we were surprised at just how far marine le pen was willing to go to enforce assimilation. >> le pen translated ): france isn't burkinis on the beach. france is brigitte bardot. that's france. >> cooper: should muslim people be allowed to wear headscarves? >> le pen ( translated ): no. i'm opposed to wearing headscarves in public places. that's not france. there's something i just don't understand: the people who come to france, why would they want to change france, to live in france the same way they lived back home? >> cooper: it's not just headscarves. le pen says she would ban yarmulkes in public, any conspicuous symbol of religious belief. would a sikh person allowed to be... wear a turban? >> le pen ( translated ): no, not in public. we don't have a lot of sikhs in france. we've got some, but we don't really hear much from them or about them, which is good news. >> cooper: her views go to the heart of a debate that's been raging in the country for decades over what it means to be french, and who's responsible for the failure of some immigrants to become fully integrated into fr

she is the daughter of jean le pen.nona is considered a leading authority on the national front. she's tainted because of her last name? >> yes. she is a le pen. >> reporter: and in france, that name is still tonightic? >> yes. >> reporter: but she says while her father and anti-semitic rhetoric may be gone, the really changed. >> there's been cosmetic changes. but the very heart of the party, it's the idea that you are going to keep the jobs, social benefits, everything, employment, all with the reserved to the french. french citizens. >> reporter: you can see the full report on our website, cbsnews.com. the "overnight news" will be right back. i'm joy bauer, and as a nutritionist i know probiotics can often help. try digestive advantage. it is tougher than your stomach's harsh environment, so it surivies a hundred times better than the leading probiotic. get the digestive advantage. (elated) woooooo!!! life looks great with tampax pearl. you get ultimate protection on your heaviest days and smooth removal for your lig

a marine le pen victory would spend dust spell the end of the eu. >> marine le pen whence it is gamever for europe. it is impossible to have a leader of one of the most important countries of the european union as somebody who is against the european union. japan's inflation rose for the first time in 14 months, offering some hope that price gains may continue inching toward the target. household spending fell 1.2%. three times the forecast drop. higher inflation is at the heart of the environmental revival efforts. and you and i'll -- higher oil prices and a weaker yen. friends all fillon's woes deepen as elected officials this own his campaign and police searched his home yesterday. the string of departures including campaign treasurer's gerald boyer and bruno. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. stories ond more bloomberg at top . we are rounding up most of the agent -- asian equity session. the nikkei down by .5%. we can is coming through in hong kong. its declineending ahead of the npc in beijing. australi

le pen says she would ban y yamicas in public.rson be allowed to wear a turban this >> no, not in public. we don't really hear much from them or about them, which is good news. >> reporter: her views go to the heart of a debate that's been raging in the country for decades, over what it means to be french and who is responsible for the failure of some immigrants to become fully integrated into french society. >> translator: massive immigration brings with it cultures that are sometimes in contradiction with our values. >> there are many people in france who view your party as anti-islamic, anti-muslim. >> translator: i'm not waging a religious war. it's clear that in france, everyone has the right to practice their religion, to worship as they choose. my war is against islamic fundamentalism. >> reporter: le pen blames fundamentalism, but also immigration for the terror attacks in france that have killed 200 people in the last two years, though half of the attackers were actually born in the country. she wants to shut down the mos

le pen . there are huge differences between the right and the right of marine le pen. there. charles lichfield. coming up in our next hour, with speakers, chris rupkey. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ feet widehip is five and 10 feet long as speaker ryan gives $5 billion to placate republicans. director stops traffic in time in washington. there is possible coordination between the kremlin and the campaign of the president. as an aside, no wiretapping discovered. get five people together in pairs, and they talk brexit. the candidates debate. madame le pen defends project fear. this is "bloomberg surveillance ," live from our world headquarters in new york with and francine lacqua in london. what did you learn from the french people and the french? francine: i learned that the left was stronger than people thought. we had some snap rolls saying centristnuel macron, to the left, won the debate. i think it is more nuanced than that. we did learn that marine le pen is trying to be the french photocopy of trump. she stopped short of saying "ma ke france great again." tom: mark deen

