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The two contenders for the French presidency are going head-to-head in

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a live televised debate. 20 million viewers are expected

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to tune in as centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron and his far-right

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rival Marine Le Pen try to convince undecided voters why they should be

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the next French President. As the UK gears up for its own

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election, the gloves are off over Brexit talks.

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Threats against Britain have been issued by European

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All of these acts have been deliberately timed to affect

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the result of the general election that will take place on June eight.

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the Palestinian President to the White House and says

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he serious about peace in the Middle East.

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We want to create peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

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We'll be working so hard to get it done.

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And if you want to get in touch with us -

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Let's return to our top story - French presidential candidates

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Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron have just begun a live televised

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debate ahead of Sunday's second round and final round of voting

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TRANSLATION: The French believed you were something new. When, in fact,

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the candidate who has been chosen by the Socialist party, and Francois

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Hollande. There are 30 seconds between the two of you. We will talk

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about Europe and what happens at the international level. It deserves

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that we should talk seriously about that situation. Perhaps we should

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separate you both. Europe, two radically different views on it.

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Give us your definition of Europe tomorrow.

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STUDIO: You are watching a little bit of that debate.

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I'm joined by Agnes Poirier - journalist and broadcaster.

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She is tied jesting and dissecting everything that is happening firm

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nearly two and a half hours of that debate. What has struck you in the

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past few minutes? It is a heated debate. They talk over each other.

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They really do. Yes, a lot. At the beginning of the debate she was not

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in her best form. The economy isn't her topic now. It went to social

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affairs, to retirement age, to terrorism, to security, and this is

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her favourite topic. She is good on those questions. Emmanuel Macron was

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on the defensive, so she gained traction. Now as we speak they are

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talking about Europe. I'm looking forward to that... That is where the

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stark difference is between those candidates. It is everything that

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opposes them, really. Especially with Brexit. It will be watched

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closely. He is for an open Europe, opened in France, and she is for

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exiting it. Not only the European currency, but in time the European

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Union. We will see what they have to say on the subject. They still have

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an hour to go. What do you think people are looking for? With both

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met people who are undecided and thinking about casting a white

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ballot, which means they find both of them disagreeable and they cannot

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vote for either, what do you think? -- we have both met people who are

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undecided. It has happened in the past. You can

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be on the right wing and still be generous. It is part of the National

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Theatre. It is a pantomime. But sometimes important things are being

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said. Sometimes it is convincing the undecided. That is the key of the

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debate. They've almost got another hour. Thank you for watching for us.

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That is our top story, the French election, and that voting taking

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place on Sunday. Let's move to this man who won his election.

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Donald Trump has met with the President of

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the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas.

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Here are some of the pictures we've had into the building.

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Donald Trump has expressed pro-Israel views

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throughout his Presidency - but also claimed that he is

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the man that can bring peace to the middle east.

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We can listen to Donald Trump first. We want to create peace between

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Israel and the Palestinians. We will get it done. We will be working so

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hard to get it done. It's been a hard time. We will be working

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diligently and I think we have a good chance, and I think you feel

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the same way. We can bring in our correspondent from Washington. It

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seems convivial, friendly, but was there any real concrete changes of

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policy coming from the White House today? There wasn't really a policy

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announcement. It was more like an announcement of intent. You heard

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Donald Trump talking about the US and commitment to try to get a peace

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deal between Israelis and Palestinians. He said he would

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pursue that. He said he was confident he could achieve it. But

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he didn't say how he was going to do that. He didn't give a starting

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point, a goal, or what an outcome would look like. He said he would

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facilitate, arbitrate, Mediate, but he didn't say for example he would

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be pursuing a two state solution, which is what the goal of US policy

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has been previously under previous administrations. Mahmoud Abbas did

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bring it up, he said that would be a way of getting an agreement with

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East Jerusalem as its capital. We East Jerusalem as its capital. We

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don't know what Trump has in mind. He says he wants whatever the two

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sides want. Incredibly complex and difficult resolution to come to. But

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Mahmoud Abbas isn't popular at home as a leader even if he were to make

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some progress. He is unpopular in the West Bank. Palestinians believe

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his government is corrupt. Senior strategists haven't achieved peace.

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They believe he should hold elections because he has been in

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power for 12 years. He's struggling there. He is also being challenged

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by another popular Palestinian leader, who is leading a hunger

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strike at the moment. That is something Mahmoud Abbas has to face,

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as well. And he's in a power struggle with Hamas. He is funding

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the electricity in Gaza and other things. That is increased tensions.

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And it highlights that the Palestinians are split when it comes

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to governments. He'd struggle in terms of his legitimacy, but I think

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that's one reason why this visit of the White House was important for

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him to have Mr Trump endorse him as the Palestinian leader who wants to

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work with. And Mr Trump said he supported him. And that a special

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partnership was necessary to achieved peace. Thank you very much.

