ah, ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin, victory for a manual, my clone in the 1st round of frances presidential election. the centrist leader fights off a strong challenge from afar rights marine la, penn. but it's not over yet. both of them will go through the 2nd round in 2 weeks time. also coming up ukraine and russia grant humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians. the exodus is still growing, but thousands of people are trapped as ukraine braces for a renewed russian onslaught in the east.

ah, i'm william gruff. welcome to the program. we begin in france where president emmanuel market has emerged as the winner of the 1st round of the presidential election. initial projections give mark on 27 percent and his far i challenge marine le pen 23 percent. both of them will go forward to the 2nd round of voting on april 24th. 10. other candidates from different parts of the political spectrum are now out of the running con is one. the 1st round by a bigger than expected margin, he beat off a strong challenge from japan who dramatically narrow the president's lead in opinion polls in recent weeks. and those poles taken after the

1st round of voting, put marconi on course to defeat the pen in 2 weeks time. president appealed for support to stop the far right from coming to power. no cinnamon, this easy at this decisive moment for the future of the nation. nothing must be the same as before, wilma. this is why i extend my hand to all those who want to work for france. even club, i will have home this evening. i am ready to invent something new, get to bring together the various convictions and sensibilities in order to build with a common action in the service to our nation. for years to come. your next you come in. oh philip is not when us you only the nick in this is our duty. you know you barbara vase, i'll spend the evening at my cons. party headquarters. barbara, tell us, what does my hon need to do in the next 2 weeks? if he's going to win this run off,

he needs to campaign. of course, in hardly had he ended his speech cheered tonight. at that we received a message said every one who wants to accompany him to morrow on monday on the campaign trail should gather at 8 o'clock on new morning, had party headquarters in order to go who is a manual and go from to the department of pop not or to descend, which is not far from paris, but decidedly provincial. so obviously, his advisors have convinced him and he has himself recognized that what he needs to do now is go out and get his hands dirty. he needs to talk to people. he needs to talk, go to the small french market towns. he needs to go to the market, places into the shops, and simply give people the idea that he is listening to them. because that was his big strategic mistake. in the past weeks. he thought he could sort of have an

election campaign without leaving the l. a. z palace being it just presidential and to be re elected for that. it's not the way it works in france. people want their president to be there and to be sort of on their side and, and to be a human being. not this sort of very alien creature that presides over the country from a, from a distance. so he will go out now and he has to gather votes, as well on the relatively far left because the gender, me long shown the old, the far left firebrand, he made 3rd place, he gathered 20 percent of the vote. and also from conservatives and socialists and greens, who endorse him and he said, please give your vote to mac wrong. we have to block the far right. so he really has to write the tiger again and sort of straddle the middle of french politics in order to gather enough votes to win. the 2nd round,

icons 1st term had some successes for his platform. also a lot of turbulence in those years. is he able to run on his 1st term as a way to win a 2nd? he has some success. he's had some successes. i mean, he managed the cronum pandemic quite well. he has economic success. he managed to lower unemployment, which in france has been a feat that evaded presidents for years and years. and he has some success was industry and investment. a was education for young people, getting them off the streets. so he has some things to show bought, voters don't really credit him for it and he has to sort of go out and sell himself and sell his pro. program is something that is good for the future of french, every woman and every man. dress the voter out on the street from a vessel at my cons. headquarters, thanks so much. now the far right leader marine le pen goes

through to face marconi in that run off election in 2 weeks. she says, if elected, she will unite france. republic humphrey, excuse me. the french people gave me the honor of qualifying for the 2nd round against the outgoing president. i want to express my most sincere gratitude to the millions of voters who trusted me, but yourself said gotcha. relative when it dawned during this 1st round, the french people have clearly wanted to arbitrate a fundamental choice between 2 opposite visions of the future. if you want either to division the injustice and the disorder imposed by a man, you and my call for the benefit of a few or the gathering of the french people around social justice and protection, guaranteed by a fraternal framework around the age old idea of nation and people who it an hour, do you have your correspond? lisa lewis has been at marine the pens,

headquarters all night. lisa, as things look to you, what does marine the pen have to do if she wants to win the presidency? well it's very of is that her supporters want to continue campaigning. that's what she's been doing over the past few months. so i talked to some people here who said no, really happy about this resolved, and we believe that we can win the 2nd job of beijing. now when you look at the other candidate and the at couple of them have actually expressed the outright support for moving the pen, that includes an exam more from the very, very far right. and that to the kind of the candidates together early gather about 10 percent of the base and really pen and try support us. we'll have to do more work and gather support from other candidates, for example, supporters. so i'm a big case from the center, right. republican party,

