as it is a world book day we have right and illustrator raymond briggs. join me now on bbc two. here on bbc one it is time for the news where you are. have a good night. hello, you're watching bbc news. i'm olly foster at the bbc sport centre, these are our headlines tonight. no comment from sir bradley wiggins on a day that british cycling admits to more failings. andy murray says he's never experienced anything like it. seven match points saved in a half hour tie break as be scrapes into the dubai semi—finals. and hear the tigers roar. they have thrashed the rhinos tonight to stay top of the super league. good evening, what a terrible few days it's been for british cycling. today they apologised for ‘failings' at the conclusion of the review into a culture of bullying and discrimination at the organisation.

what better way to mark world book day than to have our own stephen smith meet raymond briggs at hisating in the moonlit sky... how do you feel when you're doing christmas shopping and you hear aled jones singing, we're walking in the air? sends me screaming! no. he is a big fan of this programme, so he will be watching. no, it's perfectly good, of course. i did an introduction to the snowman film, and the americans wanted somebody more important than me to do it. quite rightly. and they somehow got david bowie to do it. 0ne winter, i made a really big snowman. he got this scarf for me. you see, he was a real snowman. he got it all wrong, of course. hopeless! we did it about six times. but it was fun meeting him. wearing these wonderful glittering pink shoes. never seen pink shoes before on a man. and he says, "i greatly admire your work." i said, "god, wish i could say the same!" you said that to him? no, i muttered it! raymond briggs is finally getting down to the project which may be his swansong and mordant masterpiece. you see, that could be nobody else but you. really? time for

on world book day, stephen smith meets raymond briggs.ll be a last time i walk this path, before the hospital, before the home, before something. and the irony is, you never know that the time that it is to be the last time. oh, dear, very profound. the french election is heating up. we'll get the latest, as francois fillon‘s home is searched. and snapchat hits the stockmarket. is this really the future of communication? hello. jeff sessions — the second trump appointment to get into a tangle about russia and about his honesty. did he tell the truth, or not? the attorney general denied any russian contact in his confirmation hearings. but he in fact met the ambassador twice. as one twitter wit put it, he might as well have said, "i did not have international relations with that country." sessions says the meetings didn't relate to trump or the election, which was the context of the questions he was answering. so, no lie there, he says. he's not resigning. but in the last 90 minutes, he has recused himself from any investigation into the t