51,000
:13:30. > :13:39.will be ?620 worse off. And Philip Hammond wasn't finished, he had more
:13:40. > :13:43.bad news for entry treners. Company owners and shareholder can currently
:13:44. > :13:46.Taxco-free, that is been slashed to ?2,000. You are taking a lot of
:13:47. > :13:51.risk. You are assuming you are not going to get ill, maternity leave is
:13:52. > :13:54.hard, I have a one-year-old. As part of that risk you assume there's
:13:55. > :13:58.going to be benefits running a small business. As a country we are
:13:59. > :14:03.pushing growing the number of small businesses in the country so a tax
:14:04. > :14:06.like this just makes it harder. When something becomes popular, it
:14:07. > :14:13.doesn't take long for the taxman to notice. Being your own boss is
:14:14. > :14:18.becoming incredibly popular. There's been an explosion in the number of
:14:19. > :14:22.self-employed people, who pay lower rates of national insurance than
:14:23. > :14:27.regular employees. Some say today's raid is an attack on the kind of
:14:28. > :14:30.self-starting risk-taking entrepreneurs the economy needs.
:14:31. > :14:33.Others say it's high time the growing number of self-employed
:14:34. > :14:39.people paid the same rate of tax as everybody else. Self-employment has
:14:40. > :14:42.been the biggest story in the jobs market in years. It accounts for
:14:43. > :14:46.nearly half of the employment growth since the down turn. The steps
:14:47. > :14:50.announced by the Chancellor in today's Budget are bold and are
:14:51. > :14:52.welcome in terms of moving towards closing the tax discrepancies
:14:53. > :14:57.between the self-employed and employees. The nature of employment
:14:58. > :15:00.is changing fast. The Government is reviewing better ways to tax it.
:15:01. > :15:03.Some will wonder if raising the burden on the growing army of the
:15:04. > :15:07.self-employed is the right place to start. Simon Jack, BBC News.
:15:08. > :15:09.Let's look at other measures in today's Budget.
:15:10. > :15:14.There were no new announcements on tobacco, but increases announced
:15:15. > :15:17.previously mean that, from tonight, a price of a packet
:15:18. > :15:26.From Monday, a pint of beer will go up 2p, a bottle of whisky by 36p
:15:27. > :15:32.There'll be ?100 million to fund more GPs in Accident Emergency
:15:33. > :15:35.departments in England next winter to ease the pressure.
:15:36. > :15:36.There'll be ?270 million for science and innovation,
:15:37. > :15:38.which includes research into robots and driverless cars.
:15:39. > :15:43.There'll be ?90 million for transport in the north
:15:44. > :15:47.of England and ?23 million for the Midlands to ease
:15:48. > :15:54.The Scottish Government will get an extra ?350 million,
:15:55. > :15:56.Wales an extra ?200 million and there'll be an extra
:15:57. > :16:15.As we mentioned, the Chancellor announced an extra ?2 billion
:16:16. > :16:17.for social care in England, admitting
:16:18. > :16:19.that the system was clearly under pressure.
:16:20. > :16:21.The money will be spent over the next three years.
:16:22. > :16:24.But there has been criticism that it's still not enough,
:16:25. > :16:27.Our social affairs correspondent, Alison Holt, reports
:16:28. > :16:51.Four times a day, care workers help 76-year-old Avril Smith
:16:52. > :16:51.with such things as washing, dressing and getting to the toilet
:16:52. > :16:52.A stroke left her partially paralysed.
:16:53. > :16:52.This is what the extra ?2 billion announced for social
:16:53. > :16:52.Mrs Smith believes it's something the Chancellor had to do.
:16:53. > :16:53.It's not just me, people need it, it's people that
:16:54. > :16:53.So what would you say to the Chancellor about this
:16:54. > :16:56.Get your hand in your pocket, stop being so tight.
:16:57. > :17:01.How would he like it if he was sat at home all day and can't move?
:17:02. > :17:04.For her husband, who cares for her the rest of the time, this
:17:05. > :17:05.council-funded support is also crucial.
:17:06. > :17:08.If I didn't get it for the last two or three years, I would have
:17:09. > :17:14.been in my grave now, so it's vital that we get it.
:17:15. > :17:17.And of the money the Chancellor has found, councils will get ?1 billion
:17:18. > :17:20.in the coming financial year with the rest in the following two
:17:21. > :17:28.With care companies struggling to recruit enough staff, they say
:17:29. > :17:36.The staff will need to be paid a salary which represents the work
:17:37. > :17:41.they undertake in the community, travelling around, visiting people,
:17:42. > :17:44.like Mr and Mrs Smith, day in, day out, sometimes three or four
:17:45. > :17:46.times a day, to give them the care they need.
:17:47. > :17:50.We need to be able to support that in terms of a proper living wage.
