francois hollande will be the man who is forgotten. a result of what has been regarded as a failed presidency. the sermon today which is lavishly beautiful to watch,, the ha rd is lavishly beautiful to watch,, the hard work begins straight afterwards. he has to form a government very quickly, appointed prinosil, which might be as soon as tomorrow, we are hearing, he has go tomorrow, we are hearing, he has go to be meeting angela merkel very seen to be meeting angela merkel very seen to talk about europe. we have this error may now, —— ceremony. a meeting behind closed doors, security operations will be discussed, things that we do not know about, that the president needs to handle to the other, the codes for the nuclear. and then will be the speech, the ceremony of anointing him as grand master of the order of the legion of honour, that goes with all presidents, deep recession on champs—elysee and then we will get down to business. the name of the prime minister either today or tomorrow. will this be a character of the political right?

you don't want to be at —— francois hollande.d that is not good. so he is not being welcomed by everyone. the fact that he wants to change labour laws, and we know that french people are very attached to their social protection, very strong social protection. the fa ct very strong social protection. the fact that he wants to change it in order to make france more open to the world and over the companies who would like to settle in france, and all because it is so, take —— complicated to fire someone. he wa nts to complicated to fire someone. he wants to change that. although some people might see the positive angle, the difficulty they have to go through doesn't seem worth it. because there is a prominent anti—globalisation movement during this election. the far right and the far left were basically talking —— treading the same path in terms of anti—globalisation. macron wants to open france to the world, have many companies leaving london because of brexit, moving to paris instead. he wa nts to brexit, moving to paris instead. h

emmanuel macron was francois hollande's foreign minister. today, he is his successor. genie: just a quick word on the political front. the big thing now are the parliamentary elections coming up just one month from now. francois hollande, a socialist. the outgoing president with a party that is imploding. tell us about what is going wrong with the socialists. james: for the socialists, it is a very difficult time, collecting only 6.3% of the presidential vote. macron's on marsh -- en marche! movement, is moving the lines now for the socialist party is very difficult. the big question now is, who is emmanuel macron going to choose for his prime minister? that ceremony also came after president hollande held his final cabinet meeting before handing over the reins to emmanuel macron. the transfer of power is set to happen this sunday. francois hollande's popularity ratings are among the lowest of any president in recent history, but his prime minister was quick to defend the socialist administration's record. >> as for the results we have obtained, increased productivity

charles de gaulle, francois hollande... he charles de gaulle, francois hollande. ..arles de gaulle, francois hollande... he knows the challenges that he now faces because he wants to modernise france, as he said, for decades now, france has doubted itself. he said hisjob decades now, france has doubted itself. he said his job was to give the french people confidence in themselves. he said the power of france is not declining. we are on the edge of a great renaissance, he said. a lot of fine words, of course. as you tend to get at inauguration speeches but there is a lot of hard work to do and he knows starting off with the national assembly parliamentary elections, he needs to get a majority there. to help him effectively rule france. a tall order with his new movement, en marche, he only created a year or so ago, scrambling to get candidates for the national assembly elections. that is one of his jobs, he needs to form a government. we are hearing that he will appoint a prime minister probably tomorrow, and a new government on tuesday. he is off to see chancellor te

these allegations against francois fillon, he would have been a favourite for centre—right and his expensesnd salaries are now under the microscope and that effectively led to the fact that he fell out of the race and did not make it through to the second round. i think it is fair to say when the scandal broke, the state job scandal, he would've been a shoo—in, for fillon. he had a formidable vehicle behind him help, he took over as sarkozy as head of the party and he was hugely popular. everybody was absolutely convinced that he was going to be the next president and all of a sudden, this scandal broke out which has to do with the effectively self enrichment and i think that is what made an awful lot of difference in the minds of french people who, let's be honest, i used to be corruption of the political class of france, either on the left or on class of france, either on the left or on the right, but the difference was, unlike others who also got criminal charges against them for all sorts of corruption with the party, it had to do with enriching the party and not themselves and i think

