{
 "title": "Le sept heures, mercredi 2 septembre",
 "dialect": "fr-BE",
 "speakers": {
  "SPK1": {
   "persona": "fr-BE-daily-news",
   "wpm": 222,
   "rate_multiplier": 0.96,
   "pitch_multiplier": 0.94
  }
 },
 "channel": "daily",
 "programme": "news",
 "date": "2026-09-02",
 "voice_policy": "belgian_premium_single_voice",
 "turns": [
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Mercredi deux septembre. Le sept heures.",
   "en": "Wednesday the second of September. The seven o'clock news.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 240,
    "rate": 0.99,
    "pitch": 1.02
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Les États-Unis ont frappé l'Iran pour la deuxième fois en quelques jours.",
   "en": "The United States has struck Iran for the second time in a few days.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.02,
    "pitch": 1.02
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "En Belgique, le collectif d'enseignants Mars Attacks promet de nouvelles actions dans les",
   "en": "In Belgium, the teachers' collective «Mars Attacks» is promising fresh action over",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 0.99,
    "pitch": 1.04
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "semaines à venir.",
   "en": "the coming weeks.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.03,
    "pitch": 0.96
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "On ouvre avec l'Iran, où l'armée américaine a annoncé avoir achevé sa salve de frappes.",
   "en": "We open in Iran, where the American army has said its round of strikes is over.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.02,
    "pitch": 1.02
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Ces frappes ont visé des cibles du Corps des Gardiens de la Révolution iranien.",
   "en": "The strikes hit targets belonging to Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.0,
    "pitch": 1.02
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Elles sont intervenues malgré une mise en garde de Donald Trump contre toute",
   "en": "They came despite a warning from «Donald Trump» against any move",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 0.99,
    "pitch": 1.04
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "opération de représailles.",
   "en": "to hit back.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.06,
    "pitch": 0.96
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Téhéran a annoncé une riposte contre des cibles américaines",
   "en": "Tehran says it has hit back at American targets",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.01,
    "pitch": 1.04
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "et l'attaque de bases militaires dans plusieurs pays.",
   "en": "and attacked military bases in several countries.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.07,
    "pitch": 0.96
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Chez nous, ce collectif d'enseignants s'est réuni mardi soir en assemblée générale à Liège.",
   "en": "Here at home, that teachers' collective met on Tuesday evening at a general assembly in «Liège».",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.0,
    "pitch": 1.02
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Les quelque cent cinquante participants ont convenu d'amplifier leurs actions de protestation.",
   "en": "The 150 or so people there agreed to step up their protest.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 0.98,
    "pitch": 1.02
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Le collectif rassemble des enseignants mobilisés contre les mesures d'économie adoptées par le gouvernement de",
   "en": "The collective brings together teachers who have mobilised against the spending cuts brought in by the government of",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.02,
    "pitch": 1.04
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles.",
   "en": "the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.04,
    "pitch": 0.96
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Un nouveau calendrier d'actions a été dévoilé pour les prochaines semaines.",
   "en": "A new timetable of action was set out for the weeks ahead.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.02,
    "pitch": 1.02
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Chez nous toujours, l'été deux mille vingt-six est le plus chaud jamais enregistré en Belgique,",
   "en": "Still at home, the summer of 2026 is the warmest ever recorded in Belgium, according to the IRM,",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 0.99,
    "pitch": 1.04
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "selon l'IRM, l'Institut royal météorologique.",
   "en": "the royal weather institute.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.06,
    "pitch": 0.96
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Marqué par trois vagues de chaleur,",
   "en": "Marked by three heatwaves, it averaged 20.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 0.99,
    "pitch": 1.06
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "il affiche une moyenne de vingt virgule trois degrés, pour une normale de dix-sept virgule",
   "en": "3 degrees, against a normal figure of 17.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 0.95,
    "pitch": 1.035
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "neuf.",
   "en": "9.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.04,
    "pitch": 0.96
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "C'est la première fois qu'une moyenne saisonnière dépasse vingt degrés dans le pays,",
   "en": "It is the first time a seasonal average has gone above 20 degrees in Belgium,",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.02,
    "pitch": 1.04
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "où les relevés remontent à mille huit cent trente-trois.",
   "en": "where records go back to 1833.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.04,
    "pitch": 0.96
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Ailleurs dans l'actu, l'Allemagne a rendu la Russie responsable d'une attaque au drone contre",
   "en": "Elsewhere in the news, Germany has held Russia responsible for a drone attack",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 0.99,
    "pitch": 1.04
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "l'aéroport de Leipzig.",
   "en": "on «Leipzig» airport.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.03,
    "pitch": 0.96
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "L'engin, chargé d'explosifs, avait visé début août une plateforme clé pour l'armée allemande,",
   "en": "In early August the device, packed with explosives, had targeted a key hub for the German army,",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 0.99,
    "pitch": 1.04
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "l'OTAN et l'aide logistique à l'Ukraine.",
   "en": "for NATO and for supplies going to Ukraine.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.03,
    "pitch": 0.96
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Berlin a pris des mesures de rétorsion et fermé le dernier consulat russe du pays.",
   "en": "Berlin has taken measures in return and closed the country's last Russian consulate.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 0.99,
    "pitch": 1.02
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "L'ambassadeur russe a prévenu que ces mesures ne seraient pas sans conséquences.",
   "en": "The Russian ambassador has warned that those measures will not be without consequences.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 0.98,
    "pitch": 1.02
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Le ministre belge des Affaires étrangères, Maxime Prévot,",
   "en": "Belgium's foreign minister, «Maxime Prévot»,",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.01,
    "pitch": 1.06
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "a exprimé la totale solidarité de la Belgique avec l'Allemagne,",
   "en": "said Belgium stood in full solidarity with Germany,",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 0.95,
    "pitch": 1.035
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "évoquant un acte hostile extrêmement grave.",
   "en": "calling it an extremely serious hostile act.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.03,
    "pitch": 0.96
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Pour terminer, le nouveau télescope spatial de la NASA a décollé",
   "en": "Finally, NASA's new orbiting telescope lifted off",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.01,
    "pitch": 1.04
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "le trente août du Kennedy Space Center, en Floride.",
   "en": "on 30th August from the «Kennedy Space Center» in Florida.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.07,
    "pitch": 0.96
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Baptisé Roman, il part à la recherche de la matière noire et des exoplanètes.",
   "en": "Named Roman, it is setting out in search of dark matter and exoplanets.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.02,
    "pitch": 1.02
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Cette matière invisible représente vingt-sept pour cent du contenu de l'univers,",
   "en": "That invisible matter makes up 27 per cent of what the universe contains,",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 0.99,
    "pitch": 1.04
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "et le télescope pourrait écarter certaines hypothèses sur sa nature.",
   "en": "and the telescope may rule out some of the theories about what it is.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.06,
    "pitch": 0.96
   }
  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Voilà où nous en sommes.",
   "en": "That is where we stand this Wednesday morning.",
   "prosody": {
    "pause_ms": 300,
    "rate": 1.0,
    "pitch": 1.02
   }
  }
 ],
 "programme_order": 0,
 "handover": "junction",
 "title_en": "The morning news, Wednesday 2 September",
 "edition": "morning",
 "region": "fr-BE",
 "region_label": "Belgique",
 "headline_en": "The United States strikes Iran for a second time in days",
 "summary_en": [
  "The United States strikes Iran for a second time in days",
  "Belgian teachers step up their protest campaign",
  "Tehran says it has hit American targets in reply"
 ]
}