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This is Ghanaian footballer Sulley Muntari.

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He's just been banned for one match - his wrongdoing?

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Protesting against racial abuse he received during

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Tulsen Tollett joins me from the BBC Sport Centre.

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Give us a little more of the context. During the game, Pescara

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lost the match. During the match Ding was given racial abuse. He went

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to challenge it after the match. -- during the match Sulley Muntari

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was given racial abuse. He went to challenge the fans afterwards.

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Sometimes normality and sport doesn't go hand-in-hand. The Italian

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authorities have said only ten people were racially abusing Sulley

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Muntari and that is why they cannot take action. I don't know weather

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that makes a difference. If ten people in the street were doing

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that, what would happen? Those are the kinds of questions which will be

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asked. And some are asking others to boycott this weekend, is that right?

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Any self-respecting backplane and any player should boycott matches

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this weekend, according to the leader of the Kick It Out campaign.

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Really interesting. Thank you. I want to turn to these women now...

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All this week the BBC is profiling all the nominees for BBC

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Today we take a closer look at Swedish goal

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My name is Hedvig Lindahl. I would like you to vote for me for the

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women's Footballer of the Year if you think I'm worth it. I was four

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when I joined in for my first proper training session.

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Stay with us. Still to come: The German defence minister is in hot

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water after criticising the leadership of the leader of the

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army. Whilst the Brexit debate

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continues Labour has The party has pledged to halt

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closures of hospital services. Protests against NHS

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closures are nothing new, but in some communities

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like Huddersfield, concerns This protest last autumn

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was in reaction to plans to remove Campaigners say people will suffer

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because of longer journey times. Patients are going to be dispersed

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all around the north of the country. Those will involve longer trips

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and the longer the trip, the more danger there

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is in the situation. Labour's John Ashworth,

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at a meeting of activists from Huddersfield and around

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Yorkshire, said he wanted to halt closures, specifically by stalling

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NHS reform plans in England. We're saying, let's

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have a moratorium on them and let's step back

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and have a full review of them. When we review them,

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let's involve clinicians, but let's So far, they have been cut

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out of the decisions, The NHS reform documents are known

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as sustainability and transformation plans and have been published in 44

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areas across England. Some involve hospital bed cuts

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and service reductions, with funds reinvested

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in community care. The Southwest London plan involves

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the possible reduction of five Local campaigners say this one,

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St Helier, faces closure. But the plan's authors say that

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resources will be shifted into local area teams involving GPs,

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social care staff and nurses, providing care closer

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to people's homes. For the Conservatives,

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Jeremy Hunt said in a written statement that Labour's

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plan was nonsensical as the party He said they were supported by top

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doctors and nurses in the NHS The Liberal Democrats said

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the real issue was lack If there is not enough

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money in the system, however you rejig those services,

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you're never going to be able to provide the quality

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of care that is needed. That's why as a party,

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the Liberal Democrats are calling for significant investment to be

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made in the NHS. NHS leaders say in response

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to rising patient demand and stretched resources,

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the plans are all about treating Whoever is in government can expect

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more intense political This is Outside Source live

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from the BBC newsroom. The two contenders for the French

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presidency are going head-to-head in a live televised debate ahad

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of Sunday's final round of voting. German Defence Minister Ursula von

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der Leyen has provoked an angry response from politicians

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and military figures after she criticised

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the leadership in the army. She was speaking after a lieutenant

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was arrested on suspicion Allegations are that the soldier

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used a fake identity to register as a Syrian refugee in preparation

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for an attack under disguise. Von der Leyen said his superior

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officers had looked the other way and that the army had

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an "attitude problem," "a misunderstood esprit de corps,"

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and "apparently weak leadership We can hear more from the BBC's

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Jenny hill. Germany has been transfixed by this rather strange

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tale concerning a soldier who the authorities are naming only as

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Franco A. He is a soldier in the German army. He is also alleged to

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have posed for almost two years as a Syrian refugee at the same time as

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trying to put together, it is alleged, a right-wing extremist

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terror attack. That never came to fruition. The police managed to

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intervene before that. It has caused real scandal because it has

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transpired that he was part of the German Army and they were reportedly

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warned about his right-wing extremist tendencies some time ago.

