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0:00Hello and welcome to the HelloFrench press review.

0:03The podcast that immerses you in the news of the week. To enable you to improve your French.

0:10On the front page for this week, from January 19 to 25, 2020.

0:14Coronavirus: 54 dead and nearly 1,300 cases. The Chinese metropolis of Wuhan

0:20quarantined. In Paraguay, nearly 80 prisoners escape through a tunnel.

0:26Donald Trump, the first US president to participate in an anti-abortion march.

0:31Great Britain: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle renounce their royal titles.

0:37Coronavirus epidemic in China. No longer anyone across the Rhine leaves the city of Wuhan.

0:42The Chinese metropolis was quarantined even before the 11

0:46million inhabitants could organize their eventual departure.

0:50A decision taken by the authorities this Thursday, January 23,

0:53as the epidemic begins to spread to the rest of the world.

0:57Several cases have in fact been detected outside China, including three cases in France,

1:01five in Thailand, four cases in Australia, three cases in Japan, three cases in Malaysia,

1:07three cases in Singapore, three cases in Taiwan, two cases in the United States,

1:12two cases in South Korea, two cases in Vietnam and one case in Nepal.

1:17Residents could still leave the city by car this Thursday morning. Police officers, however, stopped

1:23the vehicles to take the temperature of the passengers. The wearing of a mask has also been imposed

1:28by the town hall to prevent the spread of the virus within the metropolis.

1:34The virus has already killed 54

1:36people and 1,300 cases have been detected, including 237 critical cases.

1:42A very sad Chinese New Year this year and canceled festivities in the city of Wuhan.

1:49An escape worthy of an action movie.

1:51In Paraguay, 80 prisoners escaped Sunday from a prison via a tunnel.

1:56Most of these prisoners are part of the largest Brazilian drug and arms smuggling gang,

2:01with the help of a prison guard. The tunnel is 25 meters long and has been fitted with lighting.

2:08The tunnel, whose construction certainly took several weeks,

2:12leads directly from the sanitary facilities of the prison to the shelter of the guard.

2:16The authorities removed the prison director from office and arrested dozens of guards.

2:22The fugitives have still not been spotted. Five vans in which some fugitives were transported

2:29were found set on fire after the Brazilian border.

2:33Brazil has reinforced its security to capture them. This Friday in the United States,

2:38Donald Trump is the first president to oppose abortion by participating in a March for Life.

2:44A great honor, according to the president.

2:47Yet twenty years ago, the businessman positioned himself as close

2:51to a few months before the American elections. The billionaire is making a 360-degree

2:56turn to become the most anti-abortion president in history. Meanwhile, the president's

3:03impeachment trial is still ongoing in the Senate.

3:06This follows the House of Representatives vote in December,

3:10which impeached Donald Trump for abuse of power and obstructing Congress. A few days before Brexit,

3:16Prince Harry, Meghan Markle and little Archie renounce their royal titles.

3:21Earlier this month, the couple had already announced that they were

3:24stepping down from their role in the royal family.

3:27Harry and Meghan therefore decide to take their independence a little more.

3:31The royal couple will stop receiving public funds and have pledged

3:35to reimburse past expenses, including restoring a residence

3:40for the Duke and Duchess, who wanted to be able to live off their

3:44work and reside part of the year in Canada. While they are and always will be a part

3:49of the Royal Family for Queen Elizabeth II,

3:52they are no longer considered active members of the Royal

3:55Family and are released from their representational role.

3:58For Harry, the move also means giving up his

4:02official military engagement as Captain General of the Royal Navy.

4:08A position held for 65 years by Harry's grandfather before passing the torch.

4:13Thanks for listening to this podcast. We hope you liked it.

4:16I will now explain the keywords, the important words of the week in the news on the coronavirus.

4:24We talked about a case, saying that several cases had been detected. A case is a fact.

4:32It is a situation. Here we are talking about a case to denote

4:36situations of sick people that have been detected.

4:41We talked about the metropolis of Wuhan - a metropolis is a very big city.

4:47It is the main city of a region. We said the city has been quarantined. When it says quarantine,

4:56it means separating people from other people. It prevents them from going to other places.

5:02Usually, this is to prevent a disease from spreading. We talked about the coronavirus epidemic.

5:11An epidemic is a contagious disease that can be caught, which spreads among the population,

5:17among the people. We talked about the possible, eventual departure.

5:24It is an adjective which means that something may or may not happen.

5:28When we say their possible departure, it means that maybe they would have wanted to leave.

5:37We said the virus is spreading. The verb to spread means to spread, to propagate.

5:45The disease is spreading, it is spreading. It therefore affects more people.

5:51We used the verbs detect and detected, meaning that we discovered.

5:56We have found, therefore we have detected or detected the disease in people.

6:01We used the expression "hors de", it means outside.

6:05Something is happening outside of a place or setting.

6:09We can say outside of them to say outside a country, for example.

6:13"I live outside France" and it can also be used in the expression, for example

6:17"outside" to say that we no longer want to see someone. We used the word vehicle.

6:23A vehicle is a car, a truck, a scooter. It is something that serves to transport us.

6:29It is a means of locomotion. We said the police were taking the temperature.

6:35Taking the temperature means finding out about the heat or the cold around us or someone.

