this is bbc news. i'm damian grammaticas live in paris. the headlines at 3pm. newly—elected president emmanuel macron vows to fight the forces of division that undermine france. mr macron is a passionate pro—european — we'll look at the implications of his election for brexit. and also coming up on today's programme. theresa may suggests the conservatives will — again — promise to cut net migration to the "tens of thousands" in their election manifesto. labour targets children's health — and says it will ban alljunk food tv adverts before the 9pm watershed. facebook places adverts in british newspapers with tips on how to spot fake news in the run—up to the the general election. and turning the tide, an irish beach that was washed away by a storm over 30 years ago reappears almost overnight. good afternoon and welcome to bbc

news. emmanuel macron has attended his first official event as president elect of france — less than 2a hours after the polls closed. he joined president hollande at a world war ii commemoration in paris. mr macron beat marine le pen convincingly in yesterday's presidential run off vote — but in his victory speech last night said he wanted to unite the country. let's go over to our europe correspondent in paris damian grammaticas nesta has already begun work preparing to take power as president. we know that will happen on sunday. mr macron said he would be standing down as the head of his

en marche! movement he created just a year ago as he becomes president. he is also becoming, discussing his choice of prime minister, a key decision for him early on. before that he was here at the arc de triomphe paying homage to france's war dead, standing alongside the outgoing president francois hollande, the man who brought him into politics in the first place. our correspondentjames into politics in the first place. our correspondent james reynolds has been following today's events. emmanuel macron, the election winner, now prepares to lead his country. this morning in paris, he joined the outgoing president francois hollande at a ceremony to mark ve day. the horror of the second world war convinced old enemies france and germany to form an alliance which then became the basis of the european union. it's a struggling project which the new president promises to revive. emmanuel macron now inherits one of the most powerful positions in europe and all of the symbolism that goes with it.

he becomes the youngest french leader since napoleon whose own battles are remembered here. the crowds knows that the new leader will face problems of his own. french people hope that he will change a lot of things, maybe it will be tough for him but we hope that. translation: it's not going to be easy but i hope he will do some good work. but above all i hope he won't forget the little people. i'm not sure he's very coherent in his ideas. the idea of being nor from left or right, i don't truly trust this. world leaders have sent mr macron their congratulations. theresa may says that she looks forward to working with him on a wide range of shared priorities. president trump says that he too very much looks forward to working with mr macron. germany's angela merkel describes his election

as a victory for a strong and united europe. and russia's president putin calls on france's new leader to bridge the divide between moscow and paris. in the hours after the polls closed in between those many telephone calls with world leaders emmanuel macron celebrated with his supporters. translation: what we've done for so many months, there's no comparison, there's no equivalents to that. everybody was saying to us it was impossible. but they didn't know anything about france. at night mr macron‘s defeated opponent marine le pen danced away her defeat. she insist that she is now the main opposition force in france. she'll prepare for the next election in five years' time. emmanuel macron will know that he has little time to waste. he's promised to set the direction of both his country and

the wider european union. he takes office on sunday. james reynolds, bbc news, paris. it's been said that this election has left france divided despite the resounding victory for emmanuel macron. so it's worth taking a look at the final results of the election and what they tell us. 21 million people voted for macron, which gave him 66% of the valid votes cast for the two candidates. but it's worth nothing that 16 million people either abstained or spoiled their ballots, an historic high, while 11 million people voted for marine le pen. all in all, of the total of 47.5 million registered voters, just over 44% backed mr macron. which is why some say the result paints a more divided picture of france. to discuss that i am joined by our

bbc digital reporter. before i turn to you, already today in paris we are starting to have some protests. there are are starting to have some protests. there a re protests are starting to have some protests. there are protests we are having pictures of and we may be able to bring them to you. unions are already on the streets of paris, already on the streets of paris, already taking to the streets in response to the election of mr macron. tell us a bit more and why they are out there so quickly. macron. tell us a bit more and why they are out there so quicklylj macron. tell us a bit more and why they are out there so quickly. i was just watching these people who have gathered today at 2pm, so it's been going on for two hours, they are already marching. last month we already marching. last month we already saw a big much, people protesting anti—le pen, anti—macron. we knew the general atmosphere was we might let him through but we know what he can do because we can see what he can do because we can see what he can do because we can see what he has done before because he was already in government. our audience might remember last year that there was this huge protest in france against working law, it was

in fact emmanuel macron who made that law. when mr macron was economy minister his attempts to bring labour laws changes was part of the reason he quit the government because he couldn't get them through. that is already proven that they will be difficult to get through. many people have may have abstained yesterday but voted for him but really for their reasons and not because they really wanted to vote for him and now they are pointing at him, look, here we are, you might be our president but now you might be our president but now you have a lot of work to do and we don't agree with what you've done already, so now it's going to be the difficult thing for him to create a government that has a majority. last night while some of us were at the macron celebrations you were at a different place in paris where there was already another demonstration. that was by left—wing groups and this i think was by the groups many

