built for business. >>> back to bill schofield who helped create the black boxes and david soucie.you were saying that you're really excited about the information that came out of this. >> i really am. doing a lot of investigations myself, as we've been talking about for weeks, there's ebbs and flows. we have to take the bad with the good. this is beyond a flow. this is a milestone. let me tell you why i think that. we've got so much equipment out there now. we have the echo out there, we have the towed pinger locaters out there. everything that's out there right now is 24-hour service. they're going to be going 24 hours. before we were limited because we had to take two or three hours to get out there, then only a few hours to search. these things work at night, they work all the time. and if that pinger locater is pinging right now, they're starting to look for it. you could hear his statements about working together. it's amazing the energy in an investigation how it changes at this point. a lot of it's been going on and i'm glad to see it coming together. >> thank you very much

i put to bbc's hugh schofield in paris that it's remarkable segolene will be joining the cabinet of herormer partner and father of her children. >> reporter: the two had fallen out big time. there's been reconciliation probably due to the fact that he's left valerie trierweiler. so she comes back in this cabinet this ecology/energy role. she's filling a place there which the greens could have had but aren't going to have. the greens who were a coalition partner in the government which was there up until two days ago, the greens have worked out, saying they can't work with the new prime minister because he's too right wing. segolene royal to come in and look at this transition which hole lapped announced towards replacing nuclear and fossil fuels. obviously a long-term project. that is apparently to be a priority. >> can one imagine what relations are going to be like now? after all, the president has had his issues when it comes to women in recent months. >> as i say, they are on the face of it back on terms. evidently they separated amid some acrimony any several years ago. he then had

let's get the latest from our correspondent hugh schofield.uel bars was only installed yesterday. he's been quick getting this cabinet approved by francois hollande. what's being made of this juicy detail that segolene royale is back in the cab netted. >> it is interesting. a lot of media attention on that, particularly the international media. it's interesting, isn't it? she's his former partner, the mother of his children. they split up seven or so years ago. francois hollande had this relationship with valerie trierweiler which ended a few months ago due to his relationship with the actress. journalists are saying since francois hollande and valerie trierweiler that's allowed a reprush more to take place between his partner and segolene royal. i think one has to step back and say at the same time that segolene royal is an important political figure in france. she did run for the presidency. she has a large amount of support. she's taken a step back from politics. that means she's untainted, if you like, but the unpopularity of the governmen