24/04/2017 100 Days

The outsiders are IN, after the first round of

Both mainstream parties have been defeated, after the country's

The centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron will face

the Front National's Marine Le Pen to see who becomes the next

For the voters, the choice between candidates couldn't

so who will they side with in just under two weeks' time?

How did Hillary Clinton go from leader to loser?

A new book has the inside scoop on what went wrong in the Clinton

campaign and how she just couldn't match Donald Trump.

It's the final week before President Trump hits 100 days.

He asks the tough new measures on North Korea. What spin going on

since I've been gone? -- what has been going on.

Barack Obama has returned to the public eye with a speech

I'm Katty Kay in Washington, Christian Fraser is in Paris.

If you ever wanted an election about change,

French voters have just upended decades of political tradition,

ousting the main parties and promoting two outliers.

In almost equal numbers they voted for a young,

centrist man who doesn't even have a party and an older,

far-right woman who captured a desire for nationalist revival.

The two candidates will debate on Wednesday and face

each other in a second-round vote on May the 7th.

The meteoric rise of Emmanuel Macron has been remarkable -

he resigned from the Socialist party a year ago and no-one

Equally showstopping is Marine Le Pen, who's transformed

the Front National and made it a force in this race.

The BBC's Lucy Willamson has this report.

Two years ago, he was a new face in politics.

In two weeks he could be the new President of France.

Last night, Emmanuel Macron arrived for his victory

speech with his wife, Brigitte.

24 years older than him, she was once his drama teacher.

His youth and energy are part of the package.

Hard to imagine he used to be Economy Minister and once worked

His style, start-up rather than stuffy,

even if he his policies themselves appeal more to bankers

His rival has already begun campaigning, targeting voters

Saying her anti-immigration platform is designed to put them first.

Her father, Jean-Marie, who stepped down as party

has called the Holocaust a detail of the Second World War.

Marine Le Pen has tried to rid the party of its stigma and present

a softer image of herself as a mother, concerned

We could say that Marine Le Pen is a strict mother figure.

She has a motherly attitude towards Macron, for instance.

He is more like the rebellious child,

the teenager would suit him perfectly.

We want to believe that he will be great one day.

The two programmes are very different.

Emmanuel Macron is promising to cut taxes, invest heavily in industry

Marine Le Pen says she will slash immigration, protect the 35-hour

working week and pull France out of the euro.

Both the main established parties have now thrown their weight

That puts him in a strong position - there is a long history

here of political parties coming together in the run-off to block

In this town, more than 30% of voters chose

the Conservative Party candidate, Francois Fillon, yesterday.

Some are not yet sure if they will follow their leader

I don't think Emmanuel Macron has a programme - his reforms are not

fundamental enough, I do not think he has grasped the economic

Both Macron and Le Pen have promised change.

But deep reforms will probably need a parliamentary majority,

unlikely for either, a reminder that winning power

and wielding power are not always the same thing.

We have had a final result from the Interior Ministry. Let's have a look

at that. It is Emmanuel Macron in front, 21 point 01, ahead of Marine

Le Pen. The third and fourth positions were Fillon and Milos on,

the hard left candidate. -- Jean-Luc Melenchon. It is interesting when

you look at a map how much France is divided. The blue is Marine Le Pen.

In the industrial north-east and down in the south she is very

popular. On the left-hand side, the Western side of France, it is

Emmanuel Macron, and also in the cities. If you look at the communes

that the candidates won, Marine Le Pen took 19,000 communes, three

times nearly as many as Emmanuel Macron, which tells you he has the

support of cities like this one, Paris, and she is very popular in

rural areas. I'm joined now by Marine Le Pen's

colleague and a leading politician from Front National,

Bruno Gollnisch. Five years ago was when we met

because we were there for the leadership challenge, you were

running against Marine Le Pen. The polls suggest she has not become

acceptable in the cities. Although I had been her contender, I think she

is doing very well. I think the most important change results from the

fact that an increasing number of French people came to understand

that we were right in our analysis of the situation and a growing

number of people think that we are right in our solutions, our

proposals. I hope they will decide that we have the people able to

implement this programme. Many things have been said about

demonisation and so on. A lot of people are frightened of your party.