and le pen son quared off. >> i know you support -- mr. macron. >> i am sorry, mrs. le pen. i can speak for myself. i am capable of stating my own opinion. >> what is your opinion? >> it has nothing to do with secularism because it is not cultural concerning the traps to defy the -- to divide the french people according to you. the trap your following in is you are defying society. >> i asked our editor whether macron and le pen are the ones to watch. >> it is a two-stage of fear. it's about getting into the second round. -- two-stage affair. who will emerge from the first around? if you believe the polls, a bit condition with if, you have macron and le pen, his rival for the final showdown. macron has positioned himself and he is centrist but he is not even at the head of a party. we have seen it across europe. traditional parties falling by the wayside with popular insurgencies. macron is not a populist in the and hee is center-right is on our way has try to rally people around the idea he is ofther the left or neither the right. he is trying to avoid the labels. at the sa

it's anti—semitism, and there marine le pen is definitely different from her father.f de—demonisation, she will lose the voters for whom it was a party that, that knocked on the tables strong, that wanted to shake the political system, and her father put it very well. he said, "a nice national front?" "nobody is interested by that." fn traditionalists these days look not to marine, but to her 27—year—old niece, marion, a star of the party's conservative wing, whose members often say they preferred things the way they were, underjean—marie le pen. translation: i think that marion is more like her grandfather than marine. france really needs strict leadership. it's not ok to say "let's carry on as we are." we have to start from scratch. and marion is better able to do that. marion has much tougher views than her aunt on issues like gay marriage and abortion, and she's made it clear she is a fan of donald trump's immigration policies too. translation: the famous muslim ban, as donald trump's adversaries are calling it. it's not in our programme right now, but if it turns

marine le pen dropping to 24.5%. beats marine le pen in a runoff. global news, 24 hours a day. powered by our more than 2600 journalists and analysts, in more than 120 countries. hi him taylor riggs. this is bloomberg. tom: a data check here after what we saw yesterday. futures continue to erode. --ative seven on smp fear of negative 7 on s&p 500. thecurve is flattening on 210. we vix was a 10 handle and got more angst in the market. the yield is a lower yield. the color is wrong in the green. 10 basis points with a lower year yields this morning. a coordinated decline in the markets. francine: something we need to eye on. congratulations to the team for pointing my eye at iron ore which is getting battered after thatd a significant round this years rally may be overdone. a bear market has been ingles with the china futures. so look at iron ore. a couple of contracts we need to look at. you were back to what showing on yields with the two-10 year spread. the vix is gaining at 13.0 nine. tom: i love that they showed y

i don't think marine le pen will get in. her aim has a lwa ys le pen will get in.as always been to look at the next presidential election, not at the current one. she is trying to detoxify the brand in front. she a lwa ys detoxify the brand in front. she always believed she would need another election to do that is up it is because of this populism peace we have talked about that she has gained ascendancy. —— piece. because of what donald trump has done and what happened in the last year. macron has to be an even stronger favourite. they are quite dominated by politics. now that she cannot sell herfashion items by politics. now that she cannot sell her fashion items she needs a newjob. she has found one. sell her fashion items she needs a newjob. she has found onem sell her fashion items she needs a newjob. she has found one. it is an unpaid job. but she is not short on money. what is interesting about this, people talk about diversity in the workplace. there is no perversity immediately around donald trump. nobody is there to give him a different perspective. she

marine le pen has been very clever. obviously she is a woman, but traditionally populist figures have tended to appeal to the male vote, the industrial classes who have been disadvantaged by globalization. marine le pen has been never enough to see that the female vote in france can also swing her way. the female vote perhaps has got the most to lose by a number of trends. it was president hollande that said marianne, the symbol of france, could wear a burqa one day. when marine le pen was in lebanon, she kind of picked a fight with a muslim cleric and refused to wear a veil. she was making the point that female rights are very entrenched and maybe there's a risk of them with certain long-term trends. i think she got her dog whistle message across effectively. in france, the most powerful leaders are women. i think she's playing the female card. she can win, but it would take an external event. much as in the u.s. it took the fbi to reopen the investigation against hillary a week before the election -- that might have b

