News in slow French – Episode #16 podcast – 5 April 2020

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0:00Hello and welcome to the Hello French press review! The podcast that immerses you
0:04in the news of the week to help you improve your French.
0:08On the front page for this week, from April 5 to 11, 2020.
0:13Boris Johnson, British Prime Minister infected
0:17with Covid, leaves intensive care, but remains hospitalized. The social network TikTok will pay 230
0:24million to help the fight against the coronavirus in Colombia. Police give zumba lessons
0:30to entertain people confined in the United States.
0:34Bernie Sanders is retiring from the election race.
0:37Democrat Joe Biden will therefore face Donald Trump in November.
0:42Life is slowly resuming in Wuhan, home of the Covid-19 epidemic.
0:47This week, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's condition deteriorated.
0:52Sick of Covid-19, he entered intensive care on Monday after three days.
0:58The 55-year-old leader was released from the intensive care unit on Thursday evening.
1:03He is still being treated in hospital.
1:07He therefore remains under close surveillance during his healing phase.
1:11Today, Boris Johnson remains the only state leader to have been infected with the coronavirus.
1:18It is therefore Dominic Raab, Minister of Foreign Affairs,
1:22who now assumes the role of interim Prime Minister.
1:26A complex task in this country very hard hit by the crisis.
1:30TikTok, the social network that makes the world
1:33dance on video, is preparing to pay 230 million euros to help caregivers,
1:38teachers and professionals affected by the virus.
1:42This application, which has been very successful since the start
1:45of containment, was downloaded 65 million times in March.
1:49The company has in particular planned 130 million
1:53euros directly paid to healthcare workers in the countries most affected
1:57by the disease for the purchase of masks or protective equipment.
2:01It has thus created a fund to support health heroes which will be paid to large organizations
2:08such as the Red Cross, in charge of redistributing donations.
2:12But TikTok does not stop there since the company also intends to help
2:16professionals who represent the communities used
2:19by the application, such as artists, for example, who have lost all sources
2:24of income with the closure of concert halls and theaters. TikTok is not the only social network
2:29to show solidarity in the face of the disease. The founder of Twitter
2:34, for his part, gave 920 million euros to help in the fight against Covid-19.
2:39Continuing to party while confined, it is possible in Colombia.
2:46The police give zumba lessons from the sidewalks to entertain the
2:50confined population in uniform and equipped with masks. The Bogota police meet
2:55three times a day with the inhabitants of the city.
2:57They are invited to participate from their balcony or from their window.
3:02For the government, this activity helps both
3:06to maintain the physical and mental health of Colombians. This week, Bernie Sanders withdrew his
3:12candidacy for the US presidential election.
3:15He therefore leaves room for his competitor in the current Democratic primary, Joe Biden. In 2016,
3:21Bernie Sanders, already a candidate, lost in the Democratic primaries to Hillary Clinton.
3:26In these 2020 primaries, he was already far behind
3:31his rival. Bernie Sanders however assured that he would work hand
3:36in hand with Joe Biden to move towards a more progressive America.
3:40The latter will therefore face Republican Donald Trump on November 3. Life resumes in Wuhan,
3:47home of the Covid-19 epidemic. On January 23, the Chinese authorities had placed 11
3:55million inhabitants in quarantine, forced to confine themselves to their homes.
3:59Seventy-five days later, life is gradually resuming, the region's quarantine has been lifted.
4:06The transports start again. Businesses are starting to reopen
4:10and residents are taking to the streets for the first time in two months.
4:16China no longer records new deaths linked to the coronavirus. It should come as a shock.
4:22Hope you liked it. I will now explain the key words, the important words of the week.
4:28We said that Boris Johnson was infected. He has been contaminated.
4:36When you are infected or contaminated, you have a disease. You contract an illness.
4:44We said he remains hospitalized. When one is hospitalized, this means that we are in the hospital,
4:52so we are in an establishment where we will receive health care.
4:56We said that the police in Colombia were giving lessons, giving lessons.
5:03It means that we become or are a teacher. We are going to give lessons.
5:07We have said that Bernie Sanders has retired from the race.
5:14It is an expression which means that we are
5:17stopping a competition, so we will exit from a competition or an election.
5:21We no longer wish to participate. We said Wuhan was the hotbed
5:28of the epidemic, so a hotbed of something
5:31is the place of origin, the place where it all started, the place where it all began.
5:37We have said Boris Johnson remains under close surveillance.
5:42It means that we are closely watched, that we look at what we do or our state very frequently.
5:49We are going to talk about the healing of Boris Johnson.
5:53So, in fact, it's when we have been sick and we are in the process of eliminating
5:58the disease, or when we are getting better. We are then cured. We used the term acting.
6:11When we do something on an interim basis or replace someone,
6:15that means that for a short time, we will do their job. Here, it is the Minister of Foreign
6:22Affairs who replaces Boris Johnson ad interim. It is time for him to be restored.
6:27We talked about confinement, so being confined or being in a period of confinement.
6:36It means that we have to stay at home, that we cannot go out. We have to stay inside.
6:42We said that the TikTok application has been downloaded 65 million times,
6:49so when you download something, you will take a document, software or application
6:55directly from the Internet. We're going to put it on your phone or your computer.
7:02We will talk about sources of income by saying that artists no longer had sources of income.
7:12Income is the money you earn. It can be while working,
7:16but it can also be money that you earn through investments or because
7:20you have bought an apartment that you rent to tenants.
7:23We said that the boss of Twitter had also been in solidarity. When we are in
7:32solidarity with someone for something, that means we want to help them.
7:36We said the police give zumba lessons from the sidewalk.
7:41The sidewalk is the place on the street where you walk. Pedestrians are right next to the road.
7:48We said that Colombians were invited to participate in these courses
7:53from their balcony or from their window. A balcony is an outdoor space that will
8:00be high up in a house, in an apartment. It's a space where you can go out.
8:05The window, on the contrary, is an opening in a wall that will also be glazed in an apartment
8:13or in a house that allows you to see the outside. You can also open this window.
8:19We talked about the competitor. So when we were talking about
8:25the presidential elections in the United States, a competitor as well as a rival
8:29is our adversary, it is a person against whom we are opposed.
8:33It's usually in a fight or a competition and we want to win against them.
8:39We also talked about the presidential candidates.
8:44A candidate is someone who applies for a position, a function or a job.
8:49So, for example, you could say I'm a candidate for this engineer job.
8:56We have said that Bernie Sanders lags behind his rival. When we are lagging behind, we are late.
9:03We are behind. We said they were going to work hand in hand. When we work hand in hand with
9:13someone, that means we are working together. We collaborate, we are in collaboration.
9:18We said Wuhan has been quarantined, so quarantine. It's when you separate people
9:25from other people and prevent them from going to certain places.
9:28So usually it's to prevent a disease from spreading. Enfin, on a parlé des décès en disant
9:37qu'il n'y a plus de nouveaux décès liés au coronavirus en Chine.
9:42Le décès, c'est la mort d'une personne.

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