ah, w made for mines with this is dw news live from berlin, victory for emanuel micron. in the 1st round of frances presidential election. the centrist leader fried off a strong challenge from the far right mother, let pen both contenders now go through to the 2nd round in 2 weeks time, also coming up ukrainian president. flor them is the lensky. we're warns of a crucial week ahead and says russia is preparing a full scale assault in east in ukraine.

ah, i am jared read. thank you very much for your company. we begin the show in france, where president emanuel micron has emerged as the clear winner of sundays 1st round of the presidential election. now, initial projections have given him 27.6 percent and his bar right challenge. martin le pen, 23.4 percent. both continuous now go through to the 2nd round. on april the 24th 10 are the candidates from different parts of the political spectrum have now been eliminated. a cron headed off is stronger than expected challenge from le pen who dramatically now rude. the president's lead in opinion polls in recent weeks will polls taken after the 1st round of voting, put him on course to defeat la penn in 2 weeks time. president micron appealed for

support to stop the far right coming to power. no cinema. this easy, at this decisive moment for the future of the nation. nothing must be the same as before. so this is why i extend my hand to all those who want to work for france. so it will cover you all of hoss. this if 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 goodman or service, the not on us. you all is a nicky. n o d w is bob harvey is the was that president mac loans headquarters in paris and she explained what he needs to do now to win the 2nd round. he needs to contain, of course, in hardly had he ended his speech cheered to night 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 with them, monro, the crawl to the deep, mon, or pop not or to descend, which is not far from paris. bob decidedly provincials. 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 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 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 mac wrong. we have to block the fall, 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 bob brofy. so bad. well, the far right leader mounting le pen goes through to face micron in the 2nd round. and she says that if she selected, she will unite fronts. the photo horses next to 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. that you saw said got each other to put it on a hot. during this 1st round, the french people have clearly wanted to arbitrate a fundamental choice between 2 opposite visions of the future. is your 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, it dw, correspond at lisa louis was that in la 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 round of

fading. now when you look at the other candidate, only a 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 the really pen and to support us. we'll have to do more work and gather support from other candidates, for example, supporters of felony because from the center, right, republican party, who said that people should vote in favor of my car votes. obviously, marines at people. i want to convince their voters to rally there also. and marilla, penn is openly hoping to to fight some people amongst those that have voted for far left only me longsol to vote in her favor in the 2nd around a voting. but when you look at who all the other candidates that didn't get through to the 2nd round of age and support of him. clearly marina pan has some. c work to

do here. the st. louis that now to the war in ukraine eastern areas are bracing for what they fear will be a new russian offensive. in a televised address, ukrainian president volota, mister lensky warned that russian troops are moving to carry out large scale military operations in east in ukraine. his comments come a day after he met with austrian chancellor colony, hama who is due to meet with russia's vladimir putin in moscow to day. meanwhile, as russian troops withdrawal from areas around the capital cave, 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 this 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. no, we're both good. we have a folding that here. this is how we survived a war rub. nothing is left of natalia teeth of a family home. the pensioner now depends on humanitarian aid. to remove her boy lived here for such a long time. over 30 years, our house was bombed. all of our things, all over the earth, ukrainian lives have 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 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 for more bloodshed. okay, let's take a look now at some of the other headlines from the war and ukraine. president, florida me, zalinski, spoke by phone with german chancellor, all off schultz on sunday to discuss further sanctions against russia. zalinski said he was glad that germany had recently strengthened it. supportive ukraine and

said that he and sholtes agreed that perpetrators of war crimes in ukraine should be identified and punished all of them. so in mexico city, dozens of people have been protesting the war in ukraine. they marched to the russian embassy carrying assertion, measure long ukrainian flag, singing the country's national anthem, and shouting slogans, calling for into the wall. all in other news, pakistan's prime minister has been ousted and a vote of no confidence in ron khan had earlier tried to dodge the vote by dissolving parliament. but the supreme court threw out his attempt. former allies blame con for a crumbling economy and say that he failed to deliver on k promises. yes, 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 in mankind, while others protested opposition leaders,

chabarise sharif is likely to become pakistan's, next prime minister. he is 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 go, no joy. no allah has answered the prayers of millions of pakistani mothers, sisters, daughters, elders and youth. in the meanwhile, in man con, has accused the u. s. of conspiring to topple him over his ties with russia and china that has angered his supporters. are ye among him, ranken seen removed to a foreign conspiracy. god willing we will fight back to make him prime minister again. we don't. will these thieves in power? let me leave those suffering under pakistan's crumbling economy feel it was high time for con to go all it had to happen because conditions in the country have 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. ok, let's get a round up of some other headlines now. around 20 migrants were rescued off the spanish island of grand canario on sunday night. now this area has become the main destination in spain for african migrants trying to reach europe. a local n g yost is more than 4400 people died at sea trying to reach spain last year. australian prime minister scott morrison has called an election for may the 21st. this campaign is likely to be fought over the cost of living climate change, and political integrity morrison's conservatives currently trailing the opposition labor party, in opinion polls after 9 years in power. and his riley forces carried out

rides in the occupied with bank following a series of terror attacks tensions between israelis and palestinians of escalated during the muslim holy month of ramadan. it coincides this year with major jewish and christian holidays while against the backdrop of the war and ukraine. germany is mocking the anniversary of the liberation of the balkan via the concentration camp. the end of world war 2, holocaust survivors and jewish leaders gathered to remember not see crimes that were committed day during the holocaust american forces liberated the camp. in april 1945 representatives of russia and bella roost were asked not to attend the memorial. after rush and after a rush, an attack in ukraine killed a holocaust survivor. i political

correspondent thomas barrow has more from balkan. val. the atmosphere is always heavy. always difficult in full manase concentration comes like this one. mike wooten by 280000 people from all over europe was sent here by the nazis 56000 people were killed. and the atmosphere to day is even more difficult because events here had been 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 an invited to ceremonies here in book invite. this also has to do with the death of bodies from our jenko, 96 year old. he survived full concentration camps including born vital, 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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