24/04/2017 BBC News at Six

France's mainstream parties are left out in the cold as voters now

A run off between political outsiders.

Emmanuel Macron's one-year-old party and Marine Le Pen's Front National.

We'll be looking at what each presidential candidate means

The fight for Scottish votes in UK's general election.

Jeremy Corbyn takes on the might of the SNP.

Only us, or the Tories, can form a government.

I implore people in Scotland to fight for the party of

progress, and not the vicious Tory Party.

Tributes to the former Royal Naval officer run down by his own car.

Manchester Police have arrested a man.

The Alzheimer's Society says dementia ll be the biggest killer

When sport is about more than about winning.

The men who embodied the marathon spirit.

Maybe I was a bit overzealous in my support.

It was needed, needed to kind of hit home

Coming up in the sport on BBC News...

11 months on, can Rafa and Newcastle return to

A win against Preston tonight in the Championship and

they'll be back at the first time of asking.

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

French voters face a clear choice in the next two weeks.

The run-off in the presidential race will be between two political

outsiders who have left mainstream parties on the sidelines.

Emmanuel Macron's En Marche party - which is barely a year old -

since the Front National made it to this stage of the

A victory for either of them could have profound

implications for the EU, and for Brexit.

Here's our Paris correspondent Lucy Williamson.

Two years ago, he was a new face in politics.

In two weeks he could be the new president of France.

Last night, Emmanuel Macron arrived for

his victory speech with his wife, Brigitte.

24 years older than him, she was once his drama teacher.

His youth and energy are part of the package.

Hard to imagine he used to be Economy Minister and once worked

His style, start up, rather than stuffy,

even if his policies themselves appeal more to bankers than

His rival has already begun campaigning, targeting

Saying her anti-immigration platform is

Her father, Jean Marie who stepped down as party

leader six years ago, has called the Holocaust a detail

Marine Le Pen has tried to rid the party of its stigma and

present a softer image of herself as a mother,

We could say that Marine Le Pen is a strict mother figure.

She has a motherly attitude towards Macron, for instance.

He is more like the rebellious child.

We want to believe that he will be great one day.

The two programmes are very different.

Emmanuel Macron is promising to cut taxes, invest

heavily in industry and literary pro-EU.

Marine Le Pen says she will slash immigration, protect the 35 hour

working week and pull France out of the euro.

Both the main established parties have now thrown their weight

there is a long history here of political

together in a run-off to block the Le Front

In the town of Versailles, more than 30% of voters

chose the Conservative Party candidate, Francois Fillon,

Some are not yet sure if they will follow their leader and

I don't think Emmanuel Macron has a programme of his reforms are not

I do not think he has grasped the economic

Both Macron and Le Pen have promised change.

Deep reforms will probably need a parliamentary majority,

unlikely for either, a reminder that winning

power and wielding power are not always the same thing.

Joining me is our Europe Editor, Katya Adler.

Whoever wins, they have very different approaches to the EU and

to Brexit for that matter. Completely. Look at Emanuel Macron,

the true Europhile. When the results of last night's election were

announced you could most here the champagne corks popping in Brussels.

He wants to lead an invigorated Europe alongside Germany. When it

comes to Brexit he is likely to be quite hard line. He wants European

Union about everything else. He met Theresa May back in February and he

said continued security and defence and economic cooperation after

Brexit was important. He is unlikely to say no to a favourable trade deal

with the UK that one that favours actually both sides. Marine Le Pen,

a different story. She filled Brussels with dread. She wants out

of the euro currency and wants to hold a referendum on France's EU

membership. Politically and economically important to the EU, a

could put an end to the whole project. She is in favour of Brexit.

