{
 "title": "Le sept heures, lundi 31 août",
 "dialect": "fr-BE",
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 "channel": "daily",
 "programme": "news",
 "date": "2026-08-31",
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   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Lundi trente et un août. Le sept heures.",
   "en": "Monday the thirty-first of August. The seven o'clock news.",
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    "pause_ms": 240,
    "rate": 1.02,
    "pitch": 1.02
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Les frappes ont repris entre les États-Unis et l'Iran, après un mois d'accalmie.",
   "en": "Strikes have resumed between the United States and Iran, after a month of calm.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.0,
    "pitch": 1.02
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Chez nous, le tarif des contrats fixes d'énergie devrait grimper dès demain.",
   "en": "Here at home, the tariff on fixed energy contracts is expected to rise from tomorrow.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.01,
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   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "On ouvre avec le Moyen-Orient,",
   "en": "We start in the Middle East,",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 0.99,
    "pitch": 1.04
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "où les États-Unis ont frappé et où l'Iran a riposté.",
   "en": "where the United States struck and Iran hit back.",
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   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "C'est le premier échange de frappes depuis un mois dans cette guerre.",
   "en": "It is the first exchange of strikes in that war for a month.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.02,
    "pitch": 1.02
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Ailleurs dans l'actu, au Népal et au Tibet,",
   "en": "In other news, in Nepal and Tibet,",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 0.98,
    "pitch": 1.04
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "l'effondrement d'un glacier a provoqué mercredi matin une gigantesque coulée de boue.",
   "en": "a glacier collapse set off a huge mudslide on Wednesday morning.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.05,
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   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Les inondations massives qui ont suivi ont frappé la frontière entre les deux pays.",
   "en": "The massive flooding that followed hit the border between the two countries.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.0,
    "pitch": 1.02
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Selon l'autorité népalaise chargée des situations d'urgence,",
   "en": "According to the Nepalese emergency authority,",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 0.99,
    "pitch": 1.04
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "le bilan provisoire est de neuf cent trois morts.",
   "en": "the provisional toll is nine hundred and three dead.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.03,
    "pitch": 0.96
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "La même autorité compte quatre mille deux cent quarante-sept disparus.",
   "en": "The same authority counts four thousand two hundred and forty-seven people missing.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.02,
    "pitch": 1.02
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Les secours tentent de retrouver de nombreuses personnes, dans des conditions particulièrement périlleuses.",
   "en": "Rescue teams are trying to find many of them, in very dangerous conditions.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 0.99,
    "pitch": 1.02
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "On enchaîne, aux États-Unis, une crue soudaine a frappé samedi le parc du Grand Canyon,",
   "en": "Moving on, in the United States, a flash flood hit the Grand Canyon park on Saturday,",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.01,
    "pitch": 1.04
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "dans l'ouest du pays.",
   "en": "in the west of the country.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.06,
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   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Les intempéries ont semé le chaos dans ce site naturel réputé.",
   "en": "The storms caused chaos at that well-known natural site.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 0.99,
    "pitch": 1.02
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Selon le service des parcs nationaux américains, une quinzaine de personnes sont recherchées.",
   "en": "The American National Park Service says about fifteen people are being sought.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.02,
    "pitch": 1.02
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Le service demande au public de fournir des informations à leur sujet.",
   "en": "The service is asking the public for any information about them.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.01,
    "pitch": 1.02
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Autre dossier maintenant, l'énergie, où les nouvelles grilles tarifaires s'annoncent plus élevées.",
   "en": "Turning to something else, energy now, where the new price grids are coming in higher.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.0,
    "pitch": 1.02
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Le tarif des contrats fixes devrait augmenter dès mardi,",
   "en": "The tariff on fixed contracts is expected to rise from Tuesday,",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.02,
    "pitch": 1.04
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "et les consommateurs ont quelques jours pour se protéger.",
   "en": "and consumers have a few days to protect themselves.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.04,
    "pitch": 0.96
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Chez nous toujours, selon le parti flamand Anders,",
   "en": "Elsewhere, according to the Flemish party «Anders»,",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.0,
    "pitch": 1.06
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  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "la trêve parlementaire estivale ne devrait durer qu'un mois,",
   "en": "the parliamentary summer recess should last only a month,",
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    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 0.98,
    "pitch": 1.035
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "de la mi-juillet à la mi-août.",
   "en": "from mid July to mid August.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.03,
    "pitch": 0.96
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Pour son président, Frédéric De Gucht,",
   "en": "For its president, «Frédéric De Gucht»,",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 0.99,
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   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "le système actuel est d'un autre âge,",
   "en": "the present system belongs to another age,",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 0.95,
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   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "et une rentrée parlementaire à la mi-août serait plus appropriée.",
   "en": "and a return to parliament in mid August would suit better.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.05,
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   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "La proposition vient du nord du pays,",
   "en": "The proposal comes from the north of the country,",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 0.98,
    "pitch": 1.04
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "et la durée de la pause estivale des élus fait débat.",
   "en": "and the length of the politicians' summer break is being argued over.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.03,
    "pitch": 0.96
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Pour terminer, l'ancien présentateur de la RTBF André Remy est décédé,",
   "en": "And finally, the former «RTBF» presenter «André Remy» has died,",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.01,
    "pitch": 1.04
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "à l'âge de quatre-vingt-neuf ans.",
   "en": "at the age of eighty-nine.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.06,
    "pitch": 0.96
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Journaliste sportif et animateur, il était aussi l'auteur du spectacle satirique Sois Belge et tais-toi.",
   "en": "A sports journalist and presenter, he also wrote the satirical show «Sois Belge et tais-toi».",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 0.98,
    "pitch": 1.02
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "On lui doit également l'émission Feu vert,",
   "en": "He presented «Feu vert» too,",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.0,
    "pitch": 1.04
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "et des premières parties de Jacques Brel.",
   "en": "and opened for «Jacques Brel».",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.03,
    "pitch": 0.96
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Voilà où nous en sommes.",
   "en": "That is where we stand.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.0,
    "pitch": 1.02
   }
  }
 ],
 "programme_order": 0,
 "handover": "junction",
 "title_en": "The morning news, Monday 31 August",
 "edition": "morning",
 "region": "fr-BE",
 "region_label": "Belgique",
 "headline_en": "Strikes have resumed between the United States and Iran",
 "summary_en": [
  "Strikes have resumed between the United States and Iran",
  "Belgian fixed energy tariffs are set to rise on Tuesday",
  "A glacier collapse set off the Nepal and Tibet floods on Wednesday"
 ]
}