of whom abstained in the election and didn't want to take part. this was happening in the part of paris that was very melenchon, lots of melenchon supporters. it was a group of anti—capitalist, anti—fascist is, who started this protest and this march and then they were literally locked down by the police who were really heavily present. it was incredible the amount of police that was around and straightaway they started spraying pepper straight and gas. they were really trying to contain this protest. but today they are showing they are there and it is more organised. but does all of this hint at some of the difficulties for mr macron to come? we saw him at the arc de triomphe today side—by—side with the outgoing president. many will view him as he was painted in the campaign as continuity, more of

the campaign as continuity, more of the same. yes and it was very interesting to see him today meeting francois hollande because apparently they didn't really speak until yesterday on the phone for the last six months or year. he betrayed francois hollande really so he had this strange relationship today when they met and francois hollande was a bit like a father saying, yes, well done. i think what i was hearing from french commentators, francois hollande wants to show he has credit for this because he trusted him in the first place, and also the problem now with macron as he must keep his distance from francois hollande too because he wants to do something different. of course that was his platform, that he was a new thing in french politics. thank you for joining thing in french politics. thank you forjoining us. watching what mr macron does will also be many in the uk. what will the election of emmanuel macron mean for brexit negotiations? france is one of the pivotal players

in the european union and mr macron will play a key role in upcoming brexit talks. this morning president—elect macron‘s chief economic adviser told the bbc that mr macron would be a hard negotiator — but he wouldn't want to punish britain for its decision to leave the eu. chris morris looks at what kind of negotiating position the new french president is likely to take. so the first thing you need to know about emmanuel macron is that he is a passionate pro—european. he campaigned on an overtly pro—eu platform. is that likely to make him a tough nut to crack when it comes to brexit negotiations? well, yes. but france was always likely to play that role. if you look at some of the things he said on brexit during the campaign, though, the language is pretty striking. in one interview he called brexit a crime and said, "what's going to happen is not taking back control, its servitude." let's have a listen to the most recent comments he's made in the last few days.

what the uk is experiencing is precisely the fact that brexit is not a walk in the park. that's extremely complicated on a financial basis and that's extremely complicated in terms of organisation and consequences. but don't forget that brexit is not at the top of his list of priorities. he's vowed to reform france and if possible in partnership with germany to reform the eu, plenty to be getting on with. then of course there will be a french parliamentary election injune, so he will be paying far more attention to that than to the start of negotiations on brexit. but he will campaign for the rights of french citizens in the uk. he would love some financial firms to move from london to paris. and one other issue he's talked about, a reform of the le touquet agreement, this is the deal under which british immigration checks take place in calais on french soil. now, it's not an eu agreement, it's a bilateral one. but it will play into the brexit debate and the prime minister

has been talking about it this morning. and as for the le touquet agreement, actually it works for both the benefit of both the uk and france. and obviously in the government that is elected after the 8th ofjune will be sitting down talking to mr macron and others about how that system has worked. so, plenty of challenges ahead but it is also worth bearing in mind that the election of mr macron will increase the confidence of eu insiders, especially when you consider what the alternative could have been, however unlikely, a president who would have been fundamentally anti—eu and would have plunged the whole project into chaos. now, we have heard a lot here about the need for strong and stable government. it could be that a stronger and more stable eu will be a better negotiating partner for the uk in the months to come. chris morris. as chris was saying of

course, president macron‘s focus will be right here in france and the reforms he is promising to bring here, reforms to labour laws, reforms to training and education, and even to the term limits for parliamentarians and others in elected office to try to bring fresh new people into politics. so a very busyin new people into politics. so a very busy in tray. first of all before that the parliamentary elections in which he is hoping to win a majority. but for now from paris, back to you in london. damian grammaticas. there is of course, much more about the election on our website including live updates on what president elect macron will be doing next as he prepares to take office. just go to to bbc.com/news. theresa may has said that leaving the european union will help the uk achieve a target of reducing annual net migration to the tens of thousands. the target, set by david cameron in 2010, has never been met — and recent figures put annual net migration at 273,000 —

but the bbc understands the pledge will be included in the conservative election manifesto. mrs may told supporters migration levels were having an impact on public services and low—paid workers. 0ur political correspondent chris mason reports. prime minister. immigration, the issue that for many was crucial in last year's eu referendum and i2 months on it's back in this year's general election. we will continue to say that we do want to bring net migration down to sustainable levels. we believe that is the tens of thousands. and, of course, once we leave the european union we will have the opportunity to ensure that we have control of our borders here in the uk. if all this feels a tad familiar, well, that's because it is. net migration is the number of people coming to the uk minus the number leaving. here is the conservative manifesto from 2010.

