in other election news, city am reports on monday's soaring european markets, after emmanuel macron won 24% of the vote in the first round of the race to become french president. with fears growing that north korea could hold a nuclear missile test as early as today, the japan times reports that the japanese government have told local prefectures to help residents prepare for what to do in the event of a missile strike. on the front page of the times, a landmark intercontinental whistle blower case. a scottish marine engineer who dobbed in his cruise company employer carnival corporation, for pumping oil into the sea, has been awarded $1 million for his efforts. and according to the boss of the universities and colleges admissions service here in the uk, students shouldn't rush to getjobs when they graduate university. laughter the daily telegraph reports that parents should instead encourage children to move home and explore their options before embarking on a career.

to move home? wow! and finally, take a look at this shot on the front of the irish times. this is the brand spanking new poolberg incinerator, taking its first ever dump of garbage. i wrote that one for you, aaron. with us now is cornelia meyer, chair and chief economist at lbv asset management. sorry, we are so childish. thank you very much forjoining us. starting with the serious business of brexit, featuring in a lot of papers in the uk. in many ways, this is the risk theresa may took launching a snap election? it gives parties a chance to reposition themselves on the issue of brexit. it does, labour

certainly with their plan of tearing up certainly with their plan of tearing up what the tories said. i was a strong remain person, but it is not helpful for the country to be all over the place. but then we come together, after the election. we are... we up putting the wind of negotiation, we are making it a lot smaller —— we are. the people we are negotiating against, or with, what are we telling them? it is so clear that we are all over the place. this is not easy for labour, because in many of their constituencies, people are pro— brexit. we have to safeguard workers rights and... this is more about the negotiations, with

the conservatives. it is all or nothing, we are still planning. some of the policies on the table go against the grain of those who voted for rape brexit. absolutely. so, we need to... it was a margin of about 296 in need to... it was a margin of about 2% in favour of wrecks that. —— brexit. people may not have thought through the ramifications. this could be another official referendum? i do not think that, but... when you look at how labour is faring in the polls, itjust confuses people. it confuses the other side. it looks as though labour is not the win this election. that is if you believe the pollsters. we will talk about that

shortly. looking at the emmanuel macron rally, european stocks had their best one—day gain in something like two years. $290 billion was added, if you will, to the global markets. i am wondering, i called it on trumpet, we saw what happened with brexit, i am wondering if the markets are getting ahead of themselves? marine le pen, despite themselves? marine le pen, despite the polls, she has a chance of becoming the next french president? i would say absolutely. i think she has a chance. it looks right now as low emmanuel macron is set to win, but if you look at the visuals, the optical things, marine le pen is a lwa ys optical things, marine le pen is always with the people, emmanuel macron has a barrier. i am a pro—

macron has a barrier. i am a pro— macron person, but marine le pen had the party apparatus. macron does not have that party apparatus. at some stage, somebody needs to go out and get the votes. as they say nay seisay, it is not over until the fat lady sings. we have to wait. it looks like he is set to win. it would be disastrous if he didn't. why would it? because she is trying to get france out of the eu... why would that be disastrous?” to get france out of the eu... why would that be disastrous? i am very much pro—eu. would that be disastrous? i am very much pro-eu. that is funny, because are you not swiss? i am british. it is funny because soon i will no longer be a member of the eu!

is funny because soon i will no longer be a member of the 5mm will be interesting to see how the markets respond to the issues in north korea. now, to a story about children going through various drills to prepare for missile attack. it takes me back to the 19505, attack. it takes me back to the 1950s, not that i was around then, but i have seen the films. it is terrifying. it is, but we have to see... i lived injapan for nine years... you have to understand, this is a country that is used to earthquakes. everybody has an earthquakes. everybody has an earthquake hit in their home full. told what to do during an earthquake. it's the same force in armies. it is a country that is probably better equipped than many to deal with a drill like that. when we have a fire alarm test at the bbc, everybody just we have a fire alarm test at the bbc, everybodyjust walks out slowly. we don't have earthquakes.

