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Tennis star Novak Jokovich has won his appeal to stay in Australia so he can defend his Australian open title.

Hello, I'm Rob, and welcome to news review from BBC Learning English.

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today is Roy. Hello Roy. Hello Rob, and hello everybody.

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The tennis world number one Novakkovitch, has won his appeal against a decision to refuse him a visa to enter Australia.

A judge in Melbourne ruled he must be immediately released from immigration detention, but the Australian government has told the court it could still exercise its power to cancel the visa.

Jokovich arrived at Melbourne Airport last week to defend his title at the Australian open, which begins next Monday.

He'd been given an exemption from Covied vaccination rules after recovering from the virus last month.

So novak Jokovitch has one an appeal against the cancellation of his visa, and can now stay in Australia and compete in the Australian open Jokovich, who arrived in Australia recently, believed that he was permitted to enter the country after recently recovering from the covid virus, and as a result, was exempt from the covied virus rules.

The Australian government has said it could still cancel the visa.

And we've got three words and expressions we can learn about to help us talk about this story, haven't we?

What are they? Roy Yes, we have.

We have Cautious Handed reprieve and clearing path.

That's crosses handed reprieve and clearing path.

OK, let's take that 1st word which appears in which headline please?

Well, the 1st headline is from The Guardian, and it reads, novak Jokovich released from Immigration detention after Australian Court Cautious Visa Cancellation.

So that's cautious Rejects something officially?

Yes? So cautious is a verb, and it spelt Q-U-A-S-H-E-S, and it means to reject something officially.

It's often used in a court of law, and we can't, if we quite commonly, hear it when it says that a when a decision that was previously made, somebody has said that that decision is no longer accepted.

So they quash a previous decision.

Okay, so it's no longer accepted.

So this is interesting. In the case of this headline, we're saying that the judge says that the decision to cancel his visa was no longer accepted.

Yeah, that's right, yeah. So, and we have other other things, e.g.

if a person receives a conviction, or they go to prison, and then later on, um, somebody decides that that, a judge decides that that that punishment, that conviction, is no longer valid, it's not accepted, they would quash that person's sentence.

Okay? And it's a strange word, quashes.

I mean, it reminds me of the words squashes.

When you squeeze something, you you suppress something.

When you squash something, is there any kind of connection here?

Well, it's interesting that you say that, because a quash has a secondary meaning, and the secondary meaning, of course, is basically to suppress something that or stop something from happening.

So, e.g., if there's a rumor that you think is incorrect, you could crush that rumor.

It means to suppress or prevent it from from happening.

Hmm. And another example, I guess when there are protests in some countries, the authorities want to quash the protest.

Don't they want suppress or stop that protest?

Correct? OK, OK, let's have a summary of that word, please.

We've talked about no Bank Jokovich before here on news of you.

When he hit a ball at someone, didn't he write?

Yes. And all you need to do to learn more about that story is click the link in the description below.

Yep, just down below there. Thanks Roy.

OK, let's look at your next news headline, please.

So our next news headline comes from the website, tennis Three, six, five.

And it reads, novak Jokovich Handed reprieve as he is allowed to leave detention facility.

So that's handed reprieve, given cancellation of a punishment, right?

So this is a two word expression.

1st word handed, H-A-N-D-E-D. 2nd word reprieve R-E-P-R-I-E-V-E.

Now, handed means to be given something, so it's quite often use officially, you're handed something, and reprieve is the cancellation or the

postponement of a punishment. Now, this headline relates to the fact that during the hearing, novak Jokovitch was allowed to leave the hotel

where he was staying. OK, you've used the word handed there.

I mean, I know what a hand is.

Look, there's a hand. Very useful.

They come in handy. What's that got to do with this headline?

Well, quite literally, handed means to pass something from one hand to another.

It's a verb. So, e.g., if we're in the office together, and I say, oh, I need a pen.

Oh, oh, rob, could you hand me that pen, please?

I mean, can you give me that pen?

Sometimes it's used more figuratively, e.g.

in a court of law, where they are given something, so you could be, e.g., handed a reprieve.

In this sense, given a reprieve.

Yes. So he was given a reprieve.

So that means to end end his punishment.

Yeah? Is that right? That's absolutely right.

That's what reprieve means to cancel or postpone some kind of punishment.

So in this case, he was staying in a detention center, and he received, he was given a reprieve.

OK? And there's a kind of another meaning, really, to this expression as well, isn't there?

There is, um, it can mean sort of a welcome or a good, kind of delay to something, a reprieve.

So, e.g., maybe a company is having financial problems and they risk going bust, going bankrupt, but at the last minute, they are given an emergency loan.

We could say maybe they are given a reprieve, a reprieve from going bust.

Great, interesting stuff. Let's have a summary of that expression.

Well, we were just talking about hands and how important they are when you hand something to someone.

So it's important, therefore, to wash your hands.

And we made a program all about the importance of handwashing, didn't we?

Yes, we did. And all you need to do to watch that program is click the link in the description below.

Yeah, down below. Great. OK let's have a look.

Our next headline, please. Okay, so our next headline comes from the Washington Post, and it reads, novak Jokovich wins case against Australia over canceled visa, clearing path for him to play in Melbourne.

So that's clearing path, allowing something to happen or proceed.

Yes. So another two word expression.

The 1st word is clearing C-L-E-A-R-I-N-G.

2nd word path P-A-T-H. Now, clearing here is being used as a verb, and it means to remove things or obstacles.

And path is talking about the way forward.

So what it's actually saying is your removing obstacles from the way ahead.

OK? I know all about clearing paths.

Where I live, I have a path in my front garden that leads from the road to the house, and I have to clear that sometimes, because particularly like, e.g., when it snows, I clear the path from all the snow so that I have a clear passageway into my house.

Yeah, yes. And that's a very literal usage of the word path.

It is something that we walk on, but we also use it more figuratively to mean the way forward, the way ahead, you know.

But e.g., in a headline, when we're talking about clearing the path, you're talking about opening up the opportunity, opening an opportunity.

And clear can mean obvious, and it's easy to see, is that right?

Yeah. So, as I said, clear in the headline is a verb, but we can also use it as an adjective, um.

So you can say that something is obvious.

So if we talk about a clear path, using that word path again, maybe you have a clear career path.

You have an obvious career path, so you know exactly what you want to do in life and where you want to go throughout your career.

A clear career path means obvious.

Well, thank you, roy, you made that very clear.

So let's have a summary of that expression.

Well, now it's time to recap the vocabulary that we've been talking about today.

Yes, we had cautious rejects, something officially, we had handed reprieve, given cancellation of a punishment, and we had clearing path allowing something to happen or proceed.

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