BBC新闻讲解2010-11-05第536期
BBC新闻讲解2011-01-14第602期
BBC新闻讲解附字幕:加州州长宣布大幅削减支出(2011-01-14)查看原文第一部分：听力文本BBC News with Sue MontgomeryPresident Obama has led the United States in a moment's silence to honour the victims of Saturday's shooting in Arizona.A single bell toll ed for the six people who were killed and for the Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords,who was critically wounded.From Washington, Paul Adams.The president and his wife Michelle stood heads bowed on the South Lawn of the White House. There were no words,and after a minute they returned inside.A little over a mile away,on the east steps of the Capitol building,hundreds of congressional staffers stood out in the freezing air in their own mark of respect.Speaking later before talks with the visiting French President Nicolas Sarkozy,Mr Obama spoke of the courage displayed by some at the scene of the shooting.The former Republican majority leader of the US House of Representatives,Tom DeLay,has received a three-year prison term for conspiracy.He was also given a five-year suspended sentence for money laundering.Mr DeLay was convicted in November of channel ling corporate donations to Republican election candidates in Texas in2002.The Organisation of American States is reported to have recommended that the governing party candidate in Haiti's disputed presidential election should be dropped from the run-off vote. Provisional results put Jude Celestin second in the first round to the former first lady.But diplomatic sources say OAS monitors found the opposition candidate Michel Martelly won more votes.James Read reports.The results of the first round of Haiti's presidential election in November provoke d violent protests by supporters of pop star Michel Martelly,who insists he,and not Jude Celestin,came second.Amid rising tension,the OAS was asked to review the vote count.Its report has not yet been made public,but diplomatic sources say it found in favour of Mr Martelly.The Tunisian government has announced that all schools and universities will be closed until further notice because of the wave of protests over unemployment,the biggest to hit the country in decades.At least14people have been killed by police.Opposition sources put the number significantly higher.Here's Chloe Arnold.Schools and universities across Tunisia are set to close from Tuesday as the government launches an investigation into who's responsible for more than three weeks of unrest.Protesters,most of them young people,have staged rallies across the country,demanding better employmentopportunities and greater freedom.The riots began almost a month ago,the greatest threat the country's seen to President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali,who's kept a tight rein for23years.At least30people have been killed in clashes in the disputed central Sudanese region of Abyei as the people of the south continue to vote in a referendum on possible independence.Oil-rich Abyei is covet ed by both the north and the south.World News from the BBCA week after taking office,the new Democrat Governor of California,Jerry Brown,has announced deep spending cuts.Mr Brown inherited a$28bn budget deficit.The budget proposal must be agreed by the state legislature.Peter Bowes reports from Los Angeles.Jerry Brown says he plans to slash spending by more than$12bn.The cuts will include an8%-10%reduction in take-home pay for most state workers.The governor acknowledged that the cuts would be painful,but he said they had no choice."For10years,"he said,"we've had budget gimmicks and tricks that have pushed the state deep into debt."Governor Brown added that he'd planned a radical restructuring of state government.He said it was time to return California to fiscal responsibility.The trial has begun in the United States of the veteran Cuban opposition militant and former CIA agent,Luis Posada Carriles.He is accused of lying to US immigration officials.Mr Posada Carriles is wanted in Venezuela and Cuba over several deadly bomb attacks and plots to kill the former Cuban President Fidel Castro.Cuba and Venezuela have repeatedly accused Washington of harbouring a convicted terrorist.The Spanish government has rejected the latest ceasefire declaration made by the Basque separatist organisation Eta.The Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said the offer didn't go far enough,and that only Eta's complete disbandment would be acceptable.He also dismissed Eta's new proposal that the international community should verify the ceasefire."The only statement from the terrorist gang Eta that we want to read is that Eta announces the end and that it does it in a definite and irreversible manner."Eta has made five previous ceasefire declarations.BBC News提示：文本转自普特听力论坛第二部分：参考翻译奥巴马总统领导美国人进行默哀，悼念周六亚利桑那州枪击案的受害者，并为6名遇难者和受重伤的国会民主党女议员吉福兹(Gabrielle Giffords)鸣钟。
BBC新闻讲解2011-09-08第788期
BBC新闻讲解附字幕:英国一所学校推迟上课时间(2011-09-08)第一部分：听力文本Be Late for School!上学迟到了！Drriinnggg!That's the sound kids up and down the country do not want to hear–the alarm bell.The school year has just started and children across the UK have to wake up bright and early to go to school.But students at one school in north-east England can lie in for an extra hour before they go to school.Monkseaton High School has been allow ing its pupils to come into school an hour later than other schools.The headmaster,Dr Paul Kelley,says that this approach helps students pay more attention in class.He feels that young people are more productive later on in the day and that a late start may be better for their school career than an early one.Dr Kelley told the BBC that"teenagers don't function very well in the morning and their need to sleep is biological."It seems that this novel approach to teaching shows positive results.The school has already seen a drop in the number of pupils playing truant by27%.More importantly,Dr Kelley also said that exam results have improved by20-30%over the past year.Lessons at Monkseaton High School begin at10am and finish at3.40pm;however,the school opens from8am to5pm.第二部分：参考翻译“叮铃……”这是全国各地的学生都不喜欢听到的声音，电铃的声音。
BBC新闻讲解2010-11-20第549期
BBC新闻讲解附字幕:威廉王子与女友宣布订婚(2010-11-20)查看原文第一部分：听力文本BBC News with Marion MarshallThe second in line to the British throne Prince William and his girlfriend Kate Middleton have spoken openly of their plans to marry hours after their engagement was announced.Miss Middleton said she'd been surprised when Prince William propose d during their recent holiday in Kenya,eight years after they met.Prince William said he had delayed proposing because he wanted to give Miss Middleton time to reflect on the idea of living in the public eye."You know,her and her family,I really want to make sure they have the best sort of guidance and chance to see what life has been like or what life is like in the family.That's kind of almost why I have been waiting this long,as I wanted to give her a chance to see in and to back out if she needed to before it all got too much because,you know,I'm trying to learn from lessons done in the past and I just wanted to give her the best chance to settle in and to see what,you know,what happens on the other side.""I'm also glad that I've had the time to sort of to grow and understand myself more as well,so hopefully,hopefully do good job,yes."The health ministry in Haiti says more than1,000people have now died in the cholera epidemic that's sweeping the country.More than16,000people have been treated in hospital,and the disease has reached almost every province of the country.Britain has announced a financial settlement with former terrorism detainees in an apparent effort to avoid a court case,which could have put sensitive intelligence information into the public domain.All of those involved are British citizens or residents.Rob Watson reports.The16former terrorism suspects had all accused the British authorities of colluding in their detention and in some cases their alleged torture.Announcing the payments,the Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke told parliament the settlement didn't amount to an admission of culpability by the government,nor did it mean the former detainees had withdrawn their allegations.But Mr Clarke said the government had wanted to avoid a lengthy court battle,which could have involved releasing highly sensitive documents and risking Britain's national security.Saudi officials have promised that justice will be done in the case of an Indonesian maid who was allegedly abused and beaten by her employers.The woman was said to have been admitted to hospital in Medina,unconscious with severe wounds.A member of the Saudi Sutra Council, Saddaqa Yehyia Fadel,said he wanted to reassure Indonesia that action would be taken."The Saudi authorities will investigate the matter and will give all parties their due.Indonesians should rest assured that they will get justice.Allow me to clarify:relationships between Saudi citizens and foreign domestic workers are generally normal,good relationships.I'm not defending or favouring the Saudi household here,nor do I want to attack domestic workers,whose efforts play a role in the comprehensive development of Saudi Arabia."World News from the BBCEuropean finance ministers and officials are holding emergency talks in Brussels over the debt crisis facing Ireland and other vulnerable members of the eurozone.The European Commission is consulting global financial institutions hours after a leading EU figure,Herman Van Rompuy, warned that the European Union's future was at stake.Ireland and Portugal are widely seen as potential candidates for a bailout.Police in Thailand have found the remains of more than300human foetuses hidden in a Buddhist temple in the capital Bangkok.The police say they suspect the foetuses