Strips the person of their personality. And as ukip call for a ban on full face veils one woman who wears a niqab tells us it will lead to a rise in attacks on muslim women. Hello. Welcome to the programme, throughout the programme, the latest Breaking News and developing stories and as always, really keen to hear from you. A little later, well be talking about scoliosis. If you were watching britains got talent on saturday night, you will have seenjulie, the dancer in the middle, talking about her curvature of the spine. That is what scoliosis is. As a result of discussing that on prime time telly on a saturday night, people are learning about it sometimes for the first time. If youre affected by scolosis, do get in touch this morning use the Hashtag Victoria Live. If you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. Voters in france have chosen the two candidates who will go through to the final round of the president ial election in two weeks time. The
Will stay with you. Maybe i was a bit over zealous with my support. No it was wonderful it was needed needed to hit home that he was there. And coming up in the sport on bbc news labelled the best player in history by his manager, lionel messi scored his 500th goal for barcelona in a dramatic el clasico victory at real madrid. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Its the biggest political upset in france for 60 years. For the first time neither of frances main left wing or right wing parties has a candidate in the second round of the president ial elections after they were both defeated by two outsiders yesterday. The independent centrist candidate, 39 year old Emmanuel Macron only set up his party a year ago he will become the youngest ever french president if he wins on may 7th. But hes got to beat Marine Le Pen of the Front National, who is campaigning against immigration, globalisation and the eu. Christian fraser is in paris for us this lunchtime. Thank you very much
The story of London Marathon runner who sacrificed his own race time to help an exhausted athlete reach the finish line. I was like shouting in his ear, saying, come on, come on, we can do this, we will finish. Its 200 metres. Ill stay with you. And a british woman is recovering after being attacked by a shark while swimming off a Remote Island in the South Atlantic. Its 5 oclock. Our main story is that france now faces just under a fortnight of intense campaigning between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, who emerged last night as the two remaining candidates for the presidency. Mr macron is running without the backing of one of the traditional parties and ms le pen, leader of the National Front, is also regarded as an outsider in a race thats transformed the old patterns of french politics. Mr macron won 23. 8 of votes in the first round, while ms le pen took 21. 5 . The turnout was high, at nearly 79 . Live to paris for the latest with christian fraser. A very warm welcome to paris
But the pressure from lebanon to leave is building some three Thousand Syrians have already registered to return but i can never go back to syria. She is especially worried about this man. Is a member of the Syrian Committee tasked with collecting the names of Billing Return is and sending the list to damascus for approval who is suspicious that the government mitali the names with those who protested against the regime and neither of us them upon arrival or refuse them approval to return but golson denies the charge. Its not a condition not an issue of approval its just about informing the government of the names of the people returning. He claims syria is now safe and to convince us
he asked one of the refugees whove applied to return to talk to us do you want to go back of course whats keeping me here but it doesnt go quite as he was sought so he is confronted by angry syrians that jobs are going back to syria safely is impossible. He shows his broad scars the military did this whil
Elections and the future and one woman this morning was just crying because she couldnt believe the amount of violence that she was seeing yesterday against older people and women as well was really heartbreaking to see all right emotions running very high there mentally. In harare thank you very much. Now some other stories making news Around The World authorities in the Democratic Republic Of Congo say four more people have tested positive for the a bowl of virus in the countrys northeast the outbreak in north kivu province close to the ugandan border has already claimed Twenty Thousand lives the cases come just days after another outbreak in the northwest of the sea was declared over. And the u. S. Has announced sanctions against to talk turkish officials over the countrys detention of an american pastor turkey accuses Andrew Brunson of aiding the failed coup attempt against turkish president won in Two Thousand And Sixteen the u. S. Is demanding bronsons immediate release. Lebanon