World news in 7 minutes. Tuesday 3rd September 2024.
Today: Guinea-Bissau takeover. Kenya trade deal. Hong Kong building fire. New Zealand murder. Australia social media ban. United Kingdom tax rise. France Sarkozy conviction. European Commission Shein. Peru Vizcarra prison. Mexico extortion law. Taiwan film Oscars.
With Juliet Martin
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Today: Guinea-Bissau takeover. Kenya trade deal. Hong Kong building fire. New Zealand murder. Australia social media ban. United Kingdom tax rise. France Sarkozy conviction. European Commission Shein. Peru Vizcarra prison. Mexico extortion law. Taiwan film Oscars.
With Juliet Martin
SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you.
Our supporters get access to the transcripts 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
Contact us at podcast@send7.org or send an audio message at speakpipe.com/send7
Please leave a rating on Apple podcasts or Spotify.
We don't use AI! Every word is written and recorded by us!
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, Niall Moore and Juliet Martin every morning. Transcripts, 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 stories 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 send seven Wild News in seven minutes.
I'm Judie at Martin and today is Thursday, the twenty
seventh of November twenty twenty five. We start in Africa
(00:26):
today in Guinea Bissau, a group of army officers claim
they have seized power. The results of the presidential election
are due to be announced today. Yesterday, spokesperson Diniz Chama
said in a statement that President Umaro Sisoso in Baalow
(00:49):
had been deposed, the electoral process suspended, the borders closed
and a curfew enforced. Says it has formed the High
Military Command for the restoration of order. Kenya will appeal
(01:09):
against a court ruling which blocked a trade deal with
the European Union. Trade Minister Lee Kinyangdri said the regional
ruling risked one point five six billion dollars in annual exports.
The ruling was made by the East Africa Court of Justice,
(01:35):
Asia and Oceania. In Hong Kong, a fire in a
high rise residential block has killed at least thirty six people.
Two hundred and seventy nine have been reported still missing.
This is the deadliest fire in Hong Kong since nineteen
(01:57):
ninety six when forty one people died in a commercial building.
The cause of the fire is not yet known, but
bamboo scaffolding and green construction mesh helped it to spread.
According to reports, the building has two thousand apartments. In
(02:19):
New Zealand, a woman has been sentenced to life in
prison for murdering her two children. Heking Lee admitted to
killing her children in twenty eighteen and pleaded not guilty
on the grounds of insanity. She will serve a minimum
of seventeen years without parole. In Australia, two fifteen year
(02:45):
olds are challenging the government's ban on social media for
children under sixteen. The law will take effect in two weeks.
The challenge has been brought to the High Court of
Australia by the Digital Freedom Project campaign Group Europe. In
(03:08):
the United Kingdom, Finance Minister Rachel Reeves raised taxes in
yesterday's budget. The plan freezes certain tax thresholds, including on
pension contributions, and imposes new fees on property and dividends.
(03:28):
Reeves said the higher rates of tax will be fairer
for different types of income.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
At landlord with an income of twenty five thousand pounds
will pay nearly one two hundred pounds less in tax
than their tenants with the same salary. Because no national
insurance is charged on property dividends or savings income. It's
not fair that the tax system treats different types of
income so differently, and so I will increase the base
(04:00):
sick and higher rate of tax on property savings and
dividend income by two percentage points and the additional rate
of tax on property and savings income by two percentage points.
Even after these Even after these reforms, ninety percent of
taxpayers will still pay no tax at all on their savings.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
France's Cour de Cassascient has upheld former President Nicholas Sarkos's
conviction of illegal campaign financing in twenty twelve. Sarkozi was
convicted in twenty twenty one and twenty twenty four of
the same charge. The court upheld his one year non
(04:45):
custodial sentence. Sarkozi's lawyers have said he is considering bringing
the case to the European Court of Human Rights. The
European Commission has said that Nineese retail platform Shean might
pose a systemic risk to consumers in France. The Consumer
(05:09):
watchdog found childlike sex dolls and banned weapons for sale
on Shean's online marketplace. The Commission has now made a
formal request for more information from Shean the Americas. In Peru,
(05:31):
former president Martin Vizcara has been sentenced to fourteen years
in prison for taking bribes before he took office. The
court said Viskara accepted six hundred and seventy six thousand
dollars in bribes from construction firms while he was a
regional governor between twenty eleven and twenty fourteen. He has
(05:57):
denied the charges. In Mexico, the lower House of Congress
has approved a bill to prevent, investigate, and punish extortion.
The punishment could be up to forty two years in prison.
Extortion rose seven percent in the first half of this year,
(06:20):
with five eight hundred and eighty seven registered victims, according
to Reuters and A film shot on iPhones has been
chosen to represent Taiwan at the twenty twenty six Oscars.
