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