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recent opinion polls put marine le pen alongside emmanuel macron.her as a president. you may remember last month when the hollywood star harrison ford made an unusual landing at an airport in southern california. he came down on a taxi—way instead of a runway, flying directly over a waiting passengferjet. now, audio tape has emerged of him explaining what happened. tim allman reports. as han solo, he was the pilot who made the kessel run in less than 12 parsecs. but in real life, harrison ford's recent exploits in aviation have been a little more perilous. he had a near—miss last month atjohn wayne airport, his single, small—engine plane coming down in the wrong place. so, what happened? well, this is the conversation the actor had, once he touched down: this wasn't the first mishap he'd had in recent years — in 2015, he suffered injuries after crashing a vintage plane on a golf course in santa monica. that time, it was down to engine problems. fortunately, there were no injuries in this latest incident — other than, perhaps, a little damage to harr

france's far right presidential candidate marine le pen is stripped of her immunity from prosecution.he nationalist leader now faces an investigation over images she tweeted of violence by so-called islamic state. and president trump backs his attorney general. there have been calls for jeff sessions to resign after it appears he had not been truthful about his contacts with the russian ambassador during last year's election. ♪ brent: i'm brent goff. it is good to have you with us. what started out as small-town politics has become an international diplomatic incident between germany and turkey. today, the turkish justice minister canceled a meeting with his german counterpart and flew home. and moved to protest the decision of several german towns to revoke permits allowing turkish political gatherings. those rallies would have been for turks living in germany to vote yes and a referendum giving more power to president erdogan. turkey's government tonight is calling the decision undemocratic and it has summoned the german ambassador to express disapproval. reporter: it was at this ha

the kremlin likes what it hears from marine le pen. scrapped. she claims the crimea, the ukrainian peninsula annexed by moscow has a lwa ys peninsula annexed by moscow has always been russian. translation: you know my position is unknown. i rarely change them which probably makes me an exception. you know that iam for makes me an exception. you know that i am for development of relations with russia in the context of a long history buildings our two countries. the national front leader may have w011 the national front leader may have won widespread support in france but populist views have deterred most foreign leaders. vladimir putin says that she represents a fast—growing element of european politics. russia may already be accused of meddling in the us elections to help donald trump when the white house but the kremlin denies those claims and insists it will not try and influence next month's election. recent opinion pulled in marine le pen neck and neck in the first round with the centrist candidate. this meeting delivered a not so

marine le pen is an exception.the right to meet with all political forces and all political partners, just as our partners in europe and the us do. the kremlin likes what it is hearing from marine le pen. she has called for sanctions imposed on russia to be scrapped. she claims that crimea, the ukrainian peninsula co ntroversially that crimea, the ukrainian peninsula controversially annexed by russia, has always been russian. translation: you know my position is unknown. i rarely change them, which probably makes me an exception. —— mayan positions are known. the national front leader may have won widespread support in france, but her populist views have deterred most foreign leaders. vladimir putin, however, says she represents a fast—growing element of european politics. russia may already be accused of meddling in the us election to help donald trump wind the white house, at the kremlin denies those claims, and insists it will not try to influence next month's election. recent opinion polls in france put ms le p

marine le pen wants france to exit the euro.he -- the economic programs of macron and fillon are favored. macron's program does not cut enough taxes or improve spending. anna: the debate is that the overall conversation has been about so many other things but are french companies putting in place any contingent plans in case a marine le pen victory? absolutely. this is the french paradox. most executives do not deny they le pen risk. the risk is never been so close for her to be elected. most executives also say they have not prepared any specific contingency plans for a euro exit. this is the case for french banks. when we spoke to them last month during the earnings season, french banks were saying that the risk of a marine le pen victory is so remote there has not beent has considered. if you look at opinion polls they might be right. if macron passes the first round he would eat marine le pen by 61% in the runoff and we have seen marine le pen softening her turnabout you -- leaving the euro. saying it would be the final step

those who preferred alainjuppe marine le pen.erred alain juppe would move marine le pen. those who preferred alainjuppe would move almost inevitably towards a manual macron. and the republicans are fundamentally divided in terms of ideology. thank you for coming in. now it's one of the busiest sections of road in the country — and air pollution levels there regularly exceed the safe limit — but until two years ago, the dartford crossing was classified by the government as a rural road. the error means the levels of pollution there have been routinely ignored. crucially, it also means the results haven't been passed on to the european union, which can impose fines when safety levels are breached. sarah smith has the story. 50 millionjourneys are made on 50 million journeys are made on the stretch of road every year. the town. go to the south and direct the north have some of the highest percentages of death due to air pollution in the south—east. in da rtford pollution in the south—east. in dartford the council has recorded nitrog

