US Vice-President To Focus on Trade in Japan Talks

US Vice-president Mike Pence is due to meet with Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso. He is to discuss opportunities to promote bilateral trade agreements and attract Japanese investment in the United States. The meeting is happening against a backdrop of heightened tension between the US and North Korea.

The BBC looks at what's behind the rise in popularity of the far-left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon, less than a week away from the first round of the French presidential election.

And we go back to the Gambia to see what ordinary people expect from the government of Adama Barrow, almost one hundred days since long-time authoritarian leader Yahya Jammeh was ousted.