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BBC News with Marion Marshall
BBC News with Marion Marshall马里恩·马歇尔为你播报BBC新闻。
Pakistani government officials said they released another eight senior members of the Afghan Taliban, all are ex-government ministers or provincial governors. The Afghan government welcomed the move, but said they need to locate those released to get them involved in the peace process.A P of the BBC Pashto Service reports.巴基斯坦官员称已释放阿富汗塔利班的另外8名高级官员,他们全部是前政府的部长及省级部长。
阿富汗政府对此表示欢迎,但表示将安置这些官员,让他们参与到和平进程中。
Among those released according to Pakistani officials, all the former Taliban Justice Minister Mullah Nooruddin Turabi and the former governor of Helmand province, Abdul Bari. Mullah Turabi is told to be in poor health. But Pakistan's most high-profile Taliban detainee, former deputy leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar remains in custody. Last month Pakistan freed at least nine other Afghan Taliban following a visit to Islamabad by the head of the Afghanistan peace council.据巴基斯坦官员称,所有获释人员为塔利班前司法部长图拉比及赫尔曼德省前省长Abdul Bari。
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BBC news with Marion Marshall.Marion Marshall为你播报BBC新闻。
Egypt's top judges have called an immediate strike against President Mohamed Mursi's decision to assume sweeping new powers, accusing him of mounting an unprecedented attack on their independence. Courts and prosecutors had to suspend their work in protest. Egypt’s ousted attorney general, Abdel Maguid Mahmoud, appeared at a packed meeting of judges and lawyers, his first public appearance since President Mursi's decree.埃及最高法官呼吁立即举行罢工,反对总统穆罕默德·穆尔西获得更多权力的决定,指责他前所未有地破坏了权力独立。
法庭和检察官必须罢工抗议,埃及被废除的司法部长阿卜杜勒出席了法官和律师会议,这是他自总统穆尔西颁布法令以来首次露面。
Leaving aside the legitimacy of the constitutional declaration that the present issued on November 21, this declaration aims to disable the judicial system.不要去理11月21日颁布的宪法宣言的合法性,这个宣言的目的就是使司法系统失去权力。
As the judges were meeting, riot police used tear gas to disperse crowds gathered on the streets outside. There were also demonstrations by supporters of President Morsi. The opposition leader Mohamed elBaradei has called for peaceful protests until the president rescinds the decree.法官们举行会议之时,防暴警察正在动用催泪瓦斯驱赶大街上聚会的群众。
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BBC News with Iain Purdon.Iain Purdon为你播报BBC新闻。
After eight days of fighting, a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has begun. The deal was announced in Cairo by the Egyptian foreign minister flanked by the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Speaking through an interpreter, the Hamas leader, Khaled Mashaal said Hamas had won a victory in Gaza and Israel had failed in all its goals.经过8天的战斗,以色列和哈马斯终于停火。
该决定是埃及外长在开罗宣布的,他身旁还站着美国国务卿希拉里·克林顿。
哈马斯领袖哈立德·迈沙阿勒通过翻译称,哈马斯在加沙赢得了胜利,以色列一个目标都没有实现。
This is not a traditional war, this is not a battle between two sides. It is a treacherous cowardly aggression against our people in Gaza that an initiated they did, a response and reaction for that, and eight days later, the God has forced the [homes] of [desire less] to [saw/sew] pity of our people in Gaza and they has submitted it to the conditions of the resistance and affections.这并不是传统战争,并非双边战争。
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BBC News with Marion Marshall.Marion Marshall为你播报BBC新闻。
The northeast coast of the United States is beginning a massive clear-up after being hit by the biggest storm for years. At least 30 people have been killed. The mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg said bridges and roads were being reopened, but it would take days to restore power and public transport.美国东北海岸遭受了数年来最大风暴,现在开始清理工作。
至少30人在风暴中丧生。
纽约市长迈克尔·布隆伯格说,已经重新开放道路和桥梁,但要恢复电力和公共交通还需数天。
In addition to the lives we lost, the damage we suffered across the city is clearly extensive and it will not be repaired overnight. The two biggest challenges facing our city going forward are getting our mass transit system up and running and restoring power. So clearly the challenges our city faces in the coming days are enormous.除了人员丧生,整个纽约市遭受的创伤很严重,不可能短期内得到修复。
我们面临的两大挑战,就是恢复大规模的交通系统,恢复电力。
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BBC News with Marion MarshallaAbout 1,000 people have been injured in Russia after a large meteor burned up in the skies above the southern Ural’s region causing a shockwave that damaged buildings across a wide area. Most of those hurt suffered minor cuts and bruises from flying glass, but several dozen had to be kept in hospital. The meteor released several kilotonnes of energy equivalent to that of a nuclear bomb. An official in Chelyabinsk, Polina Zolotarevskaya, described what she had seen.“It was quite extraordinary. We saw a very bright light and then there was a kind of a track, white and yellow in the sky. It was a very broad track. And then in several seconds, there was a strong explosion.”The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, said he thanked God that no big fragments from the meteor had fallen in populated areas.An asteroid about half the size of a football field has safely passed Earth in what scientists say as the closest known approach for an object of its size. At its nearest point, the rock, with a diameter of about 45 metres came within about 28,000 kilometres of Earth, closer than some TV and weather satellites. Scientists say the asteroid has nothing to do with the Russian meteor. It’s just a cosmic coincidence.The South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius has denied murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. In a statement issued after Mr Pistorius was charged in Pretoria, his family said that he disputed the charge. This report from Peter Biles.Oscar Pistorius remains in police custody after his dramatic court appearance at which he broke down and sobbed. He’ll spend the next three days at a police station in Pretoria before returning to court on Tuesday. State prosecutors will oppose a bail application. They say this is a case of premeditated murder. But Oscar Pistorius’s family issued a statement saying the alleged murder was disputed in the strongest terms. They refer to the killing of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp as a terrible, terrible tragedy.The Venezuelan government has released the first photo of President Hugo Chavez since his fourth round of cancer surgery which he underwent in Cuba last December. There’s been widespread speculation about when or whether the president will resume hisleadership. Sarah Grainger reports from Caracas.The photos show Mr Chavez wearing his customary tracksuit, reclining on a bed next to his two daughters. He’s smiling in one of the pictures reading a copy of a recent edition of the Cuban newspaper Granma. Addressing the public on state television, Venezuela’s Information Minister Ernesto Villegas said President Chavez was breathing through a tracheal tube and could not speak at present. But he also stressed the measure was reversible. Ministers have been under pressure to produce some good news about President Chavez. Just a week ago the government announced that it was devaluing Venezuela’s currency.World News from the BBCThe International Committee of the Red Cross says the humanitarian situation in Syria is catastrophic. The organisation’s director of operations said he’d seen unbearable suffering for civilians on a recent trip to the country. Imogen Foulkes reports from Geneva.The International Committee of the Red Cross has been working in Syria since the start of the