>> are watching france 24. i'm no around the world. these are the headlines. early election results for the number two position in indonesia show the minority christian governor of jakarta has been soundly defeated by his muslim challenger. the british parliament voting today on the prime minister's decision to hold a snap general election in june. theresa may trying to strengthen her hand in the brexit talks with the eu. belgium says it is already

investigating one of the two suspects arrested in france for plotting an attack that officials say was thwarted just days before the french presidential election. this hour, way mixing business with politics. why you banca trump is facing criticism over her clothing business even though she is not running the company anymore. and a new tomb uncovered in egypt valley of the kings. more on that 3000-year-old discovery coming up but first our top story live from paris. genie: indonesians have been voting for the next governor of jakarta. that is the second-most most important post in the country after the president. it is a close race between the

incumbent leader, and ethnic chinese christian and a former education minister who, like 85% of jakarta's residence, is muslim. unofficial results say the muslim challenger now has a double-digit lead. jack houston in jakarta gives us the latest. >> it is looking like 58% have voted for the muslim candidate in this race. effectively, it is all -- it his political star has finally sunk. this is at odds with what was predicted by the polls. it has been a very bad 12 months for polling. this is no exception. we thought it was going to be very close but it was a double-digit victory. what happenedfrom in the first round, there were two muslim candidates but all of muslimoted between the

candidates have no united around one remaining muslim candidate. for him.sad news the end of his blasphemy trial to look forward to over the rest of this month, which he could face a jail sentence of five years. it is quite a remarkable political fall. ostensibly, these are over minor remarks made in september when shouldd that non-muslims vote for them in case they thought they were going to hell. these led him to be accused of blasphemy by islamic hard-liners. genie: jack houston reporting from jakarta. brits are coming to concerns over the brexit and now thoughts of a snap election in june. theresa may made that announcement yesterday and the british parliament is expected to formally approve the move today. more on reaction from london.

>> tuesday's snap election announcement came as a surprise to many. politicians in westminster have six weeks to convince the public to vote for their candidates. in london's business mr. -- business district the reactions varied. >> i think it is a good move on her part. they will now put in one place all the arguments around brexit and parliament for authorization. ministeray the prime is hoping to be confirmed back in her job. >> if you take the chance, you can stick around. >> some felt she had put her party's interests before the nation. >> i don't think it will help the country. i think it will heal government but i don't think it will do anything to the country at all. to be honest. it will make things more divisive. >> she's doing good when the

opposition is weak. this is that news for the country. >> the opposition has rejected claims by the prime minister that the country is coming together while westminster remains divided. on the eighth of june the nation will settle the argument once and for all. genie: let's come back now to france where authorities say they have thwarted what they called an in an -- an imminent terrorist attack. they were arrested in the french city of marseille just days before one of the presidential elections. one of them was under investigation by belgian authorities. arrestedo men were here in the port city of marseille, southern france tuesday morning at 10:00 and 10:30 a.m.. they were 23 and 29 years old. both of french nationality. to pair met and turned radical islam during a prison

sentence where they shared the same cell. police have been tracking them for months after collecting intelligence pointing to an imminent terror attack. >> the document that we have collected so far indicates that we -- these two men were getting ready to carry out an imminent attack on french soil. point we are still unable to say when, where and how exactly they intended to act. >> both men were known by intelligence services. paris's counterterrorism unit the two ase home of early as december 2016. they found the flag of the islamic state group and jihadist videos. they have been on the run for several weeks and police finally spotted them by checking phone records. after intercepting a video of them threatening to take action

french special forces intervened. in their rental apartment in marseille they found many guns and explosives. two,r the youngest of the his family had alerted the police as early as 2015 that he had left home and that he had turned to radical islam. genie: now to syria where state television is reporting a bomb has killed takes and hurt more than 30 people in all aleppo today. that blast reportedly hit a southwestern neighborhood that was once on the front line between rebels and government forces before the army retook full control of the city in december. state television did not specify whether that was the result of an attack or unexploded ordnance left over from the four and a half years of fighting that preceded the rebel pullout. that came as evacuations resumed in four deceased areas of syria today. they halted after a suicide bombing killed dozens in a convoy that was part of the reciprocal evacuation deal.

venezuela's bracing for what is called the mother of all protests. it is being staged today by opponents of the president nicolas maduro and his move to tighten his grip on power. venezuela has already been rocked by two weeks of violent protest that have left five dead so far. maduro has said the u.s. is behind the movement to oust him. he has also said the speaker of the country's opposition should be investigated to instigate a two. here's what she had to say. >> the repression needs to stop. the armed forces must left maduro's government no that the in his best the situation in venezuela is unsustainable. genie: we've got armen georgian has been following that in venezuela. previous protests over the past few weeks have turned violent. there is a risk of violence today and yet the opposition seems to be going into this mother of all protest almost

upbeat. >> they've been galvanized by two recent events. first, the supreme court ruling on march the 30th who tried to strip the country's parliament of its powers. the court partly reversed its move. secondly on april the seventh authorities banned oppositions from running for office for 15 years. faced with these increasingly harsh measures, opponents seem to be putting their differences to one side and pushing together to get him out. genie: how much pressure is the president under right now? >> earlier this week he ordered pro-government militias to be expanded to about half a million members, each with a rifle. presumably the consolation behind that was that if members of the police and army started to defect then he would still have a hard core of armed supporters.

