08/05/2017 BBC News at One

Newly-elected President Emmanuel Macron vows to fight the forces

He says he wants to ensure that those who voted

for Marine Le Pen would "no longer have a reason to vote

We'll be getting the latest live from Paris and asking

what his election could mean for Britain's Brexit negotiations.

Theresa May suggests the Conservatives will again promise

to cut net migration to the "tens of thousands" in their

Labour targets children's health and says it will ban all junk food

Ten tips on how to spot fake news - Facebook launches a national

campaign advising what to look out for when deciding if

The beach that washed away 33 years ago reappears overnight -

And coming up in sport later in the hour on BBC News:

Chelsea can take another step towards the title tonight

as their midfielder N'Golo Kante wins the Football Writers'

Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

Emmanuel Macron says a new page is being turned

in the history of France - after his decisive victory

over Marine Le Pen in the presidential election.

To the undoubted relief of other European leaders,

the pro-EU candidate won by 66% to 34% to become, at 39,

It's the first time in decades that the election has been won

by someone who's not a member of the two traditional main

Our correspondent Christian Fraser is in Paris.

Good afternoon. Welcome to Paris. Emmanuel Macron has fulfilled his

first ceremonial role here he stood alongside the outgoing president at

the tomb of the unknown soldier. Together they marked the 72nd

anniversary of victory in Europe. A few years ago Francois Hollande

named Emmanuel Macron as his economic advisor. Perhaps this is

the moment the apprentice became the master. Francois Hollande put a

reassuring hand on the back of Emmanuel Macron. Perhaps he doesn't

need that, but it is a reminder of the task he faces. James Reynolds

reports. Emmanuel Macron, the election

winner, now prepares to lead his This morning in Paris,

he joined the outgoing President Francois Hollande at

the ceremony to mark VE Day. The horror of the Second

World War convinced old enemies France and Germany

to form an alliance which then became

It's a struggling project which the new

Emmanuel Macron now inherits one of the most

powerful positions in

Europe and all of the symbolism that goes with it.

He becomes the youngest French leader since

Napoleon whose own battles are remembered here.

The crowds knows that the new leader will face

French people hope that he will change a lot of

things, maybe it will be tough for him but we hope that.

TRANSLATION: It's not going to be easy but I hope

But above all I hope he won't forget the

I'm not sure he's very coherent in his ideas.

The idea of being neither from left nor

World leaders have sent Mr Macron their congratulations.

Theresa May says that she looks forward to

working with him on a wide range of shared priorities.

Trump says that he too very much looks forward to

Germany's Angela Merkel described his election

as a victory for a strong and united Europe.

And Russia's President Putin calls on France's new leader to

bridge the divide between Moscow and Paris.

In the hours after the polls closed in between those many

telephone calls with world leaders Emmanuel Macron celebrated with his

TRANSLATION: What we've done for so many months, there's no

comparison, there's no equivalents to that.

Everybody was saying to us it was impossible.

But they didn't know anything about France.

At night Mr Macron's defeated opponent Marine

She insist that she is now the main opposition force in France.

She'll prepare for the next election in

Emmanuel Macron will know that he has little time to

He's promised to set the direction of both his country and

We have a senior figure with us, the head of the employers association.

Good afternoon to you. Is the business community excited by

Emmanuel Macron's election? I think it is good news for France and

Europe. He is a young guy, probusiness and pro-Europe. I think

it is good news. There are 5 million people unemployed in France, one in

four Under-25-year-olds. Why will his platform get through when a few

years ago he had to water it down. He announced the reforms and he

knows the rigidity of the labour in France. I think he has to make more

agility and flexibility for companies and more training and

education for the people, for the employers. He doesn't have a party.

He has a party in En Marche. He said he will force through things with a

presidential decree, is that wise? Yes, in this programme, he has been

elected with two thirds of the voters, which is big. With that you

have to discuss with the unions, but I think he has, he does haven't to

wait. We have to do the things and the reforms. Thank you. One line of

breaking news for you Emmanuel Macron's inauguration will be on

Sunday, which is unusual. But Francois Hollande's time runs out at

midnight. Then they will go to see French troops in Mali and the visit

to German to meet the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel.

So what will the election of Emmanual Macron mean

France is one of the pivotal players in the European Union and Mr Macron

will play a key role in upcoming Brexit talks.

This morning, President Macron's chief economic adviser told the BBC

that Mr Macron would be a hard negotiator, but he wouldn't

want to punish Britain for its decision to leave the EU.

Chris Morris looks at what kind of negotiating position

the new French president is likely to take.

