and beer for sunflower oil the munich pub finding an unusual way to beat a frying oil crunch. hello and welcome to the programme. the heatwave in southern europe is intensifying with wildfires forcing thousands of people to flee towns and villages. a number of people have already died, and temperatures are predicted to go well above a0 celsius in parts of spain and portugal. scientists say climate change is a factor in the severity of the heatwave. more than 11,000 people have been forced to leave france s southwestern gironde region, from where our europe correspondent, jessica parker, sent us this report. they ve been battling these fires for days. 1a,000 people have now been evacuated across the area. everything went so fast, and the fire, too, was big, big, big. and my friends woke me up and i was like, 0k, this is very serious, what do i take in my room? manon was working and living at a local campsite. for now, this conference centre is her home. 0thers wait here fo
restaurants in pennsylvania, and your family is in the trucking industry. what do you have to say about what the president says, he says you should feel optimistic about the economy. i don t feel optimistic about it at all. what we see in small business, bidenomics is actually inflation and we re feeling the inflation in every possible way. the restaurant side of things, we have higher labor rates, higher food cost, beer cost, liquor costs. we have higher utilities now. higher interest rates on loan payments and what not, makes it very difficult to turn a profit. it has been a rough ride and i don t have any indication that anything from the biden policies are changing that. in fact, i see the reverse. carley: i hear you, rough ride for small business owners
since covid in 2020. inflation rate has gone down. last year hit record 9.1%, now under 4%. are you feeling relief because of that? any time inflation rates go down, you will feel some relief. i don t personally see it yet. my interest rates, my loan payments and interest rate increased and made it more difficult to turn a profit. so what we need is a much lower interest rate and in addition, we need relief from utilities and from labor perspective, beer cost and liquor cost. when these things come down, we will make much better effort to be able to turn profits in our
brewery also helped because there s an oil shortage in germany. a litre of beer cost around 7 euros in a german bar and a bottle of sunflower oil is just 4.5, euros so it s little wonder that customers are loving it. wendy urquhart, bbc news. a novel idea! the rolling stones invited two ukrainian children s choirs to perform their hit you can t always get what you want at the end of their concert in vienna on friday night. mickjagger told the audience that the choirs had driven a long way to get there from kyiv. that is what was happening. i just want to bring you a reminder of the top story. more people have been ordered to evacuate their homes in france as wildfires continue to intensify across southerrn europe for a sixth day.
a hard life as i did i hope they have a better life. and so she stands here every evening hoping that the money making city won t one day swallow up her home. inside the city life is good. for younger my history and her husband come to this club regularly with their friends. and. a glass of beer cost the equivalent of a full year as the only people in india who can afford these prices are the ones who work for an international company. the average wage in india otherwise is one hundred thirty euros a month. the software developers and managers here have become almost a cost of if. they seal themselves off from the perceived threat outside the city