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Welcome to Outside Source. The next president of France will be the far

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right Marine Le Pen or centrist Emmanuel Macron. This is what the

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current president thinks. The far right would be deeply divisive for

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France. They will endanger our freedoms and the founding principles

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of our Republic. In the last few hours, Marine Le Pen has announced

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she is stepping aside as the leader of the National Front to focus on

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her campaign. We will be live in Paris in a moment to try and work

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out what is behind that decision. President Trump says he wants the UN

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to back new sanctions against North Korea. Meanwhile, the North Koreans

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have warned that the threat of nuclear war is real. Afghanistan's

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defence chiefs have resigned following the killing of over 100

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soldiers on Friday. The US Defence Secretary has just arrived in

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Afghanistan. If the Taliban wish to join the political poseurs and work

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honestly for a positive future for the Afghan people, they need only to

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renounce violence and reject terrorism.

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We will also have details about the significant development in the fight

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against malaria. Well, when the results came through

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in the first round of the French presidential election, we knew that

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we had a result that had overturned French politics. They will be no

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candidate from the mainstream left candidate from the mainstream left

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or right parties in the second round of this election, something that has

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not happened in 60 years. But these too will battle it out because of

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this result. One of them will be the next president. Behind them is

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Francois Fillon of the Republicans, the far left Jean-Luc Melenchon,

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both bowling close to 20%, a long way behind, the Socialists on 6%. If

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we look at the map of France and the political map, you can see much has

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changed. This is from the first round of the weekend. The dark area

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are areas that support Marine Le Pen. The light pink areas support

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Emmanuel Macron. Not total domination by close to it. Compare

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that to 2012, when the blue-collar mark the success of Nicolas Sarkozy

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and the red of Francois Hollande. The socialist candidate. This was

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the time when the traditional candidates of France still had their

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way. One of the people responsible for the disruption is Marine Le Pen.

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In the last few hours, she has made an extraordinary and insolent and

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says... Let's try and decipher that. Our correspondent is live from

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Paris. I had to beat this story a few times over and I am still

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confused by it. -- read the story. Tell us what it means in practical

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terms and why Marine Le Pen has done it. She said that she wanted to go

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beyond the considerations of her party, and she is presenting herself

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as the candidate of the people. It is quite clear that this is an

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attempt to rally as many voters as she can. This will be our main

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challenge now in the run-up to the second round vote. And she's going

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to have to work a lot to convince a lot of people to back our candidacy

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against Emmanuel Macron. -- her candidacy. Traditionally in France,

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the mainstream parties and political rivals unite against the Front

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National. So she knows that that is what she is up against and she wants

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to go beyond political parties, to reach out to the French voters and

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say, it is not about whatever political colours you wear, it is

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about the candidates. That is what your -- she is trying to do. C both

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of the candidates. Earlier, Emmanuel Macron was campaigning but he also

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attended the ceremony to mark the anniversary of the Armenian

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genocide. His party has been warning against complacency and the reason

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is because he is a long way ahead in the polls. Marine Le Pen was also

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campaigning. This is what she said earlier.

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TRANSLATION: Mr Macron is weak on Islamic

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terrorism because the day after the terror attack, even indicated that

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he was not going to implement a programme against terrorism

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straightaway. You find someone who presents itself in a presidential

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election he does not have a programme to protect the French

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people against the danger of Islamic terrorism. That is a rather worrying

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sign. Let's bring our correspondent back

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in. We have an extraordinary situation will the two main

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candidates, neither of them are really representing a party any

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more. Exactly. Emmanuel Macron launched his movement just one year

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ago. He did not have an MP in Parliament. That will be a huge

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challenge for him, if he is elected president. How can he secure a

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majority in parliament in the Parliamentary election in June?

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December Marine Le Pen. Only two MPs in Parliament. For sure, here are

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two candidates will have to make alliances with mainstream to secure

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to govern and fast uniforms that to govern and fast uniforms that

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they are talking about. Now, it is interesting to see that already,

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Francois Fillon, the candidate of the Republicans who lost in the

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first round, has said he will vote for Emmanuel Macron against Marine

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Le Pen. And most mainstream politicians have also charged

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supporters to do the same. -- urged. Budget year some of the most

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conservative voices in the Republican side saying, actually, I

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want to vote against Emmanuel Macron and I will vote for Marine Le Pen.

