girlfriend is where marine le pen has her support base. -- rural france is where marine le pen has her support base. sarah: turning now to business news, siemens has expanded to rail. daniel has more. daniel: siemens has confirmed that they are joining this french company. the government is privately encouraging the deal that is a change of tact. the focus is no longer on protecting french business by creating a european powerhouse. competition from abroad is fierce. >> siemens and -- they are trying to create a new train building business. they come from a single manufacturer. siemens wants to bring its entire train division and return -- in return for a 50% cut of the firm they are not doing it entirely of their own free well free will it is in a state of advanced consolidation. the chinese group crrc -- thnext step is probably continental europe where crrc could rely on a purchase of a manufacturer. even after the new firm was founded, the pressure on the europeans will increase, siemens has considered a canadian company but it was ruined by the shaky finances. the big european deal

it's amazing what macron has done, jumping against all the positions of marine le pen. not jean—claude juncker, i'm a marine le pen. by the way, i'm not jean—claudejuncker, i'm a modest private citizens right now. i do not wa nt private citizens right now. i do not want more institutional and deeper integration in all aspects of eu life. but in certain aspects. i give you one example. i was competition commission in the early 2000s, a major reform we put in place in 2004 was the decentralisation of eu competition policy. it's now done no longer out of a high cathedral in brussels, the european commission, but through a network which comprises all the national competition authorities and it works marvellously well. in other areas, though, like the policy on refugees, the policy on migration, the fight against climate change, and some aspects of tax harmonisation, you speak of tax harmonisation. not me, jean—claude juncker does. let me quote to you, because it's a rather neat quote, der spiegel, a respected german news organisation, they editorialised saying, have we not l

well it's not been a good year for marine le pen five months ago she had a good chance of winning the presidential election but she lost and now the cracks are really starting to show in a national front party now there's always been a lot of infighting in the party but that's all become a lot more public since the resignation of le pen's right hand man. was something of a golden boy for the national front he was tasked with dragging the party into the mainstream making it seem more acceptable he tried to clean clean up its extreme image he tried to shift the focus away from issues like immigration and more on things like sovereignty and protectionism but when the pen lost the election many in the party turned around and said it was his fault that he simply had the wrong strategy and that he had. the base supporters what will happen to the national front now remains to be seen by many though all wondering whether or not it will actually slide back to its more halid right origins. of the top stories here on al-jazeera north korea's foreign minister says his country is considering a hyd

repeating itself not everyone is anxious francis far right of the alternative for germany party marine le pen among them. their presence is beneficial and will continue to work on building the europe that we want to have that is a europe of nations a europe of liberties and that's not a europe blocked by the demands of the european union. and the. french president. is at the center of the european project he said he'd phone to congratulate merkel and look forward to further cooperation in israel the e.f.t. sudden arrival in the brandished act forced the government to speak out i can say that i hold that the german people won't go fully the history of germany. and the holocaust although i will say reason that led to this tragedy in the story in all schools corridors of power leading politicians told that german voters were punishing the chancellor for tough stance on russia. i want to point out one of the results of the german election shows that german society is interested in restoring normal relations with russia. i hope that the signal will be heard by the federal government including by t

charlie: what about marine le pen in france, loss?s talk about that for a when you look around the second. world, the ways of going his populism and nationalism. ok? the question before us in the united states and in europe, is there going to be a left wings socialist populism or a center-right populism. marine le pen is a right winger, culturally. but economically, she is for state control. she is virtually as socialist. she has a very garbled message. it is tough to galvanize people -- it is different than the center-right coalition. what we have here in the states, in the united states, you see it over there -- jeremy corbyn versus the tories, so that type of populism, anti-elite populism that you see in bernie sanders, you see the bernie sanders voters -- by the way, in key districts, 15% and 16% of bernie sanders voters voted for trump because they are economic nationalist -- charlie: they were voting for change. steve: let me talk about the three basic components. number one, he is going to stop mass, illegal immigration and cut

