:00:10. > :00:11.Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.
:00:12. > :00:14.We'll start in Brussels, where two people are still on the run
:00:15. > :00:16.after Tuesday's raid on an apartment.
:00:17. > :00:18.There have also been arrests in France of suspected
:00:19. > :00:23.The big story in the UK is the Chancellor's Budget.
:00:24. > :00:27.All the main points from that coming up in a few minutes.
:00:28. > :00:29.On the new Supreme Court Justice, President Obama has
:00:30. > :00:45.Today I am nominating Chief Judge Merrick giallo and -- Merrick
:00:46. > :00:49.Garland to join the Supreme Court. That's a hugely political decision -
:00:50. > :00:53.all tied in with the Primaries. The Republicans are intending to
:00:54. > :00:56.oppose the decision. Katty Kay will talk us through big
:00:57. > :00:59.wins for Donald Trump and Hillary And Arsenal need a big win
:01:00. > :01:12.against Barcelona to stay Not just a big win, a miracle,
:01:13. > :01:18.frankly. They are 2-0 down from the first leg. The game is under way,
:01:19. > :01:31.any goals, I will tell you about them.
:01:32. > :01:37.Before we turn to Brussels, a quick mention because lots of you have
:01:38. > :01:42.been messaging me asking about what time we are on our. Because we
:01:43. > :01:45.broadcast on different parts of the world and different part of the
:01:46. > :01:49.world change their times at different parts in the calendar, for
:01:50. > :01:55.some of you we are an hour ahead of where we usually are, we are on in
:01:56. > :01:59.the UK at 8pm rather than 9pm, this is the first week of that happening,
:02:00. > :02:02.it will be the same the next week, then we will go back to the time
:02:03. > :02:05.where we are throughout the year. Let's turn back to Brussels
:02:06. > :02:14.because the search for two armed We can highlight the area in the
:02:15. > :02:19.south of Russell Square this played out. That map in the south of
:02:20. > :02:21.Brussels, where this. The men fled a flat after a police
:02:22. > :02:24.raid that was connected Another suspect was shot dead
:02:25. > :02:27.hours after the raid. On the man who died, he says
:02:28. > :02:44.he was in the country illegally. One suspect was neutralised by a
:02:45. > :02:48.sniper of the special forces when he tried to open fire from the window
:02:49. > :02:56.of the flat where he was hiding. His body was found in the flat. Next to
:02:57. > :03:04.the body was a Kalashnikov, as well as a book on solecism. Also a flag
:03:05. > :03:13.of Isis, Daesh, was found in the flat. There were innumerable shell
:03:14. > :03:18.casings. My colleague Imelda flattery has been sharing an image
:03:19. > :03:23.of one police gun struck by a bullet fired by the people the police were
:03:24. > :03:32.trying to apprehend, the bullet struck the trigger, the police are
:03:33. > :03:36.telling us. The police search is still going on.
:03:37. > :03:39.Anna Holligan is where the initial raid took place - she's
:03:40. > :03:41.talked and walked me through what happened.
