for marine, of course. the country. so yes, of course, we support her. dissidence francaise believe there is a zionist led conspiracy to commit what they called white genocide, by flooding europe with immigrants. in an attempt to prove her point, electre took me to a nearby paris neighbourhood. when you look around here, you can barely see a white person. i mean the demographics, the numbers were talking, they will be taking over in less than 20 years. europe isn't going to be white or european animal. it's not going to look like this here. that was the language of the old front national, but some of electre‘s views are closer to marine‘s rhetoric. these people hate us, so they can go away. it's the only solution. do you think marine agrees with you on that? i think she agrees but i think she cannot say. maybe one day she well. the front national says such views have no place in the modern party, and yet marine le pen apparently gives off in a far right pheromones to attract people like electre. polls sugge

this being said, marine le pen was certainly hoping for more. yes, i like to have a point that i am a more positive, i acronthe mac home -- m victory a more positive like that you do. i think there are other factors involved. i think it is probably unfair to is hollande's. andid resign and anoint awful lot of people when he did what he did when he resigned from the government. i also think that he initially, the initial surge of his popularity was about doing something different and breaking . of the mold created this to a certain extent, the fuzziness over his program was that he was slightly trapped in a way that he could not really come up with a program because he was standing on a tightrope. neither left nor right, both left and right. he tried to develop a program that did not see him tilt too far in one direction or the other. it is truen extent that there have been a series of ambiguities and ambivalence about what exactly is his program. is make your mind up time. he has to come up with a program. the question was he was held in a sense

followed by marine le pen.you are still waiting for marine le pen, what is the reaction from the party? the party is delighted. i've been speaking to the headquarters senior figures who say this is a clear victory. for marine le pen's vision of france and france in europe and they have a lot of confidence going into the second round. of course they have to say that, everyone knows they have an electoral mountain to climb because of the way in which centrist voters and those from right and left are encouraged to rally against the national front. she said she has a strategy to deal with that. the room has gone a little quiet, sometimes that means people have been told marine le pen is on her way in. we have been watching the other candidates conceding defeat and booing when there are calls from people like francois fillon for his supporters to rally against marine le pen in the second round. the people in the national front know that when they went into the second round before, it went badly for them. they believ

december marine le pen. only two mps in parliament. for sure, december marine le pen.arliament. forsure, here december marine le pen. only two mps in parliament. for sure, here are two candidates will have to make alliances with mainstream to secure alliances with mainstream to secure a majority in parliament, to be able to govern and fast uniforms that they are talking about. now, it is interesting to see that already, francois fillon, the candidate of the republicans who lost in the first round, has said he will vote for emmanuel macron against marine le pen. and most mainstream politicians have also charged supporters to do the same. —— urged. budget year some of the most conservative voices in the republican side saying, actually, i wa nt to republican side saying, actually, i want to vote against emmanuel macron andi want to vote against emmanuel macron and i will vote for marine le pen. whether she will be able to gather enough of these voices and momentum... she is in a much stronger position than her father was 15 years ago when he went to the second—round agai

—— a0% to marine le pen? it is not the party of marine le pen's father.hich has left the race —— raci5m and 80 705 —— anti—semitic vi5ion. stefan simons from der spiegel, agnes poirier, thank you forjoining us. and there is more a course on our website. including live updates and the latest developments. just go to bbc.com/news. we will be back with more. the stars and stripes at half—mast outside columbine high. the school sealed off, the bodies of the dead still inside. i never thought they would actually go through with it. some places have already had nearly as much rain as they would normally expect in an entire year. for millions of americans, the death of richard nixon in a new york hospital has meant conflicting emotions. a national day of mourning next wednesday 5itting somehow uneasily with the abiding memories of the shame of watergate. and lift—off of the space shuttle discovery with the hubble space telescope, our window on the universe. hello. deal with bbc news. i'm sally bundock. —— you are with. the latest headlines: the centrist, emmanue