came from illegal abortion clinics.Local news reports say a member of the temple staff confessed to being hired by several clinics to dispose of the remains.Police in Egypt are reported to have sealed off an entire village following arson attacks on Christian homes by angry Muslims.Up to10homes were said to have been torched by a Muslim crowd in a small village in the south of the country.Jon Leyne reports.There's been considerable tension in Egypt in recent months between the majority Muslim community and the roughly10%of the population who are Christians.The latest flare-up happened in a remote village in the south of the country.The cause is believed to have been rumours of a relationship of some kind between a Coptic Christian man and a Muslim woman.A quarrel broke out between Christian and Muslim families.Up to10houses are reported to have been burnt down,but there were no casualties.France has complained to Iran about what it says were"unacceptable acts of violence"outside the French ambassador's residence in Tehran on Sunday.French officials said at least one diplomat was struck when plainclothes Iranian security agents stopped guests entering the residence for a concert of Persian music.Several guests were arrested.A rare pink diamond has sold for almost$46m at a jewellery sale in the Swiss city of Geneva.It's the highest price ever paid for a stone at auction.The diamond weighs more than24carats.BBC News提示：文本转自普特听力论坛第二部分：参考翻译英国王位第二顺位继承人威廉王子与女友凯特·米德尔顿宣布订婚几个小时之后公开讨论他们的结婚计划。
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【BBC新闻】Stare tactics中国城管"眼神执法"2012-10-3Summary1 October 2012Chinese state media is reporting that government officials in the city of Wuhan have been staring at illegal street vendors in a bid to get them to leave. The incident has stirred a debate online.新华社报道了武汉城管“眼神执法”，注视路边小贩直至离开的消息。
这一举措在网上掀起了网友的热议。
Reporter: Martin PatienceReportPictures posted in Chinese websites show up to 20 uniformed officials surrounding illegal food stalls. According to China's state-run news agency Xinhua, the government inspectors then stood and stared at the vendors until they left. Apparently, all the staring worked. Xinhua reports that vegetable sellers along one road in the city of Wuhan last week moved out of "shame and embarrassment".图片中所示是中国某网站上的一张照片，约20多名身穿制服的公务人员围着非法路边摊，根据新华社的报道，工作人员一直站着注视小贩，直至小贩收摊走人；新华社报道，武汉市某街道路边菜贩子因“羞愧和尴尬”，不得不搬走。
BBC新闻讲解2011-05-23第701期
BBC新闻讲解附字幕:英女王对爱尔兰进行历史性访问(2011-05-23)第一部分：听力文本BBC News with Julie CandlerIn what correspondents describe as a dramatic escalation of American pressure on Syria,the US has imposed its first ever sanctions against President Bashar al-Assad.Washington says he and eight others have been targeted for violence and repression during the two-month uprising in Syria. The State Department spokesman Mark Toner said it was time to increase the pressure on President Assad."I think we're looking at what next steps,what possible additional pressure we can provide reallyto crystallise our message to the Syrian government,which is that your current behaviour is unacceptable and the violence must stop.The Syrian government has talked a lot about reform, has made a lot of promises but done very little.So again,we're trying to seek additional ways to apply pressure on them."Earlier,President Assad said the Syrian security forces had made mistakes in their handling of the protests,while the BBC received new reports of army attacks on civilians.A senior Chinese army general,Chen Bingde,has said China has no intention of attempting to match US military power.Speaking in Washington at the National Defense University,General Chen said that the United States military forces were far more advanced than their Chinese counterparts.He said there was a20-year difference between US and Chinese military capabilities, but that China's military forces had improved considerably in recent years.China has acknowledged that the controversial Three Gorges dam has created major problems. The country's policy-making body,the State Council,says it plans to deal with the difficulties. Paddy Clark reports.The problems posed by the Three Gorges dam were discussed at a meeting of the State Council, chaired by the Prime Minister Wen Jiabao.A statement issued afterwards said there was an urgent need for ecological protection,the prevention of geological disasters and the smooth relocation of displaced residents.It said problems also existed for transport,irrigation and water supplies further down the Yangtze River,which the dam straddle s.The dam,which cost nearly $40bn,led to the submerg ing of towns,fields and heritage sites,and forced more than a million and a quarter people to move.The World Bank says the Indian government's main programmes for the poor are only delivering limited benefits,with much of the money lost to corruption and bad management.India spends more than2%of its gross domestic product on poverty reduction,but the World Bank says that itsfood distribution scheme suffers so much from corruption that only about40%of its grain reaches the poor.There's been an almost sixfold rise in the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Satellite images from the government show that between March and April last year,around100sq km of vegetation were destroyed.But this year,that figure was almost600.The worst affected state is Mato Grosso.World News from the BBCIn the first address of her historic visit to the Irish Republic,Queen Elizabeth has extended her "deep sympathy"to those who she said had suffered during the troubled past of the two countries. She spoke of the painful legacy of history,but added that Britain and Ireland were now firm friends and equal partners.From Dublin,Peter Hunt reports.At Dublin Castle,where once previous monarchs came as rulers,this monarch,wearing a dress adorned with hand-sewn embroidered shamrocks,came to reflect.She impressed her audience immediately by opening her speech in Gaelic with the words"President and friends".The Queen said she wanted to extend her"sincere thoughts and deep sympathy"to all those who had suffered as a consequence of the UK and Ireland's shared troubled past.She went on,"With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all."Libya has released four international journalists who had been detained for several weeks.Two Americans,a British man and a Spaniard disappeared while covering the conflict in Libya.The four are said to be in good health.Andrew North reports from Tripoli.They were all brought to the Tripoli hotel where the foreign media covering the conflict are staying,looking tired and somewhat bewilder ed by the scrum of journalists awaiting them. Libyan officials say the four had been freed by a judge after being given a one-year suspended prison sentence for illegally entering the country.There's been no word on the fate of a South African citizen,photographer Anton Hammerl,who's believed to have been detained in Libya in early April.Astronomers in Japan say they've found10planets the size of Jupiter which do not appear to orbit any star.Writing in the science journal Nature,the researchers say it's unclear how the planets, which are near the centre of the Milky Way galaxy,came to be without a star to orbit.One theory is that the planets may have been eject ed from infant solar systems by gravitational forces or inter-planetary collisions.BBC News提示：文本转自普特听力论坛第二部分：参考翻译通讯员表示，美国对叙利亚施加的压力迅速增加，美国对阿萨德总统实施了首次制裁。
BBC新闻讲解2010-11-01第532期
BBC新闻讲解附字幕:阿根廷前总统心脏病发去世(2010-11-01)查看原文第一部分：听力文本BBC News with Iain PurdonThree days after a tsunami struck the remote Mentawai island chain in western Indonesia,the full scale of the disaster is emerging.Rescue teams have reached most of the worst-affected areas to find homes and offices destroyed,swathes of land under water and swollen bodies strewn across roads and beaches.Karishma Vaswani reports.The district chief of the Mentawai Islands told the BBC that the focus for rescue teams now is to treat the hundreds of people who've been severely injured in the tsunami.He added that most of the villages affected have now been reached.Mass graves have been dug for the large number of people who were killed,and thousands of refugees who lost their homes in the disaster have been moved into temporary shelters.The local government says it plans to set up a rehabilitation and reconstruction programme for Mentawai.Eleven of the27leaders attending the European Union summit in Brussels have signed a letter calling for the6%EU budget increase proposed for next year to be curtailed.They say the proposed rise is unacceptable at a time when member governments are imposing austerity measures.The countries challenging the budget increase include Britain,France and Germany. Jonathan Marcus reports from Brussels.A powerful group of11countries,including some of the key movers and shakers in the European Union,is setting down a powerful challenge to the EU's parliament and commission.A letter is being sent to the president of the European Council signed by the leaders of the11countries, insisting that the growth in the EU's budget for2011must be curtailed.Existing calls from the commission and parliament for an increase in EU spending of some6%are described in the letter as"especially unacceptable at a time when we are having to take difficult decisions at national level to control public expenditure".A commission appointed by President Obama to investigate the Gulf of Mexico oil spill says that cement used to seal the doomed well may have contributed to the blow-out that caused the disaster. The commission says that both BP,which owned the well,and Halliburton,the contractor responsible for the cement,were aware of flaws in the mixture,weeks before the disaster.From Washington,Iain