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And welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in central London.
I'm Tim Frakes.
And we're beginning with a record-shattering day in Europe.
Record-shattering for the heat, which particularly West and Central Europe have been sweating through.
The temperatures aren't just unprecedented for June.
Today, France's national weather agency said that the country had seen the hottest day on average since records began.
And this before we've even got to what most people regard as peak summer.
Heat waves are becoming ever more frequent and ever more intense.