24/04/2017 BBC News at One

The race for the French presidency - after the country's biggest

Independent centrist Emmanuel Macron faces

the Front National's Marine Le Pen in a fortnight after beating both

The result has led to big rises on European stock markets -

with polls predicting France will have its youngest

pro-European president in a fortnight.

Police have arrested a 21-year-old man after a former Royal Navy

officer was killed by burglars who ran him over with this own car.

Arthur Collins - boyfriend of reality TV

personality Ferne McCann - appears in court charged

over an acid attack which injured 20 people.

Jeremy Corbyn has promised to strengthen Britain's trade unions -

if he wins the general election in June.

And London Marathon's most heart warming moment -

the man who sacrificed his own race time to make sure this exhausted

I was, like, shouting in his ear saying

It's 200 metres, we will finish, I will stay with you.

Maybe I was a bit over zealous with my support.

No it was wonderful - it was needed - needed to hit

And coming up in the sport on BBC News:

Labelled the best player in history by his manager,

Lionel Messi scored his 500th goal for Barcelona in a dramatic

Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

It's the biggest political upset in France for 60 years.

For the first time neither of France's main left-wing

or right-wing parties has a candidate in the second

round of the presidential elections after they were both defeated

The independent centrist candidate, 39-year-old Emmanuel Macron only set

up his party a year ago - he will become the youngest

ever French president if he wins on May 7th.

But he's got to beat Marine Le Pen of the Front National,

who is campaigning against immigration,

Christian Fraser is in Paris for us this lunchtime.

Thank you very much, make no mistake, this was a full throated

rebuke of the system in France, the two parties who have ruled the

country for over 60 years since the founding of the fifth Republic

eliminated in the first round and the ruling Socialist party getting

just 6% of the vote. Lamentable. Out of the ashes of the old system

emerges the freshfaced Emmanuel Macron who would become the youngest

president since Napoleon proving there is an appetite for the centre

ground in Europe. And of course Marine Le Pen of the Front National

who is promising to free the French from the ruling elite. This was

still a populist vote but on this occasion it is no longer the

preserve of the right. Emmanuel Macron began his run-off

campaign this morning. His supporters believe he is now one

step away from winning the presidency. Fran is now prepares for

a choice between Macron and Marine Le Pen, pro-EU versus anti-EU.

Pro-immigration against anti-immigration. At the Macron

campaign headquarters supporters cheered candidate into the night.

This is the 39-year-old's first ever election. He is the newcomer, the

insider turned outsider, making it through to the next round and he is

now the favourite to become this country's next president.

TRANSLATION: In 15 days I want to become your president, the president

of all the French, the president of the Patriots to counter the threat

of the Nationalists. The Macron team give themselves time to celebrate

but they now have two focus on fighting the run-off. Of course we

feel the responsibility, it's a new page starting in this country and we

have Marine Le Pen in front of us so it is as we say, it's also about the

value, we want to defend. Marine Le Pen will dispute that. At her

victory rally she promised a real fight in the second round.

TRANSLATION: What I have to offer is a big change, a fundamental change,

and new way of doing politics. New faces in power and the renewal you

have been waiting for. Marine Le Pen won more votes than her party has

ever got before. Her supporters believe she can beat Macron. The

choice is clear, Macron is for globalisation, Marine Le Pen is for

a renewed France. We have a clear political choice and I believe we

will be able to explain that and that Marine Le Pen will gather the

patriotic vote. Her first stop this morning was a market in Northern

France. Opinion polls suggest she starts the run-off well behind

Emmanuel Macron. Marine Le Pen will want to make it a referendum on

patriotism, on Europe, on globalism. She is trying to repeat a little bit

the American campaign. Trump versus Clinton. The capital, here cleaning

anti-Le Pen graffiti, is already preparing for the second round.

A great deal of soul-searching on the right and left. This

right-leaning newspaper said that the rate has been KO'd -- the right.

