in their rental apartment in marseille they found many guns and explosives. two,r the youngest of the his family had alerted the police as early as 2015 that he had left home and that he had turned to radical islam. genie: now to syria where state television is reporting a bomb has killed takes and hurt more than 30 people in all aleppo today. that blast reportedly hit a southwestern neighborhood that was once on the front line between rebels and government forces before the army retook full control of the city in december. state television did not specify whether that was the result of an attack or unexploded ordnance left over from the four and a half years of fighting that preceded the rebel pullout. that came as evacuations resumed in four deceased areas of syria today. they halted after a suicide bombing killed dozens in a convoy that was part of the reciprocal evacuation deal. venezuela's bracing for what is called the mother of all protests. it is being staged today by opponents of the president nicolas maduro and his move to tighten his grip on power.

these will be local politicians and local marseille bigwigs who have turned out.ave all these flyers, —— all these flares going off in dramatic fashion. a very dramatic end to the last rally of her campaign. there are four more days to go but this is the last big rally and she has come to marseille to deliver its because this is the heartland, this is wherejohn marini is to come, and the crowd loved him, they love her as well. thank you very much indeed. we time that well. there he was at the end of the marine le pen rally in marseille, in full swing. still to come... a fascinating story. donald trump spent last week warning a us armada was on it was to the korean peninsula. the problem was that it was not. we will speak to our state department correspondent. no trains are running in or out of euston station after a fire at the side of the track in north london led to a power cut. virgin trains, london midlands and london overground services are affected. richard wescott has the story. thousands have turned up, no one knows what is going on, very few have heard th

there was already a plot disrupted a couple of days ago in marseille, said this shows that france iseat the moment. francois fillon according to reuters has been calling for the election campaign to be suspended. how likely is that in the light of the fact that france wa nts to the light of the fact that france wants to show that normal life can carry on? i think he has talked about suspending his campaign. it is only one more day of campaigning a nyway only one more day of campaigning anyway in this election because saturday is the day when no campaigning is allowed. the first round is almost over anyway. it is ha rd to round is almost over anyway. it is hard to see that they will actually postponed voting on sunday, and the logic would be that france should carry on and show they will not be frightened away from this hugely important democratic exercise. frightened away from this hugely important democratic exercisem terms of the timing of this, how coincidental is it that this presidential debate was taking place this evening? i do not think we know the answer to that, but surely

vote, here it comes, and attack or a plan of attack that is foiled by intelligence services in marseilles one dead police officer, shot dead on the avenue des champs—elysees. that is obviously a worrying developmentjust three days before the vote. yes, and thomas, give us a bit more detail, in case some of our viewers have not been aware of what happened in marseilles, the foiled attack. 0ne of the presidential candidates was the subject of this? just explain a little bit more. so it is unclear exactly what the purpose of the attack was. intelligence services believe that either a presidential candidate was a target, or a rally could have been the target of the attack. but explosives and guns were found at the home of the suspects, who arrested a few days ago by intelligence services. these were people who had been watched by the intelligence services for some time. and it is... measures have been put in place during the state of emergency, that allowed the police to search their home and arrest them before an attack could be carried out. and thomas. this security detail has unsurprisingl

year. having been transferred back to marseille injanuary this year.what happened at newcastle today we can cross to st james' park, where our sports editor dan rowan is. thank you. two days ago, this club was celebrating its return to the riches of the premier league, but rather than looking towards a bright future, this evening they are facing questions, just like west ham united, about their past. a similar scene was played out here at the stadium behind me this morning, when there we re behind me this morning, when there were raids by revenue and customs officials at newcastle united's home, and indeed to the shock of their players, at their training ground as well. just before they arrived for training. just as with we st arrived for training. just as with west ham united, documents and computers were seized. in addition to that, among the arrests natalie mentioned, it's been reported that lee charnley the managing director of newcastle united, 39 years old and the right—hand man to the club's owner mike ashley was among those arrested as part of