So the first thing you need to know about Emmanuel Macron is that he is

He campaigned on an overtly pro-EU platform.

Is that likely to make him a tough nut to crack when it comes

But France was always likely to play that role.

If you look at some of the things he said on Brexit during

the campaign, though, the language is pretty striking.

In one interview he called Brexit a crime and said,

"What's going to happen is not taking back

Let's have a listen to the most recent comments he's made in the

What the UK is experiencing is precisely the fact

that Brexit is not a walk in the park.

That's extremely complicated on a financial basis and that's

extremely complicated in terms of organisation and consequences.

But don't forget that Brexit is not at

He's vowed to reform France and if possible in partnership

with Germany to reform the EU, plenty to be

Then of course there will be a French parliamentary

election in June, so he will be paying far more attention to that

than to the start of negotiations on Brexit.

But he will campaign for the rights of French citizens in the UK.

He would like financial firms to move from London to Paris.

And one other issue he's talked about, a

reform of the Le Touquet agreement, this is the deal under which British

immigration checks take place in Calais on French soil.

Now, it's not an EU agreement, it's a bilateral one.

But it will play into the Brexit debate and the Prime Minister

has been talking about it this morning.

And as for the Le Touquet agreement, actually it works for

both the benefit of the UK and France.

And obviously in the Government that is elected after the

8th of June we will be sitting down talking to Mr Macron and others

So, plenty of challenges ahead but it is also

election of Mr Macron will increase the confidence of EU insiders,

especially when you consider what the alternative could have been,

however unlikely, a President who would have been fundamentally

anti-EU and would have plunged the whole project into chaos.

Now, we have heard a lot here about the need

It could be that a stronger and more stable EU will be a better

negotiating partner for the UK in the months to come.

Theresa May has said that leaving the European Union will help the UK

achieve a target of reducing annual net migration to the

The target, set by David Cameron in 2010, has never been met -

and recent figures put annual net migration at 273 thousand -

but the BBC understands the pledge will be included

in the Conservative election manifesto.

Mrs May told supporters migration levels were having

an impact on public services and low-paid workers.

Our political correspondent Chris Mason reports.

Immigration, the issue that for many was crucial in

last year's EU referendum and 12 months on its back in this year's

We will continue to say that we do want to bring net

migration down to sustainable levels.

We believe that is the tens of thousands.

And, of course, once we leave the European Union we will

have the opportunity to ensure that we have

control of our borders here

If all this feels a tad familiar, well, that's because it is.

Net migration is the number of people coming to the UK to minus the

Here is the Conservative manifesto from 2010.

It says we will take steps to take net

migration back to tens of thousands a year,

Fast forward five years to the 2015 Conservative

We will keep our ambition of delivering annual net migration

The nearest they came was in 2012 at 177,000.

And the furthest was in 2015 at 332,000.

The target is unlikely to be met with the current policies

So quite aside from the Brexit scenario non-EU net

migration currently stands at around 165,000.

So that alone is 65,000 over the net migration target.

Ukip, crushed in last week's local elections, want to sound much,

much tougher than the Tories and have an

immigration policy where it would be one in one out.

I can announce today that Ukip will go into this election

with a policy of balanced migration, which means zero net immigration

The SNP and the Liberal Democrats said

economic interests should drive immigration policy.

Labour accused the Conservatives of a

Our assistant political editor Norman Smith is in Westminster.

Why is Theresa May sticking to this? It is unusual, usually when

politicians get in difficulty, they quibble over the wording or try to

sweep it under the carpet. Theresa May is doing the opposite and saying

I'm sticking with the pledge, although she has nowhere near

meeting it. Net migration is 273,000 and many of her colleagues are

saying this is impossible. The reason she is sticking with it is

personal I believe because this is a pledge she is identified with. She

has never backed off from it. Even when her colleagues said let's take

students out of the number. She said, no that, that would be seen as

fiddling the figure. She fears if she rips up the pledge it will be

seen as her backing down. And politically we know immigration was

at the heart of Brexit referendum, I feel she thinks she Hawesn't have

the does haven't the scope to back off. But when pressed she did not

put a day on this target. The question is, is it a pledge or just

an aspiration, an ambition, a promise to be delivered maybe some

time in the future. Interesting recording emerging of Liberal

Democrat candidate Vince Cable. Yes Vince Cable suggesting that in those

constituencies where perhaps the Liberal Democrat candidate didn't

really have much of a chance, perhaps a good idea for Liberal

Democrat supporters just to back off to let the anti-Tory candidate have

a better chance of winning. This of course as we know various Labour and

Green politicians also suggesting there should be tackical anti-Tory

voting. Questionable how much impact it would have. But one thing is

likely is that the Tories will seize on the remarks to say, here is the

coalition of chaos, the other parties banding together to propel

Jeremy Corbyn into No 10 Downing Street. Thank you.

