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48 hours after his dramatic resignation, Iain Duncan Smith | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
accuses the government of losing its way. | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
The former Work and Pensions Secretary says he was frustrated | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
I think it is in danger of drifting in a direction that divides society, | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
Downing Street says the government is determined to control welfare | :00:25. | :00:35. | |
spending and make the system fairer for everyone. | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
More arrivals on the Greek islands - despite the new deal allowing | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
refugees and migrants to be deported back to Turkey. | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
Cuba awaits Obama - due to arrive this evening | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
for the first US presidential visit in nearly 90 years. | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
And Newcastle salvage some pride in the Tyne Wear | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
And Newcastle salvage some pride in the Tyne Wear | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
Iain Duncan Smith says he resigned from the government because he felt | :01:01. | :01:23. | |
as Work and Pensions Secretary, he said he disagreed | :01:24. | :01:33. | |
with a reduction in the welfare cap and felt increasingly isolated | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
He said he'd come under what he called "massive pressure" | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
to deliver savings ahead of last week's budget. | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
The impact of his resignation rippled through government. Two days | :01:48. | :01:57. | |
on, Iain Duncan Smith dealt another devastating blow. In his first | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
interview since stepping down, he delivered a damning indictment of | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
government policy, claiming it was balancing the books on the backs of | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
the poor. I am concerned this government, that I want to succeed, | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
is not able to do the kind of things it should, because it has become too | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
focused on narrowly getting the deficit down without saying where it | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
should fall, other than simply on those who can less afford to have | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
that fall on them. Iain Duncan Smith has presided over deep cuts to | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
benefits for the past six years, but said they had now gone too far. He | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
blamed increasing pressure from the Treasury to find short-term savings | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
claiming the brunt of cuts were falling on people of working age and | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
saying he was an isolated voice, arguing for compassionate | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
conservatism. I only care for one thing and one thing only. It is the | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
people but don't get the choices my children get, are left behind. I | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
don't want them left behind. It is painful to resign. But I am because | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
it is the only way I can do this. Because what is happening at the | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
moment is immoral. It is in danger of drifting in a direction that | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
divides society rather than United. And that is unfair. We will be | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
spending more in real terms... A row over the region budget which | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
included disability cuts and tax deductions for middle earners was | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
the final score. But Mr Duncan Smith said his discontent had been brewing | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
for months. He had endorsed the government's policies to cap public | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
spending, but became uneasy last year. After the last election, | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
arbitrarily, the welfare cap was lowered, which put us under | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
pressure, just to meet the cap. Critics claimed the real motivation | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
behind this attack is Iain Duncan Smith's desire to lead the EU, so | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
damaged those campaigning to stay, which he flatly denied. He said, | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
this wasn't personal. But offered a lukewarm endorsement of the | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
Chancellor. Would George Osborne make a good Prime Minister? Sorry I | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
missed the question. Would George Osborne make a good Prime Minister. | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
If he was to stand, and he was elected, I hope he would. But it is | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
the same for anybody else. It is the Chancellor's economic decisions that | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
bear the brunt of this criticism. Vomit sources point out Iain Duncan | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
Smith was at the top table throughout. Iain Duncan Smith has | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
been in cabinet for six years, he hasn't been a spectator, he has been | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
part of delivering the progress we made in making sure we are one | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
Nation government, that we help everybody. Spending on disability | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
has gone up every year. We make sure more people are in employment and we | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
always help the people who are the lowest paid. But the manner of his | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
departure has laid their ideological divisions at the heart of government | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
and handed ammunition to its critics. | :05:11. | :05:20. | |
Iain Duncan Smith spent six years as Work and Pensions Secretary - | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
seeing himself as a social reformer at a time when the Treasury | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
was seeking to make savings in the sizeable welfare budget. | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
Our political correspondent Chris Mason looks now | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
Any government trying to save money is likely to home in on the welfare | :05:32. | :05:43. | |
budget. Let's take a look at where our taxes go. A third of all | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
government spending goes on welfare. But the biggest chunk of that 42%, | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
is spent on pensions, which are protected from cuts. You are never | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
going to get the deficit down without doing something to that | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
budget. The issue for the government is they are protecting the bit that | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
goes to pensioners. That means bigger cuts on average to the | :06:07. | :06:08. | |
benefits that go to people of working age. And that has left | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