it says we will take steps to take net migration back to tens of thousands a year, not hundreds of thousands. they didn't manage it. fast forward five years to the 2015 conservative ma nifesto. we will keep our ambition of delivering annual net migration in the tens of thousands. again, they didn't achieve it. the nearest they came was in 2012 at 177,000. and the furthest was in 2015 at 332,000. the target is unlikely to be met with the current policies that are in place. so quite aside from the brexit scenario non—eu net migration currently stands at around 165,000. so that alone is 65,000 over the net migration target. ukip, crushed in last week's local elections, want to sound much, much tougher than the tories and have an immigration policy where it would be one in one out. i can announce today that ukip will go into this election

with a policy of balanced migration, which means zero net immigration over the next five—year period. the snp and the liberal democrats said economic interests should drive immigration policy. labour accused the conservatives of a broken promise on the issue. chris mason, bbc news. it is just after it isjust after 3:15pm. the headlines on bbc news: newly—elected president emmanuel macron vows to fight the forces of division that undermine france. theresa may suggests the conservatives will — again — promise to cut net migration to the "tens of thousands" in their election manifesto. labour targets children's health — and says it will ban alljunk food tv adverts until the 9pm watershed. in the british and irish head coach

warren gatland says he understands ben youngs's decision to withdraw from the tour to new zealand because of family reasons. his sister—in—law has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. cheslea will be one win away from the titile if they beat middlesbrough tonight. their midfielder n'golo kante has received the football writers player of the year award to go with his pfa award and dan evans has been kncoked out of the madrid 0pen, losing in the first round to robin haase. evans who is ranked fourth says he doesn't recognise aljaz bedene as british, who is slovenian born. elsewhere labour have been setting out plans to tackle childhood obesity — by cracking down on tv junk food adverts. they're proposing a new child health bill, to be outlined in its election manifesto.

sophie hutchinson reports. this is going to be a very green smoothie. it's healthy, though, isn't it? shadow health secretaryjon ashworth being taught how to make a smoothie by pupils at a london school, part of labour's bid to prove it has the solution for cutting childhood obesity. we want to have the healthiest children in the world. now, yes, that's an ambitious target but to be frank, i'm ambitious for the children of this country. our children deserve the best. labour's election pledge is ambitious. it's promising to halve the number of overweight children within ten years, to set up a £250 million fund to pay for nurses and counsellors in schools and to ban junk food adverts from all tv programmes before the 9pm watershed. that would affect shows including the x factor and britain's got talent which are popular with children. labour says it would reduce their exposure to junk food adverts by 82%. it's a laudable idea but i can't see it making much difference, to be honest. the stuff's still in the supermarkets, it's still in the shops.

i don't think it will make a whole lot of difference. i ain't got a problem with it. i think the kids are eating too much junk anyway. it will probably help, yeah. if it's not in their heads they probably won't go looking for it when they are in the supermarket. advertising is really powerful, isn't it? so, yeah, it probably is a good idea. labour also promised help for adults today with an end to nhs car park charges for patients, visitors and nhs staff, to be paid for by increasing the tax on private health insurance. if you visit a hospital because you want to look after an elderly relative or give support to a friend, or go there in an emergency i don't think you should be charged for doing so. the lib dems said hospital parking charges were a sign the government could not get to grips with the funding crisis in health. but the conservatives raised doubts that labour would be

able to deliver free car parks or its promises to improve children's health because, it said, jeremy corbyn would risk weakening the economy. sophie hutchinson, bbc news. jeremy corbyn has been out on the campaign trail in leamington spa in warwickshire. 0ur correspondent eleanor garnier is there. health and the nhs is the issue of the day for him. that's right, labour focusing on issue of the day for him. that's right, labourfocusing on the nhs and health care and jeremy corbyn has been campaigning in leamington spa. he was speaking to a few hundred people about half an hour ago and really telling them about the nhs policies and the plans that labour, if elected, would put in place. but earlier he was talking to student nurses at the university of worcester. that is where he was talking about childhood obesity and what the party wants to do to tackle it. banning tv adverts for what they say are unhealthy products jeering and not just

say are unhealthy products jeering and notjust children's television but all television programmes up to that 9pm watershed. the other key focus for labour today is of course those car park charges and banning hospitals across england from being able to put those charges in place, saying it is a burden and not fair on families, on patients, and also on families, on patients, and also on nhs staff. what he was telling the crowd in leamington spa earlier was about those nhs and health care plans. but actually jeremy was about those nhs and health care plans. but actuallyjeremy corbyn went off on to other topics too. i think over the next few weeks we should expect a lot more of these style stu m p should expect a lot more of these style stump speeches from jeremy corbyn as he travels up—and—down the country. this really is wherejeremy corbyn is in his element. he likes drawing the crowds, he likes having selfies taken with people and stopping to shake people's hands and as he arrived in leamington spa he was stopped by an older lady sitting on the steps who was desperate to shake his hand. there we re

