Name: スーチー氏、ロヒンギャ大量虐殺容疑でミャンマーを弁護 - ニュースレビュー (Suu Kyi defends Myanmar against Rohingya genocide charge - News Review)
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He's a review from BBC Learning English Hello and welcome to News Review the program where we show you how to use the language from the latest news stories in your everyday English.

I'm Dan and joining me today is Catherine.

Okay, let's hear more about this story from the BBC World Service News International Court of Justice in The Hague will shortly begin hearing a case brought by the Gambia accusing Myanmar off genocide.

Hundreds of thousands of for hinge of Muslims fled me in mind 2017 when the Burmese army launched a bloody campaign against them.

Myanmar's de facto leader on song, Suki is in the Netherlands to leave the defense.

So the Gambia, an African nation, is taking the nation of Myanmar to court.

Now the Gambia is accusing me and more of genocide against Roy Ginger Muslims.

Genocide is the murder of large numbers of people from the same group or race or religion in this case, the ro hinge on Muslims.

Now, in 2017 more than 700,000 real ginger Muslims escaped from Myanmar.

They were escaping attacks and alleged off atrocities from the Burmese army, the Burmese army being the Myanmar Rommie.

Now Hang Seng on Song Souci, the 1991 noble Peace Prize laureate and now acting leader of Myanmar will go to the United Nations Court.

Now we've got three words and expressions that our viewers can use to talk about this story.

Moment of reckoning bolsters Ray of hope and moment of reckoning.

Yes, We will go to The Washington Post first.

Su Chi's defense of genocide charges may shock the West, but it bolsters his status at home.

Now, isn't this something to do with pillows?

If you have a couch sofa on, do you have a very large kind of quite firm pillow, which is cylindrical in shape, like a soft.

So when you're lying on it, you don't fall off.

So a bolster B o L s t e r or bolster is an alternative.

Pronounced that sensation oldster, oldster.

Whichever way you say it, it will make you a lot firmer and more comfortable.

Yes, when you're sitting on your sofa or up in bed.

In fact, if you have, if you like the kind of person who likes to have two or three pillows, you can have a bolster underneath kind you can't.

So basically it supports you and makes you stronger, right?

This is obviously this isn't a pillow, but this is the same idea in a verb.

If you can bolster something, you will make it stronger someday.

A symbol is that you will make something stronger.

So I might go to the gym to bolster my strength, for example?

So just looking at the headline again, it's saying that Long Song Souci is going to appear in court to defend these charges of genocide.

Some people will be shocked, but at home in Myanmar this will bolster her status.

It will make her position stronger and apart from bolstering status, what other things could be bolster?

So someone's image quite similar to status.

Okay, where you're viewed, you can boast or an army by sending Maur troops or equipment or yeah, okay, Yeah, of course, we could bolster it.

Yes, by investing in it most of the Do we have any opposites?

If we don't bolster something for strength, how can we make it weak?

Well, if you do something that takes its strength away from something that makes it weaker, we have a really good word.

If you you can undermine someone's confidence, you can undermine their morale, undermined their image, you can undermine an army.

Okay, so it's very direct, synonym antonym.

Thank you very much for that bolstered explanation of that vocabulary.

Let's have our second piece then, please.

Okay, so next we are going to Arab news Hague Hearing offers Ray of Hope to Bangladesh Is rowing Gia Ray of Hope Small signal that things will improve now?

I'm familiar with hope, but what's a Ray Ray are a why this is a three wood expression ray off O F.

On the third would hope 80 p e array off hope.

Let's look at rape array If you're in a dark room done and there's, um, it's daylight outside on there's a little hole somewhere that the light can seize may come into the room from okay, like like a like a stick or like a straight piece of light.

Okay, you can talk about the sun's rays being strong or weak.

Um, of course, light has long been associated with hope.

You know, things are quite bad, but then you can see a piece of light and you think the whole thing's going to get better.

So you use the ray is really perfect word to go with the idea of hope.

Ray of Hope is a kind of at a piece of hope that you can see um, on a ray of hope Here is saying that the row hinder.

People are hopeful about this hearing that's happening in the Hague.

Or anybody who has a ray of hope has a reason to feel hopeful.