reporter: this is home turf for marine le pen. did well here in the last presidential race, but as he is risen in the poll, she had stepped. one recent survey even has him beating her to a runoff with president macron. the mayor, affiliated with le pen's party, is friends with both her and him. he's calling to join forces to take on emmanuel macron. >> i was explaining you cannot win without marine le pen. it is impossible. and i told her you cannot win without him. for once, we could win. reporter: the latest book focuses on familiar themes. immigration, culture, identity. french politics has shifted to the right in recent years it is early days in this election, but the race for the future of france has already begun. laura: in other news from around the world, the streets of haiti are tense as a nationwide strike cap people at home following the kidnapping of a group of american missionaries. began buying the kidnapping has made a ransom demand -- a million dollars for each of the 17 people its holding. haiti has one of the hig

translation: i was explaining to eric, you can't win without i to eric, you can't win without marine le penu cannot win without eric zemmour. for once, we could win. his latest book focuses on familiar themes — immigration, culture, identity. french politics has shifted to the right in recent years. it is early days in the selection, there is for the future of france has already begun. lucy williamson, bbc news. still to come — saving one of australia's most beloved native species with a programme to vaccinate 400 koalas against chlamydia. a historic moment that many of his victims have waited for for decades. the former dictator in the dock, older, slimmer. and as he sat down, obedient enough. dawn, and as the sun breaks through the piercing chill of night on the plain outside, it lights up a biblical famine now in the 20th century. the depressing conclusion, in argentina today- it is actually cheaper— to paper your walls with money. we've had controversies in the past with great britain, but as good friends, we have always found a good and lasting solution. concorde bows out in style afte

but you know, marine le pen and eric zemmour are only symptoms.nch fears, they are not giving any kind of concrete response to those concerns. and one of the calmest voices in french politics, michel barnier, who has his own presidential ambitions, he said just the other day, out of control immigration is weakening france's sense of identity. do you share that view? but we have to fight against illegal migration... do you share that view that immigration — out of control, says mr barnier — is weakening france's sense of identity? everybody could say the same, that we are all facing these very important waves of migrations. these very important waves of illegal migrations, in spain, in italy, in france, in many european countries. and we have to be very tough. we have to address this issue. we have to take very strong decisions and we have already taken very strong decisions with emmanuel macron. but this is only part of the issue. this is only a partial view of the situation. the current situation is that all european countries, especially france,

marine le pen would be below 20%.pole said that eric could face emmanuel macron in the second month. interesting six months before this election that you see this new candidate even though we have to be careful because a lot of the polls, six months before an election, do not necessarily reflect the outcome. years ago, when president macron won the election, he was not a candidate six month before the vote. manus: indeed. you know the answer. it is non. you are going to be busy, busy, busy. caroline connan back in the polls and macron will get to know you very well over the next six months. always great to have her with us. coming up, jamie dimon sees that crypto -- he labels the bitcoin worthless. more on the story. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> i personally think bitcoin is worthless. i don't care. it makes no difference to me. they disagree. that is what makes markets. if they wanted to have access to buy or sell bitcoin, we could give them legitimate access. manus: never short of an opinion. j.p. morgan chase. $57,000.

i can say that marin le pen is doing very well along not know french cost, and he's look and he's desperate to get those votes back again. we have to be very, very strong, would never ever while down to a bullying and we shouldn't don't. now we shouldn't allow this month's bully is also that the french to buller this country. we need to get control of all wall to which way we're promising the brakes it were promised come john, my waters. i don't believe we've got that yet little so we've been waiting to get access to those waters for more than 11 months. now it's time to do something about it now through we're aware of what the other party is trying to project. everyone is trying to flex their muscles, but i don't think it will end in a naval battle between the french and british. this is not so much of an economic issue as a symbolic one. the way we resolve this problem will determine how bricks it is settled in other sectors of the economy. you see, i don't, and that brings us up today for the south loan use and around 30 minutes time up. next? announce international eternal documentary o

he's even tempting marine le pens, voters away and becoming a strong rival of current president emmanuel, my crohn, and hopefully face off showed kaminsky takes us through what is lining up to be something of a bruising political hockey match. the play is may know to full yet be declared, but with less than 6 months before prophecies presidential election, the game is being played in right wing territory with participants trying to score on topics such as immigration, identity and security. emanuel mac, korn has slashed the number of these it deliveries to countries such as to new z, algeria and morocco. marina pan proposed is a referendum on immigration and makes it more, says france must stop both illegal and legal immigration when the legal and legal immigration. that's exactly what i'm saying today. today, a lot of french people are just sick and tired really, that there is no politician in our dispatchers tackled issue immigration. nobody's doing anything and you kind of feel that in trask that the situation is that it's very laxed and that nobody is doing your thing and is treating