joe: there might be people who are going to vote for le pen.is sometimes with other candidates and people talk about trump and brexit. does the historical record suggest when you have the controversial populous, nationalist candidates that they tend to outperform their polling? and b, we have the dutch election coming up in two days where there is a similar candidate, are you going to be looking at his performance as a possible proxy of how le pen does in her polling? >> she does very well and will be positive influence. and decent probability that it does help. , people are lepen not ashamed that they will vote for her. people who voted for her in the past are not and quite different from brexit. she might be considered to be populous by some definition but has gone more mainstream. scarlett: one thing you pointed out is an external intervention would have an impact on the first round, something like meddling, a country like russia where they allegedly into veend in the u.s. election. it would generate an external response. and you found that

particularly if marine le pen wins. that the eu itself is under threat.ith britain's exit from the eu there are only three big countries that remain. germany france and italy. if france were to leave as well that would be the end of the european union. former economy minister emmanuel macron may be tied for the lead with marine le pen. >> the least interesting candidate. the least colorful is macaroon. i mean macron. >> untouched by the scandal that has engulfed his competitors, then one been all but eclipsed. has been all but eclipsed. genie: new details on the man behind the attack at orly airport in paris yesterday. the suspect took a female sosoldier hostage before being shot dead. the autopsy report shows he had traces of cocaine and cannabis in his blood as well as twice the legal limit of alcohol. the orly airport attacker had ingested narcotics and alcohol. that's according to a sunday autopsy carried out on his remains. medicall analysis revealed a blood alcohol level of 0.83 grams s per liter and the presee of cannabis and cocaine. that would se

marine le pen stated very clearly, we wa nt marine le pen stated very clearly, we want to reverse the of a euro aquatic superstate, which the people do not want. thank you very much for your time. you are welcome. that was fascinating. i wa nt to welcome. that was fascinating. i want to ask you a question that relates both to emmanuel macron and marine le pen. it seems to be emerging that one of the biggest issues in this campaign, as it was in the united states and the brexit vote is the issue of immigration. at one point does emmanuel macron have to ta ke one point does emmanuel macron have to take a clear stand on the immigration issue if he is going to carry supporters with them? at the moment it seems like he is trying to please everyone on an issue where it is impossible to do that.|j please everyone on an issue where it is impossible to do that. i think their national front will try and focus minds if they get through to the second round. they are seen success in some of their oral heartlands, informing territories, in places that you and i both go to on our summer holidays, th

what we have seen is that marine le pen voters are marine le pen voters. your line, francois fillon if francois fillon -- in your line, if francois fillon were to drop out, there will be some folks who don't show up to vote for macron and marine le pen would gain a little bit. but a 34% probability is still scary for marine le pen. it is high. it happens one every three times. so it is not good. more chaotic than the united states of america? we will continue with erik nielsen. in the next hour, on "bloomberg excuse me, i lost track of the clock here. in the next hour, john silvia from wells fargo on the president and the american labor economy. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ tom: this morning, from carnage to removal of the american spirit, president trump response .o republican ovation democrats sit on their hands. now the hard part -- a trump wishlist of austerity. in this hour, kevin cirilli. a stronger dollar. we speak with john foley, and a report that was a wrong report but was corrected. he isle bit of chaos and due to speak very shortly. good morning, eve

>> because le pen wants to break euro/atlantic institutions.o bring france out of nato, wants to bring france out of the euro, she wants to break a bloc which putin sees correctly as preventing russia achieving the dominant position in europe as a great power. >> reporter: and tonight there's serious concern that putin will meddle in france's election like he allegedly did in america. cnn has learned french officials are worried that putin's hackers will fish for damaging information using similar tactics to how u.s. intelligence says they targeted hillary clinton's campaign. russian hackers are believed to have targeted france before with a devastating cyberattack in 2015 of a top french tv network. putin denies trying to tilt the french elections. >> translator: we do not want to influence events in any way. >> reporter: but marin le pen has already got an boost from russia, a loan, three years ago, of about $10 million to her party from a bank owned by a close friend of putin's. >> the very fact marin le pen is in moscow this week and is the

marine le pen has called for eu sanctions imposed on russia to be scrapped.sula co ntroversially the ukrainian peninsula controversially annexed by moscow, has always been russian. translation: you know my positions are known. i rarely change them, which probably makes me an exception. you know that i am for the development of relations with russia, and the long history that links are two countries. the national front leader may have won widespread support in france but her populist views have deterred most foreign leaders. vladimir putin, however, says she represents a fast—growing element of european politics. russia may already be accused of meddling in the us election to help donald trump win the white house, at the kremlin denies those claims and insists it will not try to influence next month's election. recent opinion polls in france but marine le pen neck and neck in the first round with centrist candidate and manuel macron as the favourite to win in the run—off. this meeting delivered a not so subtle hint that russia would be happy to deal with presi

