Global fertility rates are at record lows globally, and governments around the world are urging couples to grow their families.

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France has recorded its hottest day since records began in 1947, breaking a record set a day earlier, as an early summer heatwave grips western Europe. France’s national temperature indicator – an average of day and night temperatures across dozens of locations – hit 30C, up from 29.8C a day earlier.

In the UK a red heat alert is in place for large areas of England, with a temperature of 36.1C recorded in Hampshire, the highest ever recorded in June. Forecasters predict temperatures could soon hit 38C.

The heatwave has caused deaths and serious disruption, particularly in France, Spain and Italy and is spreading to other parts of western Europe, with a new orange alert for dangerous weather in place for parts of the Netherlands.

Temperatures are expected to peak in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany in the next few days, with the heatwave also forecast to affect eastern Europe, where severe heat warnings have been issued in Poland, Croatia and Hungary.

Climate change is driving up temperatures around the world – but particularly in Europe – which some experts believe is heating up twice as fast as the global average.

Reeta Chakrabarti presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Helena Wilkinson and Justin Rowlatt.

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The US economy backs Elon Musk’s vision for sending people to Mars, the moon and beyond with SpaceX. Elon Musk’s rocket, telecommunications and artificial intelligence company SpaceX has listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange with a value of $2.2 trillion; making him the world’s first trillionaire in the process.

Other AI companies, including Open AI and Anthropic have plans to follow suit but what does that mean for the US economy and global financial stability?

In this episode, Justin speaks to Ryan Mac – an investigative technology reporter for the New York Times who has extensive experience covering Elon Musk and other leaders in the AI field.

SpaceX’s public valuation has made millionaires of many of its past and current employees and generated around $85 billion for the company; money that Elon Musk says is essential to fulfil the company’s plans to build bases on the Moon, put data centres into orbit and send human beings to Mars.

But what happens if those plans remain unfulfilled?

As more companies offer shares to investors and the general public, Justin and Ryan explore whether America is gambling on the promise of AI? And is the US economy becoming dangerously reliant on one industry?

00:00 Intro
00:55 What does it mean to be a trillionaire?
01:41 SpaceX’s stock market debut
05:21 Why investors rushed to buy SpaceX shares
10:09 Why Elon Musk divides opinion
12:08 The promises Musk has and hasn’t delivered
22:03 What happens if the AI boom slows down?
27:20 Outro

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has resigned, ending months of speculation about his future.

His Labour party had a landslide election victory in 2024.

He’d been under growing pressure to step aside since his main leadership rival Andy Burnham secured a seat in parliament.

Britain is now on the verge of getting its seventh prime minister in a decade.

Our UK political correspondent Rob Watson tells us why things went wrong for Keir Starmer so quickly.

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00:00 Introduction
00:25 Keir Starmer resigns
01:24 Reaction of some people in the UK
02:22 Why is the prime minister so unpopular?
03:07 Why does Andy Burnham’s election as an MP matter?
04:30 Why does Andy Burnham have so much support?
05:29 What would Andy Burnham do differently?
06:52 Why does Britain struggle to keep its prime ministers?
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As the G7 summit comes to a close in France, Donald Trump said he had a very good meeting with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and that Russia should “make a deal”.

The US president has also told journalists that the US is considering whether to reimpose sanctions on Russia.

The US has suspended sanctions on Russian oil in an effort to bring down global energy prices, which soared as a result of its war with Iran. Oil prices fell recently after the two sides agreed a deal.

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