others and hundreds of nurseries in northern france, babies drink only bottled water. advised women are also not to drink out of the tap. more than a billion shells were fired during the war. many as aaces, as quarter did not explode. springtime on what was the front line. no flowers will grow in this clearing. levels of arsenic are 3000 times higher than they should be. hereing into the subsoil to check how polluted the water still is. you can see almost nothing grows here. that is because the site was 200,000 chemical bombs at the end of the first world war. they were burned in the open. a terrible war which leaves a toxic legacy even today. crawford, bbc news, southern france. >> for years now, a number of american charities have been trying to end the practice of female genital mutilation in africa, but often meet fierce resistance from local authorities. in burkina faso, one surety started a hospital to help women thehad suffered fgm, but government will not allow it to open. the government says it is keeping it closed. >> the village in western burkina faso does

nadine barber reports from northern france, where the far right national front makes significant gains. >> there are few busier people here right now. the local secretary of the national front showed al jazeera around party head quarters, days after they won the election in the first round. now they are aiming to persuade people to vote far right, and predict a breakthrough nationally. it's a long time since the national front had many representatives. we'll have more than 1,000 people. it will be a true opposition force. >> for decades this part of northern france was goftened by the left. the town hall is in the hands of the national front and in sunday's elections the success can be repeated in towns across the country. at the local market, no one was willing to talk about why they supported the national front, suggesting there's a stigma attach to the party still. this town has been hit hard by the decline of heavy industry, with one of the five people unemployed, and the national front benefitted by people feeling they were forgotten about. >> people like david, a socialist party

. >>> elsewhere in western europe, paris and other cities in northern france are suffering through severemog. in response, parisian officials have made all travels on subway and buses free. starting tomorrow they will place travel restrictions on drivers and motorcycles to stop, with odd-numbered license plates being a laed to drive one day, and those with even-numbered license plates the next. they issued a health advisory for the elderly, small children and those with respiratory conditions. >>> north korea today launched 25 short-range rockets into the sea off its east coast. this in apparent retaliation for ongoing military exercises between the united states and south korea. the north says the military drills are a pretext for an invasion. the u.s. and south korea say the drills are purely defensive. back in this country, an army general being prosecuted for sexual assault has reportedly agreed to plead guilty to lesser charges, this according to "new york times," brigadier general jeffrey sinclair is expected to enter the plea at ft. bragg at north carolina, possibly tomorrow mornin

. >> for decades this part of northern france was held by the left. the party hopes their success here can be repeated across the country. at the local market no one was willing to talk about why they support the national front, suggesting there's a stigma attached to the party. the mining town has been hit hard with one in five people unemployed, and the national front benefitting from people that feel they've been forgotten about. >> people like david was a social party member. >> translation: people i talk to are fed up. taxes are rising, there's unemployment and know businesses. pensioners attacks, even though they don't have much. the national front used to be viewed by many french voters as an angry party for people that didn't like foreigners. in recent years they tapped into a feeling that main stream parties abandoned voters. >> before it was a communist party, up to 25 person in the '70s, now it's the national front. many french men are disgruntled and think that the national front could be a last resort. the question is not whether francis

almost over 9 million if you count a couple million in northern france the fell into the sphere. that made hoover an international hero and a symbol of a new force in the world at that time. the new world coming to help yield. hoover was doing this not by conducting war but by dealing with the problem for as a humanitarian. that made him, as i say, an international hero, an american hero as well. he entered the wilson administration and became food administrator. now he's kind of a world authority on food and food relief, a new field of humanitarian relief. he earned a self the accolade of the great humanitarian. he was called the master emergencies, but napoleon the mercy. and at the end of the war he went back on wilson's instructions to organize relief to prostrate your, many countries, over 20 countries receive food assistance that hoover orchestrated and facilitated. truly tens of millions of people were dependent. >> at that time he had the opportunity to form some opinions about the revolution that was going on in europe, whether it was germany or russia tell us a little b

pictures to show you it's a chilly one and then sees no more sunny days have been continuing in northern france and neighboring countries. it triggered the pollution whining and has the authority said thursday it would make transport free with every day here in country neck drivers to leave their vehicles behind. the air is expected to remain healthy until the end of the weekend because no precipitation is likely into the next couple of days and temperatures are going to be tromping can last season the malevolence that from the weekend thirteen degrees in paris and rain is on the buy it for a central europe from saturday. his extended forecast. the ruling i know. it has. i know the rest. there are. i was the latest edition of i know. it has. i know the rest. there are. i was the latest edition of the new sign asking lands

