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Speaker 1: Fourteen to six now and Gavin Grays with US Live

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Speaker 1: from the UK. The French election big turnout.

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Speaker 2: Indeed looks like it, Ryan, Yeah, So a very important

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Speaker 2: next to fifteen minutes when the polls will close, and

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Speaker 2: then we should get some sort of an exit poll

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Speaker 2: coming out shortly after that, and then of course we

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Speaker 2: will know what's going on in the hours after that.

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Speaker 2: This is a huge moment for France. The National Rally Party,

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Speaker 2: the far right party, got one in three of the

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Speaker 2: votes of the first round last week. But since then

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Speaker 2: the left wing and centrist parties have got together to

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Speaker 2: try and basically some of them stand down in order

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Speaker 2: to hope that their supporters will then support the other

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Speaker 2: left wing our centrist candidate to freeze out the far right.

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Speaker 2: The question is will it work. The tempers have been

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Speaker 2: frayed over the last week with dozens of reports of

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Speaker 2: verbal and physical assaults of both candidates and activists and

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Speaker 2: those putting up posters and so forth. So lots of

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Speaker 2: police as on the street, thirty thousand police deployed, five

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Speaker 2: thousand of them in Paris alone. Things very very tense there,

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Speaker 2: so obviously we'll need to keep up to date with

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Speaker 2: that here in the UK. We've just had our election,

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Speaker 2: of course, and already the new Prime Minister, Skirstana visiting

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Speaker 2: the four nations, so going currently up in Scotland, going

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Speaker 2: to Northern Ireland and to Wales as well, trying to

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Speaker 2: sort of, as it were, seal the deal and to

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Speaker 2: show the irrespective leaders of those different places that he

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Speaker 2: is looking for a conversation and support and cooperation very quickly.

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Speaker 1: What is wrong with a kiss? This French cyclist has

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Speaker 1: been fine?

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Speaker 2: Ah, yeah, what a good question. So this is referring

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Speaker 2: to the Tour de France. There was a time trial

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Speaker 2: when one of the riders, a French cyclist, was quite

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Speaker 2: cycling quite near his home and out pop supporters and

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Speaker 2: his wife and it was a time trial if it

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Speaker 2: just stopped briefly to kiss his wife. And he's been

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Speaker 2: fined two hundred Swiss francs roughly three hundred and eighty

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Speaker 2: New Zealand dollars for the privilege, saying that the sports

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Speaker 2: governing body said it was unseemly or inappropriate behavior during

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Speaker 2: the race and damage to the image of the sport.

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Speaker 2: Who'd have thought it ran It's a.

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Speaker 1: Lot of money. I hope it was a French Kiss.

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