hugh schofield, thank _ and extended it self eastward.ward. hugh schofield, thank you very much indeed. stay with us here and bbc news. let's get a report from north korea. residents of two small south korean islands have been evacuated after north korea fired more than 200 artillery shells into the sea off their coasts. south korean officials called the shelling near the two countries' maritime border "provocative" — and said it would respond with appropriate measures. four people were killed on the smaller of the islands, yeonpyeong, in 2010 by another barrage of north korean shells. that was the first such attack on a civilian area since the end of the korean war 70 years ago. our reporter, yuna ku, has been following the latest developments in seoul. so north korea had fired more than 200 artillery rounds into the west sea on friday morning as a part of this military drill. the shells hit the north side of the northern limit line, which is tightly defended maritime border, but it caused no damage to civilians or the military. and what

hugh schofield, bbc news, central france.ews. hello there. temperatures have been a little bit higher today, but we have seen more cloud around, particularly across more western parts of the uk. a lot of the cloud is still quite thin, high cloud, mind you. and if you have a look at the satellite picture, you can see all that cloud that's been coming in from the atlantic to the south of our weather front that's been hanging around in the north and north—west of scotland, bringing some outbreaks of rain. but through the night, as we see a southerly wind picking up, we're going to blow that rain band out of the way. it still could be quite cloudy in northern ireland and scotland, bit of dampness in the air now and again. rather more variable cloud across england and wales. and last night it got to minus three at exeter airport. lowest temperatures will be across eastern parts of england where we have clearer skies and there could be a touch of ground frost first thing on sunday morning. but with that wind picking up on sunday, w

hugh schofield, bbc news, central france.hey often contain active ingredients like exfoliating acids and have become increasingly popular with kids as a result of social media. annabel rackham reports. eight—year—old sadie says she first came across videos of influencers doing skincare routines a couple of months ago. she saw products being advertised on tik tok and youtube shorts and asked family members to buy them for her as presents. what is it that you love about skincare? mostly about the packaging because i like all the colours on it and like the labels. how does it... how does it all get laid out? what do you do? ijust do, like, the biggest to the smallest. so, like washing my face. that's the biggest thing. and then like lip balm, that's the smallest thing. and then this is the... but skin specialists say they're worried about what ingredients are in some of the products that are most popular with children. why have you stopped using some of the products? well, it's because i'm a bit young and i know that my face is

our correspondent, hugh schofield, has more.hing about the new minister gabriel taylor as his supreme youth are just 3a which makes him the youngest ever prime minister in the country's history and if you combine his agent with that of the president, president macron, you get to number 80 which is less than the age of the united states and shows how youth, vigor, dynamism other watchwords of the current administration in france, pushed by the youthful president macron. in fact there are people who say rather unkindly that gabriel attal is a many, many for the president. only young, handsome cogent and extremely voluble and powerful and extremely ambitious as well. so that is what president macron has said, a popular figure as well, gabriel attal, who is education minister and acted with quite firm determination over the last six months and we point various crisis that were popular in the country but now he confronts the same difficulties his predecessor, outgoing elisabeth borne confronted but above all thatis borne confronted b

live now to our correspondent in paris hugh schofield. was this a decision that was expected?the frontrunners? ., , ., ~ frontrunners? he was under a week aro frontrunners? he was under a week auo it frontrunners? he was under a week ago it would — frontrunners? he was under a week ago it would have _ frontrunners? he was under a week ago it would have been _ frontrunners? he was under a week ago it would have been a _ frontrunners? he was under a week ago it would have been a surprise i ago it would have been a surprise but since then the odds have narrowed considerably and by yesterday all of the speculation was that it was going to be gabriel attal after other people close to emmanuel macron dropped out or did not seem to be in the running any more, there were hints emerging it was going to be attal. it's still a great story and an interesting appointment because as you say, he's so young and the fact that he is gay, not that it makes a difference but that makes it interesting to but what is interesting is what a similar profile he has to president macron himself. this is a