marine le pen and protest against marine le pen and protest against the vote. 50, we we nt protest against i don't know why. we want to protest because that is the first sign that marine le pen, it is historical. we wa nt marine le pen, it is historical. we want to protest against that. we don't want marine le pen for president. they wanted to protest against that but there is nobody. so, you're looking for where to voice your thoughts, you're upset about marine le pen making it through. we want some people to hear that we are upset. in a time of trouble, it is about the government, every people, saying, this is not normal, this is historical. in 2002, there was not that score with the election. that is historical. we have to do something. we don't want brexit. we want something else. what will you do now? you both voted for left—wing candidates. what will you do with the choice of macron or marine le pen? i'm going to vote for macron because i do not want to see marine le pen as president. i think the all should vote as macron because we do not want marine le pen as president. you were sa

i said battalion first marines. he said come over and join us us.ame back, and we were set up on the river. we saw water, the river. >> we saw this bridge that had been destroyed. >> we had the whole east bank taken care of. >> my organization went across. i thought t i was going to die. >> on september 19, allied troops reached that shore of the han river. on this side, 20,000 north korean troops are prepared to p.

for marine le pen to win? >> well, i think you can ask the question or state the point that the trump white house may perhaps be careful about what it's wishing for. there are clearly intingtive and philosophical similarities between the mode of politics pursued by marine le pen and that pursued by donald trump and the election, but at the same time she's very clearly anti-eu. if she were to have a referendum take france out of the european union and collapse the european union, that would cause chaos in the western world. marine le pen has been very critical of nato. >> as has donald trump. >> he was saying that noito was obsolete, now changed his tune on that perhaps because he realizes the consequence of a weakening nato in terms of the western world and u.s. security. so i think that in terms of the long-term multidecade political and international interests of the united states and the stability of the western world, perhaps a macron victory would be seen as preferable by many people in washington. we've

marine le pen, she is on the side of trump, putin. macron is the new justin trudeau. >> just a quick add-on to what alexis said. this is one of her disadvantages. the french do not want to leave the eurozone. majority, even though europe annoys them, they don't want to leave the eu. if she pushes for this -- and you can see in the run-up to the first round she started actually diminishing the references to the eu and the euro, and giving the idea that maybe these -- the problem now is she will be forced into this by the most pro-european candidate which i think will be a real disadvantage to her because she will have to push for something that the french in their majority are not in favor of. as we were speaking, we have seen a number of leading conservative politicians lending their support to the middle macron for round two. we have also seen the socialist prime minister formally call for socialist voters to support emmanuel macron. candidate benoit hamon. they also said we need to vote for macron. this gives an argument to marine l

marine le pen is ending just a tad under 22%. obviously, this pushes her through to the second round. this is a feat that she, by her father in 2002, but now she'll be facing off against emanuel mar con and already to project ourselves on may 7th. the second round, all the polls have shown that emanuel marcon would win canwould become france's next -- would win and would become france's next president. obviously, there are two weeks left to go, but if so, he would become a very, very young president of france. but, obviously, this is a whole new campaign starting tonight. >> indeed. and what a shake-up. let's see, i don't know if we have the images we can, perhaps, pull up of the headquarters there, if we have -- just to see reaction to this news as it come in. [cheers and applause] there we have the images from emanuel marcon supporters, they are certainly ecstatic that their candidate has pulled off something that's never been seen before here in france. once again, it cannot be understated, the fact that this 39-year-old has p

the second, marine le pen, because she was the candidate of anger.o emotions. and more profoundly, because the two traditional political parties that have been leading france for the last decade, both collapsed. after months of uncertainty, france has opted for two different futures. hope or anger, free trade protectionism, eu member or not. all that stands in the way of power is one more vote. let's take you like to paris and our correspondent thomas fessy. it is clear that there has been a vote for political change, but the two types of change in the table could not be more different? absolutely. we have seen the meltdown of traditional party tonight. the result shows clear distrust in the political class, and a desire for change. but as you say, two very different visions on the table. on the one hand, you have emmanuel macron, who is pragmatic, somebody who wants to push for deeper european integration, in favour of international trade deals, and who wants to push liberal economic reforms in france. and on the other hand, we have marine le pen, w

except the hard left candidate wanted to open borders, and marine le pen wa nted open borders, and marinere incredibly close. and where there we re incredibly close. and where there were those jazzers, that had affected the market. the right knocked out. we talk about the conservatives, the centre right, rosati on, not the far right. the french are right was by francois fillon. -- french are right was by francois fillon. —— francois fillon. this was jacques chirac‘s party. they have beenin jacques chirac‘s party. they have been in power since 1958. this is not just been been in power since 1958. this is notjust been viewed as an electoral blow? the right has disappeared and thatis blow? the right has disappeared and that is the republican party. so now we have two unknown entities. emmanuel macron is young. his editor and 40 this year. he does not have a party. so it is a complete renewal of the political class, really, that we go to see in the next two months. and marine le pen, caused a we know her. —— he is going to turn 40. this was a link that she inherited from her father. she was a