were who wanted their photos taken with him. when he came here half an hour ago there were plenty of people who knew he was on his way. 0bviously who knew he was on his way. obviously the local candidate and other labour supporters here had spread the message and this is what jeremy corbyn loves doing. for the criticism that the parliamentary labour party in the house of commons have givenjeremy corbyn where we know there are some divisions, it is out in places like leamington spa up—and—down the country, in market towns, just out on the street talking to people, that is what jeremy corbyn likes doing and i think we should expect a lot more of that over the next four weeks. eleanor garnier, thank you very much. the bbc has unveiled details of its general election debate programmes. david dimbleby will host two question time specials in which leaders will face audience questions and there will also be a seven—way debate with senior party figures. a little earlier our media correspondent david sillito gave us more. these are the bbc‘s plans. a series of two question time specials, the first will feature theresa may

and jeremy corbyn in the same programme but not sharing a stage. they will appear consecutively facing questions from the audience, and then there will be another question time special two days later with other party leaders appearing on election questions later in the evening. the leaders will face interviews from andrew neil, and also on the one show that will feature theresa may and her husband philip as well tomorrow. and then there will be this seven—way debate featuring senior party figures. and also another radio 1 debate. so that's it, ten hours of coverage on the bbc but not the debate that they wanted to have with the party leaders. david sillito. a two—year—old girl is seriously ill in hospital — after several dogs got into the garden where she was playing and attacked her. she suffered injuries to her head and body — but they are described as ‘not life—threatening'. police have seized 11 dogs from a nearby house in the toxteth area of liverpool — and a 35—year—old man has been arrested on suspicion of having

a dangerous dog or dogs out of control. 0ur correspondent yunus mulla sent this update from merseyside police headquarters. merseyside police have described this as a horrific attack which has left a two—year—old girl with extensive injuries. with me i have superintendent mark wiggins. mark, you are part of the investigation team. what is the condition of the girl at the moment? the two—year—old girl who was attacked by the dogs yesterday underwent some extensive surgery at alder hey hospital yesterday. and she is now recovering from the extent of her ordeal. she will clearly need further medical intervention as we go forward in the next few weeks and the next few months. at this stage we don't know how much of that will be required. what do we understand happened here? how did she get those injuries? what we do know is yesterday afternoon at her aunt's address in cockburn street in toxteth she was playing with two of her young relatives who were six and four years of age and somehow we know that from a neighbouring property a number of dogs managed to

get into the back garden and whilst the aunt was able to get the four and six—year—old to safety the two—year—old unfortunately was attacked by those dogs, sustaining these horrific injuries. the aunt did manage to separate the dogs from the two—year—old child and bring her to safety where she was airlifted to alder hey hospital to have that surgery. the dogs managed to get into this property, the garden, how did they get in? that is part of our investigation at this particular moment in time. we don't know how they got in but we think potentially through a fence. that is something that we will elicit when we speak to the victim in terms of the auntie, and also to relative neighbours and also to the person we have arrested. we have in custody a 35—year—old male who we believe to be the owner of those dogs and he is assisting us with our inquiries at this time. the dogs involved, there are question marks over whether they were a banned breed, what kind of dogs were they? we now know the dogs were not a banned breed. we have had them assessed this morning and they are classed as american bully dogs.

they are not in themselves on the prohibited register. so specifically owning a dog of that nature is not in itself an offence. however, what is an offence is to have a dog that is dangerously out of control in either a public place and more recently the legislation has changed so that if the offence is committed in private and that is the offence we are investigating at this moment in time. there are fears of a drought in the uk this summer as a lack of rainfall in the last few months have left some rivers and reservoirs with dwindling water levels. this met office map of rainfall in april shows that the majority of the uk experienced less than half the average amount — with southern england seeing the driest weather. 0ur news correspondent andy moor sent this update from london colney in hertfordshire, where affinity water has become the first water company in the country to start advising customers about water usage. you can see there is a bit of water behind me but the section here is basically bone dry. local people say they have not seen it like this since the summer of 1976, in fact the problem normally is not low

water levels, its high water levels and we can show you photographs of flooding in 2009 when this section of river was basically turned into a giant lake. but the current problem of low water levels is something thatis of low water levels is something that is being reported around the country. the environment agency says it is monitoring the situation. now, affinities the water company that operates in this particular area. they say they have had less than half of their normal rainfall since july last year and they say we could all do our bit to save water to help preserve supplies and minimise the possibility of restrictions later on in the summer. 0ne possibility of restrictions later on in the summer. one way we could do thatis in the summer. one way we could do that is we could turn off the tap while we are brushing our teeth. that simple step alone would save about 6500 litres of water every year. we all know how fickle the british weather is. it may be we get a lot of rainfall and this may soon

become a distant memory but if the dry weather continues then we could just have problems with our water supplies this summer. so we are all watching the weather forecast. jay wynne can tell us more. is there any rain insight? there is some rain in the forecast but we must make to doug mcguigan till the end of the week before we see that underpin told them it is more of the same, dry weather out there. in the atla ntic dry weather out there. in the atlantic this area of cloud and swirl of low pressure will eventually head our way towards the end of the week and bring rain with it so that could be heavy but before it so that could be heavy but before it arrives we have several more days of dry weather and something of a west— east split in the afternoon, with cooler, cloudy conditions in the east of the uk and some lovely sunshine further west. temperatures in the west should get into the upper teens quite widely whereas on the eastern coast, while some places struggle to get a ten or 11 degrees. in the evening the cloud will drift backin in the evening the cloud will drift back in from the east, maybe some spots of drizzle with that but nothing more significant than that. there will be some breaks for

