22/11/2017 BBC News at One

On a path out of the EU -

the Chancellor promises to build

"a Britain fit for the future",

as he delivers his

Budget in Parliament.

Meeting Britian's challenges

head-on, Philip Hammond says he's

putting aside an extra £3 billion

aside for Brexit, to prepare

for every possible outcome.

An economy set on a path to a new

relationship with our European

neighbours and a new future outside

the European Union. A future that

will be full of change, full of new

challenges and above all, full of

new opportunities.

But the Chancellor revealed

that the economy is expected to grow

significantly more slowly

than previously forecast

over the next few years.

We'll bring you the latest

on the Budget as we get it

throughout the programme.

Also this lunchtime:

Guilty of genocide and crimes

against humanity -

former Bosnian Serb military leader

Ratko Mladic is sentenced

to life imprisonment.

Mugabe's ally-turned-rival,

Emmerson Mnangagwa, is expected

to return to Zimbabwe today,

before being sworn in

as president on Friday.

A security breach at the taxi

service Uber affecting 57 million

customers prompts major concerns

about the way it

protects personal data.

And the '70s teen idol

David Cassidy has died

in hospital at the age of 67.

And in the sport on BBC News,

with the Ashes getting under way

tonight, pace bowler Jake Ball

is named in England's team,

ahead of Craig Overton.

Good afternoon and welcome

to the BBC News at One.

The Chancellor is outlining his

Budget, setting out the government's

proposed tax and spending changes.

Philip Hammond has promised

investment to make Britain "fit

for the future" as an "outward

looking, free-trading nation" once

it leaves the EU in 2019.

Let's have a look at what's

been announced so far.

There's been sobering

news on productivity -

the independent Office

for Budget Responsibility has

downgraded the outlook

for productivity growth,

business investment and GDP this

year from 1.5%, down from 2%.

The Chancellor announced

he's set aside another

£3 billion for Brexit -

he said "no-one should

doubt our resolve", as Britain

prepares to leave the EU.

And borrowing is forecast to be just

under £50 billion this year, but

debt is expected to peak.

Our political correspondent,

Eleanor Garnier, reports.

Are you boxed in, Chancellor?

He is

under pressure and he knows it, but

the Chancellor is putting on a brave

face. As he sets out the journey

ahead for the government's tax and

spending plans, Brexit looms large.

There isn't much cash in the kitty

and there are demands from some

Conservative colleagues for a big

and bold Budget to lift the

post-election gloom. But the

political and economic backdrop

leave him with few options. In the

Commons, has the Chancellor waited

to deliver his statement, the Prime

Minister insisted her government was

putting the country first.

I'm

optimistic about our future. I'm

optimistic about the success we can

make of Brexit. I'm optimistic about

the well-paid jobs that will be

created. I'm optimistic about the

homes we can build. That is

Conservative is building a Britain

fit for the future.

All he offers is a blast from the

past.

I now call the Chancellor of the

Exchequer, Philip Hammond.

With the government busy with

Brexit, Philip Hammond set out his

vision for Britain's future outside

the EU.

A prosperous and inclusive

economy, where everybody has the

opportunity to shine, wherever in

these islands they live and whatever

their background. Where talent and

hard work are rewarded. Where the

dream of home ownership is a reality

for all generations. A hub of

enterprise and innovation, a beacon

of creativity, a civilised and

tolerant place that cares for the

vulnerable and nurtures the

talented. And outward looking, free

trading nation, a force for good in

the world.

Mr Hammond announced an extra £3

billion to prepare for Brexit. And

he told MPs progress on getting the

deficit down had been good, but

there was a warning as well.

Debt is

still too high and we need to get it

down. Not for some ideological

reason, but because excessive debt

undermines our economic security,

leaving us vulnerable. Because it

passes the burden on fairly to the

next generation.

