Paul Moss

And on top of that,

You know, there is now a preliminary criminal inquiry.

I mean, it doesn't necessarily mean that it will end up as a full criminal kind of prosecution, but the prosecutor's office is looking into suspicions that maybe there's something criminal that went on financially between the Langs and Epstein.

I imagine regarding this offshore account in the Virgin Islands.

So, all in all, highly embarrassing.

And at a time when France wants to boost its standing around the world and wants to be squeaky clean...

it was clear that the pressure on him to go was very, very strong.

Hugh Schofield, and staying in France, 29-year-olds there will soon be getting a letter in the post reminding them that their biological clock is ticking.

The French government, like others around the world,

is urging people to have more children.

As official data shows, France recorded more deaths than births last year, for the first time since the Second World War.

But the new scheme, hoping to buck that trend, is not going down well, as our reporter Stephanie Prentice told Anchor Dessai.

Now, what's the reaction been as well, the broader reaction?

Stephanie Prentice.

Spain has been a global leader in organ transplants for more than three decades, with Valdebron Hospital in Barcelona leading the way.

And this week, the staff there have marked another world first in the way a face transplant was conducted.

The recipient was identified only by her first name, Kame.

She'd suffered facial tissue necrosis, which affected her ability to speak, eat and to see.

The donor was a woman who'd been terminally ill and who opted for assisted dying.

And that made the operation easier to perform, as Dr. Juan Perry Barrett explained to my colleague, Julian Warreca.