southern, western and northern parts and in breaks in the cloud it will be chilly, even major towns and cities down to seven or 8 degrees and cooler in rural spots. chilly start on tuesday, another dry day, just a few showers in the northern isles, cloud across england and wales but still breaks across southern and western parts and in the northwest 18 or 19 degrees. you are watching bbc news. the headlines view at 3:30pm. the president—elect of france, emmanuel macron, is working to form a new government, following his victory in the run—off vote yesterday. the 39—year—old will assume power on sunday. theresa may says leaving the eu will help the uk achieve a reduction in annual net migration to the tens of thousands. the target, set in 2010, has never been met, but will appear again in the conservative election manifesto. labour are putting health at the heart of their campaigning today, setting out plans to tackle childhood obesity by banning junk food adverts during all programming before the 9pm watershed. the social networking site facebook

is placing adverts in newspapers with tips on how to spot fake news in the run—up to the uk general election. sport with 0lly foster. the british and irish lions head coach warren gatland says he fully respects and understands ben youngs' decision to pull out of the summer tour to new zealand forfamily reasons. his sister—in—law tiffany has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. scotland's greg laidlaw has been called up to replace him in the squad. the interesting thing from my point of view, we completely understand that. part of the values i have always had, and we say to the players when we meet this afternoon, as far as i am concerned, it is about family come first.

he has made that decision, and we know how close they are as well. so we fully respect that decision. our thoughts go out to them. saracens and england forward mauro itoje will be the youngest member of that british and irish lions squad in new zealand. the 22—year—old says just as he used to look up the ugo monye and topsy 0jo he now wants to inspire the next generation of black rugby players. of black rugby players. you look around and most of the schools i went to new look around and there are not many black guys playing rugby. not as many every day, when you watch premiership games. even general international games. it is changing a little bit now. there is more of that but definitely these were the guys i looked up to as a kid. dan evans says fellow player aljaz bedene should not be considered british. evans made the comments after losing in straight sets to the dutchman robert haas

at the madrid 0pen. evans is fourth in the british rankings but he doesn't recognise the number three, the slovenian born bedene, who qualified for great britain on residency grounds three years ago. 0ur tennis correspondence russell evans reminded him about the current rankings. you are four at the moment. aljaz bedene being the third. oh, so i'm three, 0k. it is nothing to do with aljaz. i like him, he is not confrontational in any way, but to me it doesn't sit well if you play for another country. i don't feel bad about him or anything like that, just for me it is a bit baffling as to why. and now he lives in slovenia as well. i don't think he really believes he is british. that is just the citizenship rule. he has lived here for five years. it is just a bit

different, isn't it? chelsea could be champions by the end of the week. they play middlesbrough at stamford bridge. the blues midfielder n'golo kante should have a spring in his step after picking up another award. already named pfa player of the year voted by his peers, today the football writers made him their player of the season. he won the premier league with leicester last year. win tonight and middlesbrough will be relegated, and then chelsea will take the title if they can then beat west brom on friday. in this part of the season, for sure, it is not easy. every game is very tough, because there is a lot of pressure. it is important, it is part of a period that you don't make mistakes, because it is very difficult then to recover. but we are ready to fight, we are ready to play these games. the confidence and the belief from players we have seen

in recent weeks is there. it isjust that in the last, certainly the sunderland and manchester city game that you saw everything coming together. and those four points out of six will give us plenty of confidence going into the chelsea game. that is all the sport for now. in the next hour, i will turn into hugh ferris. that has left me com pletely hugh ferris. that has left me completely speechless, thank you very much, 0llie. completely speechless, thank you very much, ollie. for once. 15-15. we can return to our main news and the election of emanuel macron as french president. the youngest person ever to hold the job, a man without previous experience of elected office, and with a party that was created just a year ago. earlier i spoke to sir peter ricketts, and asked about not taking

the traditional route. he has enormous personal charm, and eve ryo ne he has enormous personal charm, and everyone he went into his office came out thinking he was a friend of mine. so he has that enormous power to attract people. he says he wants to attract people. he says he wants to heal the divisions. beazley said, easily promised. it is going to be tough. guess, because france is deeply divided and the fact that marine le pen got 35% of the vote shows how divided francis. it is common with no baggage, as a fresh start. he won't convince all of those on the far right or the far left, but i think he can get quite a large group of people behind him in the centre right to centre—left and govern effectively. he wants to show it is possible to change france and therefore for politicians to keep their promises that if you can do that, he will be very good. he has come through the french educational system, he has not done the traditional route to this. he has not and he has overcome the obstacles

