and the travel show heads to china ahead of the great wall marathon next month.d morning and welcome to bbc news. more than 50,000 troops are being deployed across france in preparation for voting in the country's presidential election after the killing of a police officer in paris. this is just as the friend are preparing to vote at the first round of the presidential elections. —— this is just as the french are preparing to vote in the first round of the presidential elections. terrorism dominated the final day of campaigning after the shooting, and security has been increased before polls in mainland france open on sunday. welcome to a normal scene in paris, a typical saturday market day on the boulevard st germain. 50,000 security personnel deployed across france and to reassure people that it is safe to come out and vote in the first round of sunday's presidential election. but on everybody‘s mind here, which thrusts security to the top of the political agenda, the attack on thursday night which left one policeman dead just a couple of miles from where we ar

in china, the hard as nails great wall marathon takes place on may 20.s one of the most challenging long—distance runs, drawing thousands of competitors who choose between the full length course, a half marathon, or an 8.5 kilometre fun run. starting a few hours from beijing in the heart of the mountains, the route involves steep climbs and descents, smooth flagstones to rough surfaces, and over 5000 steps. last year, the fastest speed was three hours, 30 minutes, the time to beat. back in the us, it will be man against machine from may 26—28, when the iron horse bicycle classic takes place in the colorado town of durango. the event dates back to the late i880s when two brothers raced against each other. the elder was a brakeman on a steam powered locomotive who challenged his younger brother to race the train from durango to silverton. these days, the train takes a shorter route. thousands take part, trying to beat the train before it pulls into its final destination. there are other events around the classic, including mountain biking, bmx races, dual

and the travel show heads to china ahead of the great wall marathon next month. —— since the late 19thy. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. conservative and labour politicians are on the general election trail in the first weekend of the campaign. jeremy corbyn is in manchester, where he said the party wanted to make the tax system fairer by getting the very wealthy and what he called ‘corporates' to pay more. theresa may is in dudley in the west midlands. she said the country was facing the most important election in her lifetime — and insisted the conservatives were "a lower tax party". there's been speculation they may raise taxes if they win the general election. our political correspondent leila nathoojoins me. one of the issues that theresa may has gone with the electorate is that she has already changed her policies ona she has already changed her policies on a few things already and people will be thinking, can we trust you when it comes to taxes? absolutely, and that is what labour will want to get across, that the tories cannot be trusted on taxes. this came about becaus

and the travel show heads to china ahead of the great wall marathon next month.ternoon and welcome to bbc news. on the first weekend of the general election campaign, jeremy corbyn has announced that a labour government would introduce another four bank holidays. he said it would be a matter to be determined is when the party released its manifesto. just before we came on air, a labour party spokesman confirmed that the party would indeed renewed the trident nuclear deterrence. this is what jeremy corbyn told andrew marr on bbc one this morning, before that clarification. it is still an entirely unresolved question as to what you are going to do. your spokesman has said clearly that keeping trident will be in the labour manifesto. we haven't completed work on the manifesto yet. if as you would expect less than 100 hours into this election campaign. so we could be in for a shock? no, no. we are having that discussion within the party and we will produce our manifesto in may. more on that clarification from the labour party when we have more information. meanwhile,

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