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for decades this party of northern france was governed locally by the left. town hall here is in the hands of the national front and the party hopes their success can be repeated in towns across france. while there may be a stigma attached to the party, people here have clearly been drawn to it. this mining town has been hit hard by the did he klein of heavy industry. nearly one in five people are unemployed and the national front has been benefited by people feeling that they have been forgotten a apart. like this former party member now a fashion the front counselor. >> translator: people i talk to are totally fed up, taxes are rise, unemployment and no businesses. even pensioners are taxed everybody though they don't have much. >> reporter: the national front used to be viewed by many french voters as an angry party of people who didn't like foreigners, but in recent years a widespread feeling that mainstream parties have abandoned the working class voters. the question remains now, you * hois howthe socialists will recm such a blow. >>> a snap from one of

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entire occupied nation 7 billion people, over 9 million people live you count a couple million in northern france who fell into that fear. that made hoover an international hero and the symbol of a new force in the world at that time, american benevolence, the new world coming to help the old in its tribulations. hoover was doing this not by conducting war but by dealing with the problem of war as a humanitarian. that made him as i say an international hero made him an american hero as well and he entered the wilson administration when we entered the war and became food administrator. now he is a world authority on food and food relief, a new field of humanitarian relief. the accolade of the great humanitarian, he was called the master of the emergencies the napoleon of mercy, and at the end of the war he went back on wilson's instructions to organize relief to frustrate europe many countries, 20 countries we see food assistance that hoover orchestrated facilitated and tens of millions of people were dependent on that relief. dirksen senate office building 9 he had the opportunity to form opinion

calls and texts easy to just back from the town of it in time for mourning northern france the largestever walk by the national front in the first round of the thirty thousand people there. and to correspond to our teal for us to come to greece. i am couple of national scope of results that i love her. here is even asking out of here in the capital a surprise coming this time not from afar eight that means pulling. nearly nine percent since the nineteen the incumbent socialists hopes of finishing tops going into next sunday's runoff is a former socceroos the minister and campaign as an entity whose cuz he's going to lose it. who has not had the edge of the socialist and he does go in that race and of course there are the result that of retirement before the break and it is the big surprise is the result i did not say where are the socialists have been relegated to third place going into next sunday's runoff. behind the incumbent from the conservative ump party and the national front and steve nash from more than twenty three percent see then you've also a couple of times to tenacity. t

nation of several million people almost over 9 million people if you count the couple million in northern france that fell into that sphere. that made hoover an international hero and a symbol of force of american benevolence here was the new world coming to help the old and its tribulations. hoover was doing this not by conducting war but fight dealing with the problem of war as a humanitarian. that made him as i say an international hero. it made him an american hero as well and he entered the administration and became the food administrator. now he's kind of a world authority on food and food relief, humanitarian relief. himself the accolade of the great humanitarian he was called the master of emergencies come of the napoleon of mercy, and at the end of the war he went back on will send's instructions to organize relief in europe, many countries over 20 countries received food assistance that hoover orchestrated and facilitated and truly tens of millions of people were dependent. >> host: at that time he had the opportunity to form opinions about the revolution going on in europe whether it

he was a stranger in the unfamiliar landscape of the south of france, and this was another country. like many northern europeans, he imagined the mediterranean to be exotic, and that's what he made it. he painted its people and their agriculture in landscapes drawn not only from what he saw around him but from japanese prints and etchings by rembrandt. here, he said, he was seeking his japan. in other words, a world of the imagination. and here he found it. in his collection of japanese prints, van gogh saw a beautiful, sun-filled, harmonious world which he imposed on the landscapes of provence. the prints themselves gave him confidence to use color more brilliantly and in a more arbitrary way. yet unlike gauguin and bernard, he never really understood the implications of the prints in terms of surface and flatness. his surfaces are thick encrustations of paint, but they always refer, often vividly, to the quality and texture, shape and perspective, of what he painted. he painted himself at this time as a workmanly japanese painter. he wrote to gauguin, "i have aimed at the character of a simple monk