MacKenzie reports.In the first of its findings to be made public,the national commission raises concerns about the cement mix used to seal the bottom of BP's Macondo well.It says four separate tests were carried out before the20April explosion.Three of those came back showing potential problems thatcould have led to the cement failing.The report also states that while Halliburton did pass on some of the test results to BP,it may have kept other data to itself.President Cristina Fernandez of Argentina has joined thousands of mourners paying their respects to her late husband,the former President Nestor Kirchner.Mr Kirchner,who died of a heart attack on Wednesday,was his wife's chief strategist and one of the most powerful politicians in Argentina.World News from the BBCThe United Nations says it's found no evidence so far that Nepalese peacekeepers in Haiti are the source of a cholera outbreak that's killed more than300people.The UN said all the Nepalese soldiers in Haiti had undergone medical tests before their deployment,and none was cholera positive.It added that samples taken from their camp last week had tested negative.Further tests are being carried out.Bethany Bell reports from Washington.The UN says it's taking the issue very seriously but so far has found nothing to suggest that the outbreak of cholera in Haiti started with the Nepalese peacekeepers.Martin Nesirky,the spokesman for the UN secretary general,said that all710Nepalese soldiers had undergone medical tests before they were deployed to Haiti earlier this month,and none were cholera positive.The Nepalese camp has become the object of local suspicion partly because cholera is rare in Haiti but endemic in Nepal.The leader of the militant Hezbollah movement in Lebanon has called on his countrymen to boycott a United Nations tribunal investigating the murder of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.Hassan Nasrallah's speech comes a day after two UN investigators who were gathering evidence at a gynaecology clinic in Beirut came under attack by a group of women.Serbia has announced it's offering a reward of about$14million for information leading to the capture of the war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic.The government said it was increasing the reward 10-fold to show that it was firmly committed to joining the European Union.Mountaineers can now use mobile telephones and surf the Internet while they are climbing Mount Everest.A Nepalese telecommunications company has installed wireless technology stations along the route to base camp.As a result,mountaineers will be able to access up-to-date weather reports and safety information.BBC News提示：文本转自普特听力论坛第二部分：参考翻译海啸袭击印度尼西亚西部明打威群岛三天之后，灾难的规模已经初见端倪。
BBC新闻讲解2010-7-30第419期
BBC新闻讲解附字幕:阿富汗战争机密文件泄漏(2010-07-30)查看原文第一部分：听力文本BBC News with Marian Marshall.The Pentagon has said the damage caused by the leaking of more than90,000classified military documents on the war in Afghanistan may take weeks to assess.The classified documents posted on the Internet by the whistle-blowing organisation Wikileaks contain many accusations.Kevin Connolly reports from Washington.The leaked documents portray a grim picture of a war whose winnability many Americans are increasingly inclined to question.They depict Pakistan as an uncertain ally whose own intelligence services may be helping the very Taliban enemy it's meant to be helping to fight. Robert Gibbs made the point that the leaked papers,mainly detailed but low level military reports, are months out of date,so that any improvements from President Obama's"surge"strategy would not be reflect ed.Mr Gibbs said the President didn't need leaks to be horrified by civilian casualties and warned that the publication of the papers could put American and allied soldiers at risk.The founder of the Wikileaks website Julian Assange told a news conference the documents appeared to reveal evidence of war crimes,but that was up to the court to decide.The documents include details of the killing of Afghan civilians by NATO forces.Mr Assange said everyone suffered in a war."The real story of this material is that it's war.It is the continuous small events,the continuous deaths of children,insurgents,allied forces.Search for the word'amputation'in this material,or'amputee',and there are dozens and dozens of references.Most of the deaths in this war are as a result of the everyday squalor of war,not the big instances."Two car bombs have gone off in southern Iraq killing at least20people.More than50others were injured.Gabriel Gatehouse has the details.Thousands of Shiite pilgrims have been making their way from across Iraq and beyond to Karbala for an important festival which culminate s later this week.Most of the worshipers made the journey on foot and it’s these people who bore the brunt of the blasts.Sectarian violence has declined markedly in Iraq since2007when Shiite and Sunni militias fought a bitter civil war.But insurgent attacks continue on a daily basis and Shiite pilgrims remain a frequent target.The European Union is imposing tougher sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program.The measures agreed by EU foreign ministers in Brussels include a halt to new investment in Iran's oil and gas sector.The EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said the sanctions targeted people,companies and sectors involved in the nuclear industry,and were designed to get Iran back to the negotiating table.Canada has announced similar sanctions of its own.EU countries and the United States accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons,but Iran says the program is for peaceful purposes.World news from the BBC.The army in Uganda says the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia has no choice but to go on the offensive against Islamist insurgents in the country.The army spokesman told the BBC that this was the only option following this month's deadly bomb attacks in Uganda carried out by the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab.The mandate of the AU force is currently limited to peacekeeping and defending the transitional government.An AU summit in Uganda is discussing whether to increase the number of peacekeepers in Somalia.The BBC understands that the embattled chief executive of the oil giant BP,Tony Hayward,is to leave his post.His formal departure from BP will probably take place in October.Robert Peston reports.The disclosure that Tony Hayward will be able to draw a pension of around600,000pounds a year from the moment he leaves BP on October1st will be hugely controversial,given the company's recent woes.But this is his contractual entitlement under the rules of the scheme which says that anyone who joined before April6th2006can take the pension at any point from age50.Mr Hayward is53.His departure will be confirmed tomorrow.He is not being sacked,but he’s leaving by mutual agreements,so the board feels it has to honor the terms of its contract with him. He will therefore also receive a year salary plus benefits worth more than one million pounds.A court in Seychelles has sentenced11Somalis to10years in prison for piracy-related offenses. It's the first conviction of its kind in the islands which lie more than1,000kilometers off the Somali coast.The pirates were captured last year as they tried to hijack a boat belonging to the Seychelles coast guard.At least17people have died after consuming illegally produced alcohol in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.At least10others lost their eyesight after the drink was believed to have been laced with methanol.Nairobi police say they are questioning a woman suspected of producing the substance and selling it in the city's Kibera area.BBC News.提示：文本转自普特听力论坛第二部分：参考翻译关于阿富汗战争的90,000多份机密军事文件泄密，五角大楼表示，泄密的影响需要几周的时间来评估。
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BBC英语新闻2010-10-06BBC news with Nick CallyThe Hungarian government says it will take more than a year and cost tesns of millions of dollars to clear out the damagecaused by toxic sludge which burst from a reservoir. Four people were killed and more than a hundred injured of the mudfrom an industrial plant in Gulf villages near the town of Oil Core. The Hungarian Environment Minister Zoltan Illes toldthe BBC that the spill covered an area 20 kilometers long by 10 wide. Mr. Illes described the scale of the disaster."Unfortunately, never happened on this planet the similar accident of this magnitude, besides, caused by the red mud. So,according to our estimation, minimum one and one-and-a-half year is needed and really a vast amount of money to clean upthe area."A Pakistani-American who tried to set off a bomb in Time Square in New York has been sentenced to life in prison. The man,Faisal Shahzad, told the Court in the city that he was defending Islam. From New York, Laura Trevelyan reports."Faisal Shahzad tried to set off a car bomb in the packed Time Square on a warm May evening, but his bomb didn’t detonateand he was dramatically arrested on the runway, trying to flee the country two days later. Shahzad's trained with aPakistani Taliban in Pakistan and he received money from them to build his bomb. He said he wanted to attack the USbecause of the American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. US prosecutors say Shahzad showed no remorse for his attemptedattack, only pride."French police have detained 12 people in the south of the country, suspected of links to Islamist extremism. Nine weredetained in the city of Marseille and Avignon on suspicion of arms and explosive trafficking. Weapons and ammunitions wereseized. The other three were arrested in an operation against a network alleged to be supplying forge papers to Jihadistreturning from