as for his ruling socialist party there are tensions between ideologues and pragmatists. that is something the opposition could exploit if it were willing to negotiate some kind of transitional arrangement for maduro. that could create an atmosphere for defections. but at the moment if there is no prospect of a deal than senior members of the ruling socialists have an incentive to switch. genie: in the region it seems like things are shifting but not in the president's favor. usinguro has been rhetoric similar to that of his mentor, the late hugo chavez about foreign powers, specifically the u.s., meddling in venezuela. let's listen. america,ited states of the state department, has given the approval and the go-ahead for a coup to intervene in venezuela. this is what i am saying and this is what i shall say.

>> this is old-school rhetoric, but the reality is that the environment has changed in the region since those days of hugo chavez. under barack obama the u.s. began a detente with cuba. cuba has been venezuela's traditional ally and donald trump is now trying to work out what to do, how to take that detente forward or not. venezuela's oil weapon has become blunted by lower oil prices and politically in latin america, there has been a move away from leftist populist politics, governments in latin america increasingly worried about the instability in venezuela. a note that on monday, 11 month freeze desk 11 countries condemned the death of protests in venezuela and urged security forces to show restraint. i think the opposition will look at that and think, if they get really out of control we can bet that majuro will be very isolated in the region. genie: that is armen georgian speaking about the situation in

venezuela. now in egypt archaeologists have found a new tomb that is more than 3000 years old. that landmark near looks or several m treasuresu. >> editionm archaeologists are busy uncovering the latest big finem. -- big find. this tomb is around 300,000 -- 3000 years old. it belongs to a nobleman who work for the city judge. inside, several coffins and these mummies. so far, eight of them have been found. leading the date. he says that nobleman were especially wary of grave robbers. they feared that their grandfathers coffins will be destroyed by thieves so he had

to cut this part out of the tomb to be able to hide. fact, within our excavations we found more than seven coffins just in this area. >> hundreds of treasures have been unearthed including 1000 carved figurines. according to egypt's minister of antiquities there could be more to come. >> we were surprised by the number of objects found inside. a lot of pottery. i think during the next days and weeks we will find more of the objects. >> not so long ago these sites through tourists from around the world but years of political instability have decimated the country's tourism industry. officials are hoping this every like this will convince some tourists to come back to egypt. this is france 24. genie: let's look at today's top stories. early election results in indonesia show the minority

christian governor of jakarta has been soundly defeated by his muslim challenger. british parliament voted today on the prime minister's decision to hold a snap general election in june. theresa may is trying to strengthen her hand in the brexit talks with the eu. belgium says it has already been investigating one of two suspects arrested in france for plotting an attack officials say it was ported days before the french presidential election. -- say was supported days before hwarted days before the election. genie: now on the french campaign trail. security issues we were just mentioning, the terrorist threat. all of this has taken the spotlight in the final days before round one after those men were arrested in the southern port city of marseille, suspected of planning an imminent attack on french soil. >> security has been stepped up

on the campaign trail. we will see some images of a rally held yesterday by the conservative candidate, francois fillon. you can see a helicopter, supporters getting patted down before they enter this venue. there is a helicopter. fillonties believe that might have been targeted by this foiled attack. his security had already been increased in recent days. he and other candidates have come out to say that this incident should not upset the campaign. let's take a listen. >> it doesn't change anything from my campaign. i think it shouldn't drive us to focus the debate on questions of security. >> i am going to continue to meet voters, to travel around. the ministry of the interior is taking care of our security. they are trying to exploit this

campaign and we shouldn't fall into that trap. foiled, whichas should be reassuring. i don't want to take that incident which is serious enough and exploit it for political gain. genie: now the first round of voting is this sunday. some 50,000 police officers and soldiers are already said to be deployed across the country to ensure the security of those stations. >> there are critics who say this is too little, too late for the far right national front. they have lashed out against the current administration's handling of the terrorist threat. listen to the vice president of the national front who was on france 24 last night. >> the threat hasn't disappeared. it is even more present than ever and what we are paying for with this terror attack in marseille is leniency. there has been leading in c for the past few presidencies. they still don't do anything to face threats. genie: in the meantime the race

is still very tight with just a few days ago to around one. all of the supporters are drawing all of their energy in this homestretch to pick up those undecided voters. >> each vote counts, of course. our reporter claire williams and jessica should really have been following emmanuel macron steam. -- emmanuel macron's team. they have been campaigning across the country and theyesting because were used successfully by barack obama in 2008. will this winning recipe work for emmanuel macron? check out france 24's report. campaign rule number one, connect. wearing standout matching raincoats is not the best tactic.

