Be the youngest president since napoleon. He was voting in his hometown, rather nice seaside town. He wants to shake up french politics. He wants to bring together he says a Coalition Of The Willing which he said would be able to reform france. And he wants an open facing france at the centre of a much more deeply integrated European Union. He is the favourite but he is up union. He is the favourite but he is up againsta union. He is the favourite but he is up against a woman who needs very little introduction, Marine Le Pen of the Front National, the self proclaimed champion of the forgotten. She was voting in the north where she has been a regional councillor. She has a very different vision. She would restore the borders of france. She would limit immigration, she would bring back the frank, she would give the french people a membership on their European Union membership and she tells people at the rallies that she is the only defender of french workers and french factories against
Drought which has left a third of its 15 Million People dependent on food aid. The state is running out of dollars, workers go unpaid and unemployment is very high a dire situation that presents the opposition in the country with an opportunity in nationwide elections in 2018. My guest today is Welshman Ncube, who leads his own faction of the zimbabwean Opposition Party movement for Democratic Change, known as mdc n. The main Opposition Parties have now formed an alliance, but can they put aside their differences and focus on defeating President Mugabe and his ruling zanu pf . Welshman ncube, welcome to hardtalk. Your new Opposition Alliance is moving too slowly. There are other Opposition Forces that are filling the vacuum . Firstly, it is not moving as fast as we would want to move. The important thing is that it has been confirmed across the political spectrum that it is absolutely necessary that we should come together, that we should create a single corner which is unified to see
Drought which has left a third of its 15 Million People dependent on food aid. The state is running out of dollars, workers go unpaid and unemployment is very high a dire situation that presents the opposition in the country with an opportunity in nationwide elections in 2018. My guest today is Welshman Ncube, who leads his own faction of the zimbabwean Opposition Party movement for Democratic Change, known as mdc n. The main Opposition Parties have now formed an alliance, but can they put aside their differences and focus on defeating President Mugabe and his ruling zanu pf . Welshman ncube, welcome to hardtalk. Your new Opposition Alliance is moving too slowly. There are other Opposition Forces that are filling the vacuum . Firstly, it is not moving as fast as we would want to move. The important thing is that it has been confirmed across the political spectrum that it is absolutely necessary that we should come together, that we should create a single corner which is unified to see
Its a huge deal. Its hard to see howJeremy Corbyn, the labour party leader, can recover, not so much just from the by election but from the fact that clearly the opinion polls, by elections and everything shows, that a Critical Mass of even labour voters dont see him as my ministerial and thats difficult. And yet the reaction has been that they lost but it could have been lost and steady as she goes. What interesting is that labour has its Owfi Interesting is that labour has its own opposition and the reason we had this by election is that you had to front bench is resigning. Its interesting because we are seeing this serious opposition to Jeremy Corbyn and yet theres real denial amongst those who support him and say he can carry on. Of course, we have you say he can carry on. Of course, we have you ukip and lib dem vying for who is the third party and still third parties here dont impact the big picture politics. But we are seeing the competition between them who are getting a smaller
To dateline london. The state were in is there a vacuum at the heart of British Politics . How far does the future of the European Union rest on the next president of france . And,the fight against the Group Calling itself islamic state. Who will be doing the fighting . My guests today are agnes poirier, who is uk editor of frances marianne, Stryker Mcguire of bloomberg markets, mina al oraibi, the arab affairs commentator, and ned temko, who is an author and journalist. The tradition in britain is for Opposition Parties to do well in by elections since they can often be used as a protest vote against the sitting government. This week, the conservatives actually won a seat in copeland held by labour for several generations, and ukips leader lost in the seat his party claimed was Britains Brexit capital stoke. As we move towards brexit, we clearly have a government. Do we have anything which looks like an opposition . Perhaps the Scottish National party . Yes, perhaps the unelected Hous