:00:00. > :00:15.On the eve of election day in France, hackers release a trove
:00:16. > :00:19.of documents targeting Emmanuel Macron's team.
:00:20. > :00:22.New protests in Venezuela as US officials meet with the Leader
:00:23. > :00:28.So near and yet so far - Kenya's Kipchoge runs the fastest
:00:29. > :00:33.marathon in history, but WON'T get into the record books.
:00:34. > :00:36.And - it's something the fashion world has been criticised
:00:37. > :00:41.for time and time again - thin models.
:00:42. > :00:58.Hello and welcome to World News Today.
:00:59. > :01:04.With less than 12 hours to go before voting starts,
:01:05. > :01:07.France's Election Authority - has warned the media
:01:08. > :01:09.against spreading information hacked from the campaign of the centrist
:01:10. > :01:17.Aides to Mr Macron say the hacking attack was intended
:01:18. > :01:23.James Reynolds has sent this report.
:01:24. > :01:26.Emmanuel Macron arrived last night for his final interview,
:01:27. > :01:33.assuming that his campaign was basically done.
:01:34. > :01:36.But whilst he was speaking, documents stolen from his team were
:01:37. > :01:44.Coming in the last hour, his team said this
:01:45. > :01:51.intervention is an attempt to destabilise democracy, as happened
:01:52. > :01:56.In the past, Emmanuel Macron said that
:01:57. > :01:59.Russian-backed hackers were out to get him.
:02:00. > :02:04.One cyber expert said this hack looks different.
:02:05. > :02:07.It is very low-level, compared with what they
:02:08. > :02:15.That was a highly creative and high-end information war
:02:16. > :02:24.What we are witnessing now is very low-end, very amateurish.
:02:25. > :02:27.But many French people braving the Saturday drizzle do not know
:02:28. > :02:32.On this, the day before the vote, the French media is
:02:33. > :02:36.banned from doing any in-depth political reporting.
:02:37. > :02:41.It shows Emanuel Macron has capable enemies.
:02:42. > :02:44.It may not change the course of this election.
:02:45. > :02:51.Many French people have already decided which way they will vote.
:02:52. > :02:53.And some have already cast their ballots.
:02:54. > :02:57.These French citizens in Canada have made an early start.
:02:58. > :03:06.47 million voters here in France will soon follow.
:03:07. > :03:09.So how is that data leak affecting the mood in France?
:03:10. > :03:13.Our correspondent Karin Gianone is in Paris.
:03:14. > :03:16.Already this election had been an extraordinary one.
:03:17. > :03:19.Who in France would have imagined that on the eve of the second
:03:20. > :03:22.round of its presidential election we could have ended up
:03:23. > :03:25.with these two candidates, the far right Marine Le Pen,
:03:26. > :03:28.and Emmanuel Macron, the centrist candidate,
:03:29. > :03:36.who only set up his campaign in the last few months?
:03:37. > :03:41.But in the very last hours, at this latest twist came. This massive dump
:03:42. > :03:45.of date her. I have been talking
:03:46. > :03:48.about this with my guest, Tristan Mendes France,
:03:49. > :03:50.an expert in social media at As far as we know, there was a leak
:03:51. > :04:01.on a forum last night at 8:30pm, and those documents became viral
:04:02. > :04:10.half an hour later on social media. Today there is a hashtag
:04:11. > :04:15.called #Macronleaks, As for the timing,
:04:16. > :04:19.it is rather strange. It came hours before
:04:20. > :04:22.all the restrictions about what you can say
:04:23. > :04:26.about the election came into force. It means that neither candidate can
:04:27. > :04:29.comment on the content of this. Nobody understands why,
:04:30. > :04:33.just two days before the presidential election,
:04:34. > :04:36.it has come out. There is supposedly
:04:37. > :04:43.a huge amount of data. It cannot be processed in 48 hours,