not and he has overcome the o bsta cles so not and he has overcome the obstacles so far. now of course the biggest challenge is to deliver what he has been saying for study has that mandate, now he has to show that mandate, now he has to show that for once the french president has said what he will do and then in power gone and done it. as emmanuel macron prepares to take over as president next weekend, what political work lies ahead ? and what challenges will the macron presidency face? joining me now via webcam is james shields, professor of french politics at aston university. thank you very much for taking the time to talk to us this afternoon. so how is he going to set about building that sort of power base that sir peter was talking about, the sort of power base it will national assembly? it is difficult and sir peter referred to a key point, the division of france at the moment. this was a resounding victory, but it was a win partly by choice, because he was macron, and partly by default, because he was in the pen. as president, macron will have to deal notjust with one in three who voted against him by

supporting the pen, he will also have to deal with the one in three who either abstained all wasted their vote as a protest against the choice on offer. more than 4 million voters went to the polls just to voters went to the polls just to vote blank or spoiled their ballot. that is a huge protest, and a record. so despite his 66% of the vote, macron takes over very far from being the choice of most of the french. in fact four out of every ten voted for him and he will have no honeymoon period at all. in terms of that stated aim of healing division, given the background, the picture you have outlined, how will he set about doing that? it is very conjugated. this election opens a period of intense uncertainty in french politics, and with political choices that overly complicated.

france is no longer divided as it used to be in the simple left and right. it now has four almost equal political camps in nationalist, protectionist far right, le pen's, a centre—right free—market conservative bloc, phil on's, although he has gone —— fillon. and in anti—globalisation far left, mailshots. this is the difficult landscape from which the new president must somehow forge a governing majority. how does he do that? he is well placed in the centre. there are so far a lot of good feeling towards him on ce ntre—left good feeling towards him on centre—left and centre—right but thatis centre—left and centre—right but that is evaporating now. drawing up their battle lines for the legislative elections. they will be key. they are going to tell us whether macron can indeed implement his policy, or whether he will be a

reduce the president who really has more of a kind of moderator that will emerge from the national assembly. let's talk about his pro—eu credentials. what will that mean for the process of brexit here in the uk? macron's victory is very good news for the european union and for the euro. with macron as president, we will certainly see a strengthening of the franco german axis at the heart of the eu. that strengthening already started when chancellor merkel took the unusual step of meeting macron during the residential campaign. in terms of brexit, macron is clear that brexit is very bad for britain. he is an anglophile but has said that brexit will turn the uk into a kind of guernsey, a trading post on your‘s border. he also argued plainly in

his presidential programme that anyone seeking access to the benefits of the eu had to be subject to its disciplines was that we can't have expected france has elected a president who will want to make any kind of exception or conception —— concession to britain. arguing for a finance ministerfor the concession to britain. arguing for a finance minister for the eurozone. so his thinking is going in exactly the opposite direction from the thinking of the british government as it tries to work out its strategy for the negotiations to come. as it tries to work out its strategy for the negotiations to comelj as it tries to work out its strategy for the negotiations to come. ijust wonder what your thoughts are on his personality, he has had a really interesting rise to power, largely u ntested. interesting rise to power, largely untested. almost evangelical support for this new young hopeful, now the

president elect. do you think that personality we have seen throughout the campaign so far is going to be put to the test as he gets down to the realjob of being president? put to the test as he gets down to the realjob of being president7m is going to be tested, possibly to destruction. at a time of widespread altruist, a graduate of france's most privileged educational stabbers m, most privileged educational stabbers in, a former banker turned technocrat and government economy minister, a pro—eu, pro—immigration liberal. he wants economic liberalisation, reform france's sacrosa nct liberalisation, reform france's sacrosanct labour laws and a shrinking of the state. the very opposite of the big state and the wealthiest protectionist programme offered by marine le pen. every

president since the 1970s has been elected on one platform only to end up elected on one platform only to end up governing on another. macron has set out clearly how he intends to govern. now he has a mandate to do it and the french will not be open to say they did not know what they we re to say they did not know what they were getting. professorjames shields, at aston university, thank you very much. an investigation by the victoria derbyshire programme has found that at least 1a hundred mistakes are made in england's nhs maternity units every week. the true figure could be much higher because only 81 out of 132 trusts in england responded to a freedom of information request. the most serious incidents include the avoidable deaths of mothers and babies as a result of errors by midwives and doctors. the royal college of midwives says maternity services are heading towards a crisis because of demands on the services. while hundreds of thousands of women give birth safely in maternity units across england, there are cases where serious mistakes are being made. sarah ellis and herfiance, adam,

lost their baby in 2014. we were left for six hours, we didn't really know anything. theyjust told us, well, theyjust reassured us, didn't they? the inquest later showed sarah should have had an emergency c—section many hours before she did. medical staff failed to act on warning signs, and their son gino was severely starved of oxygen. i was in the corridor, i was with her mum and dad, and ijust said to her mum and dad, isaid... i said, "how am i going to tell sarah that he's not all right?" gino was placed on a life—support machine but, just days later, sarah and adam were advised to withdraw treatment. it's a conversation you never think you're going to have to have, is it? no. how do you discuss how you're going to end your son's life? the couple decided to take legal action. a coroner's report found the hospital missed four