The Chancellor has

already announced he wants to get

Britain building, with moves to

tackle the housing crisis and new

help for first-time buyers. They

will be more money for teacher

training in England, and extra cash

for schools to boost their numbers

of maths students. Plus, with plans

to be at the forefront of tech,

Chancellor wants driverless cars on

the roads by 2021. But Labour is

demanding an end to inequality and

more borrowing to boost the economy.

I have always said austerity is a

political choice, not an economic

necessity. We can have the choice to

continue with austerity and

giveaways for the rich, or invest in

public services and lift people out

of poverty.

The challenge the

Chancellor faces is to allocate

scarce resources, the same time as

trying to restore his party and the

government's fortunes. But he has

little room for manoeuvre are

politically and financially. The

Chancellor is still on his speech in

the Commons, trying to convince the

country and his Conservative

colleagues that he is the right man

to be looking after the economy

through these testing political

times. Eleanor Garnier, BBC News.

Our economics editor,

Andy Verity, is here.

You have been listening to what

Philip Hammond has been saying. It

is the growth figures, the fact they

have been revised downwards, is one

of the most significant headlines?

Yeah. There are quite startling. It

is not just the effect on public

finances but it is what it says

about the health of the economy and

its capacity to grow as it used to.

We used our growth rates of between

two and 2.5% every year. The

Chancellor got more in in taxes and

we got better off. Now we are

talking about 1.5% this year, 1.4%

next year. And five years from now,

1.5%. That says there has been some

sort of permanent sustained damage

to the economy, where it is not

growing like it used to. That has

knock-on effects. If we grow more

slowly, there is less money to be

raked in in income tax and national

insurance. Also, we are spending

less, so less money coming in on

VAT. That makes it harder for the

Chancellor to repair the deficit, to

bring his spending down below

income. You have got some

interesting numbers about debt. The

public

debt is doing better than we

expected. In terms of the overspend,

the amount by which the Chancellor

outspent his income, that would be

£49.9 billion this year. That is

better than they thought in the

springtime. Also, we have heard the

overall debt is going to peak this

year. Those are all good news

things. Slightly better in the next

year or two in terms of public

finances, but worse in the next four

years.

Andy, thank you.

Our assistant political editor,

Norman Smith, is in Westminster.

A balanced approached, that is what

the Chancellor has said he will be

taking. -- approach. There is little

room for manoeuvre?

And all the

signs are this is going to be a

cautious Budget, predominantly

cautious measures. It will not be

the big cash bonanza Budget many of

the Tory backbenchers were hoping

for might just try and give the

government a bit of momentum after

the election disappointment, the

difficulties of Brexit and the

resignations. Instead, what we have

had from Mr Hammond so far are

micro-measures, measures which are

probably not going to get the sort

of humdinger headlines his

colleagues want, so boosting

research and development, more cash

for teacher training. On the really

big ticket items like public sector

pay, all the signs are there is not

going to be more money. Instead, the

Chancellor said, yes, we have

listened to families under financial

pressure and we can offer them a

little help. That hardly sounds like

a drum roll for big spending

commitments. The reason for that, as

Andy was saying, is that the economy

is beginning to slow up. It is also,

at the same time, Mr Hammond wants

to be repaired for the uncertainty

of Brexit. By his nature he is a

more cautious Chancellor than many

in his party would like. It won't

win him many friends in his party.

But Mr Hammond perhaps takes the

view that as Brexit -- is Brexit

critics will never warmed to him

anyway.

Norman Smith, thank you.

We'll have plenty more on the Budget

later on in the programme.

And you can follow the latest

developments on the BBC website -

the address is on your screen now.

The former Bosnian Serb army

commander Ratko Mladic has been

found guilty of genocide and crimes

against humanity during the Bosnian

war more than 20 years ago.

The 74 year-old has been

sentenced to life in prison

by an international court

at The Hague, after a trial

that has lasted six years.

The judge said his crimes figured

amongst the most heinous

type known to humankind.

From the Hague,

Anna Holligan reports.

Sit down, please.

He was determined

to go down fighting. Refusing to

listen to the judge. He is no longer

the most powerful man in the room.