Labour have been setting out plans to tackle childhood obesity -

by banning TV adverts for junk food during all programming before

At the moment, products high in fat, salt or sugar are banned

from being advertised around children's TV programmes.

The party says the proposal forms part of a future child health bill

that will be outlined in its election manifesto.

This is going to be a very green smoothie.

Shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth being taught how to

make a smoothie by pupils at a London school, part of Labour's

bid to prove it has the solution for

We want to have the healthiest children in the world.

Now, yes, that's an ambitious target but to be frank,

I'm ambitious for the children of this country.

Labour's election pledge is ambitious.

It's promising to halve the number of overweight

children within ten years, to set up a ?250 million fund to pay for

nurses and counsellors in schools and to ban junk food adverts from

all TV programmes before the 9pm watershed.

That would affect shows including The X Factor

and Britain's Got Talent which are popular with children.

Labour says it would reduce their exposure to

It's a laudable idea but I can't see it

making much difference, to be honest.

The stuff's still in the supermarkets, it's

I don't think it will make a whole lot of difference.

I think the kids are eating too much junk anyway.

If it's not in their heads they probably

won't go looking for it when they are in the supermarket.

Advertising is really powerful, isn't it?

So, yeah, it probably is a good idea.

Labour also promised help for adults today with an end to NHS car park

charges for patients, visitors and NHS staff, to be paid for by

increasing the tax on private health insurance.

If you visit a hospital because you want to look after an

elderly relative or give support to a friend, or go there in an

emergency I don't think you should be charged for doing so.

The Lib Dems said hospital parking charges

get to grips with the funding crisis in health.

But the Conservatives raised doubts that Labour would be

able to deliver free car parks or its promises to improve

children's health because, it said, Jeremy

Corbyn would risk weakening the economy.

The BBC has unveiled details of its General Election

David Dimbleby will host two Question Time Specials

in which leaders will face audience questions and there will also

be a seven-way debate with senior party figures.

Our media correspondent David Sillito is here to explain.

No empty chairs? Absolutely. Both BBC and ITV from the outset said

they wanted there to be an election leaders' debate, remember the one in

2010 with David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Gordon Brown. That's not going

to happen, as far as we can tell at the moment so far. ITV said they

still want to press ahead with a debate but they haven't finalised

who will take part. These are the BBC's plans. A series of two

Question Time specials, the first featuring Theresa May and Jeremy

Corbyn in the same programme but not sharing the stage. They will appear

consecutively facing questions from the audience, and then there will be

another Question Time special two days later with other party leaders

appearing on election questions later in the evening. The leaders

will face interviews from Andrew Neil, and also on the one show that

will feature Theresa May and her husband Philip as well. And then

there will be this seven way debate featuring senior party figures. And

also another radio one debate. So that's it, ten hours of coverage on

the BBC but not the debate that they wanted to have with the party

leaders. David, thank you very much. It is

coming up to 1:20pm. The top story this lunchtime.

Newly-elected President Emmanuel Macron vows to ensure that those

who backed far-right Marine Le Pen would "no longer have a reason

I'm standing in the bed of what is, or rather was, the Reveco in

Hertfordshire. The dry weather means there is a lot of concern about

river levels around the country. The water company here says we can all

do our bit to preserve supplies. Coming up in sport in the next 15

minutes on BBC News: Maria Sharapova is one win away

from a place in Wimbledon qualifying But she faces Eugenie Bouchard in

Madrid, woman who wants her banned for life.

Facebook has placed adverts in British newspapers with ten tips

The website has also closed thousands of accounts

linked to false stories - ahead of the general

The company advises users to "be sceptical of headlines" and to check

The move comes as increasing numbers of people use the site as one

This report from our technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones.

It's a term that became familiar during last year's American

presidential election. Fake news stories made up to make money or act

as political propaganda. And its Facebook which has taken much of the

blame for spreading stories such as these. Now the social network says

it's doing everything it can to tackle the problem in the UK. With

these newspaper adverts part of that effort. Facebook says it is to bring

up the battle against fake news. It is giving its users a guide to

spotting what it calls false news, it is closing tens of thousands of

fake UK accounts which might spread misinformation, and it is working

with fact checking organisations during the election campaign. So,

what happens if a friend shares what you think is a fake news story with

you? Well, it's not blindingly obvious but you go here, go down to

report post, I think it shouldn't be on Facebook is the choice here, you

continue, then you get the option at the bottom of its fake news story.

