:00:16. > :00:18.The two contenders for the French presidency are going head-to-head in
:00:19. > :00:20.a live televised debate. 20 million viewers are expected
:00:21. > :00:23.to tune in as centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron and his far-right
:00:24. > :00:26.rival Marine Le Pen try to convince undecided voters why they should be
:00:27. > :00:37.the next French President. As the UK gears up for its own
:00:38. > :00:41.election, the gloves are off over Brexit talks.
:00:42. > :00:43.Threats against Britain have been issued by European
:00:44. > :00:46.All of these acts have been deliberately timed to affect
:00:47. > :00:49.the result of the general election that will take place on June eight.
:00:50. > :00:53.the Palestinian President to the White House and says
:00:54. > :00:59.he serious about peace in the Middle East.
:01:00. > :01:01.We want to create peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
:01:02. > :01:05.We'll be working so hard to get it done.
:01:06. > :01:08.And if you want to get in touch with us -
:01:09. > :01:32.Let's return to our top story - French presidential candidates
:01:33. > :01:35.Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron have just begun a live televised
:01:36. > :01:38.debate ahead of Sunday's second round and final round of voting
:01:39. > :01:59.TRANSLATION: The French believed you were something new. When, in fact,
:02:00. > :02:08.the candidate who has been chosen by the Socialist party, and Francois
:02:09. > :02:12.Hollande. There are 30 seconds between the two of you. We will talk
:02:13. > :02:17.about Europe and what happens at the international level. It deserves
:02:18. > :02:23.that we should talk seriously about that situation. Perhaps we should
:02:24. > :02:30.separate you both. Europe, two radically different views on it.
:02:31. > :02:37.Give us your definition of Europe tomorrow.
:02:38. > :02:38.STUDIO: You are watching a little bit of that debate.
:02:39. > :02:42.I'm joined by Agnes Poirier - journalist and broadcaster.
:02:43. > :02:48.She is tied jesting and dissecting everything that is happening firm
:02:49. > :02:53.nearly two and a half hours of that debate. What has struck you in the
:02:54. > :03:03.past few minutes? It is a heated debate. They talk over each other.
:03:04. > :03:09.They really do. Yes, a lot. At the beginning of the debate she was not
:03:10. > :03:17.in her best form. The economy isn't her topic now. It went to social
:03:18. > :03:20.affairs, to retirement age, to terrorism, to security, and this is
:03:21. > :03:29.her favourite topic. She is good on those questions. Emmanuel Macron was
:03:30. > :03:34.on the defensive, so she gained traction. Now as we speak they are
:03:35. > :03:38.talking about Europe. I'm looking forward to that... That is where the
:03:39. > :03:45.stark difference is between those candidates. It is everything that
:03:46. > :03:53.opposes them, really. Especially with Brexit. It will be watched
:03:54. > :04:00.closely. He is for an open Europe, opened in France, and she is for
:04:01. > :04:04.exiting it. Not only the European currency, but in time the European
:04:05. > :04:11.Union. We will see what they have to say on the subject. They still have
:04:12. > :04:14.an hour to go. What do you think people are looking for? With both
:04:15. > :04:18.met people who are undecided and thinking about casting a white
:04:19. > :04:23.ballot, which means they find both of them disagreeable and they cannot
:04:24. > :04:24.vote for either, what do you think? -- we have both met people who are
:04:25. > :04:40.undecided. It has happened in the past. You can
:04:41. > :04:50.be on the right wing and still be generous. It is part of the National
:04:51. > :04:58.Theatre. It is a pantomime. But sometimes important things are being
:04:59. > :05:02.said. Sometimes it is convincing the undecided. That is the key of the
:05:03. > :05:08.debate. They've almost got another hour. Thank you for watching for us.
:05:09. > :05:11.That is our top story, the French election, and that voting taking
:05:12. > :05:14.place on Sunday. Let's move to this man who won his election.
:05:15. > :05:16.Donald Trump has met with the President of
:05:17. > :05:20.the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas.
:05:21. > :05:22.Here are some of the pictures we've had into the building.
:05:23. > :05:24.Donald Trump has expressed pro-Israel views
:05:25. > :05:26.throughout his Presidency - but also claimed that he is
:05:27. > :05:37.the man that can bring peace to the middle east.
