and fancy working in an enormous train station? i don t know if you ve noticed, but there seems to have been a lot of election talk of late. this week, click is taking a trip to paris where, this weekend, the french take to the polls in the first round of their presidential election. and curiously, from a technology point of view, the way we vote seems, if anything, to be going backwards. in the last election, france did allow online voting for those living overseas. but not this time. for both the presidential elections and the legislative elections injune, it is back to pen and paper. and that is due to the fear of cyber attacks, which the french national cyber security agency says are an extremely high risk. queues of people, paper voting surely there has to be a better way. well, we asked bbc newsbeat‘s political editor jonathan blake to have a look. ancient institutions and modern technology the two do not always go together. as elections are held worldwide through
it is 9:00am in singapore, 1:00am in london and 2:00am in the morning in the swiss resort of davos, where president xijinping has told a gathering of elites from across the world that china wants to be a champion of free trade and stability. mr xi made no direct reference to donald trump, but his comments are in stark contrast to mr trump s america first vision. the chinese leader warned against a trade war with the us, saying there would be no winners. 0ur economics editor kamal ahmed has this report. he arrived with full security detail. the president of china, here to speak to an eager audience of political and business leaders. mr xi didn t actually mention president elect donald j trump. he didn t need to. the message was clear. translation: pursuing protectionism is just like locking oneself in a dark room. while wind and rain may be kept outside, so are light and air. no one will emerge as a winner in a trade war. he also said that countries should redouble their com
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mary keitany of kenya has run the second fastest women s marathon of all time in london. the men s event was won by her fellow kenyan, daniel wanjiru. the ethiopian runner, kenenisa bekele came second. now on bbc news click. this week: how to stare at your phone and change the world. strawberries in a massive box. and fancy working in an enormous train station? i don t know if you have noticed, but there seems to have been a lot of election talk of late. this week, click is taking a trip to paris, where this weekend, the french take to the polls in the first round of their presidential election. and curiously, from a technology point of view, the way we vote seems, if anything, to be going backwards. in the last election, france did allow online voting for those living overseas. but not this time. for both the presidential elections and the legislative elections, injune, it is back to pen and paper. and that is due to the fear of cyber attacks, which the french national c