after the announcement of an anti-ballistic missile system in south korea. and another antigovernment march in venezuela, accusing president

madero of savage repression after the deaths of at least 26 people. laura: first, it's being described as a public relations cu for the far right presidential candidate, marine le pen. she upstaged her centrist rival at a factory in northern france, meeting with striking workers at the american owned whirlpool plant. macron was in a nearby meeting to talk about the fact the plant is set to close next year. angry workers then turned on macron for not visiting the plant sooner. reporter: the two pictures couldn't be more different --emmanuel macron having a quiet meeting with a full -- with a few union representatives just before marine le pen made a

stunning appearance on the picket line meeting with a crowd of disgruntled workers. came here andn >> had no intention of meeting with employees and joining the picket line. i thought that was proof of the huge contempt for what he has for the employees are going through. reporter: the far right leader's surprise move but the centrist candidate on the back foot, having to explain why he decided not to visit the site. >> i was here for over an hour with the whirlpool union representatives. i was next to the site because the company refused to give us access. matt m le pen on the other hand is here for political ends because she is haranguing political activists in a car park. ,eporter: back on said car part the crowd was swinging away from macron. we didn't want promises, we

wanted to support. we didn't want him to say the plant won't close, we just want him to support us, to talk about us, here what is happening to whirlpool, and he did not do that. >> he won't help us. and marine le pen? >> i guess she has good ideas, but still, i guess i would trust her more than i trust him. reporter: that is when macron took to twitter to say he would meet with employees at the site after all. press. the world by that point, the reception was frosty at best and the smell of burning tires was filling the air. >> do you smell that, mr. macron , that's the smell of hard work. >> i came at the time i thought was right. uporter: the candidate ended spending an hour talking to workers, broadcasting it live on facebook. by the time he shook their hands to say goodbye, the boos had

slightly subsided. laura: emmanuel macron claire williams has been following emmanuel macron throughout the day. he's now giving a speech at a rally. what's happening right now? isorter: emmanuel macron not farind me speaking, from the town where he was earlier in the day and the town where he grew up. this is national front territory. even though he is from here, this is very much a marine le pen stronghold. he has not managed to win hearts and minds here just yet. what he has been telling the crowds in last few minutes is that he's the alternative am a real candidate, the candidate with right formula for france and his mix of left and right wing is what the country needs. he says don't believe marine le

pen when she says she has your best interests at heart. she was born into money, born into politics, born into the political party. do not forget that. best believe she has your interests at heart. he says he has the winning formula to make france stronger and improve the quality of life. this is a region that has seen a lot of industrialization and is no longer the industrial heartland. factories have been closing and they are continuing to close as we saw this morning at whirlpool. emmanuel macron might be from the region but he has not managed to win over hearts and minds here. happenedat about what at whirlpool today? some people say was a pr coup former he le pen. but others are saying he did the right thing and stayed there and talked to the workers. who you: it depends

speak to. two very different stories from the two rival campaigns. marine le pen showed up at the parking lot and emmanuel macron was speaking to workers and union representatives at the chamber of commerce. or he le pen said she was there to speak directly to workers. emmanuel macron said he is the one with serious strategy and he was following procedure by speaking to workers first. he then went down to the site, as we saw in the report a little andier, he did get booed globally speaking, people outside the factory i spoke to were very much marine le pen supporters. they do not buy emmanuel macron 's line that he can invest in training if he becomes president, that they can get new skills when the factory closes. her saying if i was

president, i would not allow this factory to close. inanuel macron says that this world, factories do close and the way to deal with that is to retrain workers. i'm 51 yearsid old. what do you want me to retrain in? it is too late for me. now over in the united states, donald trump has struggled to unite congress behind him on health care and immigration. would it be a different story on the threat post by north korea? all the senators have been invited to the white house on a special briefing after the u.s. began to install a controversial missile defense system in south korea. that from today stern warning from china. reporter: this wednesday, at trump's bidding, all 100 senators will go to the white house and attending a security briefing on north korea and its nuclear threat.

