This is CBS I on the world with John Bachelor.

Here's John Bachelor.

To the South of France, to Paradise Simon Constable reporting for the Wall Street Journal,

Barons and other distinguished publications.

Right now watching the climate.

It's been raining for weeks. There are large tragic

stories in South America, Brazil because of the rains and the floods. Same for

Australia.

Question is, have the rains in the agricultural bread basket of France, have they dominated the fields to the point that the crop is damaged.

Simon, a very good evening to you.

You reported when we last spoke

that the fields were getting flooded and that worried the farmers.

What's happened since then?

Good evening to you. Good evening to you, John. It has

rained. It has continued to rain since then. Today, it's not raining and tomorrow it

will rain again and we're hoping that that's the end of it at least at least of the levels we've seen

who's gushing down gullies and off the roof for a lot of places and farmers in the area are saying,

look, it's okay if it stops nowish,

if the rain stops nowish,

but if it continues much further,

then we could have some real problems and these are people

who have obviously been doing this for many many years so let's hope it does stop so

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