Emmanuel Macron, former economy minister, this is the greatest

political hold-up of the century. Suggesting Emmanuel Macron was a

plant for the Socialists in the centre ground. Let's pick that up

with Nicholas Vinocur or from Politico Europe, has this been a

smart move, putting the man really can get the greatest votes? That is

what the right would want us to believe, that Macron is nothing more

than a plant, a proxy for the policies of Francois Hollande, but

I'm not sure that is a fair assessment. I think that tells us

more about how badly the right has been humiliated in this race, that

has run the country for most of the post-war period, deeply implanted

and lost their grip in power and this is the final dying gasp of the

establishment. The polls suggest the supporters of right and left will

come onto the side of Macron and he will win with about 60% of the vote

but he has to build a party to get his policies through after that.

This is the basic requirement if you want to reform the country, you have

to have a majority in parliament and for now we do not have enough

evidence to say Macron could build this majority. He promises to have

hundreds of new MPs in Parliament to bring in loads of people from the

right and the left but so far it's not proven and he will have to make

friends with this humiliated right-wing if he is going to have

any hope of doing it because many of those MPs are deeply implanted and

will get re-elected and Macron will have to win them over. Nicholas

Vinocur, thank you very much. Only 5% of Paris voted for Marine Le Pen,

in that statistic you can see how divided France is, over 40% of the

voters went for a Eurosceptic can do it with one in five seeing nothing

in 11 candidates worth voting for. Some deep searching to be done.

A 21 year-old man is being questioned by police investigating

the death of a former Royal Navy officer outside his

Mike Samwell - who was 35 - is thought to have been

run over by his own car as it was being stolen in the early

Danny Savage is in Chorlton in Manchester.

Mike Samwell was asleep at about three o'clock yesterday morning in

his terraced home here on the right behind me when he was woken up by

some sort of intruders or disturbance going on in his house.

It is understood he went downstairs to investigate and was involved in

an altercation with the people who work in or had been in his house. He

was involved in some confrontation with them then and an area behind

his terraced home where his car was parked. It appears that thieves had

got hold of his car keys, he was then run over by the vehicle as they

made their escape and that is when he sustained fatal injuries.

Neighbours talking about the awful scenes here, his wife Jessica

dashing out to comfort him after he had been run over. She was calling

for help. The emergency services were called but Mike Samwell did

about an hour later in hospital after undergoing treatment. The car

was found about three miles away, interesting language used by the

police yesterday. Asking for anyone with information to search their

conscience, saying it was more than, know and what had happened had

crossed the line. This morning Greater Manchester Police revealed

they had arrested a 21-year-old man who is now being questioned by

detectives. Throughout the day people have been leaving floral

tributes and messages, we had people from the sin Mariners association

because he was a former Royal Naval lieutenant, a sub mariner who served

in the Royal Navy for many years. He worked in engineering which is why

he was living here. Investigations continue.

The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has pledged to strengthen

Britain's trade unions, if he wins next month's

He told the Scottish Trades Union Congress in Aviemore

that their members "were the DNA" of the Labour Party.

Labour has one MP in Scotland, having lost 40 seats

Our assistant political editor Norman Smith is in Westminster.

You sense that the Conservatives are determined to try and make Jeremy

Corbyn's leadership the central issue of their campaign after Brexit

but the way they are doing it might surprise many viewers because here

we are on the first day of the first full week of the campaign and there

is pretty much no sight or sound of any senior Conservatives. Theresa

May is not out on a campaign visit, Cabinet ministers will not be

jostling to get on TV. The reason is they want to pretty much as they see

it leave Jeremy Corbyn swinging in the wind following his remarks

yesterday when he placed himself at odds with the party policy on

nuclear defence. At the same time Jeremy Corbyn has been focusing on

what might be regarded a core agenda of his, bolstering the positions of

trade unions saying all companies with public contracts should have to

recognise trade unions and calling for an enquiry into the actions of

Scottish police and their role during the miners strike. Listen to

what he has been seeing in the last few minutes.

Our aim is a country where everyone who can has the dignity of work -

and where everyone has a guarantee of dignity at work.

These are the kind of transformative policies that can change people's

Just like it's always been, only Labour will deliver for working

people, small businesses and vulnerable people.