nicolas sarkozy and francois hollande did it 5 years ago, that was the occasion when francois hollandeyes, all the great and the good come togetherand i think, is yes, all the great and the good come together and i think, is that nicolas sarkozy? yes, i think! can see him, in the monitor we have feared and admits the brightening paris light. because it tends to fall, obviously the election run slightly differently every 5 years but it's around this time. and so the ceremony tends to falljust at a time when we can see the symbolic handing over of power and the 2 men, the last time, it was much more tense, francois hollande and nicolas sarkozy did not enjoy each other's company and on the handover of power is, officially, at the elysee palace, francois hollande was almost rude to his face by not accompanying him down the is to say goodbye, but was a delicate moment. this is not, two people who broadly feel very close together under the same side of french politics who have a warm relationship. there won't be any of that tension. we talk about emmanuel macron as the newcomer, never held e

macron, who only formed his own political movement a year ago, takes over from the outgoing president francois hollande. hugh schofield reports from paris it is going to be at day of ceremony and tradition. we cannot get any closer because of security. we know that at ten o'clock in the morning, the motorcade of emmanuel macron will drive up and are greeted by the current president francois hollande and then they will have a chat for half an hour. security matters, handing over the nuclear codes will happen. and then emmanuel macron is

francois hollande waving good-bye on the red carpet. me he is leaving his presidency with some of the lowest approval ratings in history. trying to rebuild some favor with the french public, the french electorate as well. they're entering a very understated car, really. apparently it's the same type of hybrid vehicle he arrived in, to play down any kind of presidential favors. so leaving there and leaving behind him the new president, not yet officially the president of france, but certainly the president-elect of france, em -- emmanuel macron. melissa bell is monitoring all these events. talk us through what happens next, now that out with the old, in with the new. >> out with the old, hannah, not just francois hollande, but in a sense the socialist party itself. since it's very difficult to see how given the disarray it finds itself. and emmanuel macron has no small part to play in that. that is a real question today here in france, whether these main political parties will manage to reform, regroup, and dust themselves down in time f

francois lance did not -- hollande did not do that but macron has, he announced that.ould push it through by presidential decree? i'm wondering if that is a gamble giving he doesn't have a party or a movement, he doesn't have mp polmont? the majority of the people in france once reforms. even if he does not either party, if he does not have a majority in this election, he can have people from the republicans on the right side, and on the left side. people like the former minister of france, ten vote for reforms. even if he does not have the majority, i believe there will be some kind of coalition. this is my hope and my bet. it should work. as producers are tiny wee uptight full—time and you and i talk —— our producers tell me we are uptight full—time. can he reformed the french economy? what do you think? there was a prime minister years ago thatis there was a prime minister years ago that is that we have a fertile country in france, we want a bureaucrat and regrow taxes. that is the problem for years. which president will get the guts of france spending and reform th

of course we took some lines used by francois fillon. we admit that. there you go. there were some things about france we wanted to use. quoting the former candidate is a surprising move from the far right party who previously thought to distance themselves from what they referred to as the establishment. with less than one week until the final run off of the presidential election, a could be seen as an attempt to appeal to supporters of the former candidate. laura: german chancellor angela merkel is in sochi for talks with russian president vladimir putin. on asay they want to focus unresolved conflict in ukraine and syria, areas of major disagreements for the two countries. merkel's it is angela first visit to russia in two years. it's a message designed to send a diplomatic signal. there differences in the conflict in ukraine and syria that vladimir putin has expressed a desire to normalize ties. there's an important role to be played to find a solution to global problems. the leaders say they agreed on the need for a full implementation of the minsk agreement, a

francois hollande unveils plans for a slavery museum in paris. and infant mortality in venezuela source among chronic shortages of food and medicine. protests continue across the country. first, the president of the united states has been explaining why he fired the head of the fbi. will simply not do any good job, according to donald trump, but democrats are questioning his motives. he was in charge of an investigation into russia's alleged meddling into the u.s. election in a few days ago, co mey asked for additional resources to assist in the investigation. >> he simply was not doing a good job. insists he fired james comey for badly managing the investigation into hillary clinton's private email server. the democrats say it was for his successful handling of another investigation, the fbi probe into russian meddling in the 2016 election. just days before his dismissal, come had asked for more fundingy in the inquiry. >> the dismissal of director establishes aey very troubling pattern. >> james comey is the third high-profile official to be fi