defense. anti-missile system in south korea is likely to come up. the installation has begun and washington says it will be operational in days. this is happening amidst fears protests. protests. >> it is unconstitutional because they haven't received consent from congress and it is illegal because they are in breach of domestic, environmental and brand related laws. reporter: china has also reissued its opposition to it and the growing u.s. navy presence in the region. urges the united states and south korea to withdraw the equipment. urges the united states favoritesone of the

in the presidential election has suggested that if elected, he would adjust the foreign policy. diplomacy a balanced that enables us to protect the allianceea-u.s. without damaging our relations with china. north korea will be the subject of a un security council meeting this friday. it will be chaired by the u.s. secretary of state, rex tillerson, who is expected to push for tougher sanctions against pyongyang. laura: let's go to washington and our correspondent there. let's start off with north korea and does donald trump have the support of the senate when it comes to ramping up the pressure on pyongyang? reporter: no, not necessarily yet because out of those 100 senators who just arrived at the white house for their briefing, there are plenty who would say we don't exactly know what the tactics are here used by the

white house and what their policy is when it comes to north korea. we know the rhetoric has been ratcheted up by this administration and that there is an increased military presence. the u.s. s -- the uss carl vinson is finally reaching the korean peninsula after it had been announced two weeks ago by president donald trump -- that is the so-called armada arriving close to korea. but what the senators want to find out right now is what exactly this president would do with that military power. there's no talk in the white house of a possible preemptive strike, for example, but there is talk in north korea of a strike against the united states and possibly even that aircraft possibility that will always be there of another ballistic missile test, maybe even a nuclear test. what the senators need to find out and we will probably hear from a few of them is what exactly the policy is and what

the united states is willing to do and how far it is willing to go to keep north korea from being able to launch a nuclear missile. that is what this is about. they will be briefed by several members of the administration and we expect donald trump to take part in that meeting. laura: let's talk about domestic policy. holding a wall was pretty much donald trump's number one campaign pledge. there is talk that is being shelved at least temporarily. what we are talking about is a spending bill that would be signed into law and become a reality of both houses on capitol hill agree with it. this is a spending bill to basically keep the government going. but this is where this proposed wall comes in. u.s. president donald trump wanted to get the funding for that wall into part of that spending bill.

the democrats would never have voted for that and why he could be shelving that proposal for now. his talk has changed wasatically since he candidate for the presidency. he said this was one of the first things he was going to do and the wall is going to be built and as the rhetoric went, mexico would pay for that wall. first of all, mexico refuses to do that and the mexican foreign ministers is building the wall on the united states would be "a volatile act." looking goodot between trump and his supporters because after all, he did promise he was going to build that wall. he says it's going to happen but you can't really see it happening when congress is not willing to do it and there's no money to do it in the first place. laura: thank you very much. another huge antigovernment march is underway in venezuela

with protesters calling for the president to hold elections. at least 26 people have been killed in recent clashes in the opposition leader says the government is guilty of savage repression. the air to hugo chavez is being blamed for severe shortages of food and medicine in a country that boasts the biggest crude oil reserves. the supreme court decision to reduce the power of the national assembly. let's go to a member of the anti-maduro party. i asked her what the protesters are asking for. guest: elections have been suspended by the government, by the maduro dictatorship. this is not a government anymore. when we have the army getting into the streets against the people, we have millions of people who have been in the streets since the beginning of april and the military is just killing these people and

throwing gas bombs against the people. they are just asking for general elections and we are asking as openfor the government to for international aid in order to have food, in order to have medicine. we are also asking for political prisoners who have been in jail and people who have been tortured. basically for a respective human rights. i think it is not that much. laura: nicholas maduro does enjoy a lot of support in venezuela. we have seen a lot of well attended marches in support of the government taking place. guest: those counter marches are not as well supported as the power wants them to seem. the showing images of marches on the television but

people living in the surrounding area where the marches are held, they are showing the marches are empty. it's not as huge in the opposition and it not just who is having the biggest march, the question is let's go to elections. who has the biggest support in the elections. the dictatorship does not want to call for general elections and that is all we are asking. laura: the public opposition does seem to be making the government and president maduro more entrenched in its position. he doesn't seem to be in a mood to negotiate at this stage.

guest: that is very worrying because for continues its crackdown in one of the largest operations in months, turkish police carried out raids across the country this wednesday. the detention is part of a .idespread campaign they are blamed for last summer's cu attempt -- last summer's coup attempt.

amsso far, 1009 secret im have been detained. this is an important step for the turkish government. reporter: the suspects are a legend operatives directing followers and the police force. more than 47,000 people have been detained since the coup, including 10,000 piece officers and 7000 military personnel. the latest rounds of arrests come during eight tightly contested referendum. laura: the turkish army has been targeting what the government called terrorist havens across the border in syria. at least 28 people killed. most of the victims were members of the kurdish group battling islamic state. the raids hit other buildings as well.

