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Emmerson mnangagwa, has urged the country to unite. Hes due to be inaugurated tomorrow good heading a football lead to dementia . New good heading a football lead to dementia 7 new research dementia . New research has commissioned on the brain. And england work hard on day one of the ashes. England enter the day on 1964. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The chancellor has insisted yesterdays budget will address britains problems with productivity, amid gloomy forecasts for economic growth. The office for budget responsibility said it expects the uk economy to expand by less than 2 for the next four years, partly because of persistently low productivity growth. A separate report by the think tank the Resolution Foundation has warned of the longest fall in peoples Living Standards since records began more than 60 years ago. Labour said Philip Hammond was cut off from the real lives of people. Lets get more from our assistant Political Editor norman smith. The day after the budget, much more analysis and argument. Argument in particular over the gloomy projections by the office for budget responsibility about our future Growth Prospects and the protracted slowdown we seem to be facing which feeds through into wages, taxes, money for public services. The chancellor this morning i thought was seeking to dispel some of that gloom and suggesting it was part of a revision of figures stretching back over the previous eight years and saying it was up to the British Public to prove the forecasters run and saying maybe it was only a temporary hit and once brexit uncertainty dies down then business and Consumer Confidence will kick in. We have had a report from the Resolution Foundation painting a much darker picture, suggesting families are facing the longest squeeze on Living Standards since the 1950s, and it is poorerfamilies in standards since the 1950s, and it is poorer families in particular which will be hardest hit, estimates that the poorest families potentially losing £700 per year. This morning the chancellor insisted he had put in measures to try to kick start productivity, which seems to be the basis for this fall in growth. The average First Time Buyer price is below £300,000. Thats absolutely right. And if somebody buys a property for less than £300,000, they will pay no stamp duty on it and i think that is a very helpful additional incentive to people who are saving up to buy a property. When you buy your first home, you need to accumulate quite a bit of cash to pay for the deposit, the stamp duty, the legal fees, and hopefully by abolishing stamp duty, which will save the average First Time Buyer about £1,700, that will be a help and incentive to focus on getting the deposits together, getting the money together to get on the housing ladder, and we hope more young people will be able to get on the housing ladder. Labour argued this morning that the squeeze on Living Standards demonstrates it is a nothing has changed budget and there is no new money to ease the pay cap for Public Sector workers, many people arent reliant on working age benefits, they are still frozen, still real pressure on peoples incomes. The shadow chancellorJohn Mcdonnell said a reason productivity was still floundering was because the government had failed over many years to government had failed over many yea rs to invest government had failed over many years to invest in industry and jobs. I cant see where he has helped families at all. If hes referring to universal credit, what he did yesterday is gave people £1 and took £10 off them. If hes referring to families concerned about the education of their children, there was virtually nothing there to tackle the budget cuts going through our schools. If hes talking about health, the chief executive of the Health Service asked for four million and has got just over half of that, nowhere near the amount he needs, so we are facing another winter crisis in the nhs. Ijust think, it just demonstrates to me how cut off from the real lives of people the chancellor is. Lets law for some of that with the director of the Resolution Foundation. They are a think tank which focuses on issues around inequality. Is it really that bleak . The economy may be slowing down but it is still growing. It is a good thing that it is growing. The news in the budget was foxing language around productivity and what that meant for gdp and the size of the economy but when you look beneath the figures, what do they mean for Family Finances . It is a grim picture. Pay is expected to be £1000 per year less than the office for budget responsibility previously thought and family incomes are thought and family incomes are thought to have a prolonged stagnation for the next few years, longer than that immediately after the financial crisis. Not as deep but longer. You suggest poorer families will be hit hardest. This economic picture is affecting all families, leading to lower income and earnings across the spectrum. It is the tax and benefit policies of the government which are disproportionally taking away from poorer families. Which are disproportionally taking away from poorerfamilies. Benefits are cut, taking £700 on average from the bottom third of households, taxes cut, giving much less money but some money to the top households. We know the chancellor will be borrowing more to ease some of the pain, so does that mean he has compromised his chance of balancing the book is by the middle of the next decade . He is meeting his fiscal rules within the current parliament, not to get rid of borrowing but reduce it slightly, but the overall objective of getting rid of all borrowing by the next parliament is dead in the water. Years on course to get there sometime in 2030. If you wanted to get there in the next decade he would have to do double the pace of deficit reduction in the three years up deficit