I do think that demonisation was not close to what we really were but was

a kind of psychological weapon in the hands of our opponents. You are

being painted by the media and the establishment... Racist and... That

is not still in the DNA of the party? A lot of people in France are

worried about what you represent. It is a psychological weapon. John

Marino -- Jean-Marie Le Pen said the Holocaust was a detail of the Second

World War. You should ask Winston Churchill. Do you think it was a

detail of the Second World War? He didn't say anything about it. A

detail doesn't mean that it is significant, it was part of World

War II. Jean-Marie Le Pen has been a member of Parliament for nearly 60

years and his positions, speeches, programmes, proposals over several

tens of thousands of pages, so it is really... You cannot summarise his

life to this sentence. People try to find things from Marine Le Pen that

they can use but it is the usual game. You have two weeks to convince

people, what will be the strategy? Will you try to paint Emmanuel

Macron as the establishment, continuity candidate? On one side we

will because he is not that much a newcomer. He was the economic

adviser for Francois Hollande, the Minister for economic, Sophie bears

some responsibility for the eater Mick situation now. -- so he wears

some responsibility for the economic situation. Then we will also appeal

to voters, conservative or not, voters for example for Francois

Fillon or Jean-Luc Melenchon. Many people are critical of the European

Union, who want to have more national independence, towards for

example Nato and the USA, who oppose many aspects of financial

nationalism, these people would rather vote for Marine Le Pen than

Mr match run. -- than Emmanuel Macron. Emmanuel Macron, the leader

of En Marche, which didn't exist a year ago.

He is now the leading contender to be the next French President.

I'm joined on the line from Bordeaux by Thierry Fahmy,

who is the election co-ordinator for En Marche in that region.

You put aside your company to run Macron's campaign. What did you like

about him? He said we shouldn't divide people but find out what is

good in the ideas coming from the left or right wing of the party 's

-- parties and trying to make people work together to make friends better

again. A lot of people who joined me on the balcony last night for the

results programme who aren't really sure what Mr Macron does stand for.

The rhetoric is fine but what are his policies? There are many things.

Some ideas go from the left wing, like protecting people, maintaining

the social system we have in France, and he also has a liberal side, he

wants people to take more risks, to innovate, and this is part of his

programme and this is very important. He also has some measures

for ecology. He has been able to identify what are the important

things that could make the country better in a few years from now.

I want to ask you about the phenomenon of Marine Le Pen winning

so many small French villages and towns, the rural areas of France am

aware Mr Macron didn't do well. We saw the same thing in the American

election last November. What can Mr Macron do to reach out to rural

voters? It is a good question. Contrary to what the Front National

interviewees said, a significant part of the voters of Marine Le Pen

are people who are desperate. Their life hasn't changed at all for the

last 20 years and whatever they voted, left or right, nothing

changed. It is really a vote of despair. This is really a problem

that Macron and be En Marche movement wants to address and we are

going to be in the field to solve these problems. The other part of

the voters are people who are deeply worried with immigration. Some are

racist people and this is something that is very hard to work on in the

short term but we are confident will be solved in the long term. Thank

you very much for being with us. What can Mr Macron do to try to

reach those voters who feel like the forgotten French? It is the same

phrase we have heard Donald Trump use, the forgotten men and women of

America. He will have to reach beyond the liberal cities.

He will find it difficult because a lot of people here will believe the

rhetoric from Marine Le Pen that Emmanuel Macron, formerly the

economy minister, is more of the same, promises by have had from the

Socialist party for years. Unemployment in some of these areas

has been stubbornly high, around 10%, and from Swann and promised to

bring it down for five years and didn't manage it. -- and Emmanuel

Macron. These people are anti-globalisation, very similar to

people in the rust belts of Ohio and so on. He will be painted very much

as part of the establishment. Does he have to take a tougher,

clearer position on the key issue of immigration?

I think he has to take a tougher position on a lot of issues. I spoke

to somebody from the Economist last night who said when he was in power

he had policies but now he has kept it pretty vague. In the next three

or four weeks he will have to spill it out because he has to win a

majority in parliament or he will have to depend on the right or the

left and he will be pulled in two directions.

We called this programme 100 Days to reflect a tradition for measuring

Mr Trump this weekend appeared to downplay the importance of that

fast-approaching deadline but certainly looks

like he wants to reach 100 days with a flurry of activity.

Tonight he'll have dinner with Senator John McCain,

who he's been at odds with on a host of issues.

On Wednesday he has promised to roll out proposals for tax reform.

Two days later he'll be in Atlanta speaking

to the National Rifle Association and on Saturday he holds

an America First rally to coincide with his 100th day in office.

A short time ago he called for tougher measures on North Korea.

The status quo in North Korea is also unacceptable and the council

must be prepared to propose additional and stronger sanctions

on North Korean nuclear and ballistic missile programmes.

Whether we want to talk about it or not, North Korea is a big world

problem and it's a problem we have to finally solve.

