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Today: Sudan hunger. South Sudan Uganda shooting. Kenya alcohol reforms. Ukraine Kyiv hit. France USAID contraceptives. US Brazil tariffs. Colombia deforesting. Palestine aid drops. Myanmar military elections. Japan Korea heat. Australia big insects.
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Today: Sudan hunger. South Sudan Uganda shooting. Kenya alcohol reforms. Ukraine Kyiv hit. France USAID contraceptives. US Brazil tariffs. Colombia deforesting. Palestine aid drops. Myanmar military elections. Japan Korea heat. Australia big insects.
SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you.
Our supporters get access to the transcripts and vocabulary list written by us every day.
Our supporters get access to an English worksheet made by us once per week.
Our supporters get access to our weekly news quiz made by us once per week.
We give 10% of our profit to Effective Altruism charities.
You can become a supporter at send7.org/support
August €10 discount code = august2025
Contact us at podcast@send7.org or send an audio message at speakpipe.com/send7
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Since 2020, SEND7 (Simple English News Daily in 7 minutes) has been telling the most important world news stories in intermediate English. Every day, listen to the most important stories from every part of the world in slow, clear English. Whether you are an intermediate learner trying to improve your advanced, technical and business English, or if you are a native speaker who just wants to hear a summary of world news as fast as possible, join Stephen Devincenzi, Juliet Martin and Niall Moore every morning. Transcripts, vocabulary lists, worksheets and our weekly world news quiz are available for our amazing supporters at send7.org. Simple English News Daily is the perfect way to start your day, by practising your listening skills and understanding complicated daily news in a simple way. It is also highly valuable for IELTS and TOEFL students. Students, teachers, TEFL teachers, and people with English as a second language, tell us that they use SEND7 because they can learn English through hard topics, but simple grammar. We believe that the best way to improve your spoken English is to immerse yourself in real-life content, such as what our podcast provides. SEND7 covers all news including politics, business, natural events and human rights. Whether it is happening in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas or Oceania, you will hear it on SEND7, and you will understand it.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning. This is sen seven World News in seven minutes.
I'm Stephen Devincenzi. Today is Friday, the first of August
twenty twenty five. Starting in Africa today, in Sudan, people
(00:22):
are dying of hunger in displacement camps in East Darfur State,
according to medical organizations. The Sudan Doctors Network said that
thirteen children died of starvation last month at the Lagawa camp,
which is in territory controlled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
(00:44):
There has been a civil war between Sudan's army and
the RSF since twenty twenty three, when the two forces
broke apart. South Sudanese officials have said that five South
Sudanese soldiers were shot dead by u Ugandan soldiers earlier
this week at a disputed border area. Uganda's army said
(01:07):
that one Ugandan soldier was killed after South Sudanese soldiers
refused to leave Ugandan territory and shooting began. Uganda and
South Sudan are normally allies. Kenya's alcohol industry has criticized
plans to reform alcohol sales in Kenya, saying that they
(01:29):
are misguided and will harm the industry. Kenya's government recently
said that they would greatly limit where alcohol can be
sold and would raise the legal drinking age from eighteen
to twenty one Europe. In Ukraine, Russian missiles and drones
(01:51):
hit the capital city Kiv yesterday morning, killing at least
sixteen people, including a six year old boy. According to
official and local media, one hundred and sixty people were injured.
Foreign Minister Andre Sibia said that the strikes hit residential buildings, schools,
and hospitals. Russia said that it had targeted military airfields
(02:16):
and businesses related to the military. Also in Ukraine, parliament
voted yesterday to restore the independence of two anti corruption agencies,
just a week after voting to remove their independence. Last
week's decision had triggered the biggest protests in Ukraine since
(02:37):
Russia's full scale invasion. France's government has said that it
is monitoring a plan to destroy contraceptives that were supposed
to be distributed as aid by the United States, probably
in Africa. According to The Guardian, nine point seven million
dollars worth of contraceptives are expected to be burnt. After
(03:01):
losing funding for transportation because of cuts to the United
States foreign aid budget. The contraceptives are believed to be
stored in Belgium, but were planned to be destroyed in France. However,
the French health Ministry has said that they are attempting
to find a solution that avoids destroying the contraceptives. America's
(03:28):
United States President Donald Trump has imposed fifty percent tariffs
on most imports from Brazil to start next Wednesday. Trump
has accused the Brazilian government of a witch hunt against
former Brazilian president Jayer Bolsonaro, who is being investigated for
(03:49):
an alleged coup to prevent the transfer of power to
Luis in Nacio Lula a Silva after Bolsonaro lost the
twenty twenty two presidential The Trump administration also put sanctions
on Justice of Brazil's Supreme Court, Alexandre de Moreus, with
(04:09):
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant saying that Morius was responsible for
an oppressive campaign of censorship, arbitrary detentions that violate human rights,
and politicized prosecutions, including against former President JayR. Bosonaro. According
to a new opinion poll, President Lula has become more
(04:33):
popular in Brazil since the dispute with President Trump started.