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Whether she will be able to gather enough of these voices and

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momentum... She is in a much stronger position than her father

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was 15 years ago when he went to the second-round against the

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Conservative candidate, Jacques Chirac. That is what she will have

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to work on in the next two weeks. You mentioned the mainstream is

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getting behind Emmanuel Macron. I guess that is no more evidence of

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that and the fact that the current French president, Francois Hollande,

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had this to say earlier. TRANSLATION:

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The far right would be dangerous for France and they wouldn't danger of

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principles. This is why that in the face of such danger, there is

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nothing to be gained by standing by. There is no choice but to take

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action and there is a clear choice. As for me, I will be voting for

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Emmanuel Macron. One analyst points out that one key

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difference between America and France is...

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If we bring you back in, why is it that Marine Le Pen continues to

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struggle to get mainstream politicians to support her? That is

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because of the extreme past of the Front National. The party that her

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father founded and that horror... A lot of people see as the party of

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hatred. -- and that a lot of people see. That is what a lot of left-wing

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people say. The Republicans say that this is a party that could endanger

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the country and take it out of the eurozone. And this is something that

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both mainstream parties want to avoid at all costs. Thank you. As

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was alluded to, there will be a significant amount of relief in

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Brussels. The nightmare scenario in this first round for the European

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Union was that Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Melenchon got through to

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the second round. Both of them are fiercely critical of the year. He is

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one reaction from the spokesperson at the European Commission.

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TRANSLATION: Finance is a central pillar of the

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EU. -- France. It is one of the founding

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countries and it symbolises the values on which European

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integration is based. President Juncker

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congratulated Emmanuel Macron because he is a candidate

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who represents the values This French presidential election is

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the key election this year for the EU and Europe as a whole. Not just

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for France. It is enormously significant for France, but in the

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EU as a whole, you have to candidates. One is Emmanuel Macron,

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a centrist for the year and the euro. -- D EU. He is for an openness

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to the world. Marine Le Pen wants to put up barriers to immigration, she

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wants control over France's borders. She once France out of the euro. She

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wants to do with the UK did to try to renegotiate the French

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relationship with the EU and put that a referendum. Two totally

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different and divergent paths. As a spokesman said this morning, this is

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a country that is a founder member of the European Union and one of the

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core states. Which part it takes will have dramatically different

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consequences for Europe. If you have questions on the French

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election, get in touch with us. The US Defence Secretary,

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James Mattis is in Afghanistan. He arrives at a time of grief

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and governmental upheaval. The Afghan defence minister

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and the army chief On Friday, the Taliban killed over

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100 soldiers at a military base - that's the deadliest attack

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on Afghan Armed Forces in a decade. And this has raised questions

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about whether the US is too focused on the Islamic State group,

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rather than the Taliban. Here's General Mattis

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speaking earlier. 2017 is going to be another tough

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year for the valiant Afghan security forces and the international troops

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who have stood and will continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with

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Afghanistan against terrorism and those who seek to undermine the

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legitimate United Nations recognised Government of this nation. If the

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Taliban wished to join the political process and work honestly for a

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positive future for the Afghan people, who have suffered long and

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hard, they need only to renounce violence and reject terrorism.

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Millions of people in Afghanistan listen to the BBC Afghan can-mac

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service. BBC Afghan Service editor

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Waheed Massoud says there is general consensus in Afghanistan that

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a political process will be more At the end of the day, there is no

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military solution to the Afghanistan problem. The Taliban have been

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carrying out attacks in Afghanistan since being arrested in 2001, and

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everyone from all sides of the political standpoint in Afghanistan

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agree that if the Taliban are to the peace process and sit around the

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negotiation table, that would be the best outcome for also writes. The

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defence chief has resigned and the head of the army has resigned. Who

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is General matters going to meet when he is there? General matters

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said that the new US administration, and President Trump, they are

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reviewing the Afghanistan policy and that requires constant dialogue with

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leaders in Afghanistan. He met with the Afghan president today and other

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security ministers. We understand this will not be the first visit of

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its kind. We are told that the new US administration could put more

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forces in Afghanistan and put a higher number, although that is not

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confirmed. That is the reason he was in Kabul and it happened to cause

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side -- coincide with the Friday attack that killed over 100

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soldiers. Maybe in the future, with the new Afghan minister, whoever he

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is, he will now go sheet with him. Lets get an American perspective on

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this story. Good to have your the programme.