And once you have done that you should end up with an independent

fact checking organisation. One of those organisations thinks the

social network needs to do more. There is a responsibility for

Facebook to look at how do we change Facebook itself to make it easier

for people to spot the sites that are not what they are cracked up to

be on things that need to be checked out in more detail. Yes, this is

good stuff from Facebook but it should only be the beginning. In

Germany there is already a drive to combat fake news in the run-up to

their elections and with our own general election just over four

weeks away the parties know that Facebook a key battle ground. They

will have identified exactly the types of voters they would like to

target and the types of messages they would like to target them with

an Facebook will be the means of delivering those messages. Not only

that, Facebook will be the means by which they understand the response

to those messages and they will change them and evolve them based on

that response. More than 30 million people will get news and political

messages from Facebook during the election campaign. A social network

says it is doing its best to make sure that what they read isn't fake.

Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC News. House prices have fallen

in the last three months The Halifax mortgage lender says

prices fell by 0.2% - the first quarterly fall

since November 2012. It's blamed a squeeze

on household finances, Our personal finance correspondent

Simon Gompertz is here. How significant is this?

There are reasons for thinking there is a bit of a turn here because

prices have just got so high, so many people couldn't afford them,

also prices in the shops as you say, energy bills are squeezing families,

who can't afford so much. But it sort of depends who you are and

where you are, how you are affected and how this turn will affect you.

For instance, new-build properties, flats, the source properties

first-time buyers want to buy, they will be much stronger, and then

there are other parts of the country, there is Northern Ireland

that has been very weak, Yorkshire, the North of England, Wales, whereas

in the south of England it is still very strong. But the overall effect

is we have seen the average price of a property around ?219,000 down

?2500 since the end of last year. We see this three-month on three-month

affect, the underlying prices are coming down. Will Bragg continue?

Obviously it is hard to tell but there are two things that keep the

market at the moment, one is that mortgages are so cheap because

interest rates are so low and the other thing is not meant people are

putting homes on the market, there is a false market because there are

not enough available keeping prices up. Loss of the forecasters expect

that by the end of the year we will have seen a slight rise over the

year. A lot of people look at London and the south-east and say it is a

different case altogether. You hear stories in London of people giving

away cars with flats in order to get them moving, there has been a real

drop in central London, outer parts of London are holding a better and

of course other parts of the country. It is very much a mixed

picture still. Simon Gompertz, thank you very much.

A two-year-old girl is seriously ill in hospital -

after several dogs got into the garden where

She suffered injuries to her head and body -

but they are described as 'not life-threatening'.

Police have seized ten dogs from a nearby house

in the Toxteth area of Liverpool - and a 35-year-old man has been

arrested on suspicion of having a dangerous dog or dogs

Our correspondent Yunus Mulla is at Merseyside Police

The two-year-old girl was playing with two other children in a

relative's garden at a terraced property in Toxteth when she was

attacked by a number of dogs. Now, police say that her aunt managed to

fight off the dogs with two the children but the little girl

suffered extensive injuries and her condition is described as serious.

Those dogs managed to get into the garden from a neighbouring property.