that twojust come in suspects have been arrested in marseille. wrench officials believed ththey were planning a terror attack before the presidential elections. security has been a major issue throughout the campaign. in the meantime, it is the final countdown to around one vote. >> this will probably add a lot of uncertainty to what is a very uncertain election. it is unprecedented in french history with just five days to go until around one, four candidates are battling it out. here you see the central candidate emmanuel macron, marine le pen, jean-luc melenchon. neck, givenk and the margin of error. you can see images here from a rally that macron held in paris yesterday. it was seen as a make or break moment for emmanuel macron. organizers say about 20,000 people showed up. he spent a lot of time throwing punches at his rivals but there was also a lot of love going around. >> i love you, mr. macron. it will be like cuba without sun, venezuela without oil. you have the choice between thatcher and i have chosen the best of the left and the righ

the people venues like this in marseille for herfather.are happy to stand up and shouted out that message, france, the french. it was heady and uncompromising and for people in the audience a welcome return to what should be the country cosme core values. return to what should be the country cosme core values. they have no doubt she is heading for victory on sunday and beyond. —— the party's core values. translation: she has the best solution is to put fronts in order again. translation: the best solution is to put fronts in orderagain. translation: her speech was as captivating as usual and she gives us energy to keep going. translation: for me she is the only candidate that tells the truth. that's it. translation: she is giving hope to the youth. the french people. the hope that we can reconcile and have a future together. but behind the surface euphoria, not all is as confident as it seems in her campaign. some say she hasn't been as strong as she could have been. rival candidates are catching up. sunday's victory may not necessarily be

and only a couple of days ago the intelligence services under uncovered a plan for an attack in marseillebilities were discovered as well as an islamic state flag. there's a french election coming up on thursday and a lot of people think islamic state is particularly mobilised now to strike to somehow add personally affected democracy. so it certainly seems like islamic state tentacles in the french belgian area are electrified right now —— adversely. french belgian area are electrified right now -- adversely. nothing confirmed yet but there are suggestions of links to brussels? that's right. the french authorities mention that an islamic state itself mention that an islamic state itself mention that an islamic state itself mention that in its credit claim on one of its media networks. it referred to this guy as a belgian fighter, using some sort of non— daguerre locating him from belgium. there's a better relationship between belgium and france. —— a strong relationship. we know previously networks have spanned belgium and france. in a way we are seeing more of the same. many people have

there was already one plot disrupted in marseille a couple of days ago, so this does show that francea—filo has according to reuters called for the election campaign to be suspended. how likely is that in the light of what he said, paris and france wanting to show that normal life can carry on —— francois fillon. show that normal life can carry on -- francois fillon. ithink show that normal life can carry on -- francois fillon. i think he talked about suspending his campaign. i mean, it is now really only one more day of campaigning a nyway only one more day of campaigning anyway in this election campaign, because saturday, the day before the election, is a day when no campaigning is allowed. so, in practice, the campaign for the first round is almost over anyway and i think it is hard to see that they will postpone the actual voting on sunday and i think the logic would beindeed sunday and i think the logic would be indeed that france should carry on and show that they are not going to be frightened away from this hugely important democratic exercise that they are now on the point of

a few days ago the police arrested two men in marseille who were planning an imminent attack.y found various guns and explosives at the house of these two people and apparently they were planning to attack someone. it appears it was one of the candidates. >> right now we know that one police officer has been killed. we do not know if it was a terror attack. we are also getting reports that there were other shootings in paris. can you confirm that? lisa: i cannot confirm that so far. what i have heard is that there was apparently and armed robbery -- an armed robbery a few blocks away. people thought that might be linked but i cannot confirm that. >> lisa lewis of their in paris for us with a very developing situation. one police officer shot in paris on the champs-elysees. we will come back to you later in the program. we will continue to monitor this story for you throughout the program. we are going to turn with some business news. the world of finance is turning its eyes to the u.s. capitol. >> the head of the international monetary fund christine lagarde says of that persp

