from its phones and devices. hopes of a breakthrough today to end the long running pay dispute in the health service. dramatic footage said to show a russian jet intercepting an american drone and dumping fuel in its path over the black sea. and how this avenue of trees in plymouth was cut down under cover of darkness. and coming up on the bbc news channel. a big night for both manchester united and arsenal as they look to make it through to the quarterfinals of the europa league. good afternoon. the chancellorjeremy hunt has been defending his budget saying it will get people back to work and won tjust benefit the rich. but labour says the move to abolish the cap on the lifetimes pensions allowance is a tax cut for the top 1% of earners. it s planning to force a vote in parliament on the issue next week. meanwhile, the independent economic thinktank the ifs has warned households will feel continuing pain over the coming year, with incomes squeezed amid a freeze on tax thre
majority of workers, they have the most votes in this. if they get behind us, then this could get through. if other small unions don t recommend this, for example unite, that might not matter. at this stage it s not clear whether all the unions are going to recommend this offer to their membership. my sense is that the unison, gmb unions will probably get behind this. but it s a big question whether the membership are going to think that is good enough. there is a lot of anger out there. and why is it a sense of suddenly more serious talks now? i was interviewing a key union leaders fought some time, so be it for them, it was completely obvious obvious, that they were offering olive branches to the government that were not being taken up. what changed? that were not being taken up. what chanced? ~ , ., ~ that were not being taken up. what chanced? ~ , ., ,, . changed? why do we look like we re closer to a hat changed? why do we look like we re closer to a hat deal chan
today at one. the day after the budget, the chancellor defends his plans as they come under scrutiny. a leading economic think tank says households will feel continuing pain with incomes squeezed because of the freeze on tax thresholds. £500 a year if you re a basic rate taxpayer so if you re earning between about 12,500 and 50,000 a year, you ll be 500 a year worse off. for a higher rate taxpayer earning more than 50,000 a year, they re £1,000 a year worse off. we have to be honest with people it means that, for a while, the burden of tax is going to be higher. but conservatives cut taxes when we can. we ll have the latest from westminster. in our other main news today. the british government bans the chinese social media app tiktok