None of the rest would even think of these policies

What is striking is that many previous Labour leaders have sought

to play down or distance themselves from the union movement but not so

Jeremy Corbyn and that underlines how far I think this is going to be

the Jeremy Corbyn campaign. Let's talk about Ukip, we are getting a

clearer idea today of what might be in their manifesto. Yesterday

launched their integration agenda, a series of measures designed to boost

predominantly the Muslim community integrating more into society.

Policies such as banning the burqa and sharia courts and a halt to

further Islamic State schools. But you sense Ukip are searching around

for a post-Brexit, post-Nigel Farage agenda and to some extent are on the

defensive and there was a farcical moment at the end of the press

conference when Paul Nuttall was barrage to and blockaded in a side

room after he refused to answer journalists questions over whether

he is even standing in their selection. Norman Smith, thank you.

Arthur Collins - the boyfriend of reality TV

personality Ferne McCann - will appear in court

later today charged over an acid attack in London.

20 people were injured at a nightclub over the Easter weekend.

Two have partially lost their sight.

Richard Galpin is at Thames Magistrates' Court

What happened in court? Yes, Arthur Collins and Andre Phoenix appearing

at the court here in the last hour. Collins appeared and was using

crutches and seemed to have difficulty standing when ordered by

the magistrates to stand up. And of course they confirmed their names

and addresses and ages. The charges they face, Arthur Collins facing 14

counts of previous bodily harm and one count of throwing acid with

intent to burn. Andre Phoenix facing seven counts of throwing a corrosive

substance with intent to burn. Both have been remanded in custody. These

charges are in relation to that attack, alleged acid attack at a

nightclub a week ago in east London where more than 20 people were

injured including two, a man and a women, who have both lost sight in

one eye. Thank you Richard. In Afghanistan the Defence Minister

and the Army Chief of Staff have both resigned after the Taliban

attack on a military base last week which left at least

a 140 soldiers dead - though some reports suggest that

figure is closer to 200. The attack - on the base

near Mazar-e-Sharif - was the deadliest ever

by the Taliban on a military base. Our correspondent Justin Rowlatt

was given exclusive access to the camp -

from where he sent this report. So we are the first journalists

to be allowed inside this space. This is one of two Ford Rangers

that the Taliban used to get inside. They were dressed as Afghan

soldiers, they had all One of them was even dressed up

as if he was injured. He had a bandage on his

head with blood on it. They managed to get through two

checkpoints dressed like that. When they were asked

to hand over their weapons, they started firing and then came

down here and that's One suicide bomber went in here,

this is the dining area. There were hundreds of people

in there having their lunch. He went in there

and blew himself up. The rest of the Taliban

force came through here It was just after Friday prayers,

so lots and lots of soldiers were coming out of here having

prayed in the mosque. You can begin to see some

of the gunfire here. But we go through into the mosque

here because this was the most A couple of the Taliban burst

through into the mosque here... They burst through into the mosque

here, coming through these doors. And once inside here,

they just opened fire and if you look around here,

you can see the walls We still don't know how many people

actually died in this attack. The official figure at the moment

still stands at 100, The commander described to me,

the commander of the base, described a really

intense battle here. He said it lasted just

over three hours. It was very difficult to fight

here because of course they were in danger of injuring

their own people. When I asked him what lessons

there were from this attack, He said, first of all,

the Taliban cannot be No true Muslim would attack his

fellow Muslims praying in a mosque The second thing he said,

he said his troops are even more determined now to fight back

and fight the Taliban. Justin Rowlatt, BBC News,

Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. Political outsiders Emmanuel Macron

and Marine Le Pen have beaten both mainstream parties to qualify

for the final run-off in a fortnight's time to become

the next French President. And still to come: We catch up

with the two runners who created that defining image of yesterday's

London Marathon. Manchester United striker

Zlatan Ibrahimovic says he will "come back even stronger"

after suffering cruciate He's expected to be out for up

to nine months but says "giving Four drivers have admitted falling

asleep while operating trams in Croydon in South London,

where seven people were killed after a tram derailed

in November last year. A BBC investigation has also

discovered a failure with a safety device that was not reported

to the regulator and three The tram operators said

they were satisfied the controls were safe and driver

fatigue was monitored. Our Special Correspondent

Ed Thomas reports. The Sandylands disaster -

here, seven people were killed, It's happened to me

once in ten years. How many drivers do you think have

fallen asleep in the cabin? I would have to say

most drivers have He's admitting what

many would consider It is called the traction

brake controller or TBC - the driving lever

that powers the tram. Inside, the safety device known

as the dead man's handle. This driver says when he fell

asleep it didn't work. Was there an alarm?