At the very least will leave Brexit talks and talks of a future trade

deal hanging in the air. In the UK election, Jeremy Corbyn

has taken the Labour The party was virtually wiped out

by the SNP in Scotland in 2015. But speaking to trades unionists

Mr Corbyn said only Labour could form an alternative government

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

could make Scotland's voice heard. Our Scotland Editor,

Sarah Smith, reports. Springtime in the Scottish Highlands

came with a heavy fall of snow today. Quite a scene to welcome two

party leaders to Aviemore. Jeremy Corbyn's in Scotland is to try to

win back voters from the SNP. Friends, this is a general election,

not a referendum. Only Labour can form a government and offer an

alternative that would chance form the lives of people in Scotland. The

choice facing this country at this election is clear. It is the people

versus the powerful? Jeremy Corbyn says he is fighting for every seat

in Scotland. The reality is they will have two fight hard to keep the

one MP they have in Scotland, having lost so many seats at the last

general election. Do you -- no answers on Trident,

independence or anything else. A Scottish trade union conference

would once have been solid Labour territory. Not now. I like Jeremy

Corbyn, his personality. I believe independents will bring a fair

society for us, especially with Jeremy Corbyn as leader. Socialist

policies were lacking before. Now we can win people back and see a real

benefit from a Labour government again. There will be no deals with

Nicola surgeon and the SNP after the election, Mr Corbyn said today. --

Nicola Sturgeon. She said her party is the only effective opposition to

a Conservative government. The only way to get rid of the Tories you

said despite with a Labour government, wouldn't it? I can the

polls as well as anybody can. The travails of the Labour Party, people

who do not see Theresa May imposing more welfare cuts to damage the

economy and do further damage to our society should vote SNP. Eye-macro

Nicola Sturgeon will use all means possible including this election to

try to further hurry for another second independence referendum. The

last time Jeremy Corbyn was in Scotland, he said a second election

was fine with him. He wants someone to stand up and say, no food that is

what me and my Conservative team will do. The SNP claims it is a two

horse race between them and the Tories in Scotland. The Tories

agreed was in a campaign dominated by giving over independence, Labour

often struggle to get their message heard.

As we've seen, at the start of the first full week

of campaigning, the Labour Leader is positioning his party

as the party to stand up for working people.

In the next few weeks each of the other parties will have

to carve out their own positions as they appeal for votes.

We'll get some idea when their manifestos are published

but as our political editor Laura Kuenssberg reports,

electoral strategy is about more than just words on a pamphlet.

Putting his name too long, deeply held principles, or signing Labour's

chances away. Sign away their trade union act? By P Jeremy Corbyn is not

for changing. Despite his port for scrapping Trident or trade union

backing. We will never apologise for the closeness of our relationship

with you. One of the very first things it will do when forming our

Labour government will be to repeal the Tory trade union act. Jeremy

Corbyn supporters would be aghast at anything else. The Tories believe he

is out of touch with the majority. Content today to make that case, not

their own. Not even a sign of the Prime Minister. He has already now

said he would not endorse strikes against terrorism. That means the

Labour Party is a security risk to this country. The Tories believe

that Ukip is on the run as well put up since the referendum, their main

reason for being is gone. They are arguing for a Frexit ban and no more

Islamic schools. Rivals call it Islamophobia. -- eight burqa ban.

We want people to enjoy the full fruits our great Society has two

offer. The Ukip leader is less keen to chat about his own future. Chased

by reporters for an answer on whether he will stand as an MP. The

Lib Dems think there is hope from their opposition to Brexit. They

believe they can gobble up the votes in parts of the country that voted

remain. We have a coalition of chaos. Conservatives, labour and

Ukip. All lined up backing the hardest of all wrecks it is, exit

from the single market and cutting of ties from our friends and

neighbours in Europe. Even among unusually mild mannered Lib Dems,

there were heckles today over questions about gay rights. Like

politics in this campaign? Maybe not in 2017. It is still a scrabble for

all the main parties to get their machines up and running. No one's

campaign is running at full pelt. The strategies? Those are crystal

clear. A 21 year-old man is being

questioned by police after a former Royal Navy officer died tackling

burglars outside his Mike Samwell, who was 35,

is thought to have been run over by his own car which was stolen

in the early hours Danny Savage is in

the Manchester suburb More than 36 hours after Samwell;

received fatal injuries. Police say they are seeking a few more suspects

in connection with what happened here. It is the circumstances of the

events which are truly extraordinary. A crime which police

say crossed the line. Mike Samwell; 835-year-old former Royal Navy

officer. They were awoken by intruders. He went to investigate.