:03:42. > :03:47.We are right outside the house where the raid took place, and average
:03:48. > :03:52.suburban street in southern Brussels, and here there is evidence
:03:53. > :03:58.of the atrocity and intensity of the firefight. The Windows on the first
:03:59. > :04:04.and second floor are blown out. In terms of the surge, a quick 180 spin
:04:05. > :04:07.around, behind here in these houses, police have conducted house-to-house
:04:08. > :04:14.inquiries, plainclothed officers carrying clip wards. Around here,
:04:15. > :04:19.just past this red building we just went past, is a school that was put
:04:20. > :04:24.under lockdown while the firefight was ongoing. These kids have come to
:04:25. > :04:29.see what all the first is about, why so many television crews are camped
:04:30. > :04:32.out on their street. Behind them, the local mayor is there, he has
:04:33. > :04:36.been trying to reassure people through the media that there is
:04:37. > :04:40.nothing to worry about. You might have seen some pictures
:04:41. > :04:45.from some of the news agencies, up there is where some of the snipers
:04:46. > :04:49.were positioned, targeting those apartment building. I want to tell
:04:50. > :04:59.you more about the suspect killed during this anti-terror aid. He has
:05:00. > :05:02.been named by authorities. He is a 35-year-old Algerian international
:05:03. > :05:06.who the authorities say was in Belgium illegally. He came to their
:05:07. > :05:11.attention once before in the past in connection with a robbery. You can
:05:12. > :05:15.possibly hear another police I run there. We will take you to the back
:05:16. > :05:21.of this apartment where it gets really interesting. Round here, we
:05:22. > :05:25.could not go through here earlier because the authorities had blocked
:05:26. > :05:32.it, but we can now, I wanted to show you the back of this building. Look
:05:33. > :05:38.appear, this is the kitchen window of the apartment, smashed. The two
:05:39. > :05:42.suspects who escaped have not been identified, the speculation is they
:05:43. > :05:47.jumped through the back windows and run across the rooftops, and they
:05:48. > :05:51.are still at large. What I think is most remarkable is that if you did
:05:52. > :05:55.not know what had happened here yesterday, you would have no idea
:05:56. > :06:01.that there are two potentially armed men at large. There is a manhunt is
:06:02. > :06:06.under way, the authorities say, but there is far less police presence
:06:07. > :06:11.than last night and this morning, and just to update you, in the last
:06:12. > :06:15.half-hour we have heard from the authorities that the two people
:06:16. > :06:19.questioned in connection with this raid, including a man who went to
:06:20. > :06:23.hospital with a broken leg last night, has been released without
:06:24. > :06:27.charge. Thanks to Anna Holligan for talking
:06:28. > :06:31.us through that. An update on what is happening in France from BBC
:06:32. > :06:34.World Service. French anti-terrorism police
:06:35. > :06:35.arrested four Islamist radicals on Wednesday on suspicion
:06:36. > :06:37.they were planning an imminent attack in central Paris,
:06:38. > :06:45.TF1 television said. They say it is as part of a wider
:06:46. > :06:48.investigation into a possible plot against French targets. The interior
:06:49. > :06:53.minister in France said they had received in formation that one of
:06:54. > :06:57.those arrested might commit violent acts, but the story is evil thing.
:06:58. > :07:03.We can talk about the four arrests as having happened. -- the story is
:07:04. > :07:13.evolving. Earlier they were talking about an imminent attack, but now
:07:14. > :07:14.the language is changing. Let's talk about George Osborne, the Budget is
:07:15. > :07:18.the biggest story in the UK. Britain's Chancellor
:07:19. > :07:19.of the Exchequer has unveiled For those outside the UK, Finance
:07:20. > :07:27.Minister might explain his job. He's revised down Britain's growth
:07:28. > :07:30.forecast and warned that a vote to leave the European Union
:07:31. > :07:32.in June's referendum would put Those campaigning to leave with
:07:33. > :07:51.dispute that. We have a definite figures for 2014
:07:52. > :07:55.and 2015. The light figures are what we were told today, the dark green
:07:56. > :07:58.figures are from the autumn. Sorry, the other way round. Growth has been
:07:59. > :08:00.revised down. Growth this year had
:08:01. > :08:02.been forecast at 2.4%, but is now predicting
:08:03. > :08:05.a rate of 2.0%. And that's led to cuts
:08:06. > :08:17.in public spending. James Landale can explain.
:08:18. > :08:21.The Government likes to talk of fixing the roof when the sun is
:08:22. > :08:24.shining, in Westminster and elsewhere that is a long-term
:08:25. > :08:31.economic plan taking longer than expect. For George Osborne's Budget
:08:32. > :08:35.box contained worse economic news than he hoped, and, therefore,
:08:36. > :08:40.bigger cuts than he wanted, courtesy has to make to get is Budget in
:08:41. > :08:44.surplus by 2019. REPORTER: Playing it safe, Chancellor?
