Policeman was killed. Security has been stepped up today. The Interior Ministry put 50,000 extra Security Personnel at the Polling Stations up and down the country. It seems to have done the trick. Some healthy cu es have done the trick. Some healthy cues up and down the country. The turnout rate which has been predicted so far somewhere near where it was in 2012. Yet again, in the face of terrorism, the french people showing themselves to be hugely resilient. Which is a good thing because we can focus on the election, the candidates, the policies that matter to the french people. Not since 1958, in the founding of the Fifth Republic, have we seen Something Like what we are witnessing here tonight. Politics in france has been dominated by the two party system but it could well be this evening that the main two parties are eliminated in the first round. We see. Lets talk about the focus candidates we need to focus on. Emmanuel macron, 39. He would be the youngest president of modern tim
Today, away from the hysteria of a global bond rout. What is going on and what it means to various Central Banks. Riggs. Re is taylor lls are feeling the squeeze from inflation costs by the brexit vote, several reports showed that uk residents have less spending power. They all cite the following pound as a factor. Stirling is down 18 against the dollar since the brexit vote. Regional parliaments and bill jim are expected to lift the trade deal between the European Union and canada. The rest of the eu already backs the deal. They couldnt have the green light until there was an approval, who couldnt approve until they received commitment on arbitration. Parliament is said to confirm the Prime Minister tomorrow, the caretaker leader lost the confidence vote yesterday, but tomorrow the socialist party rivals have agreed to abstain in the second vote, which should give him a simple majority. He has been acting Prime Minister for 10 months, because no party could gather enough votes to form
Night dont watch these missions fringe. Oh well. All in all. The head of the interim government in serious Security Operations saying that the evacuation plans are being made both for ukrainian soldiers and civilians better on the Crimean Peninsula. This is the tense standoff continues. This was a master russian speaking troops seizing control of Ukrainian Naval headquarters in some gossip all this up after it was stormed by militiamen anymore. A standoff continued to ukrainian and pro russian soldiers. One of ukraines main army base. The ukrainian flag is taking down and replaced with the russian one and the cranium the high court is in contrast the fall ukrainian soldiers inside the base was to find exchange pro russian Civil Defense forces broke through the gate and took possession of an unsafe the new. He then met the head of russias nine c each to eat and to the base and dishonor the ukrainian shapes. Both representatives of the russian navy and crimean ap already here and they wi
Hello, and welcome to the film review with me, mark kermode, rounding up the best movies available for viewing in the home. One of the first new movies to come to streaming services when lockdown began in march was vivarium, a surreal Twilight Zone style thriller starring imogen poots and jesse eisenberg. Well, now with the end of lockdown in sight, eisenberg is back in our front rooms in resistance, a strange and inspiring true life drama about mime artist Marcel Marceau leading jewish orphans to safety during world war ii. They laugh despite describing himself as not good with children, the young marcel is nonetheless recruited to help care for the orphans whom the French Resistance are sheltering in a remote castle. At first, marcel, a butchers son with dreams of becoming an actor, wants only to work on his play. But through clowning and mime, he makes a connection with these children which seems to give him a new purpose in life. Its this purpose that will sustain him through the m
Limitand whether you get rid of the number limit and just say two households can meet together inside. Obviously that will provide a bit more flexibility for people to let families get back together again. There are still difficulties here as we talked about an hour ago, if there are two parents and you have to pick one, that is a pretty unpleasant situation to be in. So again, this is that same old trade off that the government faces. It is keen to allow people to see their nearest and dearest, to see their nearest and dearest, to see their loved ones, to let grandparents see their grandkids. On the other hand it needs to keep control of this. So it will be interesting to see how they decide to go ahead, whether they simply say 0k, to go ahead, whether they simply say ok, two households can have an extended bubble, or whether they do something a bit more complicated that allows family members to meet together. Let me give the last story together. Let me give the last story to you, in