To Birmingham 9 lucky 0 May but now is 12 and is Jeremy thank you good to. Take a we will have all the details before the end of it. Looking to see whether the chancellor is budget does something anything to help young people buy houses were caught in stamp duty to a. Different subject the water companies still using divine ing rods to find little to Syria's. President Mugabe really has gone from power should he be allowed to live out the rest of his life in a stately home in Zimbabwe will end up at the Hague like redcode. Will summarize the budget for you at $130.00 and see whether the man they call spreadsheet still has made another of his famous bundles. So we think that I have it will start speaking about 1230 half an hour and be finished by probably 140 Our phone number if you'd like to call on any of the above and by the way we need to get a defining Rodion here 08288291 calls free for most landlines you can email via b.b.c. Don't care ek find me on Twitter very easily Let's go to the newsroom and out in Puerto Jeremy thank the international court settlement to investigate war crimes in the former Yugoslavia has delivered a series of guilty verdicts in the case of Ron Kamal adage the military commander of Serbian forces in both in the 1990 s. Was found responsible for genocide and crimes against humanity the presiding judge Alphonse already said Mr Millet It was guilty of the most serious offenses their crimes. Committed bring among the most heinous known to human kind and include genocide and extermination as a crime against humanity for having committed crimes the chamber censuses Mr Rudd comedy each to life imprisonment the chancellor Philip Hammond is to present his budget to M.P.'s in the next hour he's facing calls to boost spending on public services but is expected to be wary about increasing borrowing and government debt now assistant political editor Norman Smith is outside 11 Downing Street and has the latest the smoke signals emerging this morning suggest this could be a cautious budget because when it comes to the public sector pay cap we know there's been huge pressure to lift it to ease the Astaire a to. Another public sector workers all the signs are there is not going to be any additional money the online mini cab service Uber has admitted concealing a security breach which affected millions of its customers around the world hackers were able to access personal information held by the company a year ago but details have only just been revealed by the firm reports from Zimbabwe say the former Vice President Al Gore is to be sworn in as the country's new president will replace Robert Mugabe who resigned yesterday after 37 years in power Mr Gore was dismissed by Mr Mugabe 2 weeks ago triggering a political crisis. The u.s. Navy says one of its transport planes with 11 people on board has crashed off the south coast of Japan 8 people have been rescued 3 on accounted for. 3 minutes past 12 next one thank you said. Philip Hammond the chancellor not yet on his speech in the house a couple I think it is prime minister's questions right now let's just have a listen this is because the Amish prime minister has discussed it with the British government size it doesn't seem like they've thought all lists through. So can the prime minister reassure him by outlining the government's policy on the Irish border. The question Theresa May respond to his welcome to the media for the black I hope it isn't 650 years before the Labor Party has a. Ok We're going to talk about housing and what the budget. a general perspective and then focus on housing and what could be done to to get us on the housing lot of his 1st 7. Parents it's just not happening is there a toll and then also dividing $8000.00 to $88.00. C. One of. The they do were president McGarvie should be allowed to go just stay home and live out the rest of his life in peace all be prosecuted. Yes the stuff in the budget. Let's start with that if we go down to the House of Commons just hear it live on these matters. Mystical been answering questions of Mrs May What's the b.b.c. Political correspondent is at Westminster everyone obviously waiting for the Budget speech in about 20 minutes here that's right usually the prime minister's questions takes a huge amount of attention to this time I think people just want to sit it out and hear what Phil Hartman's got to say should start around half past 12 if pm queues runs on a bit of a little bit later but already of course some things have been trail which And I think the most successful transfers Jeremy as you know are people can actually tax less and spend more but as virtually impossible to do allege you've got an economy that's roaring ahead isn't there but he is under that kind of pressure from many people in his own party who actually started the show playing so lonely does seem to a very lonely position are in the cabinet table with some people saying my goodness you've got to keep strict rein on the public finances get the deficit down another saying we need more money for housing we need more money for education we need more money for younger people who perhaps have been losing out and ended up voting for Jeremy Corbyn have been hearing from a moment ago so he does have a very difficult position some of the things that have been trailed or been speculated on we expect him to spend around 200000000 more on education giving skills incentive to teach people mass to live all to teach and train teachers in a less well performing schools we're expecting also perhaps to do some things at a huge pressure from his own side and it's never made anywhere else to perhaps. Shorten the weight that people have to have when it 1st craving universal credit perhaps then from 6 weeks to a calendar month we are expected to put more money into the n.h.s. As well but we don't think about anything like the 4000000000 pounds of the chief executive of the n.h.s. In England has been demanding and of course as was mentioning it Jeremy I think housing will be a key part of this as well has been under a lot of pressure from the community secretary such a job or to borrow more to invest in housing He's also been under pressure from some of his own backbenchers to send more positive about Bragg's it because that's when the reasons is think pretty cautious at the moment because it doesn't know what's around the corner but some of the words of certainly going to sound like much more upbeat than before we're told is going to be telling as it is going to invest to secure a bright future for Britain and on Helles the new homes I gather but also maybe looking at