Final round of French election

France’s far right Rassemblement National eye power as voters go to the polls in parliamentary elections. However, polls predict that Marine Le Pen’s party will fall short of an overall majority.

Also on the programme: growing calls for US President Joe Biden to withdraw from this year’s election after a poor performance in a TV debate; and a major exhibition at London’s design museum marks 65 years of Barbie.

Joining Krupa Padhy to discuss all this and more are Alpa Shah, professor of social anthropology at the London School of Economics, and Samantha de Bendern, an associate fellow at Chatham House specialising in Russia.

(Picture: A woman enters a voting booth, to vote in the first round of the French elections in Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, France, June 30, 2024 Credit: REUTERS/Yara Nardi)