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They did nothing about it, apparently. Investigators are now

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looking at the possibility that he may have been part of a right-wing

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extremist cell, containing at least two other soldiers. That

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investigation is ongoing. At the same time there are political

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ramifications, too. The German defence minister is now under

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pressure after she criticised the German army for its handling of the

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case and in particular single out its leadership. That has upset the

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military top brass. -- in particular is singled out its leadership, which

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has upset the military top brass. She had to cancel a meeting in the

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US with her American counterpart. Instead she flew to the barracks in

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France where the soldier had previously been stationed to try and

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sort out all of this. I suspect she wants to do something about the

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investigation. It's not for the first time we are seeing headlines

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about her under pressure. She has inherited, as defence minister, a

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military which is generally considered to be, in terms of

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personnel and equipment, pretty much below par. She is often the subject

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of attacks from the military. But perhaps there has never been a row

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as bitter as this one. Nevertheless, she appears to have the full support

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of Angela Merkel whose spokesman today said she stood fully behind

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Ursula. Thank you. The world's killer whales

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are in trouble, especially around Scientists have found that

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one of the UK's last resident killer whales -

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who was found dead on the shores of Scotland last year -

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had record amounts of a banned toxic Scientists say the levels

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of the man-made chemicals known as PCBs were among

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the highest ever recorded. Our science correspondent

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Rebecca Morelle has more. They are the UK's

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last killer whales. Found off the west coast

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of Scotland, today this pod Lulu was found dead on the shores

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of the inner Hebrides. She'd become caught

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up in fishing line. Her skeleton is now stored

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at the National Museum Scotland. Tests showed she was heavily

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contaminated with man-made The levels that we found in Lulu

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were 20 times higher than the levels we would expect in citations that

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weren't suffering That puts her as one of the most

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contaminated animals on the planet. In killer whales, the chemicals can

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stop the animals from bearing young. They harm the immune system,

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and also the brain. For Lulu, one theory is that

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PCBs may have severely impaired her intelligence,

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perhaps leading to her deadly Here in the laboratory, the curing

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effect of heat is shown... PCBs were once man-made

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wonder chemicals. Used in everything from

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plastics to electrics. But it was later discovered

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they were toxic, and from the 1970s a series of bans around the world

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were put into place. Especially in landfill sites that

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contain the materials The chemicals are long-lasting,

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they do not break down easily. And it is estimated that there

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is still more than a million tonnes of contaminated material in Europe,

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and this is leaching from the land into the sea,

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and on into the marine food chain. Some scientists say more needs

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to be done to clear PCBs But UK officials say

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levels are declining. PCBs are of global concern,

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but with so few killer whales left in the UK,

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it is a problem It is likely the rest of Lulu's pod

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is also heavily contaminated, Lets return to our top story -

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French presidential candidates Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron

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are continuing a live televised debate ahead of Sunday's second

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round and final round of voting TRANSLATION: We had a European

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policy which worked. I want a Europe that goes faster, protects the

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bureaucratic, but we need globalisation. For 25 years you've

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been promising this social... Marine Le Pen... We've been the victim of

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massive decentralisation. The collapse of employment. The

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outsourcing on a massive scale. That is because the forms were not read.

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The French are in danger... Because of your policy. This is important.

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Yes, it is. If this government isn't...

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STUDIO: I'm joined by Agnes Poirier -

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journalist and broadcaster. They were talking about the EU when

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we last spoke, they still seem to be talking about it. Yes. A really

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contentious issue. Especially after Brexit. What's happened in the last

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few minutes is that Marine Le Pen, being extremely aggressive from the

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beginning of the debate with Emmanuel Macron, Emmanuel Macron

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perhaps a bit too sarcastic. But on the EU he really managed to show

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that she didn't know much about the economy. She said that France would

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leave the euro currency. But that the central bank would be able to

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trade in the euro. Then it lasted a long while but it wasn't clear, so

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she said there would be a referendum in the next few months about exiting

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the euro currency. But at the same time she would be renegotiating all

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of the treaties so that France would actually remain in the EU. It is

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quite vague. And she stumbled a bit and I think she lost some points. Is

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it possible, you've been watching from the beginning, to see who has

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the upper hand? I think Emmanuel Macron. She is a lawyer. She can

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debate extremely well, so this is a surprise. We were expecting her to

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come out on top. But she has been rehashing the past. Talking about

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the past rather than explaining her politics, her policies, her

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manifesto, and not looking forward to when she would become president.

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Some people have talked about nostalgia. But a galvanising support

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from some of her supporters, as well. In the last few minutes, lots

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of people talking about turnout. Emmanuel Macron is ahead in the

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polls by a good amount, approximately 20, but if the people

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don't turn out? That is the big unknown. Traditionally the French

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like voting. We are talking about participation. 80%, 87% in 2012.

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But, of course, if it is extremely high that might work in her

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advantage. So far the gap is so big between the two. It might narrow a

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bit. But for her to wind, you know, we would need a very high extension,

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perhaps 20% more than usual. -- but for her to win, you know, we would

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need a very high extension, perhaps 20% more than usual. Thanks very

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much. Thank you for spending some of your day with us on Outside Source.

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