we don't have the earthshaking and is starting to break and things like that. the background of this is much more worrying, because the increased rhetoric from the trump administration, with regards to north korea, bolstering, blustering tactic, that is a bit worrying because you see everybody sort of... that tension is ratcheting up gradually. what about the rhetoric from north korea that has been consta nt from north korea that has been constant for some years, testing bombs? some would say it is about time that somebody stood up to north korea. if they get to a stage of having long—range, intercontinental and nuclear ballistic missile is, then, i don't know. ijust wonder whether this is the right way to go

about it. i think it will increase tensions... we in the past. you do not necessarily want the top man in north korea being overpowered by america... if you are in america, it looks easy, but it does not look easyin looks easy, but it does not look easy in seoul. it is a densely populated area. lou —— this whistleblower who came clean about... carnival cruises, they were dumping oil at three. yes, they will have to pay $41 million as a fine, which is not that much if you are them. and the whistleblower got $1 million, which is encouraging for whistleblowers do have some

protection. this guy has no career, he was 27 years old. i think that is good compensation. the front page of the irish times, speaking of dumping, an incinerator taking its first delivery? it looks like a big vat of acid. i used to do project finance, these are big things. the guide once told me, we like burning things here. these are big and expensive things, major infrastructure projects. we will $0011 infrastructure projects. we will soon see. thank you very much for joining us. hello. we may be hurtling towards the end of april, but the weather feels like it's plunged us back into winter. a very chilly feel over the next couple of days.

a frosty start to tuesday. plenty of wintry showers around, and this cold air has come all the way from the arctic. it's worked its way southwards across the british isles, brought in our direction by pretty strong northerly winds. notice tightly squeezed isobars across the north and north—east of scotland, particularly. gales here, at times, and in areas exposed to that northerly wind, we start off tuesday with lots of showers. northern half of scotland seeing a mixture of rain, sleet, hail and snow. most of the snow over high ground, but even to low levels, there could be snow for a time. some icy stretches, as well, some of those showers across north—east england. also some showers feeding into northern ireland. but for south—west scotland, down the spine of england, we start the day with fewer showers, more in the way of dry weather and sunshine. chilly, though — three degrees in birmingham and coventry, and some showers just clipping into parts of pembrokeshire, cornwall and devon.

and as we go on through the day, the showers will gradually become more widespread across the country, so just about anywhere you could catch one. the odd rumble of thunder, some rain, some sleet, some hail, some snow, mostly over the hills. 7—13 degrees on the thermometer, but add on the strength of the winds, and take aberdeen, for example, it will feel freezing, even in the middle of the afternoon. another cold night to come, tuesday night into wednesday. the showers, though, becoming mostly confined to eastern areas. again, some of them will be wintry. these are the temperatures to expect if you live in the middle of our big towns and cities. out in the countryside, we are looking at lows of minus six or minus seven, a widespread frost. but some subtle changes into wednesday. this ridge of high pressure begins to build its way in from the west, and that'll cut off the worst,

if you like, of that biting northerly wind, so maybe not as chilly on wednesday. still some showers, but most of these across eastern areas. some sunshine, as well, but thicker cloud starting to roll into northern ireland and western scotland. a few spots of rain. it will mostly be rain, because temperatures will be creeping upwards. 10 degrees in stornoway. and that is the story for the end of the week, the cold air, slowly but surely, being eroded by some milder air pushing in from the atlantic. so we can expect those temperatures to begin to creep upwards through thursday and friday. there'll be fewer showers, often a lot of cloud, but those temperatures returning to something closer to what we would expect at this time of year.

hello, this is breakfast, with louise minchin and dan walker. labour promises a new plan for brexit. they say they'd scrap theresa may's strategy, and would guarantee the rights of eu citizens in the uk before talks begin.

the conservatives say they're the only party with a clear vision for brexit. good morning, it's tuesday the 25th of april. also this morning — sir eltonjohn cancels a series of shows in the us after spending two nights in intensive care. his management team says he suffered a "potentially deadly" infection. 15, 20