Afghanistan. The police haven’t said if the arrests are linked to warnings of increased terror threat inparts of Europe.Details have been emergi ng, which suggested that Monday’s missile strike by a pilotless American plane in north Pakistanmay have been part of a US effort to disrupt the reported plans of al-Qaeda to attack targets in Europe. The missileskilled eight militants, including five German citizens. More from our security correspondent, Gordon Corera."There has been a steady flow of suspected terrorists heading out from Germany, including a dozen people who left early in2009 from a mosque linked to the 9/11 attack. One person associated with that group, Ahmed Siddiqi, was arrested inAfghanistan this summer, and during his interrogation by US officials, he’s believed to have spoken of a plot to carryout commando-style gun attacks in Europe. Additional intelligence heightened concerns over such a plot, but both Britishand German officials have suggested that they do not believe the attack is imminent. "You are listening to the world news from the BBC.The UN says it has arrested the head of Congolese rebel group suspected of leading attacks involving the mass rape ofhundreds of civilians. The UN Mission and the Democratic Republic of Congo say that they captured the commando of the MaiMai Cheke militia Lieutenant Colonel Mayele during a military operation. Jonny Hogg reports."Lieutenant Colonel Mayele was arrested in Walikale in eastern Congo. The UN suspected that a little over two months agoin the same area, he and his men systemically raped civilians over afour-day-period. Around 200 militia members fromdifferent groups have thought to have been responsible for the attacks, which are an extreme example of the sexualviolence that has characterized the conflict in eastern Congo. The UN has been strongly criticized because its peacekeepers did not stop the atrocities."The Nigerian government has denied allegations that it had tried to get a rebel group from the Niger Delta to retract astatement claiming responsibility for deadly bomb attacks last week in Abuja. The allegations were made by Henry Okah, theformer head of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, who was arrested on terror charges following thebombings. He said that a close associate of the Nigerian president asked him to persuade the movement to drop its claim inan attempt to pin the blame on another group.There have been a number of explosions in the city of Kandahar in southeastern Afghanistan. Nine people are reported tohave been killed and more than 20 injured. Police officers are reported to be among the casualties.And President Obama is to install solar panels on the White House roof. The solar panels will provide some of theelectricity needed to power the White House and heat water for the president and his family. That will not be the first onthe roof though. President Jimmy Carter had some put in 1979 to boost alternative energy during an oil crisis, but hissuccessor, Ronald Reagan, had them removed during repairs to the roof.。
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BBC news 2010-11-03BBC News with Marion MarshallA wave of bomb explosions across Baghdad have killed at least 63 people and injured up to 300 others. The blasts took place on Tuesday evening, hours after Christians held a funeral service for more than 50 people killed in Sunday's church hostage siege in the city. From Baghdad, Jim Muir reports.Many of the victims from the Sunday outrage had just been laid to rest after a big funeral in central Baghdad when the bombs started going off in what appeared to be a coordinated campaign. Most of them were car bombs, but there was at least one roadside bomb and later a salvo of four mortars hit an area in southwest Baghdad. Police cars toured some parts of the city, announcing that a curfew had been imposed. Security officials said most of the bombs went off in areas with no particular target, but they were all in busy districts, near shops, markets or cafes.The prime minister of Lebanon says the Middle East is heading for disaster as it's been impossible to negotiate a comprehensive peace agreement between the Arabs and Israel. In an interview with the BBC, Saad Hariri said the situation was deteriorating despite attempts at peace."Everybody wants to talk about Iran and their nuclear programme, but at the same time what is the international community doing for the peace process? We have been faced every day with a bulldozer on TV, and hundreds of millions of Arabs and Muslims are seeing that, bulldozing a house where a family of Palestinians living in that historical house for the...""Y ou're saying Israeli actions are inflaming the region.""I'm saying Israeli actions are not only inflaming the region, but affecting the whole world."Americans are voting in mid-term elections that could alter the balance of power in the United States Congress. Opinion polls suggest President Obama's Democrats will lose control of the House of Representatives, and the race for the Senate is also expected to be close. From Washington, Bethany Bell reports.The Republican Party needs to gain 39 seats to win control of the House and 10 to take over the Senate. The Republicans and the populist Tea Party movement are hoping to benefit from the deep discontent about the weak economy and high unemployment. If they succeed, they'll have a significant impact on President Obama's ability to pass legislation. But while this election is being seen as a referendum on his government, it's not necessarily a ringing endorsement of the Republicans either.The German interior minister says a parcel bomb sent to Chancellor Angela Merkel had come from Greece and was similar to a number of small bombs found in foreign embassies in Athens over the past few days. The bomb was safely defused at Mrs Merkel's office in Berlin, and no onewas hurt. It's not known who sent them, but suspicion has fallen on Greek far left-wing groups. Two other parcel bombs exploded earlier in the day in the Russian and Swiss embassies in Athens.World News from the BBCAfter weeks of political turmoil, Kosovo's government has lost a parliamentary vote of confidence. It triggers early elections next month, the first since Kosovo self-declared independence from Serbia in 2008. Correspondents say the Prime Minister Hashim Thaci would hope to strengthen his position by blaming the crisis on the government's former allies, who withdrew from the Kosovo cabinet in September. Here is Mark Lowen.Less than three years since Kosovo declared independence from Serbia, its government has collapsed, and this tiny fragile corner of Europe now faces yet more instability. The no-confidence motion was brought by the opposition and was passed with 66 votes out of 120-strong parliament. All of this comes at a crucial moment for Kosovo. Serbia, which rejects the unilateral secession by its southern province, has recently agreed to the first face-to-face talks with the Kosovan government to resolve one of Europe's most intractable conflicts.Results from a referendum in Niger show more than 90% of voters have backed a new constitution designed to return the country to civilian rule. It was put forward by the country's military leaders, who came to power in a coup in February. It provides for elections next January and a handover of power in April.The New Y ork-based campaign group Human Rights Watch has called for the release of a number of Sudanese activists in Darfur who, it says, have been arrested over the past few days. It said at least eight human rights activists had been detained without charge. There has been no word from the Sudanese authorities.The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been accused by gay rights groups of fuelling homophobia. The allegations came after Mr Berlusconi said it was better to like beautiful girls than to be gay. He was referring to allegations that he pressured the police into dropping an investigation into an 18-year-old belly dancer. Mr Berlusconi rejected calls for his resignationFrom: /englishlistening/bbc/20101103/126115.html1.salvo n.(炮火)齐射,(礼炮)齐鸣例句：a salvo of guns礼炮齐鸣2.particular adj.特定的, 某一的例句：This is his particular problems.这是他个人的问题。
BBC新闻讲解2010-10-4第508期
BBC新闻讲解附字幕:金正日之子被委以重任(2010-10-4)查看原文第一部分：听力文本BBC News with Jonathan Wheatley.The youngest son of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has been appointed to two top jobs.Kim Jong-un was named as a member of the central committee of the ruling Workers'Party and also included in the National Defence Commission.He had already been made a four-star general,and the promotions are widely seen as the beginning of a gradual transfer of power from Kim Jong-il to his son.Andre Vornic reports.At27or28-even his age is a mystery-Kim Jong-un may now be the most senior young man on the planet.Of the three posts,the Defence Commission one is key.It is the highest policy-making body in this most militarized of countries.Taken together,Mr Kim's three new jobs mark him out as the future leader of a state that is isolated as it's ever been.But unlike during the previous dynastic transition,it now also comes with nuclear weapons and a collapsed society.A landslide triggered by heavy rain has engulfed a town in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, burying about300homes as residents slept.A municipal official,Cipriano Gomez,said more than 100people were known to be missing,but many more were feared buried.Julian Miglierini reports from Mexico City.Speaking on the only functioning phone line in the town,Mr Gomez described a disastrous scene in Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec.It's thought300homes have been buried by the collapsed hillside, and rescue