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Today : Macron Ukraine betrayed. UK Russian responsibility. Spain trafficking. DRC rail project. Senegal protests. Honduras no result. US Perry ketamine. Palestine Shabab killed. China Macron. India Putin. New Zealand Ikea.
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Today : Macron Ukraine betrayed. UK Russian responsibility. Spain trafficking. DRC rail project. Senegal protests. Honduras no result. US Perry ketamine. Palestine Shabab killed. China Macron. India Putin. New Zealand Ikea.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good morning. This is send seven World News in seven minutes.
I'm Stephen Devin Cenzi. Today is Friday, the fifth of
December twenty twenty five. Starting in Europe today, French President
(00:23):
Emmanuel Macran warned Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski that the United
States might betray Ukraine, according to German news magazine Deshpiegel,
according to a transcript from a leaked call involving European leaders,
Makran said that the US might betray Ukraine on territory
(00:46):
without giving Ukraine clear security guarantees. Deshbiegel also said that
German Chancellor Friedrich Mertz said quote, they are playing games
with you and US quote, and Deshbiegel concluded that Mertz
was referring to the US negotiating team in Russia, which
(01:08):
is President Donald Trump's friend Steve Witkoff and Donald Trump's
son in law Jared Kushner. The magazine also says that
Finland's President Alexander stub said quote, we must not leave
Ukraine and Voladimir alone with these guys. In the United Kingdom,
(01:29):
a government report has concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin
is responsible for the death of British civilian Dawn Sturgis
in twenty eighteen. In twenty eighteen, three Russian agents traveled
to England for two days, during which time they attempted
(01:50):
to kill the former Russian spy Sergey Scrippel by leaving
Novi chock poison on his door handle. Scrippel and his
daughter became severely ill but survived. However, the British civilian
Dawn Sturgis picked up the bottle that the Russian agents
had discarded, and she died of nobby chock poisoning in hospital,
(02:14):
with her boyfriend also being hospitalized. The Long report, which
was released yesterday, concluded that Vladimir Putin ordered the murder
of Sergei Scrippel and that Putin was morally responsible for
the death of Dawn Sturgis. Prime Minister Serkia Stama said
that the UK would place new sanctions on all of
(02:36):
Russia's intelligence agency the gru Well.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I would start with Don Sturgess family and friends, because
we must always remember the grief that they have gone through,
the pain they've gone through. But this report is clear
moral responsibility lies with Putin, and its further evidence of
the shocking and reckless hostile actor on uk soil, and
(03:02):
so it's very important that we put in the most
stringent sanctions and the gru for the first time. But
it also reinforces why we need to remain vigilant to
the ever present threat that is there from Putin and
from Russia. That's not just in Ukraine. In this case
(03:22):
the report is cleared, it's on our soil.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Also in the United Kingdom, a Faberge egg has sold
for more than thirty million dollars at auction. The jeweled egg,
which is known as the Winter Egg, was created in
nineteen thirteen by the jeweler Peter Carl Faberget for Russian
Sar Nicholas the Second as an Easter present for his mother.
(03:49):
Carl Faberget is believed to have made fifty Imperial Easter
eggs for Russia's sars at the end of the nineteenth
and start of the twentieth centuries. Most of these eggs
are now in museums, but the Winter Egg was sold
at auction in the UK for the record price of
almost twenty three million pounds, which is over thirty million dollars.
(04:14):
In Spain, eleven people have been arrested for trafficking about
three hundred workers into Spain, most of whom were from Nepal,
and making them work in bad conditions. Africa, in the
Democratic Republic of Congore, thousands of people may be displaced
(04:36):
by a railway infrastructure project funded by the European Union
and the United States, according to a report by human
rights group Global Witness, the Lobbito Corridor project aims to
improve and extend railway lines that were built in the
colonial era from the DRC to the coast of Angola
(04:58):
and also into Zambia. The new report says that the
project could require the demolition of one thousand, two hundred
buildings and force thousands of people to move, especially as
many poor people built homes close to the old railway lines.
In Senegal, students have clashed with police at a protest
(05:22):
at Senegal's main university. Students were demanding financial aid Americas.
In Honduras, with about eighty five percent of votes counted
in the presidential election from last Sunday, the result is
still too close to call. However, the conservative candidate nazri
(05:45):
Asfuda is now slightly ahead of centrist liberal candidate Salvador Nazraala.
By last night, Aspuda had received about forty point one
percent of votes and Nazuela had received about thirty nine
point seven percent, which is a difference of only about
(06:06):
ten thousand votes in an election with six point five
million registered voters. In the United States, a doctor has
been sentenced to two and a half years in prison
for illegally supplying The Friends actor Matthew Perry with ketamine,
from which Matthew Perry died of an overdose in twenty
(06:29):
twenty three Asia and Oceania. In Palestine, Yaser Abu Shabab,
the leader of an anti Hamas group in Gaza the
Popular Forces, has been killed in fighting. According to local media.
The Popular Forces are reported to receive weapons from Israel.
(06:52):
In China, French President in Manuel Makranz visited Chinese President
Shijing Pingh yesterday in a speed each. Macron urged China
to put pressure on Russia to end its war in Ukraine.
In India, Russian President of Vladimir Putin met with Prime
Minister Narendra Modi yesterday. And in New Zealand, the Swedish
(07:16):
furniture company Ikea has opened its first store. New Zealand
is the sixty fourth country that Ikea has opened a
shop in and it is the furthest away from Sweden.
The new shop in Auckland is the five hundred and
fifth Ikea location in the world and also has a
(07:36):
large restaurant serving its classic Swedish meatballs. A big thank
you to Patrick in Canada and Sarah in the United
Arab Emirates for becoming our newest supporters. If you enjoyed
this podcast and you'd like to have access to all
of our transcripts, vocabulary lists, worksheets and world news quiz
(08:00):
this is then you can become a supporter at send
seven dot org. We give ten percent of our profit
to the world's most effective charities. Have a great weekend,
See you on Monday.