conflict. It describes the situation now as nothing short of catastrophic. The number of different armed groups is increasing. Villages change hands on a daily basis. Attacks on hospitals and the killing of nurses and doctors are now so common. The Red Cross says that the health service in some parts of the country has become a wasteland.The authorities in the Netherlands have raided a meat processing plant they suspect of mixing horsemeat with beef and selling it as pure beef. It’s the latest in a series of similar actions across Europe. As Matthew Price reports from Brussels:This scandal has spread fast. Across Europe, some 13 countries so far have been affected. The Brussels bureaucracy has moved uncharacteristically rapidly. EU food safety officials decided to start new tests immediately to find out how much of the food chain has been affected. It’s clear this is not the result of one or two rogue suppliers. It’s beginning to look like an industry and continental-wide problem.A British academic has stumbled upon a 500-year-old proclamation calling for the arrest of the Renaissance political writer Niccolo Machiavelli in the Italian city of Florence. The Medici family, who ruledFlorence at the time, accused Machiavelli of plotting to overthrow them. He was detained, tortured and placed under house arrest, where he started writing his famous book The Prince, describing the art of political manipulation. The term Machiavellian is still synonymous with the cunning pursuit of power.BBC News。
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The Pakistani Military Has Temporarily Lifted theCurfewBBC News with Marian Marshall.The Pakistani military has already temporarily lifted the curfew in large part of the Swat Valley to allow civilians to flee from the intense fighting between the army and entrenched Taleban militants. Conditions are also worsening in the huge refugee camps set up for those who managed to get out from the conflict zone. Barbara Plett reports from Islamabad.It's estimated that around 150, 000 people have remained trapped in Swat's main city Mingora, unable to get out when curfew was lifted a week ago. The army says so far it's been fighting the Taleban in the mountains and hasn't yet targeted any urban areas. But terrified residents spoke of the sounds of bombing and shelling. They said Taleban militants were in districts and supplies of electricity, gas and food were scarce.A senior United Nations official is on his way back to Sri Lanka to call for the protection of civilians trapped in the northern war zone. The International Committee of the Red Cross says the people are facing catastrophe. But the military says thousands have been escaping to safety. Charles Haviland reports from Colombo.A UN spokeswoman in New York said that Vijay Nambiar, who's Ban Ki-moon's right-hand man, is travelling to Sri Lanka to plea with the government to end the conflict without further bloodshed. The authorities, however, have made it clear that they intend to re-capture all land held by the Tamil Tiger rebels within a few days. One minister said on Thursday that in Pakistan and Afghanistan there were similar conflicts, but no one was asking for a ceasefire there. The government's line has been underscored by the military and the UN office here, who say thousands of civilians have been escaping this bit of land where there's a fighting by wading across a lagoon.Government forces and Islamist fighters have been exchanging fire on the eighth day of clashes in the Somali capital Mogadishu which have already killed more than 100 civilians. Our BBC correspondent in Mogadishu, Mohamed Olad Hassan, says the fighting is now casting doubt on the survival of the transitional government.Gunfire can still be heard in some areas in the north of the city with the war inside is still eyeball to eyeball and now the government controls only this onethird of the city. Most of its Islamic fighters have defected to the opposition. People have abandoned nearly two third of the city flowing the fighting and most of them are now living in the open and under the trees outside Mogadishu with no food and medicine.A new study suggests that a virus infection that's present in up to 99% of adults is a significant cause of high blood pressure, a condition often termed as "the silent killer" because it kills people who are unaware they have it. In experiments with mass, researchers in the United States found the virus, cytomegalovirus, or CMV, also causes a hardening of the arteries which can lead to heart disease and strokes. The scientists say their discovery could lead to new treatments for blood pressure including the possibility of a vaccine. High blood pressure is currently treated by drugs.World News from the BBC.。
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BBC News with Marion MarshallThe chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, has asked judges to charge six top Kenyans he believes were responsible for the deaths of more than 1,200 people in post-election violence three years ago. Mr Ocampo says he'll seek arrest warrants if the six fail to surrender to answer allegations of crimes against humanity, including murder, torture and rape. From Nairobi, here's Will Ross.The most significant name on the ICC prosecutor's list is Uhuru Kenyatta, who is Kenya's finance minister, deputy prime minister and the son of the country's first president. He's accused of mobilising a vigilante group during the post-election violence. In reaction, he said he was innocent and his conscience was clear. Another suspect is William Ruto, who was until recently a cabinet minister. The ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said he planned organised attacks against supporters of a rival political party. Also named was another member of the cabinet, Henry Kosgey, as well as the former head of the police force, Hussein Ali.The US Justice Department has filed a civil lawsuit against BP and eight other companies involved in the huge Gulf of Mexico oil spill in April. The suit alleges that the companies violated federal safety regulations. The Attorney General Eric Holder said he held them fully accountable for billions of dollars in damages."We intend to prove that these violations caused or contributed to the massive oil spill and that the defendants are therefore responsible - under the Oil Pollution Act - for government removal costs, economic losses as well as environmental damages."Eleven workers were killed in the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig, and millions of barrels of oil spilled into the sea over several months.The United States Senate has voted to begin consideration of the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russia. The American and Russian presidents signed the treaty in April, but itsratification by the US Senate has been stalled because of disagreements between Democrats and Republicans.Police in Moscow say they've made about 1,000 arrests to prevent further violence between Russian nationalists and migrants from the North Caucasus region. Most of the arrests were made at a railway station in the city centre, where riot police were deployed. Tensions have risen since the killing of a Spartak Moscow football fan earlier this month during a fight with migrants from the Caucasus. The mayor of Moscow, Sergey Sobyanin, said the police would deal firmly with those involved in the clashes."At the moment, law enforcement agencies are taking preventative measures to stop unauthorised