:04:44. > :04:46.so it's impossible for anybody to estimate the damage that
:04:47. > :04:49.could come out of it. I don't think it will impact
:04:50. > :04:57.tomorrow's election, but it might impact later,
:04:58. > :04:59.specifically in a month, for the election of the members of
:05:00. > :05:03.Parliament. So perhaps it's too late
:05:04. > :05:06.to do anything tangible for the presidential election
:05:07. > :05:09.tomorrow, but in six weeks' time, we have this key vote that
:05:10. > :05:11.Emmanuel Macron is counting You think that could
:05:12. > :05:23.make a difference? There could be one month
:05:24. > :05:25.of smear campaign, extracted from the information in those
:05:26. > :05:29.documents that have linked, and that could be problematic
:05:30. > :05:31.for Macron if he becomes elected. If he doesn't get a majority,
:05:32. > :05:36.how will he implement his policy? In terms of the origin of this
:05:37. > :05:39.attack, there have been allegations against Kremlin-backed agents
:05:40. > :05:43.previously targeting Everybody is looking
:05:44. > :05:55.towards the Kremlin, Nobody will ever have
:05:56. > :06:04.absolute proof, only hints. The French Electoral Commission has
:06:05. > :06:13.come out very strongly, telling the media and people
:06:14. > :06:16.using social media that they mustn't It's a question of legality,
:06:17. > :06:21.but it's pointless today. The environment online
:06:22. > :06:23.has no frontier. Even French-speaking media
:06:24. > :06:25.in Belgium are able to speak about this horrible story,
:06:26. > :06:30.so I understand the French position, That was Tristan Mendes France,
:06:31. > :06:46.from the Sorbonne's School That was Tristan Mendes France, from
:06:47. > :06:50.the Sorbonne's School of Journalism. Just to remind you, as we go
:06:51. > :06:52.into Sunday's final vote, An IPSOS poll published
:06:53. > :06:56.in Le Monde newspaper puts Emmanuel Macron,
:06:57. > :06:57.the centrist, on 63%. He is the clear favourite in this
:06:58. > :07:09.presidential election. We will be bringing you special
:07:10. > :07:14.coverage on the BBC of the results as they come out late on Sunday. We
:07:15. > :07:17.will be bring you a special programme presented by Christian
:07:18. > :07:20.Fraser from 7:30pm GMT. Thousands of women have led
:07:21. > :07:22.a march in Venezuela's capital of Caracas in
:07:23. > :07:24.the latest anti-government At least 36 people have been killed
:07:25. > :07:28.and hundreds injured It comes as Donald Trump's national
:07:29. > :07:31.security adviser met with Venezuela's Leader
:07:32. > :07:50.of the Opposition on how to bring The daily wave of protests against
:07:51. > :07:55.the government of Nicolas Maduro continues across Venezuela. In the
:07:56. > :07:58.capital Caracas thousands of women marched on the Defence Ministry,
:07:59. > :08:02.dressed symbolically in white, urging the government to end what
:08:03. > :08:07.they said was the brutal oppression of its opponents and free hundreds
:08:08. > :08:12.of political prisoners. Some of these protesters have husbands and
:08:13. > :08:17.family members in jail, they say in prison for opposing a corrupt
:08:18. > :08:22.regime. But the government and the Armed forces, which remain loyal so
:08:23. > :08:27.far, are not backing off. More than 30 people have been killed in a
:08:28. > :08:32.month of demonstrations. President Maduro has vowed to ride out the
:08:33. > :08:38.storm, accusing Venezuelan's enemies abroad and what he says our business
:08:39. > :08:44.elites at home, waging a campaign of destabilisation. But what should be
:08:45. > :08:48.Latin America's wealthiest and most stable nation is punch-drunk from
:08:49. > :08:55.years of instability. Many young people say they have no future here.
