. >> first i moved to the beach in france and i took an immersive france - - french and i have family that lives there they let me live with them a lot. [laughter] so i could get better and do my work. . >> when you started your reading there was something i didn't quite get. >> she is hanging in a tunnel she was hanging over the tunnel she doesn't want to get to the ground they have to pull her up since they have these harnesses that so they are dropped in they repurposed it for this to turn into a climbing harness for her to hang her over and use it as a swing to look at the tunnel below ample her backup. they were holding it pulling her up and over fist. they drop a man from the airplane it's a bomber with a hole in the floor. in the days before radar this was invented in the middle of the war they can only fly in on a full moon that the only time it's light enough so you would be in the fuselage that a plane is built for bombs you are all tucked in then they drop you in and you are about 800 feet over your target not today like 1 mile up then you pull your parachute out and hope i

this envelope arrived at ann bones' house in france two days ago. she's been told her postal vote won't make it back to the uk in time for thursday. the post over here in france told me that there was no chance of them arriving in time. for tony in south—western france, well, he's still waiting for his. we feel disappointed and let down by not receiving our ballots for the european elections, and wonder whether this isjust pure malfunction of the system or maybe even skulduggery. the reason? well, the clue is on the envelope. "post nl" means the ballot papers were sent from the uk to france via the netherlands. adare is the postal service which a number of local councils in the uk use to send the ballot papers rather than royal mail because it was more cost—effective. well, in a statement, adare told the bbc the ballots had been released in line with the elections and council timetables. they insisted that they had used reputable mail handlers whose job it was to assess the best route through other european countries. in a statement, the elector

and if you are thinking of heading to northern france this summer, here are heading to northern france this summer, here are some heading to northern france this summer, here are some travel show tips that mightjust come in handy. france hosts the women's football world cup injune, and five of the nine host cities are in the north. rheims, in the heart of champagne country, is arguably the most eye—catching of those venues. there can't be many better ways to prepare for the opening group games than a tour of the vineyards and a good look around the city's incredible gothic cathedral. the region is not bad for surfers, either. the stretch of coast in brittany is a highlight if you are looking for waves and wa nt to if you are looking for waves and want to avoid the crowds. in south—west finisterre there are also great ocean rollers, but if you are going there in peak times it is worth going there early to get the best to yourself. this year, lille hosts lille 3000, a series of events, performances and exhibitions, a —— which take over the city every years. three this year the th

most of france was starving by the end of the war. the french writer said the sound of france was the sound of the growling stomach. this is because the germans took most of the produce and most of the wine. there were always things buried in order to save them for the liberation. the beautiful bottle of champagne, the much beloved bottle of wine. one young man when he met an african- american g.i. that amount back and dug up his records in order to show how much he loved american music. it was a period of deprivation for the french. it continued for another year. the winter of 1944 and 1945 was quite hard. by then, france's largely destroyed. there were towns that the french called martyred. among them, saint lo. these towns were 80% destroyed. it was very hard. life was hard during the war. most people think the french were collaborators. if you lived in the city, it was much harder than if you lived in the country. you couldn't grow your own food. the war was hard on the french. it was humiliating to be occupied by the germans. >>

repercussions on domestic politics in france and germany. we have hope that they stay there for evidence of confidence for the famous turned and what are you to say. i believe the time they will have to actually work. together because for now and we. was really outspoken about his vision for euro there hasn't been a response all when there has been a response a quite negative response from the side of germany that was linked to the past election i believe now there is a space for germany and france to come together for for real this time and actually with this with having in mind and also seeing the real trek off the right wing populist to really come up with a new vision so i believe it's going to be going to be 500 the only difficulty in germany is always an election somewhere as a federal state there's federal elections state elections and we've got this sort of tandem in germany we've got to stay on as chancellor but the party her part is now led by ana got to come qanbar and she had a real setback yesterday that was her 1st election and

is something in france which is very damaged. this imbalance is also reflected within europe itself. this is the subject of fall creates this play i am europe which started last nor did a staged at the beginning of the year. not be in. the year that. we are now. so not only france is in crisis what is no day's vision of europe. it's a place where people come together because they have something to say to each other not just because they want to trade things i cannot make arguments are not enough it's not enough to say that france alone wouldn't be able to negotiate free trade agreements that's a bad argument i think people need to have something to dream about. dublin is building the future on the banks of the river liffey. for many years the docklands area was poor now it's a lively business hub where many i.t. giants have their european headquarters multinationals were drawn by low corporate tax rates and flexible labor laws now they declare their worldwide revenues here and save billions but they've also brought money to the c