we have been hearing from marine le pen.e survival of friends is at stake here. the front nationale has only reached the second round was before. —— front. —— national. one country, one electorate, two very different faces. france has chosen change but of what sort? emmanuel macron was once called the champagne bubble, with no previous experience and no established party, he would, critics said, pop very quickly. vive la france! instead, he brought in those disillusioned with france's traditional parties. his liberal, pro—europe policy is attracting voters from both right and left. but voters from right and left also chose marine le pen, who wants everything emmanuel macron does not: leave the euro, slash immigration, and clamp down on free trade. her support has been the steadiest in this election, barely changing from months ago. so why was this result so hard to call? william and his sister helene had no idea who they would vote for today, even as they walked to their local polling station. they were not alone, almost a q

that is what marine le pen will be attacking. national is livid whether it is francois fillon, the centre—right candidates saying he would vote macron and he is asking people to vote against marine le pen. the euro has gained a bit in value. there was concern about the integrity of the european union if it were to be marine le pen who wins. of course also she is completely eurosceptic. the idea that there could be a breaking up of the year union. eurosceptic against europhile railing. a crucial election for france. it is not over. there is a second round on the 7th of may. it would seem to be at is all there for mr macron. there are two weeks to go. let's see what happens. be you tonight is relieved. the unit is looking at france. if there were to bea looking at france. if there were to be a win for marine le pen this would have huge imprecations for the united kingdom and for brexit. she has said she would put it to the people and, in the end, it would be the french people who would decide that. sighs of relief and a huge tensio

marine le pen oi’ president of france. marine le pen or macron.s other news. it's been confirmed that a us citizen has been arrested in north korea as tensions in the region remain high. the korean—american man, identified only by his surname kim, was held on friday at pyongyang airport. two other us citizens, a pastor and a college student, who were detained last year are also being held. they were found guilty of what north korea calls subversive acts against the country. the bbc‘s steve evans is in south korea. we are told that he is in his 50s, an academic with a us passport he spent some time in china. he was in north korea for about one month helping with relief projects. there are actually quite a lot of foreigners who go to north korea and the deal is always that they do not get involved, for example, in christian missionary work. so some of the people who are arrested for foul of that. with this particular gentleman, we simply do not know what the true situation is. we do not know if he is simply been stopped at the airport on his way out

marine le pen will dispute that.lfight in her victory rally she promised a real fight in the second round. what i have to offer is a big change, a fundamental change, a new way of doing politics. new faces in power and the renewal you have been waiting for. marine le pen won more votes tha n waiting for. marine le pen won more votes than her party has ever got before. her supporters believe she can beat emmanuel macron. the choice is very clear. macron is for globalisation and marine le pen for a renewed france. during these two weeks we will be able to explain that and marine will gather the patriotically vote. her first stop this morning was a market in northern france. opinion polls suggest she starts the run—off well behind mr macron. marine le pen will wa nt to behind mr macron. marine le pen will want to make it a referendum on patriotism, europe, on globalism. she is trying to repeat a little bit the american campaign, donald trump versus clinton. the capital cleaning graffiti preparing for the second round. i

maybe marine le pen was hoping that she would come out first. atabsolutely, when we look polling for this election, marine le pen was the front runner, well above 25% which is a higher score than she ended up getting on the provisional results. ofind me, there is a lot booing going on because the people who gathered for this election are watching french tv where they saw the announcement of the first round provisional results. the socialist party candidate is presently speaking. the people have been booing anyone not from the national front. they also booed when emmanuel macron's headquarters were shown. at the exact moment when we found out the provisional results, there was a real chantingg of and singing and people said we are going to win. it's a mitigated jubilant atmosphere but we will have to wait and see what marine le pen has to say when she turns up to speak to her supporters below. >> we have some reaction coming into her victory in second place. this will cause chaos. what she has to offer will come under tight scrutiny. >> indeed, y

