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[ sirens ] sirens in jerusalem honoring the 6 million victims of world war ii. we want to go now to lieberman who joins us live from jerusalem. so, art, talk to us about the significance of this day for the people across israel. >> reporter: it is, as you saw, with everyone standing still, a somber moment two-minute siren that sounds leer in jerusalem and across to remind everyone, as you point out, the 6 million jews murdered in the holocaust. it's a solid day.

later in the week there will be memorial day and that leads into independence day. this is that most somber moment. the events last night as they remember in jerusalem and there was six torcher lived, one for six million and there were speeches, benjamin and israeli president will speaking about the horrors of hol cast what can be used today. interestingly, both of them referenced atrocities mentioned today across the border in sere y, ta ya. >> -- syria, talking about the world needs to pay more attention. the prime minister and president making that point. there was another interesting point made, he said it's important to view and make sure the lens in which we view the holocaust can't be defining event. also for the world, that's where

you must view the holocaust with your humanity and must remind you for your humanity, never again, reference not only to jewish victims but other atrocities around the world. rosemary. >> the other statement we'll never forget, this moment where people stood and people didn't move. where people took a moment to deflect. >> is there a concern that around the world, that sentiment is being respected? >> it is, and it has certainly been much more in the limelight recently with a wave of threats, not only the u.s., but also across europe. that's shown a light on what is suppose to be the blessing of the holocaust, not only when it comes to ansi sentism, that lesson hasn't been instilled or being forgotten or erased in someway as it should be. the number of holocaust

survivors is dwindling. somewhere around the 100,150,000 range. that is the strongest most powerful testament of the holocaust that needs to be carried on and still in others, it becomes more difficult as they pass away, both of those ideas, i should say, never forget and never allow this to happen again, both of those -- as each pass, become harder and more important to pass on. >> we also saw a number of missteps by the trump administration here in the united states, particularly, by the president's secretary sean spicer with comments he made. but also, now, there's a lot of push back from some comments made by the pope. how have all of those comments been resinating there in israel? >> reporter: holocaust comparisons and hitler comparisons never go over well here no whaer what the

comparison. in terms of president trump, he's been invited to be the keynote speaker at the holocaust memorial. many see that for him to rectifies the mistakes on international white house state, the white house released a statement that didn't mention judaism and anti-semitism, to a chance to get a keynote speech is a chance for him to set the record straight, spicer has apologized for his missteps and comparisons between the regime and hitler. the pope compared ref few gee camps to concentration camps. it's one of those, holocaust comparisons didn't i just stop you from doing this joining us live. >> french voters are rejecting

the political system that's been in place in their country for decades. they turned away from established politicians and instead met with the far right leader le pen to the may 7th run off. >> the only main candidate committed to keeping france inside the european union. he wants to boost the economy and cut corporate taxes and on security he is promising to hire expert 10,000 police officers. >> he wants to call france and promises an referendum on eu membership as soon as she takes office. immigration is essential. she promised to slash immigration to 10,000 per year. she's also big on fighting. have earned her support. >> cnn, of course, is following the story live for us in french capitol.

it is good to have you with us, melissa. i know it's been a long many hours for you covering this. i help our viewers understand the difference here between the two opposite candidates and who may have the advantage? >> the differences are absolutely stark and that choice facing french voters on may the 7th, could not be clearer in all of the differences. let's begin first of all, with le pen, it is the second time that it's made the second round. they celebrate it out there where she held her victory party last night, make no mistake, this is a disappointment. she's been saying for months she believes the populace way that led to the brex it vote that has led to donald trump's presidency was, but a foreshadowing of what would be her own. she really felt that she was on her way to the palace and clearly hoping to make the top spot heading into the second round. she's fallen shy of that and of course that's a disappointment

to her and reminder of the fact that the national front, although it enjoys a clear and strong support in its space, has struggled to get that into power. this is a party that's existed since 1917. that is not a tremendous amount of power for a party that's been so loud and so visible on the political landscape for as long as it has been. it did do well in the last week, but then in the second round, again, so it helped rob of the final victory in many of the region. let's take a look at what had to tell her supporters last night, that party, because she immediately turned her fire to the man who is now her competitor. >> this great debate will finally take place. the french must seize this historic opportunity for the key issue of this election is rampant globalization that puts our civilization in danger.