Chi Ching TSU's Left Handed Girl is set in Taipei
(06:43):
and took around twenty years to make. It is Tuo's
first solo directorial project. That's your world news in seven
minutes If you enjoy this podcast, please tell your friends
about us. You can get in touch with us in
a voice message at senseven dot org or by sending
(07:07):
an email to podcast at sanseven dot org. I'm Juliette Martin.
Tomorrow you will be with Stephen Devin Chenzi. Have a
great day.
Good morning. This is send seven Wild News in seven minutes.
I'm Judie at Martin and today is Thursday, the twenty
seventh of November twenty twenty five. We start in Africa
(00:26):
today in Guinea Bissau, a group of army officers claim
they have seized power. The results of the presidential election
are due to be announced today. Yesterday, spokesperson Diniz Chama
said in a statement that President Umaro Sisoso in Baalow
(00:49):
had been deposed, the electoral process suspended, the borders closed
and a curfew enforced. Says it has formed the High
Military Command for the restoration of order. Kenya will appeal
(01:09):
against a court ruling which blocked a trade deal with
the European Union. Trade Minister Lee Kinyangdri said the regional
ruling risked one point five six billion dollars in annual exports.
The ruling was made by the East Africa Court of Justice,
(01:35):
Asia and Oceania. In Hong Kong, a fire in a
high rise residential block has killed at least thirty six people.
Two hundred and seventy nine have been reported still missing.
This is the deadliest fire in Hong Kong since nineteen
(01:57):
ninety six when forty one people died in a commercial building.
The cause of the fire is not yet known, but
bamboo scaffolding and green construction mesh helped it to spread.
According to reports, the building has two thousand apartments. In
(02:19):
New Zealand, a woman has been sentenced to life in
prison for murdering her two children. Heking Lee admitted to
killing her children in twenty eighteen and pleaded not guilty
on the grounds of insanity. She will serve a minimum
of seventeen years without parole. In Australia, two fifteen year
(02:45):
olds are challenging the government's ban on social media for
children under sixteen. The law will take effect in two weeks.
The challenge has been brought to the High Court of
Australia by the Digital Freedom Project campaign Group Europe. In
(03:08):
the United Kingdom, Finance Minister Rachel Reeves raised taxes in
yesterday's budget. The plan freezes certain tax thresholds, including on
pension contributions, and imposes new fees on property and dividends.
(03:28):
Reeves said the higher rates of tax will be fairer
for different types of income.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
At landlord with an income of twenty five thousand pounds
will pay nearly one two hundred pounds less in tax
than their tenants with the same salary. Because no national
insurance is charged on property dividends or savings income. It's
not fair that the tax system treats different types of
income so differently, and so I will increase the base
(04:00):
sick and higher rate of tax on property savings and
dividend income by two percentage points and the additional rate
of tax on property and savings income by two percentage points.
Even after these Even after these reforms, ninety percent of
taxpayers will still pay no tax at all on their savings.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
France's Cour de Cassascient has upheld former President Nicholas Sarkos's
conviction of illegal campaign financing in twenty twelve. Sarkozi was
convicted in twenty twenty one and twenty twenty four of
the same charge. The court upheld his one year non
(04:45):
custodial sentence. Sarkozi's lawyers have said he is considering bringing
the case to the European Court of Human Rights. The
European Commission has said that Nineese retail platform Shean might
pose a systemic risk to consumers in France. The Consumer
(05:09):
watchdog found childlike sex dolls and banned weapons for sale
on Shean's online marketplace. The Commission has now made a
formal request for more information from Shean the Americas. In Peru,
(05:31):
former president Martin Vizcara has been sentenced to fourteen years
in prison for taking bribes before he took office. The
court said Viskara accepted six hundred and seventy six thousand
dollars in bribes from construction firms while he was a
regional governor between twenty eleven and twenty fourteen. He has
(05:57):
denied the charges. In Mexico, the lower House of Congress
has approved a bill to prevent, investigate, and punish extortion.
The punishment could be up to forty two years in prison.
Extortion rose seven percent in the first half of this year,
(06:20):
with five eight hundred and eighty seven registered victims, according
to Reuters and A film shot on iPhones has been
chosen to represent Taiwan at the twenty twenty six Oscars.
Chi Ching TSU's Left Handed Girl is set in Taipei
(06:43):
and took around twenty years to make. It is Tuo's
first solo directorial project. That's your world news in seven
minutes If you enjoy this podcast, please tell your friends
about us. You can get in touch with us in
a voice message at senseven dot org or by sending
(07:07):
an email to podcast at sanseven dot org. I'm Juliette Martin.
Tomorrow you will be with Stephen Devin Chenzi. Have a
great day.
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