People have put blindfolds on for decades and now it's time

And we are joined now by the BBC's North America editor, Jon Sopel.

President Trump has just said this in the White House about North

Korea. But does he want? This is more than just a change in rhetoric

from Barack Obama. There is a perception of the threat posed by

North Korea and you speak to any number of officials in the White

House and they will say the same thing. It is advice that the mob

Trump has received that North Korea could pose very some annex -- very

soon and existential threat. -- Donald Trump. We are seeing more

bellicose words, the American battleship in the Korean Peninsula,

working hard to get China on board but other nations as well to accept

that there needs to be a tougher stand against North Korea going

forward. He had a phone call with Angela Merkel and brought up North

Korea. 100 days. President Trump produced a plan before he came to

power for his first hundred days and now he says the first hundred days

don't matter. My theory is that the things he spoke about most are the

ones where he has achieved the least and vice versa. What he spoke the

most about was building the wall and Mexico paying for it. Look at his

most recent tweets, Mexico will pay for the war will eventually after

some negotiation, possibly. Health care reform, couldn't get that

through, that is going nowhere it seems. The ban on Muslims, locked in

the courts. But he has his Supreme Court pick through, many

conservatives are thrilled about that. He has made progress on the

business confidence, that ephemeral feeling that people feel better

things are around the corner. And the stock market. These are things

he didn't speak much about but where he has made progress. He said he

wouldn't get involved in tangled and is in Syria but the entanglement of

selling those -- sending those rockets has proved popular.

He seems to be in a hurry to to get things out to the media and then go

back to his supporters. It seems he knows what the media are going to

say about her. I think that he does feel that he has to go back to his

base but even were he hasn't made progress, the base is solid with

him. It is winning support from anybody else that is his real

problem. His core supporters are delighted with anything he does.

Many others who may be grave him grudging support are now may be

wondering if that was right. -- maybe gave him. He doesn't know

whether to hurry or to take stock, whether this is 100 metres or a

marathon. Only 2% of Trump voters according to a new poll this weekend

regret voting for him, a tiny number.

Well, for any politician the most painful thing about losing

The new book Shattered - by two reporters who followed her

campaign from start to finish - looks at how Hillary Clinton

A brief time ago I spoke to one of the co-authors, Jonathan Allen.

Election night comes along, Donald Trump wins, all of the polls had

predicted that Hillary Clinton would win but you weren't surprised that

she lost. Why? I was surprised because I was looking at polls and

believed that they were right. We had warning flags in our reporting

and we were confused coming into election day. The editor of the book

told me in October that he couldn't understand what we were writing

because there were so many things that looked like she would lose and

in fact she was going to win. We stuck with our reporting and even

though we expected her to win we didn't report and write that way.

You write about the fact that Clinton didn't have a rationale or

didn't manage to articulate one for running and being president. It has

been the huge flaw of hers throughout her sentence as a

political player. She is somebody who likes dealing with problems and

in government she has shown herself pretty competent but the ten years

at least she has been running for President and never had that

priority of what she would do with the power of the presidency. You

look at Bernie Sanders, everybody knew what he was saying he would do.

You look at Donald Trump, for all of the talk about things he said that

were untreatable, it was pretty clear what he would do to change

America. Hillary Clinton was 4 million policies, super well versed

on them, incredibly intelligent, but a lot of voters had trouble

understanding how she would ring change. -- Hillary Clinton had

millions of policies. How bad was the infighting in the campaign? It

was pretty bad but the passive aggressive. There is a scene where

the campaign director was talking to somebody and they were talking about

the campaign and the campaign manager says, Robbie is passive

aggressive, I am just aggressive. Does Hillary Clinton realise how bad

the candidate she was in retrospect? If she does it is not something she

is talking about. What we have seen from her is blaming of Russia and

the FBI director and the media and it is all external. One of the

benefits of that her and her campaign team is it prevents people

under the hood, as we have in this book, and seeing what was wrong

internally. She described it to one friend as she lost it is of the KGB,

the FBI and the KKK, the last part being the voters she once described

as deplorables. As opposed to herself? Correct.

In France Francois Fillon also snatched defeat from the jaws of

victory and we will speak to one of his supporters in a while.

Now we've already talked about President Trump's to-do list

before he hits 100 days but if you were asked to come up

with just one word to sum up these last few months what would it be?

We've taken 100 of Donald Trump's favourites to try to sum it up.

Extraordinary. The bad dude is nowhere to be seen.

You're watching 100 Days from BBC News.

