Andy beshear, acknowledged the incident on x warning people to avoid the scene. We ll bring you more details as they come. More than 100,000 people joined protests across france on saturday, over president macron s appointment of right wing politician, michel barnier, as the new prime minister. It follows mr macron s rejection of a candidate presented by the left wing bloc that won the most seats in a recent election. Mr barnier is the european union s former brexit negotiator and says he is open to forming a government with mps across the political spectrum, including on the left. But left wing parties, trade unions, and many voters are furious that mr macron blocked their own candidate. There were 130 protests across the country. Paris drew the largest crowds, but there were major demonstrations in marseille, nantes, nice and strasbourg. Protesters said president macron has made a mockery of those who successfully mobilised against the french far right in snap parliamentary elect
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charity medecins sans frontieres says attacks intensified overnight, adding it has lost contact with its medics working there. israel s defense forces have been closing in on northern gaza. these purple areas show the approximate align has come in that operations at al shafi hospital have stopped because of a lack of fuel. meanwhile, in an interview with the bbc, the french president emmanuel macron has called for israel to stop killing babies and women in gaza. france, like the uk, has proscribed hamas as a terrorist organisation. our correspondent nick beake is injerusalem with the latest. this was israel s aerial attack on gaza overnight. an unrelenting barrage, like most nights over the past five weeks. israeli forces have now surrounded gaza city s major hospitals, where they say hamas have built headquarters underground. but thousands of patients and those just trying to seek shelter are stranded on what is now a front line of the fighting. the red cross says hospitals
feel that they ve really heard moscow s black sea fleet and essentially finally rendered ineffective and the ukrainian say they will continue to develop those sea drones to hurt vladimir putin s naval forces even more, aaron. all right, fred, thank you. thanks for joining us. the situation room begins now happening now, breaking news donald trump returns to washington to rally republicans on capitol hill learning. new details from our sources inside the meeting, including the moment the former president shook hands with one of his toughest critics, turned supporter senate minority pretty leader mitch mcconnell, plus, we re following president biden at the g7 summit in italy, where he just signed a historic ten year security agreement with you grain. ukrainian ambassador to the united states joins me. this hour also tonight, fulton county district attorney, fani willis is lashing out at her critics what the woman leading the trump prosecution in georgia said about her detr
garner enough support given this shift and given that rise from the far right linda, we ll certainly see how that plays out in july. of course, looking at these results, the french president s party didn t do well. emmanuel macron calling snap elections for later this month. yeah. look i think again, it wasn t a shock that the national rally and other far right parties did so well. but what was a shock was how emmanuel macron reacted to this. he didn t have to do this. he could have come out and said, look, this is a protest vote and just carried on. but on the one hand, i think he didn t have a whole lot to lose. he already lost his his overall majority in parliament. he s already struggled to get some key policies through and this may be a calculation that this is a chance to win back a mandate. and alizée source telling cnn that the approach will be convince, convince, convince in the lead up to these elections, the first round just three weeks away. but in his sp