Stamp Duty is that Rice Yes $5000000000.00 pounds we believe for new homes has also been a very technical change to the way that housing associations can borrow which will free them up to invest more in housing as well there's also been an announcement of course previously the party conference by stories of May of 2 1000000000 more for social housing that's 5000 more homes but has been a lot of speculation of what you would do on stamp duty particular to get 1st time buyers into the market their friends increasingly difficult to save up for deposits and the 1st home at the moment in England you don't pay any standard c. a Toll on a property purchase of 225000 un paid 2 percent up to a quarter of a 1000000 so there's some speculation that they might suspend stamp duty for a time for 1st time buyers up to that level and start to brings a lot of money into the treasury around 11000000000 a year but if you do that fairly narrow change which would help 1st time buyers they're not only cost around 200000000 there are different systems for start getting property taxes should say in Scotland and we always you don't pay stub duty in 245000 Scotland or 850000 in Wales so any changes the chancellor announces today wouldn't apply to them there will be some pressure from to be more radical though in. Why not just suspend stunt duty entirely for people trapped under the age of 40 or people who are 1st time buyers across the board that would be much more costly for him but a bigger simply want to get people to hosing larger but not critics too so housing experts say it's fighting to get rid of started you see this money you have to pay upfront to buy a house in the 1st place but that might just end up fueling house prices and in the end cost more in mortgages thank you very much and what's a b.b.c. Political correspondent be back with us later on today to see what was to have is actually said let's take all those points about housing and start with you Henry Pryor joins us housing expert as the San Bowman executive director of the Adam Smith Institute and you think targeting stamp duty is the way to go Yeah absolutely I think stamp duty is probably the worst tax we have on the books in the u.k. And the big reason for that is that it's a huge tax bill for anybody looking to downsize for example older people whose kids have left home who might be in a house with 3 or 4 bedrooms they only need one but if they downsize and free up that house for a new family they're faced with possibly 506070000 pound tax bill so the big big problem is that we've got this gummed up housing market was very very few actual transactions taking place and stamp duty is the major reason for that I don't think scrapping it would solve the problem we just need to build more houses I don't really wish we would get some movement on that but I don't think we will but Stamp Duty is a huge problem in the market it would be a huge benefit think Big think about getting rid of steps you have replied What would happen if we did what it's something a lot of people a lot of politicians in particular ironically particular run up the larger election considered the conservatives talked about potentially a swap with stamp duty possibly for some variance of Land Value Tax which is a way of picking up the bill at the other end but there are some massive implications at the end of the day Sam says it's not if this is not an attractive tax it's a tax as many people say on otherwise taxed income but the big biggest problem for me at any rate is that. We have for the last 20 years stimulated the demand side of the housing market we've given people more money whether it's directly through previous tax holidays on stamp duty for instance and also of course some very controversial Help to Buy this gives people more money to bid for a finite number of homes and if you give them more money they will use that to compete and as a result drive up house prices and that's the thing that I'm terrified of so what is the solution that if they haven't got enough money to buy the houses that offer sale I suppose you going to say build more houses are you well in reality there is that there is the evidence that suggests that people are struggling obviously is widely reported but we saw from the tax man's own numbers probably yesterday over $105000.00 homes sold in October that's actually above the long term average there is a market people are able to buy and sell houses there are some very very wealthy oligarchs and bankers who have been hit incredibly hard and then it does genuinely sting but the vast majority of people who are buying a property got a reduction when George Osborne stood up 2 years ago and made changes to very basic way that stamp duty is just. And it's no doubt that he would make it more appealing for buyers to participate but at the end the day stamp duty comes out of the total cost that people pay for houses and all the evidence tells us that if you were to give people more money that would just end up in vendors pockets and house prices would go up as a result Sam answer that I don't think that's quite right firstly it's a supply side effect as well because these times Judy Bill actually hits the owners as well as it doesn't even though the buyers are the ones paying the actual check it comes out of the value that the owners get when they sell so disincentive as people from selling so that comes up the market but a more important point is that paying say 1000000 pounds for a house is kind of like an investment in the house because you're going to be able to sell that ideally and you would expect for roughly that amount in the future so putting more money into house prices isn't itself a bad thing if the house can be sold for that much stamp duty though is just money you've lost if you write 50000 and then the guy. It goes to the n.h.s. Saw paying the e.u. The British or spill or whatever so what we should be doing really is changing how we do council tax because the system we've got is completely bizarre it's based on property values from 1902 it's totally I mean it really means that houses in places like oval and Brixton that are really doing very well now are paying a very very low rate of council tax and houses in other parts of the country that have been done doing quite badly in the last couple of years are paying a relatively high level of council tax so what we should do is change Council Tax revalue and bring in I think new bands for more expensive property you've already got the bands already work they because they've already brought all share each other think they work very well because