but reid's farm located in southern tasmania has not been affected. here is the weather forecast in saki ochi. >> welcome to your world weather update. we take a look at east asia first where we continue to see those active clouds developing in and around the if philippines. the region has been seeing a lot of rain the past few weeks. it's ongoing yet again today. meanwhile, southern china, too, has been dealing with snow rather than rain here. heavy amounts for the past few days. slowly that snow area is working towards coastal regions. and today we're looking at that to really impact the central and parts of the southeastern corner of china. now, as we get closer to the coastline, it does turn over to rain, but still this large area looking to pick up on snow today and even heavy snow for some of these areas and this will likely include shanghai. could be causing travel disruptions today. northern areas of china as well as the korean peninsula staying dry. as for japan today still looking at more snow to impact this northwestern flank of the country

further south in the southern states of victoria and tasmania, flooding there, too. last year was a very wet year in australia and this year is following that same pattern. >> we're reporting at the moment that at least 25 people have died. these figures surely are likely to rise. >> we just don't know and we have the authorities saying that as the cleanup continues, we're likely to have the authorities engaged in the grisly task of finding some of those people who are listed as missing. the authorities in australia say that 55 people are officially listed as missing. they hold grave concern for a dozen or so of those so we often see that the picture of the physical devastation but it's the dodge community and of course the damage to human life and families that is really at the heart of this crisis in australia, dealing with floods, droughts and bush fires has made australia extremely resilient to these natural disasters. that resilience is hard wired into the australian icke, if you like -- psyche. but dealing with that loss of life will test that resilience to the

africa, cape of good hope and will continue moving eastward until it gets to south australia and tasmania, and then it will sort of nudge australia, start itself moving anti-clockwise. in cape horn will start moving northward and eventually collide with singapore. it sounds ridiculous, but then cape horn collide with singapore and about 170 million years time. then all of the water would have been squeezed out of what we know the atlantic today. the planet will cease to be. and, of course, it goes without saying humankind will no longer be anywhere near that i mention this only because i might have mentioned this to before and the previous occasion, but i was once talking, the concept of geological time is sometimes difficult for people to grasp and of talking to a group of ladies at lunch in kansas city once about the likely volcanic eruptions in yellowstone national park, which is going to every titanic event, and i said when the volcanoes finally erupt in yellowstone all of the great cities of northwestern united states like seattle and portland, probably san francisco, certainly vanco

. >> this is salmon tasmania and salmon. >>mmmmm.... no go ahead and being self indulgent. >> it's really neat, very easy to do you have a small crushed the statues on top, we make an african ginger glaze right on top and on the back you have this beautiful fennel salad and some mushrooms. what the goal of the book is to really bring culture to everyone's kitchen. have the really great time traveling with us because each recipe is a vignette to of where we were at that time. >> i notice you had a delicious can't read dish from australia. it actually can group can be done very nicely. >> it's hopping from page to page (laughter) >> than in india. >> beautiful talking about culture and spices you don't have to be a good cooks are so much color there if you cannot take a picture. >> i am always proud shot pictures nobody knows any idiot can take the pictures and india folks. what kind of food in india. ? >> i like the street food. all the kabobs and relishes that they're doing. i would say all the grains and the spices. >> this and we have