teams sent by the federal government have yet to arrive in the isolated area."We are doing what we can to advance the rescue operation,"Mr Gomez said.But rain continues to fall, and there are fears that other landslides could occur.Therefore,Mr Gomez said that they were organizing a massive evacuation to higher ground.The United Nations says only a third of the people in the world who need life-saving drugs to fight HIV are actually getting them.The World Health Organization and two other UN agencies said only eight developing countries,including Cambodia,Romania and Rwanda,had met the target of providing access to antiretroviral drugs by2010.Jane Dreaper reports.The WHO,Unicef and the UN's Aids programme estimate that5.25million people in developing countries now receive vital combination therapy to slow down HIV.That represents more than a million extra patients in the past year,but the agencies believe14.5million people in total need drug treatment,so the gap remains big despite some of the strides that have been made by getting more medicine to pregnant women to prevent them from passing HIV to their babies.A court in Iran has sentenced an Iranian-Canadian blogger,Hossein Derakhshan,to more than19 years in prison.The media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders said it was the longest sentence ever handed to a blogger in Iran.Mr Derakhshan was arrested during a visit to the country in2008.Local reports say he was accused of spying for Israel.World News from the BBC.The former Prime Minister of Iceland Geir Haarde is to face a special court over his role in the country's financial crisis.The Icelandic parliament narrowly voted to send Mr Haarde before the court,which will decide whether he should be charged with alleged negligence.A report commissioned by the parliament earlier this year found that more should have been done to limit the damage from the collapse of Iceland's biggest banks in2008.In his first major speech since becoming leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party,Ed Miliband has said the party must change,learn from its mistakes and win back the trust of voters.He was speaking at the party's annual conference five months after Labour lost the general election.Mr Miliband said Labour should have done far more to reduce the disparity in the incomes of rich and poor people in Britain."This is something we didn't confront in government.You see,the gap between rich and poor does matter,and it doesn't just harm the poor;it harms all of us.If you look at those societies that are healthiest,happiest,most secure,it is the more equal societies.And what does it say about the values of our society?What have we become that a banker can earn in a day what a care worker earns in a year.It's wrong conference."About100,000people have marched in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi,demanding the release of a scientist imprisoned in the United States.The woman,Aafia Siddiqui who's a neuroscientist, was sentenced last week by a New York court to86years in prison.She has been convicted of the attempted murder of US government agents in Afghanistan.Gunmen in southern Nigeria have abducted15school children and demanded a ransom of nearly $130,000for their release.The children were seized when their bus was hijacked in the town of Aba in Abia state on the edge of the oil-rich Niger Delta.Nigerian police said they'd launched a big operation to rescue the children.BBC World Service News提示：文本转自普特听力论坛第二部分：参考翻译朝鲜领导人金正日最小的儿子金正银被委任两项重要职务。
BBC新闻讲解2010-7-26第415期
BBC新闻讲解附字幕:委内瑞拉驱逐哥伦比亚外交官(2010-07-26)查看原文第一部分：听力文本BBC News with Gaenor Howells.Venezuela has ordered Colombian diplomats to leave the country within72hours.The Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez had earlier announced he was breaking off relations over accusations that his government was harboring left-wing Colombian rebels.At a meeting of the Organization of American States in Washington,Colombia presented videos,maps and photos to prove that Farc and ELN rebels have bases in Venezuela.Mr Chávez blamed Colombian President Alvaro Uribe who’s leaving office next month for the deterioration of relations.“I blame President Uribe who's sick with hatred,because he's going into the dustbin of history, he’s going straight there,a pawn of the Yankee empire.He ended up isolated in the continent,he didn't defeat the guerrillas or the drug traffickers,and Venezuela is a victim of all this.”The International Court of Justice in The Hague has ruled that Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia did not violate international law.The ruling,backed by10judges with 4against,was announced by the president of the court,Hisashi Owada.“The court considers that general international law contains no applicable prohibition of declaration of independence.Accordingly,it concludes that the declaration of independence of the 17th of February2008did not violate general international law.”Although not legally binding,the ruling could have implication s for separatist movements around the world.It’s expected to lead to a renewed push by Kosovo for further international recognition. The president of Serbia,Boris Tadi,speaking after the court decision,said his country would never accept what he called"the unilaterally proclaim ed independence"of Kosovo.Mr Tadi said his government would carefully analyze and consider the situation in the days to come.A Russian scientist deported to Britain two weeks ago in a spy swap between the United States and Russia has said he wants to“go home”.The statement is the first from Igor Sutyagin since he arrived in the United Kingdom from Russia,where he’d been held in a prison camp since being convicted of spying for the Americans.Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports from Moscow.Igor Sutyagin is homesick.Barely two weeks after arriving in the UK,he has told his brother he desperately wants to go home.In a statement released by his brother in Moscow,Mr Sutyagin says he wants to see his wife and children and to fix the porch on his little house outside Moscow.How soon that might happen is hard to tell.The British authorities have said nothing about what they intend for him.But as part of the deal for his release,Mr Sutyagin was pardoned by President Dmitry Medvedev,so in theory he should be allowed to return to Russia in the future.You’re listening to the world news from the BBC.A leading academic in the United States has accused the British oil company BP of trying to buy the best scientists and academics to help in its defense in lawsuits arising from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.The academic says scientists should think twice before they sign a contract with the corporation,which has such powerful economic interests at stake.The BBC has obtain ed a copy of a contract being offered to scientists by BP.It states they cannot publish the research they do for BP or speak about the data for at least three years.A tropical depression is forming over the Bahamas and moving towards the Gulf of officials say it could affect the operation to clean up the oil spill there.With more here's Vanessa Buschschluter of our America’s desk.The American National Hurricane Center says that the tropical depression could hit the area of the massive oil spill in the Gulf within the next three days.American officials said they would decide later on Thursday whether to evacuate the site.Some ships skimming oil off the surface are already on the way to port.But Admiral Thad Allen,who’s the official in charge of the cleanup, said whatever happened,the cap which has been placed over the well to contain the oil would stay in place.The Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has announced that the term of the army chief of staff,General Ashfaq Kayani,has been extend ed by three years.General Kayani,who was appointed by the former President Pervez Musharraf,was due to retire in November when his3-year-term in office expired.Mr Gilani said the extension was essential,given the country’s battle against terrorism.The Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has addressed the nation on the eve of Revolution Day.In a speech partly designed to provide reassurance about his health,Mr Mubarak spoke standing up for more than ten minutes.BBC News.提示：文本转自普特听力论坛第二部分：参考翻译委内瑞拉命令哥伦比亚外交官72小时内离开该国。