has vowed to rebuild the party after its deputy quit a loss of florian phillipos a big blow to marine le pen whose party has suffered from bitter infighting for the pope quit over policy differences after being demoted by le pen on wednesday night it was responsible for drafting the manifesto for this year's presidential election was behind the proposal for france to leave the eurozone. has more on this from paris well it's not been a good year for marine le pen five months ago she had a good chance of winning the presidential election but she lost a melba cracks are really starting to show international friends party now there's always been a lot of infighting in the party but that's all become a lot more public since the resignation of le pen's right hand man laura filippo the flipper was something of a golden boy for the national front he was tasked to dragging the party into the mainstream making it seem more acceptable he tried to clean up its extreme image he tried to shift the focus away from issues like immigration and more on to things like so fancy and protectionism but one of the

in france, the far right leader marine le pen has said she will rebuild the national front after her own faction, the patriots after she was defeated. the canadian opposition mp has apologised after referring to the environment minister as climate barbie. the made the comment on twitter, during an exchange on a report over global warming. the deleted the tweet then apologised for using the world barbie, and said it was not reflective of the role that the minister played. it is 2017. that was canada. this is the story about a search for the dragon. we speak to sir david attenborough about the wonders of the natural world. ryanair is planning to make pilots change holidays, already after the cancellation of 2000 flights. the cheese cheese underfire for under fire for thousands of cancelled flights, the boss of ryanair was not feeling very patient today. he is making pilots delay some leave to avoid cutting yet more flights. extra money in it for them. but also evidence that some could co nve rse but also evidence that some could converse down. rya nair but also evidence that some could

well it's not been a good year for marine le pen five months ago she had a good chance of winning thepresidential election but she lost and now the cracks are really starting to show in her national front party now there's always been a lot of infighting in the party but that's all become a lot more public since the resignation of le pen's right hand man. the flipper was something of a golden boy for the national front he was tossed to dragging the party into the mainstream making it seem more acceptable he tried to clean clean up its extreme image he tried to shift the focus away from issues like immigration and more on things like sovereignty and protectionism but one of the pen lost the election many in the party turned around and said it was his fault that he simply had the wrong strategy and that he had alienated the base supporters what will happen to the national front now remains to be seen by many though all wondering whether or not it will actually slide back to its more hollow droit origins from seventy five dollars a day to seventy five dollars a year that's the price diff

person who said he did not vote for macron in the presidential election but only wanted to prevent marine le pen from the far right from winning. he says he does not necessarily agree with his economic reforms. the protesters say the french government is chipping away at their cherished labor rights. they say with this reform, it will be easier for employers to get rid of staff more easily, to fire them, and higher them more easily. they also say emmanuel macron is taking away their right, they are fighting against social regression. says thesegovernment reforms will actually help boost the business activity and will allow france to become more competitive and fight against the unemployment rate, which is at 9.5% at the moment, almost double that in germany or britain, for example. that unemployment rate is really the crux of the problem. have you been asking any of these people who have turned up today if they have a better way to try to fix it? to be honest, they don't really have a concrete answer to bring forward, but they say they are convinced emmanuel macron's way forward is not the right

countries the vote was also called a symbol of european awakening by french national front leader marine le pen. well the dismay of some with alternative for germany in the capital was also evident across the country i. i. one of the biggest rally sold people gather on side b. e f. g.'s headquarters with protesters shouting and t. nationalist slogans as its leaders celebrated the election results following the demonstrations for us. i. was yeah with. a little god. in these moments he told me very much. be. patient with me emails well yeah i'm not happy with immigration policy but he. was decision for less and i'm going to be in right to see. things on the t.v. they haven't got about being provocative and one should not. well. i. i. i i. was was. this whole lease that's just going to send a signal with the men saying these protesters that i found out tonight i was raving i can show you some of the fact that they still here are some pretty weird ones actually they have been calling the people upset not only. one thing that brings to mind when you see these very angry people is that it might be qu

