Today's story: Britain sends fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. You will hear it in French first, then line by line with the English beside it.

Today's headline in French: La Grande-Bretagne envoie des avions en Arabie saoudite

(00:00) Welcome and today's headline

(00:33) More stories today

(01:24) Today's headline, slowly

(02:12) Announcing news

(02:52) Keeping places safe

(03:38) Extra support

(04:15) Today's grammar point

(04:52) The story again

The full transcript, the English translation, the vocabulary and a short quiz for this episode:

https://linguawire.com/class/french/a1/2026-10-21

TODAY'S FRENCH TEXT

La Grande-Bretagne envoie des avions en Arabie saoudite

Mardi, le gouvernement britannique a annoncé l’envoi d’avions Typhoon en Arabie saoudite.

Les avions vont protéger les villes et les infrastructures importantes contre les drones et les missiles.

Ils ne vont pas attaquer les Houthis au Yémen.

Le Royaume-Uni va aussi envoyer un avion de transport et des conseillers militaires.

La trêve au Yémen a pris fin en septembre.

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WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES

- verb (annoncer)

- vocabulary (protéger)

- vocabulary (attaquer)

- vocabulary (conseillers)

- vocabulary (a pris fin)

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