whoever goes to france has to speak french. they have to be habituated french, look like a parisian government they have to blend in, not just to fool the germans because they are pretty easily fooled their french isn't that good. they had to fool the french. three years into the war every able-bodied man already beenen conscripted. winston churchill gave his personal approval to send women into combat because he really lookedco good about warfare. he just thought it was cool, and in part, because he didn't have ca choice. .. . >> and they should go. and the very first woman in combat and in every respect that was grandiose and dramatic it was very common sense and was an aristocrat and came from a island off the coast of africa it was french and used as a stop so she spoke french and she lived in paris most of her adult life. if she stays in france she'll end up in a concentration camp. so she flees she gets to london where her brother is already working for a secret government agencies so they give her name to a recruiter. fo

s, in the lana in france. i would love to work in milan, for example there is the nice and very important theatres. stu d e nts nice and very important theatres. students optimistic for their own futures but some are aware of the country ‘s problems. futures but some are aware of the country 's problems. we are now in a worse place than yesterday. but tomorrow, it will be even wise. here in the heart of the lines glamorous fashion quarters, you could easily forget that italy has some persisting economic problems. growth this week, the economy is still small than it was before the clever financial crisis and unemployment, especially among young people, is painfully high. it is notjust the unemployed who are affected by the weakness. many young people can't see a stable outlook for themselves, and are looking for opportunities abroad. 20 is agreed italy, it was good, good vibe. good tuition, no? but now there is no future for the young. if you like you are doing everything and everything you can do but you get

and bombardment, bombing of various parts of france, took place all over france because it's the area had just bombed normandy that would give the germans the belief that the invasion was going to come there. in fact, in the -- the french expected it to come farther east than it did. so they had an idea of where it was going to be, but they actually didn't expect it to be in normandy. >> mary louise roberts is our guest. she's history professor at the university of wisconsin at madison. author of the book "d day through french eyes" that's our focus for the last part of our program this morning is the experience of french norman stips and the initial invasion of d day. 202-748-8000 if you are living in the eastern and central time zones. 202-748-8001 for mountain and pacific time zones. and for french americans, the number is 202-748-8 02. particularly interested in you had relatives or ancestors who lived in norman defor french during the time of the invasion. a reminder of the time line of the invasion. we are talking about june 6th, 1944. but the original invasion was postponed, th

in france marine le pen again beat the french president's past. hungary's viktor orban spelled it out the migration issue by itself and the reaction of the people only we all reorganized the 40 specter with the traditional party families will not play the same role in the future as they have done in the recent years i also own traditional jubilant greens resurgence in germany such become a big hitter in the european parliament. and our family as. we achieved this because many many people took to the streets for climate protection because many many young people were ready to fight for climate protection in schools universities in sports halls. yellow vests protesters in brussels on sunday they say the e.u. is undemocratic everyone wants to change cheer up. the fight over which way will be played out in parliament and on the streets. for some analysis of this i'm joined by all of her political scientist and senior advisor. with the resinous and global in britain berlin an absolute shocker for sticking with us all night here thank you so much so euro

coming up, we get an insight on france's economy from france's france's ambassador for investment. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ vonnie: from new york, i'm vonnie quinn. guy: and in london, i'm guy johnson. this is the european close. a tough day for risk assets. let's find out what is going on. abigail: you are absolutely right. it's a tough day for risk assets. take a look at these stock indexes. the kleins on the day. in the u.s., the s&p 500 and nasdaq are down 1.3% or more. we are on pace for the worst value of the year. shenzhen,k at the down 1.8% in the asian session. we go to the bloomberg and we see it is not necessarily new. at least in asia and em. this goes back to april. what we are looking at, in pink and blue, those are the asian and em markets. they started to turn down in april, ahead of the s&p 500. some of the other indexes are all-time -- putting up highs. em is down 9.5% over that time period. in the u.s. today, technology, let's look at the big losers. apple is down 17%, nearly in a bear market from the april peak. mike or soft is down sharply and , amazon -- mic

