a rare glimpse of life under the forms you crave. a city under siege on it just either. ah. m, i knew micron is re elected president for the 1st french leader in 20 years to secure a 2nd term. is far right. rival marine le pen concedes defeat, but turn so focus to legislative elections later this year. ah, by me, parker. this is al jazeera live from london, also coming up where on the front line and ukraine's east, where russian forces pushing towards the city of slavery, answer. and unprecedented flood sy, clones, and drought africa, struggles to keep pace with the changing climate. ah,

the manual, my crime has been reelected. the french president for a 2nd term is far right challenger marine le pen conceded defeat shortly after polls closed, an early estimates were released once officially, the victory would make macro the 1st french president in 20 years to secure a 2nd term. the run off between macaroni le pen was held off to elections on april . the 10th failed to produce a clear winner estimate suggest. micron has 58.8 percent of the vote while his fall right? rival got a share of 41.2 percent. that's based on the counting bonus. smith has more from powers. emanuel micron gambled that a short but intense election campaign would be enough. it was his comfortable margin of victory of a marine le pen gives him a 2nd term of the lease a palace. only 2 presidents before him have managed that in his vic speech micron

promised that his next 5 year term would be different. so a new readiness of this new era will not be a continuity of the 5 previous years. but the collected invention of a revised method for 5, better years, for our country and our use for supporters. this is a when that endorse is what they believe is their country's role at the heart of the european union marcus, you sent them. i am very happy up to the last minute i thought i would have fainted . you never know in life anything can happen. rosy lips was ready to give up to day extensions were significant that emanuel macaroni did a good job in the 1st years of his mandate, and he deserves to lead france again. marine le pen gave the far right the highest share of the vote in a french election, but her path to the presidency was blocked again by a republican front. in other words, many voters who supported other candidates in the 1st round voted this time to keep le pen out in it, but to death is with biscuit. the game is not over since in 3 weeks time. we will

have the legislative elections that, as we know, are a distortion of the political trend and create a risk of a manual. my crown concentrating all executive and legislative powers. john lew, melanie shown the far left presidential candidate, took just one percent less of the vote than the pen in the 1st round. he wants his party, france on bowed to win enough support in the legislative elections. the micron is forced to appoint him prime minister. would that do should, to all of you, i say, do not resign yourself. on the contrary, go candidly and completely into the action has on democracy, could once again give us the means to change direction. the war in ukraine and the rising cost of living were main concerns for french voters. both issues will likely dominate the start of micro on the 2nd. your probably won't be much of a grace period for the president. on the left, many of the voted for him, reluctant to raise the retirement,

easy to hire and fire workers. i don't recall on the employment benefits for the 1st. just put in reps again, ernest algebra. touch a butler joins us now. live from paris. natasha. clearly what looks like a comfortable win for minute macro, but not without juices within the macro camp. ahead of these results. no indeed, a man, my call is now in fact, celebrating his evening at a french presidential residency near versailles. he has gone there, of course, to mark the fact that he's going to start another 5 years as french present that he won this election. but as you say, the next 5 years will be challenging because as he acknowledged himself in his victory speech, i this evening, or many people who voted for him, didn't actually vote for him because they support him or his policies, but they voted to block marine the pen and

a far right agenda. they simply thought that a far right president would be too destructive and to divisive up for fraud. so micro knows that he now needs to win the trust of many of those voters, many of whom are on the left left wing voters. but is why i think we saw him this evening talking about things like putting climate change at the center of his presence in the next 5 years. he's trying to now widen his appeal because what he's done over the last 5 years a, some is moved too far to the right. he now needs to try and appeal to those on the left, say others. and i think that's what he will try to do whether or not he'll follow through on some of those promises. of course, we'll have to see. and one of marine lapel and i me, she clearly as one this but she's most certainly gained ground. and as promising to fight another day, what does she have in store? yes, marina pansy's tried to win the french presence he 3 times and failed 3 times. but