If you continue like this...

After

16 years as a fugitive, Ratko Mladic

couldn't escape this judgment. He

was found guilty of ten out of 11

charges.

Guilty as a member of

various enterprises of the following

counts. Can't two, genocide. Count

three, persecution, the crime

against humanity. Count four,

extermination, a crime against

humanity.

Outside, survivors travelled from

Bosnia. This pursuit of justice has

given them something to live for

after their families were destroyed.

Ratko Mladic personally directed the

shelling of the cosmopolitan

capital, Sarajevo. He was involved

in selecting targets and directed

his forces away from Srbic

neighbourhoods. The siege lasted

more than three years and left more

than 10,000 people, mostly civilians

and many children, dead. Here, the

burly general can be seen reassuring

the crowds that they would come to

no harm, before the men and boys as

young as 12 or taken to the

execution sites. No one can be sure

exactly how many people died in

Srebrenica. The mass graves were

excavated by Serb forces in an

effort to hide their crimes. 6000 of

the victims are buried here in the

place where they sought protection

from the UN in what was supposed to

be a safe song. Ratko Mladic was the

mastermind of all of this. Many of

these families who travelled to the

Hague are hoping that this life

sentence and the way that Ratko

Mladic acted in court will mean he

goes down in history as a coward. In

his final moments he couldn't face

up to his own crimes. Anna Holligan,

the Hague.

Matthew Price is in The Hague.

There was drama in the Court until

the end after the six-year trial.

The life sentence on expected by

some?

I think it was on expected by

some. As you saw from a few of the

survivors and the relatives of those

killed by Ratko Mladic's forces

during the Bosnian war, there was

some solace in the fact he had

received the maximum sentence

available. He is 74. We have been

told he will appeal this decision.

But he won't be coming out of prison

before he dies. He will be behind

bars for the rest of his life. But

does provide some solace. There was

some disappointment he wasn't found

guilty on all 11 charges. Just ten.

He was not found guilty of one

charge of genocide, although he was

found guilty of genocide over the

massacre at a place called

Srebrenica. If all of this feels a

little bit distant in time and

geography, just think on this. The

Balkan wars, the Bosnian war,

happened in most of our lifetimes.

It finished just 22 years ago. You

can get on a plane from Britain and

fly to the capital of

Bosnia-Herzgovina in 2.5 hours. This

was a war at the heart of Europe

which tore apart that part of Europe

for three long years. And today it

has been confirmed by the court that

Ratko Mladic was at the heart of the

Bosnian Serb effort to perpetrate

crimes against humanity, to

perpetrate genocide in the centre of

Europe. Many of the sordid images we

have coming out of Syria over the

past few years are the similar

images we had coming out of Bosnia

in the 1990s. And it doesn't just

end with the sentence for Ratko

Mladic. The court here, which is

winding up its work in the next few

weeks, is also sending a very clear

message that while there was

international cooperation in the

world to bring the perpetrators of

war crimes to justice, that effort

will continue.

That nobody is above the law.

Matthew Bryce in the Hague, thank

you.

The minicab service, Uber,

has admitted concealing a security

breach which affected

57 million customers

and drivers around the world.

The breach in October last year,

was hidden by the company,

which paid hackers £75,000

to delete the data,

including customer names, email

addresses and mobile phone numbers.

Rory Cellan-Jones has the details.

For any company, a data breach

exposing the personal information to

57 million users and drivers would

be bad enough. It was what you

predict next that really shocked

regulators and customers, paying off

the hackers and keeping it quiet for

more than a year. It happened when

it was run by its founder, who has

stepped down earlier this year among

other controversies about the

company's behaviour. The new boss

apologised in a blog post, saying,

none of this should have happened

and I will not make excuses for it.

While I can't erase the past, I can

commit on behalf of every employee

that we will learn from our

mistakes.

Customers are obviously

concerned their data is not being

protected officially --

sufficiently. There is only so much

customers can do so we need to hold

the company to account.