people like this lady feeling unfairly targeted and squeezed. It | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
is pretty much the most vulnerable people in society that are taking | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
the worst hit from changes, not just regards disability. I really | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
seriously think it needs to be rethought. There are other areas | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
that can be budgeted. The government hoped it would keep a lid on welfare | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
spending by imposing a cap. There is a restriction on what benefits | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
individual households can get every year. Soon to be cut from ?26,000 a | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
year to 20,000. All 23,000 in London. Iain Duncan Smith is | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
supposed to have supported it, but it doesn't save that much money. | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
What annoys Iain Duncan Smith's was the second cap on his department's | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
overall spending. With ministers facing awkward questions about their | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
budgeting and the rows that have rumbled within the Cabinet, it has | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
given Labour chance to point out it's not just them who suffer from | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
blasts of internal turbulence. They want an explanation from the | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
Chancellor, and soon. We have asked George Osborne to come to Parliament | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
and explain his stance on the budget. This budget is falling | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
apart. I can't see how he cannot consider his position now. Tomorrow, | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
ministers will begin explaining exactly what they plan to do. And | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
whilst there will be a new Work and Pensions Secretary at the helm, the | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
challenge remains, shaking up welfare is hard enough when there is | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
lots of money around. It is harder still when there isn't. | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
Let's join Alex Forsyth in Downing Street. A dramatic 48 hours, after | :07:56. | :08:05. | |
Iain Duncan Smith said today, where does the government stand? Iain | :08:06. | :08:15. | |
Duncan Smith chose to ask if we are all in this age of us there it is | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
something Prime Minister and the Chancellor have been saying for | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
years. Iain Duncan Smith said he has done this to re-force a rethink, a | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
change in government direction. But his critics point out some of his | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
welfare reforms are already flailing. The fact he has pitched | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
himself against the government over the EU referendum, it means he had | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
little to lose. You could try to preserve his legacy by going now, as | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
a man who takes a principled stance. Whatever you think about his reasons | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
for resigning, he has left a lot of anger and resentment behind, at the | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
point he has exposed differences at the very heart of government. Thank | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
you very much. The deal between Turkey and the EU - | :08:57. | :09:07. | |
aimed at tackling the migrant crisis From today, those arriving illegally | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
in Greece face being sent But despite the new rules hundreds | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
of migrants landed on the Greek islands today - our correspondent | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
James Reynolds sent this Short time after dawn, | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
a boat full of migrants is escorted It's early in the day, | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
but they may be too late. These migrants have | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
made it to Europe. But if the new Deal | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
is implemented properly, they may not get to stay | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
here for all that long. Europe may choose to send them | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
back across these waters Deportations may begin in the coming | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
days. The new arrivals don't appear | :09:49. | :10:07. | |
to know that the rules have changed. You and everyone here might have | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
to go back to Turkey. She is five months pregnant | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
with their first child. They think they've got here just | :10:13. | :10:33. | |
before the deadline. Today is the first | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
day of the new rules. For now, they will be sent to this | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
fortified island camp. The EU promises to send hundreds | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
of judges to hear asylum But rights groups doubt | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
the promise of fair We know at the moment the asylum | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
system in Greece is already So it is very difficult to see how | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
people coming to the island will receive the individual | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
assessments and the individual support they need in order | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
to claim asylum in Greece. And this island is still working | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
through its backlog of existing migrants who have been sent | :11:14. | :11:15. | |
to the Greek mainland. Deporting new arrivals | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
back to Turkey may be A bus carrying foreign students has | :11:19. | :11:20. | |
crashed in Spain killing at least 13 The passengers were returning | :11:21. | :11:30. | |
from a bonfire festival in Valencia when the bus overturned | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
on a motorway. The students on board were studying | :11:38. | :11:39. | |
at Barcelona University as part President Obama arrives in Cuba this | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
evening for a landmark visit - the first by a serving US President | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
for nearly 90 years. The trip has taken | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
months of negotiation, after Mr Obama and his | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
Cuban counterpart Raul Castro, decided to reinstate | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
diplomatic ties last summer. Our North America Editor Jon Sopel | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
joins us from Havana. The president will arrive in old | :12:02. | :12:10. | |
Havana in about four hours. We're not being told where he is going, | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
for security reasons, but you don't need to be a detective to work it | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
out. Follow the smell of fresh paint along certain streets, that have | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
already been resurfaced. This is an important trip for Cuba and the US. | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
The word historic, is often overused, today it is justified. | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