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BBC新闻讲解附字幕:奥巴马和罗姆尼在卡罗拉多举行首次辩论BBC news with Jerry Smit.Turkish artillery unit has fired on Syria for the first time since the Syrian conflict began 18 months ago. It came after a mortar bomb fired from inside Syria killed 5 Turkish citizens. James Reynolds reports from the Turkish-Syrian border.It is not immediately clear what Turkey was intending to hit. It comes in response to the killing earlier in the day of five Turkish civilians in the town of Akcakale. A mother and three of her children were among the dead when a shell landed. Over the past year, the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has strongly supported the Syrian opposition. But at the same time, Mr. Erdogan has not wanted his country to fight Syria directly, but the killing of Turkish civilians along the border may have made him reevaluate it that policy.Nato has described the Syrian action as a flagrant breach of international law and said it stood by Turkey - a Nato member.At least 31 people have been killed and dozens injured in a series of huge bomb explosions in the Syrian city of Aleppo in an area controlled by government forces. A local reporter at the scene told the BBC that there were four carbombs, two of them exploded near a police officer's' club in a hotel tearing off its facade.Riot police in the Iranian capital Tehran have clashed with hundreds of people including many currency traders protesting against the government's failure to stop the value of the Iranian rial from plunging to record lows. Police dispersed a crowd of official money changers who gathered outside the central bank. The French government has proposed a new anti-terrorism law that will allow authorities to prosecute citizens who attend militant Islamist training camps abroad. The move come six months after Mohamed Merah a French national killed seven people in a shooting spray in and around Toulouse. He claimed to have attended al-Qaeda style camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Christian Fraser reports from Paris.The French authorities were criticized for failing to prevent Mohamed Merah's attacks. His links with foreign Islamists were known to the intelligence services as earlier as 2009. The government says the threat is still at a very high level, and this new policy is essential to combating the threat. By the new year, terrorism related crimes committed abroad will be punishable here in France. French citizens found to be attending training camps overseas could face up to 10 years in prison. And the changes will also allow the authorities to monitor the internet and telecommunications data of suspects thought to be running extremists' websites.The FBI in the United States has appeal to the public for help in locating a wanted US citizen and terrorism suspect who has allegedly sought military training overseas in how to kill American soldiers. It is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Ahmad Abousamra now is thought to be in Syria.World news from the BBC.With a little over a month before American voters go to the polls, President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney hold their first presidential debate today in the swing state of Colorado. Polls show that the race remains close nationwide but that President Obama is leading in most the important battleground states. Jonny Dymond reports from Washington. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have spent days preparing for this one and half an hour debate, consuming briefings, practising attack lines and sparring with proxies. Half of the debate will be on the economy, healthcare and government will take up the rest of the time. With Barack Obama maintaining a slim lead in opinion polls and criticism of Mitt Romney's campaign and style increasing, the pressure is on Mr. Romney to make a strong impression.The Portuguese government has announced a series of tax increases aimed to reducing its budget deficit. Income tax will rise by an average of 2 percentage points and there will be new taxes on the capital gains, tobacco and luxurygoods. The measures replaced controversial social security reforms that were dropped after massive street protests last month.A Maoist leader in Nepal Prachanda has launched a new tourist trail which offers hikers the chance to see hideouts and routes used by insurgents during the country's civil war. Surendra Phuyal has the details from Kathmandu. Trekking activities in Nepal are generally confined to the Everest, Annapurna and Langtang regions. The new guerrilla trekking trail stretches across several districts of western Nepal where the country's Maoist rebels were based during the decade-long conflict that ended in 2006. With the new trail introduced, officers hope that local entrepreneurs will be encouraged to build basic infrastructures such as hotels and lunges in the area.BBC news.1.mortar n. 迫击炮；When troops set up camp in areas of conflict, they face the threat of incoming mortar shells.当军队在冲突地区扎营的时候，他们面临着入射的迫击炮弹的威胁。
BBC新闻讲解2010-7-31第420期
BBC新闻讲解附字幕:古巴前总统将发行回忆录(2010-07-31)查看原文第一部分：听力文本BBC News with David AustinThe United Nations chief weapons inspector just before the Iraq conflict,Hans Blix,has said Britain was dragged along in a war that was not legally defensible.Mr Blix was speaking to the BBC after appearing at an inquiry in London where he questioned the judgment of President Bush and the Prime Minister Tony Blair in the run-up to the conflict.Mr Blix said the Americans were intoxicated with the idea of military action and thought they could get away with it."There was a big difference between the UK attitude and the US.The US did not really care for any international restrictions.They didn't feel a need for what they called a permission slip from the Security Council whilst the UK felt that yes,you would need to have a Security Council authorization.However,the clear simple fact was that in March2003,three permanent members of the Security Council were against the use of force,but they could not have got a majority in the council for such a resolution."President Obama has said the leaking of tens of thousands of classified documents on the war in Afghanistan did not reveal anything that had not already informed public debate on the situation there.The documents were revealed by the whistle-blowing organization Wikileaks.A Bangladeshi government wage board has recommend ed a new legal minimum wage for its millions of garment factory workers.The wage is increased by about80%to around44dollars a month.The announcement came after months of violent protests.Our correspondent Anbarasan Ethirajan reports from the capital Dhaka.The new minimum wage deal is expected to benefit around2.5million garment workers in Bangladesh,most of them women.The current legal minimum pay is about25dollars a month, described by labour activists as the lowest in the world for this type of work.Following criticism, some western companies earlier this year asked the Bangladeshi government to raise the minimum wage for its workers.The garments industry is the backbone of Bangladesh's economy, amounting to nearly80%of the country's total exports.A court in Britain has rejected a Serbian request for the extradition of the former Bosnian President Ejup Ganic on war crimes charges,arising from the Bosnian conflict in the early1990s. Serbia has said it will appeal.Mr Ganic was charged in Belgrade over the deaths of more than40 Yugoslav soldiers and detained as he prepared to leave Britain in March.Adam Mynott has more details.The district judge hearing the extradition case said the application to have Dr Ganic extradited to Belgrade was politically motivated and without foundation.He said"Dr Ganic,you are free to go."The former Bosnian acting president will return to Bosnia tomorrow.He said outside court that the case by Serbia against him was a disgrace,and he was happy to be going home completely exonerate d and a free man.Adam Mynott reporting.World News from the BBCAn African Union summit in Uganda has agreed to send further troops to Somalia to counteral-Shabab insurgents.The chairman of the AU Commission Jean Ping said at the end of the summit that Guinea,Djibouti and the East African grouping IGAD had promised to send4,000 more troops,bringing the number of AU soldiers in Somalia to10,000.The man due to become the new chief executive of BP says a smaller,wiser company will emerge from the crisis surrounding the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.Bob Dudley,an American citizen who's currently BP's managing director,told US television that his top priority would be the clean-up operation."Sometimes events like this shake you to the core,the foundation,and you have two responses-one is to run away from it and hide;the other is to respond and really change the culture of the company and make sure all the checks and balances are there,just to make sure this does not happen again."Cuba's former President Fidel Castro says he will release the first volume of his memoirs next month.The book will be called The Strategic Victory and will focus on the story of how a few hundred revolutionaries under his command defeated the Cuban army in1958.It'll include reminiscence s from his childhood and describe how he became a guerrilla fighter.The mayor of the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro has launched a10-year plan to renovate many of the city's favelas or slums.The mayor said the plan would benefit over260,000households and would cost around4.5billion dollars.It's part of the city's preparation for the2016Olympic Games.Some news just in:within the past few minutes,the Argentine football authorities have confirmed that the iconic coach of the national side,Diego Maradona,will not continue in his job,and his contract will not be renew ed.Argentina,tip ped as one of the hot favourites to win the World Cup earlier this month,was instead knocked out in the quarter-finals by Germany.And that's the latest BBC News.提示：文本转自普特听力论坛第二部分：参考翻译联合国首席武器核查官布利克斯(Hans Blix)表示，关于伊拉克冲突，英国已经在这场不合法的战争中放慢脚步。
