{
 "title": "Le sept heures, lundi 7 septembre",
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 "channel": "daily",
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 "date": "2026-09-07",
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   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Lundi sept septembre. Le sept heures.",
   "en": "Monday 7th September. The seven o'clock news.",
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   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "L'Alternative pour l'Allemagne écrase le scrutin régional en Saxe-Anhalt.",
   "en": "Alternative for Germany sweeps the regional election in Saxony-Anhalt.",
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   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Les prisons belges entrent dans cinq jours de grève.",
   "en": "Belgian prisons are going into five days of strike action.",
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   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "On ouvre avec l'Allemagne, où le dépouillement s'est achevé vers trois heures du matin.",
   "en": "We open with Germany, where counting finished at around three in the morning.",
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   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Le parti d'extrême droite rassemble quarante-trois virgule huit pour cent des voix en Saxe-Anhalt,",
   "en": "The far-right party takes 43.8 per cent of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt,",
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  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "selon la RTBF.",
   "en": "according to «RTBF».",
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  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "C'est un score historique,",
   "en": "That is a historic score,",
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   "text": "mais il ne suffit pas à la majorité absolue au parlement régional.",
   "en": "but it is not enough for an absolute majority in the regional parliament.",
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   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "L'Alternative pour l'Allemagne devra donc trouver des alliés.",
   "en": "Alternative for Germany will therefore have to find allies.",
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   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "On enchaîne, le front commun syndical du personnel pénitentiaire a lancé son action dimanche soir.",
   "en": "Moving on, the joint prison staff unions began their action on Sunday evening.",
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   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Elle a démarré à vingt-deux heures, d'après 7sur7.",
   "en": "It started at ten o'clock at night, «7sur7» reports.",
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   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Elle doit se terminer vendredi onze septembre à la même heure.",
   "en": "It is due to end on Friday 11th September at the same time.",
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   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Les syndicats dénoncent la surpopulation carcérale,",
   "en": "The unions point to prison overcrowding,",
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  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "le manque de personnel et l'insalubrité.",
   "en": "staff shortages and squalid conditions.",
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   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Ils réclament des réponses concrètes,",
   "en": "They are asking for concrete answers,",
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  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "avec l'impression de se répéter.",
   "en": "with the feeling that they are repeating themselves.",
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   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Ailleurs dans l'actu, le gouvernement fédéral fait sa rentrée cette semaine.",
   "en": "In other news, the federal government goes back to work this week.",
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   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Mardi, Bart De Wever rencontre la Première ministre italienne Giorgia Meloni, note 7sur7.",
   "en": "On Tuesday, «Bart De Wever» meets the Italian prime minister «Giorgia Meloni», «7sur7» notes.",
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   "text": "Il entamera ensuite des réunions bilatérales sur une trajectoire budgétaire pluriannuelle.",
   "en": "He will then start bilateral meetings on a multi-year budget path.",
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   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "La Libre cite encore la privatisation partielle de Belfius et le survol de Bruxelles.",
   "en": "«La Libre» also lists selling off part of «Belfius» and the flights over Brussels.",
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   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Les étudiants coincés à Gaza figurent aussi au programme.",
   "en": "The students stranded in «Gaza» are on the agenda too.",
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    "pause_ms": 300,
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  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Le MR tenait sa rentrée politique dimanche,",
   "en": "«MR» held its political return on Sunday,",
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  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "au pied du Lion de Waterloo, rapporte la RTBF.",
   "en": "at the foot of the Lion of «Waterloo», «RTBF» reports.",
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  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Pour Georges-Louis Bouchez, refuser l'impôt est une nécessité pour le pays.",
   "en": "For «Georges-Louis Bouchez», refusing tax is a necessity for the country.",
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   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Autre dossier maintenant, la guerre en Ukraine,",
   "en": "Another story now, the war in Ukraine,",
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  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "et une navette diplomatique sans percée.",
   "en": "and shuttle diplomacy with no breakthrough.",
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  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Les émissaires de Donald Trump,",
   "en": "The envoys sent by «Donald Trump»,",
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    "pitch": 1.06
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  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Steve Witkoff et Jared Kushner,",
   "en": "«Steve Witkoff» and «Jared Kushner»,",
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    "rate": 0.95,
    "pitch": 1.035
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   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "se sont rendus à Moscou puis à Kiev.",
   "en": "went to Moscow and then Kyiv.",
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  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "La compagnie ferroviaire a annoncé le départ de leur train spécial.",
   "en": "The rail company said their special train had left.",
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   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "À Kiev, les discussions portaient sur la fin de la guerre, écrit Le Vif.",
   "en": "In Kyiv, the talks were about bringing the war to an end, «Le Vif» writes.",
   "prosody": {
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    "rate": 0.98,
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  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Selon La Libre, Volodymyr Zelensky a estimé que la guerre continuerait cet hiver.",
   "en": "According to «La Libre», «Volodymyr Zelensky» judged that the war would go on this winter.",
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  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Il a mis en cause l'absence de volonté russe de négocier directement avec lui.",
   "en": "He blamed the lack of Russian willingness to negotiate directly with him.",
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  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Pour terminer, un avion-cargo d'Amazon est sorti de piste à l'aéroport de Miami, aux États-Unis.",
   "en": "Lastly, an Amazon cargo plane ran off the runway at Miami airport, in the United States.",
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  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Il a percuté des véhicules et pris feu dimanche, en début d'après-midi.",
   "en": "It hit vehicles and caught fire on Sunday, in the early afternoon.",
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  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "La Libre chiffre le bilan à cinq morts et cinq blessés.",
   "en": "«La Libre» puts the toll at five dead and five injured.",
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  },
  {
   "speaker": "SPK1",
   "text": "Voilà où nous en sommes.",
   "en": "And that is where things stand.",
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 "handover": "junction",
 "title_en": "The morning news, Monday 7 September",
 "edition": "morning",
 "region": "fr-BE",
 "region_label": "Belgique",
 "headline_en": "AfD wins the Saxony-Anhalt regional election in Germany but falls short of a majority",
 "summary_en": [
  "AfD wins the Saxony-Anhalt regional election in Germany but falls short of a majority",
  "Belgian prison staff begin a five-day strike over overcrowding and staffing",
  "Belgium's federal government returns to work with the budget on the table"
 ]
}