rallies in the city. I would call on hotheads not to submit to provocation and appeals to violence. The police will continue to toughly suppress any attempts at provocation and violence."The mayor of Moscow.You are listening to the World News from the BBC.Prosecutors in Ukraine say the opposition leader and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is under investigation for abuse of power. She's been ordered not to leave the capital Kiev. Ms Tymoshenko told journalists she had been accused of embezzling state funds, a claim she described as another example of government terror against the opposition.The World Bank's fund to help the poorest countries has received new pledges of nearly $50bn, the highest figure ever promised. Most of the money is likely to come from rich nations at a time when budgets are under extreme pressure following the financial crisis. A European official said EU states were providing almost half of the total. The fund is replenished every three years.The United Nations Security Council has lifted a series of international sanctions imposed on Iraq in the 1990s during the rule of Saddam Hussein. The move is intended to help Iraq re-establish full sovereignty over its affairs. Barbara Plett reports from UN headquarters in New York.In a statement, the Security Council said it recognised that the situation in Iraq now is significantly different than it was in the aftermath of Baghdad's 1990 invasion of Kuwait, so it voted to end UN sanctions on the import of chemicals and nuclear technology imposed to prevent the former President Saddam Hussein from building weapons of mass destruction. This gives Baghdad the green light to develop a civilian nuclear programme. The council also adopted a resolution terminating the residual activities of the oil-for-food programme, which helped Iraqis cope with an economic embargo.A prominent Cuban dissident who was refused permission to collect a human rights prize in Europe says nothing has changed in Cuba despite the release of some political prisoners. Guillermo Farinas addressed the European Parliament in a recorded message after it presented the Sakharov Prize to an empty chair draped with a Cuban flag. He said the EU shouldn't be fooled into thinking Cuba's communist government had changed its attitude to human rights.BBC World Service News。
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BBC news with Marion Marshall.Marion Marshall为你播报BBC新闻。
V otes are being counted in the Spanish region of Catalonia after an election that's called into question the unity of Spain. Chris Morris reports from Barcelona.西班牙加泰罗尼亚进行有关西班牙统一问题的公投,目前选票正在清点中。
克里斯·莫利斯在巴塞罗那报道。
It’s early days, but the exit polls suggest a clear trend. Parties that support Catalania independence and the idea of holding a referendum or public consultation on it look set to win a clear majority in the next regional parliaments. The exit polls suggest the number of seats held by the CIU, the party led by the Catalan President Artur Mas, will fall. But the big winner could be another pro-independence party on the left. Mr. Mas called this early election after failing to negotiate a new financial settlement with the central government in Madrid. His critics say he is trying to exploit the economic crisis, but his supporters say the demand for independence in Catalonia can no longer be ignored.目前时间还早,但民调显示趋势很明显。
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BBC News with Marion MarshallMarion Marshall为你播报BBC新闻。
Syrian opposition factions meeting in Qatar have agreed to form a unified political coalition as they seek to topple President Bashar al-Assad. The coalition has named a president and two vice presidents. Jim Muir reports from Beir ut.与会卡塔尔的叙利亚反对宗派同意组建统一的政治联盟,以期实现推翻总统阿萨德的目的。
联盟已任命一位总统和两位副总统。
Jim Muir在贝鲁特报道。
The man named as the president of the new unified coalition is Ahmad Moaz al-Khatib. He is a moderate Islamist cleric, who left Damascus just three months ago and would therefore be considered an insider. The friends of the Syrian group led by the United States has pledged to recognize the new coalition officially as the sole legitimate representative of the Syrians. It may be allowed to take Syria's seat at the Arab League. It is expected to establish a compact interim government and a military council to try to coordinate the struggle on the ground.被提名当选为新的统一联盟总统的是Ahmad Moaz al-Khatib,他是温和派伊斯兰牧师,三个月前离开大马士革,因此被视为权威者。
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BBC news 2014-05-05--------- BBC News with Julie CandlerThe United States says the release of international observers abducted by pro-Russian militants in Ukraine is a step in the right direction, but that the Kremlin needs to do much more to deescalate the situation. Secretary of State John Kerry said Moscow should now withdraw its support for the militants and help remove them from the official buildings they occupy. The observers who've now arrived safely in Berlin were freed less than a day after a Russian envoy Vladimir Lukin arrived in Slaviansk where they have been detained more than a week. After their release, Mr. Lukin said he expected reciprocal actions.They were not in exchange for anyone else. This is a voluntary act and I would very much like to believe that this voluntary and noble act will be followed by reciprocal voluntary, noble actions from those of the other side of this confrontation. I would very much like military actions to end.Fighting has been intensifying in eastern Ukraine, there have been more clashes between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian militants in and around the town of Kramatorsk, where at least two people are said to have been killed. The Ukrainian Interior Minister, Arsen Avakov, said troops had recaptured a security services building and a television tower. Elsewhere, pro-Russian militants have reported to attack an army recruitment center in Luhansk wounding two Ukrainian soldiers.Security officials in Kenya say at least three people have been killed in two explosions in the city of Mombasa. There are reports a third device left in a cinema which failed to explode. Mohamud Ali from the BBC’s Somali Service reports.According to the police boss in Mombasa Robert Kitur, one person tried to get access to a bus in the evening, the explosives exploded killing three people in a busy market in the coastal town of Mombasa. There was also a simultaneous attack on a resort hotel that frequented at by tourists in N* beach, nobody was inside are killed in that blast and the police at the scene.Hundreds of illegal migrants have arrived in the northern Sudanese town of Dongola after being rescued from the dessert by the Sudanese army. Most are said to be Ethiopian and Eritrean while others are South Asian. Mary Harper reports.Six army trucks drove the migrants hundreds of kilometer through the Sahara desert to the town of Dongola. They were found earlier this week near the border with Libya, where they have been abandoned by traffickers. They lacked food and water and at least nine of them died. Every year, tens of thousands of migrants cross the Sahara trying to make their way to Europe. Many of them pay significant amounts to traffickers. Last year, dozens of migrants from Niger died from thirst in the desert after their vehicle broke down.World news from the BBC Afghan officials has said they've ended the search for more victims of a landslide in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, and the area will now stand a mass grave yard. One of the