it looks like from the pictures they re ready for a big party at macron head quarters. all right, melissa bell, jim, thank you so much. all right. still ahead, images of atrocities. we ll talk to a prize winning photographer about the importance of capturing the brutality of russia s invasion of ukraine.
joining us on the phone from macron head quarters. so melissa, has macron shut up there yet? he has showed up to an ecstatic crowd. he watched a very and the party is going on here. at the foot of the eiffel tower. he s to take the stage fairly soon to make his speech on those results. we ve seen over the course of the last two minutes, a difference between the far right and widen ever so slightly as in his favor. so i think what we expect to hear from him tonight is french president much relieved at the victory not just for the people of france but for europe as well, for the war in ukraine, for so many issues far beyond france this quarter. but beyond that relief, i think you re going to hear and the more than 50% of the voter who is in the first round voted for
assembly national to crawl away quietly into the night, their hopes dashed tonight. because obviously they re going to fight on. they haven t set aside their principles and le pen emphasized the concerns of the average frenchman which she said all during the campaign have been ignored, concerns about the cost of living and that sort of thing, that they re going to be continuing to fight for that. so it s not a defeat for the far right, but it isn t a victory either. jim bitterman, thank you so much. cnn s melissa bell is joining us on the phone, at macron head quarters. melissa, what can you tell us? reporter: i m sorry i can t show you where we are precisely right now, but it got so chaotic that our cameras failed to function and cooperate. but we re at the foot of the eiffel tower. the crowd of macron supporters waiting for the french president to arrive to make his victory