whose party has suffered from infighting he quit over policy differences after being demoted by le pen on wednesday night and fashion has more from paris. well it's not been a good year for marie le pen five months ago she had a good child so winning the presidential election but she lost and now the cracks to really starting to show in a national front party now there's always been a lot of infighting in the party but that's all become a lot more public since the resignation of le pen's right hand man. the flipper was something of a golden boy for the national front he was tossed to dragging the party into the mainstream making it seem more acceptable he tried to clean up its extreme image he tried to shift the focus away from issues like immigration and more on to things like soften c. and protectionism but one of the pen lost the election many in the party turned around and said it was his fault that he simply had the wrong strategy and that he had alienated the base supporters what will happen to the national front now remains to be seen by many though all wondering whether or not

girlfriend is where marine le pen has her support base. -- rural france is where marine le pen has her support base. sarah: turning now to business news, siemens has expanded to rail. daniel has more. daniel: siemens has confirmed that they are joining this french company. the government is privately encouraging the deal that is a change of tact. the focus is no longer on protecting french business by creating a european powerhouse. competition from abroad is fierce. >> siemens and -- they are trying to create a new train building business. they come from a single manufacturer. siemens wants to bring its entire train division and return -- in return for a 50% cut of the firm they are not doing it entirely of their own free well free will it is in a state of advanced consolidation. the chinese group crrc -- thnext step is probably continental europe where crrc could rely on a purchase of a manufacturer. even after the new firm was founded, the pressure on the europeans will increase, siemens has considered a canadian company but it was ruined by the shaky finances. the big european deal

has more on this from paris well it's not been a good year for marine le pen five months ago she had a good chance of winning the presidential election but she lost a melba cracks are really starting to show international friends party now there's always been a lot of infighting in the party but that's all become a lot more public since the resignation of le pen's right hand man laura filippo the flipper was something of a golden boy for the national front he was tasked to dragging the party into the mainstream making it seem more acceptable he tried to clean up its extreme image he tried to shift the focus away from issues like immigration and more on to things like so fancy and protectionism but one of the pen lost the election many in the party turned around and said it was his fault that he simply had the wrong strategy and that he had alienated the base supporters what will happen to the national front now remains to be seen by many though all wondering whether or not it will actually slide back to its more hollowed rights origins the kremlin says the us actor morgan freeman mig

by the way, i'm not jean—claude juncker, i'm a marine le pen.ot jean—claudejuncker, i'm a modest private citizens right now. i do not wa nt private citizens right now. i do not want more institutional and deeper integration in all aspects of eu life. but in certain aspects. i give you one example. i was competition commission in the early 2000s, a major reform we put in place in 2004 was the decentralisation of eu competition policy. it's now done no longer out of a high cathedral in brussels, the european commission, but through a network which comprises all the national competition authorities and it works marvellously well. in other areas, though, like the policy on refugees, the policy on migration, the fight against climate change, and some aspects of tax harmonisation, you speak of tax harmonisation. not me, jean—claude juncker does. let me quote to you, because it's a rather neat quote, der spiegel, a respected german news organisation, they editorialised saying, have we not learned from the lesson of greece? there is no convergence in eu

vowed to rebuild the party after its deputy quit the loss of florian filippo is a big blow to marine le pen whose party has suffered from infighting philippo quit over policy differences after being demoted by le pen on wednesday night it was responsible for drafting the manifesto for this year's presidential election was behind the proposal for france to leave the eurozone. now china has relaunched the world's fastest train which runs at three hundred fifty kilometers per hour that means a journey of over twelve hundred kilometers from beijing to shanghai can be done in just under four and a half hours in the world there are twenty two countries that operate similar high speed trains japan launched the original bullet train in one thousand nine hundred sixty four it's showing council network operates at maximum speeds of two hundred forty to three hundred twenty kilometers per hour and links major cities in the islands of honshu and q shu british rail which launched its own high speed train service in one thousand nine hundred seventy six is able to reach two hundred one kilometers per hou

repeating itself not everyone is anxious francis far right of the alternative for germany party marine le pen among them. their presence is beneficial and will continue to work on building the europe that we want to have that is a europe of nations a europe of liberties and that's not a europe blocked by the demands of the european union. and the. french president. is at the center of the european project he said he'd phone to congratulate merkel and look forward to further cooperation in israel the e.f.t. sudden arrival in the brandished act forced the government to speak out i can say that i hold that the german people won't go fully the history of germany. and the holocaust although i will say reason that led to this tragedy in the story in all schools corridors of power leading politicians told that german voters were punishing the chancellor for tough stance on russia. i want to point out one of the results of the german election shows that german society is interested in restoring normal relations with russia. i hope that the signal will be heard by the federal government including by t