:05:38. > :05:46.We can listen to Donald Trump first. We want to create peace between
:05:47. > :05:50.Israel and the Palestinians. We will get it done. We will be working so
:05:51. > :05:57.hard to get it done. It's been a hard time. We will be working
:05:58. > :06:04.diligently and I think we have a good chance, and I think you feel
:06:05. > :06:08.the same way. We can bring in our correspondent from Washington. It
:06:09. > :06:13.seems convivial, friendly, but was there any real concrete changes of
:06:14. > :06:18.policy coming from the White House today? There wasn't really a policy
:06:19. > :06:20.announcement. It was more like an announcement of intent. You heard
:06:21. > :06:25.Donald Trump talking about the US and commitment to try to get a peace
:06:26. > :06:29.deal between Israelis and Palestinians. He said he would
:06:30. > :06:32.pursue that. He said he was confident he could achieve it. But
:06:33. > :06:37.he didn't say how he was going to do that. He didn't give a starting
:06:38. > :06:42.point, a goal, or what an outcome would look like. He said he would
:06:43. > :06:45.facilitate, arbitrate, Mediate, but he didn't say for example he would
:06:46. > :06:52.be pursuing a two state solution, which is what the goal of US policy
:06:53. > :06:55.has been previously under previous administrations. Mahmoud Abbas did
:06:56. > :06:59.bring it up, he said that would be a way of getting an agreement with
:07:00. > :07:02.East Jerusalem as its capital. We East Jerusalem as its capital. We
:07:03. > :07:07.don't know what Trump has in mind. He says he wants whatever the two
:07:08. > :07:13.sides want. Incredibly complex and difficult resolution to come to. But
:07:14. > :07:20.Mahmoud Abbas isn't popular at home as a leader even if he were to make
:07:21. > :07:28.some progress. He is unpopular in the West Bank. Palestinians believe
:07:29. > :07:31.his government is corrupt. Senior strategists haven't achieved peace.
:07:32. > :07:35.They believe he should hold elections because he has been in
:07:36. > :07:40.power for 12 years. He's struggling there. He is also being challenged
:07:41. > :07:45.by another popular Palestinian leader, who is leading a hunger
:07:46. > :07:48.strike at the moment. That is something Mahmoud Abbas has to face,
:07:49. > :07:57.as well. And he's in a power struggle with Hamas. He is funding
:07:58. > :08:02.the electricity in Gaza and other things. That is increased tensions.
:08:03. > :08:07.And it highlights that the Palestinians are split when it comes
:08:08. > :08:12.to governments. He'd struggle in terms of his legitimacy, but I think
:08:13. > :08:16.that's one reason why this visit of the White House was important for
:08:17. > :08:21.him to have Mr Trump endorse him as the Palestinian leader who wants to
:08:22. > :08:26.work with. And Mr Trump said he supported him. And that a special
:08:27. > :08:30.partnership was necessary to achieved peace. Thank you very much.
:08:31. > :08:32.This is Ghanaian footballer Sulley Muntari.
:08:33. > :08:37.He's just been banned for one match - his wrongdoing?
:08:38. > :08:39.Protesting against racial abuse he received during
:08:40. > :08:48.Tulsen Tollett joins me from the BBC Sport Centre.
:08:49. > :09:07.Give us a little more of the context. During the game, Pescara
:09:08. > :09:10.lost the match. During the match Ding was given racial abuse. He went
:09:11. > :09:30.to challenge it after the match. -- during the match Sulley Muntari
:09:31. > :09:34.was given racial abuse. He went to challenge the fans afterwards.
:09:35. > :09:40.Sometimes normality and sport doesn't go hand-in-hand. The Italian
:09:41. > :09:43.authorities have said only ten people were racially abusing Sulley
:09:44. > :09:46.Muntari and that is why they cannot take action. I don't know weather
:09:47. > :09:50.that makes a difference. If ten people in the street were doing
:09:51. > :09:56.that, what would happen? Those are the kinds of questions which will be
:09:57. > :10:03.asked. And some are asking others to boycott this weekend, is that right?
:10:04. > :10:12.Any self-respecting backplane and any player should boycott matches
:10:13. > :10:22.this weekend, according to the leader of the Kick It Out campaign.
