typically, perhaps, macron‘s first electoral test was on the greatest into a "start—up nation" has stage of national politics, yet to deliver results. ali has been running his stall in this street the presidential election. market for 17 years. but, he told us, he will soon give up. in 2017, he relied on the implosion of other centrist candidates. he united the established parties this is bbc world news, behind him in the second in order the headlines. to beat the national one of the greatest comebacks in sporting history — front‘s marine le pen. tiger woods wins the us masters, more than 10 years after his last golfing major title. last september, with discontent troubles in his personal life, building, macron proposed including a divorce france's president rules a fuel tax rise. and major back problems, in the style ofjupiter, macron has said. have severely hampered his form. and that proved to be the tipping he marked his victory the venezuelan president, at the louvre palace point for the left—behind nicolas maduro, has called in imperial pomp. for an increase in the size of the civilian militia that of france's regions, works alongside the army. who seized the yellow vests he wants a million more members by the end of the year. from their vehicles and took to the streets. to reform france, the new president needed his en marche party to win four people — so was the gilets jaunes crisis including two children — are killed in the south east of the united states as tornados sweep in. triggered by macron‘s missteps,

severe weather warnings remain or would any inhabitant in place with more challenging weather still to come. of the elysee have faced it? facebook has apologised after users around the world had what is your own view? trouble accessing the social networking site — my view is that we as well as instagram and whatsapp, have three decades which are also owned by the firm. of difficulties in this country. the outage lasted for big in parliamentary elections, which is exactly what they did, around three hours. one month after his in a moment where growth is coming presidential victory. back, where unemployment at ten o'clock, tina daheley into this chamber swept a phalanx will be here with a full of en marche deputies — is diminishing, people have low round—up of the day's news. wages are waiting for a younger, more female positive impact, and first on bbc news — president macron they still don't see it. of france has hit the headlines once than their predecessors — again this week — with his pivotal and with them came the hope role in the talks of breaking france's political deadlock, starting with labour laws. i think it could have happened that delayed brexit. newsnight‘s mark urban with another president, examines macron‘s rise, his troubles and his plans i think it could happen for france and the eu. elsewhere in europe. announcement in french. but even some of those who have worked closely with macron believe he exacerbated macron got to work, reducing a wealth tax and taking tensions in france. on the unions with a revised labour law. macron did not want to have these it is a big problem for us. co—management reforms with the unions, because he thought there is an element but after a resounding electoral that hollande had gone too far victory he was in no in this respect. and the result, also that not having mood to compromise. of performance in any leadership. this kind of dialogue

contributed to the eruption of gilets jaunes, which is a form this was announced clearly, of revolution, of people saying and emmanuel macron, and french people discovered winning france's imperial presidency they are not listened to. before his 40th birthday, something that was relatively and in fact, on the carbon tax, dominates the national stage completely. unusual by french standards, we should have listened to the people. that you are saying during the campaign it's not that people what you are going to do, and after you are elected were against the transition you are doing it. and for a year it worked just fine. to a low carbon economy. he had a mandate. it is that they felt that the carbon tax did not take into account their living condition. macron had a degree i think the big mistake they made of self—confidence that you couldn't while macron also enacted with the carbon tax is that not new educational policies, enough of it was distributed. expect would lead him the narrative began to take root that he was governing as far as it has. in the interests of the elite, over time, the numbers protesting have ebbed and flowed, and even his walkabouts gave but every saturday they continue. evidence, in the view of his critics, of we went to meet some yellow vests. macron‘s arrogance. francois gerard, unlike but even as a teenager, many, is a parisian. macron came to the fore, acing his exams, he is proud to havejoined devouring high culture, on most of the weekends and taking centre since the movement started. stage in school plays. like many, he believes the country's inequalities can only be tackled by major changes france's political drama became

