macron, hello, i'm karin giannone, welcome to outside source, live from the bbc newsroom. six days to go until the final and decisive round of the french election. at a rally in paris, front—runner emmanuel macron urged his supporters to choose hope over despair and resist the far—right. the question being posed is that of the question being posed is that of the future of france, and europe. at her own event, marine le pen launched a stinging attack on her rival saying he is the "candidate of continuity". emmanuel he is the "candidate of continuity". macron is just f hollande emmanuel macron is just francois hollande who wants to stick around. in the us, congress strikes a $1 trillion budget deal to avoid a government shutdown. i think the rules in congress and in the senate are unbelievably archaic

and slow—moving. we'll be live in new york to find out what else is missing from donald trump's wishlist. is hamas attempting to soften its image? we'll look at a new policy document released by the palestinian militant group — the first since its founding charter. and don't forget you can get in touch about any of the stories we're covering using the #bbcos hashtag. welcome to outside source. it's the final week of campaigning in the french presidential election. both emmanuel macron and marine le pen have been holding rallies — attacking one another. mr macron told his supporters to reject the far—right policies of his rival — while ms le pen linked mr macron to the outgoing administration and said they'd costjobs and ruined businesses. all this to a backdrop of may day protests. masked demonstrators threw petrol bombs and other objects at officers, two of whom were injured.

police responded with tear gas. the parade was organised by trades unions and anti—racist campaigners. james reynolds was there. francois fillon of divisions now. honoured day like today you see the divisions based on the different protest. i was at herjohn marine le pen rally this morning. there were people there signing up to his particular view of france and those here have a very different view, they were all have to pick a side at they were all have to pick a side at the elections on sunday. the danger for emmanuel macron is he doesn't necessarily get all of the people who marched here. everyone here is against marine le pen but that the does not mean they are in favour of

emmanuel macron. i asked our correspondent hugh schofield how serious the may day clashes were. they were, in the scheme of things, not that bad. you get used to this confrontation at the end of rallies here. anarchist types on the fringes engaging in stonethrowing and tear gas is classic and will be forgotten very wea kly. gas is classic and will be forgotten very weakly. what are we seeing the two candidates doing in terms of scooping up the votes of all people who didn't vote for them the first time around? bring a pen's tactic is interesting. she is trying to portray emmanuelle macron as a creature of finance, she is really demonising him, demonising him in the eyes of left voters. she wants to make sure that people who voted left in the first round, those who voted for someone else, that they

see emmanuel macron as a danger. she knows their first instinct will be to form a right against her, the far right, and vote from emmanuel macron but she was to spell out to them that they shouldn't do that because emmanuel macron is that evil thing over international link globalisation. she is saying macron is as dangerous and reprehensible as you might think that i am, hoping that these voters will either vote for her or either abstain. if abstention is high and left wing voters stay away, that is good news for marine le pen. and macron? he was criticised last week for not getting out quick enough that the starting blocks and criticised again for having a values led campaign where he talked purely as if what mattered most was the second world

warand mattered most was the second world war and memories of the holocaust, very important things, it talking about massacre, but hardly relevant to today. his intention was to remind everyone of marine le pen‘s past. i think people feel, enough of that, what is in your programme? today, he was more hard—hitting and talked about how marine le pen‘s programme would be dangerous for france and that is what people will expect from him this week, more debate on what he proposes, on what she proposes and why his is better than hers. how are the polls looking, with six days to go? fairly steady. they were creeping up for marine le pen which suggests her campaign last week, which is so much more vital and energetic than emmanuel macron‘s was but it hasn't been that much. 60, a0. that kind of ratio. he is clearly the favourite

with six days to go. more on the french elections later in the programme. japan has sent the largest ship in its military to escort a us navy vessel as it sails through japanese waters. the deployment of the helicopter carrier izumo is the first such operation forjapan since it passed laws two years ago expanding the role of its military. it's seen as a decisive shift away from decades of pacifism. from tokyo, rupert wingfield hayes reports. the izumo is the pride of the japanese navy. the biggest warship the country has built since world war ii. today's departure is hugely symbolic. the izumo will escort and protect this us navy supply ship and will respond with force if it comes under attack. forjapan‘s military this is another big step away from pacifism. just across the sea of japan satellite photos show north korea is preparing for another underground nuclear test. speaking on sunday, us