For 50 years, Cuba has been a tourist no-go zone for Americans. | :12:38. | :12:46. | |
But a revolution is coming. Soon, 110 scheduled flights a day will be | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
arriving from the US into small, ill-equipped airports. Airlines like | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
this are eyeing a massive new untapped tourism market. At the | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
moment for the US all you have is the odd charter flight going in. And | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
therefore, when we think about the potential for Havana and Cuba, it is | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
vast and could become the largest market in the Caribbean. Huge | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
numbers of American companies all want to ride their luck. This rodeo | :13:16. | :13:17. | |
is part of an agricultural show. Communist countries used to measure | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
economic prowess bike tractor production. It is not without irony, | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
the first American company to set up on the island since the flooring of | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
relations, will be selling farm machinery to the Cubans. I was here | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
when the revolution happened and it feels like a very important aspect | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
of history. To me, being able to participate in bringing true, S, the | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
two peoples together is a very important issue. And it is historic, | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
two peoples together is a very 90 years since the last American | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
president stepped foot on Cuban soil. Then it was Calvin Coolidge. | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
Today the excitement will be greater when Barack Obama arrives. Even 18 | :14:04. | :14:05. | |
months ago, the idea Barack when Barack Obama arrives. Even 18 | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
would come to old Havana and Walkabout, would be | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
would come to old Havana and absurd. But that is what he will do | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
later. When he does, 50 years of Cold War hostility will become | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
history. And a new era in Cuban-American relations will begin. | :14:23. | :14:34. | |
Yes, yes... The president wants to keep it light, taking part in this | :14:35. | :14:44. | |
get. Yes. Old Havana feels like a place frozen in time, but change is | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
coming and coming quickly. Barack Obama's visit, the vivid symbol of | :14:50. | :14:51. | |
this new course. all of them with significance | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
beyond the usual rivalries. In Manchester - United got | :14:59. | :15:07. | |
the better of City winning 1-0. And the relegation battle | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
between Newcastle and Sunderland The Tyne Wear derby is a big deal at | :15:11. | :15:22. | |
the best of times, let alone when both clubs are threatened with | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
relegation. It is why they have hired two proven managers whose | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
rivalry is as intense as that of their teens. The importance was | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
reflected on the pitch. Chances are both ends, before the visitors made | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
the first move. Sunderland had one six of their last meetings with you | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
cattle and Jermain Defoe put them on course to make it seven. The magpies | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
might be mystified how many bodies failed to deny Jermain Defoe, when | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
shortly after it took only one to repel Perez. Were almost caught at | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
the back but Rob Elliott came to the rescue and how crucial that saved | :16:02. | :16:09. | |
with prove when this was queued up and this time there was no stopping | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
it. He ended Newcastle's losing streak against Sunderland, but | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
staying in the Premier League with the bigger hurdle. And then a battle | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
towards the other end of the table. This hasn't been a vintage season | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
for the Manchester side, but well city won the League Cup and remain | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
in the Champions League, United can point to Marcus Ratchford. The | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
18-year-old might have contributed to another, had this been given as a | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
penalty. The bad news continued the city as they lost Joe Hart to | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
penalty. The bad news continued the and then prevented from equalising | :16:50. | :16:51. | |
by the smallest of margins. City's title hopes all but over. United are | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
vying with them for top four finish, thanks again the local lad. | :16:59. | :17:09. | |
Southampton came from behind to beat Liverpool 3-2. | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
And Tottenham closed the gap-again on leaders Leicester to five points | :17:13. | :17:14. | |
Bottom of the Scottish Premiership - Dundee United scraped a late draw | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
against their next-door neighbours Dundee. | :17:21. | :17:22. | |
Billy McKay scored both United's goals as they came from 2-nil down. | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
They're now seven points behind 2nd from bottom Kilmarnock. | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
There was a dramatic start to the new Formula one season. | :17:29. | :17:30. | |
Nico Rosberg won the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne. | :17:31. | :17:32. | |
But the race will be remembered for this spectacular crash involving | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
The Spaniard walked away and said he was "lucky to be alive". | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
Reigning World champion - Lewis Hamilton recovered from a poor | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
British high-jumper Robbie Grabarz has made a dream comeback | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Portland | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
After nearly giving-up the sport during a two-year injury break, | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
the Olympic medallist showed he's "ready for Rio" - | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
Before we go, congratulations to Eddie Izzard on a great sporting | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
This is the moment that the comedian finished a remarkable 27 marathons | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
in 27 days, under the statue of Nelson Mandela in Pretoria, | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
He raised an incredible ?1.3 million for Sport Relief and had this to say | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
I was trying to do something that might stir people's emotions | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
Some people will go, "no, I don't care at all." | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
But you people are not, you are wonderful people. | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
So well done to you wonderful people. | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
There's more throughout the evening on the BBC News Channel, | :18:38. | :18:38. |