teenager have been rescued at sea three days after disappearing while diving off the coast of malaysia. the man said his fourteen year old son, who went missing with them, had died. his body has not been recovered. the group got into trouble when they surfaced from their dive on wednesday and couldn t find their boat. they were spotted by fishermen 50 miles away from where they were lost. campaigning has ended in the first round of france s presidential election, which takes place on sunday. most polls are suggesting this election could be more tightly contested than in 2017. the incumbent emmanuel macron is likely to come out on top but his closest rival marine le pen is gaining ground. if no candidate wins a majority in this first round, a second round runoff will be held on 24th april. we can now cross live to paris, to my colleague tim willcox. tim? anita, thank you much indeed. welcome to tim? anita, thank you much indeed. welcome to palace. tim? anita, thank you much indeed.
personal finances comes in the week he raised taxes and everyone is watching the pennies. rajdeep sandhu, bbc news, westminster. campaigning has ended in the first round of france s presidential election, which takes place on sunday. most polls are suggesting this election could be more tightly contested than in 2017. the incumbent emmanuel macron is likely to come out on top, but his closest rival marine le pen is gaining ground. if no candidate wins a majority in this first round, a second round runoff will be held on 24th april. the bbc s tim wilcox is in paris and has been explaining what is diffrent for marie le pen at her third run for the presidency. marine le pen is tried really hard over the past ten or so years to basic de demonise the national rally party, you will remember it was her fatherjeanmarie le pen who said the excess the national frontier which was associated with very extreme views on immigration, and they are
on 24th april. we can now cross live to the bbc s tim willcox who is in paris for us. and hello again to you, marine le pen s third run at the presidency. of pen s third run at the presidency. of course, with the usual health warning about paul s looking much closer to emmanuel macron than last time round, what has changed with voter sentiment in that time? it’s voter sentiment in that time? it s interesting voter sentiment in that time? it s interesting because marine le pen has tried very hard over the past ten or so years to basically demonise the national rally party, you will remember, it was her father who set up the national front here, which was associated with very extreme views on immigration, race is policies. now, she has worked very hard this time around to focus on other areas, for example the cost of living crunch and the economy but again there are still
have been rescued at sea three days after disappearing while diving off the coast of malaysia.the man said his fourteen year old son who went missing with them had died. his body has not been recovered. the group got into trouble when they surfaced from their dive on wednesday and couldn t find their boat. they were spotted by fishermen 50 miles away from where they were lost. campaigning has ended in the first round of france s presidential election, which takes place on sunday. most polls are suggesting this election could be more tightly contested than in 2017. the incumbent emmanuel macron is likely to come out on top but his closest rival marine le pen is gaining ground. if no candidate wins a majority in this first round, a second round runoff will be held on 24th april. earlier i spoke to the bbc s tim wilcox who is paris. he explained what is diffrent
strong as the world believed, they were extremely disorganised, they are extremely not motivated, the only thing they can do is torture civilians. that is the only thing that they can do because it cannot really fight against a real army, that ukraine army is. we can prevail in this work and we can prevail sooner rather than later if we continue getting support from the west. . ~ , ., continue getting support from the west. . ~ , ., , continue getting support from the west. . ~ i. , . on sunday, people in france will vote to choose their next president. most polls are suggesting this election could be more tightly contested than in 2017. the incumbent, emmanuel macron, is likely to come out on top, but his closest rival, marine le pen, is gaining ground. if no candidate wins a majority in this first round, a second round run off will be held on 24th april. earlier, i spoke to dr sudhir hazareesingh, who is a politics lecturer at the university of oxford and an expert in french history