he joined francois hollande to mark the end of world war ii.eporter: president and president-elect, side by side. this marks emmanuel macron's first public appearance with president francois hollande since macron stepped down from his post as economy minister in august. they greeted warmly as the two men attended ceremonies commemorating the end of world war ii. had theollande who former investment banker joined his administration, setting the path that would lead to sunday's victory over far right leader marine le pen. hollande only had kind words for his successor. >> i wish him all the best. he knows that if he needs any information or advice, he can always come to me. he will always be welcome in i will always be there for him. walked together to lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier below the arc de triomphe. they, the inauguration will be held. that's when macron will officially succeed francois hollande as the president of france. over: the election may be but the battle to leave the country is just beginning. to will find hims

he was still in francois hollande's government and we didn't know francois hollande .imself wasn't goingn you can see those presidential elections were inside. and then or pulled out of the race in november. and there he was. has to be clear to say that to an extent he may have benefited a little bit >> he would have been a real rival for emmanuel macron. alain juppe beaten picard was another who decided not to run and put his support behind emmanuel macron. in a years time, he has done something that no one has done before in french politics. he benefited too from the circumstances. >> just as soon as he starts speaking, we will be crossing back to the louvre. again, whathis week do we expect him to get done? the priorities he needs to address are these groups of frontist people. there are the national front supporters who believe that the media and the controlling elite gained up against them. there have been the far left in france. they have said the next round will be in the reef. streets.the that is another group of people who are extremely angry. and there are the social conservati

and then francois hollande will leave and at that point emmanuel macron is the new president.e new prsident, as all presidents are, as grand master of the order of legion of honour. there will be as speech and there'll be a procession down the champs—elysees, over there. that is where the work then begins. what everyone is going to be looking out for first of all is the nomination of mr macron‘s prime minister — who's it going to be? a man, or a woman, someone from the roght, someone from the left? no—one knows. that person's firstjob will be to lead the new government into the parliamentary elections which happen in june, because that is where macron needs to get a majority to have a freehand for his program of reform. and the other thing, of course, monday, the first trip abroad to germany, to see angela merkel where, of course, the future of the european union and brexit will be top of the agenda. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: prayers in portugal as the pope adds two children to the list of catholic saints. the pope was shot, the pope will live. that was the esse

francois fillon was more radical and on the piece of paper it is easy to do it.ency that we have to another one — it will take years, but we are convinced it is good for france. i wonder why you are so understanding about the limitations now, when three years ago, in october 2014, you wrote in the financial times very dismissively of prime minister valls proposals of exactly the same sort? paris, you wrote, "plans to shave £50 billion off public spending, equivalent to 4% of the total, but it's not in any hurry. making the savings would take three years. if there is something exceptional in france, it's the attitude of denial in which all the political parties have la psed." an attitude of denial, i would suggest, of which emmanuel macron, a former minister in president hollande‘s government, is as guilty as the guilty men and women who you have condemned in the old system? wow — is it a court or a broadcast? you are judging another country with very severe words... i'm judging you on your own words, ms goulard. that's what you wrote three years ago, and suddenly

francois fillon, had many problems.ery, very weak socialist party with francois hollande at the bottom in terms of polls. that was something for him. and he understood what the country needed. he was someone different, someone young, someone people were not scared of. being different and being reassuring for a lot of people. charlie: he ran a good campaign and a good debate. >> he ran a very efficient campaign. it is just the beginning for him, but it is impressive that 39. charlie: elections come, when? >> in june. charlie:? what does it say about france >> two things. -- charlie: what does it say about france? >> two things. in france,able right with --group together against le pen. they said we cannot advance the cause of a politician with whom we do not agree. they set it on the day of the first round. that is a huge thing. fillon is as distant from macron ideologically as marco rubio is from hillary clinton. but instead of saying remaining with my family on the right, he said, no. the republican values are more ide

