Ben McPartland

alcohol bans before.

You know, Paris is one of those cities where a lot of people drink out, you know, by the riverbanks, by the canal in parks.

And I think they just want to send the message that alcohol does not go well with heatwaves.

So from midday today, they've announced a ban of people, you know, drinking outside.

And then from 6 p.m.,

They said, you know, supermarkets and kind of off licenses are banned from selling alcohol.

You know, I think they want to target those people who, you know, will buy alcohol and go and sit outside and drink, you know, with their mates, you know, throughout the night, throughout the evening.

It's still allowed to drink in bars and restaurants.

You know, that's not a total ban.

You know, that's what we try to check out.

But it's mainly to send a message to people to say, look, don't drink while there's a heat wave on.

You know, it's very hard to enforce alcohol bans in Paris.

You know, I was just looking at the weather map before I came on.

You know, most of the country is still on red alert for tomorrow.

The heat wave is moving west.

There's still, you know, a huge swathe of the country on red alert.

So temperatures are going down.

We're desperately hanging on, you know, day by day for the temperatures to go down.

But this is not going to end kind of overnight with a quick storm.

It's going to, you know, next week should be cooler, but it's still going to stay hot.