French elections: Macron wins over Le Pen
All candidates - except the far right Eric Zemmour - have urged their voters not to support Marine Le Pen in the second round
Emmanuel Macron has won the first round of the French presidential elections but the run off against his far right rival Marine le Penn may be much closer. We’ll go to France to find out what this might mean for French politics.
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer will visit Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow later today. He’s the first European leader to meet him since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, we’ll consider what might come out of this meeting.
And Pakistan's parliament is due to elect a new prime minister after Imran Khan was ousted in a no-confidence vote at the weekend. Long-time rival, Shehbaz Sharif, is widely expected to win. We’ll find out who he is.
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