director dustin lance black. good evening from paris, where the polls will close within the next couple of hours, and the people of france will discover who their next president will be. tens of millions of voters have been visiting the polling stations today after a deeply divisive campaign, with emmanuel macron and marine le pen offering radically different visions of the future of this country. tonight s result will also have a direct impact on the future direction of the european union in the years ahead. as the brexit process unfolds, so the relevance of the outcome to france s neighbours is very clear. our paris correspondent hugh schofield has been to a voting station in the capital. you join me at a polling station in paris, at a school. you can see the table by people come to tick up their cards. and then they go to cast their ballot behind the curtains overhear. everywhere, a classic snapshot of the presidential election in france. but in some ways, it is different.