president donald trump again warned pyongyang not to go ahead. i would not be happy if he does a nuclear test, i will not be happy. and i can tell you also, i don't believe that the president of china, who is a very respected man, will be happy. if pyongyang is worried, it is not showing it. today it vowed to go ahead with the nuclear test at any time and at any location. this all comes two days after north korea test fired another of its growing family of ballistic missiles. the fifth test this year. meanwhile the uss carl vinson carrier battle group has finally arrived in waters off the korean peninsula. the huge ship and its escorts are a very potent symbol of america's military might. but what are they here to do? president trump is not giving many clues. ijust don't want people to know what my thinking is. so eventually he will have a better

delivery system and if that happens, we cannot allow it to happen. for the first time the us president acknowledged the terrible consequences that could result from a military strike against north korea. massive warfare with potentially millions of people being killed. that, as we would say, trumps trade. tensions are now higher than at any time since north korea's young dictator kimjong un came to power in 2011. despite the heated rhetoric, neither side wants a conflict. but when tensions are high so are the dangers of miscalculation. the palestinian islamist group hamas has dropped its long—standing call for israel's destruction as well as its association with the muslim brotherhood in a new policy document. the move appears aimed at improving relations with gulf arab states and egypt. to get a sense of how

this has been viewed, i spoke with rasha qandeel from bbc arabic. the first thing in the document is what you said, what seems to be a softer sta nce what you said, what seems to be a softer stance on israel and in between wording, trying to distance hamas from the muslim brotherhood, especially in egypt, the very first reaction i have just especially in egypt, the very first reaction i havejust heard on arabic news was from the spokesperson of the israeli prime minister and he said there is no change whatsoever, everything we have been reading, they don't see, the israeli officials cannot see, and they still think hamas is trying to destroy israel. has this come as a surprise? that actually has been leaked for a few days now, from arabic sources of news. it was expected to be sharper than this, more obvious than this.

but the wording that came today is actually a bit like the in between, the softer wording of what we were expecting, so it wasn't a surprise in the eyes of many, but it had to be more sharp than this to be actually something of significance to israel, to egypt, to the gulf countries who have classified the muslim brotherhood as a terrorist organisation. it is not really as surprising as we wished for. why has this come and why now? the timing is important. there is the pressure of the past billion in cash as doully and —— palestinian leadership, and this comes hours before the meeting between the palestinian president and the american president donald

trump. the other thing is, there is no future for the muslim brotherhood, in the eyes of many in the region, and hamas is under the pressure of its two main big allies, qatar and turkey, and this is why the announcement has come out of qatar to dismiss any speculation of dispute between the muslim brotherhood and qatar or the muslim brotherhood and qatar or the muslim brotherhood and qatar or the muslim brotherhood and turkey. so many of the analyst today see that this is a kind of pressure from the allies rather than from the other side. that is the palestinian side, let's hear how israel is reacting. it has been fairly muted because this announcement out of dough heart took time when israel was marking memorial day, to remember the fallen soldiers and picked terms of terrorism so of course government leaders are taking part in those

events and also taking part for the celebratory holiday which follows which marks israel's independence day. we did have an israeli official come out and say that hamas is attempting to fool the world that it won't succeed, he said they'd built terror panels, meaning out of gaza, and have lost thousands upon thousands of missiles at israeli civilians, this he says is the real hamas. don't think this will change things too much either if you look at the eu or the us which both classify hamas as being a terrorist organisation because hamas continues in this new policy document to talk about its commitment to what it calls armed resistance which will mean, we imagine, more attacks on israel, possible attacks in the future. i think what we really need to look for is any changing relations in the region where hamas has seen increasingly isolated

recently. 0f has seen increasingly isolated recently. of course, the gaza strip which is run by hamas does have that border with egypt, egypt and several of the gulf arab states have recently entered the muslim brotherhood to be a terrorist organisation, so it is very interesting indeed, there is not a single mention of the muslim brotherhood in this new document, although of course hamas was a logical offshoot of that big a islamist organisation. stay with us on 0utside source. and here in the uk, the organisation representing nhs groups has called on political parties to commit to linking health spending to the growth of the economy. the future funding of the nhs has

