World Service Middle east analyst. Just take us through the series of events of what we know has happened. Essentially, over the last couple of hours, we started to hear reports that a convoy of helicopters carrying the iranian president Ebrahim Raisi had got into difficulties. Now, never difficult, different ways in which it was phrased on different outlets in the arabian media. A hard landing, a rough landing on a Crash Landing but no exact details of what that actually meant. On the reports were that it was a convoy of three helicopters travelling in the north west of the country, the province of east azerbaijan, and, she was saying, not only was the president on this particular helicopter, it began to emerge that the Foreign Minister was on the helicopter, too. Now, the two other helicopters that were in the convoy, we have had reports that they have landed safely so a huge Rescue Operation has been launched, she was saying a new introduction there, this been hampered by the thick
there are people making their way outside, some people heading towards the bar, but you can see some people s faces, there a sense of disappointment and of shock. i think they look to the recent polls and realise they faced a very difficult task, but certainly those who are hoping they might upset history and deliver an earthquake here tonight, very, very disappointed indeed. whether or not people will stay around here and drown their sorrows, do interviews, all the rest of it, not quite clear, but certainly for now, very disappointing. fiiq now, very disappointing. 0k, nick, many thanks- now, very disappointing. 0k, nick, many thanks. that s now, very disappointing. 0k, nick, many thanks. that s our many thanks. that s our correspondent nick beake, who is reporting from marine le pen s headquarters live in paris, as you can see. well, that result again from viewers justjoining us can see. well, that result again from viewersjustjoining us is that emmanuel macron is expected to