franÇois hollande -- the last dayay is of campaigning.member, french election rules are very strict. the last 24 hours between sunday's vote, it is campaign-free, election-free, and that might be very good news for all of us -- or for you -- suffering from election fatigue. it is also a moment of reflection for those who are still try to make up their minds. wednesday's debate was certainly a bitter debate. political analysts have said he won that match. florence: if we look at opinion polls published after the debate, he has a three-point boost. if the election were held today, he would gather 62% of the vote, marine le pen are you percent. keep in mind some of these -- 38%. keep in mind, these are the last poll that will be broadcast, again, there are very strict rules and france. until sunday, there will be a blackout. you cannot talk about exit polls, predictions -- the only thing you can talk about on sunday is the turnout rate. the first estimate at noon, the second one at 5:00 p.m. then of course you have the official results that

and of course francois fillon had this familyjobs and of course francois fillon had this family jobsad this familyjobs corruption scandal hanging over him. a lot of people we re very hanging over him. a lot of people were very bitty about what happened in the republican party. we will hear from in the republican party. we will hearfrom some of in the republican party. we will hear from some of them tonight. the political winds of fortune have been blowing all the way for emmanuel macron. what do you mean? he has been very lucky throughout. he has come right through the middle, largely because of the corruption investigation... but also because during both primaries this is the most left and the most left—wing and the most right—wing candidates that have been chosen, and that also left a big space for the centre. that is why once again this is probably the right guy at the right place at the right guy at the right place at the right moment. there was an alignment of planets, so to speak, that is unique, but exceptional circumstances sometimes give rise to exceptional people. and he pr

he betrayed francois hollande really so he had this strange relationship today when they met and francoissaying, yes, well done. i think what i was hearing from french commentators, francois hollande wants to show he has credit for this because he trusted him in the first place, and also the problem now with macron as he must keep his distance from francois hollande too because he wants to do something different. of course that was his platform, that he was a new thing in french politics. thank you for joining thing in french politics. thank you forjoining us. watching what mr macron does will also be many in the uk. what will the election of emmanuel macron mean for brexit negotiations? france is one of the pivotal players in the european union and mr macron will play a key role in upcoming brexit talks. this morning president—elect macron‘s chief economic adviser told the bbc that mr macron would be a hard negotiator — but he wouldn't want to punish britain for its decision to leave the eu. chris morris looks at what kind of negotiating position the new french president is likely to tak

but francois hollande's time runs out at midnight.roops in mali and the visit to german to meet the german chancellor, angela merkel. so what will the election of emmanual macron mean for brexit negotiations? france is one of the pivotal players in the european union and mr macron will play a key role in upcoming brexit talks. this morning, president macron's chief economic adviser told the bbc that mr macron would be a hard negotiator, but he wouldn't want to punish britain for its decision to leave the eu. chris morris looks at what kind of negotiating position the new french president is likely to take. so the first thing you need to know about emmanuel macron is that he is a passionate pro—european. he campaigned on an overtly pro—eu platform. is that likely to make him a tough nut to crack when it comes to brexit negotiations? well, yes. but france was always likely to play that role. if you look at some of the things he said on brexit during the campaign, though, the language is pretty striking. in one interview he called brexit

there was an affair under francois along -- brought in to clean up tax evasion. he was found to have a secret overseas bank account. it is one element of what mr. macron is trying to do. very strict conditions for his cabinet. he wants gender parity, representation from civil society. he wants to reach out across the divide, progresses from the mainstream left and right. there was a strong sign that is what he wants to do. aguilar philippe is from the center-right. it has gone up to 173 people, including candidates in forthcoming elections. so far ofave names who might be on the list of the cabinet? >> we have a long wait. we have given the french media time to speculate on that. a couple of names have been mentioned. , a young politician. another long-standing figure on the french right who backed a more moderate option for the presidency. a lot of people asking what would become of the historic in france,- here tried on a number of occasions to do what emmanuel macron has centristoming a president. will he be rewarded for backing macron question --? in terms of