No. Was there any emergency braking?

No, none whatsoever. That was enough to keep the dead

man's handle from being activated. Why aren't drivers telling

the operators what's going wrong? If we were to come forward and say,

"Excuse me, I fell asleep", Four drivers have told the BBC

they'd fallen asleep in the cab. And they asked us to watch

this footage again - a tram driver who appears

to be asleep. There's no alarm,

no emergency brakes. He's coming to and starting to doze,

and coming to and starting to doze. Why was there no alarm?

Why was there no braking? If he were to completely

pass out, if he were to completely lose consciousness,

then he would relax his grip. But it's OK just to

slightly doze in and out, The company who operates the trams

for TFL, Tram Operations Limited, says driver

fatigue is monitored. And on the driver's safety device,

says it is satisfied the controls We can also reveal at least three

trams have been recorded speeding One was travelling at 65 kilometres

per hour in a 40 zone. The operator told us

it had increased speed And still waiting for answers,

the families of those who died. What is the one question

you want answering? Investigators are trying

to answer that question - to piece together a disaster that

changed so many lives. The government is trying to delay

the publication of a report on tackling air pollution

until the autumn - despite a court deadline for ministers

to outline their plans by today. The government has asked the High

court to extend publication of how it intends to comply with EU

legislation on air pollution - I'm joined by our Environment

Analyst Roger Harrabin. This has been delayed for many

years? The government should have complied by 2010 and there are

thousands of deaths which have been associated with air pollution in the

UK every year and the government should have published their new

guidelines to sort the problem out. The issue is contentious because,

you going to start taxing diesel drivers more, for instance? It has

suited the government to delay, but the court has said they have got to

publish by today at the very latest but then on Friday they have said

they cannot publish today because of the election guidelines ruling that

you cannot publish sensitive stuff just before the election. The people

who have brought this case against a government, they smell a rat and

they think this is just another way of the government trying to extend

the deadline even further. Who is likely to win this? In the short

term the government are more likely to win, because Kleinberg are faced

with a difficult situation, can they asked the judge to rule against the

government on this? When they know the government is going to push

until at least after the election at least and I think that the

government will win in the short-term. But in the long term I

think the populace of UK will win. Thanks for joining us.

Six months ago the make-shift camp, known as the Jungle

The French authorities say there are only about 100 migrants

But a report seen by the BBC claims that figure is four times higher

and suggests that more than a third of the children sleeping rough

Graham Satchell has been to Northern France to see the impact

Six months after the Jungle closed, the centre of Calais

The port, so long the destination for migrants, is running normally.

Wtih lorries, before we had 8,000 migrants per month

The Jungle was home to some 10,000 migrants.

It came to be seen by the authorities as a magnet for people

You know, I've had bottles, rocks, bricks thrown at the truck before.

When he crosses the border into France, Jacob won't stop.

Although it's safer getting in and out of France,

the problem now is that you don't feel safe in more areas of France.

On the corner of an industrial estate in Calais, a nightly

Charities, many of them British, hand out food

Most are teenagers without their parents,

You want to go to England? Yes.

And do you have family there? Yes, my uncle.

Why do you not stay here and claim asylum here in France?

You don't like to stay in France? Yes.

A report out today from the refugee Rights Data Project

says there are about 400 migrants in Calais today,

Public opinion has hardened to all forms of migration,

but Michael McHugh from the Refugee Youth Service says

It is not about what people want or don't want.

We have tens of thousands of children moving across Europe.

There is a legal right for many of these children to go to the UK

30 minutes from Calais, this is what's left of another

It burnt down after a fight between rival groups

This is where many migrants came when the Jungle was closed.

The French government had plans in place to dismantle this

The government wants to pretend that the problem does not exist

and their strategy is to destroy the places where people live,

thinking that if we destroy their places and they have no places

Just after 7 in Calais, the police move in.

