the french president, emmanuel macron, has suffered a serious setback after losing his majority in parliament. his party, ensemble, is still the biggest in the national assembly, but it lost around 100 seats in yesterday s elections. there were big gains for marine le pen s far right party, and a new left wing alliance, led by the hard left leader, jean luc melenchon. this means issues such as macron s plans to raise the retirement age and changes to low income support could face more obstacles. joining me now is tomasz michalski, economics professor, at the business school, hec paris. professor, welcome. where does this result leave macron s mandate to govern the world s sixth largest economy? the first thing is the question is whether the party of macron will be able to make a coalition with the right wing party, that support them on the issue you just mentioned, raising the retirement age and various other reforms. if such a coalition cannot be, whether implicit or explici
The consequences of an enemy attack. At night, the russian invaders hit the city with four s400 missiles. At least five apartment buildings, seven administration buildings, a greenhouse and almost a dozen cars were damaged. Two rockets that hit the druzhkiv childrens boarding school a year ago. The building was destroyed in shchent. Fortunately, no one was injured, as all the pets were taken away the beginning of a fullscale invasion. Previously , more than 200 children with disabilities underwent rehabilitation here. The russians attacked kharkiv again. According to preliminary data, three employees of the civil enterprise were injured, oleg sinigubov, the head of the region, announced. The occupiers hit the central part of kharkiv an hour ago with preguided aerial bombs. There is destruction and burning of buildings. There may be people under the rubble, the official added. And today the president is on an official visit to kharkiv region. There in. Volodymyr zelenskyi visited the pl
Clearing a Health Emergency over addiction to opioids. And confusion in catalonia. The regions leader rules out snap elections that could have staved off rule from madrid. A day before spanish lawmakers will decide on the unprecedented move. We will take you to barcelona for the latest. We are really grateful for everybody who supported us legally. Brent an emotional reunion, the german human rights organizer Peter Steudtner is free on bail from a turkish prison. He and other activists are on trial for terror related charges, seen as being politically motivated. Brent im brent goff. It is good to have a with us. We begin tonight in kenya, where a vote counting is underway after a disputed rerun of a contested president ial election. The opposition has urged voters to boycott the election. As a result, turnout was low, even in areas considered strongholds of partisan president kenyatta. Polling was pushed back in four counties where the violence broke out. At least three people are dead
Despite a ruling saying the government must obtain parliamentary approval. A special report from the town where a far right terror cell spring up in eastern germany 10 years after a murder spree. A group called itself the National Socialist underground. We look at what is been done to prevent such violence from happening again. Thanks for joining us. It has been a turbulent day in turkey, a bomb blast killed nine people and hours before that, the authorities arrested a prokurdish lawmakers. The authorities claim those detained who belong to the Opposition Party have links to a terrorist group. The hgp denies that. Countries have condemned the arrests. Police moved on those protesting the arrests of the prokurdish party. Pepper spray filled the air. One of the arrest rates at the home of the cochair. The accusation against her, terror propaganda. You dont have the right to be in my home, she says, before she is taken away. Police also rated their headquarters. It is the Third Largest pa