for francois hollande.a clear majority ahead of him, he had five years to implement his plan. last night, we had emmanuel macron asa last night, we had emmanuel macron as a new president who doesn't have any mp under his name. there is a general election coming on june any mp under his name. there is a general election coming onjune11 — both marine le pen and emmanuel macron's speeches were clearly facing towards that deadline already. we have a two—round election, so we will have a majority onjune 18, election, so we will have a majority on june 18, but election, so we will have a majority onjune18, but we don't know who will be in the majority in the parliament. what did you make of the speeches last night? two from mr macron, one from marine le pen.|j felt that macron was very emotive, ina felt that macron was very emotive, in a way. it was obvious that there was something happening for him there and then. he's a young man. he doesn't have — he has some experience, but he's never been in that position. n

francois fillon of divisions now.ke today you see the divisions based on the different protest. i was at herjohn marine le pen rally this morning. there were people there signing up to his particular view of france and those here have a very different view, they were all have to pick a side at they were all have to pick a side at the elections on sunday. the danger for emmanuel macron is he doesn't necessarily get all of the people who marched here. everyone here is against marine le pen but that the does not mean they are in favour of emmanuel macron. i asked our correspondent hugh schofield how serious the may day clashes were. they were, in the scheme of things, not that bad. you get used to this confrontation at the end of rallies here. anarchist types on the fringes engaging in stonethrowing and tear gas is classic and will be forgotten very wea kly. gas is classic and will be forgotten very weakly. what are we seeing the two candidates doing in terms of scooping up the votes of all people who didn't vote for the

they speak french the man on the right was francois fillon, who was eliminated in the first round ofago, so now that speech a couple of weeks ago, so now marine le pen stands accused of plagiarism. she has not responded directly but her campaign manager has played down the issue, saying it was a nod and a wink and saying it was a nod and a wink and saying it was appreciated by francois fillon and his supporters, no doubt. this is up close and personal as it gets. you're watching marine le pen addressing an audience. we are in the bunker of a hotel and i am whispering because i don't want to be talking louder than marine le pen. she needs every single vote she can get. about an hour ago, she referred to the speech we just heard, and she said this was a deliberate nod to francois fillon, nearly two minutes of exactly the same words, because, she said, ultimately, journalist would not have paid any attention she had not done, so the world is talking about it and they are talking about her policies in fact, there is much more that she said that people will have ignored, but they picked u

this morning in paris, he joined the outgoing president francois hollande at the ceremony to mark vee second world war convinced old enemies france and germany to form an alliance which then became the basis of the european union. it's a struggling project which the new president promises to revive. emmanuel macron now inherits one of the most powerful positions europe and all of the symbolism that goes with it. he becomes the youngest french leader since napoleon whose own battles are remembered here. the crowd knows that the new leader will face problems of his own. french people hope that he will change a lot of things, maybe it will be tough for him but we hope that. translation: it's not going to be easy but i hope he will do some good work. but above all i hope he won't forget the little people. i'm not sure he's very coherent in his ideas. the idea of being nor from left or right, i don't truly trust this. world leaders have sent mr macron their congratulations. theresa may says that she looks forward to working with him on a wide range of shared priorities. trump says that he

for two years, as a finance minister, having been also had two years the chief economic adviser of francoiseen hollande, people forget that, he has seen the inner workings of government and says, we must forget these totally left and right issues. and what is interesting and will be very instructive in the coming days is to watch the number of les republicains, french conservatives will continue to support emmanuel macron and who will be prepared to have their names put with him and say that they will support him in a government, it will be very instructive to see who he presents, who he appoints as prime minister, one who will be appointed immediately, man or woman, one who will be appointed immediately, man orwoman, i'm hearing a lot about 52—year—old mep woman tonight, whether it will be her or not, and that prime minister may not be his prime minister depending on what the results are in the parliamentary elections and to the parliamentary elections and to the minister decides —— of the people decides in june the minister decides —— of the people decides injune he must work with. cloud

francois hollande did not know how to talk or communicate. it is in part that.t has been such a disappointing five years under francois hollande, and that is also a victory.or macron's we saw what happened to the official socialist candidate. there was an absolute collapse in his vote. nothing like that have been seen since 1969. the question will be what happens to the socialist party. one should never predict, but i am about to do so. i think the socialist party is going to split. that is not really macron's problem. his problem lies to the right. how does he deal with the right. >> we are going to bring in ofes from the headquarters the movement that macron set up a year ago. is resigning today as the leader of the movement? >> that is right. it is now going to become a political party. it was a movement set up in april of 2016 as a vehicle for -- toel macron to run for make a presidential bid, and now it is going to go through the process of converting into becoming a fully fledged political party. and see how to wait it fares at the parliamentary elections

