Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Emmanuel macron says a new page is being turned in the history of france after his decisive victory over Marine Le Pen in the president ial election. To the undoubted relief of other european leaders, the pro eu candidate won by 66 to 34 to become, at 39, the countrys youngest president. Its the first time in decades that the election has been won by someone whos not a member of the two traditional main left wing and right wing parties. Our correspondent Christian Fraser is in paris. Good afternoon. Welcome to paris. Emmanuel macron has fulfilled his first ceremonial role here he stood alongside the outgoing president at the tomb of the unknown soldier. Together they marked the 72nd anniversary of victory in europe. A few years ago Francois Hollande named Emmanuel Macron as his economic advisor. Perhaps this is the moment the apprentice became the master. Francois hollande put a reassuring hand on the back of Emmanuel Macron. Perhaps h
Facebook is putting out tips on how to spot it, but could the British Election be the next to feel its impact . I am katty kay in new york, Christian Fraser is in paris. It is an extraordinary achievement. Not since the days of napoleon has a frenchman risen to power so young and with such speed. Not since world war ii has a leader taken power without a party and a parliamentary base. There were very few in the established Political Class who endorsed Emmanuel Macron or believed in his bid to become president , but president he will become this sunday when he assumes power from francois hollande. He has already resigned his leadership of the movement he began a year ago. It will now be re named La Republique en marche. Politicians from right and left will be allowed to campaign under its banner in next month crucial parliamentary elections, so long as they quit the parties to which they belong. The President Elect says he wants a coalition of the willing. Starting our coverage, our eur
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some stories, of course, are easy to disprove. the vaccine does not contain a microchip from bill gates, but how do we navigate the grey areas? donald trump s claim, for example, that covid 19 could come from a chinese laboratory was widely branded as a conspiracy theory by the media and you couldn t share it on some social media platforms, but that changed a few weeks ago when president biden said that it was a possibility. we are going to be talking about that and more a bit later with claire milne who is the acting editor of full fact, the uk fact checking organisation, and ian birrell who is a contributing editor of the mail on sunday. but let s start with that pegasus project which has been making headlines all week. laurent richard is the director and founder of forbidden stories, the ngo which got hold of this leaked list of 50,000 possible targets for surveillance, and paul lewis is head of investigations at the guardian which is one of the partners
of our work, there are often a lot of shades of grey and it can be hard to label it in that way. ian, i wonder if you think that the fact that donald trump had been promoting the covid lab leak theory when he was still in office meant that certain sections of the media were to quick to dismiss it? i mean, if the media is in the mindset of trump said it, and he says a lot of nonsense, this must be untrue, do you think that that plays into the way that this particular story was dismissed? i think it definitely plays into it. i know i myself when i began looking at it was very nervous for that precise reason, i thought it probably was conspiracy theory, and the more i looked, the more i became convinced that there was a theory that deserved to be examined and that it was wrong that it was being stifled and silenced and i think if a fact checking organisation as you say did not look at the evidence and simply went with the idea that it was conspiracy theory, itjust shows it is not a valid