France is in shock this week and riots have broken out in the suburbs of Paris after the deadly shooting of a teenager by a police officer at close range during a routine traffic stop. Are we set for a repeat of the 2005 violence that spread across the country and lasted for weeks?

And much of France is on alert for drought so could water shortages across the country hit your summer holiday plans?

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 Welcome to a new episode of Talking France, our penultimate episode before we take a summer break.

If you stay with us for the next 30 minutes or so we’ll update you on some of the big talking points in France such as... whether France is facing another nationwide outbreak of rioting as anger grows after French police shot and killed a 17-year-old boy during a traffic stop.

We’ll also explain how a controversial choice of chief editor at a Sunday newspaper has caused uproar and try to explain Emmanuel Macron’s new and rather peculiar, even outdated, drugs policy.

Plus will the ongoing drought and subsequent water restrictions in place across much of the country affect your summer holiday in France? We’ll explain what you need to know if you are heading on holiday in France over the next few weeks.

We’ll also try to explain France’s complicated alcohol rules that means there will be no beer or champagne available in Paris Olympics venues (unless you’re in the posh seats).

And we’ll also reveal where the best places in France are, well, at least according to those organising the route for the Olympics torch.

Host Ben McPartland is joined by Editor Emma Pearson and journalist Gen Mansfield and joining us as usual from his bastion up in Normandy will be politics and basically all-round expert John Lichfield.

Further reading:

OPINION: Paris riots could spiral into nationwide violence as seen in 2005

MAP: Where will the Olympic torch visit on its journey through France?

How could drought and water restrictions impact my French holiday?

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