risen up the political agenda, and the election manifestoes should spell out where the different parties stand. the nhs confederation, which represents health groups in england, wales, and northern ireland, has called for commitments for a minimum fixed percentage of gdp — that's national income — to be spent on health, as with defence and international aid. the confederation notes that uk's health spending as a share of the economy, just under 10%, is below that of france and germany. the organisation has also called for an independent office, to advise ministers on appropriate funding for the nhs. the confederation says political parties must recognise that without action soon, the health and care system will be incapable of meeting modern needs. hugh pym, bbc news. this is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. the two candidates for the french presidency have launched attacks

on each other at rival rallies in paris. just four full days of campaigning are left before next sunday's run—off. turkish police have broken up may day demonstrations in istanbul. they used tear gas on a group of around 200 anti—government protesters. that's the lead story on bbc turkish. from today, indian officials are no longer allowed to use sirens and lights on their vehicles to cut through traffic jams. india's prime minister said he wants to replace vip culture with what he called epi — or ‘every person is important.‘ that's on bbc hindi. and among the most read on our website — this photo is getting lots of attention. it's princess charlotte's — it's her second birthday tomorrow — and the duke and duchess of cambridge have this picture of the birthday girl. iraq was once home to about one and a half million christians —

now there are believed to be fewer than a quarter of a million. a large community of iraqi christians lived in, qaraqosh, to the north of the country. but they fled as fighters from the so—called islamic state arrived. many now live in camps in kurdish controlled erbil. some have gone abroad. 0ur correspondent paul adams now reports from qaraqosh. waiting to go home, the christians of qaraqosh came to erbil more than two and a half years ago. their lives are still on hold. we meet this couple at the door to the cramped two—room cabin, they have agreed to take us back to qaraqosh to see why it is so hard to return. the area was liberated in october, isis have gone. but it is a ghost town. nazi's father is almost the only person here, this is

where the whole family once lived, 30 people. when they came back last year, they found a burned—out, looted wreck. translation: if no one cares about us, or replaces what we lost, how can i come back? it's a disaster. six months after liberation, there is no water or electricity and no plans to repair the damage. as the battle rages on in nearby mosul, the people of qaraqosh feel ignored and vulnerable. translation: we are christians, the original people of this place. we want our own christian province on the nineveh plain, to run our own affairs by ourselves, to guarantee the future for ourselves and our children. they were married in the church of saint mary, one of the biggest in the middle east, defaced and burned by is fighters.

in the courtyard, signs of target practice. and from the roof, a lifeless panorama. this really does bring it home. up here on the roof of the church, you look around in every direction, there is no sign of movement. no one hanging out the washing, no one walking in the street. before isis arrived, there were at least 50,000 people in qaraqosh, now there is almost no one. on the edge of town, a small unit of mostly christian troops guards the entrance to qaraqosh but people remember how quickly isis swept in before, could it happen again? wisam runs the only cafe in town. translation: it's up to the iraqi government whether is comes back or not. it's all about security. we hope they will not come back. but if the security forces

withdraw, there is a chance is will return, maybe even stronger than before. qaraqosh is an overgrown, haunted place. the christians who lived here have scattered. some are living abroad, it is hard to see them coming back any time soon. paul adams, bbc news, northern iraq. the us government wont be shutting down — at least not this week. congress struck a deal late sunday night which must now go through both houses. the $1 trillion deal will keep the us government running until september.

what would have happened without a deal? the statue of liberty would have been closed, other places would have been closed, other places would have been closed, but they came in to agreement in the nick of time so there won't be a disagreement about keeping the federal government open. there's look at the deal. it does not include any money for president trump ozma wall, and there was also no funding slashed but it wasn't all bad news for resident trump because he has one 12.5 billion dollars in defence funding. certain things aren't included in this deal. it was aren't included in this deal. it was a winds definitely for democrats and there were some winds as well for

republicans but overall, if you look at the reaction from both parties, you can certainly see that democrats we re you can certainly see that democrats were a lot more up beat about what was in fact included. this isjust a stopgap measure in terms of spending, this keeps the federal government operating so when it comes to some of those bigger items you are talking about why the border wall ought defunding planned parenthood, those are issues that we re parenthood, those are issues that were probably going to come up again as we get further into the budget negotiations. the resident has given an interview saying he is considering a possible break—up of large us banks, what else has he said? this is very significant, even at the point at which this piece of information was released, as a result of this interview, we saw anna read yet reaction by banking stocks. —— an immediate reaction by banking stock. because of all of the

