The party itself and marine Le Pen, of course they deny all this. Its going to be a long trial, a couple of months as they go through all the evidence. At the end of it, though, whats crucial and why this trial matters is that it is marine Le Pen s political future which is very much at stake. Why . Because one of the potential penalties she could suffer if shes found guilty is an ineligibility for office. She could be banned from standing for public office for a period of, say, five years. And that would mean she couldnt stand in the next president ial election in 2027. Marine Le Pen is Riding High right now in french politics. Her party did very well in the last elections. It can make or break this Sitting Government of michel barnier. Her next step is this bid for the presidency again in 2027. But if this guilty verdict, if its a guilty verdict and it ends in an ineligibility for office, that obviously means that that plan is up in smoke, and she will need urgently a plan b. We have
too busy but walking through the station there are a lot of people inside, what s on families and young children and suitcases, people standing around wondering what to do, services to paris and amsterdam and brussels and disneyland paris to and brussels and disneyland paris to a lot of children inside and families wondering what to do next. a busy period, wanting to go on holiday on new year s eve and visit family and your and as i was walking through the station announcements that would not be any trains before midday at the earliest and suffer 14 trains cancelled, none running midday and they said if anyone was hoping to get a last minute ticket do not bother because every train is full. they are working on the issue and anyone is affected they can get and anyone is affected they can get a full refund or exchange the ticket but for a lot of people inside they want to get to where they are going and we have been hearing from simon calder who has been in the station talking
from the outskirts of the city. tonight with the context, in london daily mail columnist sarah vine, and from washington, stefanie brown james, co founder of collective pac, the group campaigning for equal representation in american politics. hello, a warm welcome to the programme. zeneta everhart is the mother of a 21 year shop worker who survived the mass shooting in east buffalo. his name is zaire, and each day for the past three weeks, she has been dressing his wounds. he has a hole in the right side of his neck, two on his back another on his left leg, and when she cleans his back, she says she can feel pieces of the bullet that was fired at him from an ar15. the gunman was 18 years old. today, zeneta gave evidence to to a congressional committee ahead today, zeneta gave evidence toa congressional committee ahead of a house vote on gun reform. we continuously hear after every mass shooting that this is not who we are as americans and as a nation. hear me clearly this i