0:00Hello and welcome to the
0:01Hello French press review ! The podcast that immerses you in the news
0:05of the week to help you improve your French.
0:09On the front page for this week, from December 22 to 28, 2019.
0:12The Netherlands condemned by justice for climate inaction.
0:16A first worldwide success for environmental activists.
0:19Elections in Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
0:23wins his party's primary with 72.5 votes.
0:28He will represent Likud in March. Hong Kong Violent clashes
0:33between pro-democracy activists and police take place in shopping
0:37malls on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in the United States.
0:40A baby kidnapped in 1964 has just been
0:44found thanks to an online DNA analysis site.
0:47Unusual Christmas Eve in Belgium. A wolf suspected of having devoured
0:51a domestic kangaroo to make their claims heard.
0:55More and more environmental associations are now appealing to justice.
1:00These associations had their first victory in the world this week.
1:04This Friday, December 20,
1:06the Dutch Supreme Court indeed condemned the state for climate inaction.
1:11Justice orders the Netherlands to reduce
1:14its greenhouse gas emissions by 25% by 2020 compared to 1990.
1:20To deliver this verdict, the judges relied
1:23on the European Convention on Human Rights. Justice ruled that global
1:28warming endangers the right to life.
1:30However, a state must protect its citizens.
1:33For environmental activists around
1:35the world, this decision represents the hope that justice will also condemn
1:39their country and force it to act against global warming.
1:43In Israel, Benyamin Netanyahu did not even
1:46wait for the official results to announce his victory on Tweeter.
1:50He won his party's primary with 72.5 votes.
1:55His opponent, JD Ansart, had little chance of winning against
1:59the current prime minister and party leader.
2:0257,000 members of the Israeli
2:05right-wing party voted for this bonus, or just under 50 of the members.
2:09Netanyahu, indicted a month ago for corruption, will
2:13therefore represent Likud for the March elections.
2:16The country, in a political stalemate, is
2:19organizing elections for the third time in less than a year.
2:22Clashes erupted in Hong Kong on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day between
2:26pro-democracy activists and riot police.
2:30The pro-Chinese power accused the rioters of having spoiled the holiday
2:33atmosphere in this region where many Christians live.
2:36If the situation has been very tense since June in the former British colony,
2:41the violence had calmed down for a month.
2:43Calls to launch punch operations at this end
2:47of year holiday period have however been launched by activists, especially via the Internet.
2:51The movement was launched six months ago against a bill
2:54that would allow extradition to mainland China.
2:58If the government has since backed down. Opponents have extended their
3:02demands for more democracy and independence from China.
3:07The United States has been wondering where Paul founded AK
3:09has been for more than 50 years .
3:12The outcome of this affair has just been revealed this week.
3:15This baby had been kidnapped the day
3:17after his birth by a woman disguised as a nurse in a hospital in Chicago.
3:22Several years ago, the DNA of one of the child's relatives
3:26was put on the various American genealogy sites.
3:29The family then hoped that Paul,
3:31or one of his children, would also deposit his DNA there.
3:34Hope turned into reality,
3:36since the DNA matches that of a 55-year-old man living in Michigan.
3:41A victory for his mother,
3:42now aged 80, and the genealogist who followed the case.
3:46Christmas Eve spoiled for these inhabitants of northern Belgium.
3:51While their domestic kangaroos
3:53were in their backyard, they were likely attacked by a wolf.
3:57One of the missing kangaroos
3:59certainly served as the wild wolf's festive meal.
4:02For the second kangaroo.
4:04More fear than badly bitten in the ear, it is today very well.
4:08While footsteps were
4:10found near the property, police have not provided any further information.
4:15Thanks for listening to this podcast. We hope you liked it.
4:19I will now explain the key
4:20words , the important words of the week in the news on the Netherlands.
4:25We used the term global warming. It is the phenomenon of
4:32temperature increase in the atmosphere and in the oceans.
4:35We also talked about greenhouse gas emissions.
4:39These are gases that are present in the atmosphere.
4:42Global warming is partly due to the increase in these gases.
4:47For example, cars emit CO2 and CO2 is a greenhouse gas. We also used,
4:55had to loop the verb to condemn and the verb to coerce.
5:00Justice condemned the state. She punishes him.
5:04It therefore forces the State to put
5:07actions in place, that is to say it obliges it.
5:11It forces the state to act. We also used the term militant.
5:17An activist is someone who fights for a cause they think is right.
5:24In the news about the elections
5:26in Israel, we have used the word adversary.
5:31An adversary is a person who is generally opposed in a fight.
5:37Netanyahu is the sure opponent for the elections.
5:40We also talked about members.
5:43A member is a person who is a member of an organization.
5:48One can for example be a member
5:49or a member of a party, of a sports club or of an association.
5:57We have said that he was charged with corruption.
6:01Corruption is when you use your power abusively in exchange
6:06for money or other benefits. We also used the word a dead end.
6:11In this context, a dead end is when a situation is hopeless
6:16that it is difficult to resolve the situation out of it.
6:20The word can also be used
6:21to designate a dead end street in Hong Kong news.
6:26We talked for two hours, hours.
6:29These are violent confrontations, fights.
6:32In the same lexical field, we spoke of riots and rioters.
6:38Riots are demonstrations, usually with violence.
6:43Rioters are the people who riot. We also talked about Christians.
6:50Christians are people who adhere to the religion of Christianity.
6:55It is the religion of Jesus Christ.
6:58We have said that Hong Kong is a former British colony.
7:02A colony is territory occupied by another nation.
7:06It is therefore not independent from it.
7:10We used the expression punch operation.
7:14It is a sudden and unexpected operation
7:17which will mark the spirits in the news on the missing child
7:20in the United States, we used the word denouement.
7:25The denouement is what ends a story. We said he was kidnapped
7:29by a woman disguised as a nurse in disguise means she was wearing
7:34a costume, clothes to change her identity.
7:38We have talked about a genealogy site.
7:41Genealogy is the science of establishing family
7:45ties, of finding ancestors. The list of members of the same family
7:50in the news on kangaroos in Belgium. We talked about Christmas Eve.
7:56Christmas Eve is Christmas Eve, the evening of December 24th.
8:00We also talked about a wild wolf. Wild means that he has not been
8:05tamed, that he lives in freedom in the wild.