Good morning. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 1am in paris, where the two candidates hoping to be president of france have been going head to head in the final Television Debate of the election. The latest polls suggest the centrist Emmanuel Macron is well ahead of his far right rival Marine Le Pen but his lead has narrowed. Both are competing to win over undecided voters ahead of the final vote on sunday. James reynolds has been watching the debate. He calls her the candidate of hate. She says he has no qualities. Tonight, they meet. Emmanuel macron, the frontrunner, wont want to slip up. Hes standing as a pro eu, Pro Immigration Centrist and hes protecting a clear lead in the polls. Marine le pen, from the front national, is trying to bring him down. I asked her what she wanted from the debate . Translation what do i expect from the debate . Some clarification from mr macron. Hes still being very vague. And tonight, on french tv, the two candidates faced one another and
But it may soon be dwarfed by the numbers starving to death. Yemen is experiencing a humanitarian catastrophe which the warring parties are making worse and which the outside world seems unwilling, or unable, to tackle. My guest is the un humanitarian coordinator in the country, jamie mcgoldrick. Is he losing the struggle to save millions of lives . Jamie mcgoldrick, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Here you sit on a visit to the united kingdom. Your base is in yemen. Yeah. What is the right word to describe the situation in yemen today . Is the word famine the right one . Well, famine will come if the Current Conditions continue. I think the war, the conflict, the insecurity, and the collapse of the economy, all of that is lending itself to a situation where people have no other choice but to slip into that. You know, there are 7 Million People in the country already who are in a very fragile situation in terms of the food security. If we cannot respond by giving them medical support.
A ao year old man handed himself into police in bournemouth. Now on bbc news, all the latest Business News live from singapore. Facebooks revenues beat expectations. Now the Social Media Giant is promising to tackle violent content. And find out why this young entrepreneur says rick first is the best and the worst time of his day says it first. Good morning. Glad you could join us for this thursday edition of Asia Business report. The Social Media Giant facebook reported an 8 billion in quarterly revenues, fuelled by strong growth in its mobile advertising business. It says 1. 94 mobile advertising business. It says 1. 91; billion people are now using facebook and thats up 17 from one year ago. Facebook has given us a taste of what it might do with some of its earnings. The company promised to hire 3000 new people to monitor and remove violent content. Earlier i spoke to our north America Technology correspondent and asked what facebook hopes to gain from this move. One of the big clou
there at their convention how he would measure progress. he literally used these words, he said we measure progress differently than republicans, presumably, but it was the fact that he said we measure progress and then he described how it was he and his party measured progress, and i think it s interesting given the fact that he laid out what his report card would be to go back and score him on the very report card he laid out. he said, for instance, that we, the democrats measure progress by whether people have good jobs that can pay for mortgages. okay. we re three and a half years later and he has not yet created a single net new job in america where three and a half years later there were job losses and 93% of the people that lost jobs had been women. on the measure that he himself put in place, creating jobs where people could pay mortgages, he fails, and there was another measure that he laid out. he said in a setting where you were having progress, you could measure i