What we do

know is this affected people around

the world. What we don't know is how

the data was put at risk by this

breach, but already the data

protection regulator has issued an

angry statement, warning that the

ceiling for these kinds of bricks

should result in bigger fines.

You

start with, our culture doesn't

work, a genuine and sincere effort

to reset. Can they do it? Highly

unlikely. But if I'm honest, it's

possible.

In many cities the company

has been controversial and is

currently fighting a band. This new

evidence of behaviour that it itself

admits is inexcusable might not make

anything better.

Our top story this lunchtime:

The Chancellor promises to build

a Britain fit for the future,

as he delivers his

Budget in Parliament.

And coming up, tributes to the '70s

teen pop idol David Cassidy,

who has died at the age of 67.

And in sport, the women make it

through to the World Cup semifinal

on Sunday despite their shock

defeat.

Zimbabwe's former vice president,

Emmerson Mnangagwa, is expected

to arrive back in the country today

following Robert Mugabe's surprise

resignation yesterday.

Mnangagwa, whose sacking by Mugabe

just a fortnight ago triggered

the president's demise,

will be sworn in as Zimbabwe's

new head of state on Friday.

Ben Brown is in the capital,

Harare, this lunchtime.

Yes, the celebrations here after

Robert Mugabe's resignation went on

into the early hours of the morning,

but as the euphoria now fades,

tension is turning to the next

leader of this country, only its

second president in 37 years. Will

he be a Democrat or just another

dictator?

The morning after, and is this

an extra spring in the step

of Zimbabweans, as their country

heads into its first day

without Robert Mugabe

dominating all their lives?

These headlines were unimaginable

until a few days ago.

Now they chart the rise

and fall of a president

finally pushed from power.

What happened before is past.

What we need is to forgive each

other and build this country again,

and bring sanity and unity.

Already the next president

is heading home from exile.

Emmerson Mnangagwa,

nicknamed "crocodile" due

to his political cunning,

has already issued a statement,

calling on Zimbabweans to unite

and rebuild the country.

Mr Mnangagwa, once favoured

by President Mugabe as his trusted

deputy, was fired earlier this month

to try to force a smooth

succession for Grace Mugabe,

the President's wife.

That backfired spectacularly,

but the next leader,

inauguration due on Friday,

will now be under heavy

pressure to move decisively

from oppression and corruption.

The opposition is demanding that

elections due next year

must be free and fair.

My hope and wish is that we are able

to craft a transitional framework

for the next elections,

which will put in place

the issue of reforms,

the issue of free and fair

elections, as per the constitution.

Some of the crowds who yesterday

danced in the streets are today

heading for Harare Airport

to welcome the next

interim president.

But this looks a far

less spontaneous and far

more organised affair.

For many Zimbabweans, opposition

groups and the world outside,

these remain uncertain times

with proof still needed that

decades of state violence

and impunity really are over.

It is important to remember that the

next president, Emmerson Mnangagwa,

was a ruthless henchmen in the

Mugabe regime. He's been accused of

masterminding massacres, rigging

elections and corruption and so on,

and some say he has blood on his

hands, so I think the people will be

watching him and his rule very, very

closely indeed.

Ben Brown, thank you.

The American actor and '70s teen

idol David Cassidy has

died at the age of 67.

He found fame in the sitcom

The Partridge Family and then

enjoyed a hugely successful music

career, selling more

than 30 million records worldwide.

He was admitted to hospital

in Florida last week

with multiple organ failure.

Our arts correspondent David Sillito

looks back at his life.

In 1970, a young actor called

David Cassidy became the star

of a new TV programme,

The Partridge Family.

Over the next four years he made 96

TV episodes, recorded 15 albums

and toured the world.

When 20,000, 30,000, 40,000,

50,000 people are screaming

at the top of their lungs,

"I love you," it's

so overwhelming, man!

It's like, "whoa"!