reduction in the three years up to 2025. But that feels very hard to do. How unprecedented is this . If we are not going to balance the books by 2030 is a blade means an even more prolonged period of austerity. Have we ever been here before . We have never seen spending per person held at the level it is 110w per person held at the level it is now as it was in the last decade, no growth at all in spending per person. We havent seen that in living memory. A lot of spending cuts have already happened, slightly slower one is happening in the next few years and a big cut pencilled in right at the end of the forecast period. The big cuts in the next few yea rs period. The big cuts in the next few years a re period. The big cuts in the next few years are to family benefits, over £10 billion, and that is pushing down on Family Finances at the poorer end of the spectrum. Are we not just now a poorer end of the spectrum. Are we notjust now a poorer country . It might be deindustrialisation or being an ageing society . What the office for budget responsibility said yesterday was the pace at which oui said yesterday was the pace at which our economy can grow, the speed limit, is slower than previously thought and that means the economy, not that it will not growth but it will grow less than previously expected. Thanks very much. A lot of arguments the day after the budget. We will get more of the nitty gritty detailfrom the we will get more of the nitty gritty detail from the institute for fiscal studies and go through all the details line by line but this morning their director was also striking a fairly pessimistic note about the pressure on wages and how we might not be better off in 2022 in terms of wages than we were at the time of the banking crash. Its been confirmed that jon venables, one of the killers of the toddlerjames bulger, was recalled to prison last week. Police are investigating allegations that illegal images of child abuse were found on a computer linked to him, although no charges have been brought. The 35 year old served seven years injailforjames killing, and was released on licence in 2001 under a new identity. Our correspondent Daniel Sandford is here and can tell us more. Bring us up to date with these allegations. Because jon venables is on licence he is effectively serving a life sentence but is allowed to come out by the parole board. He is regularly visited i shouldnt officers and last week during a written visit, what appeared to be child abuse images seem to have been found on a computer linked to him. That caused concern and he was recalled to prison. There is a Police Investigation to see whether it is in fact the case that he was using a computer and was responsible for child abuse images. The police force has not been named because that would identify where he is living under a second new identity. Right now he is back in prison and a Police Investigation is underway. Right now he is back in prison and a Police Investigation is underwaym was back in 1993 that he and Robert Thompson were arrested for the horrific killing of James Thompson were arrested for the horrific killing ofjames bulger. M was one of the most shocking crimes of the 1990s. These two ten year old boys had tortured and killed a two year old boy. And massively high profile trial. They were jailed for life in 1993. They were allowed out with a new identity in 2001, immensely controversial at the time, and there was a Long Court Battle leading up to it. But then in 2010 jon venables was found with child abuse images on a computer and keep lead pleaded guilty. He was released on licence and it is under those rules he was recalled last week. When he was released in 2013, the parents of james mcavoy two said they were filled with terror and thought he would always be a danger to parents ofjames bulger. A lot of disquiet in the family. The Argentine Navy is investigating reports of a sound heard a few hours after it lost contact with one of its submarines a week ago in the south atlantic. There are concerns that the 44 crew on board the sanjuan submarine could be running low on oxygen. An raf aircraft has landed in argentina to help with the search. For a seventh day in mar del plata, argentina, people gather at the naval base to pray for 44 sailors lost at sea on a missing submarine. The Argentine Navy says the mission to find the sanjuan has reached a critical phase. The crew on board could be using up the last of the seven day oxygen supply. More than a dozen countries are looking for it now, including brazil. The commander says they cannot know for certain what conditions are like on the submarine. Translation we can also think that in order to preserve oxygen they have reduced the crews work rhythm, which could increase autonomy up to two weeks. Its not possible right now to confirm that the submarines oxygen has run out. He says the focus now is still on trying to re establish communication, something and internationalfleet has been trying to do for a week. If support vessels do locate the submarine, getting the crew to safety will be a delicate operation. The search boat will send an underwater robot to search for the submarine. The robots use sonar to create images of the sea floor. Then once the sub is found, a submarine rescue chamber will be deployed from the search vessel. The rescue chamber will attach to the top of the sub, which will allow crew members to evacuate to safety. That is the best case scenario. Rescuers are also preparing for the possibility that the missing sailors may have to leave the submarine in specialised suits like this. Translation it is a resource that will only be used if the submarines commander decides conditions have worsened to the point the crew cannot stay inside and there is no hope the crew members can be rescued in time by other means, for example, in a mini submarine or rescue tube. An Argentine Navy spokesperson also says they are investigating reports of a loud sound heard before losing contact with submarine but he wouldnt say if that sound was an explosion. Heavy rain has caused flooding across parts of lancashire and north wales. 