>> now, she has a very strong policies on a number of issues. she wants to cut immigration. she wants to take the thousand or so people who under active surveillance of suspicion and simply shift them out of the country as the election day has come closer because, again, she believed that she could capitalize on those issues. against her on the other side, almost everything that she does not, the big question is how this -- how this policy electorally would be a able to translate at his -- at a lack of partisanship, because he represents no established party into electoral success, that he managed it to do it in the first round, is a major of the french team willing to find an alternative, someone that represents change, but not in that seam way. let's have a listen to what was said more last night.

>> the challenge is to start a new political chapter and to act justly and effectively so that each person find his or her place in france and in europe. >> it is georgia much more inclusive and much more progressive message that he's trying to put forward. he's profoundly proeuropean, he's in favor of more rather than less globalization. that's more facing the french on the seventh of may. it's going to be interesting to see how the next couple of weeks pan out. >> melissa covering the story for us live. thank you very much. >> the presidential election is widely guarded as the latest test of the sweeping pop lichl that led to u.s. donald trump and brexit. she weighed in instead of this election currently taking place in france. and former president barack

obama made a phone call with words of encouragement. cnn political analyst spoke about the ties between the french candidates and their american counterparts. >> this election does represent another rejection of the elites who have been running politics, we've seen that here in america. we saw that with brexit and we see much of the same sentiment in france, the traditional parties getting into the second round. what's fascinating about this also is, yes there's a trump candidate in the race. his team have been clearly favoring le pen, the far right populace party. at the same time we've seen the emergents in this election of a new figure, an obama like figure, my pro. he had it called. the election, he's young, he's a globalist like obama. he has some rhetorical

similarities. you got in from our perspective and fascinating campaign. you can't trump candidate versus obama candidate. where the more serious aspect of this, of course, is if and when she does have donald trump support, it's really important. if she wins, she is going to basically pull france out of the european union. and we will go back to it and remember the nationalism that steve bannon and others represented in the trump white house would come to victory in france. at the moment, that's unlikely to happen. she's unlikely to win. the poll that decided most often head on head between the two. had mocron ahead by 26 points not long ago before this election today. so she's not likely to win, but i think having trump versus obama in france and it could have a lot to be the future of europe, that's a big story.

>> david with that. politic politic political co political comen -- or should be more cautious if the u.s. election is anything to go by? >> well, considering how french connections are usually divides. there's little fair to how, considering, a chance of le pen's victory of two weeks time. of course everything is possible, but, you know, i think she's going to get consent and going to win by 60%. but, of course, there are two weeks and going to turn 40 this year and he's very young and slightly experienced and the

economy minister and he will have to prove that he can be present. he will have to behave more presidentially than he has in the past. he's strangely, a political, but he hasn't done good comparing. you know, great chances for him to win the presidency. but, of course, if she bounces back, which she could, thinks -- things might become slightly, you know, more difficult for him. >> so how much of a hind rens will it be for many being an outside and having no party to fall back on as he goes into the may 7th. >> well, it is also what you see, he's inexperienced, it's fresh. that's what people will think, you know, it's a good thing. also he doesn't come from -- he doesn't have a party behind him, which some people was back, but

always find it extremely appealing, although it belongs to the establishment. it's new and hasn't belonged to the city, as been. so they call it -- and also the bill, is because he'll have to provide new faces for the general elections that will be taking place after the presidential elections in june. then it means, basically a renum. because traditionally, the french gave a majority through the president and they have chosen. so fascinating times, of course, he started historical day and pugh, weeks ahead so certainly, is the manual on my loan and the numbers seem to show that that's more likely who will he dealt with and how will he got them, given there's no party behind him. who do you reach out to. >> well, that's a very good

question, you know, who is he going to choose as his prime minister, perhaps, who is as well and who tried to do what he achieved yesterday in the last presidential elections. but what's going to happen and we've seen it, already, happening yesterday is that a lot of people on the left and the right are going to rally around behind, so there will be some serious and experience, but additions behind him as well as, you know, completely new political class. so i think -- a bit, you know, of the old and a lot of the new. >> definitely interesting times across france. we'll be watching very closely. many thanks and joining us there from paris, where it is 9:17 in the morning. many thanks. north korea has taken another american into custody and threatening to destroy a

u.s. warship. how these new provocations could make it harder. all the nuclear intentions, stay with us.