:08:56. > :09:00.I knew him for nine years, says this girl who has just buried her friend
:09:01. > :09:06.and fellow youth orchestra member. It hurts me so much to see him taken
:09:07. > :09:11.in the bloom of his life, just 18 years old. Venezuelan has the
:09:12. > :09:17.world's second largest oil reserves, yet in cities across the country,
:09:18. > :09:21.people are so poor and hungry, they are looting shops for food, even
:09:22. > :09:35.when there is nothing there for sale. With an inflation rate of
:09:36. > :09:37.900%, Venezuelans are used to queueing for basic goods at
:09:38. > :09:39.subsidised government markets. But food and medicine is scarce. Hugo
:09:40. > :09:43.Chavez's socialist revolution failing the very people who
:09:44. > :09:48.supported it. Thousands remain loyal, and chav is's success in
:09:49. > :09:54.Nicolas Maduro has rejected calls for the release of political
:09:55. > :09:57.prisoners. After a week of increasingly violent protests,
:09:58. > :10:02.opposition leaders met senior members of the Trump administration,
:10:03. > :10:04.Washington accusing Mr Maduro of disregarding the rights of his own
:10:05. > :10:06.people. Let's take a look at some of
:10:07. > :10:10.the other stories making the news... The former head of the Palestinian
:10:11. > :10:12.militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Ismail Haniyeh,
:10:13. > :10:14.has been elected as He succeeds Khaled Meshaal,
:10:15. > :10:19.who has led the movement The election took place
:10:20. > :10:23.using a video link between The British Prime Minster Theresa
:10:24. > :10:28.May says she's grateful for the support her Conservative
:10:29. > :10:33.party received in the local elections, but she says she's taking
:10:34. > :10:40.nothing for granted ahead The Leader of the Opposition Labour
:10:41. > :10:54.party, Jeremy Corbyn, has admitted Tens of thousands of Polish
:10:55. > :10:58.opposition supporters have taken taking part what they called
:10:59. > :11:00.a Freedom March through Warsaw, to protest against what they see
:11:01. > :11:03.as curbs on democracy imposed The opposition has accused
:11:04. > :11:06.the governing party of trying to stack the constitutional tribunal
:11:07. > :11:08.with sympathetic judges and of manipulating radio
:11:09. > :11:11.and television coverage. Pupils from two girls' schools
:11:12. > :11:15.in the Indian capital, Delhi, have been taken to hospital
:11:16. > :11:18.for treatment after a chemical The substance, which is thought
:11:19. > :11:23.to have been used in pesticides, caused eye and throat irritations -
:11:24. > :11:26.as well as breathing difficulties. Police say they'll be
:11:27. > :11:28.taking legal action Our South Asia regional
:11:29. > :11:42.editor, Charles Haviland Details emerged rather slowly
:11:43. > :11:46.throughout Saturday. First we had reports of a few dozen schoolgirls
:11:47. > :11:51.being admitted to hospital for treatment, but later in the day, the
:11:52. > :11:56.official Indian news agency said more than 300 had been admitted,
:11:57. > :12:00.from two schools, and several teachers needing treatment. The
:12:01. > :12:05.symptoms were problems with their eyes, throats, and breathing
:12:06. > :12:10.problems, from this leakage from a container truck at some kind of
:12:11. > :12:16.storage depot in Tughlakabad in the south of Delhi. It appears these
:12:17. > :12:21.were chemicals imported from China for use in pesticides. Do we know
:12:22. > :12:25.how some of the victims are? The doctors have been saying from the
:12:26. > :12:30.start that they are OK and no one is in danger. What we heard towards the
:12:31. > :12:36.end of Saturday was that people are being discharged and going home to
:12:37. > :12:41.their families. That seems to be the situation. That said, we have had
:12:42. > :12:45.some people saying they are out of danger, and others simply saying
:12:46. > :12:52.they are stable, which sounds less certain. The Indian media have not
:12:53. > :12:56.given a very full account of what has happened, and haven't prioritise
:12:57. > :13:01.the story very much. These sorts of leagues are not actually unusual in
:13:02. > :13:07.India, are they? They do happen from time to time. There was one of three
:13:08. > :13:13.years ago in Chhattisgarh, with a smaller number of people being
:13:14. > :13:17.affected. There is an issue in India with supervision. The police have
:13:18. > :13:22.said that legal action will be taken in this case because Hazard
:13:23. > :13:27.materials were not being stored responsibly. Others are saying that
:13:28. > :13:29.this material should not be close to these schools at all.
:13:30. > :13:31.Stay with us on BBC World News, still to come...
:13:32. > :13:34.Models who are extremely thin are to be banned
:13:35. > :13:36.from the catwalk in France - but will it work?
:13:37. > :14:56.We'll get the view of a fashion editor.
:14:57. > :15:03.computer hackers release a huge cache of documents which they say
:15:04. > :15:07.New protests in Venezuela as US officials meet with the Leader
:15:08. > :15:25.There's been a reduction in fighting in Syria since a Russian-led
:15:26. > :15:27.initiative took effect - to halt the country's six-year war.
:15:28. > :15:30.The Russian defence ministry says it has registered 15 violations
:15:31. > :15:34.Also, Russia and the United States have agreed to resume the operation
:15:35. > :15:37.of a bilateral memorandum to prevent mid-air clashes in
:15:38. > :15:56.Syrian government aircraft in action. There are reports of
:15:57. > :16:00.shelling and gunfire elsewhere in the country, but the violence has
:16:01. > :16:10.eased following the international plan to create for de-escalates a
:16:11. > :16:19.Sion Jones inside Syria. Russian and US staff have... In a phone call,
:16:20. > :16:23.representatives agreed to work on additional measures. Russia says a
:16:24. > :16:26.new initiative to create demilitarised areas in Syria can
:16:27. > :16:32.pave the way towards more substantive negotiations.
