This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Jackie Leonard, and at 13 hours GMT on Monday, the 31st of March, these are our main stories.

The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been found guilty of embezzlement

and blocked from running in the next French election.

Some people are still being pulled alive from buildings in Myanmar

three days after the earthquake.

National mourning's been declared,

but the military authorities are continuing to wage war.

And Asian stock markets have fallen over fears of a global trade war

ahead of President Trump's expected unveiling of a wave of additional tariffs.

Also in this podcast here in the UK, an international meeting on tackling illegal migration.

We want to work with you and with everyone who is as determined as we are to end the misery and evil of people smuggling.

Let's begin in France.

When the French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was accused of embezzling EU parliamentary funds

for her party national rally, she said if convicted, it would be her political death.

Well, now she's been found guilty and handed a four-year prison sentence to suspended. She probably won't serve time behind bars

and instead will wear an electronic tag. More crucially, she's been banned from running for

political office for five years, making her ineligible for the 27 presidential election.

Our correspondent Hugh Schofield was outside the court in Paris.

We now have, after a very, very tense couple of hours, we have a definitive verdict and sentence on Marine Le Pen.

And that sentence is the worst she could possibly have hoped for.

In other words, a five-year period of ineligibility to be carried out straight away,

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