19/03/2016 BBC Weekend News

The Prime Minister has said he is "puzzled and disappointed" by

the resignation of Iain Duncan Smith from the cabinet.

The Work and Pensions Secretary stepped down last night in protest

over proposals to cut some disability benefits.

He described them as "indefensible" in a Budget that benefited

A short while ago the Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb

Here's our Political Correspondent Chris Mason.

Iain Duncan Smith and the Chancellor, George Osborne, all

smiles. But it is a relationship that had long been testy, and was

tested to destruction by this week's budget. Iain Duncan Smith came into

government in order to put social justice at the heart of British

politics and to do welfare reform. His feeling is that this is one cut

too far, and that the best way of protecting the poorest is for him to

leave government now. Iain Duncan Smith's resignation letter was

Azinger. By questioning, just as the

Conservatives's critics have long done, the Tory slogan to justify the

cuts, Mr Duncan Smith knowingly provided the government's opponents

with ammunition, leaving ministers on the defensive. The budget

proposals were endorsed by the whole Cabinet on Wednesday morning, before

the Chancellor presented them to Parliament, and he was obviously

part of that process. These proposals came from his department,

but it has been acknowledged now they need a bit more time, bit more

work. This is the new Work and Pensions Secretary, Stephen Crabb.

He used to be the Welsh Secretary, he was brought up in a council house

before becoming an MP, you worked in the voluntary sector and as a youth

worker. He now faces a huge political challenge, shaking up the

benefits system at a time when budgets are being squeezed. Chris is

with me, how damaging is this? This is government with the bonnet up, we

are able to stare up at the moving parts, the parts David Cameron would

rather keep shut out. There has undeniably been something of a testy

relationship between Mr Osborne and Iain Duncan Smith. But the big

picture is the government is trying to make lots of savings to deal with

the deficit. Any government trying to do that would look at the welfare

budget, because it does follow up a lot of money. So there is also the

-- always the potential for that clash to happen between the two

occupiers of those roles. The added twist was the personal animosity in

this instance, and the ability to paper over the cracks was not going

to work any more. A very dangerous time for George Osborne, a wannabe

Prime Minister, one backbencher saying he has a high-handed and

short termist approach. While many will praise Stephen Crabb is a good

fit in this new role, others will be saying hang on a minute, he is

pro-staying in the EE, whereas Iain Duncan Smith wasn't. --

There's been a suicide bombing in a major shopping street

Turkish officials say five people have been killed --

including the attacker -- and at around 36 injured,

Last Sunday, 37 people were killed in a bomb explosion

in the Turkish capital, Ankara.

Kurdish militants said they carried out that attack.

Salah Abdeslam - the man suspected of involvement in the Paris attacks

last year - has left hospital in Brussels

where he was being treated for a gunshot wound.

Abdeslam was shot in the leg yesterday as he was arrested

France have called for him to be extradited within days.

Investigators examining the cause of a plane crash in southern Russia

which killed all 62 people on board say they've recovered

The aircraft was arriving in Rostovondon from Dubai.

Our Moscow correspondent, Steve Rosenberg reports.

This is all that remains of Flight 981.

Debris scattered across a Russian airfield.

For the emergency services, the grim task was to recover bodies.

The Boeing 737-800 had taken off from Dubai for the Russian

After missing its initial approach, the plane entered a holding pattern.

This flight's radar data shows it circling for two hours before making

Some viewers may find the following images disturbing.

Captured by a security camera, the moment of the crash.

And the giant explosion on impact, which lit up the night sky.

It was half past three in the morning, this eyewitness said.

We saw an orange glow and heard something exploding.

It's thought that poor weather may have been a factor.

Local officials yesterday had issued a storm warning for the region.

Shortly before the crash, another aircraft had tried three

times to land here before being diverted.

And this was the scene inside Rostov airport.

For those who had come here to meet Flight 981,

But what can you say to people who have just been

told their friends and family won't be coming home?

Thousands of rugby fans are gathering in Paris ahead

of England's match with France this evening.

If they win, England will secure their first six nations

It has been the perfect start for Eddie Jones's England, four wins out

of four so far, they secure the Triple Crown and they won the title

last weekend. This weekend it is all about the Grand Slam. Can they

complete the clean sweep? They would much rather not becoming hit Paris

because England had not been very good against the French, they have

won here just once in the last eight years, and wouldn't the French just

love to spoil England's Grand Slam party? You have got to go back 13

years to 2003. You can follow all today's matches, Wales against

Italy, Ireland against the Scots, across the BBC, TV and radio through

the rest of the afternoon. That is all for now.

The next news on BBC One is at quarter past six -

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