opportunities to save gino's life. everybody makes mistakes, i do, we all do, but to see so many people make so many different mistakes within six hours is just shocking. people who you put your trust in, your life is in their hands, and gino's life was in their hands, and they didn't take care of him. we have to live with the fact that we're a victim of the nhs. so many babies have lost their lives, and so many families have been destroyed because they're not doing theirjob right. sarah and adam got compensation from the trust. an investigation by this programme has found that at least 1000 mistakes are occurring in england's nhs maternity units each week. we've also found that nearly 260 mothers or babies died overfour years. these deaths were either unexpected or could have been avoided.

only 39 out of 81 trusts responded to this question, so the number of deaths could be much higher. the royal college of midwives said safety is being compromised because of the pressure our maternity services are under. we're heading for a crisis in our maternity services. the simple truth is, we do not have enough midwives working in them right now. we can't deliver the safest possible care if we don't have enough midwives and enough doctors working in our services. when you go in to have a baby, you expect, you go in with a baby seat and you come out with a baby. but we went in with a baby seat and came out with death certificate. much more on the victoria derbyshire programme website. the time is approaching ten to four. in a moment, a summary of the business news this hour, but first, the headlines on bbc

news. newly—elected president emmanuel macron vows to fight the forces of division that undermine france. theresa may suggests the conservatives will — again — promise to cut net migration to the "tens of thousands" in their election manifesto. labour targets children's health — and says it will ban alljunk food tv adverts until the 9pm watershed. good afternoon, i'm jamie good afternoon, i'mjamie robertson with the business news. telecoms regulator 0fcom says it is "very concerned" about the rising cost of calling directory enquiries and plans to examine the situation. 0ne popular enquiry service — 118118 — recently increased its prices to a minimum of £8.98. but 0fcom says some firms charge even more than that — up to £10.50 a call. british gas owner centrica has repeated its opposition to a cap on energy bills — widely reported to be a conservative election policy. the firm said evidence from other countries suggests a cap

could lead to higher prices. centrica has also proposed other ways of improving the energy market "without resorting to price regulation", the company said in a trading update. house prices have stagnated, according to the halifax bank. it blames a squeeze on household finances and a slower pace ofjob creation. the halifax house price index showed house prices between february and april were 0.2% lower than in the previous three months, the first quarterly fall since november 2012. emmanuel macron has won the french presidency, but many people are saying that was the easy part. now he has to form a government, and he has parliamentary elections in june. if his party, en marche, little more than a year old, can get a firm majority, his power to tackle france's problems, high unemployment, huge debt and inflexible labour laws, will be substantial. if he doesn't get the majority he wants, his reform agenda may never get off the ground.

earlier i spoke to catherine de vries, professor of politics, university of essex. she explained what she thought president macron's aim was. so what he said, one of his key reforms he wants to focus on, would be the labour market. france has unemployment, especially a big problem with youth unemployment. a quarter of young people are unemployed. also it has a very short working week. so these are things he would like to tackle. but previous presidents, it has been a very difficult thing, because trade unions are strong, there is a lot of vested interest. that will be the area he will focus on but he might actually encounter quite a lot of opposition, so the upcoming elections will be crucial for him. does it mean anything for us in the uk, for our relationship with europe, with france and with brexit? i think that is a very good question. what macron has said, he wa nts to question. what macron has said, he wants to reinvigorate the franco

german leadership in europe. that, in some ways, could be kind of good in the sense that these two countries will be pragmatic when it comes to britain. however, he is also someone who said we need to do something that is fair france. he cannot neglect the fact that marine le pen has doubled the electoral result of her father, and this is a party that is not necessarily very pro—eu or wants to reinvigorate that kind of european idea. so i think it will be very difficult, it will be an uncertain period for britain, especially now the elections in germany are still upcoming in september. house prices are "stagnating", and have actually fallen in the last three months, according to the halifax. in the three months to april, prices fell by 0.2% — the first quarterly fall since november 2012. however, over a whole year, april to april, prices rose by 3.8%, the same figure as in march. it leaves the average cost of a house or flat costing nearly £220,000.

