Show 156 Friday 6 October

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Intro

Hi, I’m Sarah and this is The Daily English Show.

So Blogger has updated their system and I changed my blog to a beta blog whatever that means ...

And then I found all these comments waiting to be approved – so a few months ago my blog seems to have mysteriously changed to only showing comments if I approve them and then hidden the comments somewhere.
Anyway, it was great to come across a bunch of nice comments ... kind of like finding money in the pocket of a jacket that you haven’t worn for ages ...

So, thank you : ) And thank you to everybody who leaves comments.

Today’s news is about the Rainbow Warrior ... the conversation is about a video that I saw on YouTube.

And now for something completely random ... yesterday when I was editing I came across a crazy shot which looks like I have no head.

Scary.

That was during the part when I was reading the news and I kept stuffing it up and went ahhh and put my head forward in frustration.

STICK NEWS

Kia Ora, in Stick News today, the woman who wants to be the next president in France may be the sister of the man who bombed the Rainbow Warrior.
Her brother was a spy at the time of the 1985 bombings and he may have been the person who planted the bombs.

A nuclear weapon is a bomb used to kill thousands of people at the same time. They’ve only ever been used twice in war. In 1945 America dropped 2 bombs on Japan.
Since then 7 countries have let off over 2000 bombs for testing or demonstrations.
From 1966 and 1996 France blew up its bombs in the South Pacific on an atoll called Mururoa. Many of the people living in the pacific weren’t happy about this.
Greenpeace was against the testing. They planned to sail to Mururoa to protest. So the French government sent spies to New Zealand to bomb one of their boats.
The Rainbow Warrior was in Auckland when it was bombed by French spies on the 10th of July 1985. One crew member died.
France denied having anything to do with it at first.
Then two of the spies were caught by the New Zealand police. They pleaded guilty to manslaughter and were sentenced to 10 years in prison.
But they didn’t spend much time behind bars – the French government helped them get back to France.
And the other spies were never punished.

The Socialist Party candidate said that her brother was involved in a detestable act, but the irony of the story was that she favoured Greenpeace’s actions against nuclear testing.
Her brother said he has never spoken whether or not he was involved in the operation and he never will.
And that was Stick News for Friday the 6th of October.
Kia Ora.

conversations with sarah
# 104 Do you want to watch it?

Hisae and Sarah talk about a video on the net.
Step 1: Repeat Hisae’s lines.
Step 2: Read Hisae’s lines on the screen and talk to Sarah.

Hisae Seen any good videos lately?

Sarah Yeah, I saw one with a guy putting on lots of t-shirts. Do you want to watch it?

Hisae Is it very long?

Sarah No, it’s only about a minute or so.

Hisae OK.

Sarah He put on 155 t-shirts, I think.

Hisae Wow. He doesn’t look very happy.

Sarah Yeah ... it must be pretty uncomfortable.

Hisae I wonder where they got all the t-shirts from.

Notes

Music on the show used with permission from jamendo.com

Intro music:
Artist: Manuzik
Album: Nouvelle Shortstories
Track: FatBackBeat
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music at jamendo

Today's questionanswer music:
Artist: NeXuS
Album: Trance Planet
Track: Trance Planet
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music at jamendo

Nuclear weapons.
Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior
Today's news