:08:45. > :08:48.Stars boy knew that as well as the bad news he needed some better news
:08:49. > :08:55.ahead of a referendum where he needs the support of voters and Tory MPs
:08:56. > :09:01.if Britain is to stay in the UU -- EQ. So his statement to MPs was
:09:02. > :09:06.deliberately cautious, no massive radical reforms, instead some tax
:09:07. > :09:11.cuts to soften the worsening economic news.
:09:12. > :09:14.Financial markets are turbulence, productivity growth across the West
:09:15. > :09:20.is time the blow, the outlook for the global economy is weak. It makes
:09:21. > :09:23.for a dangerous cocktail of risks. With the economy and productivity
:09:24. > :09:27.growing slower than expected, he admitted he had missed its target of
:09:28. > :09:31.cutting debt as a share of national income and would have to cut
:09:32. > :09:37.spending by another ?3.5 billion a year from 2019. He cheered Tory
:09:38. > :09:43.peers with a flurry of tax cuts, raising the tax-free personal
:09:44. > :09:47.allowance to ?11,500 from next April, raising the threshold for the
:09:48. > :09:52.higher rate of income tax to ?45,000, and there will be a new ISA
:09:53. > :09:57.to encourage saving, which the Government pays into. He said fuel
:09:58. > :10:02.duty would be frozen, corporation tax cuts to 17% by 2020 and small
:10:03. > :10:09.firms would get is this rates cut permanently. Good news for groups
:10:10. > :10:15.who often oppose the EU. A typical corner stop in Barnstaple will pay
:10:16. > :10:17.no business rates, a typical Leeds hairdresser, atypical Limited
:10:18. > :10:27.newsagent will pay no business rates. A ?7 billion tax cut for our
:10:28. > :10:31.nation of shopkeepers. But how will he pay for this? By imposing a
:10:32. > :10:35.massive tax rise on big firms, scrapping schemes they have used to
:10:36. > :10:39.avoid paying business tax. There will be a ?12 billion crackdown on
:10:40. > :10:44.tax avoidance and evasion and public sector employers will have to pay
:10:45. > :10:49.more pension contributions. Is Budget gets the investors investing,
:10:50. > :10:54.savers saving, businesses doing business so that we build for
:10:55. > :10:59.working people a low tax enterprise Britain, secure at home, strong in
:11:00. > :11:03.the world. I commend to the Haas a Budget that puts the next-generation
:11:04. > :11:07.first. For a Chancellor with one eye on
:11:08. > :11:12.becoming the next Tory leader, those were the cheers he wanted to hear.
:11:13. > :11:17.But for all the talk of a brighter economic future, Labour came out
:11:18. > :11:24.fighting, saying it was a recovery built on sand. Failed on the Budget
:11:25. > :11:28.deficit, on debt, investment, productivity, on trade deficit, on
:11:29. > :11:35.the welfare cap, failed to tackle inequality in this country.
:11:36. > :11:40.Inequality, he said, epitomised by the Chancellor's welfare cuts for
:11:41. > :11:46.the disabled. Half a million people with disabilities are losing over ?1
:11:47. > :11:51.billion in personal independence payments, Corporation Tax has been
:11:52. > :11:56.cut and billions handed out in tax cuts to the very wealthy. So the
:11:57. > :12:00.storm clouds Mr Osborne said gathering, but the economy is fit
:12:01. > :12:03.for the future. We will only know if he is right once the referendum is
:12:04. > :12:07.over and he has cut all that spending will
:12:08. > :12:16.. In a moment we will have more on the tax on sugary drinks. We will
:12:17. > :12:17.get into that in about ten minutes. We will switch from Westminster to
:12:18. > :12:19.Washington. President Obama has nominated this
:12:20. > :12:21.man, Merrick Garland, to be the next US
:12:22. > :12:23.Supreme Court Justice. This whole process was triggered
:12:24. > :12:26.by the death of this Justice, Here's some of Mr
:12:27. > :12:39.Obama's statement. I have selected a nominee who is
:12:40. > :12:44.widely recognised not only as one of America's sharpest legal minds, that
:12:45. > :12:49.somebody who brings to his work a spirit of decency, modesty,
:12:50. > :12:56.integrity, evenhandedness and excellence. These qualities, and his
:12:57. > :13:00.long commitment to public servers, have earned him the respect and
:13:01. > :13:05.admiration of leaders from both sides. He will ultimately bring that
:13:06. > :13:07.same character to bear on the Supreme Court.