occupied france we must find and destroy her. what she did in the war meant she was decorated by the french republic and by a british king and an american president and yet all that was done in secret. she has remained in the shadows and i'm would dearly like to change that. what did she do? how could she be so brave because she was beyond brave. she was born to a well-to-do family and her grandmother was a banker and had a big house in downtown baltimore and they say it was wide enough to turn courts and horses in its but that's how big it was. virginia came along the fortune had dissipated somewhat and her father, ned, who she was very close to it was a well-to-do guy and married his secretary barbara but the family fortunes were not quite what they were and the expectation was virginia when mary well and restore the whole to the home to their former glory. virginia had other ideas and as you see from the pictures in the book she was a tomboy. what she liked was going horse riding and hunting in the woods with her father who ga

women did not have the right to vote in france during world war ii. it was not until 1945 after paris had been liberated that they were given that right. marie madeleine marie-madeleine fourcade rebelled against that restrictive view of women and spent all her life refusing to let men dictate what she could do. she had a strong will and taste for risk and adventure and qualities not often seen in young french women from well-to-do families like hers but then again, few gentile french women had unconventional backgrounds and upbringing that she did. her father was a shipping executive and was born spent much of her childhood in shanghai which in the early years of the 20th century was considered the essence of exoticism, mystery and excitement. it was an open city which meant you do not have to have a visa or passport to get there. as a result shanghai was crowned with an extraordinary election of immigrants ranging from white russians fleeing from the bolsheviks to chinese warlords and revolutionaries to american and european gangsters, spies and drug

alliance was important later again because of france. it was the place where the allies we're going to l land to take back europe so they needed to know everything they could about the beaches on which the troops would land. june 61944. her agents in normandy would provide the allies with a 55-foot long map of the normandy beaches on which the allies would land showing every german placement and fortification and beach obstacle along theg coast. together with details of army units so just imagine 55 feet long so that's the map that they would carry with them on d-day. so how difficult was it for a woman to lead a network like this? ianot only the french but the british they worked extremely closely with mi-6 and they had no idea the person who took over from the creator of the alliance was a woman for almost one year. she kept her identity secret because she was convinced they would never accept the idea of a woman is a major spy network and probably was right so she thought she had to prove herself in alliance before her identity was re

italy and france commemorate the artistic genius of leader -- leonardo da vinci. the italian master lived out his final years at a chateau in france. i'm brent goff. to our viewers on pbs and the united states and around about, welcome. brent: we started venezuela where president nicolas maduro has called on the military to fight anyone involved in a coup. juan guaido called for a series of strikes hoping to force madero from power. guaido called this the final thing to do before ousting the door. this left four people dead. guaido declared himself venezuela's drum president -- interim president of venezuela. of move supported by united states and germany. oscar, i want to to start with the news of this arrest warrant that has been issued for leopoldo lopez. what do we knonow beyond that? oscar: he was surprisisingly fre onon tuesday during this coup attempt. he is now at a spanish -- the spanish embassy as a guest. they want to put them back in jail. this is a bit complex to analyze in a traditional manner because juan guaido is recognized but -- as president by

the normandy coast in north—west france. next month marks 75 years since it saw the biggest seaborne invasion in history. 156,000 american, british and canadian troops landed along five of these beaches on d—day. this was the bloodiest flash point of d—day — 0maha beach, where 43,000 american troops stormed the beaches straight into the teeth of the german guns — and really well defended positions here, as well. it took ten hours of brutal fighting before the beach was secured. looking around today, it is a really peaceful scene. it is incredible to imagine the horror of that day. there are museums here, but on the actual sands there is no evidence left, except for these. slowly being reclaimed by mother nature now, these bunkers formed part of the atlantic wall — a series of german fortifications which stretched from scandinavia along the dutch and belgian coasts and all the way around france. designed to repel an allied sea attack, many of the bunkers are still in place. like this one, hidden behind the beach hut

they are previously known as -- for france. it straddles major highways running south from aleppo to the capital and west to the port city. of war, , theyrs are determined to take the province and crushed the rebellion, breaking a cease-fire brokered by russia. momoscow has p provided aiair st while advising against a full-scale attack. is afraid of a major influx of syrian refugees. >> our country does not have the resources or power to take in another 3 million people. we must do what we can too prevent migration from t this ea. the u.n. has warned of a major humanitarian disaster. >> protesters are locked in a country'sith the rulers. the opposition movement is return to aa nationwide civil disobedience campaign. >> civil disobedience is the word they are talking about on the street. the plan is to move the protest beyond this site. strike could be ruled out as early as monday. junior police officers have gone on strike. those working in the post offices, the train service. thatey question is, will alienate sudanese who have