In Colombia, deforestation rose by forty three percent last year
compared to the previous year, according to new government data.
Environment Minister Lenard Estrada said that the rise was due
(04:54):
to many different factors, including forest fires, illegal road construction,
and illegal farming, both of animals and of illegal crops
like coca leaves which are used for making cocaine Asia
and Oceania. In Palestine, ninety four people were killed between
(05:17):
Wednesday and Thursday when trying to reach AID, according to
the Gaza Health Ministry, which is run by the Hamas government.
There were more aid drops yesterday. However, there were reports
of some of the packages landing in places that had
been ordered to be evacuated by Israel, and the Associated
(05:39):
Press released videos of people attempting to collect aid that
had been dropped in the sea. Canadian Prime Minister Mark
Carney said that Canada had dropped aid into Gaza yesterday.
He also said that Canada would join the UK and
France in recognizing the state of Palestine later this year.
(06:00):
It Carney said that Canada would recognize Palestine as long
as some conditions are met, including the Palestinian authority holding elections.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Canada intends to recognize the state of Palestine at the
eighties Session of the United Nations General Assembly in September
twenty twenty five. This intention is predicated on the Palestinian
authorities commitment to much needed reforms, including commitments by the
Palestinian Authority's President Abbas to fundamentally reform its governance to
(06:32):
hold general elections in twenty twenty six, in which Hamas
can play no part.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Myanmar's military government says that it has ended a state
of emergency and will hold elections in December. Myanmar has
been in a civil war since twenty twenty one, when
the military removed the democratically elected government. Opposition parties are
expected to boycott the December elections. Japan and South Korea
(07:02):
are in the middle of a heat wave. Japan recorded
its highest ever temperature on Wednesday of forty one point
two degrees and in Australia, a newly found species of
stick insect is believed to be the heaviest insect in Australia.
(07:22):
Acrophylla alta, which has been recently discovered in the forest
of Australia's northeast, looks like a long stick, as all
stick insects do. However, it is around twenty eight centimeters
long and weighs around forty four grams, the same as
a golf ball. One of the reasons that the species
(07:43):
was not found before is that it lives in the
highest trees of the forest. Listeners please note that during
August this podcast is released just twice a week instead
of five. Episodes will only be released on Tuesdays and
Fry Day. This is just to give us a little
summer break and we will be back to five days
(08:06):
a week in September. A big thank you to Daniella
in Chile for becoming our newest supporter. If you enjoy
Send seven and you'd like to have access to all
of our transcripts, vocabulary lists, worksheets and world news quizzes,
you can become a supporter at senseven dot org. During
(08:26):
August there is a ten euro discount on joining as
a yearly supporter using the code August twenty twenty five.
The next episode will be with niall Moore on Tuesday.
Have a great weekend.
Good morning. This is sen seven World News in seven minutes.
I'm Stephen Devincenzi. Today is Friday, the first of August
twenty twenty five. Starting in Africa today, in Sudan, people
(00:22):
are dying of hunger in displacement camps in East Darfur State,
according to medical organizations. The Sudan Doctors Network said that
thirteen children died of starvation last month at the Lagawa camp,
which is in territory controlled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
(00:44):
There has been a civil war between Sudan's army and
the RSF since twenty twenty three, when the two forces
broke apart. South Sudanese officials have said that five South
Sudanese soldiers were shot dead by u Ugandan soldiers earlier
this week at a disputed border area. Uganda's army said
(01:07):
that one Ugandan soldier was killed after South Sudanese soldiers
refused to leave Ugandan territory and shooting began. Uganda and
South Sudan are normally allies. Kenya's alcohol industry has criticized
plans to reform alcohol sales in Kenya, saying that they
(01:29):
are misguided and will harm the industry. Kenya's government recently
said that they would greatly limit where alcohol can be
sold and would raise the legal drinking age from eighteen
to twenty one Europe. In Ukraine, Russian missiles and drones
(01:51):
hit the capital city Kiv yesterday morning, killing at least
sixteen people, including a six year old boy. According to
official and local media, one hundred and sixty people were injured.