:17:51. > :17:52.In Nottinghamshire, the County Council spends about 45%
:17:53. > :17:55.of its budget on adult social care, so the minute the Chancellor sat
:17:56. > :18:01.down after his speech, here they began doing their sums.
:18:02. > :18:04.These are our current savings plans...
:18:05. > :18:07.The council calculates they'll get another ?7 million next year,
:18:08. > :18:14.but they currently have a shortfall in their care budget of ?17 million.
:18:15. > :18:17.The Labour leader, who wrote to the Chancellor warning the system
:18:18. > :18:19.was in crisis after years of cuts, welcomes today's
:18:20. > :18:25.We've still got temporary money in the system and there still needs
:18:26. > :18:29.to be a longer term solution because one thing's for sure, we can
:18:30. > :18:32.not carry on the way we are treating this almost as crisis management.
:18:33. > :18:40.And with more younger adults with disabilities needing support,
:18:41. > :18:43.the demand for different types of care is also increasing.
:18:44. > :18:47.The Government has promised there will be a Green Paper
:18:48. > :18:50.which looks at the funding of social care for the future.
:18:51. > :19:00.Our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, at Westminster.
:19:01. > :19:07.For you, let us underline the themes of this Budget? Huw, Budgets can
:19:08. > :19:13.completely change the atmosphere around here. Let's be frank, today
:19:14. > :19:17.was not a vintage moment, but it was significant because this is the
:19:18. > :19:22.first Budget with Theresa May and Philip Hammond in charge. It was a
:19:23. > :19:26.mixture of short-term tweaks but a glimpse of what they would like to
:19:27. > :19:29.do in the future. There were promises in different areas of
:19:30. > :19:33.longer term solutions. Broadly, the picture is still not very pretty.
:19:34. > :19:58.The cuts will go on. The documents today suggest that millions of
:19:59. > :19:58.people around the country, public sector works, people whose benefits
:19:59. > :20:00.have been frozen, are going to keep on feeling the pinch for quite some
:20:01. > :20:00.time to come. On the other side, well the debt doesn't miraculously
:20:01. > :20:02.somehow disappear any time soon. The overall back drop, of course of
:20:03. > :20:02.course with uncertainty of leaving the EU as well is pretty
:20:03. > :20:04.challenging. The Government has ended up with a row tonight with
:20:05. > :20:07.some of their Tory backbenchers very unhappy over this policy that will
:20:08. > :20:11.hike taxes for some of the self-employed. It's not quite clear
:20:12. > :20:17.at this stage how much damage that will do, but I think for some
:20:18. > :20:22.newspapers tomorrow it will get a hard landing in the headlines. Fleet
:20:23. > :20:27.Street's reaction isn't all, Downing Street will be disappointed to find
:20:28. > :20:35.that tomorrow's front page of the Sun will call this policy "spite van
:20:36. > :20:41.man" poking fun of the Government's attitude Theresa May says she wants
:20:42. > :20:44.to reach. Philip Hammond has a deserved reputation as a safe pair
:20:45. > :20:50.of hands. He hasn't escaped this first Budget with a completely clean
:20:51. > :20:55.pair of heels. That said, I think it's unlikely at this stage today,
:20:56. > :21:00.his first Budget, historic in that sense, will be looked back as a
:21:01. > :21:03.major, major moment. Laura Kuenssberg with her thoughts there
:21:04. > :21:07.on the Budget. All the details of the Chancellor's
:21:08. > :21:11.announcements are there with updates and analysis from our editors
:21:12. > :21:18.and senior correspondents. Take a look at the site there for
:21:19. > :21:23.us. Let's turn to the day's
:21:24. > :21:25.other main stories. In Afghanistan, the Islamic State
:21:26. > :21:28.group has said it was responsible for an attack on a military hospital
:21:29. > :21:32.in the capital Kabul. At least 30 people died when gunmen,
:21:33. > :21:34.dressed as doctors, Army commandos took several hours
:21:35. > :21:42.to regain control after landing by helicopter on the roof,
:21:43. > :21:52.as our correspondent, Smoke billows from Afghanistan's
:21:53. > :21:55.largest military hospital, a small group of four or five
:21:56. > :21:57.IS extremists have overwhelmed its defences and are using guns
:21:58. > :22:00.and grenades to attack both medical Some are able to flee to window
:22:01. > :22:04.ledges, high above the ground. One sends out a message
:22:05. > :22:08."pray for us." It takes helicopters,
:22:09. > :22:10.laden with Afghan special forces, to counter-attack and several hours