the two jihadists arrested just two days ago in marseille were possibly planning an attack against one are. as we saw, they targeted the police, the military, and as you mentioned, tourist symbolic areas. a few months ago we had an attack on orly airport, the louvre and now the champs elysee, really landmarks or paris. olivier, we will leave it there for the time being but we thank you for your time, olivier guitta, a security expert. the french president francois hollande has also spoken about the attack. he confirmed as well as one police officer and the attacker being killed, two police officers we re being killed, two police officers were wounded and a passerby was also injured. here's a little of what he had to say. translation: we are convinced the investigations will show that this attack was terrorist in nature. the anti—terrorist group has been deployed and it will leave the enquiry. it will establish the motivation of the attack and whether anyone else was involved. i am convening a defence meeting tomorrow morning at 8am. we have done everything to mobilise our police and mi

. >> reporter: just two days ago, two men were arrested in marseilles, france, suspected of planningan attack to disrupt the election after bomb-making equipment and guns were seized. in february a man attempted to target a group of soldiers guarding another landmark was shot by police. and in november 2015, multiple attacks by isis-backed terrorists in paris killed 130. france has been in a continual state of emergency ever since. and now preparing to vote in elections, the first round sunday. marie lepan focused on security and immigration. tonight's attack as candidates make the last pitches on a live televised show, a city and nation on edge once more. and tonight, isis social media accounts quickly taking credit for the attacks identifying a man from belgium atds the attacker, suggesting this was planned and the timing with voters headed to the polls on sunday. >> keir simmons tonight, thank you. >>> we turn to another violent incident involving police officers, this one here at home in seattle. two officers were shot while responding to a robbery call. one officer is in critica

marseille was one of the best places in the 1980s to come out in support of the national front.port base changed as well, who is marine le pen reaching out to in marseille? well in a rally like this it is the core, what has happened in the past week, she has been riding high in the opinion polls for months. and she sought qualification for the second round as a shoo—in. but she cannot feel the way tonight. the emergence ofjean—luc melenchon, the resilience of francois fillon, that has rattled the national front can. so the message tonight is to reach out to the core vote, make sure that they turn out on friday. because all could be decided by a small margin. thank you so much. let's turn to amiens and thomas. i should tell viewers that you normally report from west africa and you have gone home to get a feel for the election. what has surprised you about the tenor of the debate?” what has surprised you about the tenor of the debate? i think what is extremely surprising is to see the level of indecision amongst voters. when you speak to people around town they tell you they might

and a has—been, you know, in the previous and arrest of two potential terrorist in the town of marseillese candidates and they were taken to their homes which is known for being favoured by terrorist who build suicide belts and so in that, you know, it doesn't really surprise me that the islamic state would like to put on a show at the specific moment because it is critical that france and front, as you said and mentioned in the previous report is the target several times of terror attacks, europe has known a wave of this also but france particularly and this time around, what is very surprising is also the speed of the claim by the islamic state that it was an attack carried out by one of theirs. usually, we wait for a few days before, you know, knowing it is the claim of the islamic state so there is some confusion usually, is at them or another group? but this time around, i mean, very, very fast, they said it is one of them, it is one about, they gave the name and be nom de guerre, his real name, they gave his nom de guerre right on they gave his nom de guerre right on the statement.

