Growing concerns over young people using anti-aging products, have prompted industry regulators in Italy to investigate claims that some brands are using young influencers to promote skincare products to other children.

Investigators say that the practice is linked to the broader issue of ‘cosmeticorexia’ – a new term coined by some healthcare professionals to describe an obsession with skincare.

The Global Story’s Asma Khalid speaks to the BBC’s health and wellbeing reporter Ruth Clegg, about how harmful skincare is for the social media generation.

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00:00 Introduction
02:58 Value of children’s skincare and cosmetics industry
04:11 Teen skincare influencer Ellie-May and her family
08:00 How is this different to young people experimenting with makeup in the past?
08:51 What is cosmeticorexia?
10:45 Is this just a new label for an old problem?
13:52 “I wish I had taken care of my skin more when I was younger”
15:11 Are skincare brands actively involved with these influencers?
16:34 Regulators investigating brands
20:33 “Women’s bodies have always been big business”
22:44 How Ellie-May’s mother manages her social media

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Tens of millions of people across western Europe are sweltering under unusually high temperatures.

A maximum red heatwave alert covers more than half of France, where temperatures have broken the average record for June. The heat is also touching 40 Celsius in Spain and Portugal.

The BBC’s climate editor Justin Rowlatt tells us how European governments are attempting to mitigate the effects of extreme heat, both now and long into the future.

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00:00 Introduction
00:27 Is this heatwave a sign of what’s to come?
01:31 Weather forecast projections for the next few decades
03:03 Reflection on Europe heatwave in 2003
04:23 How are governments responding to heatwaves?
06:08 Are countries acting urgently on climate change?
07:25 How much worse could it get?
08:18 Could urbanisation be reversed because of extreme temperatures?

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Heatwave conditions that have left Spain, France and the UK sweltering for days are set to shift to the east, with forecasters in Germany and the Czech Republic now warning of extreme conditions.

In France, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has announced that the health alert level is being raised to its highest, to boost hospital staffing and protect the vulnerable.

United Nations climate change chief Simon Stiell has said “Europe’s savage heatwave has the fingerprints of the climate crisis all over it”, and he has called for “a faster shift to renewables, protecting forests and boosting climate resilience”.

00:00-2:40 – How the heatwave is hitting Europe
2:40-7:47 – How to stay safe during the heatwave
7:47-11:31 – How the heatwave has impacted the UK

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

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