but by a very tight margin, ben smith has the latest from paris. i think we can expect much more intensive campaigning from emanuel macaroni, only had won raleigh a few days before voting on sunday. now for the next couple of weeks, he's going to be criss crossing the country, visiting cities and towns all over france. he's heading to the north of the country to day, marine la pan. we can expect something so very similar from her. she was already campaigning intensely intensely. she says that he's going to be her last election campaign we can expect her and her party to really push it. tens of thousands of supporters, a former prime minister cameron con i protested across park hassan against his removal from office. harmon is due to me from the coming out to choose his replacement, dozens of gavin for a funeral for the palestinian teenager who died from his injuries a day off to israeli forces carried out raid. centennial was shot in the occupied west. i'm town of janine. russia's president is set to have his 1st face to face meeting with the europ

ben smith has more marine la pan, has perhaps never been as close to power. the latest polls indicate the leader of france is far right. national party still wants to curb immigration and ban muslim head scarves in public places, but she's focused her campaign on the cost of living crisis. it's the number one issue for french voters ahead of the war and ukraine, the environment, and help believe she is better than met, ron, in every aspect security the future for the youth purchasing power everything. 6 and she loves france, not only europe, how many people he voted micron last time was like a pen now, because he did far from great. and what he proposes now is even worse than 5 years ago. the pens team is worried about voter apathy. a low turn out in regional elections last june. let disappointing results for her party 0. who calls you delivery day. oh, i beg you to go and vote. there is no win unless you go and vote to those who have given up on their citizens gesture because of your anger, your disgust, disillusion or tiredness. i tell them i understand you

let's go straight to our corresponded ben smith. he's an appalling station in paris. suppose have been open for few hours. now bernard, what can you tell us about the selection? well, a dozen candidates standing for president, manuel micron. once a 2nd go the presidency. no candidate present president has managed that since 1965. he's hoping this time round. he can persuade voters to give him a 2nd run at the 2nd roll as 2nd term as president, excuse me. but the 11 others are trying to get in his way. it's becoming has become an unexpectedly tight race with the top 2 or 3 contenders vying for place in the 2nd round. it has always gone again since 1965, it's always gone to a 2nd round in france. and as every indication that the will be a 2nd round vote here, this time around macro themselves only have one campaign rally saying he's been busy managing the war in ukraine. other candidates have been campaigning intensely, one of the major issues. the french vote is, is the cost of living crisis is affecting france as it is every other e

likely emanuel micron and marine le pen will go through to a 2nd round a couple of weeks. hence, ben smith that watching all that for us life in paris, thank you. out to pakistan. where else did prime minister him, ron con, has called on supporters to rally nationwide after he lost in a confidence fight. sh, falling tumultuous, weak, which so calm side step, an early move against him in parliament, it tory gate and be reports on us. it was after midnight in islamabad, where members of parliament voted on the mation of no confidence. months settled after a nearly 14 hour standoff between enron cons ruling party and the opposition. 174 members have regarded their war to in favor of the resolution. consequently, the resolution for ward of no confidence against mister m. ron hon. the prime minister of his law, margaret alberto augustine, has been paused by a majority of the total membership of the national assemblies. ah. gone is the 1st prime minister in pakistan to be ousted by a new confidence that opposition leader she by sharif, who's likely to succeed him? said pakistan had been freed fr

ben smith reports now mc capital paris. emanuel micron only did warm campaign rally, but the man who bronze himself a centrist did enough to have a chance of being the 1st incumbent french president in 20 years to win a 2nd term. again, though, you'll have to beat the far right at 2 o'clock berkeley a he says so tony, the left assumed to our fellow citizens that abstained or voted for the extreme of either because they are angry against inequalities or to the ecological chaos or insecurity holders for the difficulty of living in dignity, even working hard to say, i will convince you in the days to kind you his opponent in the 2nd round of voting will again be maureen le, pen, leader of the national rally. it's manifesto includes a promise to make it illegal for muslim women to wear had scarves, in public places. they were covered. the pony official, your vote depends all over the french territory on the legitimate preponderance of the french culture and language. the customs of our regions and the french way of life on republican laws and values. if you can, le pen might pick up vote

