this week, the war of elections in france and the uk, and a new round ofjaw jaw to try to bring peace to the middle east. to discuss that, four eminent jaw ers , british conservative commentator alex deane, thomas kielinger, who writes for germany s die welt, agnes poirier, uk editor of marianne in france, and the american journalist and broadcasterjef mcallister. a warm welcome to you all. let s begin with france. if emmanuel macron wins, what kind of france will we get? nobody knows. we have seen him at the debate with marine le pen. marine le pen had a disastrous, car crash debate. he held the fort. he was relaxed and calm. so at least we know he is kind of presidential for a 39 year old. what do we know? his programme is pro business but also quite socially conscious. he is a centrist. the real thing is, of course, the general elections which will be taking place in june. we need to fill all the mps‘ seats at the national assembly. it is the first time we might have a
let s catch up on the latest developments from the campaign trail. the conservatives in scotland have launched their manifesto with the leader of the tories ruth davidson, and the prime minister theresa may making a pledge to stand up to the scottish national party. part of the manifesto was a protection for the winter fuel payments for all older people, with no means testing in scotland, unlike the policy for england. we made a different choice in scottish manifesto we believe there should be means testing. the reason we have said that if as many of your viewers will acknowledge, scotland isa viewers will acknowledge, scotland is a colder climate than we have a different amount of housing stock and evolution allows you to make different decisions. i want to use the money in terms of the winter fuel payments, dance out my collea g u es fuel payments, dance out my colleagues want to put it into the health service. that is what politics are about, sometimes it is tough decision
week s election to find out what locals here want from the politicians. in sport, two more years for arsene wenger. he will extend his 21 year spell as arsenal manager with an official announcement to be made today. as ariana grande announces she and some of the biggest names in pop will hold a benefit concert for the victims of the manchester bombing, we ll speak to the man who had to organise it all injust four days. and carol has the weather. good morning. to date will be cloudy gci’oss good morning. to date will be cloudy across the southern half of the uk, but equally, brightness, polyanskiy share across the north of the country with pleasant sunshine. more details in 15 minutes. carol, thank you. first, our main story. police say a dangerous prisoner believed to be armed with a razor blade is on the run after escaping from officers in wiltshire. the man had been taken to hospital with a head injury, before escaping from guards yesterday evening. let s get more on
borisjohnson remains foreign secretary, amber rudd home secretary, and philip hammond stays as chancellor. it was a great turnout for labour, who won 40% of the popular vote, and jeremy corbyn insisted he could lead a minority government. we are ready to do everything we can to put our programme into operation. there isn t a parliamentary majority for anybody at the present time. the party that has lost in this election is the conservative party. and on the losing side were the liberal democrats, the snp, who lost a third of their seats, and ukip, whose leader paul nuttall resigned. the election was called to strengthen the prime minister s hand over brexit so where does this leave the negotiations now? we ll bring you more on that and all the latest from downing street on this most unexpected of election results. to ta ke to take you straight over to kensington. the final seed has been declared and it looks like a labour victory. thank you to my incredible family who suppo
the test. they also treated patients here who were caught up in the westminster bridge attack at the end of march and more recently in the london bridge attack. so this has been another very difficult, very testing morning for the staff here. sophie. jane, thank you very much. well, we have no idea what caused this place, we just well, we have no idea what caused this place, wejust know well, we have no idea what caused this place, we just know it took hold incredibly quickly, within 30, 35 minutes or so, according to eyewitnesses. we know it had been recently refurbished, only reopened last year. but the london fire brigade chief has already said she s seen brigade chief has already said she s seen many brigade chief has already said she s seen many tower block fires in her time but she has never seen anything like this. simon gompertz reports. shocked witnesses talked about the speed at which the grenfell tower fire spread, there did seem to envelop the 2a story building in