by now, franÇois lond, popularity had fallen. the legislation had to be forced through parliament, sparking protest. macron increasingly criticized the government, but still enjoyed the president's support ridley last year, he launched his own political movement, en marche, or "on the move." he has really come out of nowhere. three years ago, emmanuel macron was unknown to the general public. >> i am on the campaign trail with emmanuel macron. aporter: he was seen as presidential longshot. >> when he started his movement, everyone, including many journalists like mice elf, were -- like myself, were like, that is cute. but he is not going to going where area reporter: but borrowing from barack obama's playbook, he took to social media. by the time france went to the polls for the first round of voting in april, he successfully reinvented himself. he was no longer the free market reformer working under a failed president, but a new voice in politics. ench]peaking fr [applause] reporter: he secured the most votes of any camp in the

it comes just days after francois hollande left office.e staked his presidency on a promise to bring down unemployment. brian quinn has the story. for symbolic line crossed the first time in five years. france's overall unemployment rate dropped below 10% for the first three months of 2017. that's for the entirety of the country's territories. in mainland france, the rate stands at 9.3%. the lowest since the second quarter of 2012. chief beneficiaries of the trend are french youth. for francois hollande, the news is a taste of vindication with an ironic twist. he staked his presidency on lowering french unemployment and renounced a reelection bid after failing to do so. the new figures come just days after handing over the keys to the elysees palace to emmanuel macron. >> i know there is still so much misfortune, so much unemployment. so much hardship. allow me to tell you i leave the country in a better state than when i found it. franceite the progress, remains well behind several of its western european counterparts, especially germany.

francois hollande had tried to create something of a big tent, he's a socialist president.tried to run for the left wing and then he tacked right when he was in office with business friendly reforms. this made him extremely unpopular to both sides of the political spectrum here in france. and macron as something of a centrist, we discussed this in the last hour, you remember, how difficult it is to pin macron -- how difficult it is to put him in the box. he's running into that same problem. does he move to the left, does he move to the right? >> matt, it appears that emmanuel macron is taking to the microphones earlier than we thought. stand by, if you can, matt. thank you so much. emmanuel macron. >> i wish to thank you, thank you. thank you from my heart. my credit goes to all of you who brought me your vote and support. i will never forget you. i will put all my care and energy to be -- to be dignified of your confidence, but it is up to you, citizens of our country, whatever your choice was, i wish to address myself to you. many difficulties have weakened us for a long

he made an appearance alongside outgoing president francois hollande outside a ceremony commemorating end of world war ii. he will be sworn in as france's new leader but his triumph has left voters with mixed feelings. >> i'm quite optimistic. it is a new start, a new chance for france. we can only hope that france seizes this opportunity. >> the campaign was very difficult and harsh. i did not like tam put, i am hae result because we blocked the national front. reporter: in his victory speech, macron acknowledged his biggest challenge, saying he would work to unite the divided country. >> those who voted for mrs. le pen have expressed anger, distress. 6gi will do everything i can ovr the next five years to ensure people no longer have reason to vote for extremes. reporter: macron's rival, marine le pen, was quick to concede. it is not opportunity for her to revamp her party. >> i propose to start a profound transportation of our movement in order to be the new political force that many french women and men are looking for. a call for all patriots to join us in a decisive political fi

macron's predecessor, francois hollande, accused moscow uprising is humanity in syria.a and france on opposite sides of the conflict. russia has been reluctant to let go of one of its closest allies in the region. host: tensions could emerge over russia's attempts to swing the election of france? >> macron's campaign was the target of repeated cyber attacks. have accuseds moscow of mounting a smear campaign against him. russian state media was also highly critical of macron during the campaign, but much more positive about marine le pen. putin himself is accused of clearly favoring the far right leader, even of the never actually backed her. host: why is the meeting taking place at versailles? >> is a highly symbolic menu. there is an exhibition under way that marks 300 years of franco russian ties. since the visit of theater to paris in 1717. -- peter the great to paris in 1717. he first broke with russia's isolationism to seek alliances in europe. perhaps the meeting will be an opportunity for france and russia to put their differences aside and work together to tackl

