Emmanuel macron wins the french presidency, but that may prove to have been the easy part. We assess how his en Marche Movement hopes to tackle the huge problems of the french economy. And President Trump wants to cut red tape to get drugs on the market faster, but the Pharmaceutical Industry is wary of president s bearing gifts. So now lets focus on the Business Implications of that result in france. Well look at all the Market Reaction as well in this of World Business report. So, he got thejob. Emmanuel macron is to be the french president. Now the hard work begins. His first challenge will be to form a government with crucial parliamentary elections in june. The outcome of that will determine how much power the new president has to tackle the lengthy list of economic problems. As weve highlighted before on this Programme France has had a high Unemployment Rate for many, many years. Currently it is about 10 of the workforce, or 3 million people. That co m pa res workforce, or 3 mill
Has hope. Well tell you what his victory means for us in the uk. And these are some of the 82 freed Chibok Schoogirls whove been hello. Welcome to the programme, this morning let us know youre experience of giving birth in a Maternity Unit and also your experience if you work in one. Our Excluisve Investigation on errors recorded in Maternity Units at quarter past 9. Use the Hashtag Victoria Live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. Frances new president elect, Emmanuel Macron, has promised to heal the countrys divisions, following his resounding victory over the far right leader, Marine Le Pen. The pro european candidate secured 66 percent of the vote in yesterdays election and atjust 39, he will become the countrys youngest ever president. Addressing thousands of supporters in paris last night, he said he respected those who backed ms le pen, and would reach out to them. Our europe correspondent, Damian Grammaticas was at the macron
Forces stop fighting each other first. And it is looking good for newcastle to make it back into the Premier League. These are the polls looking ahead to the second round of the french election. The polls put mr macron well ahead for the second round. They were right for the first round but well you know all the caveats around polling. A short time ago i spoke to professor helen drake shes the chair in European Integration at loughborough university. Shes in paris. I asked her if the latest polls were good news for European Integration. One thing we learned from last night is that the polls were quite accurate. Marine le pen was supposed to win the first round and she came ina quick to win the first round and she came in a quick second so the polls which are putting macron ahead of le pen in the next round, i suppose we can trust them. Macron has expressed a lot of support for the european union, and he has some practical and positive messages for how to strengthen the eu. I suppose th
Forces stop fighting each other first. And it is looking good for newcastle to make it back into the Premier League. These are the polls looking ahead to the second round of the french election. The polls put mr macron well ahead for the second round. They were right for the first round but well you know all the caveats around polling. A short time ago i spoke to professor helen drake shes the chair in European Integration at loughborough university. Shes in paris. I asked her if the latest polls were good news for European Integration. One thing we learned from last night is that the polls were quite accurate. Marine le pen was supposed to win the first round and she came ina quick to win the first round and she came in a quick second so the polls which are putting macron ahead of le pen in the next round, i suppose we can trust them. Macron has expressed a lot of support for the european union, and he has some practical and positive messages for how to strengthen the eu. I suppose th
done. good evening. in just a few hours, president trump is expected to greet these americans as they return home. first let s take a look at their journey across the world. first they flew from pyongyang, north korea, to japan. from there, the government plane flew to anchorage, alaska, to refuel. they were scheduled to arrive in the middle of the night at joint base andrews here in the washington area, likely just before 3:00 a.m. the president said he will personally greet the flight when they land. one plane is caring for secretary of state mike pompeo, who was able to secure the release of the three men and says he is thrilled. the larger plane are less caring the three prisoners. here s what we know about the three americans, tony kim, kim hak song, both working at the pyongyang university of science and technology when they were arrested in the spring of 2017. kim dong chul, arrested in 2016,