armed forces on remembrance sunday at a service in the cenotaph in london. thousandsjoined members of the public and the rest of the uk in a two minute silence at 11am. it has just gone to 30 pm. good afternoon. now, here on bbc news, the interview. we re at the elysee palace in paris. that s the official residence and office of france s president. i ve just been speaking to the current occupant, emmanuel macron, about some of the biggest global challenges facing us today from the wars raging in the middle east and in ukraine, to climate change and the new technologies changing all of our lives. we ve had weeks of aid organisations sounding the alarm about gaza. and so you ve now said that humanitarian pauses in fighting aren t enough and there needs to be work towards a ceasefire. are you disappointed that other world leaders aren tjoining you in that call like the us or the uk? no, i hope they will. and let s be clear, i mean, i was one of the first leaders to call the pr
a democracy should be compliant with international rules of war and humanitarian international law. and day after day, what we saw is a permanent bombing of civilians in gaza. we worked very hard to try to protect people, our people there, because we believe we lost more than a0 french nationals and we still have hostages. and when i speak about that, first i think about our families. but what happened during the past weeks is that we clearly saw that a lot of civilians were killed and there is no justification for that. and the clear conclusion of everybody yesterday during the humanitarian conference, from united nations to ngos, to all the governments being present, is that there is no other solution than first a humanitarian pause going to a ceasefire which will allow to protect these people, to take care of people being in hospitals and to protect babies, ladies, old people, all the civilians having nothing to do with these terrorists. and i think it s very important to