far right are full of congratulations for the strong showing of the a d here in france you have marine le pen who said that not only is this congratulations for what you call to a fifty allies she called it a historic when saying that it is a new symbol of the awakening of the european people world is the far right dutch leader said that we will fight for our countries and our people and in similar sentiments coming out of italy's populist northern league salvini the leader tweeted the desire for change is growing it's up to us as expected parallel to these comments you have european leaders coming out in support for aguilar merkel you have the french president who phoned to congratulate her he said that the two will continue with determination the vital cooperation for europe and for the country's north of spain's prime minister saying that locals relations would still need to quote the promotion of the good key and integration project if it came time to have concern again for the strong showing of the if t.v. first easy you diplomat to comment. after the results came out from brussels the c

if you discuss issues in france you have marine le pen weighing in and it will be the same with the f.t. in germany unfortunately. it was the same story in the netherlands when far right populous to strong support in that country's recent parliamentary elections dutch lawmakers say german voters sent a similar signal the signal that i saw from the german elections is really that no one is immune to change and there is more fragmentation in germany while the center is still strong. i think we have to be mindful of what the far right is going to do the german green party's foreign affairs spokesman says this is a wake up call on the future of the e.u. . with this three pronged alliance between brussels paris and berlin we have a window of opportunity to take the initiative to bring the e.u. closer together but berlin has to be willing to play along. which being avoided with the far right is growing support in europe it may compel the e.u. to pay closer attention to the concerns of all europeans. there from germany well it's got the view from brussels our bureau chief max hoffman joins us

about thirty percent of the adult troops in the end he got thirteen percent of the dots wrote and marine le pen's campaign i think was also surprisingly weak and started to fizzle out and that's i think because french people are dutch people simply didn't want to have a repeat of what's going on in the united states and yet recent opinion polls show that almost half of german voters are still undecided what do you think sustains these political in decisiveness and do you think the undecided voters in joe many i capable of the same surprise that the american and british undecided voters delivered last year i think i would that really would be very very surprising i mean we always knew that the both the british election and the british wrote on their own bracks it and the american election would be very very close. ok but really norm of the opinion polls is suggesting that in the german case this surprise lies in. the extent to which the smaller parties were differentiate themselves so they're not very far apart in the opinion polls and opinion polls in germany traditionally have been really quite

country's their vote was also called a symbol of european awakening by the french national frankly to marine le pen. as we've been talking about forming a coalition with the remaining parties is going to be a tough job i'm going to love merkel is not the only challenge ahead for the now for her a chance for the ship with more on where it's going to go what she's got ahead of. too many angela merkel is the embodiment of stability in the face of crisis diplomacy with a firm hand and sound decision making well for that skill this term has been marred by a series of setbacks. firstly she decided to open the doors to asylum seekers at the height of the refugee crisis almost a million flooded into germany in twenty fifteen alone while some more welcoming others started to worry the country just wouldn't be able to cope. a year off to mark a lot open door policy germany saw a rise in modern crimes one of the most shocking hundreds of women alleging they were sexually assaulted in cologne new year's celebrations by men of north africa and of appearance. events in cologne took their toll on locals popularit

country the vote was also called a symbol of european awakening by french national frankly than marine le pen however some n. palin are horrified that a nasty his party has entered parliament. that the f.t. enters the bundestag with approximately thirteen percent is a catastrophe for us i hope we won't have a big coalition but rather that the c.s.u. the s.d.p. and the greens will come together reasonably and that the s.p.d. will come up with good arguments to the f.d.a. as opposition so that we weren't let them become stronger here in germany clog avoidant it was clearly the would get into the going to start but it's the realisation that such a radical force is in parliament. it's terrifying to know that these people who sit alongside other politicians and we were completely horrified at the end up being such a had percentage i think it's actually shameful the germany has gone down this path . the dismay of some with alternative germany in the capital was also evident across the country. i i i i i. i. one of the biggest down to fascist rallies gathered outside the a.f. these headquarters with