she is still spinning. tonight's results in her favor saying this is a victory as far as she has. cancer is concerned because of course, although she didn't, when she says look, i got more than a 40 percent of the vote and that is a huge score for her. a far right party is the biggest ever for her party. so she's looking at it as a victory, as an achievement. and what she wants to now do is transform some of that momentum in june's parliamentary elections and try and have as many fall right. members of parliament as possible, those june elections also absolutely key for emmanuel mcgraw and his political party because if he doesn't get a majority in parliament, he won't be able to push ahead with some of his reforms. natasha, thank you very much. well francois burger art is an expert in security in anti terror policy. sanders, a french political scientists, and arabic t joins as far as skype from exxon provence. thanks so much for joining us. not one

section of french society. the arguably hasn't been reached by either my crohn or all or pan of frances muslims. many of them feel demonized for the wake of attacks in paris. another city is what the bay make of this year's election. and now the result. well, if you want to start with that, was it in remark to are these elections? it will be probably considered as the 1st time in french contemporary history where muslim citizens today at least some role not, not as important as it should be. but it's probably the 1st time that at least when good 3rd, next to a heart of the muslim french muslims participated in the vote. and while they all most succeeded in changing,

complete in the 2nd round of elections because they are those who have almost wrote middle sure the left to the 2nd round. so of course, during this last 2nd round, they didn't play any major role since they withdrew most of them with route from the poll. but nevertheless, the signal is important from now on. and this is at the heart of the tensions in france, this voice, this legitimacy of muslims inside the political system. they have sent a strong signal and this should be considered a very positive stage in our contemporary political history. of course, marina pan has worked very, very hard in recent years to redefine or reshape her political party in comparison to the party of her father, for instance. but has she gone far enough when it comes to shaking off the old

image and restoring confidence from minority voters in france? when you have the results, the results is that the so called the full, the p leak are, as more or less functions do not. and my call has been elected by at least one 3rd of voters who do not like him. you know that many of the voters tonight do not feel that they are represented in these results because they have voted against the extreme right. in doing so, they have elected someone who is often considered as the extreme of the right or the right stream. so this is the 2nd the. busy originality of this election is it is not finished. we need to know how many voters we agree to

give a call at a 3, a majority in 5 minutes. and the result of tonight could be significantly different within 2 months. if michael face to gain trust, of those who have elected middle school and not willing to support him in the parliamentary elections. so we to to know the exact signification of the policy tonight. we need to know what will be the results of the party coming parliamentary elections. now of course, we've already seen demonstrations on the streets of paris and other cities. those demonstrations would have happened. however, one i suppose, the selection. but i'm wondering, in your opinion, how le pen, how micron have realistically evolved from the last election from 2017, what have they done differently, and how differently does france think about these 2 key figures?

well, you know, as, as trying to move away from the hard line of the founders of our party back home. and then the opposite has moved in opposite direction. macklin has moved to word extreme right rhetoric since september 2019 since this course, given in the city of limo. if i, if i wrap up what happened in france is that some of the discourse was limited to the extreme right. then he moved to the right, then it moved to what compartments of the left, but in late 2019, it has become the discourse of the state. and if i, if i summarize, i would say that the french government used to criminalize and repress actions of a minority of muslims since the end of 2019. he has started

criminalizing not the actions, but the opinions, not of a minority, but of the majority of muslims. so this is the situation where we are but back home and as it will, ab evolve, tour one another. but they meet in a kind of center which is not the center they meet on the ground, which is much closer to the extreme right than it is to do that the represented by middle school and the reminiscence of, of the left ok front. so i forgot, thank you so much for what they got there on the changing political landscape in france. now let's take a quick look at some international reaction. both the german and british leaders have congratulated micron on have shot says france made a strong commitment to europe and he's pleased to be able to continue to cooperate