-- over marine le pen. the euro sores on the news that manual macron is through to the second round. the u.s. defense secretary following friday's deadly taliban attack and scores of inhan soldiers were killed the worst attack on armed forces in years. first, all loads have been counted following yesterday's first round presidential election in france. the final result go as follow, the centrist candidates emmanuel macron came first with 24% of the votes. he was followed by the national front candidate marine le pen. the conservative candidate with just over 20% and just behind him, jean-luc melenchon. the socialist party candidate picked up just over 6%. mainstream politicians have been calling on voters to keep the far right out of power. thelatest to do so is outgoing francois hollande, who is urging voters to back emmanuel macron against le pen. hollande says a victory for le pen will spell disaster for france. vote dealt a crushing blow to the french political classes. both of the main two parties were

as marines?is right, and i need all marines equally committeded. >> a marine spokesman says the marines involved in the inappropriate behavior don't stand for their core values. he did acknowledge in the past the marine corps has not addressed the problem as it should have and didn't take the necessary action to get a handle on it but says now things will change. the marines have also put together a task force to investigate the scandal, and it will look into the bigger cultural forces that are at play in the marines, but the women are still questioning if all of this is going to be enough because even as this new policy has been rolled out over the past month, jake, mary once again told her story to her superior. %-ps about the status of any of the disciplinary actions that have been taken in the wake of the story about these photographs being posted? >> so ncis continues to investigate to try to figure out who really is responsible for a lot of these postings, you know, on these private faceboo

the second, marine le pen, because she was the candidate of anger.emotions. and more profoundly, because the two traditional political parties that have been leading france for the last decade, both collapsed. after months of uncertainty, france has opted for two different futures. hope or anger, free trade protectionism, eu member or not. all that stands in the way of power is one more vote. another of our correspondents thomas fessy says the result could be a pivotal moment in french politics. we have seen the meltdown of traditional parties tonight and i think that the result shows a clear distrust in the ruling political class and a desire for change. but, as you say, two very different visions on the table. on the one hand we have emmanuel macron, a pragmatic person who wants to push for deeper european integration in favour of international trade deals and who wants to push liberal economy reforms in france. on the other hand we have marine le pen who is all about protectionism, who wants to put france and the french first, with whom foreigners

he will face a run—off with marine le pen, in two weeks.g on bbc .com. who said pandas were lazy? this panda called meng meng has been turning heads by performing somersaults in her enclosure in sichuan province. now it is time for hardtalk.

marines represent the marine corps at all times and their speech and conduct must consistently embody our core values and commitment to each other, our corps and our nations. marines must never engage in commentary or public content on social networking platforms or other forms of communication that harm good order and discipline or bring discredit upon themselves, their unit or the marine corps. "time" magazine responded about the new policy, saying it makes clear how existing rules can be used to prosecute offensive and indecent and disrespectful online activities, but it creates no new laws, underscoring the legal quagmire posed by the internet and constraints on military leaders posed by privacy laws and first amendment rights of free speech. i think we all know that free speech has limits. certainly neither civilians nor military members can post threats of various kinds on the internet, can't violate copyrights, cannot engage in libel and so forth without facing the consequences. but i think the more difficult issue is are there differences between service members and civilians

marine le pen will dispute that.she promised a real fight in the second round. translation: what i have to offer is a big change, a fundamental change, a new way of doing politics. new faces in power and the renewal that you have been waiting for. marine le pen won more votes than her party has ever got before. her supporters believe that she can beat macron. the choice is clear, macron is for globalisation, marine le pen is for a renewed france. we have a clear political choice and i believe in these two weeks we will be able to explain that and that marine le pen will gather the patriotic vote. her first stop this morning was a market in northern france. opinion polls suggest that she starts the run—off well behind emmanuel macron. marine le pen will want to make it a referendum on patriotism, on europe, on globalism. she is trying to repeat a little bit the american campaign. trump versus clinton. the capital, here cleaning anti—le pen graffiti, is already preparing for the second round. in two weeks' time france