At one concert in London a girl

died and another 800

were injured in the hysteria.

In 1974, exhausted, overwhelmed,

he retired from show business.

He was 24.

By the time he returned to the pop

charts in the 1980s,

there'd been many ups and downs.

Struggles with money,

drink in the aftermath of fame.

# Try to remember...

But there were also great successes.

The Broadway production

of Blood Brothers,

his show in Las Vegas,

and he continued to tour.

And then, aged 66, he made

an appearance on television

to talk about his health.

You have been diagnosed

with dementia.

I have.

Hi, there!

THEY SCREAM.

David Cassidy - actor, singer,

but above all, even 40 years on,

for a certain generation

he would always be their teen idol.

The American actor and singer

David Cassidy, who's

died at the age of 67.

Let's go back to our main story this

lunchtime. Philip Hammond has been

delivering his Budget in Parliament.

He has announced an increase in the

road tax for diesel cars that don't

mean -- don't meet environmental

standards. He is also making it

possible for people to get Universal

Credit payments in advance. He has

frozen duty on wine, beer and

spirits. Our economics correspondent

has been listening to it all and it

is the headlines on growth and

borrowing that significant.

Absolutely. We were looking at 2.5%

growth right from World War II up to

the financial crisis. Now we won't

get above 1.5% for the next five

years. That used to be called a

slowdown, and what it means, if not

growing as fast as we as we thought

we would, the Chancellor eventually

won't get the taxes he thought he

might, so growth was forecast to be

2% at the last count, and now 1.5%.

If you look at the deficit, the

amount we have to borrow to plug

that gap, that was forecast to be...

It is now forecast to be £49.9

billion but will come down to £39.5

billion. The pitch on debt looks

better than we thought for the next

two or three years. -- the picture

on debt. He will be spending less

than he thought he might last

spring, but in two or three years,

there will be fewer taxes coming in

and the debt picture will get worse.

Those are the main headlines.

Thank

you. One main concern the Chancellor

was expected to address is the

housing shortage, with new policies

aimed at encouraging house-building.

John Kay has been to meet twin

sisters trying to get onto the

property ladder.

These and Jess. Twin sisters with an

identical problem. -- Lizzie and

Jess. They live a mile apart but in

their mid-30s they cannot get onto

the housing ladder. What does it

feel like to be in your position

now?

Sad. We are struggling.

Between

them they are paying more than £2000

a month in rent. Lizzie and her

husband have been desperately trying

to save up a deposit but for them,

here in north Bristol, that can mean

£40,000.

We just can't do it. With

the cost of living we would need to

have an inheritance or a lump sum

given to us. It just won't happen.

£40,000 is not attainable. I try to

do my food shop is frugally as I can

manage, and probably that £60 a

week, for a family of four, that is

cutting it fine.

Jess has three

children and two stepchildren. She

has a successful cleaning business

but says she and her husband cannot

afford to buy anything suitable.

Rent is so high now because it is a

landlord's market. They can always

charge what they like so we're

trapped where we are. It doesn't

matter what we do. We either need to

wait another ten years until my

children moved out and then buy

something smaller, or we stay

renting and that's the end of the

story for us.

Could they live here?

This site is just up the road has

been given planning permission for

1000 new homes. But three years on,

it still hasn't happened. The twins

want the Chancellor to get things

moving. And where developments are

under way, they want the Government

to make sure they are the right kind

of properties. You don't need to go

very far from here to see lots of

houses being built, newly built. Can

you afford them?

They are not

putting up affordable housing, they

are putting in four, five bedroom

properties which are half £1

million. And I know some people can

afford that but your average young

family cannot afford to go into a

property. They are wasting the land

available and I worry for my

children.

I worry for my children

that if I can't get onto the housing

market with a good deposit, how will

they ever get a property of their

own?

They were pinning their hopes

on this Budget. They wanted the

Chancellor to extend help to buy

schemes and make it easier to get

more jute -- mortgages. So will his

announcement on housing be what they

are looking for?

