This is CBSi on the world. I'm John Bachelor. To the south of France Paradise, Simon Constable

reporting for the Wall Street Journal and other distinguished publications. We begin, however,

with the climate. Simon, a very good day to you here in southern

New England it has turned bright and blue skies and cooler perfect September

weather which is what it was on the day of the attack, 23 years ago. How is it in the

south of France? Good evening to you, Simon. Good evening to you, John. It is a lot cooler.

It started the day at 50. It is a lot cooler.

It started the day at 50 degrees Fahrenheit

and is likely to reach the high 60s.

So that's a lot cooler, but there's also been a lot of cloud cover

and occasional rain coming down on us so quite

quite different from what it is where you are.

Are the sunflower crop ready to come in?

Have they started harvesting

They have not started harvesting that and I believe they will start harvesting that soon

So I think the weather is a little out of kilter this year, so everything's a little off target in terms of the timing.

We'll see what happens and I'll keep you apprised of that.

Yes, we move from the sunflower crop to concerns about commodities. The food complex and the

energy complex. What have you got for movement?

Well let's first start with the energy. Brent Crude has drops to $70 a barrel,

and that's down from over $90 a barrel in early April.

So I have really, really quite a steep fall

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