Afghanistan Vice Presidents visited the scene and said it was not possible to bring out any more bodies. David Loyn sent this report from valley.The ridden area desolated feel at the bottom of the valley where thousands of people are now buried under mud that is about 17 meters deep, the landscape has been altered a stream is rapidly threatening to flood remaining houses since this course have been dug up. Several government ministers came with Vice President to look at the devastation. Food and basic shelter including tents have arrived. International agencies drawing on stock stored in the northeast of Afghanistan, but there are not many survivors, not many people left alive from the house at the bottom of the valley.A panel advising Pope Francis has called for Roman Catholic bishops to be held accountable if they failed to report suspected sexual abuse or failed to protect children from pedophile priests. After holding its first meeting, the new Vatican advisory border said current Church laws were out of the date and it would develop clear and effective rules to deal with the problem.An Indian regional politician in the state of Uttar Pradesh has died of his injuries after been seized by a man who'd set himself blaze. The local leader of the Bahujan Samaj Party, Kamruzzama Fauji suffered the injures during a television debate early in the week, when a member of the audience doused himself in petrol, set himself alight and grabbed Mr. Fauji.Brazil's Football Association has banned matches in a stadium in the northeastern city of Recife after a man was killed by a toilet bowl hurled by rival fans. The clashes on a second division match on Friday night, led the authorities to closed down the Arruda stadium. Recife is hosting five World Cup matches but they will be played at the newly built Arena Pernambuco.BBC news 2014-05-07--------- Police in the Philippines have arrested 58 people involved in an Internet extortion network. They are accused of posting fake profiles to social network sites, luring mostly elderly men into exposing themselves in video chats which then filmed and used to blackmail them for money.Basically what's been going on here is that criminals have now taken advantage of technology and in particularly, social networking site where they are creating multiple fake profiles to befriend as many people as possible. And the aim was of this is to encourage the person that befriended into having sex over the Internet in front of the webcam and unknown to the person this is filmed and recorded it. And then she used a blackmail further on. Many of these firms are so well-organized like a traditional business with the staff that they have got. So they really are very well-organized. And it enables them to commit crime all over the world rather than traditionally where they may have been confined to their own country.And these are mostly men, it seems, to think they are striking up kind of interval relationship over the Internet with a woman. It turns out that they are not. What kind of money is extorted from them?It varies anything from a few hundred pounds through to few thousand dollars. And it'swhatever they think that they can afford. It's very similar and very specialized to some of the other form we've seen in particular countries, some countries where teams have got together and they are specialized in skimming cards. Others have specialized in other types of fraud. I guess it's possibly also the fact that Philippines does well in tourist from westernized countries to the Philippines.The US Secretary of States John Kerry says the South Sudan President Salva Kiir has agreed to peace talks aimed at ending the conflict there. Mr. Kerry was speaking after the talks with the president in the capital Juba.I've told President Kiir that the choices that both he and the opposition face are stark and clear and that the unspeakable human costs that we have seen over the course of last month and which could even grow if they fail to sit down are unacceptable to the global community.BBC news 2014-05-11--------- BBC News with Marion Marshall.Pro-Russian activists in eastern Ukraine have decided to go ahead with a referendum on self-determination on Sunday, ignoring a call from President Putin to postpone it. Steve Rosenberg reports from Moscow.“His proposal yesterday to postpone the referendum in eastern Ukraine appeared an admission that just wasn't practical to organize the plebiscite in the short time remaining, and that the Kremlin may be prepared now to come to terms with Kiev. Most analysts had expected the pro-Russia separatists to heed the president's call, they haven't. But Vladimir Putin could turn that to his advantage, citing it as a proof that Russia is not orchestrating events across the border as the West has claimed.Ukrainian government says the proposed vote is illegal and what it calls anti-terrorist operations in eastern Ukraine will continue. Ukrainian border agency says armed men in eastern Ukraine have attempted to seize control of a border post at Esvarino. The agency said about 40 armed men arrived in minivans at a crossing point in the Lugansk region onThursday evening, surrounding the post and calling on Ukrainian guards to lay down their weapons. A statement said the gunmen threw petrol bombs, but fled when the border guards opened fire. There has been no independent confirmation of the incident.The American Secretary of State, John Kerry has announced that an American specialist team is joining the hunt in Nigeria to locate and free more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist militants. Nigeria's president Goodluck Jonathan has acknowledged that the greatest threat facing his country is terrorism, but he insisted it could be neutralized with international help. Earlier, Mr. Kerry's predecessor, Hillary Clinton joined growing criticism of the Nigerian authorities, saying they had to perform better. The government of Nigeria needs to get serious about protecting all of its citizens, and insuring that every child has the right and opportunity to go to school in security and safety. That is a fundamental responsibility of any government. And Nigerians should hold their leaders accountable.The United States has for the first time imposed sanctions on a Russian bank active in Syria as part of efforts to step up economic pressure on the Syrian government. The move was announced as Syrian opposition leaders are on a visit to Washington to meet senior administration officials. Barbara Plett Usher reports.This is the first time America has sanctioned a Russian bank for its dealings with Damascus. The US Treasury Department said this build on existing efforts to choke off the Syrian government's access to the international financial system. New sanctions were also imposed on two Syrian state refineries and six senior officials. The announcement was made shortly before the head of the Syrian opposition Ahmad Al-Jarba met the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, he is on his first official visit to Washington during which he is also expected to see President Barack Obama.The Syrian government has retaken control of the old city of Homs, once known as the capital of the revolution after the evacuation of rebel troops. Hundreds of fighters and trapped civilians boarded buses to be taken to a rebel-held town north of the city to joinnearly 1,000 people who left on Wednesday.South Africa's governing ANC has won an emphatic victory in the country's general election, extending