seems like he is the end with marine le pen. reporter followed his supporters in the northern town of data in a northern town. -- supporters in a northern town. >> and one of france's poorest -- says he25 polls went into politics to help the young. >> the youth are the worst hit by unemployment and economic crisis and social crisis in poor neighborhoods, they feel forgotten like these elections do not concern them. despite his promise of wealth redistribution and approved welfare, convicting young people to vote is not always easy. >> i voted for francois hollande in 2012 but people are disillusioned. you will a president but nothing changes. -- you elect a president, but nothing changes. .> voting did not interest me then i talked to my family and we decided to vote for mel enchon. putut -- we hope he will his policies into practice. >> yes they can over marine le pen for the battle for young people's votes. faced with poverty, apathy. >> this fight their best efforts, young people are not the only ones who feel frustrated. >>

it's all measures we know from marine le pen.aking advantage of what happened yesterday to convince maybe some voters that she's the best bet against terror. you heard the political analysts before saying the bulk of the front national voters are already in there. so whether she will be in -- whether she will be in capacity to attract more voters after the terror attacks, we have unfortunately become accustomed to in france, since it's repeatedly happened to france since 2015, whether she will be able to grab more voters because she does this kind of marshal declaration remains to be seen. as you know, the favorite is still emanuel macron. can the event of yesterday impact him? that's also a question because it's true that he appears less experienced, you know, and quite new. he's 39. is he able to face this kind of threat on our territory? that's a question that maybe people in the secrecy of the polling vote will ask themselves. maybe they will choose to go to fillon. because fillon has been in politics for 30 years. also older

marine le pen will dispute that. the second round. translation: what i have to offer is a big change, a fundamental change, and new way of doing politics. new faces in power and the renewal you have been waiting for. marine le pen won more votes than her party has ever got before. her supporters believe she can beat macron. the choice is clear, macron is for globalisation, marine le pen is for a renewed france. we have a clear political choice and i believe we will be able to explain that and that marine le pen will gather the patriotic vote. her first stop this morning was a market in northern france. 0pinion polls suggest she sta rts france. 0pinion polls suggest she starts the run—off well behind emmanuel macron. marine le pen will wa nt to emmanuel macron. marine le pen will want to make it a referendum on patriotism, on europe, on globalism. she is trying to repeat a little bit the american campaign. trump versus clinton. the capital, here cleaning anti—le pen graffiti, is already preparing for the second round.

because marine le pen came. he changes with the wind. >> we don't expect anything from him. >> emmanuel macron is intelligent. does he stand for the factory workers? it's time for him to prove it. it's 2017. he needs to take care of whirlpool. >> many here are resigned to the fact that the american electrical goods giant will relocate the factory to poland. with the election fast approaching, it seems centrist globalist macron still has a way to go before convincing france's factory workers he's on their side. >> the european parliament has begun proceedings to lift marine le pen's immunity over misused funds. they believe the fake jobs scandal has cost themem nearly 5 million euro's. accocording to one s source thet of the scandal which involves the employment of assistance and bodyguards has risen considerably after new information was revealed. for the very latest we can cross live to brussels with meabh mcmahon. what can you tell us about this story? we can tell you that the form of protest has begun to -- h

when marine le pen's father was in the election.here are a lot of undecided people still and a lot of lefties who will not go to vote and a lot of abstentions, so participation will be decisive it.acron really makes peter: geraldine, you have been nodding. geraldine: we have teedo problems -- the first is teedo extremist- two parties. not onlyties are against europe. i would say it is probably not the reason why they were elected in france. they voted for these parties because of unemploymentt, especially among the young people. we have 25% unemployment among young people. this is more the reason why these parties were elected on and on veryes dangerous economic programs, and i think i am more worried about marine le pen planning these economic programs than on the french voting for or against the european union when she will organize the referendum as she promised to do. peter: tell me more about the move in france at this juncture. geraldine: it is very distressing because one of the candidates, melenchon, the far won almostate, w

marine le pen is strong here.eople say they are tired and fed up of voting for the left and not getting anything out of it so they switched to the national front. macron is trying to counter that and we have le pen down the road. >> thank you so much. news coming in that emmanuel macron will be heading to the whirlpool factory, perhaps on wednesday, so we will be giving you the updates. genie: thanks again. let's wrap up on a lighter note. journalists have tracked down a young man who is the spitting image of emmanuel macron. florence: he is 24 years old, rides a moped, and his mother thinks he looks like emmanuel macron. a funny report about this young who apparently is being stopped in the [music] announcer: dhaka, capital of bangladesh. . there are already 13 million people here. that is set to almost double in the next decade, making this city one of the most densely populated places on earth. all these people are coming to dhaka because their rural homes are being destroyed. atiq: bangladesh is the front line