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Help me understand, what is the best case scenario in Afghanistan for the

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Americans? What will happen? The best case scenario really would be

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for the Taliban to cooperate and come to a peace process. This is

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America's longest-running war and it costs American taxpayers billions of

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dollars. Very little has changed since 2001. They are still at a

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stalemate. The Taliban are still in control, contesting about 40% of the

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country. This is clearly a war that President Obama, no President Trump

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wanted to wrap up and not weighed in American forces and international

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forces and come to a solution. -- not wipe.

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We have the general saying this is a worse par-4 portico but it of any

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group. We're the Taliban to, and reject violence and come to an

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agreement. -- this is the lowest political bar.

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We know that the top US commander in Afghanistan is calling for more

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troops. He says more are needed to help train Afghan forces to help

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them become self-sufficient in the future fight the Taliban. That is at

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a time when the country has underscored how difficult the

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challenges. Really, the thing you can take away from the trip the most

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is the agreement that this strategy to whatever Sue is one the Afghan

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officials can get on board with. Stay with us, in a few

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minutes, we'll bring significant development -

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the world's first malaria vaccine. In the UK election, Jeremy Corbyn

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has taken the Labour campaign He has a fight on his hands -

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the party was virtually wiped out But speaking to trade unionists,

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Mr Corbyn said only Labour could form an alternative government

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to the Conservatives at Westminster. Nicola Sturgeon said only the SNP

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could make Scotland's voice heard. The Labour Party will always

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cherish, sustain and protect our relationship with the trade union

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movement and working people, that you all represented in this hall.

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You are our DNA, our family and we will never apologise for the

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closeness of our relationship with you.

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This is Outside Source live from the BBC newsroom.

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Senior figures from France's two main parties have backed centrist

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candidate Emmanuel Macron in his bid to become president.

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He'll face the far-right leader Marine Le Pen.

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She has just announced she is standing aside as the leader of the

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Front National. That's bringing the stories from BBC's World Service.

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Anti-government protesters in Venezuela have begun sit-ins

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Police have fired firecrackers at the. -- the protest is.

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A German court has ruled that 10 people involved in the Love Parade

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music festival 7 years ago must stand trial for manslaughter over

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They died in an overcrowded tunnel that was the only way in or out

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Let's begin our look at the business with looking at the European markets

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and what they made of the French election result.

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Every one of them up. The Germans were up to a record high.

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He is our correspondent at a trading floor on London. This is not so much

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about what has happened in the first round of the presidential election

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as opposed to what has happened. What we will not see is a second

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round run-off between the far right candidate Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc

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Melenchon, the hard left candidate who models as economic losses on

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those of people like the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez. For

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business people, that was the nightmare scenario. Two Eurosceptic

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candidates. That is not happened and we now know that the run-off is

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between Emmanuel Macron, the centrist, reformist candidate, and

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Marine Le Pen. In that scenario, nearly every poll puts Emmanuel

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Macron head. You can see what that is done on the markets. This is the

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Paris stock exchange main index. At the opening, it was up more than 5%.

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Banking stocks are doing very well at the moment. Why? The risk premium

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Bonds is going down. Bond yields are going up and will make more money.

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Things are more settled. But let's not forget, there are two weeks to

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go before the round of the presidential election and although

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Emmanuel Macron looks like the clear winner, according to polls taken

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today, you can never guarantee anything. That is true.

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A leading US business body is urging Donald Trump not to abandon Nafta -

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that's the free trade deal between the US, Canada and Mexico.