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ben, it's smith has a lady from paris, a dozen candidates, astounding for president money while micron once 2nd go the presidency. no candidate present president has managed that since 1965. he's hoping this time round. he can persuade voters to give him a 2nd. run the 2nd roll of 2nd term as president, excuse me, but the 11 of us trying to get in his way it's becoming has become an unexpectedly tight race with the top 2 or 3 contenders vying for a place in the 2nd round. it has always gone again since $965.00, it's always gone to a 2nd round in france. pakistan's prime minister cameron con, is called on supporters to rally nationwide after he was ousted from power in a no confidence vote. some a bunch of aid is in islamabad. it was a thriller of the last few hours where there capital islamabad was a buzz with all sorts of news, all sorts of rumors, all sorts of possible scenarios as him run con, said that he's going to fight tooth and nail and will not resign. but in the end, his parliament, the speaker did resign, did not go for the vote. and a new speaker conducted this look and an

ben, it's smith has the latest developments out of paris. emanuel micron gumby the short but intense election campaign would be enough. it was his comfortable margin of victory over marine le pen gives him a 2nd term of the lease a palace. only 2 presidents before him have managed that. in his victory speech, makram promised that his next 5 year term would be different, said there are new retina. so up this new era will not be a continuity of the 5 previous years. but the collected invention of a revised method for 5 better years. ra country, and are you faced supporters? this is a when that endorse is what they believe is their country's role at the heart of the european union in what you sent them. i am very happy up to the laugh minutes i thought i would have fainted. you never know in life anything can happen. rosita was ready because up to day extensions were significant that emanuel macaroni did a good job in the 1st years of his mandate. and he deserves to lead france again. marine le pen gave the far right the highest share of the vote in a french election. but her part to th

smith, al jazeera paris for a political analysts. sean p, a parent says politics and france has become sharply polarized, will have a big moment. it will be the debate between mrs. le ben and the present macro. so everybody is waiting for the debate because you, as you know, until now, mr. macro, as refuse any kind of debate with any candidates. so it will be its 1st debate for the selection. and so everybody is waiting for that. we will see at the moment how mr. look, ben will succeed to to by mr. mac rob. we know that before the election from from the 201973, she was not very, very good in this debate. so she has to make

ben. but his close ties to russia could tip the balance. and what experts predict to be a tight race and as will smith boosted or bombed his career, talk back to resigns from the film academy after slapping chris rock at the oscars questions over the future of his career. take center stage in ha ah, nick spicer, welcome to the program for weeks now. the port city of mary, opal has been under siege by russian forces estimate, say more than 850000. people are trapped without water, electricity, or any food supplies. and they're exposed to constant shelling. several attempts to evacuate civilians have failed. on friday, a red cross convoy was reportedly blocked from entering variable, still ukrainian president low to mid zalinski says about 3000 people managed to escape without the sick surety they were promised. ah, arriving to relative safety. after weeks of shelling over 3000 were able to escape murray or pull on friday. but it's a journey full of risks. one woman recounts her fears as she crossed the russian check point. this is that it is the big but it was very difficult. she said, you can't. i was afraid they would take my son away here

smith have to say in response? quote, i accept and respect the academy's decision that's it. matt baloney is with us -- ben you again. what sort of punishment is this? >> it's not very much. because honestly, will smith doesn't typically go to the oscars anyway. so banning him from attending for ten years doesn't take that much away from him the bigger punishment would have been to say, you cannot be nominated or win for ten years the academy did not go that far. >> they didn't go that far some said they should take ai was his oscar. why do you think they restrained himself? >> taking away someone's physical oscar is a big step, because people like harvey weinstein, roman polanski, they have oscars and their oscars were not rescinded doing this would have gone over that threshold i'm not surprised they didn't do that i would have thought that they would have stepped in and said, you're not going to be able to be honored by this organization for ten years. >> does that mean this will continue to haunt them, or have they put the matter to rest? >> well, judging by the industry reaction that i've read today,

i guess robert smith had all helped do these libraries and i said you got to do ben franklin and here's why our country is becoming more fractured. you know, who was the person who tried to find the common ground and it was at that dinner at you know, restaurant and georgetown that michelle and i convinced him to do it, but it was an easy sell because i think can had a feel for ben franklin and he was the founder two things about him that made him good for this a type of thing. first of all, he was the only middle class founder as you said most of them were land owning aristocracies like the jeffersons madison's or the merchant aristocrates like the atoms and john hancock families, whatever we did not really have a middle class nor in england. are a middle class and ben franklin's greatest invention is inventing the concept of the middle class shopkeeper and you know being the backbone of american values in this whole idea of civic america, right? i mean really came out of that. i mean the tocqueville i mean all of what came after yeah, that was tocqueville. i mean, it's very pretentiou