for markets is the second place, which is the spd, also very pro europe so not a wildcard chance of le penke in the dutch elections. the focus coming out is likely who will be the coalition partner, and how long it takes the government to form it. you might get a void of power for a month or so or longer. it's not a big factor for u.s. markets. to italy where british prime minister theresa may will deliver a major brexit speech later this morning germana has a look at what to expect good morning >>> good morning. >> >> it's a beautiful day in florence will theresa may deliver a glorious speech later this morning? we'll see. this is the second speech of the year back in january theresa may said one line that did not go down well with her eu counterparts, and that no deal was better than a bad deal since then the tone has softened a bit. we're expecting her to strike more of a conciliatory tone, and perhaps that's the reason she chose to deliver the speech in florence in the heart place of italy, the heart place of europe maybe she wants to send the message that the uk is leaving the eu but

about the netherlands and austria and the great package in the balance, concerns in italy, and the le penituation. if you fast-forward, you are past the dutch, the austrian, the french outcome was phenomenal as far as europe is concerned. italy is the only outlier there. the money is not coming back. europe is a place where the underlying fundamentals of being a savings block, sort of like japan which had an ironically strong currency is there. they now have a cyclical upswing going on. the politics are coming together. unless you have steady outflows on the portfolio side, as will be a strong currency. jonathan: that all makes sense except bund yields on -60 basis points, what you want to your notes out of germany when you can have a strong reallocation to europe? >> there is still some fear premium. thereb not buying bunds, are not that many of them. jonathan: if i truly believe the ecb is going to step back, why two-year note yield in germany higher? >> i think mario draghi really has to tight rope monetary policy. he has to slowly normalize and bring down the pace of quantitative easi

asas we have seen,n, there is as le pen.hat these parties are learning their first few years in parliament is to attract multiple groups in society. it starts with more extreme who really do not want to be part of the establishment anymore, but all of a sudden, lineoters cross the moral and think that they have shown some competence in the bundestag, so they can support them next time, so the threshold is getting lower. melinda: let's come back to the applications of presence in parliament. you talk about giving them a platform. let me ask what kind of sentiments we might see a platform the given to. we heard this week about an email allegedly w written in whh the author voiced pretty rabid xenophobia. and as we mentioned, german arresting thee other leader for statements they say may violatate germany's prohibitition on violations of human dignity. those statements called for germany's integration minister turkey.isposed of" in would you say this is a level of hate speech that in fact violate the constitution -- violates th

charlie: what about marine le pen in france, loss?s talk about that for a when you look around the second. world, the ways of going his populism and nationalism. ok? the question before us in the united states and in europe, is there going to be a left wings socialist populism or a center-right populism. marine le pen is a right winger, culturally. but economically, she is for state control. she is virtually as socialist. she has a very garbled message. it is tough to galvanize people -- it is different than the center-right coalition. what we have here in the states, in the united states, you see it over there -- jeremy corbyn versus the tories, so that type of populism, anti-elite populism that you see in bernie sanders, you see the bernie sanders voters -- by the way, in key districts, 15% and 16% of bernie sanders voters voted for trump because they are economic nationalist -- charlie: they were voting for change. steve: let me talk about the three basic components. number one, he is going to stop mass, illegal immigration and cut

in france, the far right leader marine le pen has said she will rebuild the national front after her own faction, the patriots after she was defeated. the canadian opposition mp has apologised after referring to the environment minister as climate barbie. the made the comment on twitter, during an exchange on a report over global warming. the deleted the tweet then apologised for using the world barbie, and said it was not reflective of the role that the minister played. it is 2017. that was canada. this is the story about a search for the dragon. we speak to sir david attenborough about the wonders of the natural world. ryanair is planning to make pilots change holidays, already after the cancellation of 2000 flights. the cheese cheese underfire for under fire for thousands of cancelled flights, the boss of ryanair was not feeling very patient today. he is making pilots delay some leave to avoid cutting yet more flights. extra money in it for them. but also evidence that some could co nve rse but also evidence that some could converse down. rya nair but also evidence that some could