We're still waiting to hear what he

says on housing but he has announced

a 1.5 billion pounds package to help

people claiming Universal Credit.

Our reporter is at a community cafe

in Peterborough. It seems the

Chancellor has bowed to pressure on

this?

I think he has. There is a

degree of inevitability about this

given the concerns of people who

were deeply unhappy about how

Universal Credit was operating.

There has been a full service for

about a week or so in Peterborough

and people who aren't on it but were

about to go on it were fearful

because of what they had heard. And

other stories of people on rent

arrears being forced to go to food

banks and even some saying they were

being evicted by their landlords. He

has announced £1.5 billion of a

package of reforms and it should

mean that typical six-week wait

becomes quicker because the first

seven-day waiting period for people

who are eligible but weren't getting

money, that will go. People on

housing benefit will continue to get

it two weeks after they make a

claim. But at the moment -- that is

at the moment all benefits. . People

will have a longer time to repay. So

the Chancellor has said this is a

£1.5 billion investment to make the

operation of Universal Credit much

more effective.

Thank you. That's go

back to our political editor, Norman

Smith. The Chancellor stood up at

about 20 to one and he is still on

his feet. Your impressions so far.

We have not had any great big fluffy

white rabbit plucked from the heart

and we can probably sit quietly

because it doesn't feel like that

sort of Budget. It is a sort of

middle of the road, steady as you

go, so-so Budget without any really

blaring headlines. There was this

sort of big, defining change of gear

which many in his party had hoped

for. That said, neither is it more

austerity and nothing else. Philip

Hammond, significantly, for example,

has promised an extra £2.8 billion

on the health service, a lot more

money. It doesn't meet the £4

billion that the boss of the NHS was

demanding but it is a significant

increase. Similarly, as we heard, on

Universal Credit, an extra £1.5

billion. The fuel duty freeze

continues, the freeze on alcohol

duties continues. But in so many

areas, we have seen incremental

micro-measures which don't really

address the desire in many parts of

the party for radical change,

particularly among his Brexit

critics. However, Philip Hammond,

today, in his tone at least, went

out of his way to try to appease

them a bit, talking up the

opportunity provided by leaving the

EU and significantly announcing an

extra £3 billion to prepare for our

departure from the EU.

Norman Smith

with the latest. Thank you.

And you can follow the latest

developments on the Budget

on the live page on the BBC website.

Just go to bbc.co.uk/budget.

Time for a look at the weather.

Here's Lucy Martin.

A lot going on in the next few days.

Some early heavy rain for north-west

England and parts of Scotland has

meant we have seen some localised

flooding in parts of Cumbria. We

have rain for much of Scotland,

Northern Ireland and Wales. Drier

and brighter in the East but gusts

of wind up to 60 miles an hour over

the coast. As we go through the

rush-hour, strong wind and heavy

rain could mean we have slightly

tricky driving conditions. This

evening and overnight the rain works

its way east in heavy bursts with

the odd rumble of thunder. In the

far north of Scotland, the rain will

turn to snow as we go into the early

hours. A mild night in the south

with temperatures in double figures

but much closer to freezing in the

north. Tomorrow morning, some snow

for the North of Scotland at lower

levels. A couple of centimetres but

great accumulations over higher

ground. We drag in some cold air

from the north. Scattered showers

for Northern Ireland, southern

Scotland and northern England which

could be wintry in nature,

particularly over higher ground. A

lots of dry, bright weather for much

of southern England and Wales, but

turning cloudy with rain pushing in

later for the south-west. Lighter

winds and we will see the snow in

the North turning into rain later in

the afternoon. Temperatures still in

double figures in the south but

cooler in the north. By Friday, we

are firmly in that cold air, so we

will see colder temperatures across

the board. The only fly in the

ointment is this weather front. Some

uncertainty as to how far north it

will come but it will bring cloud to

the far south and outbreaks of rain,

so a cold start on Friday and a

touch of frost away from the far

south.