the blue is marine le pen.e south she is very popular. 0n the left—hand side, the western side of france, it is emmanuel macron, and also in the cities. if you look at the communes that the candidates won, marine le pen took 19,000 communes, three times nearly as many as emmanuel macron, which tells you he has the support of cities like this one, paris, and she is very popular in rural areas. i'm joined now by marine le pen's colleague and a leading politician from front national, bruno gollnisch. five years ago was when we met because we were there for the leadership challenge, you were running against marine le pen. the polls suggest she has not become a cce pta ble polls suggest she has not become acceptable in the cities. although i had been her contender, i think she is doing very well. i think the most important change results from the fa ct important change results from the fact that an increasing number of french people came to understand that we were right in our analysis of the situation and a growing

at the heart of the country which voted for marine le pen or is on the seaside voted marine le pen.ies -- is what you said is true for paris and lyon. it is indeed a sign of a deep divide in the country. between those who are involved in a vibrant economy and those who are left aside. i don't think you need to change anything the fed. but you do need to change the idiots --of the structure of the economy. the left three group? i talked with francine in aboutgton three days ago the path from -- excuse me -- through chirac and mitterrand. how does the left adopt and adjust? to some extent, we're back to the 1960's where there were four parties. .he far left is now melenchon not very different. then you have the center which is larger than it used to be which is macron. and then you have the right, which is still there. got almost 20% of the vote and then you have the far right, which is a new thing also around what he percent. -- also around 20%. the country now will not be governed by either the left or the right. but by a moving coalition in the center. i don't think macron can have

you know this marine? that's hammons, third platoon, great. he only had a couple weeks to go but you better call in a chopper to get yourself taken care of. i looked around at the dead and wounded, sprawled beside the stream along the ravine. why have the kid done it? sacrificed himself for a stranger? when his own return home had been so near. then he wounded man began screaming, i truly came in by the quaking concussions shaking rain from the trees, smoke drifted like bitter incense. there was something else too, something important. i remembered in a rush like a wave tearing in and breaking over me, moved to contact our regimental commandment such about. i forced myself to my need and swain, weak, dizzy and after a moment i can look to him. the dead marine was looking up at me, wide-eyed like he had asked a question that he was waiting for an answer. were falling back lieutenant? i took a deep breath, shuddered and tore my gaze from that unblinking one. put in puzzle things now, i think back later. no, corporal. let me get the tourniquet on

i want him more than marine le pen.orter: and france's political establishment, including its current president, has urged all voters to do the same. right would deeply divided france. it was stigmatized fill out fellow citizens because of their religions are backgrounds. it would undermine liberty and the republic. reporter: aware of her party's divisive reputation, marine le pen had a surprise announcement tonight. said she was stepping aside as president of the national front to run for president of all of france. emmanuel macron still has a race to win. this is an all or nothing campaign for both candidates. in true french style, this promises to be passionate and dramatic. am: i caught up with katya little earlier in paris. a new political landscape in france. let's start with marine le pen, standing down from the national front. is that temporary? reporter: she put it more in terms of stepping aside rather than stepping down. there are reports that if she doesn't make it to the top political job in france, she wil

the young people are protesting by voting for marine le pen.left. but we have 25% unemployment for young people. these people are voting for the national front. taking that into account, if you put marine le pen in the second poke round, all the polls was a she loses. you say she can win. when i use my modelling which allowed me to predict trump, i also get marine le pen losing. however, what is very new today is the fact that in order to implement what has been chord the republican front, people have to do vote against for the challenger. but this time for many people to vote for the challenger is going to be rather high, if it will be macron fillon or melenchon, we have a substantial section of voters who have an aversion to all of those. there will be a strong dilemma, on the one hand they want to oppose marine le pen on the other, they would have to do to swallow a hugely bitter pearl. the point is, on the day any excuse would be good to stay home and forget to vote. so you are saying her vote is woakes solid, if she gets hers out, the othe