our correspondent hugh schofield was at her rally in marseille.t rally, marine le pen went back to the roots of the front national, the message was vintage fn, blaming immigration forthe country's many woes and promising a harder line when she is in power. we have to protect the unity of our people. we have to protect them from permanent social austerity. i want to protect the people i am part of. i want to protect the people who have seen me go grow and see my children grow and will see my children's children grow. this is marine le pen returning to the heartland, the ranks of voters who used to turn out en masse in venues in marseille for her father. the men and women who are happy to stand up and women who are happy to stand up and shout out the message, france for the french. it was heady uncompromising stuff and for people in the audience, a welcome return for what should be the party ‘s core values. they have no doubt she is heading for victory on sunday and then beyond. she has the best solution is to put france in order again. her speech w

hugh schofield was at her rally in marseille. —— membership.irst round, marine le pen went back to the roots of the front national, notjust the place and people of the message. it was vintage le pen — planning immigration for the country's many woes and promising a new hard line once in power. translation: we have to protect the unity of our people. how to protect them if we are in permanent social austerity? i want to protect the people i am part of. i want to protect the people that have seen it grow and see my children grow and who will see my children's children grow. this is marine le pen returning to the heartland, the ranks of voters who used to turn out in venues like this in marseille for her father. the people are happy to stand up and shouted out that message — "france, for the french". it was heady and uncompromising and for people in the audience a welcome return to what should be the party's core values. they have no doubt she is heading for victory on sunday and beyond. translation: she has the best solutions to put france in ord

certainly in the wake of the plot that was foiled two days ago in marseille, where two very well notedting a very significant potential attack directed against obviously politicians. we are seeing live images from paris, the security operation under way from mike on the champs elysee, and we getting details from reuters that the interior ministry has identified the gunmen but they are still working out if he had accomplices. if he acted alone there must be information that other people would have known how he got the gun, that something like this was being planned. would you say... there is no such thing as a lone gunmen as such? i agree entirely. there is no such? i agree entirely. there is no such thing as a lone gunmen. even if they are radicalising themselves within the comfort of their own home, they are still going to be communicating online, potentially in forums, they will be radicalised through some process, more likely than not online as we are seeing more and more these days so some form of connectivity in some shape orform. the use form of connectivity in some shape or form

there was already one plot disrupted in marseilles a couple of days ago, so this does show that france at the moment. one of the candidates, francois fillon, according to reuters, has been calling for the election campaign to be suspended. how likely is that, given what you said about france wanting to show that normal life can carry on? well, i think he's talked about suspending his campaign. there is only really one more day of campaigning anyway in this election campaign, because saturday is the day when no campaigning is allowed, just before the election. so it is almost over anyway. i think it is hard to see that they will postpone the actual voting on sunday. i think the logic would be that france should carry on, and show that they are not going to be frightened away from this hugely important democratic exercise that they are now on the point of conducting. in terms of the timing of this, how coincidental is it that this presidential debate was taking place this evening? i don't think we know the answer to that, but it surely is no coincidence that this attack has happened just

and just days ago, two people arrested in marseille. get the security service, robust and resourced. it could take anything up to five years, having that intelligence service that is capable. in 2012, you had that attack just capable. in 2012, you had that attackjust weeks before the voting day, killing jewish kids in toulose. campaign was stopped but it could not change the outcome, because nicolas sarkozy lost the election to president hollande. this time, it is just days, and the race has been tighter than ever. it is not going to change the outcome of the election. having said that, i have talked to people and really, francoise had the luck of the draw, he was able to look at the news, and some have said that he looked presidential, the way that he was delivering that. he has experienced as the previous prime minister. he is definitely the one, playing on the experience of being prime minister. the others have no experience of security, but some key people do. in the third man in the race, fillon, needs that push to be in the last t

i mean, the front pages of newspapers yesterday morning were talking about arrest in marseille of twosis operatives and the way terror had come back as an issue in this election campaign so people were already concerned. and to have an incident like this on probably the most famous avenue in the world, obviously, that's disconcerting. i was just talking to people who run the double-decker buses here. they've got about as many customers as they always do. the trouriourists are still out force. >> we mentioned the elections coming this sunday, the first round of them. what will the impact be on the election sunday? >> well, clearly is the kind of thing that works to the benefit of candidates who have been emphasizing insecurity and the need to crack down on immigration and crack down on muslims in this country, where there are probably 6 million muslims. it's incredibly divisive. and if isis gets its way, it will help marine le pen win this election, which she might well do. she's the most extreme far right candidate running who has any chance of winning. in fact, she has quite a good c