. >> rose: what about le pen in france lost? >> no doubt when you look around the world, the waves are populism and nationalism. the question before us in the united states and in europe is it going to be a left wing more socialist populism or a center right or right wing populism? le pen is culturally a right winger but economically she's for state control. she's virtually a socialist, a very garbled message. not clear at all. she's all for state control, for state to take over certain industries. different than a center right coalition. what we have here in the united states now where you see over there jeremy corbyn, versus the tories. the anti-populism you see in the bernie sanders voters -- by the way in key districts, 15% to 16% of sanders voters voted for trump because they're economic nationalists -- >> rose: they were voting for change. >> let me just talk about the three basic components of the movement. number one, he's going to stop mass illegal immigration and cut back dramatically legal immigration. number two, he'

who said he did not vote for macron in the presidential election but only wanted to prevent marine le pen from the far right from winning. he says he does not necessarily agree with his economic reforms. the protesters say the french government is chipping away at their cherished labor rights. they say with this reform, it will be easier for employers to get rid of staff more easily, to fire them, and higher them more easily. they also say emmanuel macron is taking away their right, they are fighting against social regression. says thesegovernment reforms will actually help boost the business activity and will allow france to become more competitive and fight against the unemployment rate, which is at 9.5% at the moment, almost double that in germany or britain, for example. that unemployment rate is really the crux of the problem. have you been asking any of these people who have turned up today if they have a better way to try to fix it? to be honest, they don't really have a concrete answer to bring forward, but they say they are convinced emmanuel macron's way forward is not the right

countries the vote was also called a symbol of european awakening by french national front leader marine le pen. well the dismay of some with alternative for germany in the capital was also evident across the country i. i. one of the biggest rally sold people gather on side b. e f. g.'s headquarters with protesters shouting and t. nationalist slogans as its leaders celebrated the election results following the demonstrations for us. i. was yeah with. a little god. in these moments he told me very much. be. patient with me emails well yeah i'm not happy with immigration policy but he. was decision for less and i'm going to be in right to see. things on the t.v. they haven't got about being provocative and one should not. well. i. i. i i. was was. this whole lease that's just going to send a signal with the men saying these protesters that i found out tonight i was raving i can show you some of the fact that they still here are some pretty weird ones actually they have been calling the people upset not only. one thing that brings to mind when you see these very angry people is that it might be qu

right are full of congratulations for the strong showing of the a d here in france you have marine le pen who said that not only is this congratulations for what you call to a fifty allies she called it a historic when saying that it is a new symbol of the awakening of the european people world is the far right dutch leader said that we will fight for our countries and our people and in similar sentiments coming out of italy's populist northern league salvini the leader tweeted the desire for change is growing it's up to us as expected parallel to these comments you have european leaders coming out in support for aguilar merkel you have the french president who phoned to congratulate her he said that the two will continue with determination the vital cooperation for europe and for the country's north of spain's prime minister saying that locals relations would still need to quote the promotion of the good key and integration project if it came time to have concern again for the strong showing of the if t.v. first easy you diplomat to comment. after the results came out from brussels the c

if you discuss issues in france you have marine le pen weighing in and it will be the same with the f.t. in germany unfortunately. it was the same story in the netherlands when far right populous to strong support in that country's recent parliamentary elections dutch lawmakers say german voters sent a similar signal the signal that i saw from the german elections is really that no one is immune to change and there is more fragmentation in germany while the center is still strong. i think we have to be mindful of what the far right is going to do the german green party's foreign affairs spokesman says this is a wake up call on the future of the e.u. . with this three pronged alliance between brussels paris and berlin we have a window of opportunity to take the initiative to bring the e.u. closer together but berlin has to be willing to play along. which being avoided with the far right is growing support in europe it may compel the e.u. to pay closer attention to the concerns of all europeans. there from germany well it's got the view from brussels our bureau chief max hoffman joins us

in the second round, he was against marine le pen, who most french still do not like.im vulnerable because they were voting le pen out, not voting macron in. they have decided retracting was a mistake. joe: is there a makeup budget? pascal-emmanuel: that was a fake scandal. fake news from the french, as well. he had a high-profile military leader resign. is it bad as much as anything that has impacted his ratings? just the sense it has been a rocky start? pascal-emmanuel: with a small base and french people generally unhappy with their leaders, he basically had no room for error. he made a couple on forced errors. a couple were serious. then he just crashed. scarlet: when you look at what he could bring to the table, it is plans to change brands's labor laws, which were pretty onerous. was the elected in spite of that or because of it? pascal-emmanuel: there is a significant number of people who support those kinds of reforms. it is just not near to a majority. he does have a base of support, just not the majority. luck.ou say macron has in addition to the opposition n

thirty percent of the adult troops in the end he got thirteen percent of the dots wrote and marine le pen's campaign i think was also surprisingly weak and started to fizzle out and that's i think because french people are dutch people simply didn't want to have a repeat of what's going on in the united states and yet recent opinion polls show that almost half of german voters are still undecided what do you think sustains these political in decisiveness and do you think the undecided voters in joe many i capable of the same surprise that the american and british undecided voters delivered last year i think i would that really would be very very surprising i mean we always knew that the both the british election and the british wrote on their own bracks it and the american election would be very very close. ok but really norm of the opinion polls is suggesting that in the german case this surprise lies in. the extent to which the smaller parties were differentiate themselves so they're not very far apart in the opinion polls and opinion polls in germany traditionally have been really quite