martin ellis, halifax housing economist, said one reason why prices were slowing was that property had become too expensive for many people. we have seen house prices fall very slightly down .1%. that comes after a couple of months when we had no change in house prices at all. we are seeing a state here where house prices have relieved plateau. actually, if you look at the latest three months, they are down slightly on the previous three months. that is the first time we have seen a decline on house prices on the quarterly basis since the end of 2012. so the first time for quite a while. i would emphasise it is very fractional, a very slight decline. there are parts of london, typically the more its pensive areas, where we are seeing lots of incentives now to try and get people in dubai. we are seeing falls in house prices in some

parts of london. whereas in outer london we are still seeing some house price growth. but i think the main story here is that we have seen a period where house prices have risen very rapidly, particularly between 2014 and 2016. and much more sharply than average earnings. so people's earnings really doing very little. it has just becoming credibly expensive for a lot of people to be to afford that home. quick look at the markets. the ftse the french market down a touch. even when we saw it rose quite sharply when we saw it rose quite sharply when the heard had been elected president, it then fell quite sharply because they still feel a huge challenge ahead with macron to get through the kind of reforms he wa nts. get through the kind of reforms he wants. us market going down small amounts, not a vast amount of movement, just the market at the moment waiting as it were to see

what happens in that election in june. a beach in ireland washed away more than 30 years ago has unexpectedly returned. the freak tide dumped hundreds of pounds of sand. local soap there will be a return of hotels, guesthouses and cafes, all forced to shut down after the beach washed away in 1984. this report from keith doyle. achill island on the west coast of ireland has many beautiful beaches but for the past 30 years this was not one of them. however, nature has now returned dooagh beach to its former beauty. storms in the 1980s stripped the beach, but over ten days ocean currents have deposited thousands of tonnes of sand to recreate its 300—metre white sandy beach. the most probable reason this beach has reformed is due to two things. it's either a change in sediment supply from further up or down the coast that has brought a fresh amount of sediment to

this beach. or it could be due to a change in environmental conditions, either an alteration in the wave climate, or a series of tides that has provided the ideal conditions for this beach to reform. dooagh beach on achill island is just about as far west as you can get in ireland and europe. thousands of tourists visit here every year. having a new beach has delighted the locals and the tourist board. yesterday, we had gridlock here in the village with cars and camper vans and motorcyclists, and people coming from all over ireland and the uk to see our miraculous new beach. the people here have always spoke about their days on the beach, how they enjoyed coming down here as kids, and now to have it back for their kids is absolutely unbelievable. people of the island are thrilled. we already have five blue flag beaches. hopefully if we keep our beach here at dooagh we will have a sixth. now that spring high tides have passed there is hope that the new beach will stay

in place, at least for the summer. but this is the wild atlantic coast where the sea could reclaim the beach again, but for now people are making the most of this latest tourist attraction. keith doyle, bbc news. backin back in time for the summer. having the beach is one thing, what about the beach is one thing, what about the weather? tom usher fanaika is here. the weather is pretty split across the uk today. some of us are enjoying clear blue skies, others a little cloudy but it is dry out there and it will stay dry for the next few days until we get the friday. some changes on the way for them. but look at this picture, this is from scotland. sunny skies and then closer to the north sea coast, it isa then closer to the north sea coast, it is a very, very different story. the reason for it is pretty clear on the satellite picture, a lot of cloud and pretty chilly conditions with the wind off the north sea.

thenin with the wind off the north sea. then in the west we are basking in the sunshine. not unusual. but it happens. big contrasts in our weather today. not much change tonight, it stays pretty cloudy across some of these eastern and central areas, whereas western areas will have the clearer skies and temperatures will be around about six or 7 degrees. let's start with the weather tomorrow morning, around about rush hour. a fairly similar picture on the way. beautiful weather, especially on these beaches around the western isles, northern ireland, south—western scotland, around liverpool bay and the south—west, stunning weather greeting us first thing in the morning but we have a bit more cloud around across the midlands and some of these eastern areas. the south coast not doing too bad, around 9 degrees. what is going to happen tomorrow is that these central areas will stay fairly cloudy. even some of these more western parts of the midlands could be a little bit on the cloudy side during the course of the cloudy side during the course of the afternoon. and again it is the

highest average is always across these western areas whereas the lower temperatures will be in the east. and then tomorrow night, so in the early wednesday, it will be quite chilly, some areas you could see a grass frost. here's a look at wednesday's weather forecast, temperatures getting up to 17 the penning a much sunshine we will get. further north, it is cooler, in the northern isles prydie chilly. then we start to see a change, wednesday and thursday, but it went really reach us until probably friday. this is what happens on thursday. we start to see thicker cloud across some southern areas, maybe a few spots of friends but not an awful lot. —— few spots of rain. thursday into friday, the wind shifts direction and the trend into the weekend will be for the south—westerly winds to push cloud and maybe some thunderclouds around by friday. the next few days will be dry and then probably thursday but particularly in the friday we are going to get some rain, so there will be some puddles out there for sure but not just will be some puddles out there for sure but notjust yet. this is bbc news —

the headlines at 4pm. newly—elected president emmanuel macron vows to fight the forces of division that undermine france. translation: it's not going to be easy but i hope he will do some good work. the idea of being nor from left or right, i don't really trust this. i'm damian grammaticas live in paris where we'll be bringing you the latest reaction to the election of emanuel macron and we'll asking what does this mean for the uk and it's brexit negotiations? theresa may suggests the conservatives will — again — promise to cut net migration to the "tens of thousands" in their election manifesto. labour targets children's health — and says it will ban alljunk food tv adverts before the 9pm watershed. a two—year—old girl is seriously ill in hospital after being