france follows turkey, the unite states, and u.k. in confirming that sarin gas was used by syrian regime forces on april 4. according to local health officials, the chemical agents killed 87 people and injured another 500, with a large number of children among the victims. here's the french foreign minister speaking earlier. doubt that sarin gas was used. there's also no doubt the syrian regime is responsible, considering how it was made. in 2013,mind you that syria committed to stop using chemical weapons against its population and even ratified the international convention on the prohibition of chemical weapons. , syria is clearly violating this convention ratified by 192 states, meaning

almost every state in the world. rings of saturn are one of the most recognizable and mysterious phenomenon in space. now, nasa is hoping to get some rare data on the sixth planet from the sun was sending its unmanned cassini probe into the gap between saturn and its rings. .he first of 22 dives then becomes a nailbiting wait. if cassini survives the trip, it should make contact with earth 24 hours later. after that crucial data is retrieved, cassini will make a death plunge into saturn's surface stop that is scheduled to happen on july 15. let's get some business news now. taking us back to washington, donald trump has unveiled his tax plan. any surprises there? reporter: earlier, we saw the press conference with gary cohen and steve mnuchin delivering the

details. were two headlines for businesses. there will be a one time repatriation tax on overseas profits. the white house is calling it the biggest tax cut in corporate tax history, from 35% to 15%. >> under the trump plan, we will have a massive tax cut for businesses and massive tax reform and simple vacation. we will lower the business rate to 15%. we will make it a territorial system. we will have a one time tax on overseas profits which will bring back trillions of dollars that are offshore to be invested here in the united states. taxrter: that repatriation could lead to fears that it

could lead to a drop in revenue in 2 -- of two point $2 trillion in 10 years. it will cut the number of income tax rockets from seven to three. take a listen. going to cut taxes and simplify the tax code by taking the current seven tax brackets we have today and reducing them to only three brackets. bracket, a 25% bracket, and a 35% bracket. we are going to double the standard induction so that a married couple won't pay any taxes on the first $24,000 of income they earn. in essence, we are creating a zero tax rate. and we've seen immediate reaction from investors. the nasdaq hitting an all-time high earlier after it had a high yesterday. expectations for lower corporate taxes have already been priced into the market.

a little bit earlier, european markets closed higher and numerous companies reported better-than-expected earnings. on the economic front, french unemployment rising 1.3% in march, this ahead of the may presidential runoff. at some for a look other news -- netflix is tapping the bond market to the tune of one billion euros. that means the firm is continuing to expand internationally. last year, netflix took in $8.3 billion in revenue. twitter says average monthly users grow to 328 million. they reported their first acclimate quarterly sales since 2015. twitter is seeing stiff competition from other platforms that are larger and faster growing like facebook and instagram. 19%t-quarter profit rose but revenue fell as commercial aircraft deliveries dropped.

the world's biggest plane maker has been undergoing a cost-cutting plan. legal woes for boeing's rival, airbus. prosecutors are investigating the company's ceo. he is suspected of fraud in connection with a $2 billion order. it is alleged the firm misled decisionmakers about the purchase price of a euro fighter jet. allegations airbus has the night. italy has voiced frustration with its flagship airline. the country's industry minister said they would not be nationalized in public funds would not be made available, this after employees voted against a cost-cutting plan. the government will offer a loan to keep an operational while a new owner is sought. their aircraft are still taking off, but not for much longer perhaps. italy's national carrier is making a loss of at least 503rd -- 500,000 euros a day.

history, the airline has been bailed out on numerous occasions since 2003, but apparently not this time. on tuesday, the minister of industry ruled out nationalization, saying they will be offered to the highest bidder. at last ditch attempt to stop it from plummeting toward bankruptcy. >> there are no other solutions. we must boldly follow this path that could lead to the rescue and revival of the airline. reporter: managers presented a 2 billion euro restructuring plan involving cuts for staff is the only alternative, but the proposal was rejected by workers on monday, describing it as unfair on ordinary employees. >> we always said if there had to be layoffs, the first to leave had to be the managers. it was an ugly industrial plan and prevailed among workers.

it involved only sacrifices from workers and included only minor -- reporter: they will receive a bridge loan to keep planes in the sky. the future of the airline is looking profoundly uncertain. and one noise will be absent from alcohol commercials in japan. to stopkers have agreed putting gulping sound effects in their ads after officials worried it would cause distress. also band are actors drinking beverages in close-up shots. so as like this one will soon be a thing of the past. reporter: and that is going to be changing soon. laura: i think the gulping was the least disturbing thing about that ad.

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