:13:08. > :13:13.Here's Barbara Plett-Usher to explain.
:13:14. > :13:19.The Supreme Court is very important in America because it shapes
:13:20. > :13:23.American law and life, it takes decisions and very consequential
:13:24. > :13:29.issues often divided upon partisan lines like abortion, same-sex
:13:30. > :13:33.marriage, immigration, environmental issues, campaign financing. The
:13:34. > :13:37.court is evenly divided between liberals and conservatives, so Obama
:13:38. > :13:41.aims to fill a vacancy which would tip the ideological balance towards
:13:42. > :13:45.the Liberals, which would be politically contentious in any time,
:13:46. > :13:53.but it is inflammatory in the election season. Don't go anyway,
:13:54. > :13:57.Barbara. -- don't go anywhere. The Republicans in the Senate have said
:13:58. > :14:00.they will block any vote on a Supreme Court nominee from this
:14:01. > :14:05.president. They want his successor to make the choice, and there is no
:14:06. > :14:11.possibility of Mr Obama taking that lying down. Here is a new Twitter
:14:12. > :14:16.account that he has set up. He has been pushing out various tweets,
:14:17. > :14:22.making his point. Fact, the last time a president's Supreme Court
:14:23. > :14:26.nominee was denied a God, 1875. Then he shares this image with the
:14:27. > :14:34.words, a friendly reminder. Over a third of all previous US presidents
:14:35. > :14:38.have had a nominee confirmed to the Supreme Court in an election year.
:14:39. > :14:42.He says he wants to keep that friendly, but it is unlikely to last
:14:43. > :14:46.long? No, it has not been very friendly already. President Obama
:14:47. > :14:51.and the Democrats have made clear they will go on the offensive. His
:14:52. > :14:58.tweets argue that there is precedent for a president in his final year to
:14:59. > :15:01.nominate a candidate. They say that the Republicans are going against
:15:02. > :15:04.their constitutional responsibilities in the Senate if
:15:05. > :15:09.they do not even consider the candidate, which is what they had
:15:10. > :15:14.said they will do. Obama has made it difficult for them in some ways I
:15:15. > :15:18.presenting a candidate that should be the perfect consensus candidate.
:15:19. > :15:23.Justice Garland does not break any race or gender barriers, he is a
:15:24. > :15:29.63-year-old white man with an Ivy League degree, he is more a centrist
:15:30. > :15:33.than a down the line liberal, someone who Republicans and
:15:34. > :15:37.Democrats have previously praised. I think the Democrats will paint the
:15:38. > :15:40.Republicans as obstruction is set for political reasons because they
:15:41. > :15:45.are rejecting such an obviously centrist candidate. The Republicans
:15:46. > :15:49.have said they will not change their decision, that Obama is politicising
:15:50. > :15:54.the nomination by making it and it should be left to his successor who
:15:55. > :15:58.wins the presidential election. Given this is a white hot issue in
:15:59. > :16:04.Washington, with all the primaries and the drama around Hillary Clinton
:16:05. > :16:11.and Donald Trump, is this issue capturing the public imagination as
:16:12. > :16:15.we might imagine? I think that it will, I think it will become
:16:16. > :16:18.essential part of the election campaign, all the presidential
:16:19. > :16:22.candidates have come out very clearly saying that President Obama
:16:23. > :16:29.should not take this step and he will probably pick it even more in
:16:30. > :16:33.the campaign. The Democrats argue that polls show that two thirds of
:16:34. > :16:37.the public does not like this position by the Republicans and
:16:38. > :16:42.thinks they should at least give the candidate is a fair hearing. It will
:16:43. > :16:45.be a major political battle which will probably overshadow the
:16:46. > :16:51.presidential campaign and there will be public interest. Thanks, Barbara.