or boyish johnson, says francis, one of the you case, closed system most important allies. and he looks forward to continuing to work together on the issues which matter most of the 2 countries and to the world. wow, jazz here as a senior political analyst, mar, bashar says microns victory is important for europe. and for the us. certainly the sire for relief if there is one, is coming from europe, from brussels, and from berlin and from rome and other places where there is more, more central coalitions forming against the radical or the far right. trying to push the european project forward, or at least trying to defend, they will be on project as it faces major challenges, notably from the east, from russia, but also from an ambitious america. so the, the victory for, for francis my call is very important for the repeal new and to continue to face to

continue to overcome challenges to continue to deepen. busy you know, the unity among its members, especially after briggs and that was a major challenge after co hood them the panoramic. that was another major challenge. and now with the invasion of ukraine, you know, i said one so with my thought and thought and from being such a pro european voice in an important european country, that certainly has gone to mean a lot for the p and union. and as far as the united states, there's also of course, from the bible administration, there was probably are a lot of congratulations. but also because macro basically soft in his language. over the last few weeks, few months. i was a couple of years from talking about independence, european defense, autonomous european security to know basically getting in with the program as it

were. talking about the new nate told us the strength of the strengthening of nato and so on, so forth. which leads to face up to russia and its invasion of ukraine. still call me on al jazeera flip. he is sense of political change, as it's right when prime minister fails to win, a 4th and ukraine's president delivers a message of unity and resilience as orthodox christians, monkeys to sunday. ah, hello there. let's start in australia and from the satellite image, you can see the intense shower crowds, bringing thunderstorms to northern and southern areas of the country. we're going to see some of those fear. thunderstorms rush across queens and in the days to come and spread into new south wales. we could see some flooding across some of those northern areas. we've also had some flood warnings out in the south, but

a lot about whether pushes across to the southeast in the days to come with some showers in sydney. we are going to see the rain as well. pick up in perth, thanks to a front that's pulling itself and bringing some range about all the way through to wednesday. we're expecting those showers temperature dipped down by about 10 degrees. so it is certainly going to feel cooler here. now as we hop across the tasman to new zealand, lots of settled whether to be found some scattered showers for both the north and the south island. christ church coming in at 90 degrees. it is going to get down the temperature slightly by tuesday. but oakland will touch into the twenty's by tuesday with sunshine now was the head to southeast asia. we are seeing the heavier rain to the west of the philippines, mainly for malaysia and indonesia, with some heavy falls for sumatra and borneo in the days to come. but it's dry in thailand with sunshine in bangkok, that's the weather update. aah!

from the al jazeera london broadcast center t people, unprompted uninterrupted. there is a form of knowledge which is kind of not acknowledged though, there isn't only one story to be told even about colonialism. the other stories part 2 of after is that gonna react to aim. we can bring in all of these other ecologies are not necessarily struck in the ways that we've been taught them. i feel like that's potentially a really exciting prospect studio be unscripted on al jazeera lou. ah, reminder of the top stories here on al jazeera and manual, my crohn and his supporters,

the celebrating in france after he was re elected as president, as based on early estimates, giving him more than 58 percent of the run of votes. the ritual makes micron the 1st french president in 20 years to secure a 2nd term. his rival marie le pen conceded defeat shortly after the estimated results were announced. she picked up just over 41 percent of the vote. the far right leaders as the results put her party in an excellent place for the upcoming legislative elections. meanwhile, slovenia is set for political change after early results showed its ruling conservative party. it was defeated in parliamentary elections, political newcomer robert golub, who leads the opposition. liberals is now expected to form a coalition government. he's a former energy executive and the head of the environmentalist, freedom movement, party polling had him neck and neck with the incumbent. prime minister ayana's young, some who has been criticized for suppressing opposition voices. will gasper lou