if marine le pen were to win there would be a great deal of uncertainty., france has economic problems call. so does the eurozone. they have the ministers meeting later on, it may need to talk about a lot of things. notjust brexit but, certainly, they will probably now need to talk about a french exit as well and how they will solve problems within the eurozone. here is a look ahead at what else is coming up over the next few days. due to report its earnings, this wednesday. that is twitter. sony will follow on friday and as mentioned earlier, the 27 remaining eu members are scheduled to meet on saturday to go over a negotiation outline guiding them through two yous of brexit talks. in other news:, the yous of brexit talks. in other news: , the japan—based yous of brexit talks. in other news:, the japan—based is reportedly looking at writing down as much as $3.7 billion for the year ending the first of march. that will be on goodwill from its acquisition of an australian logistics union. japan post is a conglomerate was businesses and postal delivery as we

including marine le pen.was 20 years ago or is it a different party? it is different but the difference is, it is the continuing story. and personally ijoined the national front in 2013, which is not too long ago. but marine le pen was there when she was aged 18, 30 years ago. so you can see why some people, and you must have come across this, some peoplejust think of this party as fascist, you have moved a long way but your vote share has only grown by 3%. you have a lot more to do. you know, parties involved, the kind of accusation that the party is nationalists does not stick. the french know that it is not the truth. because what marine le pen stands for is patriotism. she says what makes this country great or made it great is that france had the ability to make french are people coming from anywhere around the world. we lost that somewhere along the way because of the sheer number we cannot take in so many people any more. so we have to reduce the number of migrants to make sure that france has this abil

he'll face marine le pen of the front nastionale.han twenty years since they reached the second round of the electoral process. a victory for either of them could have profound implications for the eu — and for brexit. our europe editor katya adler has the latest. emmanuel macron looking presidential last nights. a bit prematurely perhaps. there's a lot of glad handing still to be done two weeks to go before the final vote. financial markets in brussels may think president macron is a done deal. but she doesn't. marine le pen, macron‘s rivalfor president, his rival for french voters‘ trust. a welcome visitor on market day in the forgotten town. she's the people's president, she says, with welfare policies to match. eu to the back of the cue. madam le pen wants out of the euro, she's anti—big business too. —— queue. it's exactly these images that marine le pen will be chasing throughout her presidential campaign. her intended message — she's a woman of the people. while her political rival, emmanuel macron, is a remote parisian elitis

marine la pen does not impress me. i won't vote for her. >> le pen is also calling voters across the country who opted for ar lest candidate on april 23. he gained around 20% of the vote but he hadn't pledge support for her rival, macron. molly: emmanuel macron is urging voters to back him. he went on national television to warn against low turnout in the second round saying it helps his opponents. macron is ahead of le pen in the polls by some 20%. speaking on the french channel, he described two visions of france. >> the one who must unite the republican camp. i am the one who must create unity in a fractured france in the face of mrs. le pen who carries a vision of the offend that we have known since all these years. i unfortunately grew up with a french political landscape marked by her party, the party of hate, intolerance and a smaller france. it's a clear opposition between two offers that rebuild french political life. on the one hand, progressism and nationalism. molly: the fatah party called for a day of rage

those who voted for marine le pen. the south of france. and then the bulk of the support from the west and big metropolitan big cities like paris and bigger cities marseille. so, you have a very clear divide between the rural areas and the bigger cities that voted in favor of macron, definitely. >> just to follow up on that note, with divisive politics when they come to france, whether any candidate can heal that rift. carolyn and louisa. back to you. >> let's talk about what that means for your money. what does it mean for investments right now? do we buy into this risk on rally that we're seeing right now? how sustainable is it? >> it's a collective sigh of relief, i think. i think the key, sustained trend which we see in europe people equities, i think it gives a big boost to european equities. there has been a valuation gap. that is likely to close. and there are problems on the u.s. end as well. because the quality in the u.s. is deteriorating and problems on the legislative agenda. both sides. >> the trend was in place before the ele

on friday far right candidate marine le pen spec -- marine le pen stepped down as leader this week, calledt to the test to vote for her in the second round of french elections. to say that now we must block emmanuel macron. his proposal is the polar opposite of the one he supported during the first round of the campaign. he does not represent change. >> marine le pen is trailing behind macron in the second round polls for the candidate largely expected to win the presidential race. over 7hon gathered million votes, representing 19% of the total turnout, a considerable slice of the electorate, which would aid her considerably. with a little over a week to the second round, the far right candidate is doing all to steal votes. emmanuel macron has been paying homage to the victims of the nazi air a. he urged the electorate to not repeat what he called the darkest page of history, by forgetting the horrors of the second world war. namely the village of -- in the west of france. the townsend ruins are preserved as a monument. macron has arrived in the west of the country. a couple of hours drive