:16:52. > :16:57.I promised any updates on the Barcelona/ Arsenal game, the gunners
:16:58. > :17:06.1-0 down, 3-0 aggregate. The Thais looks to be done and dusted, you can
:17:07. > :17:11.follow it through BBC News. In a few minutes, we will talk about the
:17:12. > :17:14.migrant crisis again, we have been focusing on Greece and Macedonia but
:17:15. > :17:18.we will focus in the Mediterranean between Libya and Italy, there has
:17:19. > :18:30.been a sharp increase in the number of people trying to come across.
:18:31. > :18:32.This is Outside Source live from the BBC newsroom.
:18:33. > :18:36.Two people are still on the run after Tuesday's raid
:18:37. > :18:44.Four suspected Islamist militants have also been arrested in France.
:18:45. > :18:51.That is a separate story. Let's check in with some of the main
:18:52. > :18:52.stories from BBC World Service. BBC Urdu reports has bomb on a bus
:18:53. > :18:56.in north-western Pakistan has killed The victims were
:18:57. > :18:58.government employees. Pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine's
:18:59. > :19:00.breakaway province of Donetsk have begun issuing passports in an effort
:19:01. > :19:02.to show their independence Divers in Oman say they have
:19:03. > :19:12.discovered the remains of a ship which was part of a Portuguese
:19:13. > :19:24.fleet 500 years ago. If you want to see these pictures,
:19:25. > :19:34.you can find them in the most watched list on the BBC news app. I
:19:35. > :19:38.mentioned a couple of minutes ago, one of George Osborne's most
:19:39. > :19:42.attention grabbing announcements was the implementation of the sugar tax.
:19:43. > :19:46.As soon as I heard this story, I thought that Jamie Oliver would be
:19:47. > :19:55.very pleased. He has been very vocal in support. He treated...
:19:56. > :20:01.He has been talking to the BBC about why he called it a profound move. He
:20:02. > :20:06.has given them enough time to reformulate and has done it in
:20:07. > :20:11.bands. On the upside for parents and kids of Britain, this is over ?500
:20:12. > :20:17.million going into primary schools across Britain, sports will be
:20:18. > :20:21.invested in, hallelujah, reckless clubs, hallelujah, supporting
:20:22. > :20:28.teachers, brilliant. -- breakfast clubs. Sweet and sugary drinks have
:20:29. > :20:32.hidden behind sports, the Olympics, energy in and energy out for way too
:20:33. > :20:34.long. The world has changed and it is way more profound than you can
:20:35. > :20:37.imagine. The US Federal Reserve,
:20:38. > :20:39.the central bank, has ended a two day meeting on the state
:20:40. > :20:47.of the world's biggest economy. A big meeting, a big subject. Quite
:20:48. > :20:51.a cautious decision came out of it, Michelle Fleury is live in New York.
:20:52. > :20:56.I feel like we have talked quite a few times about interest rates not
:20:57. > :20:58.moving, normally news is about something happening but this is
:20:59. > :21:03.significant that they had stayed put? That's right, lots of it has to
:21:04. > :21:08.do with the accompanying words, steak and, press conferences at
:21:09. > :21:12.something called the dot plots, this is a charter, if you like,
:21:13. > :21:19.essentially prediction from the voting members, the members in
:21:20. > :21:25.America's Central bank, who say wave -- where they think interest rates
:21:26. > :21:29.will go. We have gone from an expectation of two rate hikes this
:21:30. > :21:33.year, in December they predicted as many as four. That is why you have
:21:34. > :21:43.seen such a positive reaction on the stock market, both main indexes here
:21:44. > :21:46.jumping much higher after Janet Yellen's press conference. If we
:21:47. > :21:53.were measuring the decisions with the most impact on the US economy,
:21:54. > :21:57.where would we rank interest rates? It has shaped what is happening on
:21:58. > :22:01.the financial market, it has had a huge impact in terms of people's
:22:02. > :22:06.personal finances. If you have a bank account and you are saving, if
:22:07. > :22:10.you are trying to get a mortgage, if you have any kind of credit card
:22:11. > :22:15.debt, the interest rate you pay, all of these things are tied to it. On a
:22:16. > :22:20.global scale, obviously, it has a huge impact on the rest of the world
:22:21. > :22:24.through the financial markets. Michelle, thank you.