who said that people should vote in favor of my call, but obviously, marines at people i want to convince they have a chance to rally that also. and marina penn is a we hoping to to find some people among space that have that vehicle off the left is only me all saw today in her favor in the 2nd around the voting. but when you look at all the other candidates that didn't get through to the 2nd round of age and supportive him clearly, marina pan has some work to do here. this is marina pence, 3rd time running for the presidency. it's going to be a re match from 2017 against a manual ma call. and you could even say, based on some polls that she's stronger than she's been in the past, what is it about marine le pen? and what she stands for, that garner so much staying power in france. well, that's a very questionnaire when she came to take over the policy in 2011 from her father

zon, lovey, who had been convicted several times for inciting ration, patron and down playing the follicles, she ha, was actually to something the image, the so called did the i boys, i taking the devil out of the party so that people who felt beforehand the policy was too far to the right at that the see but good then in the future vote for her and that would make her presidential. now, in 2017 people go that make me the mainland for her. but then what happened is that she was actually flattened in the debate between my, my call and her between the 2 rugs and just stephanie calderon. but she was so bad at discussing with him that many people felt that they could not just could not make her an award. and it was speculation. and if she would actually stay at the head of the party, but she did. and although a few months ago, pose was saying that my client, my call was really in the lead in this an action need. chanel caught up by do the

leg work by going to different towns in the country talking to be. but convincing these people that she was the candidate place to the people you know, helping them make ends need fixing prices for certain essential goods and controlling fuel prices, maybe in the future and all that it was supposed to make people forget that actually when you look at have pro pup program still remains the right of an extra candidate, highly xenophobic. and she wants to try what she calls national priority in the constitution taking away some rights for me because i have not french nationality. and that would mean, you know, go against the very principal, you know, of the quality of human rights in the french constitution. she stays an extremist appointed candidate. but over the past few months, especially, is managed to soften her image. and that's why more people have been waiting for

this election. lisa lewis had le pens, party headquarters there in paris. thanks very much. and now the latest news on the war in ukraine, russia and ukraine have agreed on humanitarian corridors, 2 of accurate thousands of civilians. eastern areas are bracing for what they fear will be a new russian offensive. satellite images show a convoy of hundreds of military vehicles heading for the eastern don bus region in areas round the capitol cave, where russian forces have retreated more and more civilian casualties are coming to light. ah, a father's body recovered a daughter's inconsolable grief. and then a 2nd body is found. emergency crews and booths of a have gone from searching for survivors to recovering. the dead. rushing forces

have reduced this village just north of ukraine's capital to rebel. officials have uncovered the bodies of hundreds of civilians in towns outside. keith, where the russian army has recently retreated in the northern region chair in a he's almost all is lost. north america, both good. we have a folding bed here. this is how we survived a war about nothing is left of natalia teeth of his family home. the pensioner now depends on humanitarian aid. to remove her boy a little tear for such a long time. over 30 years, our house was bombed. all of our things, all over the world of ukrainian lives had been lost or completely up ended. it was given the actions of the russian soldiers and ukraine are barbaric that just

barbaric rovers. still, russia has fail to take any major cities since its invasion on the 24th of february . the west has shown solidarity for by leveling unprecedented sanctions against russia and donating financial aid and weapons. but president bolo, demure zalinski, is begging allies for a total ban on russian energy products to reduce the kremlin war chest. and to save his people from more bloodshed. early re asked our correspond rebecca readers in levine to update us. what was happening in that eastern part of ukraine, while we are starting to see come to fruition, what we've been expecting, the regrouping of russian troops and the, the pivot towards to focus on the south east of the kind of ukraine and the south and east, including lou hands and, and yet, because you just mentioned the hans,

it prompted a more stronger effort to get people out of their hands governor has, has basically told everyone to get out while they still can i, unfortunately not everyone is hating that warning. they're still apparently 30 percent of people staying in law. hans actually met a guy was reporting down in the region close near there. and i spoke to a gentleman at the train station and he, he broke down and he is as he was describing to me that some of his friends from the la hans and in yes region were actually choosing to stay that already lost everything in the battle. in 2014 and they weren't gonna leave again. they said the russians come in, they just kind of fight them and he was really obviously very upset. i mean everyone has seen the pictures from are you paul, as you just mentioned, and also around keith in boucher and nobody wants those kind of atrocities happening to their towns and villages the washing d w. news coming up next is our current fair show reporter. it's looking at the

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