its 20 years in power. With most votes counted, the party has about 64%. Its closest rival, the Democratic Alliance has more than 22%, a marked improvement on its previous showing. Andrew Harding reports from Johannesburg.This election has proved to be about consolidation. The governing ANC has shaken off corruption scandals and an economic slump to hold on to almost 2/3 of all votes. It's likely to use that impressive mandate to try to drive through its national development plan, rejecting nationalization and emphasizing investment and infrastructure. The business friendly plan has alarmedSouth Africa's powerful unions, some of which may soon break away to form their own party.China has warned Vietnam to withdraw its ships from disputed waters after vessels from the two sides collided during a tense confrontation. A Foreign Ministry official in Beijing said Vietnam had deployed six vessels and accused it of intentionally ramming them into Chinese ships. The Chinese statement came after Vietnam itself accused China of amassing some 80 vessels, including warships in disputed waters. United States has appealed for calm.The Brazilian authorities say a worker has been killed in an electrical accident at one of the three football stadiums yet to be completed for the World Cup, which starts inJune. The 32-year-old man, who suffered a heart attack after an electric shock, was installing a telecommunications network at the stadium in Cuiaba. He is the eighth worker to die on World Cup building sites in Brazil.BBC news 2014-05-13--------- BBC News with Marion Marshall.The President of South Sudan Salva Kiir and the rebel leader Riek Machar have signed a deal in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa to cease hostilities within 24 hours. The talkswere the first time the 2 men had met since fighting broke out in South Sudan in December. Emmanuel Igunza has the details.This is a really huge step in such aim finding a solution to the political crisis and the bloody conflict that has engulfed South Sudan for the past 5 months. And this has been so important because they say there would be a next talk, both teams have been agreed to a ceasefire. They have also undertaken to issue orders to the military commanders on the ground in South Sudan to stop all combat and to allow humanitarian aid to get to those people, 3 million people in need of emergency food aid in South Sudan. So allowing that, food should get to them.The United States has sharply criticized President Putin's visit to Crimea, his first since Russia annexed the territory from Ukraine. The US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki, said the trip would worsen the situation in Ukraine.Our view is that this trip is provocative and unnecessary. Crimea belongs to Ukraine, and we don't recognize, of course, the illegal and illegitimate steps by Russia in that regard.The European Union and Nato have also condemned Mr. Putin's visit. Ukraine's foreign ministry said Russia was deliberately escalating the crisis in the region.Ukrainian security forces have clashed with pro-Russian protesters in the eastern city of Mariupol. Local officials say 7 people were killed and 39 injured, although Ukraine's interior minister earlier said more than 20 people had died. The government said a gun battle began when pro-Russian activists tried to storm a police station. Local witnesses have accused the security forces of opening fire on unarmed protesters.Amnesty International says it has damning evidence that the Nigerian military failed to act on advanced warnings of the raid in which more than 200 school girls were kidnapped 25 days ago. Here is our security correspondent Frank Gardner.Amnesty International has had a team on the ground in Nigerian for some time, gatheringtestimony from both government officials and members of the public. Their researcher, Makmid Camara says the military were warned of an impending attack by Boko Haram on the town of Chibok at 7 o'clock in the evening over 4 hours before it took place.A special request was made for reinforcements when it was becoming evidently clear that the attackers were indeed on the way, but no reinforcement was then sent when the attack took place at 11:45.The Nigerian information minister Labaran Maku told the BBC he doubted the Amnesty report, but would investigate it. Meanwhile, British, US and other international teams of experts have arrived in Nigeria to help in the hunt for the missing girls.World News from the BBC. More than 20 years after it was destroyed during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, Sarajevo's city hall housing the national library has reopened. The iconic building which was first inaugurated in 1896 was hit by a mortar and burned down during the Bosnian-Serb siege of city in 1992, it's been restored to mark the centenary of the World War I.Yemeni security forces have fought a gun battle with militants outside the President Palace in the capital Sanaa. Sebastian Usher has this report.Heavy gunfire resounded through Sanaa for around an hour as presidential security guards battled with militants. A security source said the gunmen had tried to force their way through the main gate of presidential palace as fighting raged there. An explosion was heard in another district of the capital near a building used by the security services. Officials quickly blamed al-Qaeda linked militants for the attacks. The day to night, earlier reports for the defence minister had survived an assassination attempt in the south where the army is mounting a new offensive against al-Qaeda, the group has lost towns it held and personnel but vowed retaliation.Eleven former employees of Spain's state railway company have been made formal suspects in an investigation into last year's train crash in the city of Santiago that killed 79people. They include a former director general of the company and a former head of safety. The train was traveling at more than twice the speed limit when it derailed on a bend.Roman Catholic bishops in Argentina say the country is sick with violence and corruption comparing it to a cancer, causing injustice and deaths. In a statement released at their annual conference in Buenos Aires, the bishops also said violence in society was getting more ferocious than ever. The government of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner responded by saying this was a deliberate attempt to blame it for rising levels of insecurity.BBC news 2014-05-15--------- BBC News with Jerry SmitThe families of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped in Southern Borno state four weeks ago have reacted to the video released by the Islamist group Boko Haram. Some told the BBC that seeing the girls alive has given them hope, although they were shocked at seeing the mostly Christian girls in Islamic dress. In the video, the Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau offers to trade girls for jailed Boko Haram members. The interior Ministry has rejected such a deal. Senator Ali Ndume, who represents the region from where the girls were abducted, encourages all possible ways to secure their release.What is most important one is that a channel for communication has been established, that is one, two, they are talking and our people and I, myself, have encouraged the government to continue talking because that way you will reach somewhere, because in this type of situation it is only negotiation that's helped to bring solution to the problem.The results of the