:16:33. > :16:38.TRANSLATION: The most important thing is that the implementation of
:16:39. > :16:43.the memorandum can help cease the military action and therefore end
:16:44. > :16:48.the Syrian crisis at a practical level. The initiative is of
:16:49. > :16:54.significant meaning to the political process in Syria. The deal to create
:16:55. > :16:59.de-escalation zones in the major areas of conflict in Syria took
:17:00. > :17:04.effect in midnight on Friday. The initiative was proposed by Russia,
:17:05. > :17:09.President Bashar al-Assad's most powerful ally. It is backed by
:17:10. > :17:18.Turkey and Iran. With the deal coming from two strong back backers
:17:19. > :17:22.of the regime, some say they are not too confident about it.
:17:23. > :17:27.TRANSLATION: The revolution is very damaged. It is strangled, and the
:17:28. > :17:34.Syrian people are killed in these so-called de-escalation zones. The
:17:35. > :17:37.regime and the Russians are the only beneficiaries. Failure of peace
:17:38. > :17:45.efforts are familiar story in this conflict that has claimed 300,000
:17:46. > :17:47.lives since 2012. So how effective the current plan will prove to be is
:17:48. > :17:58.highly uncertain. The Nigerian government says 82
:17:59. > :18:03.girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in northern Nigeria have been released.
:18:04. > :18:08.The girls were among about 220 students abducted from a secondary
:18:09. > :18:12.school in the north-east of the country in 2014. That story is
:18:13. > :18:14.breaking at the moment, so we will bring you more details when we have
:18:15. > :18:19.them. Now some sport. Here is James. Barcelona and Real Madrid are both
:18:20. > :18:22.still battling it out Barcelona surged three points clear
:18:23. > :18:26.of Real with a thumping 4-1 win Lionel Messi scored twice
:18:27. > :18:30.and there was one each Real though look certain to go
:18:31. > :18:35.back level on points - they're currently winning 4-0
:18:36. > :18:41.at already relegated Granada. Swansea have moved out of the bottom
:18:42. > :18:49.three in the Premier League after a 1-0 win over Everton
:18:50. > :18:53.at the Liberty stadium Fernando Llorente got the crucial
:18:54. > :18:57.goal in the 29th minute, It was the Spaniard's 13th league
:18:58. > :19:02.goal of the season and it Swansea's win means that Hull drop
:19:03. > :19:12.into the relegation zone - they lost 2-0 at home to already
:19:13. > :19:15.relegated Sunderland. Billy Jones and Jermaine Defoe
:19:16. > :19:18.scored for the Black Cats. It was Marco Silva's first
:19:19. > :19:30.experience of a home defeat in three To lose our focus like we did in the
:19:31. > :19:35.second half, and we conceded two goals and set pieces. That's our
:19:36. > :19:40.problem. It's like you come to the past again. Our team in the past
:19:41. > :19:45.conceded too many goals in set pieces, because they lost focus, and
:19:46. > :19:50.that happened this afternoon. The second goal was offside again, and
:19:51. > :19:55.the referee didn't see. That is football, and now is the moment to
:19:56. > :19:59.rest, to analyse what happened, and prepare for the next.
:20:00. > :20:03.Here are the rest of the day's Premier League scores.
:20:04. > :20:07.Crystal Palace still aren't safe from relegation after being thrashed
:20:08. > :20:19.City move up the third in the race for a Champions League place.
:20:20. > :20:23.Tyson Fury has said he'd easily beat unified heavyweight champion
:20:24. > :20:26.Anthony Joshua should the pair meet in the ring.
:20:27. > :20:34.Fury has dealt with depression and lost his boxing
:20:35. > :20:36.licence after beating Wladimir Klitschko in November 2015.
:20:37. > :20:39.Fury says he'll be back fighting in July, on the undercard
:20:40. > :20:41.at London's Copper Box Arena, IF his licence is reinstated
:20:42. > :20:43.by the British Boxing Board of Control.
:20:44. > :20:48.He clearly has scant regard for Joshua.
:20:49. > :20:58.I can play with that body-builder like a cat playing with a ball of
:20:59. > :21:02.wool. And if I get hit, I will be highly, highly disappointed. If you
:21:03. > :21:04.can even land a blow on me. Never mind beat me.
