Jean-Marie Le Pen, a Holocaust denier and an unrepentant extremist on race, gender and immigration who founded the French far-right National Front party in 1972, has died aged 96. Also on the programme, a powerful earthquake close to Mount Everest has killed more than a hundred people in Tibet and affected the city of Shigatse, and can alcohol-free wine still be considered wine? (Photo: Jean-Marie Le Pen dead at 96, Paris, France - 22 Apr 2014 YOAN VALAT/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
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Hello and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in London.
I'm Tim Franks.
Coming up on the program, we'll bring you the latest on the powerful earthquake which has struck the Tibet region of China, with rescuers searching now through the night for survivors in a remote and freezing region.
More that in 30 minutes.
First, though, we're heading to France with two stories that have, in their own but perhaps linked ways, powerful symbolism.
In a moment, the 10th anniversary commemorations of the Islamist gun attacks in Paris.
And before that, the news that broke shortly before we came on air that the far right French politician Jean Marie Le Pen has died.
He was 96, a convicted racist and an anti Semite, a man who was both seen as a pariah and yet whose influence and reach can still be felt today.
Le Pen founded France's national front party in 1972.
He came to international attention 30 years later when he led a surprise challenge for the presidency, reaching the second round, the runoff of the election, before losing heavily to Jacques Chirac.
His daughter, Marine Le Pen has both followed in his footsteps and also tried to distance herself from him.
She renamed the party, calling it National Rally, and she succeeded in turning it into a major force in French politics.
Here's Andrew Harding.
Vive le franc national.