Police say they have seized 11 dogs, six puppies and five adult dogs, two

of those have been humanely destroyed and they have arrested a

35-year-old man on suspicion of having dangerous dogs out of

control. They are carrying out a number of inquiries locally and they

say that at present the girl's condition although Sirius is not

life-threatening. Yunus Mulla, thank you very much. --

although serious. For the last 33 years Achill

beach in Western Ireland has looked like this -

after it was washed away. Now - it looks like this -

after hundreds of thousands of tonnes of sand were dumped back

on the coastline Locals hope there will be a return

of hotels, guesthouses and cafes - all forced to shut down

after the beach washed away in 1984. Achill Island on the west

coast of Ireland has but for the past 30 years this

was not one of them. However, nature has now

returned Dooagh beach to its Storms in the 1980s stripped

the beach, but over ten days ocean currents have deposited

thousands of tonnes of sand to recreate its 300-metre

white sandy beach. The most probable reason this beach

has reformed is due to two things. It's either a change in sediment

supply from further up or down the coast that has brought

a fresh amount of sediment to Or, it could be due to a change

in environmental conditions. Either an alteration

in the wave climate, or a series of tides that has

provided the ideal conditions for Dooagh beach on Achill

Island is just about as far west as you can get

in Ireland and Europe. Thousands of tourists

visit here every year. Having a new beach has

delighted the locals and Yesterday we had gridlock

here in the village with cars and camper vans

and motorcyclists, and people coming from all over Ireland and the UK

to see our miraculous new beach. The people here have always spoke

about their days on the beach, how they enjoyed coming down

here as kids, and now to have it back for their

kids is absolutely unbelievable. We already have five blue flag

beaches. Hopefully if we keep our

beach here at Dooagh Now that spring high

tides have passed there is hope that the new beach will stay

in place, at least for the summer. But this is the wild

Atlantic coast where beach again, but for now people

are making the most of this latest There are fears of a drought

in the UK this summer - as a lack of rainfall in the last

few months has left some rivers and reservoirs

with dwindling water levels. This Met Office map of rainfall

in April shows that the majority of the UK experienced less than half

the average amount - with southern England seeing

the driest weather. Andy Moore is in London Colney

in Hertfordshire where Affinity Water is the first water

company in the country to start advising customers

about water usage. Yes, Simon, this is the River Coln

in Hertfordshire and the stretch of river is basically bone dry, there

is a bit of water behind me but this bit is very dry. People say there is

usually a bit of water flowing in here but they have not seen it this

dry since the very dry summer of 1976. The bigger problem normally

around here is flooding but I think we can show you some pictures from

2009 when this part of the river basically became something of a

lake. But the current problem of dry weather is something that is being

reported in rivers around the country by the Environment Agency.

They say they are monitoring the situation. The water company here is

Affinity and say they have only had about half the normal amount of

rainfall since July 2016. They say they are urging their customers to

be careful really. They say they want their customers to save water

to help preserve supplies and minimise the possibility of

restrictions this summer. One way people can do that is very simple,

for example, to turn off the tap when they are brushing their teeth.

That one simple measure could save 6500 litres of water. Andy, thank

you very much. Loss of interest in the weather,

here is Jay Wynne. There is rain on the way lurking in the Atlantic and

it will take a few days to get here. Before then the dry story

discontinue. This afternoon we have quite a contrast in the weather from

west to east. The eastern side of the UK is pretty great, the odd spot

of light rain and drizzle for some but further west it is a completely

different story. Look at that lovely picture captured in Argyll and Bute

by one of our weather Watchers of lots of sunshine. West- East split

through the afternoon, the cloud on the eastern side means it is quite

chilly and breezy but some cloud will show signs of breaking up,

particularly in the north-east of England. We will keep lots of the

cloud in the afternoon across the North and north-east of Scotland

whereas central and western parts of Scotland have a lovely afternoon, 14

or 15 degrees and maybe 16 in Northern Ireland with plenty of

sunshine. As the cloud breaks up across the north-east of England it

is still quite chilly under the cloud, temperatures may not get into

double figures. For the west we have 15 or 16 degrees in the sunshine and

the wind is a bit lighter. Further east there is cloud across East

Anglia beast, maybe some drizzle but mostly fine and dry. And East.

Don't forget the sun is quite strong. When the sun sets this

evening it will turn chilly pretty quickly. A fair bit of cloud

drifting in on the breeze, maybe the odd spot of drizzle to go with it

but dry weather and whether breaks it will turn chilly, in major towns

and cities it will be chilly and may even get lower than those

temperatures suggest. On Tuesday the key feature is the lack of isobars

on the chart. Lighter wind and crucially on the East Coast where we

have the nagging breeze coming in from the North Sea recently, we will

change the wind direction, so if slightly less cold feel on the

eastern side, cloud across England and Wales, some breaks in southern

and western areas and Scotland and Northern Ireland will do well

tomorrow, some cloud in the Northern Isles, most places fine and dry, the

top temperatures in Northern Ireland, 17 or 18 degrees but it

will turn chilly heading towards dawn on Wednesday, maybe a touch of

frost in the more prone locations. A decent day for most places on

Wednesday, drive for the vast majority, some rain in the northern

islands, Scotland, variable cloud, sunshine and 16 or 17 degrees. Then

we start to see a change, the low pressure system starts to show its

hand late Thursday into Friday, some rain moving north, so that could be

on the heavy side. Thank you very much, Jay Wynne.

A reminder of our main story this lunchtime.

Newly elected President Emmanuel Macron vows that those who backed

far right Marine Le Pen would no longer have a reason to vote for

extremist position. That's all from the BBC News at

One, so it's goodbye from me -