first exit polls in Indian's general election indicated a victory for the coalition led by the opposition candidate Narendra Modi. The surveys also suggest the worst ever performance by the governing Congress Party. Election figures showedthere was a record voted turnout of 66%. Andrew North reports from the city of Varanasi.Exit Polls published by the Indian media say Mr. Modi and his Hindu nationalist BJP are on course to form the next government. Polls have a bad record here though, they gotthe last two elections wrong and the results will not be counted until Friday. But record turnouts usually signal big change. And if Mr. Modi has been victorious, it will mean an end to 10 years of rule by the Congress party with the Gandhi family as its head.Pro-Russian militants in eastern Ukraine have said they want to become part of the Russian Federation following Sunday's referendums on self-rule. The government in Kiev has denounced the polls as illegal. Richard Galpin reports from Donetsk.It’s a packed news conference here, one of the top separatist leaders, Denis Pushilin, said they had declared independence, but soon hope the Donetsk region will be ought to join Russia. And Pushilin said there’d be no need to have a second referendum. So far Moscow has not commented on this specifically, but earlier the Kremlin did say the will of the people who'd voted on Sunday through referendum in eastern Ukraine should be respected and the results implemented peacefully.Both the United States and the Europe Union had dismissed the referendums as illegal.A senior politician with Spain's governing People's Party has been shot and killed in the northern city of Leon. Isabel Carrasco was the party's head in Leon province. Police have arrested two women in connection with the killing, which they say is being treated as a possible revenge attack.World News from the BBC Three crew members who died on the South Korean ferry that sank last month have been recognized as martyrs for helping others on the boat. Two of sailors and an engaged couple could have escaped, but stayed on board to help trapped passengers. Another gave away her life jacket as she thought to guide others to safety.The Italian Navy says at least 17 people have drowned off the coast of Libya when a boat packed with migrants sank. More than 200 survivors have been pulled from the sea and the search for others has continued into the night. The migrants were trying to reach the Italian Island of Lampedusa. The Italian government has again accused the European Union of doing too little to address the issue.The chief prosecutor of the murder trial of the South African Oscar Pistorius has said the athlete should undergo mental evaluations after a psychiatrist called by the defense told the court that Mr. Pistorius suffered from an anxiety disorder. Andrew Harding sends this report.Psychiatrist Merryll V orster said Oscar Pistorius suffered from a lifelong anxiety disorder because of his amputated legs, his parents' behavior and his mother's early death. She said the athlete was the result, both controlling and vulnerable with heightened fear of crime. Dr. V orster said, because of the athlete's disability, he was more likely to fight than to flee when confronted with a perceived threat. With the prosecutor is now arguing that if his mental condition is being used to as a defense, then Mr. Pistorius should be evaluated by court-appointed experts.Health officials in the United States have confirmed a second case of a virus that has killed more than 100 people in Saudi Arabia. A person in Florida has been found to have Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. Earlier this month, a healthcare worker who traveled to Indiana from Saudi Arabia was diagnosed with the disease. Most cases have been found in Saudi Arabia.BBC news 2014-05-17--------- BBC News with Julie Candler.Police in the Turkish city of Ankara and Istanbul have fired tear gas and water canon at thousands of demonstrators protesting over a deadly mine explosion in which more than 270 people have died. The demonstrators called for the government to resign over what is the country's worst mining disaster. There were also scuffles in the town of Soma close to the coal mine during a visit there by the prime minister. Gerry reports.The mood is very grim and the anxious waiters has left this place to frustration and anger as we saw in Soma today, the prime minister made a visit here and he was protested by the angry crowd asking for the resignation of the government.Soldiers in northeastern Nigeria deployed to deal with Islamist militants are reported tohave shot at their own army commander major general Ahu Mohammed. Eye-witnesses told the BBC that the soldiers fired at his convoy at a tented barracks in the city of Dubri. M. Limon in Abuja has more.They were trying to express their own dissatisfaction in the way they are being handled. They specifically gave an example of the killings of some of their colleagues overnight because there are police arrested an area which is suspected to be infiltrated with Boko Haram members. They wanted to spend the night without travelling but then I think the senior military officers insisted that they should come back to the barracks in the night. And they complain that they do not have night vision goggles to see. They were ambushed on the way as some of them were killed, so the soldiers today at the barracks were expressing their dissatisfaction the way thing are being handled in the barracks.Reports from northeastern Nigeria say local people have killed dozens of suspected Boko haram militants in a series of ambushes. The clashes occurred on Tuesday in a district called Kala Balage in Borno State. An eyewitness told the BBC the president who'd formed the vigilante group repelled an attack by hundreds of militants. He said he saw 50 dead bodies in one village and over one hundred in another. He believed all of those killed were militants.Political and civic leaders from across Ukraine have held a first round of internationally-brokered national unity talks to try to ease the crisis in the country. Pro-Russian activists are battling for control of parts of eastern Ukraine when not invited. David Stern is in Kiev.The talks called a round table were times heated. Some leaders called on officials to listen to the concerns of citizens in the east who are suspicious of the newly installed government in Kiev. But there was a general consensus among participants that Ukraine must remain united. However some people questioned how effective the talks could be without the Pro-Russian militant participation. After a referendum on Sunday, theseparatists have declared two eastern regions independent.World News from the BBC The United State military says it is temporarily positioned nearly 200 marines in the Italian island of Sicily in case of further unrest in North Africa. A Pentagon spokesman said the contingency measure was to prepare for potential security threats but declined to give further details. Last October a similar number was stationed in Italy following the capture of a senior Al-Qaeda figure in Libya.A baby in the American city of Minneapolis has survived an 11-storey fall from a high-rise apartment. Doctor says it's a miracle. As Barbara reports.The accident happened when the father of little Rusaday has stepped out of the room and his sister opened the balcony door. The infant apparently slipped through the balcony reelings and fell 11 stories. He's in hospital with a punctured lung, concussion and multiple fractures. Doctors say his condition is critical but stable and are calling his survival a miracle. One surgeon said a fall from any height more than 7 stories would usually kill an adult but Luses's flexible young skeleton and the fact that he landed on a soft pile of wood chips saved his life.The Cannes film festival has opened in the south of France with 18 films competing for the prestigious main prize the Palme d'Or. The Cannes is widely deemed as the world's most important film festival, but this year's opening film, a biography of Princess Grace of Monaco, has received very bad reviews. From Cannes Wincint reports.The organizers of the Cannes film festival like their opening film to bring controversy. The biopic Grace of Monaco stars Nicole Kidman has already been criticized by the royal family of Monaco on questions both of taste and accuracy. But just an hour along the coast from Monaco the film world premiere will bring glamour to the Cannes red carpet this evening. After that attention will rapidly turn to the films competing for the main prize the Palme d'Or.。
