in paul, cezanne was simply struck by the beauty of lake annecy and its surroundings.he actually did not intend to stay here for a long time, but he was so impressed that he spent several days in the abbey no less. the american was also fascinated by this area. mark twain visiting this place. he said that there is some special magic here, because of which here. i want to return again and again magic, annecy has survived and today van gogh himself saw from sunflowers all his life he suffered from poverty robert krombe was born in the northeastern united states, 7,000 km from provence. however, every summer the talented mr. krombe gets on a plane and, conquering space and time, is transferred from his native hudson town to the town. san remida. provence will do nothing for the love of art. i have been painting for more than 10 years, one of my acquaintances critic, seeing in my work , said that i write in the genre of impressionism. before that, believe me, i did not even know what impressionism was. however, after i began to read a lot about this direction of painting a

let's show you some live pictures now where people are voting in both the alpine town of annecy and inolling stations will close in three hours time — when preliminary results will be released and give the first indication whether emmanuel macron or marine le pen is on course to be the next french president. and we will have a special programme bringing you the result, starting at 17:30 gmt. join us for that — as france decides. as we go into the final hours of this campaign it still looks like it is emmanuel macron�*s race to lose but there are still a large number of undecided voters. david eades can explain more. there are millions of undecided. there are millions of undecided. there is a majority of french voters who won't be happy with whoever winds this election, such is the nature of the divisions in france at the moment. let's have a look at how the moment. let's have a look at how the last two weeks have panned out. i'm joined byjorginho white —— georgina. building up to the first round you said it was a dull election campaign, if indeed there was an election campaign, well, e

ukrainian military pushing for new routes to get some of these weapons out of the most contested areas in annecy russian military assuring his own of refugee the said it is doing today and take a look at this footage over these are russian troops in the city of mariupol the russian forces have largely surrounded in this one area they say that they found 80 people including 14 children differing to safety after finding of them crying in basements. >> it there seven people still here in the other wing of the hospital these are they have to now be on stretchers. reporter: the regrouping in the east and the one that the russia is gearing up to 60000 reservist in the city offensive. alex: the u.s. sending up patriot missile defense system, because slovakia is billing donating 300 air defense system to ukraine to support the country's military capabilities crime minister said that this however does not mean special garcia missing part of the conflict another world leaders are turning in as well, british prime minister chris johnson is here in ukraine, and meeting present volodymyr zelensky to discuss