>> marine le pen was in marseille last night for his -- her last rally. day after two suspects were arrested in suspected of targeting the presidential elections. this gave arguments for the anti-immigration speech of marine le pen. she said her rivals wanted to turn france into a gigantic [no audio] france to aared house that you should lock in order to prevent it from getting burgled. and the other favorite was in the west of france, he tried to position himself by appearing side-by-side with a positive figure and government, the defense minister. ofalso took some pictures some police officers who were protecting his rally. camptrying to unite his appearing side-by-side with the mayor. his former rival in republican primaries. anna: thank you for the update. guest.et more with our great to see you this morning. i pulled up the latest polling, the french election tracker on the bloomberg. this shows the pan and macron out front as they have been during the campaign. you think the markets are not nervous enough about this election, why so? >> when we look

rally in marseille tonight.t she reacted saying that this was the result of islamic fundamentalism. you.: thank our guest is here with us. first round,o the are you reducing risk into this election because if you look at the ftse and the drop in the pound he would not have 1 -- you would not have wanted to take that off. >> we are running a slight overweight and it is difficult not to sound complacent in the light of what happened in 2016. even if you applied a big margin of error to marine le pen's polling that she will not be able to get past that constitutional block which -- even if she does well in the first round in the second round, you have so many anti-le pen forces going up on her, very difficult to see her get through. i think europe is that play here. if you look at the fundamentals in europe there strong, the economy is improving, company earnings are doing better. if we get this political uncertainty out of the way around the french election, you can see equities really flying. anna: would it be po

prosecutors said that guns and explosives were found in the apartment the suspects shared in marseille from the mediterranean over the weekend, after attempting to cross from libya to italy in overcrowded boats, according to aid agencies. fine weather reportedly sparked a spike in the number of people attempting the perilous crossing to europe. football, and leicester city's champions league dream finally came to an end tonight, after they drew at home with atletico madrid. our sports editor, dan roan, was there. the latest chapter in sport's most remarkable fairy—tale. but sporting miracle is what this club's defined by and now these players were intent on seizing a once in a lifetime opportunity. leicester had returned from the first leg in spain only a goal behind against one of the finest teams on the continent, but they knew they had to take their chances. shinji okazaki wasting this one. and if that was costly, conceding could prove critical. almost immediately, the hosts punished, saul niguez‘s pin—point header extending atletico madrid's lead, the crucial away goal leaving leic

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police in france say they have thwarted an imminent terrorist attack, and arrested two radicals in marseilley were planning the attack on saturday. police have seized guns and explosives but have not released targets or motives. france votes sunday on the first of its two stage election, and national security has been an issue of the campaign. has been aome, it long year for metro riders and metro's biggest union gave back in the form of loaded $10 smart trick cards. sam sweeney sam: those cards did not last very long. they gave out 1000 of these were $10 each for anyone willing to take this flyer and listen to the message from the union. take a look at what it looked like as passengers were greeted by union members, as they explained their message of two dollar flat fares for all riders , expanded services for metro, and dedicated funding for all jurisdictions so we do not have to go through the process every year of fighting for dollars to keep metro safe. we caught up with some of the andrs getting off the bus, congressman jamie raskin and a member of the union. >> feels like i am getting

the plane was heading for marseilles in france. everyone on board died. french nationals and once at the sin. another person was killed when the plane crashed into the truck. the cause of the accident is unknown. there are a few days left before france votes in one of the most unpredictable french elections in many years. almost one third of voters are yet to make up their minds. every rally, speech and event can make a difference in these last few days of the campaign, francois fillon is rallying his supporters in nice tonight. the other three leading camp -- other three leading candidates are campaigning here. even the his rivals are closing the gap, claire williams has been at his rally. going back to the basics of his campaign, telling his supporters here of the rally in paris. it is about renewal. the movement he created just a year ago. that movement is also weakening. they do not have the support base other candidates enjoy. longs -- a long-established support base. here in a lot of energy paris. is actuallytrength the fact that i am about to chang