Some of us felt today like we jumped back into -- into the middle of

winter. In Aberdeenshire low lying snow. In the afternoon cold air is

coming in after this cloud. The cold air will continue to follow. You can

trace those isobars along way north, coming all the way from the Arctic

and bringing further snow showers. The cold air filters through,

leaving a cold night and the widespread frost. Further wintry

showers in the mix as well. Most of them will be across more northern

and eastern areas, a few out West as well. For many the skies will be

clear and with the Arctic air in place to bridges will be dipping

away, two or three in the towns and cities and lower in rural areas so a

widespread frost to start the day. In Scotland, the wintry showers will

still be going into the morning. Most will be at high grounds but

some will get into lower areas, and in the north-east of England as

well. Actually a lot of sunshine to many places but cold, three or 4

degrees at 8am, and quite windy. At least there is some sunshine.

Eastern and western coasts have a few early showers which could turn

wintry over higher ground. A cold and wintry day for most buyers.

Showers will develop quite widely, some with hail and thunder, quite

heavy. Temperatures from six to 12 or 13 degrees, feeling cold,

particularly in eastern areas, in the wind. If you are caught in a

hail shower, strong gusty downdraughts, and it could feel

around freezing. This evening, still quite a lot of showers, confined to

more eastern areas overnight. You get a frost developing as well

again, Wednesday will have some sunshine for western areas, a good

chance of seeing some showers, which could be wintry over higher ground

in the south and east. Towards the end of the week we will see the

temperatures rise a bit as the westerly winds coming. -- come in.

I mean Washington and Christian Fraser is lucky enough to be in

Paris. -- I'm in Washington. As France looks now

to the run-off vote for the French Presidential

elections - we ask what has gone wrong

for the political establishment. And it wasn't all fierce competition

- the moment that has captured the imagination at the London

Marathon. For the first time in almost 60

years, neither of the two big parties will be in the final run-off

for the French presidential It's a remarkable outcome

which leaves the political establishment questioning

where they went wrong. Until recently, the front

runner to win the election was Republican candidate

Francois Fillon - but he's Jean Francois Cope is

Mayor of the city Meaux, You have just come from headquarters

and there must be a lot of soul-searching. You have snatched

defeat from the jaws of victory. Yes, we were expecting victory and

today is a disaster for all of us and the great disappointment. Do you

point me finger at Francois Fillon? He was under the weight of a lot of

allegations. He took a big risk a man as he was the winner of the

primaries we had to follow him. It was very difficult for all of us to

say to Francois Fillon to get out. He had to make his own decision

about that and as he decided to stay and run again, we did not have any

other choice to follow him. Unfortunately we have been very

strongly defeated. What happened a few weeks ago? Alain Juppe was

waiting in the wings. We thought Francois Fillon was going to stand

down. It did not happen. Did you say he had to go in the background? As

usual in politics we were very divided, but at that time I was

considering and many of my friends were considering as well that there

was a real opportunity for Alain Juppe to take the place of Francois

Fillon, by say, because of the judicial situation, you have got to

resign. The real decision-making was Francois Fillon and he said he will

be the winner. And we had to follow him. And you know the end of the

story. You get to headquarters today, you have six weeks until the

regional elections but your focus must now be to support Emmanuel

Macron? Yes, because we do not have any other choice, and that was a

terrible pity for a man like me. I'm on the right wing, advocating for

economic reform, to implement these reforms for the country and to be

very firm on questions of security, but I consider it is just impossible

to let Marine Le Pen be the winner, because she will want to bring our

country out of Europe. You know what it means... You lie you don't

believe in the programme of Emmanuel Macron, though? -- you don't

believe. We are European citizens in about the history this country and

we know what means extremist and what means far right and it is

impossible to bring any support, any kind of support to the far right,

and that is why we have been considering that the only solution

that we can bring is to say, we are voting for Emmanuel Macron as

president, but then we are supporting our candidates for the

next legislative election. You don't have a leader and he may well be

president and he might say you have got to give me enough people in the

National Assembly to force my plans through and that will undermine your

party. That will be his argument, but our argument is to say that we

have got to Waco -- regather ourselves and we have got to

influences policy as much as we can, especially with structural economic

reforms, the pension situation the tax system, we have many reforms

that are a necessity for the country and we all know that. Maybe we will

be able to help the new president to do it because he will have no other

majority to do it. This is the challenge we have to face now. I

wish we had more time. Thanks for joining us. Isn't it extraordinary?

