In paris today. A French Police officer was engulfed in flames and seriously burned two more were injured in clashes with protestors. This years may day demonstrations come just six days before the final round of the french president ial election and in a divided nations it is clearly a tense time. The bbcs Lucy Williamson is in paris and i spoke to her a brief time ago. These marches come just six days before the final vote and i expect they are some gauge of the mood in france and it does not look good does it . These may day rallies are an annual event organised by the main unions here. They happen alongside the political rallies and the unions also have taken on something of a politicalflavour today. We saw clashes on the margins on some of the matches, some provocateu rs on some of the matches, some p rovocateu is we on some of the matches, some provocateurs we believe on the margins on one of those events through some Molotov Cocktails towards the police injuring several of them
Both candidates in the french president ial election have been holding rallies in the final week of campaigning. The far right contender Marine Le Pen has attacked her rival as the continuity candidate, while Emmanuel Macron said the future of europe is at stake in this election. Our correspondent, lucy williamson, is in paris. The second round of french elections has been the graveyard of far right dreams of power. Used to facing a united front of all her rivals, Marine Le Pen is now calling on voters to unite against someone else, her liberal opponent Emmanuel Macron. At a rally today, she attacked mr macron as a back door socialist, soft on terror, a friend of high finance and too easily irritated to be head of state. Her image, by contrast, has become ever softer, a woman of the people, a mother and protector of what she calls forgotten france. For decades, the Front National has influenced french politics from the margins. Now Marine Le Pen says the party represents the mainstream
Both candidates in the french president ial election have been holding rallies in the final week of campaigning. The far right contender Marine Le Pen has attacked her rival as the continuity candidate, while Emmanuel Macron said the future of europe is at stake in this election. Our correspondent, lucy williamson, is in paris. The second round of french elections has been the graveyard of far right dreams of power. Used to facing a united front of all her rivals, Marine Le Pen is now calling on voters to unite against someone else, her liberal opponent Emmanuel Macron. At a rally today, she attacked mr macron as a back door socialist, soft on terror, a friend of high finance and too easily irritated to be head of state. Her image, by contrast, has become ever softer, a woman of the people, a mother and protector of what she calls forgotten france. For decades, the Front National has influenced french politics from the margins. Now Marine Le Pen says the party represents the mainstream
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With winds of ninety miles an hour. And thejoker in the pack leads the nominations for this years oscars. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The queen has issued a statement about the future of prince harry and his wife meghan, the duchess of sussex. Her majesty, princes charles, william and harry have been in talks at sandringham today to try to agree a plan. In her statement, the queen has made it clear she would have preferred harry and meghan to remain full time working members of the royal family but she is fully supportive of their wish to live a new and more independent life, and a final decision will be reached in the coming days. In the meantime there will be a period of transition in which the couple will spend time in canada and the uk. Our royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell has the latest from sandringham. Within the seclusion of sandringham house, a family summit. Chaired by the queen and attended by the prince of wales and his two sons, Prince William duke of cambri