you can see the results right there on your screen. mccullin's got 58.3 percent of the vote to the pens. 41.7 with most los counted by now. this is the 2nd time a con has defeated le pen. the 1st was in 2017, his when makes him the 1st french president in 20 years to get a 2nd term. however, the spread between the 2 candidates was narrower than last time, which suggests a more divided electorate. and also a less enthusiastic one in his victory speech by con, acknowledged that for many of his voters, it was more about picking the least that option just to see. good know, i also know that many of our compatriots voted for me today. not to support the ideas i put forward april 5th, but to block those of the extreme right. isn't i want to thank them and tell them that i am aware that this vote finds me for the years to come in. i am the guardian of their sense of duty, their attachment to the republic, and their respect for the differences that have been expressed in recent weeks illustrated. you feel all this is something new to the ultimate marrying the pen conceded defeat but played down

lisa lewis says mccullin's challenge ahead is to unite a divided france. well, i think the biggest challenge for him will be to be a real centrist president. he has to walk this really fine line between some center, right? some center left policies, what he actually promised 5 years ago, but seemingly, he hadn't really managed to fulfill this promise in his speech. he said, you know, i want a human, an equal a social, a liberal, an ecological. and, you know, france actually for the coming 5 years and that is really difficult to obtain because he has to talk 2 days later on the send to write that have waited for him. but also today's where it is on the center, let that have actually voted from someone holding as sometimes holding knows, actually, but thinking, you know, we have to vote for him to prevent marina. pardon, read the pen from coming to power? well my, my call will try to put some left wing measures on the table. he's obviously looking a hat to these legislators elections and hoping to be able to win a majority in parliament as he did last time a

the republic long left france as mccullin's, victory was confirmed. far left demonstrators clashed with police and several cities across france. accuse him a crown of being a president for the rich. he insists he will be a president for all the french, but the republic he rules is more divided into satisfied than when he began 5 years ago. a quick reminder at the top story that with lang for you today. ukraine's national rail service says that russian missiles have had several stations in a coordinated attack. just alice earlier to help us officials travels by train to keith, to announce extra funding from washington to buy weapons washing data. but he needs from berlin up next place that looks at how climate change is threatening marine life in the se shells. thanks so much for watching the deli mm hm. in a she, she thought they were great. a.

we have our own jack, paris standing by you just heard a memo, mccullin's address. europe obviously played a very big role in that address. how did you hear things from where you are? yeah, it's super interesting how micron addresses those audiences. this is for france, i'm for europe and they can be together. he was saying, it was quite interesting what he had say sort of entered on to that stage with a big smile on his face, who's looking buoyant, looking happy. he will hope that the odds are now in his favor. he's won a bigger margin against marina pan than he did 5 years ago. and i don't think it's, i think perhaps something that will perhaps, always talking about in this election is the absolute shift in french politics. that he managed to overturn all of the traditional parties 5 years ago. he now has 2 weeks to consolidate himself as a pretty one of the most successful french presidents in terms of elections. if he can win this election, he will be a to turn president and he will feel buoyant and successful. and then we'll, as we say, as we've been talking about, will come to brusse