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BBC新闻讲解附字幕:澳洲遭遇半世纪最严重洪水(2011-01-4)BBC News with Nick KellyA bomb has exploded in a market close to a military barrack s in the Nigerian capital Abuja, killing a number of people. Our correspondent Tomi Oladipo has the latest details.It's in an area which is a market, which has a bar, an open-air bar, where people come to drink. And I've spoken to witnesses who were at the scene, and they say they've seen bodies being carried out. So far, the sources within the ministry are telling me 11 people have been killed in the attack, but I still can't confirm that because the place has been cordon ed off by police and the ambulance services which are there.The man who's refusing to step down as president of Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo, has said the country could face greater violence if he were removed from office. The international communityis demanding that he hand over power to his rival Alassane Ouattara, who's believed to have won the election. Speaking to the Euronews television channel, Mr Gbagbo indicated he might consider resigning if the regional group Ecowas were to intervene militarily to try to remove him."I will see, but it's not on the agenda for the moment. What's on the agenda is to negotiate, so we are negotiating. I ask myself why those who pretend to have beaten me oppose a recount of votes.That's what I want to know. I ask those people to support a recount."The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says she has warned senior Ivorian officials including Mr Gbagbo that they could be held criminally accountable for human rights violations in Ivory Coast. The UN has accused security forces loyal to Mr Gbagbo of killing and abducting people associated with the opposition. It says officials have been unable toinvestigate allegations of atrocities including at least two mass graves.In Australia, thousands more people are getting ready to evacuate their homes in the northeastern state of Queensland, where some of the worst flooding in half a century has affected more than a million square metres of territory. In the town of Rockhampton, the Mayor Brad Carter described what the emergency services were facing."We are going to have a very tough situation whereby we may have to use only indisaster,processes of forced evacuations, and this is a very difficult issue. As you can appreciate, you can have, for example, some very elderly people that are very reluctant to leave their home, and for their own safety and goodwill, we will have to look at ways and means of relocating them, and we hope that that these are isolated and extreme cases."Rescue workers in southern Egypt say they've recovered the bodies of 11 children who were on board a bus swept away by floods on Wednesday. The bus was carrying 75 children and teachers returning home after dark from a school outing when it was dragged into a sand-filled trench by the water. More than 60 managed to escape with minor injuries, but an ambulance driver who'd helped rescue some of the girls was killed. World News from the BBCOn his last full day in office, the Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has decided not to extradite a former left-wing militant to Italy. Cesare Battisti escaped from an Italian jail nearly 30 years ago while awaiting trial and eventually fled to Brazil. In his absence, he was convicted of four murders. Italy has recalled its ambassador to Brazil in protest at President Lula's decision. The former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has appeared for further questioning by prosecutors investigating allegations of abuse of power. In a BBC interview, she again accusedPresident Viktor Yanukovych of being behind the charges so as to destroy political opponents. The army in Bolivia has begun selling bread in response to a strike by bakers angry at the government's decision to scrap fuel subsidies. Loaves baked in military ovens are being sold by troops from 12 locations in the city of La Paz and El Alto. The Bolivian government says the aim is to prevent shortages and counter a threat by bakers to raise bread prices. Mass protests against the fuel price hike, suspended for the New Year's weekend, are expected to resume on Monday. And the 19th century Wild West outlaw Billy the Kid has been denied a pardon 130 years after his death. The possibility was first suggested when historical documents appeared to show that Billy the Kid had been promised a pardon in return for testifying in a murder case. Ann Busby reports. Billy the Kid, whose real name was William Bonney, was only 21 when he was shot dead, but his brief life inspired dozens of books and films. It's not clear how many people he killed; some say more than 20. But his undoubted skill with a gun and his personal charm made him more of a folk hero than a notorious criminal. Supporters campaigned for a pardon, but the Governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson has refused one after extensive research. "The romanticism appealed tome," he said, "but the evidence didn't support the idea." BBC News第二部分：参考翻译尼日利亚首都阿布贾一座军营附近的市场内一枚炸弹爆炸，造成多人死亡。
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BBC news 2010-11-07BBC News with Jonathan WheatleyA record ransom has been paid to Somali pirates in exchange for a South Korean tanker. About $9m was paid for the Samho Dream, which was seized in April while carrying oil from Iraq to the United States. In a separate move, nearly $3m was paid for the Golden Blessing, a Chinese-owned chemical tanker registered in Singapore. Somali pirates are holding at least 25 other ships. Kevin Mwachiro reports.The Chinese tanker has already been released and is reported to be under Chinese naval escort to safer waters. It had been in pirate hands since April, anchored off the coastal town of Hobyo in central Somalia. The ship's 23 crew members are said to be in good health. It's reported that the South Korean tanker with its cargo of oil and 24 crew will be released later in the day.Pope Benedict has criticised what he called the return of anti-church attitudes in Spain during his first day of a visit to the country. He said Spain was experiencing a drive towards secularisation like that seen in the 1930s."This clash between faith and modernity, both very lively, is happening again today in Spain. For the future of the faith, it is this meeting, not a confrontation, but a meeting between faith and secularism, which has a central point in Spanish culture. In this regard, I am thinking of all the main Western countries, but especially about Spain."The comments are a reference to the civil war era, during which Republican forces killed thousands of priests and nuns and burnt churches.Several airlines have suspended flights to the Indonesian capital Jakarta because of fears that volcanic ash spewing from Mount Merapi could damage aircraft engines. Some international flights have been diverted to other airports, although domestic flights appear largely unaffected.The government of Haiti says more than 500 people are now known to have died in the current cholera epidemic. Serious flooding caused by Hurricane Tomas has raised fears that the disease will spread. Our correspondent Laura Trevelyan is in Haiti's second biggest city, Leogane, where flooding remains a serious problem.We've just arrived in Leogane. Now this town was 90% destroyed by the earthquake in January, and now the main roads are flooded. It's flooded almost to my knee. And what's happened is that people living in the camps that were set up for the earthquake survivors, those camps are now flooded, and so for the second time in a year, people have been made homeless. Not only is Haiti trying to recover from the earthquake, deal with the cholera outbreak, and now the aftermath of the hurricane.A strike by BBC journalists is in its second day. Members of the National Union of Journalists areprotesting at changes to their pensions. The BBC says it won't be improving its final offer to staff.World News from the BBCThe 2,000-year-old House of the Gladiators in the ruins of ancient Pompeii in southern Italy has collapsed. Pompeii, a Unesco World Heritage Site, was destroyed by an eruption of Mount V esuvius back in 79 AD. David Willey now reports.No one was injured in the collapse which occurred at dawn and was discovered by guards when they arrived for work. The area was closed to tourists. The building excavated from the volcanic ash, which destroyed Pompeii in 79 AD, was damaged by Allied bombs during the Second World War. Part of it was covered by a heavy modern concrete roof built in the 1950s, which was weakened by water infiltration.President Barack Obama on a 10-day tour of Asia has announced $10bn worth of trade deals with India. The White House says the deals will help support more than 50,000 jobs in the United States.Burma is holding its first general election for 20 years on Sunday. The military, which has ruled Burma for almost 50 years, has called the elections. But the main opposition party, the National League for Democracy, led by the Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, is boycotting them. And candidates supporting the military are expected to win most of the seats. The British ambassador in Burma, Andrew Heyn, told the BBC he didn't think the elections were a sign of real change."There's nothing in these elections themselves that could give us grounds for optimism. That doesn't mean we turn our backs and walk away. We continue to press for progress after the elections, and if that progress happens, we will of course welcome it. But in and of themselves, these elections don't mark a step for progress."Sports news now: Williams driver Nico Hulkenberg took pole position for the Brazilian Grand Prix. The four main championship hopefuls will line up right behind Hulkenberg in this season's penultimate race. In football, Manchester United secured a late win over Wolves in the Premier League.From: /englishlistening/bbc/20101107/126513.html1.register vt.vi.记录; 登记; 注册例句：An increasing number of students are registering for degree courses each year.每年, 越来越多的学生注册学习学位课程。