What happened in the following few moments saw Mr Samwell run over by

his own car and killed. The high powered Audi S3 was soon found

abandoned a few miles away. Mike Samwell was fatally injured the

scene of a murder enquiry, leaving neighbours and friends at a loss. He

is such a nice bloke, we all liked him. Friendly, always talkative,

funny. I really liked him. I am shocked, really shocked.

The local sub Mariner 's Association came along today to offer their

support. It's the sort of thing

I would've done. It's the sort of thing most people

would've tried to stop. It's instinct, especially

the forces people. Police initially appealed

to the criminal fraternity for information, saying this crime

had crossed the line. Then this morning they announced

that a 21-year-old man had been Neighbours said they heard

Mike Samwell's wife Jessica shouting his name and screaming

for help after he was run over. She returned to the scene today,

escorted by police into her own home, which is now a crime scene,

as investigations continue into what happened in this

quiet suburban street. France's traditional parties left

out in the cold as Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen progress

to the presidential run-off. Can plans to tackle air

pollution treally wait till A doping disqualification

hands Kelly Sotherton Tatyana Chernova's positive test

from the Beijing games promotes the former British

heptathlete to third. It's estimated that someone

develops dementia every The Alzheimers Society says it's

the biggest health crisis facing our society and more

than a million people Today the charity have launched

a new campaign to highlight the plight of dementia patients

and their carers. There are now almost 700,000

unpaid carers of people And more than 40,000 people under 65

have younger onset dementia. Colleen Harris went to meet one

family in Portsmouth whose lives I just think it takes

the memory little bit We had a lovely life,

great life, great social life, Rob's memory has been slipping away

since the age of 48. A life ravaged by Alzheimer's,

piece by piece. He'd been a successful businessman,

sportsman and father. There are good days

and there are bad. You know, after the

diagnosis, it crashed. Every single thing about our life

had changed in the moment He was such a good, honest,

hard-working guy and it went from that to literally

becoming institutionalised, really. You know, you become

a prisoner to the illness. What has it done to you,

what have you lost? It's scary, it's scary in one way

but not scary for me. Most days Rob lives in his own

world, but like so many carers, Kim has to help him with every

simple daily task. I think the hardest thing

was losing that connection, You lose your everyday

conversations. Their son Junior, now a dad himself,

lives a few doors away. He says it took a year

to accept what was happening Growing up, my dad

was my biggest hero. I used to always want to go

to the pub with him or go down the park with him,

spend all the time with him. I think that's why

I found it so hard. Used to get really, really emotional

over the silliest things and I know it was because of that,

and it was in the back of my head. But yeah, I just became

basically an emotional wreck. But when he's around Carter

it's like he's gone back It's like he doesn't

have the Alzheimer's He just picks him up and absolutely

knows exactly what to do with him, which for someone with Alzheimer's

who can't make a cup Baby Carter is a welcome,

happy distraction for the family. Kim says he is helping them make

new memories, a day at a time. In the morning you get

up, take a deep breath And if you can laugh in that

day then absolutely, Kim Davies ending that

report by Colleen Harris. Two men have been remanded

in custody after being charged in connection with an alleged acid

attack at a nightclub in London, One of them is Arthur Collins -

the ex-boyfriend of reality Charges against him include

grievous bodily harm Two of the victims have

been partially blinded. Tougher punishments for the most

serious speeding offences have come Under the new guidelines,

fines for drivers caught doing 51 miles per hour in a 30 miles

per hour zone or 101 miles per hour on a motorway will start

from 150% of weekly income. The government is going to court to

ask for a delay in the publication Ministers say that the election

means they shouldn't unveil a major But campaigners and opposition

politicians say the government is looking for an excuse

to avoid difficult decisions. Our Science Editor David Shukman

is in Central London David, why are environmental

campaigners so angry about this? Well because streets like this are

still so polluted. It was seven years ago Britain was told it was in

breach of European safety limits on pollution, two years ago the Supreme

Court told ministers to get their act together and cleanly air up.