you can imagine what they found in marseille. they go into these homes and they find explosives, the cursor chemicals for that, people being trained for that. it is not hard in the world of the internet to teach people how to utilize these things and what protocol should be. people talk about people being self radicalized. they are not. there are people that are helping in the process. they are embracing and ideology that is antithetical to everything that europe stands for. there will be 50,000 in the streets for the first round of presidential elections this weekend. evil are afraid. people do not -- people are afraid. people do not know what is coming next. >> what about next month? this is a virus that has infected europe. it is coming out of the middle east. 1979, the, since islamic revolution which took place in iran, which was the hottest, we have not faced this problem squarely. we have dealt with it tactically. we have not dealt with the ideology. to say it has nothing to do with to do it has something with islam. that i

two men have been arrested in the southern city of marseille.ved they are converts to radical islam. tax returns are due in the u.s. today. so is any money you only uncle sam.

two men have been arrested in marseilles where police seized guns, explosives, and an isis flag. .he men have been named police say they were planning to strike imminently. >> the documents we have collected so far indicate these two men were getting ready to carry out an imminent attack on french soil. but if this point, we are still unable to say when, where, and how exactly they intended to at. >> investigators have interrogated the family members and they were able to attest that he turned to radical islam and he was very careful ever since his flat was searched by security officers. always covering up his tracks with aing his links person according to his family who influenced him and convinced him to turn to radical islam. ever since they met in 2015. laura: but the last few days of campaigning under way ahead of sunday's vote, polls show the difference between the four leading candidates is on a knife edge. emmanuelle macron remains the front runner but marine le pen is not far behind. leader is still running third in popularity and chris moore is with his camp tonight. chris,

but look at the discovery earlier this week of the marseilles cell, helped with british intelligence.o one agency can handle the onslaught. so, they really have to focus. tim: this man had been tipped off to the authorities only a few months ago because he was apparently trying to buy weapons and contact jihadists in syria. how could any intelligence service let that go? >> well, again, i think it is volume. they're getting so much noise it is difficult to track all of them. a lot of individuals are hitting multiple alarm bells. and unfortunately they have to , choose and they have to be 100% perfect. terrorists can be perfect one time. tim: the other problem is is a , lot of these men had been in prison in france and tended to get radicalized there. is that one of the causes of the problems? >> prison radicalization is an issue and french authorities know that. i think they are challenged with finding the solutions. here you have an individual who had targeted police before. again, the targeting of such high-visibility symbols of the state, the police, we know during the nice attacks

it was a laundromat in marseille, france. marseille. do you hear that?ress of a word. >> this one's basically talking to my computer. >> brown: and there was poetry by eileenmyles. >> you. after all these years, you should know my font. you should know the numbers go in the middle. what'd i say? >> brown: muldoon's picnic is an old-fashioned variety show, the brainchild of poet paul muldoon, held monthly at the irish art center in manhattan. >> while our drugs of choice were run from istanbul through a girl called joyce, whose real name was mule. >> brown: so what's your role here? you're sort of the impresario? >> sort of impish impresario. >> brown: impish, yeah. >> everyone is stuck in their own little world these days. this has to do with people making their own amusement, or at least opening themselves to the possibility, i suppose of amusement being of a somewhat more direct nature. you know the poem, the short story, the song. >> brown: muldoon is an irish- born, renowned pulitzer prize winning poet. princeton professor, poetry editor of the "new