repeating itself not everyone is anxious french is far right of the alternative for germany party marine le penamong them. his own presence is beneficial and will continue to have come during the year that we want to have that he's a europe has nations a europe of liberties and that's not a europe blocked by the demands of the european union. and the. french president manuel mccrone is at the center of the european project he said he'd phone to congratulate merkel and look forward to for the cooperation. and israel the e.f.t. sudden arrival in the bin distract forced the government to speak out at the end said that they hope that the german people won't go fully the history of germany. and remember the holocaust and all the i will say reason that led to this tragedy in the story in all schools corridors of power leading politicians told d.w. news that german voters were punishing the chancellor for tough stance on russia the. reason i want to point out in the results of the german election shows that german society has entrusted in restoring normal relations with russia i hope that the signal w

most of continental europe they've long had far right parties and in neighboring france you have marine le pen she had thirty five she got thirty four percent of the vote you mentioned ukip or earlier when britain has a very contentious political culture so i think you know germany was an outlier by obviously because of its history there was a taboo on the extreme right there still is obviously but you know seventy five years after world war two that taboo is is disintegrating and germany is becoming more of a normal european country in that regard as far as my book goes the end of europe i talk about the end of europe as we've come to really know it's over the past twenty five thirty years as a place of of peace of economic prosperity of political moderation and i think in all ways we're seeing this break down and i really think that the results of sunday's election attests to this and that you know germany has now really really joins the club of countries that are dealing with this with this populous problem on the other hand we did see merkel re-elected despite her refugee policy and recent

at some reactions to the election results and the surge of the far right populist here is that marine le pen who lost her election bid in france remember her cheers to our allies from the a.f.d. for this is stuart result is a new sign of the awakening of the european people she says others express their gratitude to the current and presumably future chancellor. antonio antonio well i'm sorry. looks like i've lost my script they are waiting for my teleprompter folks. i'm. going to where are we going others express their gratitude to the current ok i'm just waiting to find out we're going. ok we apologize for that we're running out of time. but that's going to wrap up this edition of the day gentlemen thank you very much to let me ask eric long a mockery pre-shared it will see them are everybody. election victory number four. until america remains germany's chancellor. for a little career began in one thousand nine hundred ninety when the berlin wall fell and unforeseen rise to power far. from physicists to the most powerful woman in the world until america a fortress. thirty minutes. she's lo

at the beginning of the year, i was a petrified by marine le pen becoming president of france. a lot of people were putting on ofes of a candidate in terms turning things around. you have just come from serving in the french government. how does it look from france? what are people's expectations in emmanuel macron? when you look at the relationship between him and chancellor merkel, after the german election, assuming she is reelected, how realistic is a bargain between the two that helps them achieve his objectives? >> i am delighted to be here for this the first event. you mentioned the campaign, and it was a very exciting campaign. quite different from the german campaign. >> a happy ending. forappy ending, depending him, because the two main parties were utterly destroyed, especially the socialist party from which emmanuel macron was coming from. what happened is that macron rent -- ran a campaign on a pro-european-based, and many people pointed out that he was waving european flags during meetings. hefamously remember that walked on the european anthem on the night of his

sunday's election and then we saw a lot of other leaders throughout the national leaders like marine le pen of the national front in france congratulate the f.t. and say listen you know we've kind of performed the same way during our elections and there are other plenty of other countries in the e.u. where we're seeing similar movements so you know we're not going anywhere it is important to point out though that merkel as an individual leader has pretty high approval ratings you know her party that's not exactly not exactly her and also another thing that that happened that was interesting was one of the original leaders. he announced on monday that she's going to take a role as a member of parliament but she's going to be independent and she's not going to be associated ended and it was over the surprise no one really knows why but you know overall they're they're still happy with the results that are taking it as a loss before we go drawing voters the refugee crisis the economy bailing out other countries i'm assuming yeah so when they started i mean mind you there are only four years ol