then marine le pen and francois fillon equally convincing. caroline, were there any attacks on fillon for saying he would resign his candidacy if he was investigated, and then not doing so? caroline: interestingly enough, to sayrancois fillon had some questions about this, but he tried to be very cautious. he did not mention any of his legal troubles. he wanted to refocus the debate on his program, which he hasn't had the chance to do over the past few weeks because of all this investigation and the fact that he was charged last week into allegations surrounding his wife and children's employment as parliamentary assistants. fillon did not mention any of his legal troubles. he also attacked marine le pen on her plans to leave the euro. he said that would lead france and would behaos, a serial killer for the french. anna: caroline, thank you very much. caroline connan. we are joined live by bnp paribas investment partners and senior strategist, daniel morris. great to have you. when you look at the topics of night, manylast pertain to the econ

he thinks the visit is strategic, so that marine le pen can show voters we re that marine le pen canaders. and how she hopes to become one herself. the trip to moscow is not unusual. what is unusual is that in this election, the context, she is received by vladimir putin. she has a problem in that her rivals, like a manual micron, can be seen with angela merkel and theresa may, without any difficulty. she cannot. —— emmanuel macron. she has only met as heads of state the head of state of leven on and off chad. meeting vladimir putin shows she can be presidential and talk directly to some of the most powerful people on this land. but is it a wise meeting, given some of the accusations that have been levelled at rush hour over its alleged interference in your selections. there is a lot of fear about that in europe, as well as conspiracy theories on rumours that russia is supporting the far right. my russia is supporting the far right. my feeling is that with her supporters it will go well, because she can show that she is anti— system, that she is a rabble, and that she can go and meet

so who is going to run against marine le pen?ey need a candidate who is right wing, and who can take her voters and defeat the front national. francois fillon has lost a lot of support and he's quite painfully fairly unelectable, you would imagine, but if marine le pen is the one who gets into the final run—off and is against emmanuel macron, it is likely that even conservative voters would vote with the blairite in order to vote against her. you vote against the person you don't want to get the job, fundamentally, in france, so the conservatives are pushing francois fillon to go through because they don't want macron to go through. it is a long game of chess. our politics is a bit mild, i suppose, but the daily telegraph has a story aboutjeremy corbyn, under attack from his own side, but this is about his tax returns. reportedly he released his tax returns to put pressure on the government when it comes to the issue of tax, but it is suggested not all of his income has been declared on his tax returns. it looks as though his inc

marine le pen is doing well in the polls in france. germany has elections in the fall and italy may hold elections this year. i want to talk about these elections. can i get your take, what does it mean if we were to see a populist wave go through europe. and we want the investment ideas. bob: it creates a problem for the eurozone. we have a series of sewer mean elections in front of us. if we get the right-wing populist, the euro will come under pressure and probably collapse. marine le pen will probably ask france to pull out. i don't think her chances are good, and i think the netherlands further am anyify that. but this -- amplify that. maria: marine le pen wants france to get out of the eurozone. a lot of this has to do with the refugee crisis. they want their even borders. if they were to do that, the euro plummets. sam: sit would not be good for the world. you want to keep your investments home even if you think that's going to happen. i have got my money mostly in u.s.-generated earnings. not because i think marine le pen is go

we have marine le pen's project coordinator at front national he's with us. good to have you with us. i want to start with some of the latest news within the last day or so. marine le pen losing the eu parliament's immunity for tweeting graphic images of isis executions on twitter back in december of 2015. in other words, parliament is now allowing for legal action against her. do you fear this is going to make a difference in the last bit of campaigning before the actual election date? >> well, good morning. no. answering your question, there will not be any consequence regarding that democratic evolution of the election. as you see, the figures of marine le pen regarding the polls are still very high despite all this judicial news that is coming from parliament. the french people, in fact, deeply understood that there are many differences between what is the approach to francois fillon for example and what is the approach to her. regarding those images on twitter, a deputy national assembly was not lifted from his immunity, so for the same fact you have two