the fact is that expensive properties are actually paying a very low amount of council tax relative to quite cheap properties so we should make that system more progressive and we could use that to pay for the money that we wouldn't be getting in from stamp duty so we could maintain the progressiveness of the system we could actually make it more progressive and we can get rid of this incredibly damaging tax cuts here's the really big issue Henry is whether the government this government buys the bullet and says you will pay tax on the profit made when you sell your house that's the prime residence that's the biggest legal tax loophole in the country is the way that those of those who sell their principle home find that it is exempt from capital gains taxes paid by other people who sell properties as buy to let levels for example the issue that some quite rightly highlights and that we all talk about is that there's no doubt that stamp duty could be could be reengineered could be made to work much more efficiently and more productively but let's remember that the vast majority of people are concerned about the people who are not facing a stamp duty land tax bill they can't afford to buy a home they can't afford to rent a home in many instances and I'm afraid it's that social embarrassment that we were all hoping the child was going to tackle today thank you very much did he reply housing expert Sam Bowman executive director of the Adam Smith Institute still waiting for the chancellor to take to his feet you tell us what you think they And he came blinded by your 2 Ok we're talking about the 2 of the Hammond budget experience that see what's going on still Theresa May have feet in the house that's a record. 300 is a bitter jail sting as as I correspond was saying it promises questions because they sort of know labor in the concert is that this will not be what makes it to the news tonight so it will be it will be budget. Material and we'll hear from the chancellor in less than 10 minutes time we'll just get a little whisper of him we'll go and talk about other stuff and then at 130 will have a chance to digest the bulk of it meanwhile on housing and what he should do to make sure your son or daughter can actually buy somewhere to live like is too much to ask is it Steve Preston in Wakefield West Yorkshire says even with this change of stamp duty or building new houses getting on the housing ladder is still impossible for young people they shouldn't need help from their parents when I bought my house in the seventy's the price of a house was 500 pounds more than my annual salary what do we need to do is a crazy thing that you allow parents to give their houses to their kids is that is that what would make it easier with no tax implications it mounted in Sydney it's Cambridge What do you think. I mean I don't like. The biggest problem with the government where the only things is. Basically they fiddled around with the system and. Which tries to take the market market's got to find its own level and altering stem Jussi and say youngsters basically that they would like your guest said earlier in the builders will just have any extra valuable and the market well. We've got to run out of people who've got more money to spend than our own children have we have that's got to be a point at which your kids or somebody else's kids get to the front of the queue to buy a house surely Well these corrections have happened many times in the past my father in law used to be killed himself and. You know and I've seen Lisa corrections many times and we will probably do a correction. But leaders England for example of just introduced a new system library 'd. Do not allow foreigners that don't live in the country to part proxy and we. To do the scientists London is just really talked with investment from with people with plenty of money from whatever means the Russians and things. And it just creates one massive great big hot spot which radiates out to you know where I am in Sydney and and kind really you're getting you're getting a fix in Sydney it's from Russians buying houses in central London well they send a wave of price rises that people can't afford to live in London they move out from London with more money than what we. The crisis would be around. You know a 1000000 pounds will buy a very nice house in kind which are not writing trying which but. Connections to regular g. And Roy told me in Edinburgh What do you think. I was just thinking as well or not feel taken me as an example of both 457 that I think is an issue post 800000 pound mortgages attached to use an individual rather than go to repay the houses as collateral buy everything you have made 137 my next. Choice is and probably back and my mortgage which is attached to each rather than. Present another house or a could and another house and I've bought another house underneath it and not way the government is going to your tax codes show that you've moved house 8 times fewer and fewer people are doing that thing to our parents in the seventy's because the frictional cost as they call it stamp duty was the charges at the balsa he's so great and you're getting people now who are just sticking in the same house for 4050 years and maybe then you know where to do it but yeah. I'm looking. At the mylar because I'm alone in total to the next 4 years your mortgage you know so it's all. He's given your house to your children Roy. You know and I don't consider them all children consider my next year's pay the mortgage and he. Looks. Like I'm so I become the mortgage or and understood. My. Gift that's very interesting but how you end up handing the house down without getting into tax problems with profit made out and I Gary emails you can build only affordable houses you like for a young but unless they are less than $250000.00 pounds in Valley preferably less up north and buyable with a maximum deposit of 10 grand they are not affordable when is the penny going to drop says Gary. Very sad to hear that we lost David Cassidy. This is his most famous song like. A room. In the sky. Very odd American actor singer David Cassidy found fame in the Partridge Family I went on to become a 90 seventy's pop idols so you will if you're a same age as me or older you'll remember him from all the magazines and the t.v. And Top Of The Pops all that has died at age 67 had been suffering from dementia as well very sad David Greene in Heathfield East Sussex talking about properties says there are 800000 empty ones in England so we're going to sort those out before we build new ones on the greenbelt why didn't the young people