the vote was also called a symbol of the european awakening by the french national front leader marine le pen of course looking on very closely as well over the in france of what was going to happen because there are a lot of hours and then the french election of course nicky and i covered however sanibel and are horrified that a master of policy has entered parliament. do you mean that the f.t. answers the bundestag with approximately thirteen percent is a catastrophe for us i hope we won't have a big coalition but rather that the c.s.u. the s.d.p. and the greens will come together reasonably and that the s.p.d. will come up with good arguments to the f.t. as opposition so that we were and let them become stronger here in germany clog avoidant it was clear that he would get into going to start but it's the realisation that such a radical force is in parliament and it's terrifying to know that these people who sits alongside other politicians and we were completely horrified at the end up to such a high percentage think it's actually shameful germany has gone down this path. polly boy has got

with the likes of marine le pen in france, the front national.for deutschland, one of the leaders left and decided she wa nted the leaders left and decided she wanted to go another way. perhaps harder to the right of the party. the latter bit of a crossroads right 110w. the latter bit of a crossroads right now. people in berlin were happy... now. people in berlin were this party started off with nothing to do with islam and asylum. it was about the economy. it was post—grease that this party formed to say, we want to have a better europe, one germany is costly bailing out. —— constantly. it seems that angela merkel has slipped in the migration crisis but she has improved there. we will see what happens with this party. the front national saw 11 million voters. 5% year would see the afd with a million voters. and we'll be bringing you a special programme live from berlin as the polls close — including reaction to the first exit polls here on the bbc news channel. make sure you tune in. that's from 5pm to 6.55pm this evening. that is in under an ho

has vowed to rebuild the party after its deputy quit a loss of florian filipo is a big blow to marine le pen whose party has suffered from infighting he quit over policy differences after being demoted by le pen on wednesday night and fashion has more from paris. well it's not been a good year for marie le pen five months ago she had a good child so winning the presidential election but she lost and now the cracks to really starting to show in a national front party now there's always been a lot of infighting in the party but that's all become a lot more public since the resignation of le pen's right hand man. the flipper was something of a golden boy for the national front he was tossed to dragging the party into the mainstream making it seem more acceptable he tried to clean up its extreme image he tried to shift the focus away from issues like immigration and more on to things like soften c. and protectionism but one of the pen lost the election many in the party turned around and said it was his fault that he simply had the wrong strategy and that he had alienated the base supporters wha

vowed to rebuild the party after its deputy quit the loss of florian filippo is a big blow to marine le pen whose party has suffered from infighting philippo quit over policy differences after being demoted by le pen on wednesday night it was responsible for drafting the manifesto for this year's presidential election was behind the proposal for france to leave the eurozone. now china has relaunched the world's fastest train which runs at three hundred fifty kilometers per hour that means a journey of over twelve hundred kilometers from beijing to shanghai can be done in just under four and a half hours in the world there are twenty two countries that operate similar high speed trains japan launched the original bullet train in one thousand nine hundred sixty four it's showing council network operates at maximum speeds of two hundred forty to three hundred twenty kilometers per hour and links major cities in the islands of honshu and q shu british rail which launched its own high speed train service in one thousand nine hundred seventy six is able to reach two hundred one kilometers per hou

macron defeated marine le pen and the right populists, but germans need a strong counterpart to solidifyhe eu. if merkel returns and macron can get labor reforms which is currently at issue,, passed by the french parliament, that will help him politically and economically. because france has military power, they are very helpful to us in syria, they are involved against the islamic state, the president admires that. he tends to judge countries on whether or not they are with you militarily rather than politically. macron and trump are off to a good start, and we should want to see that develop. charlie: does populism still have momentum? >> yes. it varies. charlie: trump added to the idea that populism is on the march. >> even now in the numbers, he still has a bedrock of support of people who are frustrated. we can see that in britain with what happened with boris johnson. he is out trying to rally the conservative, main anti-eu conservatives. the brexit thing has to go through quickly, don't mess around, theresa may isn't doing enough. he denies he is saying that, but that is the messa