I would have put my house on Francois Fillon winning this

election in January. You had Emmanuel Macron without the party,

earlier movement. -- a party. I thought Francois Fillon was a

guarantee, but after the allegations and the backbiting we thought he

would stand down. But he wouldn't go and he was stubborn and till the

end. Would another Conservative candidate have done better against

Emmanuel Macron? That seems like a pretty loose indoor smoke from the

mayor, if they are going to get their supporters out to support

Emmanuel Macron, they are going to Emmanuel Macron, they are going to

have to do a better job -- that seems like a pretty loose

endorsement from the Mayor. If this is going to be about turnout, the

second round, they will need more enthusiasm. We had a socialist

senator and another support of runs while Philon and they said the same

thing. -- another supporter of Francois Fillon. They are saying

that Emmanuel Macron is aborting like he has already won, but there

are many people who do not support him -- is celebrating like he has

already won. You will be watching it closely, of course.

And a short time ago, the United States imposed sanctions

on Syrian government officials in response to the

suspected chemical weapon attack earlier this month.

The Treasury in Washington has frozen all assets in the US

belonging to more than 270 employees of an organisation called

the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Centre.

American citizens will be forbidden from having any dealings with them.

The US Defence Secretary, Jim Mattis, is in Afghanistan

on an unannounced visit to meet US troops and the country's

He's arrived at a somewhat chaotic time - the Afghan defence minister

and army chief have just resigned following the deadliest Taliban

attack on Armed Forces in more than a decade.

And the US astronaut Peggy Whitson has broken the record for the most

Commander Whitson already holds the record for the most spacewalks

carried out by a female astronaut and is the first woman

to command the International Space Station twice.

President Trump telephoned her on board the ISS

to congratulate her on surpassing the previous record

Now to the man Hillary Clinton hoped to follow into office.

After lying low for the past few months President Obama was back

in the public eye today holding an event in Chicago, not

about politics, but instead aimed at getting the next generation

Although he couldn't help having a little fun.

So... What's been going on at while I've been gone? It is wonderful to

be home. It is wonderful to be at the University of Chicago and it is

wonderful to be on the South side of Chicago. CHEERING

It is wonderful to be with these young people here.

He has said on Twitter a few times, but that is the first time he has

spoken in public and he gave a teaser about what was going to be

important to him in his next job. He said preparing the next generation

was what he really wanted to do, the next generation of leadership.

Though speculation about the state of the Democratic party which he

left in some disarray when he stopped being president -- no

speculation. And no comments about Donald Trump? No, he ignored him and

Hillary Clinton and politics in general. Speaking instead about

leadership and community service. That was President Obama, back from

the Polynesian islands, I think, three weeks in the sun. He looks

good. He has lost about ten years, I think.

Now Christian - we know you have been enduring a marathon

of your own covering the French election but in London yesterday

more than 40,000 people hit the streets to cover 26.2 miles.

Today there is one unforgettable moment everyone is still talking

about and that is when an exhausted runner was helped across the finish

The BBC's Dan Johnson has gone to meet them.

After 26 miles this was a helping hand which summed up the spirit of

the marathon, shared by so many. With sore legs and swirling social

media, the IT manager from Manchester and the banker

from Swansea spoke about those I was just trying

to get to the line. My body went and I

went to the ground. His legs were completely jelly and

he said he was determined to finish. I helped him up and his legs went

again. I realised I was going

to have to stay with him When someone's in need

you want to help them out. I couldn't let him lie

on the ground there. I was shouting in his ear, saying,

"Come on, you can do this, it's 200 metres, we will finish -

I'll stay with you". Maybe I was a bit

overzealous with my support. Matthew was clear in knowing that

if he leaves me there's a chance they will whisk me off and not

let me get to the finish. If roles were reversed,

would you have done the same thing? You are the first person

to ask me that and that's Yeah, but it was

special, what he did. It's a question could all consider.

These are two competitive runners putting in good times, both under

three hours. What the general public see

there is the spirit of the running community and this happens

all over the place. It just happened there were quite

a few cameras trained on that. At that point,

capturing that moment. A new friendship forged and David's

club has offered to pay Matthew's entry next year, in recognition of

the sacrifice, because it was officially be wobbly legs which got

over the line first. But taking part is more important

than winning, right? That is quite uncanny. By the end of

the broadcast yesterday, my legs had gone a bit like that, and it was

only you who said to me, you can make it. You trying compare standing

in front of where you are now in Paris, compared to running the

London Marathon? Yes, this pot, they were eating pizza, they were saying,

keep going. -- this lot. If you go to Paris, you don't get on, that is

what I would say to you. -- you don't get to complain.