probably one of the nicest kind of adjectives you could put to the situation. french president manuel crohn has been caught in a hot mike incident breaking some rather bad news to us. comes pont joe biden. as he said, arab nations weren't to be able to produce more oil for at least the next 6 months . putting a hold on western attempts to lower their record energy prices. a with one, with the full 6 with there is no better way to draw attention to yourself than to run up to the president of the united states, yelling joe joe. and then start whispering when there are cameras around. not co new very well that he wasn't at a private party and that there were cameras around. so what's that old adage if you want people to pay attention to what you're saying? just start whispering, right? so here in france, raise talking about it, it makes you wonder if that was the intent. so who was president michael's audience and what did he want us to understand? obviously, europe is facing an energy prices in supply problems, but chancellor schultz is out there denouncing the same fossil fuels that you coun

ron. 2 of the french parliamentary election is said to take place on sunday president manuel mac, crohn's majority hanging in the balance. his political blockers facing a stiff challenge from a new left wing block touch up on the report now from the moose. on one of the earth battle ground cities, some of us are in dallas located damian. mo day is campaigning hard with just days before the final round of francis parliamentary election. he says there's no time to waste more on alone, though. an activist and candidate for france is new left wing alliance in the southwestern city of li, merge. he's trying to rally support in an area where many people abstained in the 1st round because they're fed up of politicians. but he says he'll be different. really with civic on top, oscar, i come from here and i want to see empties that are actually represent ordinary people because that's not been the case for 5 years. there is this hope that we finally have a real, a position to michael, and that we can do something new on issues like climate change. more days leading the race in this constituency. i

france in the 2nd round of parliamentary elections which could decide the future of president manuel, mac crohn's reform agenda. the 1st round showed macro centrist coalition, coming out just to head in a tight race with a newly formed left wing alliance, the president will lead a majority to push through his plans to raise the retirement age and reduce taxes. joan hall is monitoring events for smart side, the polling station in paris. and jonah, there's a great deal at stake here, isn't there? there is, it's not just an election for a new parliament and an election that will determine the face of the new government based on those results. it is crucially and elections that will define the limits of president microns power in his 2nd term to enact reforms in the face of economic crisis at home. and of course, crisis on the world stage as well. because if his centrist grouping ensemble news, their majority in this parliamentary election, it will be the 1st time since he was elected in 2017. that macro has not had a free hand to do basically whatever he wants. now the results of the 1st round, the

manuel mccall. a stunning setback is coalition has lost its governing majority in parliamentary elections results. so mc, crohn's block will still emerge with the biggest number of seats and the new national assembly. but without the 289 seats needed for a majority, the french leader may have trouble in acting his reform agenda. o, emmanuel mac, ron faces an uncertain 2nd presidential term. his centrist alliance on psalms, has lost its parliamentary majority, as voters turned away from mainstream parties. list you as your unit, the situation is unprecedented from luna's through the national assembly has never seen a configuration of listen height in the 5th republic. citrus jo, this situation constitutes a risk for our country and view of the challenges that we have to face and several of both on the national and international levels that he should until next year now . but we have to respect this vote and consider its consequences. his big v, they want to do the consequence ensemble will retain the most seats in the national assembly. a new alliance of the far left. the socialists and the grains is set to becom