:10:23. > :10:24.Really interesting. Thank you. I want to turn to these women now...
:10:25. > :10:27.All this week the BBC is profiling all the nominees for BBC
:10:28. > :10:30.Today we take a closer look at Swedish goal
:10:31. > :10:52.My name is Hedvig Lindahl. I would like you to vote for me for the
:10:53. > :10:58.women's Footballer of the Year if you think I'm worth it. I was four
:10:59. > :12:35.when I joined in for my first proper training session.
:12:36. > :12:45.Stay with us. Still to come: The German defence minister is in hot
:12:46. > :12:45.water after criticising the leadership of the leader of the
:12:46. > :12:56.army. Whilst the Brexit debate
:12:57. > :12:57.continues Labour has The party has pledged to halt
:12:58. > :13:02.closures of hospital services. Protests against NHS
:13:03. > :13:06.closures are nothing new, but in some communities
:13:07. > :13:07.like Huddersfield, concerns This protest last autumn
:13:08. > :13:20.was in reaction to plans to remove Campaigners say people will suffer
:13:21. > :13:23.because of longer journey times. Patients are going to be dispersed
:13:24. > :13:27.all around the north of the country. Those will involve longer trips
:13:28. > :13:29.and the longer the trip, the more danger there
:13:30. > :13:38.is in the situation. Labour's John Ashworth,
:13:39. > :13:40.at a meeting of activists from Huddersfield and around
:13:41. > :13:43.Yorkshire, said he wanted to halt closures, specifically by stalling
:13:44. > :13:45.NHS reform plans in England. We're saying, let's
:13:46. > :13:47.have a moratorium on them and let's step back
:13:48. > :13:50.and have a full review of them. When we review them,
:13:51. > :13:52.let's involve clinicians, but let's So far, they have been cut
:13:53. > :13:55.out of the decisions, The NHS reform documents are known
:13:56. > :13:59.as sustainability and transformation plans and have been published in 44
:14:00. > :14:02.areas across England. Some involve hospital bed cuts
:14:03. > :14:04.and service reductions, with funds reinvested
:14:05. > :14:10.in community care. The Southwest London plan involves
:14:11. > :14:13.the possible reduction of five Local campaigners say this one,
:14:14. > :14:19.St Helier, faces closure. But the plan's authors say that
:14:20. > :14:22.resources will be shifted into local area teams involving GPs,
:14:23. > :14:24.social care staff and nurses, providing care closer
:14:25. > :14:26.to people's homes. For the Conservatives,
:14:27. > :14:28.Jeremy Hunt said in a written statement that Labour's
:14:29. > :14:30.plan was nonsensical as the party He said they were supported by top
:14:31. > :14:40.doctors and nurses in the NHS The Liberal Democrats said
:14:41. > :14:43.the real issue was lack If there is not enough
:14:44. > :14:58.money in the system, however you rejig those services,
:14:59. > :15:01.you're never going to be able to provide the quality
:15:02. > :15:03.of care that is needed. That's why as a party,
:15:04. > :15:05.the Liberal Democrats are calling for significant investment to be
:15:06. > :15:07.made in the NHS. NHS leaders say in response
:15:08. > :15:10.to rising patient demand and stretched resources,
:15:11. > :15:12.the plans are all about treating Whoever is in government can expect
:15:13. > :15:15.more intense political This is Outside Source live
:15:16. > :15:35.from the BBC newsroom. The two contenders for the French
:15:36. > :15:38.presidency are going head-to-head in a live televised debate ahad
:15:39. > :15:50.of Sunday's final round of voting. German Defence Minister Ursula von
:15:51. > :15:52.der Leyen has provoked an angry response from politicians
:15:53. > :15:54.and military figures after she criticised
:15:55. > :15:56.the leadership in the army. She was speaking after a lieutenant
:15:57. > :15:58.was arrested on suspicion Allegations are that the soldier
:15:59. > :16:02.used a fake identity to register as a Syrian refugee in preparation
:16:03. > :16:05.for an attack under disguise. Von der Leyen said his superior
:16:06. > :16:08.officers had looked the other way and that the army had
:16:09. > :16:10.an "attitude problem," "a misunderstood esprit de corps,"
:16:11. > :16:31.and "apparently weak leadership We can hear more from the BBC's
:16:32. > :16:36.Jenny hill. Germany has been transfixed by this rather strange
:16:37. > :16:41.tale concerning a soldier who the authorities are naming only as
:16:42. > :16:46.Franco A. He is a soldier in the German army. He is also alleged to
:16:47. > :16:51.have posed for almost two years as a Syrian refugee at the same time as
:16:52. > :16:57.trying to put together, it is alleged, a right-wing extremist
:16:58. > :17:02.terror attack. That never came to fruition. The police managed to
:17:03. > :17:05.intervene before that. It has caused real scandal because it has
:17:06. > :17:09.transpired that he was part of the German Army and they were reportedly
:17:10. > :17:15.warned about his right-wing extremist tendencies some time ago.