and so the raincoats come off. on barackorked obama's grassroots election campaign and he now teaches in paris. as a volunteer, he is training macron supporters to vote door-to-door campaigning obama style. [speaking french] their political moderate -- novices with high expectations. >> there is something powerful going on. macron gives us hope in the same way obama did for americans. he is also not the only one drawing on his experience of

obama's campaign. the former washington correspondent for a french tv channel has also joined his team. >> i remember in iowa, people were trying to join because they felt like they could change the world. >> like those young americans did with obama, 27-year-old augusta has taken a chance on macron. last year, he left his comfortable consultant job in madrid after six months volunteering for the 39-year-old candidate. he was offered a temporary contract, coordinating activists in paris. but he doesn't have any political experience of his own. is to teach stage local committees and members what activism is all about. we had to teach them the kind of arguments they need when they are on the ground. the paris headquarters,

150 people coordinate campaigners working on the ground and they are all desperate for their candidate to enjoy and obama style victory. may benuel macron>> drawing inspiration from barack obama. another candidate here has been innovative in the campaign as well. far left candidate jean-luc melenchon has almost been inspired from star trek. a lot of people have been using the techniques he has been using. he is arguably the most tech savvy candidate in this presidential race. he is very 2.0, active on social media. he has been using holograms. he already did this during a previous rally but he won up himself last night. he was physically present in these on but his speech was broadcast by a hologram in six different cities. island in then indian ocean. our reporter chris moore witnessed the magic.

chris: with a click of the fingers 650 kilometers away in his hologram appeared on stage. in a number of venues around france, a combined audience of about 35,000 people. we are told that jean-luc melenchon and his hologram are starting to capture some people's imagination. >> it is interesting. really good quality. i enjoy believing it. he seemed real. >> it was great, very lively. it seemed like he was there with us. is really it interesting. such a creative way to campaign. how cool and crazy that jean-luc melenchon was in dijon and six other cities at the same time. it is incredible that he can spread his message in an original way. >> the keys of these speech were equality and how to govern, lots

of stock messages about wealth redistribution, getting out of the nuclear business, moving towards organic arming, renegotiating european treaties. is jean-luc melenchon portraying himself now as somebody who is capable of being president. his core message, after this surge in the polls becomes, if you want to vote left you have to vote for me. genie: just to wrap up, francois fillon is getting some last-minute support from a heavyweight. alan -- he and francois fillon rennes against each other in the primary in november. you can see them shaking hands. these are images taken by gary schimmel bauer. innovative -- it is a bit of a frosty handshake. but he got support from the former president nicolas sarkozy. he gave it in a video posted on twitter. >> he has the experience.

thatill and the program will allow france to move on from the disastrous five years we have just been through. and avoid the risk of extremism. >> that wraps it up for today. thanks so much for that look. in what isinterested happening in this campaign, check out our election compass. this is a tool developed by france 24 in partnership with vox pop labs. this shows how your views compare with the french presidential candidates and it can lead to surprising results. time for our business news with stephen carroll. you're going to start with the markets. we are still seeing reaction to the announcement of the snap election in the u.k. >> sterling is still hovering around six-month high again. one pound worth just over one dollar and $.28 on the market. we have seen the currency dropped and advanced -- in

advance of that surprise announcement but once the election was on the cards, it rebounded significantly. it held onto those gains, just down by three 107% in trading. -- 31 hundredths of a percent. this could be due to the fact that under sterling, it is a stronger exporter. so the london ftse 100 found -- fell by two and a half percent. burberry, the luxury brand is the biggest loser, down over 5%. genie: let's go over to the u.s. might benka trumps -- working at the white house but her business is booming as well. >> she still owns but no longer manages her clothing brand. she is currently an unpaid employee of her father's and ministration, but sales have hit record numbers despite a number boycotts.rofile

there is criticism that she is blurring the line between business and politics. >> the past month has been good to ivanka trump and her global brand. she joined her father's and ministration as an unpaid adviser. over a week later on april 6, she received good news from beijing. on the same day her father was hosting chinese president, her company received monopoly rights to china's 1.3 billion consumers. a lucrative go-ahead. it one that is one that the brands attorneys says trump is not involved with. she still owns it and the brand is doing well with record sales so far this year. >> ivanka is selling her persona. her life is captured on the republican stage and it is now for sale to retailers. that line has never been

crossed. >> as a government employee, this creates conflict of interest. one that ivanka trump says has been worked out. -- itave put in place took me a long time. i went through every permutation of the most responsible way to do this. >> according to her former ethics lawyer at the white house if uncle trump is still in tricky territory. >> i think it is wonderful that her businesses are doing well and everything would be just fine if she were also working -- if she weren't also working in the white house. she has to comply with the statute. >> a federal lawsuit is currently underway against trump for possible ethics violations and trademark approvals from china have been added to the list of complaints. >> more of today's business headlines now, the owner of cheap and cheerful clothing retailer has seen its profits double in the last six months. the associated british foods says it is benefiting from the drop but sales also rose by 2%.

shares in heineken have risen after it sold more beer than expected in the first three months of the year. the increased

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