France Election: Fillon Apologises Over Family Payments

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As France's presidential election is blown wide open, we'll ask who could eventually win. Michael Stothard is the Paris correspondent for the Financial Times newspaper and gives us his thoughts. Also in the programme, almost 100 big US businesses have joined a lawsuit to challenge President Trump's executive order restricting immigration. Emily Dreyfuss writes for the technology news website Wired and tells us why the mostly tech companies have taken such a public stand against the White House. People in Nigeria have been protesting about their government's handling of the country's economic crisis. The BBC's Martin Patience went along to a demonstration in Lagos. Conservationists are challenging the UK government to ban the buying and selling of antique ivory. Charlie Mayhew is chief executive of the conservation charity Tusk, and explains his organisation's opposition to the trade. Plus, Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times finds out that when it comes to business writing, boring is good. (Picture: Francois Fillon. Picture credit: Getty Images.)