charlie: what about marine le pen in france, loss? you look around the world, the ways of going his populism and nationalism. the question before us in the united states in europe is will it be a left-wing socialist populism or a center-right populism. winger,e pen is a right but economically, she is virtually as socialist. peopleough to galvanize -- it is different than the center-right coalition. what we have in the united states, jeremy corbyn versus the that type of populism, anti-elite populism he see in bernie sanders -- by the way, in key districts, 15%, 60% of bernie sanders voters voted for trump because they are economic nationalist -- charlie: they were voting for change. steve: let me talk about the three basic components. going to stop is mass, illegal immigration and cut back dramatically legal immigration. number two bank, bring manufacturing jobs to the u.s. number three, get us out of these pointless foreign wars. those are the three basic touchstones of the trump movement. building the wall and all sorts of stuff, bu

it has been less than five months since the centrist political figure emmanuel macron defeated marine le pen of the -- to become france's youngest president ever. while macron won in a landslide, opinion polls show most french voters now oppose how he has governed. on saturday, leftist opposition leader jean-luc melenchon led up to 150,000 people in a protest against macron and his attempt to rewrite france's labor law. >> we have now been told that democracy doesn't happen in the street. mr. president, you will need to look at french history to learn that it was the street that brought down a king, it was the street that brought down the nazis. amy: meanwhile, human rights groups are criticizing macro for pushina new antierror law that would make permanent key parts of france's state of emergency which went into effect two years ago. crits of the legislation include the u.n.'s human rights office, which has warned the bill could affect people's "right to liberty and security, the right to access to court, freedom of movement, freedom of peaceful assembly and association, freedom of expressi

control france, which she was unsuccessful because france was won by a democratic president, when marine le pent that election. he has turned his focus now on north korea, and now our own president is aligning himself with vladimir putin. so we are actually flooding ourselves. host: that is david in georgia, -- georgia. the president sending out a tweet after his speech, saying that there are "big meetings" occurring today at the u.n.. taking a look post speech, you can see more of that speech in our video library. florida, republican line. five. caller: hi. host: go ahead, you are on. think is did not relevant to pose the opinions of a reporter or two from the new york times, and the washington post as we are trying to make our decisions. we are being oppressed by reading somebody else's answers to our all thought processes of trying to decide how we feel as voters. host: what was relevant about the speech yesterday? caller: a lot was relevant. it was bringing a reality to what is going on in the world and the war. it has not been reflected as a serious thing, and is posing a threat to all nat

populist momentum in europe has largely dissipated in 2017 with emmanuel macron's victory over marine le penin the spring we finish with the stock of the day, moving lower on news it is cancelling hundreds of flights across europe due in part to a shortage of pilots as a result, ryanair could face 20 million euros in compensation claims that stock down just about 2%. michelle, back to you. >> all right, thanks, seema. >>> when we come back, new york city makes its case to host amazon's planned headquarters number two we'll speak with the city's deputy mayor next. >>> plus, as we head to break, another day of record highs for y vedow and the s&p. anmo higher today is yet another record risk of burst pipes and water damage... soon, insurance companies won't pay for damages. that is, not if they can help prevent damages from happening in the first place. at cognizant, we're turning the industry known for processing claims into one focused on prevention with predictive analytics, helping them proactively protect the things that matter most. get ready, because we're helping leading companies see

really flip-flopped across europe six-eight months ago when people were expecting marine le pen to destroyric of the european project. now people are looking at macron reformer. zealous the reality is neither of those are likely to happen. in any economy, it is incredibly difficult so we see macron pushing through his labor market reforms. that is likely to be a positive. we would be skeptical and take the other side of. this. looking through investorou are a u.s. and if can see this on the screen here, and other terms you are up 22%. if you are a domestic investor, you are up 7%. the positioning of the dollar is extreme. , our that bounces u.s. guys going to take their ball and go home? guest: we have had an amazing run in equities, but the idea people will move from aggressively long to aggressively short is relatively limited. they have aple say move in euro, what does that mean for underlying earnings? you have seen the ecb talk about the euro going higher for positive reasons. growth is above expectations. the euro has moved higher as the all caps list movement. guy: i get the beginni