this week on "france 24." ♪ >> you are watching "france 24." these are the headlines. rulers suspend negotiations with protesters on installing civilian rule. the military says the demonstrators need to clear the roadblocks before talks can resume. tensions skyrocketing between the u.s. and iran. an escalating tit for tat that potential toe the slip into conflict. spain a arrests thehe longtime f of the military group that had been on the run for 17 years. also c coming up in business, donald trump launches a two-pronged attack on chinese as theant, huawei, u.s.-china trade war heats up. tech summity visa kicks off today in paris. eventoverage on the big on diverersity a and inclusivit. this is live from paris. ♪ >> progress made in sudan over moving the country toward civilian rule was cut short wednesday. the current army rulers suspend the talks for three days demanding protesters first stop inre said in -- their sit outside of the military headquarters. they pushed omar al-bashir to resign last month. earlier this week, they made a deal w

they issued an instruction, in order to all offices across france, everybody who is occupying france, we must find and destroy her, what she did in the world met she was decorated by the french republic, by a british king, and an american president. yet, all of that was done in secret. she has remained in the shadows and i would like to change that. who was she? how could she be so brave because she really was. she was born in a quite well-to-do family. her grandfather was a banker and had a big house in downtown baltimore. they say was wide enough to turn a coach and horses in it, whether anyone tried, i cannot tell you. when virginia came along the fortune dissipated somewhat. her father, ned who she was very close to was a well-to-do guy. he married his secretary, barb or about the family fortunes were not quite what they were. the expectation was that virginia would very well virginia though had other ideas. and you'll see from the pictures in the book, she was a tomboy. what she liked was horse riding and hunting in the woods with her father who gave her the shot gun to shoot ani

they issued an order across france and anybody else occupying france we must find and destroy her. what she did in the war meant she was decorated by the french republic and a british king and an american president and yet all of that was done in secret so she's remained in the shadows and i would like to change that. so how could she be so grave in baltimore or into a quite well-to-do family, her great-grandfather was a banker and a have a house in downtown baltimore. they say that this was a enough to turn horses in it and whether anyone tried i cannot tell you that that is how big it was. her father who she was close to was a pretty well-to-do guy. they were going horse riding and going hunting. despite that she didn't like animals and the will in part to school some of you might know that so she wasn't any ordinary teenage girl in fact it was class president, sports kept in, editor of the school yearbook and unusual profit that was a natural leader she described herself as contemporaneous and was a character. you can't guess what she was going to do next and that is exactly how

>> daniel: meilleur ouvrier de france. >> anthony: the master craftsman of france. >> daniel: there's about 30 discipline of craftsmen, where you can acquire the m.o.f. >> anthony: see that red, white, and blue around their necks? that means they made it through the brutally, unreasonably rigorous competition that pits hundreds of top chefs against each other, where only a handful survive. >> daniel: so there's basically four or five every four years. >> anthony: certified by the highest in the land as being at the very top of the top of their professions. mof challenges often include ultra old-school classics, not unlike the one we're making today. poularde en vessie. thick slices of black truffle are slipped under the skin of a chicken from bresse, the rolls royce of chickens. it's then tied, slipped inside a pig's bladder, and steamed in court bouillon until tender. >> daniel: the idea is to concentrate the flavor of truffle inside the bladder. the dish they choose, it's already in reference to a chef of the past. this was a dish la mere brazier was doing. >> anthony: the at-times

it was in that spirit that the presidents of italy and france gathered at given she's tomb was france it's only on its own say this renee stone's period was an extremely important time in the friendship between italy and france when you're in a sense genius came to france to spend the rest of his life at the invitation of a young french king and see given she spent the last three years of his life at the chateau do close say and died here in fifteen nineteen at the age of sixty seven but his legacy in contemporary europe has few equals. tolerance can watch you alone cohen has murdered woman's body guards just days before his coronation the king is a three time to go see he's forty to hold a fourth wife and a surprise this time and that was shown on hold tight each other you create a screen. this was some weights we're now a relationship that love was a rumor few years now it's official the king annoying seeing his queen with sacred water this elaborate ceremony was broadcast to the entire country and it was watched by leaders of the country's ruling military and other royal family mem

