Market action as investors wrap up another trading week. And well be getting the inside track on Global Economic challenges and the threat of protectionism words of warning from the imfs boss Christine Lagarde. All this and more with our economics correspondent andrew walker. And do you shop on the internet . Online shoppers in the uk spend more per household than consumers in any other country. We want to know what you buy online. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Welcome to the programme. We start in france, where the shooting in paris has interrupted final campaigning in what was already being called the most unpredictable president ial election in living memory. Centrist favourite Emmanuel Macron and far right Marine Le Pen look likely to go through after sundays vote to a run off on may 7th. But they are closely followed by conservative Francois Fillon and far left candidate Jean Luc Melenchon who cant be ruled out. Socialist benoit hamon, though, is being given little chance of ma
Shortly in london. A man has been arrested over the death of an ex Royal Navy Officer who was hit as his car was stolen from outside his home in manchester. This couldve happened to absolutely anybody. You hear a noise downstairs, you go to see what it is. Its incredibly tragic. Any bit of information, we really need to hear it. Four tram drivers admit to falling asleep on a line in croydon, where seven people died after derailment last year. And the cities vying to take over from hull as uks next city of culture. Good morning and welcome to bbc news. Im Karin Giannone Live In Paris where the centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron and the far right National Front Leader Marine Le Pen have made it through to the second round of the french president ial election. Macron who has never held Political Office told his supporters they had changed the face of French Politics, and it was his job to reconcile the country. Marine le pen described her victory as historic and said a vote for her was ke
candidates are headed for a run-off on may 7th. what does this is a abosay abou and europe and the world? we have cnn s christiane amanpour joining us live from london. give us your take on what happened this weekend. look, everybody was watching this with a microscope because it would say a lot about the state of the world as you described. europe is breathing a sigh of relief. polls were right. macron, who was one point ahead of le pen, actually came out two points ahead of her in the first round. what is this? for the first time in 60 years, since world war ii, center left and center right, socialists have failed to make it to the second round. you have the very, very far marine le pen national front and the other.
not the extreme left. you have the center. emmanuel macron. he talked about reforms and managed immigration and talked about sticking with europe and free liberal trade and economy. unlike his opponent, marine le pen who is talking about suspends all immigration and pulling out of the eu and ditching the euro and going back to the franc. they would say it would bankrupt france. you have two competing visions for the run-off into the second round on may 7th. how do you handicap the next round? does macron have a big advantage? what do you see in the future? what we have seen in europe is a gradual push back of the wave of nationalism and p