Last November the High Court told ministers their plans were not

adequate and did not cover enough of the country and told them to come up

with the new plan by today. Today has come and gone with yet another

delay. So what happens now? The government says it is determined to

cleanly air up and will publish their plans after the election and

put them into effect as soon as possible and they are spending a

great deal of money trying to do things like support electric

vehicles which would be cleaner. But the real question is what is in

their plan? We have not seen it yet, how will they get the most polluting

vehicles of the roads? How will they help local authorities set up clean

air zones? A great deal of challenges ahead.

Now - it's the act of kindness that has defined this

year's London Marathon - an exhausted runner being helped

across the finish line by a fellow competitor.

Matthew Rees sacrificed his own race to half push, half pull David Wyeth

Dan Johnson has been to hear their story.

After a test of endurance, it was a moment of kindness that

summed up the spirit of the marathon, shared by so many.

Every single part of his body is shutting down on him.

Today, with sore legs, the Manchester IT manager

and the banker from Swansea talked through their last few

I was just trying to get to the line.

My body went and I went to the ground.

His legs were completely jelly but he said he was

And I helped him up and then his legs went again and I realised

I was going to have to stay with him to make sure he did get

When someone's in need you want to help them out.

I couldn't let him lie on the ground there.

I was shouting in his ear, saying, "Come on, you can do this,

it's 200 metres, we will finish - I'll stay with you".

Maybe I was a bit overzealous with my support.

Matthew was clear in knowing that if he leaves me there's a chance

they will whisk me off and not let me get to the finish.

If roles were reversed, would you have done the same thing?

You are the first person to ask me that and that's

Yeah, but it was special, what he did.

It's a question we could perhaps all consider.

These are two competitive runners who have both put in good

What the general public see there is the spirit of the running

community and this happens all over the place.

It just happened there were quite a few cameras trained on that.

At that point, capturing that moment.

A new friendship forged, and David's club has offered to pay

Matt's entry next year, with first class travel

Recognition of the good Samaritan's sacrifice,

because it was the wobbly pair of legs that officially

It's the taking part that's more important than winning, right?

Is that snow I see? It is, on the ground in the north-east of

Scotland, that was taken mid-afternoon. Called air sweeping

its way south behind this line of cloud which is indeed a cold front.

Coming across all parts as we go through this evening and overnight

and into tomorrow as well, tonight it will be a cold one and further

wintry showers. Most of those will be across Northern and Eastern

areas, a few out west and maybe one or two into the north-west and the

Midlands but a blue tinge on the map, that is the frost. A cold and

frosty start to the day, and early on we will see wintry showers in

Northern Scotland, windy conditions in the north-east, wintry showers

early on in Northern Ireland but for the bulk of England and Wales away

from the east and west coast a lot of sunshine first thing but is quite

windy and quite cold. Maybe a few wintry showers across Pembrokeshire

and then towards the south-west. Quite windy through the day for all

places and the showers will get going across pretty much all areas,

heavy with Hill and under mixed in. It will feel colder than that,

particularly in eastern areas and if you are underneath a hail shower,

strong and dusty downdraughts and it will feel temporarily like it is

around freezing. Frost developing again for the West, chilly start to

Wednesday, further showers dotted around but temperatures creeping up

by Thursday. That's all from the BBC News at

Six, so it's goodbye from me -