ah ah ah, this is dw news life from berlin victory for emmanuel mccomb in the 1st round of frances presidential election. the centrist leader fights off a strong challenge from the far rights melinda that pen. both contenders now go through to the 2nd round in 2 weeks time. also coming up ukraine and russia agree on humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians. the exodus is still growing, but thousands are trapped as ukraine braces for a renewed russian onslaught in the east.

ah! am jared read? thank you very much for your company. we begin in france where president emmanuel mccall has emerged as the clear winner of the 1st round of the presidential election. initial results give him 27.4 percent and his far right challenger martin le pen, 24.6 percent. both contenders now go through to the 2nd round on april the 24th 10. are the candidates from different areas of the political spectrum have now been eliminated? a cron headed off a stronger than expected challenge from le pen who dramatically narrowed the president's lead in the opinion polls in recent weeks. opinion polls taken after the 1st round of voting, put back on, on course to defeat le pen in 2 weeks time, the president appealed for support to stop the far right. coming to power. no

cinnamon. this easy, at this decisive moment for the future of the nation. nothing must be the same as before summer. this is why i extend my hand to all those who want to work for france. he will cover you one of hoss. this is, i am ready to invent something new 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 your crimean. oh, so this the not harness you all is a nickie again, this is our duty t w's bob of i visa was that president mccombs headquarters in paris and she explained what he needs to do to win the 2nd round. he needs to contain, of course, in hardly had he ended his speech cheered to night, and 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 a new morning, had party headquarters in order to go, wizard monreal and go from to the deep mon apartment or to descend, which is not far from paris, but decidedly provincial. so obviously, his advisors have convinced him and he has himself recognized there. 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 biggest strategic mistake. in the past weeks he fought, 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 john mcmillan 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 mc wrong. we have to block the far right. so he really has to write the tiger again and sort of straddled the middle of french politics in order to gather enough votes to win. the 2nd round, that was papa diesel, there in paris. now the far right leader makin le pen goes through to face mc cole . in the 2nd round, she says that if she's elected, she will unite france. republican 1st,

excuse me. the french people gave me the honor of qualifying for the 2nd round against the outgoing president. i wanted to express my most sincere gratitude to the millions of voters who trusted me. but you saw said gratitude. dollars if one is due on it. during this 1st round, the french people have clearly wanted to arbitrate a fundamental choice between 2 opposite visions of the future. you're either the 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 use it to po and dw correspond. lisa louis was that mother let pens headquarters. she said her supporters were optimistic going into the 2nd route. i talked to some people here who said no, really happy about this resolved and we believe that we can win the 2nd john of

a thing. now when you look at the other candidate and the 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 kind of the candidates together early gather about 10 percent of the base and really pen and to support us. we'll have to do more work and gather support from other candidates. for example, supporters of my belly, big 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 their bay to, to rally that also. and marine, the pen is a pre hoping to, to find some people among space that have they do full far left. he wanted me all shawl to date in her favor in the 2nd around the voting. but when you look at the other candidates that didn't get through to the 2nd round of agent support team,

clearly marina pan has some work to do here. it was leased to louis in paris. now to the latest on the war in new crime, russia and ukraine have agreed on humanitarian corridors to evacuate 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 don boss 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 lucifer have gone from searching for survivors to recovering

the dead rushing force. his have reduced his village, just north of ukraine's capital to rubble. officials have uncovered the bodies of hundreds of civilians in towns outside keith, where the russian army has recently retreated and the northern region churned a heave. almost all is lost. north america, where those good. we have a folding that here. this is how we survived a war. nothing is left of natalia teeth of his family home. the pensioner now depends on humanitarian aid. to remove her before you live here 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

they'll 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. earlier we are style correspondent rebecca, written in levine to update us about what's happening in the new hans region. well, we are starting to see come to fruition what we've been expecting. the regrouping of russian troops and their pivot towards to focus on the south east of the kind of ukraine and the south and the ac, including lou hands and, and yet,

because he just mentioned the hans and it's 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. there are 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 says he was describing to me that some of his friends from the la hans and, and 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 butcher, and nobody wants those kind of atrocities happening to their towns and villages. here are some of the other stories making in used to day australian prime minister

scott morrison has called an election for may the 21st. his campaign is likely to be fought over the cost of living climate change and political integrity morrison's conservatives are currently trailing the opposition. labor in opinion polls after 9 years in power. israeli forces carried out rides in the occupied west bank after a series of terror attacks. tensions between israelis and palestinians have escalated during the muslim holy month of ramadan. this coincides with major jewish and christian holidays. pakistan's prime minister has been ousted in a vote of no confidence in brown con, earlier tried to dodge divide by and dissolving parliament. but the supreme court threw out the attempt. former allies blame con for a crumbling economy and say that he failed to deliver on campaign promises. oh is ma'am a bad residence gathered around parliament as assembly members left after the

historic late night vote. some celebrated the ouster of prime minister imran con. while others protested opposition leader chabarise sharif is likely to become pakistan's next prime minister. he's the brother of disgraced former prime minister . no. was sharif long. you shabazz sharif, who leads the pakistan muslim league praised the no confidence vote. you was go, no joanna, allah hassan said the prayers of millions of pakistani mothers, sisters, daughters, other elders and youth. he b. meanwhile, in mind, con has accused the u. s. of conspiring to topple him over his ties with russia and china. that has angered his supporters among emron. com has been removed through a foreign conspiracy. god willing, we will fight back to make him prime minister again. we don't, will these thieves in power? i'm a little those suffering under pakistan's crumbling economy feel it was high time

for kind to go all it had to happen because conditions in the country has become very bad. inflation has reached a peak and it has become difficult for the poor man to feed his family. as pakistan woke up to a new reality, police forces were on the alert. divided opinions means protests are likely to continue until parliament meets on monday to elect a new prime minister against the backdrop or of the war in ukraine. germany is marking the anniversary of the liberation of the balkan via concentration camp at the end of world war 2, holocaust survivors and jewish leaders gathered to remember nazi crimes that were committed there during the holocaust american forces liberated the camp in april 1945 representatives of russia and bela bruce were asked not to attend the memorial after a russian attack in ukraine, killed a holocaust survivor, a political correspondent, thomas barrow filed this report. the atmosphere is always heavy. always difficult

in full manase concentration comes like this one. mike wooten by 280000 people from all over europe were sent here by the nazis 56000 people were killed. and the atmosphere to day is even more difficult because events here had borne by have been overshadowed by the wool in ukraine. camp survivors have condemned the russian invasion of ukraine, and in fact, russian government officials were uninvited to ceremonies here in brooklyn, vice on this also has to do with the death of paris romance, jenko, 96 year old. he survived full concentration camps including born vide, but was killed in the ukrainian city of hockey in march. therefore, it is particularly important that participants here to day, it broken by renewed

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