actor? as vladimir putin lost his mind? that is really the subtext of all of the conversations about whether the russian president is actually willing to drive humanity to the brink of a nuclear disaster. i bet it s keeping president biden up at night, how about you? how are you sleeping ever since president biden used the word armageddon. just a moment last president biden outright how close he thinks we really are to the brink. what options are on the table? as biden noted, putin s choice isn t options are narrowing. we will defend our land by all means. we will secure the security of our people. are english putin dictionary right here, when he says we will defend our land what he means our land is the 18% of ukraine and he just declared part of russia. and by our people he means the ukrainians who have taken up arms to stop them. and races by all means, that is rhetoric that has gone nuclear. the u.s. is only country in the world have used nuclear weapons on two occasi
Never even contested an election before this year. It really has been an astonishing year in french politics. Emmanuel macron, the young, fresh phrased, road business, ardent european. About to be inaugurated pro business. He trounced his rivals in the elections, a resounding vote in support of a man who only set up his en marche party about a year ago. We are already hearing, by the way, just you know, just to let you know, that we will expect him to appoint his Prime Minister to morrow. We have heard that in the last few minutes. The Prime Minister will be appointed tomorrow and the government will be formed on tuesday. That is what sources close to Emmanuel Macron are telling us. That is the scene there in Central Paris, as we await the formalities of the inauguration and, of course, the french do these things with wonderful and grandeur and lets go to my colleague who was there watching it all unfold. A rather drizzly morning there in paris, we can tell from your umbrella 7 drizzly
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
about where putin finds himself today. what would happen if you took a dictator and then injected in him an extra dose of crazy. i asked because french president emmanuel macron one of the leaders that have been directly talking with him said he doesn t think putin is acting rational. now it s clear for everybody that s a leader who decided to go to war s president putin. i have no rational explanation. post covid-19 consequence. isolation as he s been so isolated? thank so those of pent such as former president he was always calculating in cold but this is different, he seems erratic. james clapper
russian ukraine s war, specifically vladimir putin? i really think it s not good news for vladimir putin that emmanuel macron one today, the french president. i think it s very well known this week that marine le pen has a very strong tie with putin, a few years ago she was unable to finance differential pen pain and she took a loan from a russian bank, she still needs to pay this loan. it was alone for presidential she acknowledge that. so, there is a dependence between marine lepen, and the russians however she was saying to our own defense i did that because the french bank didn t want to lend me on a. but again, that was a lot of people who were extremely worried about this russian dependence of presidential and as you may know emmanuel macron didn t have this dependents until now. he still trying to a dialogue with vladimir putin, at least until the bucha massacre, he was trying to call putin s book several times with president putin, so he s trying