:21:05. > :21:07.An attempt to run the first sub-2 hour marathon has failed.
:21:08. > :21:09.There were no spectators, just a small number of journalists,
:21:10. > :21:12.allowed to attend the event on the Monza racetrack in Italy.
:21:13. > :21:14.Only one of the three men taking part, Eliud Kipchoge,
:21:15. > :21:16.the Olympic champion, came close to the two hour
:21:17. > :21:19.mark, crossing the line in two hours 25 seconds.
:21:20. > :21:22.And although it's the fastest marathon in history -
:21:23. > :21:26.it won't be counted as an official record, because of the use
:21:27. > :21:50.The name was to bring about 10 billion people, and knock out the
:21:51. > :21:55.third set. 12 marathons in 12 hours is impossible. So to pass that
:21:56. > :22:00.message is really important to me. That's why I was pushing to prove
:22:01. > :22:06.that there is no human who has limitations. He is averaging 17
:22:07. > :22:09.seconds that every 100 metres he runs. That is remarkable. That is
:22:10. > :22:12.all the sport for now. A law in France banning the use
:22:13. > :22:15.of extremely thin fashion models Models working there need to provide
:22:16. > :22:18.a doctor's certificate attesting to their overall physical health,
:22:19. > :22:20.with special regard Digitally altered photos will also
:22:21. > :22:26.have to be labelled from October. Earlier I spoke to Debra Bourne
:22:27. > :22:29.from the campaign group "all walks beyond the catwalk",
:22:30. > :22:44.I asked her The important thing is the serious
:22:45. > :22:51.message it sends out to the fashion industry. I don't know how they can
:22:52. > :22:56.keep it. Will they send a police officer to every photographic studio
:22:57. > :23:02.in Paris what is interesting is the doctors note. This would be valid
:23:03. > :23:07.for two years, and as all women know, your weight fluctuates a lot
:23:08. > :23:12.over two years. Yes. There's some real problems here in terms of the
:23:13. > :23:18.actual strategy and day-to-day managing of this law. I don't know.
:23:19. > :23:22.I don't know if it exists when French brands shoot outside of
:23:23. > :23:29.London. Many campaigns are shot in New York, the Caribbean, London. But
:23:30. > :23:35.the government has done something that is sending out a very clear
:23:36. > :23:40.message. Paris has a reputation in the industry in terms of casting for
:23:41. > :23:45.putting very skinny models on the catwalk, and that is serious. What
:23:46. > :23:50.is your opinion on the labelling of digitally enhanced photos? I think
:23:51. > :23:55.it's great. I was part of a government round table on body
:23:56. > :23:59.confidence, and this is something we discussed in the UK about bringing
:24:00. > :24:04.this in with a kite marking system. It makes it very clear to the
:24:05. > :24:09.consumer that this is an animation, that photo is that they could think
:24:10. > :24:13.were real have been enhanced and touched up and changed, and people's
:24:14. > :24:19.body shapes have changed. I would like to see a world where that
:24:20. > :24:31.doesn't happen at all, and where our imagery is far more real, but given
:24:32. > :24:33.that we have to change things step-by-step, it is a fantastic move
:24:34. > :24:36.forward. France is blazing a trail here with this policy, but isn't it
:24:37. > :24:40.down to the individual models and a cultural shift within the industry
:24:41. > :24:47.itself? It is, but the model in this picture looks like the most powerful
:24:48. > :24:52.person in this planet, but in truth, these are teenage girls, young,
:24:53. > :24:55.impressionable women, surrounded by people in the studio, trying to
:24:56. > :25:00.adhere to a system they might not agree with, and scared to voice
:25:01. > :25:06.change. So the models really need to be protected here.
:25:07. > :25:08.An 85-year-old Nepalese man who was attempting to become
:25:09. > :25:11.the oldest person to climb Everest, has died at Everest base camp.
:25:12. > :25:13.The death of Min Bahadur Sherchan was confirmed by Nepal's
:25:14. > :25:19.The former British army Gurkha soldier was trying
:25:20. > :25:23.to reclaim the record from Japan's Yuichiro Miura, who
:25:24. > :25:44.Our breaking news. The Nigerian government says that 82 girls
:25:45. > :25:51.kidnapped by Boko Haram have been released. They were among around 220
:25:52. > :25:56.students abducted in the north-east of the country in 2012. Don't forget
:25:57. > :25:59.you can get in touch with me on Twitter. That's it from me and the
:26:00. > :26:03.team. Goodbye for now.