if you do not believe in the fact of the le pen election, even when we have macron versus we considerrobably too soon for the pen to get power. maybe next time, but not this time. macron is pro-euro, pro-european commission, so european organization. from his perspective, it should be or could be reassuring for markets. anna: wide use a next time for le pen? christophe: for the next presidential five years from now. anna: do you see that is likely? --as likely? christophe: it is likely. writing populism everywhere in every country, especially in europe, it is just a matter of time to get a populist politician in power somewhere in europe. that is fascinating. a lot of people look at the dutch elections as maybe the end gameis populist dominoes we have seen across the globe, but you are saying you think it could continue here in europe, what, if inequality continues to develop the weight have? -- the way it has? christophe: that is exactly the point i would like to come to today with you. populism is rising because people are in poverty, especially in developed countries. in europe, in

there will be no rally if le pen were to win. market would stop pricing eurozone risk well before the referendum in france. if you expected markets would get more cautious closer to the election. anna: she is expected, according to the polls, she is expected to win the first round. if she does, will markets remain calm, this is what we expected, and then expect she will not win the second? bemight risks the ri reignited? than le pen does better what the polls suggest, the first round matters. you would win, sh have to be really wrong. for the first round, it gives us an indication about this affect. manus: we have looked at this a couple of times and the debate is, in the second round, she has broken 40%, up around 42% in the second round. there is not much difference between 42% and 50.1%. you would say that the euro sterling trade is about to inflood. and that the risk spectrum will move to the european zone, rather than the pound. so, it is a euro sterling cross that could see a lot more volatility and movement. >> that is ver

needu think that investors not worry about a le pen victory? it something you still have -- because of the asymmetric risk -- to worry about? olivier: especially among businesspeople, when you look at europe, including in france, there is a positive surprise. business confidence is very high. normally, before elections in the past, you had people waiting and seeing. this time, we do not see that. i think this is rather signtening, but it is a that businesspeople people do not really care about the political risk. the lowey just consider probability, high-impact risk is maybe not that important. that pointlow up on 's i'm fascinated what socgen view is on this. is the view in france increasingly, among financial circles, that even if we were to see marine le pen win, the parliamentary elections would act as such a brake on her ability to enact policy that her impact would be not as great a magnitude as one presumes? olivier: you are right. do not forget that in france, we have presidential elections and later, we have also the parliamentary elec

russia at the center of attention. >> reporter: why is marine le pen a favorite of putin -- >> becauseing prance out of nato, she wants to bring france out of the euro. and wlants to break a bloc which putin seeing correctly as preventing russia achieving a dominant position in europe as a great power. >> reporter: and now, there's serious concern that putin will meddle in france's election like he allegedly did in america. cnn has learned that french officials are worried that putin hackers will fish for damaging information using tactic on how they targeted hillary clinton's campaign. russian hackers are believed to have targeted france before with a defs staying cyber attack in 2015 of a top french tv network. putin denies trying to tilt the french elections. >> translator: we do not want to influence events in any way. >> reporter: but marine le pen has gotten a boost from raushia. alone, ten years ago, about $10 million for her party. >> the very fact that marine le pen is in moscow this week and is there to drum up support from putin, has received a $10 million loan from the russ

france's marine le pen loses immunity from prosecution for tweeting so—called islamic state images aser rival sets out his stall in the election. british cycling bosses promise to make changes after accusations of bullying and sexism at the top level of the sport. i'm simon mccoy, and in the next hour, how gordon and sarah brown's daughter's death helped save the grandchild of another labour leader. villa survived thanks to and on the bus lane cameras snapping up £31 million a year. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. there are claims that policing in england and wales is in in a "potentially perilous" state, with victims being let down, criminal cases shelved that's the warning from the police watchdog. her majesty's inspectorate of constabulary says most of the 43 forces in england and wales are providing a good service, but a third require improvement. it says some forces are putting the public at an unacceptable risk by rationing their response to crime as they struggle with cutbacks. our home affairs correspondent dominic casciani reports. the cornerstone of british policing,