let's explore hypothetically marine let's explore hypothetically marine le pen as president.aightaway. rejecting the euro... the question is not the euro as such because the question of the euro is not whether we wa nt question of the euro is not whether we want to leave europe, it is the way the euro is going to leave us. europe prices are ahead of us. this is something very important. the rate on the very high interest rate on the very high french debt? it is owned by the french debt? it is owned by the french themselves. don't forget that. this is not the same case as argentina. it will be that we transform if there is any but leave that because i think this is not something that any french government will solve by a political decision. i think the situation on this question of eurozone will come later on because of the international markets themselves. let's talk about marine le pen‘s programme because some people might not be familiar with it. she won the central bank to print more money to reduce the cost of the debt, she wants more welfare and she will borrow more. she

marine le pen versus melenchon. marine le pen has trailed macron in every single opinion poll by 20 percentage points. and there it is. the spread. the 10 year yield. down now to the narrowest since the january. back in february, 79 basis points and today we are at 50. a relief rally. somee: somebody made money, that is for sure. and marine le pen -- they gear up for a runoff. that takes place may 7. joining us now from paris is caroline connan. how will they modify their messages? caroline: we actually learned a few minutes ago that there will be a debate between the two candidates, macron and le pen. that will happen next wednesday on may 3. so that will be four days before the runoff to the election. of course, in between, there will be some rallies. we heard from marine le pen that she will hold a rally on thursday. and the challenge now for marine le pen is to maintain her base beyond the 30% of the vote that she is expecting to get in the runoff. and whether she will manage or not to break the glass ceiling th

marine le pen, macron‘s rival for she doesn't. pen, macron‘s rivalfor president, his rivalfor french voters‘ trust. a welcome visitor on market day in the forgotten town. she‘s the people‘s president, she says, with welfare policies to match. eu to the back of the cue. madam le pen wants out of the cue. madam le pen wants out of the euro, she‘s anti—big business too. it‘s exactly these images that marine le pen will be chasing throughout her presidential campaign. her intended message — she‘s a woman of the people. while her political rival, emmanuel macron, is a remote parisian elitist. last night‘s election showed a divided france. marine le pen did well in the north and south—east, areas with high unemployment and low wages. emmanuel macron dominated in wealthy areas and large cities like paris and bordeaux, where his probusiness, pro—eu liberal platform resonates. emmanuel macron was in paris today, keen to display his statesmanlike credentials, remembering victims of mass killings in armenia. and while his rival hugged and ki

so marine le pen facing an uphill battle.e also had a snap survey from the likes of opinion pollster, and they are predicting emmanuel macron, if the second round would take place today, and emmanuel macron we get 62% and the pen would get 38%. marine le pen is in with a challenge from here on in. how do we view this outcome? you have both establishment parties out of the first round voting, but it is also a vote against populism. [please stand by] votingreporter: the establishmt politicians here in france and also the wider eurozone and the european union are drawing a sigh of relief this evening. this is probably the best result they could have hoped for out of this election with emmanuel macron being the favorite. this is a clear break in the past with traditional parties or the candidates from the parties , the firsted out election round. it is either or here. haidi: all right, thank you so much. tracking that extended -- extraordinary count of the first round of french elections from paris. let's look at the markets reac

what happened here has not made her turn to marine le pen.security. because i don't think we can always stop everything. i think a lot of parties just wanted to gain votes and it has really shocked me. in order to quieten marine le pen, layla and others like her will make a simple choice. vote for her opponent, emmanuel macron. ms le pen's rival emmanual macron took his campaign to the paris suburbs where he told his supporters that he aimed to heal the divide in france. translation: france is not the narrow face of hatred that marine le pen presents. i will not let her he the face of france. i will not let her trivialise the national front party, a racist party. she puts at the helm of the party someone who expressed extraordinarily grave opinions. she herself expresses extremely grave opinions. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. facebook says it's stepping up its security to counter efforts by governments and other groups that use the social media network to spread disinformation and manipulate public opinion. d