:22:11. > :22:17.of fighting to kill the jihadists. TRANSLATION: I was in the operating
:22:18. > :22:22.theatre when a suicide bomber, wearing a white doctor's uniform,
:22:23. > :22:25.came in and opened fire on me. When he fired on me,
:22:26. > :22:27.I fell down on the ground. Somehow I escaped
:22:28. > :22:42.using the back exit. Afghanistan's President said
:22:43. > :23:07.the attack on a hospital But the inability of his security
:23:08. > :23:08.forces to protect such an obvious target raises fresh doubts
:23:09. > :23:09.about the ability of a fragile, often corrupt government to prevail
:23:10. > :23:10.against the extremists Now that Isis is on the road
:23:11. > :23:11.to defeat in Iraq, in Syria, you've got to ask yourself -
:23:12. > :23:11.where are these guys going to go? Where are these fighters,
:23:12. > :23:12.these terrorists, going to go? Unfortunately, Afghanistan, as long
:23:13. > :23:12.as it remains unstable like this, is highly attractive to groups
:23:13. > :23:16.like Isis for relocation. Which all makes Afghanistan look
:23:17. > :23:18.more vulnerable than ever. No wonder America's top General
:23:19. > :23:26.there has been urging the despatch of thousands more international
:23:27. > :23:28.troops as military trainers A brief look at some
:23:29. > :23:42.of the day's other news. In Wolverhampton, a man has
:23:43. > :23:44.stabbed his sister to death West Midlands Police used
:23:45. > :23:49.stun grenades to break Another woman, believed to be
:23:50. > :23:54.the mother of the two, is in hospital in a critical
:23:55. > :23:57.condition. Suffolk Police say they
:23:58. > :24:01.are confident the body of the missing RAF airman,
:24:02. > :24:03.Corrie Mckeague, will be The 23-year-old vanished
:24:04. > :24:07.on a night out in Bury St He was last seen when a refuse
:24:08. > :24:15.lorry was in the area. Police have started
:24:16. > :24:21.a search of the site. "Extremely concerned"
:24:22. > :24:22.about a security breach that led to WikiLeaks
:24:23. > :24:24.publishing CIA documents. That's how President Donald Trump
:24:25. > :24:26.is feeling, according Sean Spicer said at a news briefing
:24:27. > :24:30.that the Trump administration intends to be tough on those
:24:31. > :24:33.who leak information. A Maltese rock formation, featured
:24:34. > :24:36.in the TV series Game of Thrones, The arch, known as the Azure Window,
:24:37. > :24:45.was weakened by storms. South Sudan is edging closer
:24:46. > :24:47.to genocide, according They accuse government forces
:24:48. > :24:52.and militia of carrying out ethnically-motivated attacks
:24:53. > :24:59.on civilians while using the current civil war as something
:25:00. > :25:01.of a smokescreen. But the government of South Sudan
:25:02. > :25:03.denies that the country Our Africa correspondent,
:25:04. > :25:09.Alistair Leithead, reports now She'd travelled through the night
:25:10. > :25:29.when she'd heard what happened. Isaac's body was found dumped
:25:30. > :25:33.in the river, his ankles tied, TRANSLATION: My son
:25:34. > :25:52.was fishing and saw the body. I don't know who did
:25:53. > :25:53.it or why they did it. Government forces are
:25:54. > :25:59.in charge of Yei Town. The civil war recently spread
:26:00. > :26:02.to this part of the country where different ethnic groups
:26:03. > :26:06.peacefully lived side by side. We're just a short drive
:26:07. > :26:09.from the centre of Yei Town, but this is pretty much the limit
:26:10. > :26:11.of where the army forces are prepared to go on foot
:26:12. > :26:14.because the rebels control areas Houses and buildings in this
:26:15. > :26:18.deserted neighbourhood The soldiers blame
:26:19. > :26:25.wildfires or accidents. It's our mandate to make
:26:26. > :26:30.sure civilians are safe. It might be the rule,
:26:31. > :26:32.but it's not the reality, or at least not the reality we heard
:26:33. > :26:35.from those who would talk, This man's sister was
:26:36. > :26:42.assaulted by three soldiers. She's sure that they're
:26:43. > :26:47.government soldiers? Another witness described 10 young
:26:48. > :27:01.men being dragged out of their family homes,
:27:02. > :27:02.chained together and This woman was attacked in her house
:27:03. > :27:07.by soldiers in uniform. He took this iron,
:27:08. > :27:10.he started to beat me. He was going to beat me on my head,
:27:11. > :27:23.but I put my hands like that. Even though both sides
:27:24. > :27:25.in this war have been implicated in atrocities,
:27:26. > :27:27.these allegations were all "There's no killing or raping",
:27:28. > :27:33.said the senior commander, "The only people we fight
:27:34. > :27:44.are the rebels", he said. The survivors then claim civilians