The French determined another camp will not be established.

The problem here has been alleviated but not solved.

As the weather improves, thousands of migrants

are already on the move across the Middle East and Africa.

Many will make it here in the hope of getting to the UK.

And finally, the London marathon - almost 40,000 people

took part yesterday - but it was these two who summed up

Heading down the Mall about to finish the marathon

in under 2 hours 50 minutes - Matthew Rees saw an exhausted runner

and decided to stop and help - almost dragging him over

Dan Johnson caught up with them both this morning.

After a test of endurance it was a moment of kindness that summed up

the marathon's spirit shared by so many. How are you feeling? With sore

legs and swirling social media the IT manager from Manchester and the

banker from Swansea spoke about those last few tough and tired steps

to the finish. I was just trying to get to the line. My body went and I

went to the ground. So, yet, it was really desperate. I saw him in the

distance as I was about to spring, his legs were jelly but he said he

was determined to finish and then his legs went again and I realised I

was going to have to stay with him to make sure he did it. I didn't

really think about it. When someone is in need you want to help them

out. It was important that he got to the finish line after coming 26

miles and there was only 20 metres left. What did you say to him? I was

shouting in his air, saying, come on, you can do this, it's 200

metres, we will finish fourth of high will stay with you. Maybe a --

I was a bit overzealous with my support. I needed it. You were

telling him to carry on? Yes, because we had never met and I did

not know what his aspirations were for the day. I just wanted him to

finishes race. Matthew was clear in knowing that if he leaves me,

there's a chance they will whisk me off and not get me to the finish.

And that is so nice. Such a gentleman for doing that. Roles were

reversed, would you have done the same thing? My goodness, you are the

first person to ask me that and that is such a good question. I have not

given that any thought. I would love to think I would. I'm sure he would

have. Yeah, but it was special, what he did. And the crowd loved it, the

Royals cheering them home, these are two competitive runners who have

both put in good times, under three hours. What the general public see

is the spirit and this happens all over the place, it just happens

there were quite a few cameras trained on that. At that point,

capturing that moment. But it happens everywhere up and down the

country. The friendship formed, more races to come, maybe next time the

good Samaritan will even finish ahead, because it was the man on his

last legs who officially crossed the line first. But taking part is more

important than winning, right? They have already shown that.

Winter has returned. I'm going to get out of the way. This picture

could almost be green in, but this is Shetland, be very far north of

the country. Some other pictures coming, this is from Aberdeen, heavy

snow falling. Most of us will not be getting this kind of weather in the

next couple of days. But it will be cold, especially at night, with

frosts on the way for the wintry showers will make their presence

felt across the UK quite widely. Hailstorm 's as well. The arctic

blast sets in. This is what it looks like through the afternoon, be cold

front, everywhere to the north of the line is arctic ire STUDIO:

Air. -- arctic air. I would not be surprised if there is some sleet and

hail showers coming through. Winds have been up to gale force so it

feels cold. Not so bad in Yorkshire. This is the buffer zone between the

milder air and the arctic air, and so in the South, if you feel it

doesn't feel so cold, that is right, because the cold air has not reached

you. It will filter down through the course of the day. In the North it

feels like it is around freezing and in the south it feels like around

11-12. Tonight the cold front has finally gone through and we are in

the cold arctic air mass, the skies have cleared. Not just snow showers,

these are high will showers and sleet showers. We will call them

collectively wintry. Pretty chilly tomorrow morning, just a few degrees

above freezing even in the middle of town. Some showers from the word go

in the North, these wintry showers with hailstones, moving to the

south, they will be some rumbles of blunder. The temperatures do not

look very low, but if you are caught in the hail storm, the temperatures

will drop rapidly. And it will feel like it is around freezing.

Wednesday will start to feel less cold. Still a chance of some rain

showers and maybe thunderstorms, but it will start to feel a bit less

cold. By the time we get to Thursday and Friday, the mild Atlantic air

will settle the kit will feel chilly, but we are not talking about

desperately arctic weather. It will feel pretty chilly in the wind and

the showers, though. A reminder of our main

story this lunchtime. The race for the French presidency -

Emmanuel Macron - faces