Paul Moss

He had a home here.

And then there's more because it's clear also that between Caroline Lange and Epstein, there was some kind of financial arrangement to set up an offshore company in the American Virgin Islands, which was funded by Epstein in theory to buy French artworks.

Plus, there's indication that at some point, Jacques Lange intervened with Epstein to try to arrange the sale of a Riyadh, a fancy house in Morocco, and that he got $60,000 from Epstein to help fund a film about his political career, none of which amounts to criminality.

But it's all highly embarrassing.

And the pressure has been building on Jacques Lange to step down from this sort of diplomatic post, which he's got kind of permanently at the head of the Arab World Institute.

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.