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BBC 新闻讲解附字幕:希腊旅游副部长因丈夫逃税辞职(2010-05-20)查看原文第一部分：听力文本BBC News with David Austin.There's been a cautious international response to the announcement by Iran that it will send some of its low enriched uranium abroad in return for higher-grade nuclear fuel for a research reactor. Tehran hopes the deal will avert new sanctions against Iran. Barbara Plett reports from the United Nations.The White House said the fuel transfer would be a positive step, but it didn't address the main concern about Iran's nuclear program which is that Tehran continues to enrich uranium despite UN demands that it stop and a higher level than it used to. Washi n gton said it would continue efforts through the Security Council to show Iran that such behavior has consequences, including sanctions. However, it did acknowledge the efforts of Turkey and Brazil in brokering the compromise d deal. The White House also said it would proceed enclose consultation with all its partners. Aware, perhaps that the coalition it's built to isolate Iran could fragment over this issue.The United Nations has appointed a Costa Rican diplomat Christiana Figueres as its new climate chief. She will be in charge of stored international talks on how to counter the effects of greenhouse gases on global warming. Mrs.Figueres was nominated by the Costa Rican government after Yvo de Boer of the Netherlands announced he was stepping down after almost four years in the job.An influential think tank, the International Crisis Group says tens of thousands of tunnel civilians were killed in the final stages of Sri Lankan Civil War which ended exactly a year ago. From Colombo, here is Charles Haviland.The International Crisis Group says that from eyewit n ess' evidence, it believes at least 30,000 civilians were killed and countless others wounded and deprived of food and medicine. It says there should be an independent international inquiry into possible war crimes by both sides. But it comes down most heavily on the government, saying there's evidence that intentionally shelled civilians, hospitals and humanitarian operations. The authorities here, have however repeatedly denied inflict ing civilian casualties.The government of Thailand says it's received an offer of a truce from anti-government protesters in the capital Bangkok. A deadline for the demonst r ators to leave their fortified camp had earlier passed with no sign of resolution to the crisis. Lucy Williamson is in Bangkok.On the brink of war in the Thai capital a faint glimmer of peace, several hours after the government's deadline expired, a senior aid to the Prime Minister Korbsak Sabhavasu confirmedhe'd been caught by a protest leader with a fresh offer of negotiations. Mr. Sabhavasu hasn't ruled it out, but he said the protestors must first stop attacking the troops, ringing their encampment. The question now is whether the protest leaders will agree and whether there will be able to control the increasing divided groups aligned with them. At least 37 people have died in clashes since last Thursday.World News from the BBC.Officials in central India say at least 35 people, most of them civilians were killed when suspected Maoist rebels detonated a landmine under a passenger bus. The attack took place in the state of Chhattisgarh which has witnessed fierce fighting between the Maoist and government forces.A study published in the United States says the gap in wealth between white and black Americans more than quadruple d between 1984 and 2007. The Institute on Assets and Social Policy said that even when African American had a good education and well paying jobs, they could not achieve the wealth of their white pairs in the workforce. Here is Nicolas Rusher .There's no doubt that the US is one of the wealthiest countries in the world. But according to this study, not everyone is getting anyone near fair share. There has always been a big discrepancy, but in the 23 years caught by the study white families have grown even further richer than black families. The institute's director Thomas Shapiro said that the wealth gap reflected US public policies that benefited those already wealthy, such as facts breaks as well as discriminations in housing, credits and labor markets. He said a U-turn was needed to stop the gap widening even further.Lawyers acting for an aunt of President Barack Obama say she has been given permission to remain in the United States. Zeituni Onyango a Kenyan half-sister of Mr.Obama's late father first applied for asylum in 2002, but it was turned down. She made anot h er application after her status as an illegal immigrant was made public in a later stage of Mr.Obama's presidential campaign in 2008.A Greek government minister has left office after it emerged that her husband owed more than six million dollars in unpaid taxes. Angela Gerekou, the Deputy Tourism Minister stepped down following news reports that her husband Tolis Voskopoulos had failed to declare his earnings as a pop singer. The Greek government says tax evasion is one of the reasons for the country's economic crisis.That's the latest BBC News.提示：文本转自普特听力论坛第二部分：参考翻译伊朗同意将一部分低浓度铀运往国外，换取高浓度铀用于核反应堆燃料。
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BBC新闻讲解附字幕:英国禁止索马里飞机入境(2010-11-5)查看原文第一部分：听力文本BBC News with Marion MarshallBritish security officials say the crucial tip-off on the parcel bombs addressed to a Chicago synagogue and discovered on cargo planes on Friday came from a suspected al-Qaeda member. The man is a Saudi Arabian national.More from our security correspondent Gordon Corera.It appears that a member of al-Qaeda who had been to the Saudi rehabilitation programme,then left and went and joined al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen,but then left again and left the al-Qaeda grouping and returned to the Saudi authorities.About two weeks ago,we think,and with him came a tip-off and the intelligence about this potential plot which was then shared by the Saudis with American and other authorities,and clearly that was vital because if these devices had got through the initial security screening,and so without that tip-off,they may well have exploded.The British government has introduced new security restrictions in the wake of the parcel bomb discovery.Air passengers will no longer be able to carry printer cartridges in their hand luggage and no unaccompanied air cargo will be allowed into Britain from Somalia.Campaigning is drawing to a close across the United States in national elections that will decide control of Congress.Opinion polls suggest President Barack Obama’s Democratic Party could lose control of the House of Representatives,but the campaign for the Senate is expected to be much tighter.More from Jonny Dymond.After a frantic final four-state swing,President Obama has spent this last day before the elections in the White House,recording radio interviews and rallying volunteers by phone.Up and down the country,the airwaves are heavy with blast and counter-blast from candidates who have outspent any that have come before them.One non-partisan group estimates that the final spend on this election will be$4billion.President Barack Obama has renewed American sanctions against Sudan for another year in an effort to keep the pressure on Khartoum to resolve the conflicts in the country.But a spokesman said the US would reconsider its approach if there was progress in resolving a bitter North-South dispute and improve the humanitarian situation in Darfur.The electoral commission in Ivory Coast has said the turnout in Sunday’s presidential election was about80%,a figure it called“historic”.The election,the first in ten years,is aimed at bringing an end to a civil war which left Ivory Coast divided for several years.John James reports from Abidjan.So far only results for Ivorians who voted outside the country have been partially published.They suggest a second round between current President Laurent Gbagbo and former International Monetary Fund economist Alassane Ouattara.But these results represent a tiny percentage of the overall electorate.A large proportion of the country’s5.7million voters came out to cast their ballots on Sunday,creating long queues in front of many of the voting centres.The head of UN peacekeeping mission said the turnout was one of the highest-ever in Africa.BBC News.American health authorities say the cholera strain which has killed more than330people in Haiti most closely resembles a strain found in South Asia.The US Centre for Disease Control found that Haitian cholera patients had all been infected by the same strain of the disease.The Haitian health minister said it was unlikely to have originated in Haiti.A judge in Uganda has ordered a newspaper to stop publishing the names,addresses and photographs of people it says are homosexual.A Uganda gay rights group minortity requested the injunction after the newspaper published for a second time the identities of some people it said were homosexual.A spokesperson for the group,Pepe Julian Onziema,said the newspaper caused a lot of problems in the gay community."It created a lot of scare.The community were very afraid.For myself,it was like'I cannot keep only living in fear in this country'.My rights have been violated by me being outed in that paper, and my colleagues as well."The newspaper editor last month defended his decision to name homosexuals,saying they were trying to recruit children.The Turkish Kurd militant group,the PKK,has said it had nothing to do with a suicide bomb attack in Istanbul on Sunday,in which32people were wounded.The group said it was out of the question that any of its fighters could carry out a bombing which would hurt civilians.Police in Northern Ireland say a bomb discovered in a car at Belfast International Airport at the weekend could have been there since last year.The device,found in the long-stay car park near the airport,was found to contain flammable liquid.It was made safe by a bomb disposal team.The Catholic Church in Cuba says the government has agreed to release three more dissidents. One of the men has served more than25years in jail for stealing seven rifles when he was19 years old.Under the deal brokered by the church,the three would be exiled in Spain.BBC World Service News提示：文本转自普特听力论坛第二部分：参考翻译周五，一架货运飞机上发现了寄送到芝加哥犹太会堂的炸弹包裹。