. >> there was a raid on a couple of men in marseille.he police were made aware that an attack was imminent, and they arrested two islamists who have proclaimed loyalty through the slowmic state. they seized a bunch of weapons, the whole of ammunition, and they may have been going into court, and the fear was that they were going to attack one of the candidates. at the time that these arrests were made, i was down in the city of dijon where the hard left candidate was speaking. what he was trying to say to french people was that these people were criminals, that people should not be afraid, that there should be vigorous debate and that the freedom of the french people should not be impinged by this, but nevertheless, this particular shooting, and also those arrests in marseille have shown that the islamists are serious, that they perhaps want to disrupt this election process, and so that's going to be making people extremely nervous on sunday when they put their ballots in the boxes, but the police and the army are basically saying that t

marine le pen was in marseille.fter twoone men were arrested in marseille, suspected of planning a terrorists attack against the campaign, so she used this to for the farard-line right base, targeting security and immigration, saying her --als just wanted to tried tomacron position himself as a head, which involves the military chief. he appeared side-by-side with one of the popular figures in the socialist government of francois hollande. guy: briefly if you will, give me the electoral mathematics, if both melenchon and le pen get through. i'm also interested in melenchon makes it through, how does that change for the other candidates? caroline: it is actually interesting because melenchon only started a week ago to be tested in this second round, so if he faces emmanuel macron, heat could potentially lose, however, he could win against the republican francois fillon and against marine le pen, who is seen as losing against any rival in this guy:. thank you very much indeed. the u.k.t the head of investment office a

it was different from the one with macron, it was open their in the old port of marseille on a sunnyunday. he gathered 70,000 supporters. he claimed to be the candidate of peace, signaling that he didn't agree with francois lond and angela merkel backing the airstrikes in syria. jean-luc melenchon knows he has the momentum and is taking advantage of it with this open-air rally. meanwhile, francois fillon, the republican candidate, is also making a slight comeback in the polls. paris, as rally in gathering of 25,000 people. the interesting thing is that he was joined by nearly 600 right-wing candidates who are going to be representeing republicans, attacking emmanuel macron, who as you know doesn't have all the candidates in place yet. francois fillon saying he will for sure managed to secure majority in parliament, which is uncertain at the moment for emmanuel macron. ist: so it looks like fillon gaining traction in a race we thought was only going to be between le pen and neck. -- and macron. but we are also hearing more about themelechant. they are starting to look at what would ha

we had earlier in the week, a trichlt plot broken up in marseilles. they had kalasnikovs. the next day, after we learned of that, we have this attack on the champs elysees. the location and the timing were important. we're coming right up on the french elections on sunday. the french presidential elections. >> chris, lets talk about have on those e legss? are there candidates that could benefit from the situation there? >> reporter: yeah, the candidate most likely to benefit from this is the very far right-wing anti-immigrant, anti-islam candidate, marine le pen. she's been running for years. saying stop the immigrants from coming in. they're the plague that aflipgts france. we have to make frens jast for french people. she doesn't say it explicitly, but what many of her supporters say, she wants to make france just for white french people. she could benefit enormously. she was back and forth in the number one position. would this help her win the second round and become the president of france? it is very well might. >> and le pen also being part of a pol christopher dick

moment when we found out the provisional results, there was a real outpouring of singing of la marseilles, people think, we are going to win. there is a jubilant atmosphere here. we will have to see what marine le pen herself has to say when she turns up to speak a little later. >> we have got some reaction coming in to her victory, although in second place. many are saying her project will "cause chaos." , whats what we will see she has to offer coming under tight scrutiny. >> indeed. it will be an interesting debate between the two. emmanuel macron is very much the centrist candidate and marine le pen has been honing her far right issues for quite a few years, working on her issues of security, fighting terrorism. those really are the issues they keep mentioning to me time and time again. they want france to close its borders, to stop militants coming in from foreign countries. a lot of people do want to see friendly the european union. marine le pen has promised at least six months of negotiation with the european union on france's position and a french referendum. we do know there has