:17:16. > :17:18.They did nothing about it, apparently. Investigators are now
:17:19. > :17:23.looking at the possibility that he may have been part of a right-wing
:17:24. > :17:27.extremist cell, containing at least two other soldiers. That
:17:28. > :17:32.investigation is ongoing. At the same time there are political
:17:33. > :17:34.ramifications, too. The German defence minister is now under
:17:35. > :17:39.pressure after she criticised the German army for its handling of the
:17:40. > :17:44.case and in particular single out its leadership. That has upset the
:17:45. > :17:49.military top brass. -- in particular is singled out its leadership, which
:17:50. > :17:56.has upset the military top brass. She had to cancel a meeting in the
:17:57. > :17:59.US with her American counterpart. Instead she flew to the barracks in
:18:00. > :18:06.France where the soldier had previously been stationed to try and
:18:07. > :18:08.sort out all of this. I suspect she wants to do something about the
:18:09. > :18:15.investigation. It's not for the first time we are seeing headlines
:18:16. > :18:19.about her under pressure. She has inherited, as defence minister, a
:18:20. > :18:23.military which is generally considered to be, in terms of
:18:24. > :18:27.personnel and equipment, pretty much below par. She is often the subject
:18:28. > :18:31.of attacks from the military. But perhaps there has never been a row
:18:32. > :18:35.as bitter as this one. Nevertheless, she appears to have the full support
:18:36. > :18:40.of Angela Merkel whose spokesman today said she stood fully behind
:18:41. > :18:41.Ursula. Thank you. The world's killer whales
:18:42. > :18:43.are in trouble, especially around Scientists have found that
:18:44. > :18:46.one of the UK's last resident killer whales -
:18:47. > :18:49.who was found dead on the shores of Scotland last year -
:18:50. > :18:52.had record amounts of a banned toxic Scientists say the levels
:18:53. > :18:55.of the man-made chemicals known as PCBs were among
:18:56. > :18:57.the highest ever recorded. Our science correspondent
:18:58. > :19:03.Rebecca Morelle has more. They are the UK's
:19:04. > :19:05.last killer whales. Found off the west coast
:19:06. > :19:07.of Scotland, today this pod Lulu was found dead on the shores
:19:08. > :19:21.of the inner Hebrides. She'd become caught
:19:22. > :19:29.up in fishing line. Her skeleton is now stored
:19:30. > :19:31.at the National Museum Scotland. Tests showed she was heavily
:19:32. > :19:33.contaminated with man-made The levels that we found in Lulu
:19:34. > :19:38.were 20 times higher than the levels we would expect in citations that
:19:39. > :19:40.weren't suffering That puts her as one of the most
:19:41. > :19:44.contaminated animals on the planet. In killer whales, the chemicals can
:19:45. > :19:47.stop the animals from bearing young. They harm the immune system,
:19:48. > :19:49.and also the brain. For Lulu, one theory is that
:19:50. > :19:51.PCBs may have severely impaired her intelligence,
:19:52. > :19:53.perhaps leading to her deadly Here in the laboratory, the curing
:19:54. > :19:57.effect of heat is shown... PCBs were once man-made
:19:58. > :19:59.wonder chemicals. Used in everything from
:20:00. > :20:01.plastics to electrics. But it was later discovered
:20:02. > :20:03.they were toxic, and from the 1970s a series of bans around the world
:20:04. > :20:10.were put into place. Especially in landfill sites that
:20:11. > :20:13.contain the materials The chemicals are long-lasting,
:20:14. > :20:24.they do not break down easily. And it is estimated that there
:20:25. > :20:27.is still more than a million tonnes of contaminated material in Europe,
:20:28. > :20:29.and this is leaching from the land into the sea,
:20:30. > :20:32.and on into the marine food chain. Some scientists say more needs