and perhaps, the fact that francois hollande, so popular, we have always got this noisy opposition butis a large majority of people who want change, and want reform. in that sense, he could be pushing the unopened door, getting past the protest that you always see on the streets. and the woman that he has defeated, le pen took the national front for the love and a lot of people thought was possible. do you think that she remains committed?” think that she remains committed?” think you're going to have a lot of discussion, and they are going to shore i united front, but what happens to this party? le pen has detoxified the brand, probably taken things as far as she can. you have got a good majority of people who cannot elect a party that had fascist beginnings, they do not want anything to do with that. can she, asa anything to do with that. can she, as a politician at a different party, be marine? the mother, defender of the workers? that is a different question. i have watched herfor many different question. i have watched her for many years. she walks the walk, when it comes to secur

francois. you're in a spider!an life inside the head of francois and he still gets a kick out of the drama. she waken. she wakes up. she wakes up! how long did it take to build? 0h, six months. can i move the head? too many play it like... with feeling, you understand? with feeling. feel it, please. feel the spider. and these are all dockyards, aren't they, and they still feel like it, that's intentional. but there's another influence, the adventure writerjules verne was a son of nantes and his book, 20,000 leagues under the sea inspired the island's gothic carousel. quite high up. yeah. do we control how high it is? no, we can't. we are on the top level precisely and under we have the deep sea and then the level of the sea and at every level you have different machines. the idea is that you make a trip and to dream basically. these will flap. so activate. flying as it goes up. this one is flapping now. no, we can do it any time. we can do what we like. yeah. we are on holiday! since the carousel was built, it's p

the party of the outgoing president francois hollandee was wiped out and gardner, a little over 6% which is really a major, major defeat. and so their hopes are not very high for the forthcoming parliamentary elections. he doesn't really need to give them something such as the prime ministership. whereas the opposition conservatives were the favorites to win that election. heir candidate fran it was hollande ran strong until it was torpedoed that he gave fake jobs to his wife and children. nevertheless he garnered some 20%. they would seem to have a strong position in the fourth coming parliament, so it would be smart politics if macron were to choose someone from that party as a way to weaken the party to say ok, i'm appointing a prime minister from that party and we assume some ministers from that party and now they're saying they would be the number one opposition to macron would have a harder time because some of the members would be flocking to the government. so the assumption is that some of the future m.p.'s would also follow suit and they would not vote against macron but for ma

yesterday, supporters of francois fillon may have noticed something in the may day speech from marineech from marine le pen, notjust the same sentiments but using exactly the same words! put the two speeches side—by—side commuter need to speak french, it as badly as i do, you will see how remarkably similar they are our! —— they are. do you think we could soon have a quiz question, what does marine le pen have in common with melania trump? laughter that is it, it causes the similarities between the republican convention last year, that happened there. —— it calls for. this would be really embarrassing were it not for the fact that there was clearly smart thinking, in front nationale thinking, because it has been said, this was intentional, he owned up to it, what we are trying to do is show francois fillon long's supporters that we think the same. i suspect it did not start out that way! they changed it, but that is the intention, anyway. do you think there is strategy in there? in a sense, they want to do what happened in the us, the populist left, supporting bernie sanders, a lot of

macron, who only formed his own political movement a year ago, takes over from the outgoing president francoiss from paris. 0ne one week after the party, now the serious stuff begins. the youngest ever president of france stunned the world with his remarkable and rapid rise to power. from today, he is task will be to wield it and to press the start button on his programme of reform. formalities today begin with the official handover from holland. mr macron knows his place well, he used to work here as an economic adviser. after that he will follow up with a procession up the champs—elysses hoping that the weather will be more suspicious. 0nce hoping that the weather will be more suspicious. once the ceremonies are ever, president macron is not the kind of leader who is going to sit on his hands. he has already said he does not expect a honeymoon period and he knows that many of his ideas for change will be hotly contested. for seasoned observers of french politics, the new president is a novelist with all of the advantages and disadvantages that can bring. he wa nts to and disadvantages that c