polls also show that far right candidate marine le pen lost ground.eaderouth korean park has appeared for the first time in a corruption hearing the end of her presidency. she apologized to the green people -- to the korean people. she had immunity while under prosecution. global news 20 for hours a day are b powered by toy 600 journalists nameless and more than 120 countries, i am mark barton. this is labor. bloomberg. mark: we're live in paris next. this is bloomberg. ♪ vonnie: from bloomberg world headquarters in new york, i am vonnie quinn. mark: live from london, i am mark barton county down to the european close. last night, president of hopefuls -- presidential hopefuls sparring on the debate stage. independent candidate emmanuel macron the most convincing when clashing with marine le pen. joining us now is deputy euro chief of paris. had so much to lose going into the debate last night. the concerns over his candidacy to bed now? >> i would not say he has put those concerns to that. bed. i would take them cautiously and use them as anecdotal e

the situation with marine le pen, is thatjust a distraction? bit of difference to the campaign, it might even help her. her supporters look at the european parliament as a total shower, so were the issue turns to their will say what is new? she tweeted those pictures in response to her party being like daesh, and she said no, this is islamic state and broadcast the three images. it laid her open to this prosecution which might now be able to go ahead because of her community... it is not actually community, it is immunity from charges relating to her work as a parliamentarian that has been lifted. so yes it is an inconvenience to her but frankly i don't think you will make any difference to the. emmanuel macron, his manifesto, does that change things? yes, it is more good news for him that he can move in where more or less francois fillon has vanished in the policy debate. he is the centrist ex—holland s2. he has been accused of having anything of substance, merely being a internet style presidential campaign of the new era. that has been confo

laura: far right candidate marine le pen is facing legal action herself. she is under investigation for the dissemination of violent images. she retreated brutal images of islamic state executions in 2013, including the decapitated body of journalist james foley. reporter: with a show of hands, marine le pen loses her parliamentary immunity. >> i think the result is clear. a large majority is in favor of lifting immunity. reporter: a blow for the presidential candidate. she is using her twitter account to share several violent images from the islamic state group, including the execution of an american journalist. le pen was summoned by the investigating judge but she refused to attend, invoking her parliamentary immunity. here in france, the public prosecutor's office has been requesting that her immunity be lifted. now that it has, the case can move forward. she is being investigated for publishing violent images, which can carry a 75,000 euro fine or even imprisonment. however, the lifting of her immunity is specific to her tweets. it does not apply to t

marine le pen.here is a danger lurking on the sidelines in italy where the far it -- where the five-star movement could come in. gasquet even if he had the biggest party, he would not be the prime minister at the point of the populist movement is that "we are the people of they will not let us govern because they are scared. that is one thing that the netherlands has proved. wilders is not the people, not even 20%. that is good. and now, we have to look at the other bits of europe and proof there that they are part of the people but not "the people." rieke: that was part of the thisf that we saw after election. everyone was eagerly watching the netherlands saying this would be the start of the populist spring and then we move on to france and germany. i think that is part of the relief. we saw that he is not the people as you rightly put it and it is the same kind of relief we felt after austria. everyone feared after donald that and brexit, that would be the beginning of populism spreading in europ

how is that feeding into le pen? again, what they are saying, how does that fade back into the republican story? >> technically, the legal battles are having a big impact on francois fillon. since the first investigation started at the end of january. it is having virtually no impact on marine le pen because her supporters, her base already feels persecuted by the system. so they already feel that the judges are trying to attack their candidate and of course oosting the chances of macomb. if you look at the latest pole we had this morning, le pen is stable at 27%. and macomb is at 24%. in the run-off, this is from yesterday, we have a more recent number exactly. le pen is still leading. fillon is below 20%. also francois fillon is not benefiting from some of the electorate of sarkozy, the former french president. a big portion of sarkozy's base has gone to ma home or le pen. you're seeing all of thisexodus of lawmakers, republican lawmakers who used to support fillon who have now decided to resign. now you have the c

macron and marine le pen, between globalization and protectionism, the new political divide.y williamson, bbc news, paris. palmyra, same as the agent ruins has changed hands several times during the conflict. they managed to retake the city -- december.unding sweden has announced it will inntroduce military -- response to global security challenges including the threat from russia. sweden suspended the policies seven years ago. but military action in the alt. area has increased. to all on wall street today traders welcomed the first of trading for snapshot. shares of the photo sharing from came sprinting out of the gate. dave lee joins us with more from san francisco. snapshot closed with more than $30 a share. why are investors so desperate to get a piece of the action? dave: well, i think they say it is a potential huge network along the lines of facebook. the moment snapchat is not close to making any money but the potential for it to be a money making machine is in the air. there are 150 million users of snapchat and many of them use the app more than 10 times a day so th