I made the joke all the time that the actual material that school desks were made of could actually stop a nuclear holocaust. [laughter] rob not true, but we used to joke about it. What happened was the cold war ended. Had,ber of administrations for a short period of time become a window where we all felt kind of ok, where the world is moving in the direction weve all wanted it to move, and a democratic direction where democracy was now starting to take hold, even in the former soviet union. It was very shortlived. We saw a man named Vladimir Putin, who was a former kgb void,al, fill a essentially taking over in a lot of chaos and an inability to make that transition to a democracy. He moved in, took advantage of the chaos, and started an authoritarian state, which meant ,imiting the freedom of speech clamping down on dissidents, even murder. We, and the cold war, had basically got to a point where the Nuclear Arms Race had buried them in economically. They were devastated. There was a
An ecstatic crowd in london wait to cheer a fresh face young politician in a huge rally, bedecked with red white and blue flags. Hes emmanuel macron, and hes running for french president. Not sincejeremy corbyns Leadership Rallies has there been such enthusiasm for a political leader in the uk, and even british Liberal Remainers are pinning their hopes on him. Well ask two british centrist politicians if they are for him, and if his politics are for us. Also tonight, is this the reason why Hiv Infection rates are plummeting among gay men . We went back over all our new Hiv Diagnoses and each month we looked, it was the same. And we just couldnt believe it. But then we asked our colleagues in other clinics in london and they said the same thing. So we thought it is true, its real. And is the nhs The Last Bastion of communism . Four hours for emergency care, two months to start Cancer Treatment and six months for a routine operation. Lets stop trying to fix it, lets totally change the mo
The fifth republic, the two mainstream parties are one theed after round socialist and the conservative will face offrs on may 7 for the second round. We thought there might be three names and now we have two provided by our partner. Lets take a look at how the other candidates fared. You can certainly see an extremely tight race. Thats incredible. Said, mark, this is historic. Yes, as i just said, no one would have said that Emmanuel Macron would be in the lead. Marine le pen was said to be ahead in all the polls. This pushes her through to the second round. Facing off against and the second round, all the polls have shown that Emmanuel Macron would win and become frances next president and there is two weeks of campaigning to go. If so, Emmanuel Macron would young president of france. Obviously, this is a whole new Campaign Starting today. And what a shakeup. Do we have the images we can pull up of the headquarters . We have some reaction to this news. There we have Emmanuel Macron s
Can help you live to 100. [ cheers ] all right, that was the scene in paris not long ago with the win of emanuel macron. Hello, everyone. Im fredricka whitfield. Thanks so much for being with me. French voters giving a stinging defeat to far right president ial candidate Marine Le Pen. Centrist candidate emanuel macron defeating le pen to become the countrys next president. Here in the u. S. President trump tweeting out just a short time ago, congratulations to emanuel macron on his big win today as the next president of france. I look very much forward to working with him. Weve got full coverage for you. Cnn chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour is at the mckron rally there in paris, which is like a Big Old Party scene with the deejay and live bands and everything. Christiane, this vote seems to be breaking down to roughly 62 to 38 in favor of macron. There is a runaway victory. How symbolic is this outcome to the sentiment of the french . Well, look. This is a major b
Protests intensify and continue in venezuela. The socialist government finding itself increasingly under siege. Americas news headquarters starts right now. Laura and we begin with the election day in france where the people have spoken. Centrist Emmanuel Macron will be the countrys next president. Defeating nationalist candidate Marine Le Pen by a decisive margin. Voters flooding to the polls in one of frances most unpredictable and consequential elections in its history. Eric its been a very bruising and Divisive Campaign right until the very end with protests against le pen and her nationalistic views on immigration and the European Union. Macrons victory marking a setback for those populist forces that earlier led to brexit in Great Britain and some say to the election of President Trump here in the united states. Senior Foreign Affairs correspondent greg talcott live in paris where the eiffel tower certainly seems to be celebrating as well as those on the street as we await the pr