so italy, france and great britain. it is a sign of a europe that is changing, a europe tired of the powers of the elites, finance, multinationals, and from tomorrow we will have to redouble our efforts. i'm joined now by rome—based jouralist sabina castelfranco. thank you forjoining us here on bbc news. so isn't matteo salvini correct, is europe changing?” news. so isn't matteo salvini correct, is europe changing? i think is going to do everything in his power to make a change. certainly what it has shown is that his motto of italy comes first is important. he is going to focus on ensuring that sovereignty remains to italy, that sovereignty remains to italy, that europe cannot decide over everything, but we will have to see how the plays out in europe with the number of seats he has and everybody else has. it's going to take some time before we actually understand just how many representatives of strength italy will have in europe. during the campaign, did he give any indication of exactly how he will align his par

saw not only france is in crisis what is no days vision. of europe. a place where people come together because they have something to say to each other not just because they want to trade things i cannot make arguments are not enough it's not enough to say that france alone wouldn't be able to negotiate free trade agreements that's a bad argument i think people need to have something to dream about. in our continuing series 100 must reads featuring famous german language books that are translated into english today's novel is called the wool by the austrian. school for there's a cataclysmic event at the beginning of the novel which means the main protagonist whose name we never found find out is alone in the world behind a kind of wall anyway here's david levitz to explain more. what if my arms were right and you could actually get trapped behind an invisible wall and what if you were trapped behind an invisible wall alone in the forest and you were possibly the only person left on the planet. austrian author molly and household for wrote about this m

is something in france which is very damaged. this imbalance is also reflected within europe itself. this is the subject of fall creates this play i am europe which studies last nor did a staged at the beginning of the year. and . let me tell you that. we. didn't. so not only france is in crisis what is no day's vision of europe. it's a place where people come together because they have something to say to each other not just because they want to trade things cannot make arguments are not enough it's not enough to say that france alone wouldn't be able to negotiate free trade agreements that's a bad argument i think people need to have something to dream about. dublin is building the future on the banks of the briffa living. for many years the docklands area was poor now it's a lively business hub where many i.t. giants have their european headquarters multinationals were drawn by low corporate tax rates and flexible labor laws now they declare their worldwide revenues here and save billions but they've also brought money to the

it was in that spirit that the presidents of italy and france gathered at given she's tomb in was france. it's on the and it's on say did this renascence period was an extremely important time in the friendship between italy and france when rene soames jenius came to france to spend the rest of his life at the invitation of a young french king as an awful city davinci spent the last three years of his life at the chateau say and died here in fifteen nineteen at the age of sixty seven but his legacy in contemporary europe has few equals. full is just over a month before the women's world cup kicks off in france and there is word that the best women's player in the world will not be competing that's right adda huggy bear the winner of last year's coveted by award was left off the norwegian team's roster that's wrong. place for a french club that has spoken out against her whole federation over frustrations with the state of the women's game in norway the national team coach says her bags absence is by her own decision. here's a reminder the top story that we're following for you but it's w

stay with us here on "france 24." >> join us on "france 24" for european election results night. i will be with you live as the results come in from all across the globe. we'll get experts comments and analysis. from guests and our own team of cords from around the -- cocours from around the e.u. this an election most important for the e.u. join us on "france 24." >> [jazz playing] kris kuramitsu: we have this idyllic image of 1950s america with families b buying homes inn thehe suburbs, there's jazz playaying on thehe stereo, technology is ushering in the new jet agage... but while that stereotytype was trtrue for some, that ararticulr american dream was not available to everyone, nonot even some of those a artists and d designers whose wowork really visually define that t era. alexandra lange: not only are all of these artworks immediately recognizablble icons of post-war american art and design, but their second generation japanese american makers share a common bond beyond their ethnicity.

so italy, france and great britain. so italy, france and great britain. it is a sign of a europe thatis britain. it is a sign of a europe that is changing, a europe tired of the powers of the elites, finance, multinationals, and from tomorrow we will have to redouble our efforts. let's get more analysis on this. i'm joined now by beniamino pagliaro, editor at la repubblica newspaper. welcome to bbc news. what do you make of the results coming out of italy? well, matteo salvini is for sure the winner of tonight's race and thejump the league has done from one year is a very exceptional result. as you were saying, the five star movement, the league partner in this government, went very bad. i doubt in the long—term, the end of the year, this government will be able to go on. tonight salvinis was the one saying we will go on. the government will work. he doesn't wa nt to government will work. he doesn't want to be blamed for italy without a government. but this is a political earthquake and it has... it will have consequences very, very soon, especially whe