:27:45. > :27:48.were killed by the army, but we don't kill our own civilians
:27:49. > :27:50.in our own country." In eight months, half a million
:27:51. > :28:06.people have fled the country rather Everywhere you go in this area it's
:28:07. > :28:12.the same, villages that People have closed up and taken
:28:13. > :28:16.what they can with them. Hundreds of thousands of people have
:28:17. > :28:19.crossed from here into Uganda. Others in the bush
:28:20. > :28:21.because of the fighting. And there's a deeply
:28:22. > :28:27.disturbing ethnic element underlying the deaths,
:28:28. > :28:31.that people are being killed That's why the UN has warned this
:28:32. > :28:35.could end in genocide. Alastair Leithead, BBC
:28:36. > :28:54.News, Yei, South Sudan. Football, and Barcelona have pulled
:28:55. > :28:57.off a stunning result in the Champions League,
:28:58. > :28:58.beating Paris St-Germain Barcelona now progress
:28:59. > :29:13.to the semi-finals after Neymar, Messi and Suarez,
:29:14. > :29:21.Barcelona's Mott motto is - more than a club, no club had overturned
:29:22. > :29:26.such a deficit. Suarez heard crossed line, just. It was a match about the
:29:27. > :29:31.finest of margins and the referee's sometimes debatable judgment. Should
:29:32. > :29:37.that a penalty? Messi scored a third, one more to level the tie or
:29:38. > :29:43.one for more PSG, a cracker from Cavani that should have put the tie
:29:44. > :29:48.to bed. An away goal that left Barcelona needing three. #12450urly
:29:49. > :29:57.there wasn't time. Then Neymar did that. Then Neymar converted another
:29:58. > :30:01.suspect penalty. Sergi stayed on side, swamped by his team-mates.
:30:02. > :30:06.That was more than just a bowl. Barcelona are more than just a club.
:30:07. > :30:11.Ollie Foster, BBC News. The amateur jockey, Guy Disney,
:30:12. > :30:13.was the first amputee to ride a winner at a British racecourse
:30:14. > :30:16.and on Friday he'll return to Sandown for the first race
:30:17. > :30:19.since his victory last month. Disney is a former serviceman who
:30:20. > :30:21.competes wearing a prosthetic leg. Our sports correspondent,
:30:22. > :30:24.Andy Swiss, has been to meet him. It's not me trying to say -
:30:25. > :30:27.look at me ride, missing a leg. I do this sport because I love
:30:28. > :30:31.it, I want to win. Guy Disney was an army captain
:30:32. > :30:39.in Afghanistan when, in 2009, he lost his lower right leg
:30:40. > :30:42.in a grenade attack. His hopes of being a jump jockey
:30:43. > :30:46.seemed over, but Disney was allowed to compete wearing his prosthetic
:30:47. > :30:49.leg, a first in British racing and last month, at Sandown,
:30:50. > :30:55.he rode into history. COMMENTATOR: Hats off
:30:56. > :31:01.for Captain Guy Disney, he's going to win the Royal Artillery
:31:02. > :31:03.on Rathlin Rose. His first thoughts,
:31:04. > :31:05.for the young soldier who died alongside him and for those who'd
:31:06. > :31:08.helped his recovery. I mean, I'm a product
:31:09. > :31:14.of all the people who've slightly So from the guys who tucked
:31:15. > :31:18.a tourniquet on my leg, to the doctors, the nurses,
:31:19. > :31:24.the physios, to the racing world. Just quite nice quiet moment to just
:31:25. > :31:28.try and take it in and think Just competing though
:31:29. > :31:31.has been a victory. For four years, the authorities
:31:32. > :31:33.wouldn't let him, fearing his prosthetic leg could get trapped
:31:34. > :31:36.in his own stirrup. If I had my foot in the iron
:31:37. > :31:52.and fell backwards and right, I'd get my toes caught like that
:31:53. > :31:53.and then be dragged, which is, you know, a pretty
:31:54. > :31:54.horrific experience. It took this device,
:31:55. > :31:55.called a toe-stopper, It means you physically can't
:31:56. > :31:55.get stuck in the iron. If I fall, you slide along the top
:31:56. > :31:56.and you would come out. Yeah, so far so good,
:31:57. > :31:58.it works really effectively. Since his injury, Disney has also
:31:59. > :32:01.trekked to both Poles, but racing I've ridden around Cheltenham
:32:02. > :32:05.at Bartow a few times since being injured,
:32:06. > :32:07.not at the festival, but, yeah, if anybody
:32:08. > :32:09.saw this and thought - God, I want to give a one-legged
:32:10. > :32:12.bloke a ride, yeah, mad-keen. In this sport of hurdles none,
:32:13. > :32:15.it seems, is too high. Lots to talk about on
:32:16. > :32:26.this Budget evening. Not least with Treasury minister,
:32:27. > :32:29.David Gauke, he'll be with us live in the studio to answer questions
:32:30. > :32:32.about national insurance