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Earlier, the chief executive of the US Chamber of Commerce

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Well he did that, the US chamber 's Twitter feed shared this...

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Quite a few demands. Less doctor correspondent about how much of that

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is realistic. Help me understand this Chamber of Commerce. How

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influential is it? The Chamber of Commerce is an amalgamation of all

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kinds of different businesses within the United States. This is the

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national organisation. So does wield quite a lot of influence and a lot

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talking about a president who really talking about a president who really

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prides itself on being a businessman. So this is an important

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and influential organisation. As you pointed out, they were in Mexico

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City talking about the North American Free Trade Agreement. Now

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there is a lot of uncertainty as regards to this agreement. We had

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the rhetoric from President Trump, candidate trump, at the time, about

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how Nafta should be ripped up if the US could not renegotiated deal more

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beneficial to the country. Now we're almost 100 days into the

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administration and no clear movement to renegotiating Nafta has been

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made. Many people are taking this as an opportunity to try and voice

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their opinion in terms of what they think should happen with the North

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American Free Trade Agreement. We will leave it there. Talk you

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through the week. Jimmy Choo has been put up for sale. Have a look

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what that did to its share price. It jumped by over 10%.

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The biggest stake in Jimmy Choo is with the holding company JAB Luxury.

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It's also owns the the Swiss footwear company Bally.

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This investment fund is owned by the very wealthy German family, the

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Ryman. They have been a spending spree buying up the likes of copy

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businesses. It is said today that Jimmy -- Jimmy

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Choo was no longer core. Surplus to requirements and it could be sold

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for more than $700 million. It has been doing rather well of late,

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outperforming the wider market. A huge development is coming

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in the fight against it. The World Health Organisation

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will introduce the world's first malaria vaccine in these three

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countries - Ghana, Kenya, The pilot programme will see more

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than 750,000 children aged between 17 months and five

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receive the jab. In clinical trials,

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the vaccine prevented nearly So, this has been a long time

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coming. A malaria vaccine has been searched for for about 30 odd years

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now. So this really is a positive step in the right direction. I mean,

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there have been a number of great successes in the fight against

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malaria in recent years. For example, between 2010-2015, deaths

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from malaria were cut by more than one quarter. That is really

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positive. However, a child still dies from malaria every two minutes

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and the vast majority of them are in sub-Saharan Africa. This vaccine,

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developed by the pharmaceutical company GS K, it works like many

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vaccines. It works by preparing and training body, the immune system, to

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fight the malaria parasite when it enters the body through mosquitoes.

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Let's be as optimistic as we can and imagine this trial does everything

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we hope that. How quickly can it be scaled up after that? It depends on

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a number of things. The countries piloting the scheme and the WHO will

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decide that when it gets under way, the trial, in 2018. There are a

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number of challenges to overcome. Previous studies of the vaccine

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showed that it prevented four in ten cases of malaria in young children.

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That is not particularly high. Other vaccines are already are therefore

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other diseases that protect many poor people. That is something they

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have to look at. -- many more able. This is for doses over two years.

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The frost free in the first three months, then a child comes back 18

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months later together for. They will have to look at how it works in

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practice. We're talking about countries with limited health

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services in many areas where people will struggle to get to the nearest

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health centre to get the second, third, fourth vaccination jab. That

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could prove more challenging. These things have to be looked at first

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before they decide if and when to skillet. Moron the BBC News website

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about that story. Tomorrow, I be interviewing the

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founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales. He will be talking about fake news

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and how it is challenged online. If you want to put any questions to

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him, get in touch with the details on screen as we go through the

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programme. Your questions will be programme. Your questions will be

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very welcome. Just encase you're just tuning in... This is the big

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news in the last few hours. Marine Le Pen... BBC's Andrew Newell

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says... -- Andrew Neil. This seems like an effort to reach

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out to voters who do not want to vote for the National Front but

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might consider voting for Marine Le Pen as an individual. We shall see.

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Thank you for watching this half. Back with you in a couple of

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minutes. Good evening. We have a classic

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Before we get the, it has been tornado season in Bangladesh and

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recently we have had some

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