northern country side. bernard smith, al jazeera. >> in france the ruling socialist party is joining forces to stop the far right from daig control of more than -- taking control of more than a dozen french towns. let's go back to felicity. >> second round of local election he, it follows a surprisingly strong performance by the national front which even the party leader herself described as amazing. katherine stansill reports. >> a test of president francois hollande's popularity. most of those did cast their ballots for opposition or for the far right, a slap in the face of hollande and the ruling socialist party. 37% of the vote compared to 47% for opposition forces. made big strides, securing 5% support, and taking control of a former socialist bastion in the north. >> translator: analyzing those odds it shows the return of the national front in the big cities. i have good reason to congratulate myself after these first round of results. >> reporter: to head off the national front the socialists say they will join forces with the greens and the party. the french prime minister is appealing to the parti

frances. >>> a three alarm brush fire is under control after, just check this out, ravaging parts of northern california. the thick smoke could be seen high in the sky. helicopters filled with water were used to douse the flames. let's get the latest now nbc washington meteorologist veronica johnson with us today. a bit of a busy week to be hanging out. >> yeah, there's so much going on. the california story with the brush fires. they've got an exceptional drought going on. >> they need some rain. >> they didn't get any snow this winter. that is a big part of the water base. they're not doing so good. hopefully they can replenish that. we have water out there. take a look at storm tracker radar, fargo and around chicago, you'll need the umbrella. light snow up across new england once again. that snow will continue to accumulate. folks, the arctic air wagon is circling. the season has changed, but cold air still up there. billings at 31 now, 31 minneapolis. that's the cold air that will start coming in the latter part of the weekend. right now, 60 degrees forecast in atlanta, 75 in dallas for

aircraft could have flown the three northern india china and central asia at what towards the southern indian ocean. the malaysian authorities have asked united states france and china which operate intelligence gathering satellites to provide them with any information that can help did a show that after disappearing for me died that missing jack climbed to nearly thirteen thousand seven hundred meters higher than the boeing seven seven sevens and maximum flying altitude before plunging to about seven thousand meters officials say that the abnormal flight continued for some forty five minutes as the plane flew across the mall a peninsula and turned and was last. it then flew out of the area that the military raid on a contract. officials say hi to the aircraft's communications the stands was turned off deliberately before final contact was made with traffic controllers. after more than a week. malaysian officials are still nowhere close to figuring out the whereabouts of the missing jackets chinese president jean jean king and us president barack obama will meet for tots next week when he attended nuclear security summit in the netherlands. china's vice fo

france. >> any word if anybody's seen anything? >> nothing yet. >> reporter: the radar array starts pinging. >> i just got two additional hits on the northern sidef our search area. >> reporter: multiple content. each of them some sort of anomaly on the water. >> the board is lighting up, huh? >> getting indications on our screen. >> reporter: but in these conditions, forget about it. the crew circles three times over the radar contact with no success. as tough as this first stage has been, stage two will be even tougher because the heavy wreckage is miles away and miles down on the ocean floor. >> the computer models that we have done shows that the debris has moved almost 500 kilometers away from where it originated from. >> because it's been so long? >> it's been so long and the currents are quite strong. >> reporter: oceanographer chadarachi padiarachi has made a map of where he thinks the debris likely came from, based on the ocean currents. finding it will require sophisticated submersible robots like these. >> so it's like a drone that goes underwater. >> exactly. >> reporter: his drones aren't capable of going deep enough, but the u.s. n

but in the last 6-to- 9 months, with a couple of exceptions -- france, hungary, they are slow, but even in europe, the u.k. on fire, northernmany is on fire -- i would say there is good activity all around. >> is there a different strategy in these countries, japan, or the u.k., for instance? >> in japan we've built more than two story buildings because land is scarce and expensive, so you end up going vertical. in markets like the u.s., land is plentiful, so you build large single-story buildings. there are different types of buildings you build. in certain markets you are not allowed to build really large buildings so you build a series of smaller buildings. there are regulations like that, but basically the big trends are all the same -- everything is getting faster, consumption is going up, and our buildings are the enabler. >> you recently had an injection of $1 billion of cash, is that right, from the norwegians? >> we have been two deals with the norwegians, one in europe for a joint venture about one year ago, and more recently $1 billion in the u.s.. >> with the sovereign wealth fund, right? >> yes. >> would you do