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英文新闻报道范文1. 英语旧事稿BBC News with Marian MarshallEuropean Union transport ministers have agreed to ease some other the restrictions on air travel which were imposed across Europe last week following the spread of volcanic ash from Iceland. After discussions by video conference, the EU Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas announced the decision to reporters in Brussels."New air control measures can come into effect from eight o'clock Tuesday morning. From tomorrow morning on, we should see progressively more planes start to fly and this is good news for Europe's stranded passengers, good news for airline industry and other sectors of this economy hard hit by this crisis."In an effort to ensure safety, the EU wants to create three designated fly zones. One will remain entirely off limits because of the threat of volcanic dust; another will be open to all aircraft, while a third zone will be available for a limited service. In Germany, the two main airlines, Lufthansa and Air Berlin, were granted exemptions from the existing fly ban to allow them to bring home stranded passengers. A Lufthansa spokesman said they were expected to carry a total of about 15,000 people from the Far East, Africa and the Americas.Britain has announced that it's sending warships to help bring home British travelers.The American military in Iraq has confirmed that the two most wanted al-Qaeda leaders in the country have been killed. The Iraqi government named them as Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi. The Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said their identities had been confirmed by medical tests on the bodies. The two men were reportedly tracked down by an intelligence team west of Baghdad and their hideout destroyed by missiles. The US Vice President Joe Biden said the deaths showed that Iraq was now better able to look after its own security."Their deaths are potentially devastating blows to al-Qaeda Iraq, but equally important, in my view, is this action demonstrates the improved security strength and capacity of Iraqi security forces. In short, the Iraqis have taken the lead in securing Iraq and its citizens by taking out both of these individuals."Officials in Pakistan say at least 23 people were killed when a suicide bomb exploded in a crowded market in Peshawar. Aleem Maqbool reports from Islamabad.The explosion happened close to a police station, in what's called the Storytellers' Bazaar, an historic market place in the central Peshawar that was packed with shoppers and also a large crowd protesting against the frequent power cuts in the city.One of Peshawar's senior most police officers was among those killed. It is Taliban militants who'd be suspected of carrying out the attack. They've recently come under increasing pressure across Northwest Pakistan, for Pakistani military carries out operations against them.World News from the BBCThe Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has said Israel must recognize that the world will not accept Israeli rule over Palestinians for decades to come. He also warned of growing alienation between Israel and its long-standing ally, the United States. Mr Barak's warning comes at the time of growing criticism of the right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Pope Benedict has invited the world's 400,000 Catholic priests to Rome in June to show their support for him over what, the Vatican says, are unjust attacks on his policies concerning pedophilia crimes. The invitation was contained in a letter from Cardinal Claudio Hummes. In the letter, the cardinal says the presence of so many priests in St Peter's Square will be a good way to show that they haven't been intimidated, as he put it, by the crimes committed by a few of their fellow clergy.A team of Sherpas in Nepal have announced that they will go on a clean-up expedition on Mount Everest. It's the first time that Mount Everest is to be cleaned above the altitude of 8,000 metres, an area whichis called the "death zone" because of the low level of oxygen and treacherous conditions. Joanna Jolly reports.The team of 20 Sherpa mountaineers will set off on May 1 to establish camp at the point known as Everest's South Col. From here, they plan to start their cleaning operation, including removing at least two bodies from a narrow trail between the South Col and the summit. The Sherpas, many of whom have climbed Everest several times, say they also plan to remove 3,000 kilogrammes of empty oxygen bottles, old food wrappings, tents and ropes.A folk singing Cuban scientist has won a prestigious environmental prize in the United States for challenging the role of state bureaucrats in Cuban 。
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BBC News with Marion Marshall.Marion Marshall为你播报BBC新闻。
Sudan says a huge fire that engulfed in arms factory in the capital Khartoum on Tuesday night was caused by an air attack and it accused Israel of being responsible. The Sudanese information minister said four aircrafts flown in to attack the Yarmouk plant. Our defense correspondent Jonathan Marcus reports.苏丹称首都喀土穆周二一家兵器厂的大火是由空袭引起的,称以色列为此事负责。
苏丹情报部长称有私家飞机前来袭击耶尔穆克工厂。
BBC国防记者Jonathan Marcus报道。
The aircrafts approached the factory from the east, the Sudanese information minister Ahmed Belal Osman told the reporters in Khartoum, blaming the attack on Israeli air force. Israeli officials have refused any comment. Israel is widely believed to be responsible for similarly mysteriously air attacks against two arms convoys in northeastern Sudan back in early 2009. The argument then boasted by leaked U.S. diplomatic cables was that these were secret weapon shipments from Iran destine for Hamas in the Gaza strip.这几家飞机从东而来,苏丹情报部长奥斯曼在喀土穆如是告诉记者,他谴责以色列空军实施了此次袭击。
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经过里程碑式弹劾保守派总统叛国的投票之后,捷克共和国面临对其最高级官员前所未有的宪法案件。克劳斯总统现在将被移交至宪法法庭,面临一系列指控,其中包括新年特赦令,几十名腐败高官将被赦免罪行。参议院由克劳斯的左翼对手掌控,无论如何总统都将在周四下台。
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A fire has killed nine children at a Koranic school in the Senegalese capital Dakar. The blaze broke out as 45 children aged from six to twelve slept in a packed room with wooden walls and zinc roofing. A candle is thought to have caused the blaze. Human rights groups have repeatedly warned of the poor conditions in which children are housed in Koranic schools.