talk of scaling back a lot of these banking balls, the fact that he even talked about the idea of breaking up the banks came a big of a shock to banking stocks. he has been talked about this rule put in place many yea rs about this rule put in place many years ago but then was repealed and it really sort of created the separation between investment banking and commercial banking, those lies blurred a bit and banks operate in both realms so there was even talk about reviving that rule to sort this modern era. members of his own cabinet have talked about this. thank you. yvon chouinard's love of the outdoors spurned him to create his business — billion—dollar sportswear company patagonia. its rock—climbing founder even admitted he "never wanted "to be a businessman". mr chouinard is passionate

about the environment and explained why he's taking on the us president. over the years, i have given over $80 million away to environmental causes. in the last couple of years, we have given 750,000 dollars to lobby obama to create protected areas. with the stroke of a pen, trump can just negate that, or thinks he can. because of this new administration, we're going to give bigger grants but less of them, and they will go to lawsuits. the way we will deal with trump, i think, is to have a million bees around his head so he can't concentrate on anyone being. we are going to cover our losses. you'd imagine the strongest economy in europe would have great wifi. but germany's digital economy

is being damaged by the fact that public wi—fi is still very hard to find. joe miller finds out why. the rules and germany are very confusing and i have never actually heard of anyone being sued for illegal downloads but to make sure, we have got liability insurance but i guess the confusion could be one of the reasons why so many cafes do not offer wi—fi in germany. german politicians never miss an opportunity to talk up this country's widget all economy so the fa ct country's widget all economy so the fact that cafes like this cannot offer public wi—fi is something of an embarrassment and something that

this new law sets out to fix. on the good side, it tries to give you the section about liability and it states very clearly that under no condition can wi—fi operator the liable but there is another section where at the same time, the draft law states that you can offer wi—fi operator to block certain information related to copyright infringement and you can do that without a court order. whatever shape the legislation takes, the race is now on to get something passed before the german elections in september. coming up, we will be live to the snooker, whipple talk about brexit and the french elections. —— we will talk about. we thought damaging weather across

the weekend. violent and storms and tornadoes. to the north of the area of low pressure, really cold air and blizzard conditions in the north—west. we saw scenes like this across texas and into the deep south as tornadoes ravaged some areas, bringing about damage and fatalities. it's been pushing eastwards over the last 12 hours and we have seen hefty thunderstorms across parts of mississippi, into alabama, to georgia, come tacky and, tennessee. —— ken tacky and tennessee. —— ken tacky and tennessee. by tuesday, things are looking quieter. across the west, the surge of warm air moving northwards. the warmth will filter into washington state and as far as thank you. 20 degrees in seattle. we

will see significant snow melt over the mountainous areas. on wednesday, another area of low pressure develops across the central southern areas of the us to bring yet another round of ireland thunderstorms, possibly with tornadoes and flash flooding. in africa, concentrating in eastern areas. the east african rains have been very intense over the last couple of weeks, further downpours in ethiopia and somalia, kenya, and in eastern madagascar. over into europe, closer to home, a surge of cold air has brought late—season snow to the alps, very heavy snow in fact which has increased the avalanche risk but warm air looms across southern and eastern parts. the best of the warmth and sunshine and tuesday will be across greece and the eastern

mediterranean. decent conditions in southern italy but cool in northern france and northern italy, particularly get heavy rain. northern spain not doing too well but southern spain and portugal, plenty of warm sunshine and things are looking good across the canary islands. temperature wise, we have the north west south west split. disappointing temperatures in warsaw and parts of germany. closer to home, high—pressure world manny but will be developing easterly winds that the rest of this week warm and sunny further west. and forget you can see a full uk weather forecast here in about five —— half an hour. hello, i'm karin giannone, this is outside source. our top story is the french presidential election. at a rally in paris, frontrunner emmanuel macron urged his supporters to choose hope over despair and resist

the far—right. translation: the question being posed on may 7th is that of the future of france, of europe, and a certain concept of the world. at her own event, marine le pen launched a stinging attack on her rival saying he is the "candidate of continuity". translation: emmanuel macron isjust francois hollande who wants to stick around and is clinging onto power like a barnacle. brexit talks are looming, but what was really said at last week's meeting between theresa may and jean claude juncker? we'll speak to a journalist who claims to know. and don't forget you can get in touch about any