Updates on the french president ial elections with the first vote just two months away. Lots has been going on today. We can show you some of the pictures. Here you can see the far right candidate Marine Le Pen, she has been talking about Foreign Policy. The centralist, emmanuel macron, has picked up the support of france while francois bayroux. The police have been Firing Tear Gas at students who have been protesting against a member of the police force who raped a student. There have been suggestions that Marine Le Pen will come top of the first round. I asked James Reynolds for more about Marine Le Pens she has been talking about Foreign Policy. We know a lot of her positions. She would like an alliance with russias president. She wants france to leave nato. She wa nts to she wants france to leave nato. She wants to hold a Reference Mick a referendum about frances membership of the eu. And she also wants to talk about deporting criminals. We know a lot of her positions. Shes faced p
Of the day in the commons and the lords. On this programme. After the drama of the weeks Government Defeat in the House Of Lords on the brexit bill, peers win praise from some unlikely quarters, such as the snp. The peoples aristocrats have spoken and their voice must be listened to. The Farming Minister Rejects claims that food prices are increasing since the uk voted to leave the eu. We have seen a fall in food prices of 0. 5 over the last year and a fall of 6 since 2014. And more tributes are paid to the father of the house, sir Gerald Kaufman, who died last weekend. He had an ability to sum up his views with a witty turn of phrase that could be as colourful and a memorable as his suits. But first. The leader of the commons, david lidington, has confirmed that the government will try to overturn wednesday nights defeat for the government inflicted by peers on the so called brexit bill. Peers voted by a majority of 102 to guarantee the rights of eu nationals living and working in the
are going to exchange roses with government? people are going to rise. and when they rise, there will not be any leader who will be leading them. they will be leaderless. there will be anarchy. there will be looting all over this country because nothing will be working. so if you think that i was bluffing on the 20th of march, i was just saying to this government and the people of south africa, something ought to be done to avoid what is possibly coming, which is going to be a leaderless revolution. that s very powerful rhetoric. but the truth is, on 20th of march, according to employers, 70% of workers across the country went to work. one political commentator said that actually the failure of the national shutdown was a, quote, humiliation for malema. from where we are sitting, the shutdown was successful.
and when they rise, there will not be any leader who will be leading them. they will be leaderless. there will be anarchy. there will be looting all over this country because nothing will be working. so if you think that i was bluffing on the 20th of march, i was just saying to this government and the people of south africa, something ought to be done to avoid what is possibly coming, which is going to be a leaderless revolution. that s very powerful rhetoric. but the truth is, on 20th of march, according to employers, 70% of workers across the country went to work. one political commentator said that actually the failure of the national shutdown was a, quote, humiliation for malema. from where we are sitting, the shutdown was successful. nothing was operating. the south african media was at the public transport,
i was bluffing on the 20th of march, i was just saying to this government and the people of south africa, something ought to be done to avoid what is possibly coming, which is going to be a leaderless revolution. that s very powerful rhetoric. but the truth is, on 20th of march, according to employers, 70% of workers across the country went to work. one political commentator said that actually the failure of the national shutdown was a, quote, humiliation for malema. from where we are sitting, the shutdown was successful. nothing was operating. the south african media was at the public transport, at taxi ranks, at bus ranks. the taxi drivers themselves, the bus drivers themselves have said we showed up, but there are no people. so if you are going to listen to attacks, stop. most.