由于特赦几千名囚犯这一有争议的决定,捷克议会上院投票控告总统瓦茨拉夫·克劳斯(Vaclav Klaus)叛国罪。1月份,总统宣布了该特赦令,几乎涵盖了囚犯总数的三分之一。Rob Cameron报道。
The Czech Republic faces an unprecedented constitutional case against its most senior official after a landmark vote to impeach the conservative president for treason. President Klaus will now be referred to the constitutional court to defend a number of accusations including charges stemming from his New Year’s Day amnesty, under which several dozen high-profile corruption cases were halted. The Senate is dominated by leftist opponents of Mr Klaus and he leaves office anyway on Thursday.
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BBC News with Marian Marshall.Susan Tsvangirai, the wife of the new Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, has been killed in a car crash. Mr. Tsvangirai was slightly injured. His long-standing rival, President Robert Mugabe, has visited him in hospital. Here's our Southern Africa correspondent Peter Biles.According to sources in the Movement for Democratic Change, Morgan Tsvangirai had been travelling to his rural home. His vehicle is said to have been involved in a collision on a road south of Harare. Mr. Tsvangirai was not seriously hurt, but his wife Susan who was travelling with him was killed. Mr. Tsvangirai was taken to a private hospital in Harare. A few hours later, President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace were seen arriving at the clinic to visit him. The accident comes just two days after Mr. Tsvangirai delivered his maiden speech in Parliament after being sworn in as prime minister in Zimbabwe's new power-sharing government.Unemployment in the United States has reached its highest level for more than 25 years at 8.1%. The worst losses were in professional and business services, factories, construction, retail and leisure. Speaking to policegraduates in Columbus, Ohio, President Obama said he knew that Americans were experiencing the real impact behind the jobless figures."Just this morning, we learned that we lost another 651,000 jobs throughout the country in the month of February alone, which brings the total number of jobs lost in this recession to an astounding 4.4 million. I don't need to tell the people of this state what statistics like this mean."The American Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has met her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Geneva. The discussion is aimed at what she termed resetting the US-Russian relationship after tensions during the Bush administration. She said that she agreed to work towards a new strategic arms reduction agreement and hoped to have a deal by the end of the year. Imogen Foulkes reports from Geneva.The talks between Hillary Clinton and Sergei Lavrov were brief but clearly very friendly. Both stressed how much they liked each other. They committed themselves to working together on issues which they said were of huge importance to the entire world, arms reduction, combating the spread of nuclear weapons, fighting terrorism. They expect to get a new treaty on reducing their own nuclear stockpiles by the end of this year.Morocco says it's cut diplomatic ties with Iran. The move follows comments from an Iranian politician Ali Akbar Nateq Nuri in which he questioned the sovereignty of the Gulf state of Bahrain by implying it was an Iranian province. Morocco and other Sunni Muslim countries took offense at the remarks. In the statement, the Moroccan Foreign Ministry said it hadn't received an explanation for the comments from the Iranian authorities.Y ou are listening to the latest World News from the BBC.()The UN says it now believes thousands of civilians have been killed and wounded in the fighting in Sri Lanka. However, UN humanitarian officials said there were no verifiable numbers due to a lack of access for relief workers. The Sri Lankan government has described the statement as irresponsible.The lawyer of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man accused of locking his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathering seven children with her, says his client will plead guilty to most of the charges he is facing. Mr. Fritzl's trial starts in just over a week. Bethany Bell reports from Vienna.Josef Fritzl's lawyer, Rudolf Mayer, told the Austrian news agency APA that his client expects to spend the rest of his life behind bars. He told APA that Joseph Fritzl would plead guilty to the general charges of deprivation of liberty, rape, incest and coercion but will contest the murder charge. Mr. Mayer said Joseph Fritzl was not a sex monster but he loved his daughter in his own way. He said Mr. Fritzl can be described as a deeply disturbed personality that wanted the family he could be sure of.The Colombian government has announced that it will release from prison two former left-wing rebels who are now said to be willing to work for peace. The Interior Ministry said the two former FARC guerillas, known as Olivo Saldana and Karina, have renounced violence and will help other former fighters to reintegrate into society. The Colombian authorities have faced criticism in the past over the failure of a similar initiative.The Irish company Smurfit Kappa has confirmed that the Venezuelan government has seized land it uses to grow trees for cardboard production. President Hugo Chavez has said the plot was taken over as part of what he called his socialist agrarian revolution. The V enezuelan president said the eucalyptus plantation in Lara state was drying up local rivers and theland would now be used to grow corn and beans.BBC News.Glossary:maiden speech: the first speech that someone makes in parliamentstockpile: A stockpile of things is a large quantity of them that have been stored for future use.take offense at: If someone takes offense at something you say or do, they feel upset, often unnecessarily, because they think you are being rude to them.cellar: A cellar is a room underneath a building, which is often used for storing things in.deprivation: If you suffer deprivation, you do not have or prevented from having something that you want or need.incest: Incest is the crime of two members of the same family having sexual intercourse, for example a father and daughter, or a brother andsister.coercion: Coercion is the act or process of persuading someone forcefully to do something that they do not want to do.disturbed: A disturbed person is very upset emotionally, and often needs special care or treatment.be sure of: If someone is sure of something, they will definitely get it or they think they will definitely get it or they think they will definitely get it.renounce: If you renounce a belief or a way of behaving, you decide and declare publicly that you no longer have that belief or will no longer behave in that way.reintegrate: to integrate again into an entityagrarian: Agrarian means relating to the ownership and use of land, especially farmland, or relating to the part of society or economy that is concerned with agriculture.eucalyptus: 桉树dry up: If something dries up or if something dries it up, it loses all its moisture and becomes completely dry and shrivelled or hard.本文来自: 恒星英语学习网() 详细出处参考:/englishlistening/bbc/20090307/70183.html。