dominated by a dazzling to the political system. leading man who articulated a plot i think you will remember that. of the broadest possible appeal. but that was just the straw that broke the camel's back. the problem for macron now is that because everything that as the first act of his political drama has gone on, many have come the people have been to the conclusion that he is only interested in the reaction of one particular type of audience — they want macron to go away. but that's not going to solve the few, the elite. the problem, of course, because if macron goes away, somebody else is going to be today, macron is taking a leading taking his place and do the same thing. that is why it is a much, much, role in the national debate much wider change that we need. about the future direction of france. he braves hostile audiences macron and his team denounced in a way few british prime ministers would dare. the gilets jaunes as reckless. this is very much macron‘s style, macron and his team denounced he does tend to lecture. the gilets jaunes as wreckers. as for the deeper divisions exposed by the president's policies, he tends to see his role almost they are barely acknowledged. stephane sejourne has just as a sort of figure who needs left the elysee to run the european election campaign. to coach the french, or sort of nudge them out of their thinking.

so, is france's charismatic young president the answer to his country and europe's woes, or someone who is exacerbating them to the point of crisis? and indeed, order is being maintained, by putting armour and thousands of riot police onto the streets of paris and other cities every saturday. it's a palliative, but it feels like a state of siege, and is hardly likely to resolve political differences. so how far is macron to blame for the gilets jaunes phenomenon, and how far macron‘s rise is testament in part would it have happened to the social escalator of france's under any president? elite education system. it is not easy to get answers from the gilets jaunes themselves, they are a sort of leaderless movement, uniquely difficult to access and speak a teenager from the country's to as a coherent whole. we have been told to come here, depressed north—east arrived to an obscure alleyway in paris, at the elite henry to hear the views and hear iv lycee in paris. the latest initiatives of some there he was prepared for entry leading members, into the grand ecole and we have been given of higher education. the code of how to get in, let's see what they have got to say. jean—baptiste de froment

was a classmate. what was exceptional was not his intellectual skills — at this press event, he was very bright, of course — it was just us and russia today. but it was this ability of relating afterwards, one of the early to people and networking. pioneers of the movement told us that macron‘s response to it led her to change from being agnostic it is a kind of boldness, about the president to feeling now that he must go. and because he knew how to communicate among many different kinds of people. maybe he did not understand quite well what it is about, but he mastered the codes and he knows how to pretend that he gets it. on the north bank of the river somme, the old quarter of amiens... by leaving his home region, macron escaped some of the family the president's supporters counter that he has responded tension surrounding the relationship to the protests with something genuinely new — with his former teacher, a large—scale national consultation.

the grand debat. it is an exceptional moment, it is unprecedented, having failed to get and i don't see comparable into france's premier literary experiences in other western countries. college, macron gravitated an exercise in listening towards the top public to the country's anger administration school. in the search for answers. macron‘s poll ratings have picked up they are the elite, technocrats as well as politicians, since he started the debate, confident they always know best... but will it produce far—reaching solutions, even if it is a platform for his political talents? there, careers in the civil service, industry or politics are cultivated in the same formal and well—regulated way as a french park. but macron soon began leaping ahead, tasting the social those who argue that macron is much mobility denied the vast more than an opportunist majority of the french. or performer believe he looks like, you know, his fight against

a french character of a movie populism, not least his position from the 19th century. on brexit, are evidence of deeply held convictions. this young guy, you know, in balzac‘s novels, coming european diplomats will tell from the countryside, and saying, "i am coming to paris you that france has consistently and i'm going to make it." and he made it, obviously. ta ken the toughest line in formulating the 27th position. maybe his problem is so what is the president's motive? that he succeeded too much, and what he made is maybe less and less possible for average people. after a few years at an investment bank, macron gravitated towards politics and the elysee palace under the socialist president francois hollande. so was this the rise of an actor, an ambitious dissembler with a skin—deep attachment to the left? the man who got him thejob

rejects that charge. no, no, no. the moment he came into the department it was clear he was on the left, he was more on the left than me, i remember very well. he wanted to be elected, and he was looking to have a kind of constituency from the socialist party. but when president hollande abandoned hopes of re—election, macron launched his own movement and presidential bid. en marche managed at one time to be a grassroots movement and a top—down macron machine. at the centre, he surrounded himself with young men, similar types — 30—something graduates of the top universities.

as corinne lepage, a former environment minister drawn into the new movement, soon discovered.