success subscriber for morning is like, ah ah, ah, this is dw news live from berlin, m o m, i call windsor 2nd time mess french president. the incumbent admits his victory was helped by voters trying to block his rival, but in the pen loses, but secures the highest vote for far. i can also come as russia invasion enters it spurred month top united states officials visit peace to announce more funding for western russia is failing. ukraine is succeeding the u. s. secretaries of state

and defense. say ukraine can when they're given more arms. they also pledge to help neighboring countries restock there. awesome. ah. i'm glad else has well come to the program. in one 0, my call has been reelected as president of france winning a 2nd. 5 year term. mccall sees the convincing victory with 58.5 percent of the vote. according to provisional results, is opponent marine la pen secured $41.00. that's the highest outcome yet for the far right candidate in her 3rd attempt to win the presidency. sunday's run of election drew the lowest, turn out of voters in more than half a century. my court recognized that his win was partly thanks to voters who only supported him to block the pen. a grin not often seen on the

french leader sunday's vote. so m and when mcclure, in high spirits, after he won 5 more years in office, the 1st french president in 20 years to be re elected. but as he claimed to victory, he acknowledged that many votes hadn't been cast for him, but against his opponent. just so c, i know that many of our compatriots have voted for me to day, not to support the ideas that i stand for. but to block those of the extreme right, i said that if someone has fighting rages in ukraine, many are relieved that macross victory won't mean a change. of course, during the campaign, he contrasts at his opponents ties to the kremlin with his own strong support for arming ukrainian forces that we're going through tragic times here on a kind

a law. the war in ukraine obliges friends to make its choices clear. so who are the thought this and to build up its strength them in all areas to swap? that is something we will continue to do, but with the domain. in order. so paulus had predicted a close race, but in the end macro, when a comfortable 58 percent of votes, his far right opponent marine le pen conceded defeat. but boyd by his strongest ever showing she said she wasn't going anywhere. with her this evening, i will say again, i will never abandon the french people a lot to lift a republic long left france and as her party looked for what crumbs were left far left,

demonstrators clashed with police and several cities accusing mycroft. being a president for the rich owner and manuel macro has pledged to be a president for all french citizens, but it will take more than a smile and a wave to make frances widespread dissatisfaction go away. dubuque responded to sonya folic are followed of the elections in paris and earlier i asked her how french people are reacting to the prospect of 5 more years. michael? well, i think that very much depends on, on who you speak to. i would say generally, there is a big sigh of relief her that macro has gotten this clear victory. that is also reflected in the headlines and many french newspapers today. though many of them also pointing out that this is a bitter sweet victory because many, many voters didn't vote from a crowd they, when he was not the 1st choice they wanted rather to, you know,

keep the far right out of government. we also saw a record, low turnout yesterday, you know, the 2nd lowest and in more than 50 years. and we've also seen more than 3000000 people cos hoyt or blank ballads. and this shows that many people have, you know, rallied around the slogan. neither macro non append, this was a slogan that was coined by students between the 2 rounds. and it shows that many people in order simply didn't feel represented by either of the candidates, despite the fundamental differences between the 2. so i think all the shows just how utterly divided frances and macro will really have his work. now cut out to bring this country together. so morgan, the pen has lost this vote. does that mean she is history as a political force in france? will marina pens far right? national rally, you know, scott, the highest result ever in the history of the party. about 13000000 french waters voted for the far right. and this was largely due to marina pen. she ran

a very slight grassroots campaign, reaching out to working class borders on the right and left, focusing on on the rising cost of living as a keeping you know, which helped her deflect from her kind of anti immigration nationalist agenda. and i think people have creditor credit at home with the switch. now she's personally said she will not be running running again. this was a thought bid at the presidency, but a party is suddenly eyeing very key. a parliamentary elections now coming up in france in june. that can be held over to downs and, and those elections with a key because they will, you know, defined the makeup of the lower house of parliament. the national assembly determined who runs the next government and a whole party up marina. penn. smarty has already said, you know, they are planning to kind of capitalize on this white spread, anti establishment or anger and really raised their numbers. mccaul has promised to unite the french career, expect any urban changes when it comes to french foreign policy very briefly. if you can when i think the sample answered as we can expect,

a more continuity and stability from macro on foreign policy policy. and i think that will come as a big relief actually does in your a poor, you know, kind of anxious about the unpredictability and volatility that a little bit happened. victory would have meant did i miss a political correspondence in a process on her phonic r. thank you. sonya ukrainian authorities say the russian military has carried out a series of missiles stripes on the country's rail facilities. attacks commerce, the u. s. secretary of state and lincoln and the defensive inter load austin visited keith on sunday, announcing another funding boost to help you frank. bye more with the fight the russian invasion. meanwhile, people in ukraine marked a sombre orthodox easter on sunday president vladimir lensky. use the religious holiday to urge people to turn their rage against russia into a force to defeat evil. orthodox easter sunday in kia