Foreign Minister Andre Sibia said that the strikes hit residential buildings, schools,
and hospitals. Russia said that it had targeted military airfields
(02:16):
and businesses related to the military. Also in Ukraine, parliament
voted yesterday to restore the independence of two anti corruption agencies,
just a week after voting to remove their independence. Last
week's decision had triggered the biggest protests in Ukraine since
(02:37):
Russia's full scale invasion. France's government has said that it
is monitoring a plan to destroy contraceptives that were supposed
to be distributed as aid by the United States, probably
in Africa. According to The Guardian, nine point seven million
dollars worth of contraceptives are expected to be burnt. After
(03:01):
losing funding for transportation because of cuts to the United
States foreign aid budget. The contraceptives are believed to be
stored in Belgium, but were planned to be destroyed in France. However,
the French health Ministry has said that they are attempting
to find a solution that avoids destroying the contraceptives. America's
(03:28):
United States President Donald Trump has imposed fifty percent tariffs
on most imports from Brazil to start next Wednesday. Trump
has accused the Brazilian government of a witch hunt against
former Brazilian president Jayer Bolsonaro, who is being investigated for
(03:49):
an alleged coup to prevent the transfer of power to
Luis in Nacio Lula a Silva after Bolsonaro lost the
twenty twenty two presidential The Trump administration also put sanctions
on Justice of Brazil's Supreme Court, Alexandre de Moreus, with
(04:09):
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant saying that Morius was responsible for
an oppressive campaign of censorship, arbitrary detentions that violate human rights,
and politicized prosecutions, including against former President JayR. Bosonaro. According
to a new opinion poll, President Lula has become more
(04:33):
popular in Brazil since the dispute with President Trump started.
In Colombia, deforestation rose by forty three percent last year
compared to the previous year, according to new government data.
Environment Minister Lenard Estrada said that the rise was due
(04:54):
to many different factors, including forest fires, illegal road construction,
and illegal farming, both of animals and of illegal crops
like coca leaves which are used for making cocaine Asia
and Oceania. In Palestine, ninety four people were killed between
(05:17):
Wednesday and Thursday when trying to reach AID, according to
the Gaza Health Ministry, which is run by the Hamas government.
There were more aid drops yesterday. However, there were reports
of some of the packages landing in places that had
been ordered to be evacuated by Israel, and the Associated
(05:39):
Press released videos of people attempting to collect aid that
had been dropped in the sea. Canadian Prime Minister Mark
Carney said that Canada had dropped aid into Gaza yesterday.
He also said that Canada would join the UK and
France in recognizing the state of Palestine later this year.
(06:00):
It Carney said that Canada would recognize Palestine as long
as some conditions are met, including the Palestinian authority holding elections.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Canada intends to recognize the state of Palestine at the
eighties Session of the United Nations General Assembly in September
twenty twenty five. This intention is predicated on the Palestinian
authorities commitment to much needed reforms, including commitments by the
Palestinian Authority's President Abbas to fundamentally reform its governance to
(06:32):
hold general elections in twenty twenty six, in which Hamas
can play no part.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Myanmar's military government says that it has ended a state
of emergency and will hold elections in December. Myanmar has
been in a civil war since twenty twenty one, when
the military removed the democratically elected government. Opposition parties are
expected to boycott the December elections. Japan and South Korea
(07:02):
are in the middle of a heat wave. Japan recorded
its highest ever temperature on Wednesday of forty one point
two degrees and in Australia, a newly found species of
stick insect is believed to be the heaviest insect in Australia.
(07:22):
Acrophylla alta, which has been recently discovered in the forest
of Australia's northeast, looks like a long stick, as all
stick insects do. However, it is around twenty eight centimeters
long and weighs around forty four grams, the same as
a golf ball. One of the reasons that the species
(07:43):
was not found before is that it lives in the
highest trees of the forest. Listeners please note that during
August this podcast is released just twice a week instead
of five. Episodes will only be released on Tuesdays and
Fry Day. This is just to give us a little
summer break and we will be back to five days
(08:06):
a week in September. A big thank you to Daniella
in Chile for becoming our newest supporter. If you enjoy
Send seven and you'd like to have access to all
of our transcripts, vocabulary lists, worksheets and world news quizzes,
you can become a supporter at senseven dot org. During
(08:26):
August there is a ten euro discount on joining as
a yearly supporter using the code August twenty twenty five.
The next episode will be with niall Moore on Tuesday.
Have a great weekend.
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