Lake Taupo

At the heart of New Zealand's central volcanic plateau sits the largest freshwater lake in Australasia, Lake Taupo.

ヴィティカルチャー

viticulture   /'vɪtɪkʌltʃər/　n)ブドウ栽培の分野

Some people are a deep dive into Kiwi viticulture.

Kiwi　/'kiːwi/　n)ニュージーランド･ニュージーランド人

New Zealand PM Jacinda will step down.

She became the youngest female head of government in the world when she was elected prime minister in 2017, aged 37.

It's a good time for her to step down.

Overseas, she's definitely viewed very well.

Whereas I think internally she's probably maybe lost the public's acceptance a little bit.

New Zealand PM Ardern says supermarket stabbing was 'terrorist attack'

NZ PM Jacinda Ardern: "This was a violent attack. It was senseless"

Police in New Zealand have shot and killed a "violent extremist" after he stabbed and wounded at least six people in an Auckland supermarket.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the incident was a "terrorist attack" carried out by a Sri Lankan national who was under police surveillance.

The man, who has not been identified, was inspired by the Islamic State(IS) terrorist group, Ms Ardern said.

Police killed the man within 60 seconds of the attack on Friday.

"What happened today was despicable, it was hateful it was wrong," Ms Ardern said in a news conference. "It was carried out by an individual, not a faith."

She added that she was "absolutely gutted" to hear about the attack.

Of the six wounded people, three are in a critical condition and one is in a serious condition, health officials say.

"The hospital staff are doing everything they can to preserve their lives," the mayor of Auckland, Phil Goff, told the BBC.

"We're all horrified by what's happened. But... justice came pretty swiftly for the offender," he added.

senseless　セﾝｽﾚｽ  adj)感覚のない、非常識な、無意味な

stab　ｽタｧ-ﾌﾞ　v)突き刺す　n)突き刺すこと

stabbing スﾀｧﾋﾞﾝｸﾞ adj)刺すような　n)殺傷事件

extremist　ｲｸｽ ﾄリｰﾐ ｽﾄ n)極端論者･過激主義者

wound v)負傷させる

wounded ウ-ﾝﾃﾞｨｯﾄ adj)傷を負った

incident　イﾝｼﾃﾞﾝﾄ　n)出来事、重大事件

carry out　v)実行する、果たす

surveillance　ｻｧ ヴｪｲ ﾗﾝｽ　n)監視

 Good day, How are you going？ 

Good thanks, yourself?  

Good thanks miss/sir

What are you guys up to?

 NZ PM Jacinda Ardern ジャｼﾝﾀﾞ ｱ-ダーﾝ

Ardern is the world's first sitting prime minister to take maternity leave, and Ardern said she's hoping for a time when a story like hers isn't such a novelty.

novelty ノーｳﾞｪﾙﾃｨ n)目新しさ

How did New Zealand become Covid-19 free?

It locked down early and aimed for elimination.

elimination ｲﾘﾐネｲｼｮﾝ　n)排除、除外、除去

When did New Zealand bring in border closures?

How New Zealand went 'hard and early' to beat Covid-19?

New Zealand introduced a new four-stage alert system.

New Zealand's approach to the pandemic was to "throw everything at it at the start".  

The UK has never closed its borders.

The UK government responses to Covid-19 is completely opposite from NZ.  

Comparing/contrasting UK and NZ, it seems that UK wants a challenge.

In contrast to living in the city, living in the countryside is very different. 都市での生活とは対照的に、田舎での生活は非常に異なります。

Her clothes are colorful opposed to his. 彼女の服は彼と対照的にカラフルです。

oppose ｵポｳｽﾞ v)反対する　opposed　adj)反対の

Even though they are twins they are complete opposites. 彼らは双子なのに完全に反対です。

NZ to launch world-first climate change rules

New Zealand is to become the world's first country to bring in a low forcing its financial firms to report on the effect of climate change.

The country wants to be carbon neutral by 2050 and says the financial sector needs to play its part.

Banks, insures and fund managers can do this by knowing the environmental effect of their investments, says its Climate Change Minister James Show.

So long as there's no emergency. 有事でなくてよかったです。

New Zealand confirms first cases of UK coronavirus variant as Auckland goes into lockdown

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said investigators were trying to trackdown the source of the UK infections

The prime minister of New Zealand confirmed that the coronavirus infections that triggered the country's first lock down in months are the UK variant, raising fears of a setback to the country's previously successful fight against the disease.

Jacinda Ardern said on Monday that no new community cases had been found since New Zealand's largest city was placed into an emergency three-day lockdown on Sunday night, raising hopes that the lockdown would be short.

"We were right to take a cautious approach and focus on safety because we've confirmed it is the UK variant," she told Radio New Zealand.

"This is a highly transmissible and a fast-moving strain, one that requires extra care in order to stamp it out, and this is exactly what our approach entails," she added.

It is the first time the more infectious UK variant has been found in New Zealand, which has achieved one of the lowest infection rates in the world thanks to strict border controls.

Three people - a mother, father and daughter from the same Auckland family - tested positive for coronavirus over the weekend.

The mother works at Auckland's international airport for a company that does laundry for international aircrew.

Initial speculation had focused on the strain escaping from a quarantine hotel, but Mrs Ardern said genome sequencing of the latest case had failed to "link it to any of the cases we've had come through our managed isolation facilities... it tells us it wasn't someone who went from an airline into our managed isolation."

She said investigations tracing the source were focusing on three scenarios, including whether the variant arrived with a transit passenger who stayed airside at the airport, or international aircrew via a uniform cleaned by the laundry company.

trackdown v)追及する、追いつめる