the week in parliament. hello and welcome to the week in parliament. as mps debate extending emergency coronavirus powers to the autumn amid calls for a faster easing of lockdown. which is important to save jobs, save businesses and maximise the economic future of our young people. a former defence chief gives his reaction to the reshaping of the armed forces with fewer troops and a shift to cybersecurity. it is attempting to balance the books, whether or not that survives over the next ten years, i have no idea. and scotland s first minister survives a vote of no confidence put down by the conservatives. how can parliament have confidence in the words i of a first minister whose words have been found to be false? l if you think you can bully me out of office, you are mistaken, and you misjudge me. but first, it was a week and a milestone that no one wanted or would have envisaged. tuesday marked the one year anniversary of the day borisjohnson announced the first uk wide cor
enough of burning and i drilling our way deeper, we are digging our own graves. we ll be looking at the challenge ahead, for the hundreds of negotiators in glasgow searching for consensus. also on the programme. the driver of one of two trains involved in a collision near salisbury, suffers life changing injuries. several others were hurt. you re in the black and you are just looking around, seeing if everyone is ok and can tjust help but feel like what is going to happen? what is going to happen next? the chief executive of barclays resigns after an inquiry into links with the sex offender, jeffrey epstein. helps it away. and jos buttler s big hitting makes it four wins out of four for england, at the t 20 world cup. and coming up in sport on the bbc news channel. following the sacking of manager nuno esp rito santo, tottenham look to the former chelsea boss antonio conte. good evening from glasgow, where world leaders have attended the opening ceremony of the global clima
marathon-running, barrier breaking moderate. plus cnn visited musicians shutting down in fear of a pending ban on music. stay with us. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. our politics lead and the state of negotiations on capitol hill changing seemingly by the minute. the two massive democratic priorities still hanging in the balance. today white house staff is meeting with moderate arizona senator kyrsten sinema for the fourth time in the last day. trying to figure out exactly what centrists such as she need to support the large spending bill that will expand social safety net programs such as medicare and child care. progressives want an agreement with sinema and west virginia senator joe manchin by tomorrow or they will tank the bipartisan infrastructure bill. manchin telling cnn s manu raju, no way is it going to be ready by then. they need by tomorrow legislative language agreed to that won t happen. this is about much more, of course, than just democrati
facing an apathetic french public . for the french election in 20 years. it will be up to us to work together to achieve this unity. which will enable us to live more happily in france and beat the challenges that await us in the years to come. they will certainly not be quiet. so, le pen last night was quick to come out after the vote was clear. she didn t exactly compete, but she acknowledged who won. she celebrated her parties much improved showing since last vote, which indeed it was. and she said, she claimed they are well-positioned for june s parliamentary elections. translator: this result constitutes for our french leaders, as well as european leaders, a great defiance from the french people towards them, which they can t ignore. and that, of a widely shared aspiration for big change. the french have showed their desire for a counter power. our other top story this hour, the trip by two top u.s. officials to ukraine where they met with volodymyr zelenskyy. uk
hello and welcome to bbc news. good morning from clichy in the northwestern suburbs of the french capital paris. a number of global head offices are in this area, very up and coming, very busy and up and coming. it s election day and polling stations here have been open for two hours now and the big question is how many people will actually come out to vote in this decisive election? in the first round of the selection, the majority of support for any candidate was for the left wing candidate was for the left wing candidate who failed to get in this final round. around 40% plus voted for him. macron had 28%. live hen with 7%. it will be interesting to see how this turns out. le pen. the real worry amongst pundits and politicians is how many people will turn out to vote and of those, how many will vote for one candidate or the other or leave a blank page in their own polling paper. we will find that out over the course of the day. let s get a summary of where we are from ou