A law they say is on democratic and will undermine the countries bid for a new membership. The article fairly welcome to the show ceremonies, chancellor left shots as wrapping up a visit to china speaking with its leaders at a time when economic diplomatic relations between b. U and beijing are increasingly streamed. Following a meeting between schultz and chinese premier and leach young. Lee said the economic interest of both countries that remain deeply intertwined, president , aging, ping warrant schultz against resorting to protectionist economic measure thing. Both countries depend on free trade. Last year, jeremy launched a strategy to avoid over dependence on china themselves. Also spoke to chinese leaders about the war and ukraine in his last press conference before leaving beijing. Shaw said hes pushing for a diplomatic solution to the war. Lets hear what he had to say. And it is important for germany, as well as all the other friends of ukraine to keep supporting ukraine as l
This story a short time ago from the hill, temperature officials said today that the u. S. Needs to confront russia for providing arms to the taliban. Speaking to reporters in kabul, afghanistan, defense secretary james mattis and hyten nick olson did not get into specifics, but general nicholson said hes not disputing reports that russia is providing support to the taliban. Heres more of that story in thehill. Com, and that briefing is on our web site at cspan. Org. A look now at france 24s coverage of yesterdays elections as farright candidate Marine Le Pen and independent centrist candidate Emanuel Marcon won the first round in frances president ial elections. The runoff is may 6th. Their ricketily speeches follow. Victory speeches follow. So there we have it, Emanuel Marcon ahead of Marine Le Pen, 21. 7 of the vote. This means that for the First Time Ever in the history of the fifth republic, the two mainstream parties are eliminated after round one, the socialist and the conservat
21. 7 of the vote. For the first time ever, the two mainstream parties are illuminated after round one. Are eliminated after round one. Two outsiders, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, will face off on may 7 for the second round. We thought there might be three names, but we now have two names. Indeed, now lets take a look at how the other candidates faired. There you have it. You can see an externally tight race. Jeanlucfillon and melenchon are tied for third. And look at the dip for the socialist party. It really is incredible under the 10 mark. And then we have nicolas dupontaignan with 5 . Lets see if we can look at the other candidates, just to see where all 11 candidates came in. And then we see pretty much trailing in, 1. 5 , 1. 2 . That being said, mark, this is historic. Mark yes, nobody would have thought Emmanuel Macron would be in the lead. Marine le pen was said to be in the second round, but much higher. At one point she was around 30 . She is ending just a tad under 22
21. 7 of the vote. For the first time ever, the two mainstream parties are illuminated after round one. Are eliminated after round one. Two outsiders, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, will face off on may 7 for the second round. We thought there might be three names, but we now have two names. Indeed, now lets take a look at how the other candidates faired. There you have it. You can see an externally tight race. Jeanlucfillon and melenchon are tied for third. And look at the dip for the socialist party. It really is incredible under the 10 mark. And then we have nicolas dupontaignan with 5 . Lets see if we can look at the other candidates, just to see where all 11 candidates came in. And then we see pretty much trailing in, 1. 5 , 1. 2 . That being said, mark, this is historic. Mark yes, nobody would have thought Emmanuel Macron would be in the lead. Marine le pen was said to be in the second round, but much higher. At one point she was around 30 . She is ending just a tad under 22
Plus. Im Andrew Simmons in the ruins of gaza and i will be reporting on the human damage of this conflict. The trauma of children. Israel says from the very beginning it was only going to target hamas military targets. Khan eunist i yunis in the soutt road is still being built. Theres no plan to secure a longer period of calm. A month on from the start of this latest israeli offensive, palestinians have no idea when or how they will be able to rebuild their lives. Resuming rocket attack from 0500 on friday if its demands are not met. It wants a permanent lifting of the blockade. Mediators are discussing a diplomatic solution from indirect talks in egypt. Israels media reports the government has offered to extend the ceasefire for another 72 hours. This is the human cost of the violence. 64 Israeli Soldiers and 3 civilians including a Thai National have been killed since the fighting started a month ago. 1886 palestinians have been killed. The u. N. Says almost three quarters of them ar