bash is following events in the slip in the and capital liliana? this was supposed to be a fight through between the robert drop from freedom movement and prime in the study. honest down shot by robert. go up on in a landslide. one of the reasons is that he has a lot of new orders who weren't went to the election before. on the other hand, pianist, the answer was criticized for suppressed and needed for suppressing civil society and organization. so civil society are going into the 3 selling people for 12. so the very high turn out is one of the key issues in the collection in 2018. there was a 53 percent walters coming out. now it's very close to 70 percent. is we expect that the robert to go up really for my government with other left. in fact he's on the other hand, yanna sash always staying a position. he's

a political veteran. he's. he will be waiting for his next chance. he was prime minister for 3 times and he couldn't do it the 4th time. so we are expecting that the parliament will have for less parties. it would be easier for our other go up to form a government ukrainian official say the secretary of state is in the capital key of meeting with president lensky. according to ukraine's presidential advisor us defense secretary lloyd austin, is also there. the white house hasn't confirmed the trip, but it's believe to be the highest level visit us official since the invasion began for landscape said he plans to ask the americans for more powerful weapons to defend ukraine from invading russian forces. this as russian forces continue the offensive along a massive front line in eastern ukraine. charles route for reports now from sla yann's in the east of the country. the town of lee man, which is about 20 kilometers. and it was a town that we were literally unable to get to today because the shelling was so

heavy, we didn't have to speak to civilians coming out of it. they yeah, confirming what we could hear saying that they were families sheltering in bunkers . we spoke to one person who described a crater in the center of town that was believed to be changed from an air strike. we cannot confirm. busy that just as indication of the difficulties that people are facing here is this, as it continues, there was a young family that was actually trying to get into lehman. at one stage we said, well, where are you going? can you hear the shelling? and they said, well, we have no choice, our home is there and we cannot afford to live in any pro. and that's where they fled to. they play that every once before and now they were going into it just as it seems, russian forces. i'm making a concerted effort to push towards the city of sla beyond square. we are now in other areas. we also know that is ongoing fighting south east of here in a town called pop sana,

which we understand is half controlled by the russian rules is heavily contested. and as i say, is an indication of the russian army trying to surround savanski here as sofa. so far, at least, ukrainians, ukrainian forces seem to be keeping. keeping them back, he cranes, president followed him as lensky has called for unity and resilience drawing an address, barking easter sunday in the orthodox kristian church. subdued celebrations have been held across the country. church leaders have been asked not to gather too many people together in case they become a target. alexia bryan reports. yes, the horses will go on. miss. in the shadow of war, ukraine's president turned to a building signifying peace caves 1000 year old saint sophia cathedral. the setting for his latest video message marking orthodox easter sunday room will yours, christina crystal as shall symbol is we believe easter symbolizes the greatest

victory of life over death. each of us is asking god, only one thing. every one says the same words, the words of a great and united prayer. great lord, the save ukraine. oh, sunday also marks 2 months since russian forces invaded ukrainian authorities urged those celebrating the christian festival to follow services online. but some still made their way to church for easter blessings. oh this is boucher outside cave. a town that seen some of the worst violence of this conflict in other parts of the country artillery fire could be heard as easter services were held. ukraine had joined the un and pushing for an east, a truce, but with no success is saunter severed. nearby, the sun is shining, and the sky is clear. but there's no peace in my soul. i very, very much want ukraine to have liberty love, and hope are yours, that the book is so clear. others in the eastern city of separation were too

nervous to stay for math. 3rd one is one of them. we didn't enter the church, we did everything quickly. we received our blessings from the priest and we are now on our way home. the conflict has divided the orthodox church. the russian patriarch and ally of president vladimir putin. his throne, his support behind the war, and used his sermons to justify it. that's angered church leaders in ukraine and others across the orthodox faith. its spiritual leader has pushed for an end to the fighting, calling it an indescribable human tragedy. rushes annexation of crimea lead to a part of ukraine's clergy splitting from the moscow lead branch. in 2018. there are fears. the war could further rupture. the wider church president for law to me as a lensky urged ukrainians not to let anger overwhelm them. vilegas,

