You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway and we're recording this at 13 hours

GMT on Monday the 1st of July.

Is the far right about to take power in France?

Our party is not the monster it has been presented as.

The fact that we love our country does not mean that we hate others.

But President Macron is calling for centrist and left-wing

parties to unite against the national rally in the second round of voting next Sunday.

It was the earliest category for Hurricane ever recorded. Now Storm

Barrel is taking aim at the Caribbean. And the US Justice Department is accused

of offering Boeing a Sweetheart deal over fatal 737 Max airline crashes.

Also in the podcast we hear about the Sudanese children fleeing the conflict in Darfur.

We suffered a lot because of the security situation.

Now, I believe I'm in a safe place.

Even for my pupils, they can't get a good education if they don't feel safe.

We look back at the life of the Albanian writer and poet Ismael Kaddare who's died at the age of 88

and an admission charge to climb Mount Fuji.

But first, one thing that's clear, after the first round of the French election the

far right is now closer to power than at any time since the Second World War.

Marine Le Penz Rassamblanc National won a third of the vote on Sunday and as campaigning gets

underway for the second round next weekend, President Macron has called for centrist and

left-wing blocks to join forces to stop the far-right winning control of

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