70 people had to be rescued from their homes over night and more than 150 properties were left without power. Two lanes on the m6 motorway are closed. Rail lines were shut between preston and lancaster but have since reopened, though with trains running at reduced speeds. We spoke to some residents in lancashire about what happened. I went to work today, thought little of it, came home and thought, right, its pretty high, its still going to keep on raining all night, lets start moving some stuff out of the way. And itjust came in faster and faster and faster and there came a point where we were bucketing it out, bailing it out. We had pumps going. It came a point where it was bucket versus river and the river won. And it is now like this. I have lifted as much as i can from the ground floor but there are bikes down there, my cookers gone, my boiler, washing machine, dishwasher, everything. The water has gone over the top, it is over the window as well, and it isjust flooding round the side of the door. We had this huge floodwater coming in and through into the kitchen. So i was wading around in the kitchen up to my waist trying to get all the electrical things and what have you, but all my academic. I am a student at the university and all my Academic Work has been ruined in the floods. Ive lost the car keys so ive had to push the car of the way. The new leader of zimbabwe, emmerson mnangagwa, has urged the country to unite. In a speech to a cheering crowd he praised the army for removing president Robert Mugabe peacefully. Mr mnangagwa, who will be sworn in as president tomorrow, said zimbabwe was experiencing a new democracy and his priority was to rebuild its economy. Bangladesh has signed a deal with myanmar to send back hundreds of thousands of refugees who have fled there to escape an army crackdown. Myanmar says it is ready to take back the Rohingya Muslims once their paperwork is complete. Its not yet known where they will go after videos in recent weeks have shown entire villages burnt to the ground allegedly by myanmars security forces. Nearly two million adults experienced Domestic Abuse in england and wales according to a major new report from the office for national statistics. The figures, from the crime survey for england and wales for the year ending march 2017, reveal that 1. 2 million women and 713,000 men reported being the victims of some form of Domestic Abuse in the previous year. 1. 1 million reports of abuse were recorded by police. The headlines on bbc newsroom live. Conservative mps back the chancellor, calling his budget solid and common sense, despite gloomy forecasts for economic growth. Philip hammond says his measures will make a difference. Flood warnings remain in place across parts of north west england. 70 people were rescued from their homes in lancashire last night. Jon venables, one of the killers of toddlerjames bulger, is back in prison after allegations images of child abuse were found on his computer. And england ended the opening day of the first test of the ashes 190 four. A composed 83 from james vince helped england make a steady start to the ashes. England rugby union captain to the ashes. England rugby union ca pta i n dyla n to the ashes. England rugby union captain Dylan Hartley will not start a match for the first time under eddiejones this weekend. Views on the bench further meeting with some more at twickenham. And the former England Rugby League International rangi chase was suspended for the clu b after rangi chase was suspended for the club after testing positive for cocaine injuly. A review of existing studies suggests that drinking moderate amounts of coffee is more likely to benefit health than cause harm, except in pregnant women. The findings, published in the british medicaljournal, found that drinking three or four cups a day, compared with drinking none, was linked to a lower likelihood of developing heart problems. A morning caffeine fix. For many of us, the only way to start the day. But it has long been debated whether that cup of coffee is good or bad for you. I think any more than two cups of coffee kind of accelerates the stress a bit more so i draw the line at two. I feel like most things are good in moderation and if you drink good coffee, then it should be good for your health. I can sometimes drink about six cups and then i cant sleep at night. So its learning what that balance is. To try to find the answer, doctors at the university of southampton sifted through 200 studies, looking at how coffee affects the body. They say the benefits of drinking 3 4 cups a day outweigh the risks for most people and could lead to a lower likelihood of developing heart disease, diabetes and some cancers. Although pregnant women and those at risk of fractures are still advised to steer clear. Researchers say further studies are required before Drinking Coffee to fight disease can be recommended, not least because it is often accompanied by cream, sugar or kate. Lets discuss this further with now tim spector. Hes professor of genetic epidemiology at Kings College london and author of the diet myth. You have done a similar study. Did you come to a similar conclusion that drinking a moderate amount of coughing is generally good for people . There have been a lot of studies over the last 20 30 years and it all is now pointing in that direction as we have more data that these observational studies point towards a sweet spot somewhere between 2 4 or five cups a day which seems to be overall beneficial to the vast majority of people. But not conclusive proof that covey is what lowers the risk of certain conditions . It is an association so it i

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