:20:33. > :20:35.to be done to clear PCBs But UK officials say
:20:36. > :20:38.levels are declining. PCBs are of global concern,
:20:39. > :20:40.but with so few killer whales left in the UK,
:20:41. > :20:43.it is a problem It is likely the rest of Lulu's pod
:20:44. > :20:47.is also heavily contaminated, Lets return to our top story -
:20:48. > :20:55.French presidential candidates Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron
:20:56. > :20:57.are continuing a live televised debate ahead of Sunday's second
:20:58. > :21:21.round and final round of voting TRANSLATION: We had a European
:21:22. > :21:24.policy which worked. I want a Europe that goes faster, protects the
:21:25. > :21:32.bureaucratic, but we need globalisation. For 25 years you've
:21:33. > :21:39.been promising this social... Marine Le Pen... We've been the victim of
:21:40. > :21:47.massive decentralisation. The collapse of employment. The
:21:48. > :21:56.outsourcing on a massive scale. That is because the forms were not read.
:21:57. > :22:03.The French are in danger... Because of your policy. This is important.
:22:04. > :22:04.Yes, it is. If this government isn't...
:22:05. > :22:07.STUDIO: I'm joined by Agnes Poirier -
:22:08. > :22:15.journalist and broadcaster. They were talking about the EU when
:22:16. > :22:20.we last spoke, they still seem to be talking about it. Yes. A really
:22:21. > :22:26.contentious issue. Especially after Brexit. What's happened in the last
:22:27. > :22:30.few minutes is that Marine Le Pen, being extremely aggressive from the
:22:31. > :22:36.beginning of the debate with Emmanuel Macron, Emmanuel Macron
:22:37. > :22:41.perhaps a bit too sarcastic. But on the EU he really managed to show
:22:42. > :22:49.that she didn't know much about the economy. She said that France would
:22:50. > :22:54.leave the euro currency. But that the central bank would be able to
:22:55. > :22:58.trade in the euro. Then it lasted a long while but it wasn't clear, so
:22:59. > :23:05.she said there would be a referendum in the next few months about exiting
:23:06. > :23:08.the euro currency. But at the same time she would be renegotiating all
:23:09. > :23:18.of the treaties so that France would actually remain in the EU. It is
:23:19. > :23:22.quite vague. And she stumbled a bit and I think she lost some points. Is
:23:23. > :23:27.it possible, you've been watching from the beginning, to see who has
:23:28. > :23:39.the upper hand? I think Emmanuel Macron. She is a lawyer. She can
:23:40. > :23:44.debate extremely well, so this is a surprise. We were expecting her to
:23:45. > :23:49.come out on top. But she has been rehashing the past. Talking about
:23:50. > :23:51.the past rather than explaining her politics, her policies, her
:23:52. > :23:55.manifesto, and not looking forward to when she would become president.
:23:56. > :23:58.Some people have talked about nostalgia. But a galvanising support
:23:59. > :24:04.from some of her supporters, as well. In the last few minutes, lots
:24:05. > :24:09.of people talking about turnout. Emmanuel Macron is ahead in the
:24:10. > :24:13.polls by a good amount, approximately 20, but if the people
:24:14. > :24:21.don't turn out? That is the big unknown. Traditionally the French
:24:22. > :24:28.like voting. We are talking about participation. 80%, 87% in 2012.
:24:29. > :24:33.But, of course, if it is extremely high that might work in her
:24:34. > :24:40.advantage. So far the gap is so big between the two. It might narrow a
:24:41. > :24:49.bit. But for her to wind, you know, we would need a very high extension,
:24:50. > :24:54.perhaps 20% more than usual. -- but for her to win, you know, we would
:24:55. > :24:59.need a very high extension, perhaps 20% more than usual. Thanks very
:25:00. > :25:03.much. Thank you for spending some of your day with us on Outside Source.