northern and southern hemispheres, 26 countries now helping in the search. arriving in malaysia today an fbi team and french team that investigated 2009 air france crash. on this massive search, scott marrow wits, airlines reporter for the a.p. joins us. scott, is everybody and i hate to use this word, but sort of playing well together? are they sharing satellite information and radar information these 26 countries? >> i think there is a lot of information out there. so far no public breaks out there. we heard the chinese several times complain about the investigation and,but, beyond that we haven't heard about someone saying australians aren't sharing this or the french aren't sharing this information. >> do you have the sense that the information is there? it's just that we can't find it in the satellite and the radar and number of countries and the civilian and military radar or do you have the sense that it's actually there, we just to sort of get people, you know, present it appeared go through it? >> i think the hardest thing here is just it's a wide open ocean. if the plane did go south, it could be 3,000 miles south of malaysia, somewhere off t

northern route is ruled out. >> reporter: it may have been to a general area consistent with photos from australia, france and chinafense minister urges caution. >> we have not successfully identified or recovered any debris from the aircraft in question. >> reporter: that effort will be delayed by at least a day, with the search called off for 24 hours due to gail force winds and high waves posing a danger for ships and planes in the area. that setback poses another challenge. because strong currents would most likely cause debris to drift hundreds of miles away. >> we are not searching for a needle in a hey stack, we are trying to find out where the hey stack is. >> reporter: it has been narrowed but australians say the task may be more daunting as they continue to look for mh 370. stephanie. >> randall pinkston for us in washington and randall, thank you. [chanting] these are protests outside the malaysia embassy in beijing today. most of them angry family members of passenger and crew on board the missing flight and carrying signs that read bring our families home and liars, tell the truth. police and military

france is joining in the eurozone recovery now. germany, yes, the number dipped. we had some indications that there was concern about effects on ukraine. we also saw the northern eurozone countries as well in the flash readings. so i think there's some element of uncertainty creeping in now that may have brought that down, but interestingly in the service sector in germany there's a strong rebound. so germany is looking all right, really. the best quarter since early 2011. france, this number brings up to the best readings since early 2011. and the rest of the region, likewise, it dipped slightly by the first quarter. >> the prices components. >> so this is going to be relieved with the activity moving in the right direction, but the price indices are continuing to fall, and it is not just in the peripheral countries like spain and italy, in germany as well. you're seeing downward pressure on prices there, and that's going to be a concern. the big question is, is that simply firms being more aggressive and trying to win market share and doing what we would like them to do in terms of competitiveness and driving down the unit labor cost and so forth, or is ther

northern and southern. we cannot discount. and we give importance to those two corridors. and this has been done with our international partners, as mentioned by the minister. >> (inaudible). (inaudible). >> where are you from? france. the expert from france with the questions. yes, i can talk from here. i don't know what i'm supposed to be protected from. >> (inaudible). >> there is a possibility of malfunction. but the satellite communication system was still active until the last time it was picked up. so like i said, there's some functionality in the system, except the reporting system was disabled. >> from china. malaysia's government -- national security concern. could you please specify what kind of information you are refusing to disclose. (inaudible). >> in fact, on the contrary. i stated on record that we had put national interest by disclosing our military raw data. and if we did not disclose this data we would not have gone and searched in these two areas. and if we did not get help and cooperation for international agencies like the ntsb we would not be able to look at the satellite data. so the aoe questions of events would be the release of sensitive data to the military. that is why yesterday i answ

northern route, southern route. everything out there to lead down to these spaces that at various times have been called as big as new mexico. as big as alaska. as big as franceeen all these descriptions of all these different spaces. and part of the issue, they keep changing. for example, this latest area being refined, once again, and changed to a new space. this is all about the first search. and by that, i mean. the above water search. until they clear that hurdle, the second search, the below water search is pretty much off the table. what have we found? satellite images, which have come up and none produced anything conclusive yet. they found some debris on the surface, which they have been able to determine has nothing to do with this plane. so they have to keep going out there with these high-tech planes to search the surface and the ships to scan the surface, because, unless they narrow that area, they can't really get started on the second search. the very thing that brian was talking about a minute ago, this idea of going below the water, as hard as it is to scan with any reliability, 80,000, 90,000 square miles in a day, like they're trying to do