6:42So we can take the temperature of a room or a person. So we will check to what degree their body is.

6:49We spoke of the passengers, to speak of the passengers of a vehicle.

6:53It is a person who is transported by means of transport.

6:58So you can be a passenger in a car, a boat, or even a plane.

7:03We talked about the mask, saying that wearing a mask was mandatory.

7:08A mask is something you put on your face, either to disguise yourself - for example for Carnival -

7:14but also a mask can be put on to protect against disease so as not to catch it.

7:22We have also talked about the virus: a virus is a disease that spreads, like the coronavirus.

7:29In the news on escaped prisoners in Paraguay, we used the word to escape.

7:36It is a verb which means to flee, to leave, to escape.

7:41Usually, we run away because we want to avoid someone or a situation.

7:45Here they wanted to get out of prison. We said they escaped through a tunnel.

7:52A tunnel makes a passage in the ground. We talked about inmates. An inmate is a prisoner.

8:00That's what you call someone who is in prison, in detention. The tunnel has been dug.

8:07To dig is to make a hole. You can dig in the ground to make a tunnel and you can also, for example,

8:13dig a grave to bury someone, or dig the ground to make a cellar.

8:18We spoke of drug traffickers - a trafficker is a person who traffics

8:25something, who sells illegally, in a manner prohibited by law. Here, they sell drugs illegally.

8:34We talked about weapons. A weapon is a tool or an instrument

8:38that will be used to injure or kill someone. So we can talk about a firearm

8:43with a rifle, a revolver, but also a bladed weapon. It's gonna be a knife or a sword.

8:51We have talked about prison guards. A guard is the person who watches over

8:56a prison, a penitentiary, who watches over prisoners.

9:01We have said which tunnel was fitted out. "Fitted out"

9:05means to arrange a place, to put things in place in a space

9:09that can be arranged - an apartment, for example. We talked about lighting.

9:14Lighting is what makes it possible to have light.

9:17So here we said that the tunnel was laid out with lights. We talked about construction,

9:24so the construction of the tunnel - it means creating something.

9:29Often it's going to be a building, for example. So we can build, build a house.

9:36We talked about sanitary facilities. "Sanitary" is a word that is used to refer

9:40to both the toilet and the bathroom. The shower, the bathtub - these are the facilities for washing.

9:47For hygiene. We spoke of the fugitives. A fugitive is a person on the run who has escaped.

9:58The detainees become fugitives, because they came out of prison. And then we talked about a

10:04van - a van is a small truck. It is a vehicle between a car and a truck.

10:10Rather, it is a work vehicle that will be used in certain cases,

10:14for example to move into an apartment. Another word?

10:19We said these vans were set on fire. "Set on fire" is a verb which means to set something ablaze.

10:26We talked about the border between Paraguay and Brazil - so it's the line between two things.

10:34Generally, we use the word border to talk about a limit between two countries.

10:39It's a line that will separate them. We talked about capturing.

10:45So, in fact, it means taking someone or an animal prisoner. There, we want to capture the fugitives.

10:52In the news on Donald Trump, we talked about abortion.

10:56Abortion is the act of stopping your pregnancy when you are pregnant.

11:00Abortion can be natural or induced. In French we say IVG, the voluntary termination of pregnancy.

11:09So when we say that we are anti-abortion, "anti-" means we are against something.

11:16I am anti-capitalist, therefore anti-abortion.

11:20We can put the prefix "anti" in front of things we are against. We were talking about the election,

11:28the American election. An election is a vote to elect someone to represent us.

11:35We said Donald Trump was a businessman. He's a business man.

11:41This word is also used in French, although it is English.

11:44So, he is someone who will earn money from his professional activity. But this professional activity

11:50remains a little unclear for most people. We don't really know what he actually does for a job.

11:57We said Donald Trump was a billionaire. He's a very, very rich person who has billions.

12:06We said he made a 360-degree turn. So this expression means to completely change opinion.

12:16We told about his trial. So, a trial is when you go to court and a judge

12:21will render a decision, a judgment in relation to a situation.

12:26We talked about the impeachment of Donald Trump. An impeachment

12:30is a sanction which consists in depriving someone of their function.

12:34So, if he is king or president director, then it was the same for the director

12:38of the prison who was dismissed and had his function taken away from him. In the news,

12:44Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. We used the verb to give up, so they gave up their royal rights.

12:52So, it means voluntarily giving up something or a right. We said that they wished to take

13:00their independence, to take their independence.

13:04It means becoming more independent from someone or something. So we want to fend for ourselves.

13:11For example, we can say I took my independence at 18 years old.

13:15I have found a job and I am paying alone my rent. We told that it was going to pay off.

13:20So to repay is to give back money that you owe someone.

13:24We have said he was a Duke and she a Duchess. These are titles of nobility.

13:28Dukes and duchesses are just below the princes and princesses in the hierarchy of nobility.

13:35We talked about the verb "to reside" to say that he resides in Canada. It means to live, to inhabit.

13:42We can say, for example, I reside in Japan, I reside in France, etc.

13:49We talked about the Queen of England, so the queen is a ruler of royalty.

13:54It is the woman who rules a kingdom. We talked about passing the torch.

14:00It is an expression which means to cede one's function

14:03to someone, to entrust them with the rest of a task.

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