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smith, al jazeera paris for a political analysts. sean p, a parent says politics and france has become sharply polarized, will have a big moment. it will be the debate between mrs. le ben and the present macro. so everybody is waiting for the debate because you, as you know, until now, mr. macro, as refuse any kind of debate with any candidates. so it will be its 1st debate for the selection. and so everybody is waiting for that. we will see at the moment how mr. look, ben will succeed to to by mr. mac rob. we know that before the election from from the 201973, she was not very, very good in this debate. so she has to make a lot of progress to be at the same level that the president. and we will see if she would succeed on that. that's a great moment. we will that everybody's expecting it's totally put arise. we have now 3 blocks we are left is blocked with mr. mit also got a very good score. much more than the little mold and the board predicted that we have the, the blood with mr. macro and we, as the far right blow. so we have 3 blogs. the traditional parties like the socialist party, although ride bodies of nearly it is up the other. so we don't know what will be t

ben wallace, in romania today, offering two more raf typhoon jets. whoever wins the war in ukraine, nato's presence in eastern europe has been utterly transformed by this war. paul adams, bbc news. the actor will smithnts or programmes for 10 years after he hit the comedian chris rock at the oscars. it happened after mr rock made a joke about will smith's wife, jada pinkett smith. less than an hour after the incident, mr smith was given the best actor award. he has since apologised for his actions and has already resigned from the academy. we can now speak to clayton davis who's senior awards editor at variety. he joins us from los angeles. thank you for being with us. as we said, will smith has resigned from the academy, this ban imposed by the board lasts ten years, what does it mean in practice? in ten years, what does it mean in ractice? , . practice? in practice it doesn't _ practice? in practice it doesn't mean - practice? in practice it doesn't mean much. l practice? in practice it| doesn't mean much. in practice? in practice it - doesn't mean much. in terms practice? in practice it _ doesn't mean much. in terms of, he can't attend the academy award ceremony, can't go to any sponsored events,

coletta smith, bbc news, in bradford. 0ur correspondent ben boulos has been to visit one family affectedo manage the rise in their household bills switching off lights, turning down the heating and filling the kettle up less. just a few of the things the horton family and others around the country are doing to cut down on their energy use. do you know how much your energy bills are going to go up by this year? so i think we've been told between £35 and £40, which... and that's a month. and over a year, i'm sure it'll be a lot more. so what kind of things are you having to do then to reduce energy use to bring those bills down? well, we only heard today about the cost of a tumble dryer load is going to be about £6, which is a huge amount. so we've got to really consider how often we'll wash things and how we'll dry them. and then we've also got the worry of using dishwashers because we use them quite often so if we can rely more on good old washing the dishes, we're going to be better off that way, but it's going to be hard. really hard. so you've got a smart meter here. yeah. and presuma

smith with a 10 year ban. his response plus we head back out to fort benning for the best ranger competition where pete and answerck with your headlines, no conviction for any of the defendants accused of plotting to kidnap michigan governor gretchen whitmer back in 2020. the federal jury finding two of the men not guilty after a weeks long trial and a jury was unable to reach a verdict for the other two suspects so they can be put on trial again. big story. kentucky senator rand paul says there's a double standard between democrats and republicans when it comes to standards surrounding the spread of covid-19 and getting access tomono colonial antibodies. the left wing media loves going after republicans when it's nancy pelosi that's not really close contact. rachel: this in response to house speaker nancy pelosi hugging and coming face to face with president biden on tuesday before testing positive for covid on thursday. those are your headlines. back to you, pete. pete: my take away on that is man rand paul can really grow a mountain man beard. anyway. the motion picture academy has banned will smith for entire