france flight 447 also retired airline pilot ron brown. david, you heard the commander there saying they're searching off the coast of australia because they've already basically thoroughly searched the northernart of the indian ocean. do you basically just keep on expanding out until they've searched the entire area the plane could possibly have reached given the amount of fuel it had? >> anderson, we need to find some include about where that aircraft is. we can't be mapping the entire indian ocean. and if that plane impacted the water, even came down gently there's going to be some clue. and the navy is well suited to be able to find those bits of that plane. i'm hoping still with the families that it's sitting on land someplace. but this is the way to exclude the ocean. >> david, it's interesting though what the commander said which was that given the amount of time that has gone by, even if they find some debris on the water, that doesn't guarantee that they'll be able to pinpoint where the plane entered the water if in fact it did, correct? >> right. well, air france 447 it was five days. i thought that was a long time after the tragedy before the first wreckage was found. but it was tw

france and spain stole their territory. we have the palestinians as an example of historical grievances. we have the ira. they want to get back six counties from northern ireland. their main slogan is "brits out." >> a few years ago we would hear about terrorism in ireland. we do not hear that so much now. >> the ira is very active today. in fact some of them have become members of the british are limited. they were bigger in the 1960's and 1970's. >> i was reading weeks ago, -- several weeks ago in american history. there were terrorist acts from mexico into the united states. there was resentment, i guess, of the territorial status and i think it was black back -- blackjack pershing. >> absolutely. the mexican drug lords are joining forces with groups like has a lot -- hezbollah. >> stay with that. don't they know how dangerous these folks can be? >> they operate on the principle of the enemy of my enemy is my friend. and the common enemy for hezbollah and mexican drug lords is america. they will have a common denominator. in this case, it is america. >> moving right along -- the 15 reasons -- violations of international laws. >> that is the percepti

finland, france, georgia, greece, japan,, iceland, italy, lithuania, in stein, moldova, norway, new zealand the portugal,s, portland, although the, czech republic, the united kingdom, northern sweden, slovakia, turkey, and ukraine. four tonow give the council members who wish to make a statement before the vote. i give the floor from their presented above the russian federation. >> thank you, madam president. many times we have put forth in the chamber the essence of russian position regarding the cost of developing the internal crisis in the ukraine. this is the general context that is important for understanding how we view the u.s. drafted resolution, brought to vote today. it is a secret to no one that the russian federation will vote against the resolution. we cannot go along with a basic assumption that is declaring march planned referendum, where the very people of the crimean republic will determine their future. this type of philosophy from the sponsors of the draft is counter to the basic principles of international law. the principle of equal rights and self-determination. enshrined in article one of the u.n. charter. this principle, confirmed by the u.n. declara

france and spain stole their territory. as ane the palestinians example of historical grievances. we have the ira. they want to get back six counties from northern ireland. their main slogan is "brits out." we would hear ago about terrorism in ireland. much now.hear that so >> the ira is very active today. in fact some of them have become members of the british are limited. they were bigger in the 1960's and 1970's. >> i was reading >> weeks ago, -- several weeks ago in american history. from were terrorist acts mexico into the united states. there was resentment, i guess, status and iorial think it was black back -- blackjack pershing. >> absolutely. the mexican drug lords are joining forces with groups like hezbollah.- >> stay with that. don't they know how dangerous these folks can be? principleerate on the of the enemy of my enemy is my friend. and the common enemy for hezbollah and mexican drug lords is america. they will have a common denominator. in this case, it is america. along -- the 15 reasons -- violations of international laws. is the perception that countries did not fulfill the promises. for example great britain promised palesti

air france flight in the atlantic ocean, suggests a return to the old search zone if nothing's found soon. >> right now, it looks like they're chasing a very hot clue that puts them in this northernrea, but they're coming up empty, which is lending credence to the fact that maybe it's not the right place to be looking. so, it might be that after a couple more days, we should be looking back south, because we did see satellite pictures of large numbers of drifting stuff in the ocean. so, they should be keeping track of all their evidence and all their clues and where they've looked to date and be looking at, okay, where's the next best place to look tomorrow? >> we're also learning more about the malaysian government reaching out to the cia and its counterparts in britain and china in the flight 370 investigation. they want to take a deeper look again at the passengers and crew. it is fueling new speculation about what may have happened to the jetliner. so, let's go to cnn's jim clancy in kuala lumpur. he's been following the investigation really from the very beginning. jim, what's new this morning? >> reporter: well, you know, the theory that a hijacking might have been involved