‘Le slap’: Brigitte Macron, schoolteacher to France’s first woman

Emmanuel Macron has performed down a video of him being pushed within the face by his spouse Brigitte, because the couple ready to go away their aircraft to start their tour of South East Asia.  
 
The French president mentioned he was simply joking with the primary woman and the incident was "nothing". But the footage has put the pair and their relationship within the international highlight.  
 
In in the present day’s episode, Niall Paterson talks to France 24’s worldwide affairs editor, Philip Turle, about who Brigitte Macron is, how the couple are seen in France and the net rumours which have dogged them. 
 
Producer: Emily Hulme and Gabriel Radus 
Editor: Wendy Parker