i think between the president trump and the leader between china and japan. urging strength and then that really reflects the prison from which they view this crisis, china has repeatedly said that it wants the situation to be calmed down for rhetoric, ease and potentially for there to be talks like there were some years ago that failed and tried to stop the kim jong-unregime from

nuclear weapons. we only got to the version of those so far from china and japan, no word yet from the white house. what president trump was saying, china did say they want no more provocative action and that they're hoping to ease the tension. as i mentioned, spoke to reporters after making that phone call with president chump. he said that japan is uniquely in a dangerous position because of this crisis and here is what he had to say. >> translator: i'm told president trump -- i told president trump that appreciate his stance that showing with his actions and words that all options are on the table. we agree to keep calling strongly on north korea to refrain from provocative moves. >> well, north korea is saying the provocative actions are

coming from the u.s. and japan as they send military action into the region. >> all the while another u.s. citizen detained in north korea, what more do we own about why he was detained and could happen next here in this climate between two nations, that it's very tense? >> well, we don't know the exact circumstances surrounding the detention. we understand he's a professor at the university of science and technology. we've had a statement from that university, from that school. they say he was trying to board a plane at the airport and that he was detained at that point. they say they don't believe that he was detained because of anything he had done within the university. they don't know exactly what the investigation is surrounding or they're not publicly saying that. the swedish embassy who works on

behalf, the u.s., obviously, has no ties do diplomatic with north korea. they say he's also trying to lead the country. comes to american citizens who are being held. 21-year-old student that's been sentenced and a man accused of espinage. he's been sentenced to ten years and hard labor as well. the u.s. department said they're looking at this very closely. >> paula hancock live in seoul south korea. dav david, following the story. we thank you both for the reporting we'll stay in touch with you. french voters have had their say on establishment politicians. coming up, how investors are reacting. government shutdown looms over major milestone. u.s. lawmakers may be hard pressed to put together a spending bill.

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president trump is approaching his 100th day. he has the lowest level in support of any moderate if the in this new abc poll. 53% of americans say that disapprove. 42% say they approve. >> and poll from the embassy and the it's strengthen with many more disciplines. there is a another cloud overing mr. trump's milestone, a possible government shutdown. congress has until midnight friday to pass a spending bill to continue funding the government. the issue is important, vice president mike pence is cutting his overseas trip show and returning to washington to help get this thing passed. >> bringing in leslie, a senior lecturer. it's good to have you with us this hour, leslie. let's talk about the plus minus of the president's first 100

days in office, how has he done? >> it's been grueling. remember that donald trump has recognized at the start of the presidency, he recognized the important of the 100 day mark, he's faced a different set of circumstances. if you remember back 1 hyundais ago, the first thing he wanted to accomplish was repeal and replace obama care. he hasn't moved forward with tax reform. two legislative items haven't gone anywhere. we're looking at tax reform proposals coming out of wednesday. he faced a lot of push back, there, remember the early days of the travel ban and the protest that he got there and that's gotten nowhere. so the domestic politics front, he's been plagued by investigations of his relationship, with his team's relationship with the russia. if you look at the foreign policy, arena. you know, a number of reversals

he hasn't renegotiated trade in the way he said he would. he's rethought his relationship with nato. so a lot of things have changed about what he said he would do and but there hasn't been a lot of boxes that he's able to tip, just to demonstrate a lot of success. and i think he's phenomenally aware of this. i think there was a moment there, probably the thing that was best received in terms of his popularity were actually the air strikes that he launched in response to the weapons attack. but even then, if you look at that, it's not clear now where that goes there's no in terms solvence ving the broader conflict in syria. there have been weapons used since the chemical weapons attack that he responded to. it's been a rough 100 days. we've had senior apoimt pointme -- appointments that we haven't made. the fact he's doing diplomacy,