president followed him as a lansky recorded in easter message from saint sophia cathedral. now she is that it is full of me. our hearts are full of fierce anger. bolden in our souls are filled with fierce hatred for the invaders and all that they have done enough. don't let rage destroy us from within the lock and turn it into our accomplishments from the outside. but at the already turn it into a good force where to defeat the forces of evil in that dormer thiel abbey. but it will be silly. the law on a sunny spring day worshippers attended mass at saint michael's church and key of some here. now see a light at the end of the tunnel. did the roofs and that was the footage wise as i'm worried about my country and my unborn child, i'm scared but i believe we will be victorious sites. our president is protecting us the roberts. he does the impossible. and so do the men and women of our armed

forces. i believe in victory was that's why i'm staying in ukraine with my baby is my lukewarm guy. i'm the one who's switching every boy. so yester service is happening as usual. so cool. but our country is at war was a war that has brought sorrow to every ukrainian less of the service. we pray that the lord gives us strength to handle these challenges with dignity. and that's what we are confident of victory because no korean. so but for now, the situation on the ground remains much the same, a grinding fight for territory in the south and east. the fear that a missile might come crashing down anywhere in the country. and that the war is far from over. those russian missile attacks across ukraine are continuing to day including beef and western ukraine. w correspondence. emma rose shaw's is in levine for earlier i asked her about having to take shelter from those s drugs. exactly.

god. in fact our airstrikes very regularly doesn't necessarily mean dr. down followed by actual strikes because sometimes those strikes are intercepted by the anti messiah as system, but very regular allows here and this morning strikes or happened. there was a messiah that was seen here in the vive, flying over to city. there's at least a several ones are which are struck in the region. there's one which tracker in a narrow crash near on a re weigh infrastructure does though. so in the region of the need c, r, and there's been a 2 strikes in our close yachting and marian car. this is roughly it to give you an idea between levine in the west and a capital a key f, a. there are reports of people are dead there and people injured it. there's also been 2 strikes in the revenue region where no injuries have been reported so far.

so, as you can see, of course, war is raging in the eastern part of ukraine, mostly, but now at the russian strategic seems to really also have broadened all over the country. russia has said that it would target ukraine's or military infrastructures, and it seems to put this to, to work, at least at this morning. we had another letter last night. this is a very regular occurrence here. and i think we're going to see more of that in the coming days in the coming weeks. that's not the political situation in a press briefing, the polish ukrainian border. are you a sector of state antony blink. and i just outlined that he was convinced of ukraine's success. let's have a quick listen. ukrainians are standing up. they're standing strong, and they're doing that with the support that we have coordinated from literally around the world. the strategy that we've put in place

massive support for ukraine, massive pressure against russian solidarity with more than 30 countries engaged in these efforts is having real results. and we're seeing that when it comes to russia's warnings, russia is failing. ukraine is succeeding. curious as to have said, antony blankenberg, i know we've seen a very optimistic blinking or ukrainian officials. i was confident ukraine officials are, are happy daughter, following the words of vladimir zalinski, the president at the western allies are of ukraine have. finally, he says understood denise of ukraine. anthony lincoln: oh, so pledge, $700000000.00 of extra military ad for ukraine. half of it will be a for ukraine to buy the military weapons they need at the other half will be given

to it to a neighboring countries. and nato allies, which have been given weapons to your credit, to defend itself against a russian aggression. so does cautious optimism here in ukraine? seeing god said there's more and more support coming from the west. w correspondent, manuel sha staff. thank you. now let's have a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. global defense spending reached a record high for the 7th consecutive year 2021. the latest report from the stopper international peace research institute reveals military spending rose to $2.00 trillion dollars. despite the pandemic, arms impose to europe increased by 19 percent of political newcomer is set to becomes davina is next. prime minister. following sundays, parliamentary elections nearly come. nearly complete returns show robert gloves

left leading freedom movement, gaining a 3rd of the votes ahead of incumbent prime minister young. his young conservatives with neither party securing and outright majority, coalition. government is likely at least a 100 people are now dead after an explosion at an illegal refinery in nigeria. on friday, emergency personnel are still searching the site and police are on the lookout for 2 people. suspected of being responsible for the last nigeria as president, has vowed to clamp down a makeshift of israel's army says it's retaliated after a rocket was fired to the north of the country from lebanon. statement by the military did not mention casualties, saying the projectile landed in an open field. no group has claimed responsibility . you want cdw news. as a reminder of the top story we're following for you. in one of my call has been re

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