their vote was also called a symbol of european awakening by the french national frankly to marine le pen. as we've been talking about forming a coalition with the remaining parties is going to be a tough job i'm going to love merkel is not the only challenge ahead for the now for her a chance for the ship with more on where it's going to go what she's got ahead of. too many angela merkel is the embodiment of stability in the face of crisis diplomacy with a firm hand and sound decision making well for that skill this term has been marred by a series of setbacks. firstly she decided to open the doors to asylum seekers at the height of the refugee crisis almost a million flooded into germany in twenty fifteen alone while some more welcoming others started to worry the country just wouldn't be able to cope. a year off to mark a lot open door policy germany saw a rise in modern crimes one of the most shocking hundreds of women alleging they were sexually assaulted in cologne new year's celebrations by men of north africa and of appearance. events in cologne took their toll on locals popularit

country the vote was also called a symbol of european awakening by french national frankly than marine le pen however some n. palin are horrified that a nasty his party has entered parliament. that the f.t. enters the bundestag with approximately thirteen percent is a catastrophe for us i hope we won't have a big coalition but rather that the c.s.u. the s.d.p. and the greens will come together reasonably and that the s.p.d. will come up with good arguments to the f.d.a. as opposition so that we weren't let them become stronger here in germany clog avoidant it was clearly the would get into the going to start but it's the realisation that such a radical force is in parliament. it's terrifying to know that these people who sit alongside other politicians and we were completely horrified at the end up being such a had percentage i think it's actually shameful the germany has gone down this path . the dismay of some with alternative germany in the capital was also evident across the country. i i i i i. i. one of the biggest down to fascist rallies gathered outside the a.f. these headquarters with

repeating itself not everyone is anxious french is far right of the alternative for germany party marine le penamong them. his own presence is beneficial and will continue to have come during the year that we want to have that he's a europe has nations a europe of liberties and that's not a europe blocked by the demands of the european union. and the. french president manuel mccrone is at the center of the european project he said he'd phone to congratulate merkel and look forward to for the cooperation. and israel the e.f.t. sudden arrival in the bin distract forced the government to speak out at the end said that they hope that the german people won't go fully the history of germany. and remember the holocaust and all the i will say reason that led to this tragedy in the story in all schools corridors of power leading politicians told d.w. news that german voters were punishing the chancellor for tough stance on russia the. reason i want to point out in the results of the german election shows that german society has entrusted in restoring normal relations with russia i hope that the signal w

of continental europe they've long had far right parties and in neighboring france you have marine le pen she had thirty five she got thirty four percent of the vote you mentioned ukip or earlier when britain has a very contentious political culture so i think you know germany was an outlier by obviously because of its history there was a taboo on the extreme right there still is obviously but you know seventy five years after world war two that taboo is is disintegrating and germany is becoming more of a normal european country in that regard as far as my book goes the end of europe i talk about the end of europe as we've come to really know it's over the past twenty five thirty years as a place of of peace of economic prosperity of political moderation and i think in all ways we're seeing this break down and i really think that the results of sunday's election attests to this and that you know germany has now really really joins the club of countries that are dealing with this with this populous problem on the other hand we did see merkel re-elected despite her refugee policy and recent

of france which is very important to germany since the election because of the german worry that le pen could be the one next time merkel is really hoping all for several months too for this time to help mccraw as much as she could that is on hold for the time being for the reasons pascal just mentioned that event is on how much has political mandate been weakened in the last few days it has of course of course been weakened a lot no doubt about it but is too strong a word cliffhanger us think is the right description right now this is where we are and it will take a while and we have no government in the netherlands we have had for one and a half you know government in belgium and life continued and therefore the same thing will happen here in germany we are not. politically dead we do have a working government and therefore we will see a very very very complicated and complex attempt to form a new government very open ended no doubt about it. but the world can rest assured germany will continue to do is its job the face of security around us no doubt about it but in the end because th

some reactions to the election results and the surge of the far right populist here is that marine le pen who lost her election bid in france remember her cheers to our allies from the a.f.d. for this is stuart result is a new sign of the awakening of the european people she says others express their gratitude to the current and presumably future chancellor. antonio antonio well i'm sorry. looks like i've lost my script they are waiting for my teleprompter folks. i'm. going to where are we going others express their gratitude to the current ok i'm just waiting to find out we're going. ok we apologize for that we're running out of time. but that's going to wrap up this edition of the day gentlemen thank you very much to let me ask eric long a mockery pre-shared it will see them are everybody. election victory number four. until america remains germany's chancellor. for a little career began in one thousand nine hundred ninety when the berlin wall fell and unforeseen rise to power far. from physicists to the most powerful woman in the world until america a fortress. thirty minutes. she's lo