it doesn't bode well for this administration. >> the other big question, now, can a government shutdown, can that be avoided with democrats digging in? will this president sign a spending bill that does not include or waive the way towards the border wall that he wants built? >> the border wall has come tremendously contentious, as we're approaching the debate, the idea of the tax reform, proposal for tax reform is going to be put down right in the middle of that on wednesday. i think this is going to be an incredibly volatile week for the president, very difficult to predict what will happen. but certainly he doesn't want to go into that 100 day, which is saturday with the government haven't shutdown. the thing to remember here is that setting aside the numerous difficulties. i think the most troubling thing has been the tone that the

presidency has set. both at home and abroad. he's come in to one of the most divided periods in american domestic politics and in our society and created a tremendous amount of division and contention and uncertainty and unpredictability in terms of what america's role is in america abroad. the way that the presidency has been conducted is arguably -- in some ways the most significant and not the best thing that's come out of this particular 100 days. >> giving us context, live from london. thank you so much, we'll stay in touch with you, of course. back to our top story we're following you this hour, france, heavy blow to established political party first round of that nation's presidential election. shows macon leading far right leader le pen as they move on now to the run off vote that is set for may 7th. >> now, this is a stunning victory for macron an

independent who has never held office. it's success for le pen who has tried for years to clean up her father's toxic legacy in the national party. and cnn joins us now from london with more on how the markets are reacts, good to see you, nina. how are investors responding to the news? >> we've seen the french markets, in particular, be the beneficiary of this trend. the main paris market opened up in excess of 3.9%, almost touching the 4% level at one point. it's gone down a little bit. but these are significant gains for a market like that. one of the biggest market across, you can see it's lifting one of the markets up across the region with the exception of smaller markets like, for instance, belgium. take a look, the market in italy, it's the next country that could go to the polls

between germany and italy, we've got various selections taking place over the next six months to come across here and take a look at it that also went up 2.4%, whatever election set to take place in the fall. it's not just the european markets that are up. i should point out by the most at june at the moment. but we're seeing significant appreciation for the single currency. this is the euro, and as i pointed out before, france one of the biggest economy in the area. had le pen come out with more votes, she has made it through to the second round, that could have spoke disaster with single currency, she wants to take france outside of the euro stoen. b -- zone. the fact proeuropean, protrade, prothe eu, protrade, that's been seen as major policy. it's currently trading at

point -- 1.0852. it was high when it showed they had gained most of those, not just up against the dollar, i should point out, rosemary, also against significant other currencies, sterling and the yen. people are getting out of gold, which is what they go to in times of nervousness. this is the result, so far, the most provest result they want today see. the run off will take place in two weeks from now. can this momentum be maintained, rosemary. >> the run off will be the deciding factor on may 7th, of course. with these two opposite candidates, we can assume, of course that the markets are excited and they think that are in the back. >> do remember that a significant portion of the french population still voted for euro skeptic candidate.

and there shouldn't be any room, some of these proare saying, apathy, if you would like, voter ap pa thi. and then le pen makes it over the next couple of weeks, laujing the markets that you can see here. they'll be able to continue his momentum here, that's just remind you why the markets -- you point out in your production, rosemary, this is a candidate that prime minister, he wasn't elected to that position and he's considered relatively young and inexperienced. what he wants to do, though, is make sure that he continues with liberalizing policies. he's very proglobalization and free trade. a lot of the world, including the united states, is becoming increasingly protectionist, she didn't want it to be that way when she got back. it was to free up the notoriously and inflexible

later, as well as shrinking town the budget of the public specter which heats up more than 50% of gdp. >> it's been an intriguing out come. many thanks for joining us live for london where it is 8:41 in the morning. still ahead, trying to crack down on use. >> while some say workers are held in slave-like conditions. that's more to come. stay with us. so tell us your big idea for getting the whole country booking on choice hotels.com. four words, badda book. badda boom... let it sink in. shouldn't we say we have the lowest price? nope, badda book. badda boom. have you ever stayed with choice hotels? like at a comfort inn? yep. free waffles, can't go wrong.