it is thought the swiss registered plane which had been travelling to marseille came down shortly afteree passengers died as well as a lorry driver. the cause is not yet known. brighton & hove albion fc on the brink of promotion to the premier league for the first time. the south coast club are effectively up after beating wigan this afternoon. their promotion could be confirmed tonight if other results go their way. earlier we heard from our correspondence simon jones outside the stadium. lots of happy fans as you can see after a 2—1victory, means brighton are pretty much in the premier league. they do have to wait a little longer for results will stop i cope you can hear me! let's try to talk to a couple of the fans. our you feeling? fantastic, unbelievable. we were so nervous at the end, it should have been three, four, 5—0. and they scored right at the end. so now it looks like it will be big—time football. yeah, premiership! we are up, we are going up! what will this mean? it's the first time, it will be fantastic, i'm sure they will really enjoy it. will they be good enough? what

and in marseille, two men were arrested who intended an attack during the election. pundits say the heightened terrorism fears help le pen because of her strong anti-immigrant stance and her criticism of radical islam. >> the effect of the terrorism will be to inflame the right wing vote. at the same time, you have a state of mind to more get united, sometimes. so you don't know yet. >> reporter: she's a former writer for the paris magazine "charlie hebdo" which suffered a terrorist attack in 2013. she fears for her safety when she's in public. >> i'm avoiding being attacked from someone who can recognize me. it's part of the journalist' life today. >> reporter: that's how many french people now. in france, it is a two-round election process. this coming sunday, there are 11 candidates for president on the ballot. the top two vote-getters go on to a final round two weeks from now. it is widely believed marine le pen will be one of those two. for "nightly business report," michelle caruso cabrera, paris. >>> still ahead, health care's uncertain future. >> reporter: he

it helps that she is in marseille.that will give her the boost she feels she needs going into the first round? exactly. in the closing phases or the first round of an election in france, candidates go back to their core message, there is a sense that in the first round you reach out to your real electors, in the second your real electors, in the second you how to broaden your repeal and talk to more people. at this stage ahead of the first round she has to go back and make sure that her core voters turn out to get through to them the message that it is not a done deal, we can'tjust rely on getting through, you have to turn out on sunday and in force. that is what the rally is about, it will send lovely pictures of waving flags around france with all these die—hard supporters, the saudi people who turned out for her father five or ten years ago and really love her —— this sort of people who turned for her father. this is the message that needs to go out across the country to her camp to say turnout on sunday, it is very

of nantes, while one of his chief rivals, marine le pen of the far right national front, spoke in marseilled always keep a close eye on your guests, especially when they've got something to celebrate. this is president trump hosting the new england patriots american football team — and it's to congratulate them on their victory in the superbowl earlier this year. so far, so good. but the players then appeared to get the run of the white house, and here's what happened during press secretary sean spicer‘s daily briefing. hands out in the negotiation. can i just? do you need some help? i think i have got this. maybe... thank you, man. i was see you in a minute. hold on... laughter. that was new england player rob gronkowski, crashing the white house press briefing. as you can see, his offer of help was declined. the first christian governor of the indonesian capital, jakarta, has conceded defeat to his rival, a muslim form government minister. it follows a divisive election battle which stoked religious tensions after governor ahok, who's ethnic chinese, was accused of insulting the koran in

in marseille this week, police say they foiled an imminent attack involving two men.e was linked to belgium. and in the rates that took place, they found a haul of semiautomatic weapons and bomb—making material. europe is awash with weapons. they have come in from the balkans and they are easy to source and cheap to buy. just a line of breaking news from le monde, which has gone to press in the last hour, they are saying the named terrorist karim cheurfi was not on that list but was arrested in february by security services and then released. it would seem they are trying to influence the tone of this election and perhaps the outcome. if you look at the polls, they are so tight, just a few thousand votes could make all the difference. the election on sunday will go ahead, that was reconfirmed today but i think we are in for a very tense few days as the security services try to head of a repeat of what we saw last night. many thanks. kristian fraser there. and there'll be live coverage of the results of the first round of voting in the french presidential election. tha