. >> i'm frances rivera. on this memoriwoayd away with japan's prime minister. the two leaders briefing te tensions with north korea. for the latest we go to hallie jackson who is traveling with the president. halle, good morning. >> reporter: hey there, frances and marlie, good morning to the both of you. president trump is waking up again in japan after holding a news conference with prime minister shinzo abe of japan we were there and there were some notable moments coming out of this press conference we knew that trade and north korea would be top of the agenda and they certainly were in this discussion president trump, when asked about whether he thought the recent missile test by north korea violated u.n. security council resolution, president trump said it didn't matter to him. he said some in his administration, notably john bolton, believed those tests do violate the resolution president trump said he was unbothered by them, essentially brushing off the concern about what north korea is doing. he was also asked if he still had confidence in bolton, and

some partial results in from the from 2 countries germany and france of the stations like the greens are having a good night the national rather in france where they take 23.2 percent but as far as exit polls are concerned looks like being a good night for a marina in the pens. and as. far right populist parties across europe are expected . best strongest showing that ever in an election to the european parliament it is a political phenomenon that is being felt in nearly everywhere across the bloc in pinion polls ahead of the election. for this party's in 4 countries the u.k. poland hungary and its early were expected to take more than 30 percent of the votes in those countries plus several of those parties that are trying to forge a united front in europe. the cd come not to break you up but to remake it divided by language. meaning so late. night by popular is a pretty good shit once it ever exit memory is good it starts it can be right and a common enemy is an example junk of. their europe's far right leaders and together they are appending decades of e.u. rules and norms laying s

than they had in france. guess where those landing craft were going to come from? italy. the british had a fundamental problem again with operation overlord, which starts a whole new series of arguments. the british argued that anvil would deplete italy of the required equipment. eisenhower simply didn't care. not only were the british putting up a hard time, but now the air corps planners were so convinced of their superiority, that bombing could end the war, they did not want any part in operation overlord. the planners had called for them to bomb all of the rail facilities throughout normandy to keep the germans from reinforcing normandy, and they didn't want to play. they were like, if you guys would leave us alone for 30 days , we can end the war without having to invade france. that didn't really sit too well with eisenhower, but he is getting a lot of pushback on his plans and he starts to cave in. he starts to negotiate with people and he is telling marshall about this. marshall is limited and -- is l

>> thihis is france 24. here are thehe top headlinines. on to twotieses hold thirds of the new parliament. the traditional right and left groups who ruled for decades take a hit. that opens the way for solid wins for liberals, the green party and the far right. there was a big win for voter turnout that hit its highest level in 25 years. a 7% jump in the last vote with many observers saying thanks to more young people heading to the polls. u.k., nigel faraj and his brexit party come in first place. he's demanding a seat at the brexit negotiation table. as the new european parliament takes it seat, the eu position on potential free-trade deals will be in the spotlight. more on that coming up in our business update. we will take a break from eu news to focus on the frenchman who just won the indy 500. more on top driver simon pageant of coming up. ♪ >> the eu parliamentary election got people interested. the turnout was the highest it has been in 25 years. 50.5%, it is a significant jump from the last poll in 2014. the center-right europea

in france naveen lapan again beat the french president's party. hungary's viktor orban spelled it out for the icing good the migration issue by itself and the reaction of the people only real reorganize the political spectrum with the european union called the traditional party families we're not playing the same role in the future as they have done in the recent he is socialists and democrats party list can visit france timmerman called for humility as his party lost 35 seats and stressed the need for cooperation among the so-called progressive i will repeat my proposition to work with other progressive parties in this politics to try and build a program that addresses the aspirations to dreams and also sometimes the fear is of our fellow europeans those progressive parties include the jubilant greens resurgent in germany and set to become a big hitter in the european parliament women and the liberal group also made significant gains their candidate might be to have a style year now has designs on becoming european commission president comes from