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you'll see 5-4-1 fix. in brazil, government is trying to crack down on abusive ranches, laborers can be forced into slave-like conditions. >> it can trap entire families. she has more in this cnn freedom

project report. >> barrelling down on their target, eight car convoy speeds along the back roads of brazil's cattle country, only recently carved out of the vast amazon rain forest. this, one of just four mobile units cracking down on labor exploitation across the country. >> we've got 25 kilometers ahead. we're looking for this ranch after they got tips. >> on this day, they get sent in different directions, but the info is old. workers have moved on and they come up empty handed. andre wagner in charge of this latest operation, says exploitation engrained in brazil's longest agriculture

frontier. >> translator: you'll see someone working with an exhausting work schedule eating one meal a day, while they don't receive any form because their food and tools are discounted. >> days like this make it all worthwhile. >> translator: today we're leading to inspect a complaint we received 15 days ago. it's very recent, it's a high chance that we'll still find the conditions described in the complaint. >> reporter: the task force finds something that shocks even veteran inspectors, a family of seven workers who say they haven't received any money for two years. living literally like animals. maria shows us the hammocks slung where workers sleep. and the outdoor spigot where

they bathe. this is the bathroom where we wash clothes. in the bushes is where we relieve ourselves. she does the skooking and cleaning for -- cooking and cleaning for workers on the ranch sharing a shack with her toddler and son. >> nobody deserves this. this mud, only rats can sleep in a place like this. i can't sleep with all the noise the rats make. one of the labor ministry inspectors on the team, interviews workers. >> this is one of the worst cases i've seen. i've been an inspector for almost 20 years and this is really one of the worst. >> reporter: lou wuz is the pay tree -- luis is the patriot arc of the family. he had to buy their own tools, instead of paying them salary, paid them in food and accused

them of owing him money. >> we always had hope that it will get better, we'll have a better life, but it just gets worse and then another point you can't leave, you have debt, you. >> he tells me, he was afraid. >> he could do anything to us. he's a mean guy. >> the ranch owner is nowhere to be found and doesn't answer his phone. that makes it hard for the task force to negotiate an immediate pay out. for them, the work is just beginning. they log hours of interviews and investigate assets. evidence used to pressure for financial compensation, which they say often ends up at about $2,000, but when the case is strong, it can be ten times

that. more than 50,000 workers have been rescued from what brazil defines as slave like conditions since the mobile units were created in 1995. luis now among them. but today wagner isn't completely satisfied. >> translator: it's possible mr. luis will return to his working conditions but it's also possible he will, given his age and limited professional qualifications, he'll continue to be the victim of slave labor. >> reporter: so louise and his family pack up and head to uncertain freedom back in the town they started in.

cnn out of brazil. >> on tuesday, find out how the families is adjusting to that uncertain freedom. >>. >> translator: when i left there, my heart opened up. it was a pleasure to get back to my house and family. so many things have changed. >> reporter: a house that rents in town for his youngest children, paid for with his government pension. >> freedom. have their story and more and traffickers on the amazon tuesday on the cnn freedom project. >> we'll be right back after this very short break, do stay with us.

woel coelcome back. four-year-old girl tumbled out of a moving bus. the girl fell out and on to busy streak. >> the young man was driving behind the bus, stopped his car and ran to her rescue. he's also a trained emergency medical worker, he told cnn what happened. >> it was just unbelievable, you

know, one minute i'm driving down the road and the next minute i see a little girl swing open the door on this church bus and fall to the highway. it was heartbreaking, but instantly, you know, i used my ems training and firefighter training and assessed the scene as best as i could. i realized it wasn't a good place for her to land there, you know, typically, you know, ems we're not suppose to move the patient unless they're in a pretty dangerous situation. and because she was on state highway there in arkansas, it was grounds to get her out of there. i couldn't stand for her to get hit by a car or someone hit us both. >> thank goodness for people who see something and do something about it. the little girl suffered a broken jaw, she's expected to be okay. >> no one was aware. >> thank you so much for watching "cnn newsroom."

i'm rosemary church. >> i'm george howell for viewers around the world, more news with live in london. you're watching cnn news leader. >> have a great day.

just days, now, until a potential government shutdown. the budget watch now takes over washington. president trump is weighing in as focus comes up on funding that border wall. and two candidates fight on in the most critical race france has seen in years. the sides on who could