Good morning. This is send seven World News in seven minutes.
I'm Stephen Devin Cenzi. Today is Friday, the fifth of
December twenty twenty five. Starting in Europe today, French President
(00:23):
Emmanuel Macran warned Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski that the United
States might betray Ukraine, according to German news magazine Deshpiegel,
according to a transcript from a leaked call involving European leaders,
Makran said that the US might betray Ukraine on territory
(00:46):
without giving Ukraine clear security guarantees. Deshbiegel also said that
German Chancellor Friedrich Mertz said quote, they are playing games
with you and US quote, and Deshbiegel concluded that Mertz
was referring to the US negotiating team in Russia, which
(01:08):
is President Donald Trump's friend Steve Witkoff and Donald Trump's
son in law Jared Kushner. The magazine also says that
Finland's President Alexander stub said quote, we must not leave
Ukraine and Voladimir alone with these guys. In the United Kingdom,
(01:29):
a government report has concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin
is responsible for the death of British civilian Dawn Sturgis
in twenty eighteen. In twenty eighteen, three Russian agents traveled
to England for two days, during which time they attempted
(01:50):
to kill the former Russian spy Sergey Scrippel by leaving
Novi chock poison on his door handle. Scrippel and his
daughter became severely ill but survived. However, the British civilian
Dawn Sturgis picked up the bottle that the Russian agents
had discarded, and she died of nobby chock poisoning in hospital,
(02:14):
with her boyfriend also being hospitalized. The Long report, which
was released yesterday, concluded that Vladimir Putin ordered the murder
of Sergei Scrippel and that Putin was morally responsible for
the death of Dawn Sturgis. Prime Minister Serkia Stama said
that the UK would place new sanctions on all of
(02:36):
Russia's intelligence agency the gru Well.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I would start with Don Sturgess family and friends, because
we must always remember the grief that they have gone through,
the pain they've gone through. But this report is clear
moral responsibility lies with Putin, and its further evidence of
the shocking and reckless hostile actor on uk soil, and
(03:02):
so it's very important that we put in the most
stringent sanctions and the gru for the first time. But
it also reinforces why we need to remain vigilant to
the ever present threat that is there from Putin and
from Russia. That's not just in Ukraine. In this case
(03:22):
the report is cleared, it's on our soil.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Also in the United Kingdom, a Faberge egg has sold
for more than thirty million dollars at auction. The jeweled egg,
which is known as the Winter Egg, was created in
nineteen thirteen by the jeweler Peter Carl Faberget for Russian
Sar Nicholas the Second as an Easter present for his mother.
(03:49):
Carl Faberget is believed to have made fifty Imperial Easter
eggs for Russia's sars at the end of the nineteenth
and start of the twentieth centuries. Most of these eggs
are now in museums, but the Winter Egg was sold
at auction in the UK for the record price of
almost twenty three million pounds, which is over thirty million dollars.
(04:14):
In Spain, eleven people have been arrested for trafficking about
three hundred workers into Spain, most of whom were from Nepal,
and making them work in bad conditions. Africa, in the
Democratic Republic of Congore, thousands of people may be displaced
(04:36):
by a railway infrastructure project funded by the European Union
and the United States, according to a report by human
rights group Global Witness, the Lobbito Corridor project aims to
improve and extend railway lines that were built in the
colonial era from the DRC to the coast of Angola
(04:58):
and also into Zambia. The new report says that the
project could require the demolition of one thousand, two hundred
buildings and force thousands of people to move, especially as
many poor people built homes close to the old railway lines.
In Senegal, students have clashed with police at a protest
(05:22):
at Senegal's main university. Students were demanding financial aid Americas.
In Honduras, with about eighty five percent of votes counted
in the presidential election from last Sunday, the result is
still too close to call. However, the conservative candidate nazri
(05:45):
Asfuda is now slightly ahead of centrist liberal candidate Salvador Nazraala.
By last night, Aspuda had received about forty point one
percent of votes and Nazuela had received about thirty nine
point seven percent, which is a difference of only about
(06:06):
ten thousand votes in an election with six point five
million registered voters. In the United States, a doctor has
been sentenced to two and a half years in prison
for illegally supplying The Friends actor Matthew Perry with ketamine,
from which Matthew Perry died of an overdose in twenty
(06:29):
twenty three Asia and Oceania. In Palestine, Yaser Abu Shabab,
the leader of an anti Hamas group in Gaza the
Popular Forces, has been killed in fighting. According to local media.
The Popular Forces are reported to receive weapons from Israel.
(06:52):
In China, French President in Manuel Makranz visited Chinese President
Shijing Pingh yesterday in a speed each. Macron urged China
to put pressure on Russia to end its war in Ukraine.
In India, Russian President of Vladimir Putin met with Prime
Minister Narendra Modi yesterday. And in New Zealand, the Swedish
(07:16):
furniture company Ikea has opened its first store. New Zealand
is the sixty fourth country that Ikea has opened a
shop in and it is the furthest away from Sweden.
The new shop in Auckland is the five hundred and
fifth Ikea location in the world and also has a
(07:36):
large restaurant serving its classic Swedish meatballs. A big thank
you to Patrick in Canada and Sarah in the United
Arab Emirates for becoming our newest supporters. If you enjoyed
this podcast and you'd like to have access to all
of our transcripts, vocabulary lists, worksheets and world news quiz
(08:00):
this is then you can become a supporter at send
seven dot org. We give ten percent of our profit
to the world's most effective charities. Have a great weekend,
See you on Monday.
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