how does your wooden you, today's great holiday gives us the great hope and belief that light will win over darkness said good will win over evil life will win over data. so therefore ukraine will win inevitably order mil to mil. oh, a prayer for peace and hope heard and felt across ukraine. alixia brian al jazeera trinity as coast guard says 17 people are now known to have died in multiple shipwrecks. on saturday, 3 bodies have been recovered for boats carrying more than a 120 people from different countries in africa. sunk off the coast near the city of the facts, the majority were rescued. the migrants were heading to italy, crossings are on the rise and dozens of drown trying to make the perilous journey. meanwhile, at least 6 people have died after a boat carrying refugees. a migrant sank off the lebanese coast overnight on saturday,

lebanon's navy says one of its ships crashed into the small digging after the smuggler in charge. try to evade the military. they're around 60 people on board, all lebanese or syrian, many lebanese and refugees living there are trying to escape the economic crisis by heading to europe. ah, like williams toys. a miss fowler is now. it's a tragedy on all levels. for all, tripoli is a family and i can't express the feelings. the media asked me about nationalities. this doesn't matter at all. what's important save lives. we now have $45.00 survivors, one girl died, and the search is still ongoing. the glasses for me, lebanon is a village, and we're all family lamps at the recent floods that have devastated large areas of south africa, highlighting concerns over climate change. environmental groups in southern africa are concerned governments in the region on not doing enough millions of people have suffered both floods and drought. in the last 6 months alone for me to mila. as

more from johannesburg, unimaginable destruction homes and lives destroyed or lost as floods ravaged parts of quizzes, due natal province in recent weeks. and in the aftermath, beaches streets aligned with debris and pollution. at least 443 people were killed in the floods described as the worst in 60 years. when 2 months worth of rain fell in just 48 hours, causing mud and lance lights, we needs to increase investment employment adaptation measures. to better safeguard communities against the effects of climate change, the government is calling such natural disasters the new normal, attributing it mostly to climate change, but environment experts say the devastation may not have been as bad if the government had done more. here in the township of alexander and to hannah's, but thousands of people live alongside river banks and flood prone areas. while the

happy local and global that is to reduce the effects of climate change. many of those promises have not been kept ex, let's say countries like south africa need to build better houses, road and drainage and phone support systems to adapt to climate change. and key people say, experts say africa's west indian ocean region is vulnerable to extreme weather shocks. parts of madagascar have recently been hit by intense tropical cyclones, while south east of the island drought has decimated crops, killed animals, and displaced thousands of people, causing widespread food shortages. trout as to ravaged parts of zambia, zimbabwe and south africa. in sodom, madagascar, for example, you have 1.5 to 2000000 people who suffered acute hunger because of drought issues you have are, or what a 1000000 carcases are from lice,

lifestyle, cur, heard us, et cetera. and now with the storms are that we have seen about 3 very are significant storms happening in causal natal in the space of about 7 years. and who has suffered the most. it is really the poor and vulnerable who have one lea, a dangerous places to put up their houses in. we are going to continue to see this framed happening are all across the african continent. it's estimated it will cost billions of dollars to fix the damage caused by the latest gliding in south africa and environmental groups. a severe weather has killed half a 1000000 people in southern africa. in the last 6 months alone. for me to mila al jazeera johannesburg, south africa, a japanese drug maker says that an experimental treatment that is developed for coven 19 is showing promising results. the company says this antiviral treatment

has shown rapid clearance of the virus during the 2nd phase of clinical trials. the drug makers said it has plans to launch a global phase 3 trials for the drug. with u. s. government support. ah, a reminder of the top story, say one al jazeera, a manual, my crohn and his support is the celebrating him. france, softly he was re elected as president. that's based on early estimates, giving him more than 58 percent of the run off of votes on sufficient. the victory will make my call the 1st french president in 20 years to secure a 2nd term during his victory speech and co unity.