:22:25. > :22:27.The Italian coastguard says nearly 2,500 migrants have been rescued
:22:28. > :22:29.from boats in the Mediterranean in the last two days.
:22:30. > :22:36.The numbers are going up, primarily because of improved weather
:22:37. > :22:37.conditions. Gavin Lee has been an European boats involved in the
:22:38. > :22:47.operations. The daily routine in the battle
:22:48. > :22:49.against migrant smugglers. This is an Italian aircraft carrier
:22:50. > :22:57.commanding a fleet of five EU warships in international waters off
:22:58. > :23:01.the Libyan coast. Everyday, to search the skies, reporting signs of
:23:02. > :23:06.suspicious activity. The ships have a mandate to seize and destroy
:23:07. > :23:09.anti-migrant boats. But the presence of these patrols has turned the
:23:10. > :23:18.operation into a huge search and rescue mission. We received
:23:19. > :23:25.information that there are three migrant boats. Within minutes of the
:23:26. > :23:29.boats being spotted we joined emergency response team searching
:23:30. > :23:33.for them. The smuggling business has become routine now, a clear sky and
:23:34. > :23:39.can see being the perfect conditions for this perilous journey.
:23:40. > :23:43.We are 40 nautical miles from the Libyan coast and this is the daily
:23:44. > :23:47.relative for the patrol teams in the sea. Down below, there is a migrant
:23:48. > :23:53.boat with around 100 on board that has just been rescued by HMS
:23:54. > :23:58.Enterprise, a British ship. People are being processed on the ship.
:23:59. > :24:01.They are climbing the ladder as they are being rescued, I am told there
:24:02. > :24:07.is still another four migrant boats waiting to be rescued.
:24:08. > :24:14.We flew a few miles from a British ship and spotted this. A vote full
:24:15. > :24:22.of people desperate for help, with no life jackets, children crouched
:24:23. > :24:26.up front, floating in this vast sea. Within an hour, rescue teams from
:24:27. > :24:31.HMS Enterprise managed to get to the stranded boat. Eight migrant boats
:24:32. > :24:37.were picked up today, 900 people were rescued, the highest in a
:24:38. > :24:42.single day so far this year. But there is growing criticism that
:24:43. > :24:45.these EU ships have become a magnet, smugglers directing migrants
:24:46. > :24:50.straight towards them. We have to think about what if we were not
:24:51. > :24:57.here, patrolling, creating deterrence and able to support those
:24:58. > :25:02.in danger. I am afraid that a good percentage of the migrants we are
:25:03. > :25:07.saving maybe would not be alive any more if we wouldn't be there to
:25:08. > :25:11.rescue them. Senior military commanders say more
:25:12. > :25:16.than 100,000 migrants are in Libyan safe houses waiting to cross as the
:25:17. > :25:20.weather improves. Navy officials here claimed the recent closure of
:25:21. > :25:23.the migrant route from Greece to Macedonia will lead to more people
:25:24. > :25:34.choosing this far more dangerous route by C in the days to come. --
:25:35. > :25:38.dangerous route by sea. All of the BBC reports we play you,
:25:39. > :25:45.you can also find online if you want to watch them again all share them.
:25:46. > :25:49.Straight after the break at half-past, Donald Trump and Hillary
:25:50. > :25:53.Clinton are strengthening their grip on the presidential nominations.
:25:54. > :25:58.Katty Kay will be live. If you have any questions for her, use our
:25:59. > :25:59.hashtag,