when it comes to social movements few combats the impact of france's yellow vests. just weeks after the protests began president my complex to increase the minimum wage this week he went further a raft of concessions including five billion euros in tax cuts. they were the result of his income on the back and national policy debates and a direct response to the yellow vests the other debate the protesters have provoked is about the media establishment questions about media ownership how journalists cover protests why the levels of trust in french media so low questions that because of the universe a movable now ever before whether on the streets. of the roof. or in the studio. the media finally we have known chomsky media theorist political scientist as you have never seen him before we produced a special episode last year on the fortieth anniversary of the publication of his book manufacturing consent which changed the way a lot of people see the news media but we've never seen an animated version of chomsky in a rap song this one called soundtrack. through the stru

where he wants to concentrate even more power and money at your level and i think even in france this is not a popular thing to do if you look at the result of le pen but we've seen a lot of protests in france against micron not so much by the national rally by by the shawn the yellow vests in every weekend we've seen writing and to varying degrees in paris what impact do you think these initial movement had on mcreynolds vote hard think it's more like a response from the public where it has a great impact i'm not so sure think it just shows that there's a lot of this content and this is confirmed now on the other hand look ben has not done better than 5 years ago so this is also maybe a pattern across europe that you have some and to stub richmond's feeling you're a skeptic sentiment those differently consolidating but i think they're failing to to to make great breakthroughs i mean it's interesting because of course the national rally of marion le pen is sort of born from the front desk and i love her father john marie le pen it was around for decades that she could potentially be o

it was in that spirit that the presidents of italy and france gathered at given she's tomb in was france it's on the one is so say this renee songs period was an extremely important time in the friendship between italy and france when rene soames jenius came to france to spend the rest of his life at the invitation of a young french king as an awful sea davinci spent the last three years of his life at the chateau do close to say and died here in fifteen nineteen at the age of sixty seven but his legacy in contemporary europe has few equals. south africa's olympic running champion cost as the menu is being urged by supporters not to quit her sport this after some in you posted a cryptic tweet hinting she might do just that quit or wednesday she lost her appeal of an international track and field rule that will force certain women starting on may eighth to lower their to start with drugs. cast to cement his recent treat as have many wondering about have future she posted this a day after she lost her appeal at the court of arbitration for sport knowing when to walk away is wisdom being ab

we could say this how it turned out in france didn't have. to do with with europe that it was very domestically if what you say during the election was described by one commentator is a battle for the soul of europe as it was who won the battle i think common sense won the battle finally we've voters a said right we understand there's always been this discrepancy between domestic politics in european politics and while the worst some countries france austria where domestic politics is really raging at the moment and that was uppermost in people's mind many other countries people say i always say we finally understand that european politics affects domestic politics and domestic politics affects your . in politics so they i think they're finally understood that they finally understood there are problems too big for nation states to tackle alone like climate change things the penny dropped because that argument has been argued for so you know the law and wishful thinking if you want because they're all every country is different obviously but i

it was in that spirit that the presidents of italy and france gathered at divin cheese tomb in was france. if you don't know and it's all say this renee sounds period was an extremely important time in the friendship between italy and france when rene soames genius came to france to spend the rest of his life at the invitation of a young french king don't often see given she spent the last three years of his life at the chateau do close to say and died here in fifteen nineteen at the age of sixty seven but his legacy in contemporary europe has you equals. the not commemoration comes amid the largest spike in the country's mostly violence for decades experts say part of the reason is that members of the holocaust and are facing so a new project has come up with an innovative way to keep those memories alive and call number and tell us welcome come i mean how do you keep passing these memories on from generation to generation and it's not easy to keep those alive and so the idea here is to use something like instagram to tell the stories of the holocaust to a younger generation and you can

is something in france which is very damaging. this imbalance is also reflected within europe itself. this is the subject of fark race display i am europe which studies last nor did a staged at the beginning of the year. let me tell you that. we. saw not only france is in crisis what is no days vision of europe. it's a place where people come together because they have something to say to each other not just because they want to trade things by economic arguments are not enough it's not enough to say that france alone wouldn't be able to negotiate free trade agreements that's a bad argument i think people need to have something to dream about. dublin is building the future on the banks of the river liffey. for many years the docklands area was poor now it's a lie. business hub where many i.t. giants have their european headquarters multinationals were drawn by low corporate tax rates and flexible labor laws now they declare their worldwide revenues here and save billions but they've also brought money to the country and jobs as a