between tuesday and no later than next saturday the 13th, the government of the sitting resident francoisesident. at the moment, there is no set —— precise date. in early june, the first round of elections to the lower house takes place and a week later, it is the second and final round based on those results. a government reshuffle is likely. joining the now in the studio is a professor douglas webber, at a business school that is based in france but we have a campus here in singapore which shows that the internationalisation of the french institutions. first, we have had a lot of analysis about the domestic issues of what president emmanuel macron will have to do. let's look at what this election means for the rest of the world. is there a sense of relief? because of a continuation of relief? because of a continuation of status quo? i think both elements around the world a re i think both elements around the world are casting an immense sigh of relief that marine le pen has not become the french president. if she had done, given her programme, she would have taken france out of the euro

we have seen long time independent centrist francois bayrou backing his campaign. willjoin him in the battle for the parliamentary election next month. he has also promised to line up a certain number of people from the civil society. that was thomas fessy joining me from paris. here is how some world leaders reacted to the result via their social media accounts. us president donald trump tweeted his reaction. he posted: the british prime minister theresa may also congratulated president—elect macron, saying: italian prime minister paolo gentiloni tweeted: and a similar sentiment from donald tusk, the former polish prime minister, who chairs summits of european leaders. he tweeted: and jean—claude juncker, the president of the european commission, said the result made him: "happy that the ideas that you defended, of a strong and progressive europe that protects all its citizens, will be those that france will cherish under your presidency". let's hear some more of emmanuel macron‘s speech outside the louvre museum in paris. the president—elect said he would unite t

president macron will be in his first official engagement, taking part alongside francois hollande and then macron will resign from the leadership of the movement he created a year ago to begin this most unusual political adventure. really, christine it can't be said enough, no one believed he could do it when he set out to create this party, when he announced his candidateure. what happened in france marks a redrawing of the political map. he saw off the far right with 60% of the vote, and along the way, he saw off both the mainstream left and the mainstream right in this country that have shared power since 1958. france is really waking up to a new political reality this morning. >> it is fascinating to watch the euro at a six-month high, european markets all higher. they like, at least now today, what they think he will stand for. thank you so much, melissa bell. so many people have said there was an economic nationalism sweeping through some of these elections and would the trump effect take place and propel marine le pen from the right to the presidency of france, but nope. voters

morning, the motorcade of emmanuel macron will drive up and are greeted by the current president francoiswill have a chat for half an hour. security matters, handing over the nuclear codes will happen. and then emmanuel macron is a new president. there will be pageantry, as grand master of the legion of honour they will be as speech and a procession. that is where the work begins. they will be looking to the nomination of the prime minister, will it be a man, woman, from the left or) smack that person will lead the new government into the parliamentary election which happens in june into the parliamentary election which happens injune because that is where macron needs a majority. the other thing of course, monday, the first trip a broad to see angela merkel in germany. brexit in top of the agenda. welcome to bbc news — my name is tom donkin. north korea has launched an ‘unidentified projectile' — thought to be a ballistic missile. south's korea's new president condemns it as a "reckless provocation" the police agency europol has described the cyber attack on computer systems around the w

investment banker and served as an adviser, and later a minister, in the socialist government of francoisg president. but he resigned last year to form his own centrist political movement. our paris correspondent lucy williamson profiles the man chosen to be france's new head of state. he's the choice of a country desperate for change, a politician who's neither left nor right, part of the french establishment yet never before elected. a fresh face who served in the outgoing government. so who is emmanuel macron? to his supporters, he is their emmanuel, their political messiah, a provincial boy from outside the establishment who worked his way to power. he's a new man to politics. he's trying to find new solutions. he is a new face, he is our hope. but he went to france's most prestigious schools, met its most powerful people and made millions in an investment bank. a former colleague says that macron‘s rise is partly down to charm but that at heart, he is a secretive man. he is able to tell people what they really want to hear. so a very seducive man and he manages to agree with nearly a