to have taken the most votes in the french parliamentary election. but leaders of the left and centre have called for france to unite against marine le pen in the second round next sunday. in the last hour, the french president gabriel attal has called on voters to not give a single vote to the national rally. translation: night is not a night like any other, you know me, i am night is not a night like any other, you know me, iam not night is not a night like any other, you know me, i am not about to beat about the bush. the lesson tonight is the far right is on the doorstep of power. never before in our democracy has the national assembly risked being dominated by the extreme right as is tonight. our objective is clear, to prevent the national rally from having an absolute majority in the second round, from dominating the national assembly, and therefore governing the country. i say this with force, ideal to i appeal to everyone of our vultures. ideal to i appeal to ev
live now to professor tim benton, research director, environment and society centre. thank you very much forjoining us today, tim. lots of things of course influence the price we end up paying for ourfood, things like transport, wages and supermarkets. are the increases that we are seeing in the costs of food commodities being passed on to consumers in foal, orare being passed on to consumers in foal, or are they being absorbed, at least in some parts, in the supply chain? to a parts, in the supply chain? trr a certain extent, both. if you think back to our current period of inflation, where we ve had, post ukraine, post pandemic, a global cost of living crisis. sorry, i m getting a lot of feedback, i m getting a lot of feedback, i can t hear myself. thank you. global cost of living crisis, some of that is being driven by environmental effects, some of it being driven by politics, but as climate change increasingly bites, we are going to get a lot more pressure on everyday co