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One of the world’s most wanted men , the former ........,has been arrested of almost 13 years on the run . His arrest was confirmed to the state ………saying that Mr. ... should be taken before judges in Baregrade . …..trans more .
…….is one of the three most imp Serbian suspects ….four war crimes by the special ………
……….with serious war crimes including two kinds of genocide relating to the ..conflict in the early 1990s . He has been hiding for more than 12 years , International peacekeeping forces in Serbia have tried to locate and arrest him on several locations without success . The arrest of Mr…. war time commander….has been set as a condition for the further integration of the Sebia into the European Union and NATO
The EU’s enlargement commissioner ..has welcomed the arrest of the Mr. as an important step by Serbia on the way to EU membership . He said it’s a milestone in Serbian cooperation with the war crimes ….The capture of Mr. ….comes on the eve of the meeting of EU foreign ministers which is scheduled to discuss close relations with Serbia .
The govt and opposition in Zimbabwe have given themselves four …to negotiate the end of the country’s political crisis after president Robert Magdi and his political opponent …shook hands on a deal to begin immediate talks . But drawing news conference …..said they would aim to achieve their power sharing agreement .
“We sit here to charge a new way of political interaction . On this ….a decision that we’re assist each other and we’re assist Zimbabwe. ……political and economic situation we should acquire support . UN Secretary Panki Moon said two sides need to negotiate seriously and in good faith .
翻译：
逃逸了13年之久的世界首要通缉犯，波塞领导人拉多万·卡拉季奇被捕，并在塞尔维亚总统塔迪科发表的一项申明中证实。该申明称卡拉季奇应在贝尔格莱德接受审判。由Ivana Miloradovi 为您做详细报道。
卡拉季奇是海牙国际刑事法庭所控告的塞尔维亚战犯中三个头号嫌疑犯之一。
他被指控在90年代初期波斯维亚冲突中进行严重的战争犯罪，包括两项种族灭。之后藏匿了12年多。波斯维亚国际维和部队曾几次试图找到藏匿地点实施抓捕未果。卡拉季奇和前战时总司令拉特科•姆拉迪奇的被捕成为塞尔维亚进一步融入欧盟和北约的条件。
欧盟负责扩大事务的委员奥利·雷恩对卡拉季奇的被捕表示欢迎，将其视为塞尔维亚进入欧盟道路上迈出的重要一步。他说，这是塞尔维亚与特别军事法庭合作上的一座里程碑。卡拉季奇被捕的第二天就是欧盟外长与塞尔维亚讨论进一步深化关系的会议召开的时间。
津巴布韦总统罗伯特·穆加贝和他的对手摩根·茨万吉拉伊同意立即开展对话后，执政党和在野党将在两周内协商结束本国政治危机。在哈拉雷广播台直播的联合新闻发布会上，穆加贝申明了在该权力共享的合约中，他们要实现的目标。“我们在这是来描绘一个新的政治合作道路的，它的源头是我们决定互相帮助，帮助津巴布韦走出急需援助的政治和经济状况。”联合国秘书长潘基文说，双方需要认真地，真诚地的进行协商。
新词：
Bosnian Serb 波塞
Belgrade 贝尔格莱德，塞尔维亚首都
Tribunal特别法庭，The special tribunal in THe Hague 海牙国际刑事法庭
心得：
很多国家重要人物的名字和国家城市的名字真的很难听写出来，一个原因就是不熟悉国际时事。只能考每天浏览新闻，然后注意记住这些特殊名词。

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EU Ministers' meeting in Brussels remained adamant that talks were the only way to solve the impasse over Iran's nuclear program . British Foreign Secretary David Miliband told the Associated Press that it is (up) to Iran to respond to world powers following a meeting on Saturday in Geneva between Iran( on the) one side ,and the United States. European , Chinese ,Russian and other diplomats on the other .
That meeting appeared to go nowhere, with Iranian (diplomats) reportedly steadfast in the pursuit of their nuclear program which they insist is for peaceful purposes. The United States and a number of European nations, believe Iran might be building a nuclear weapon.
At a press conference in Brussels Tuesday, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said the door for dialogue with Iran remained open.
He said he awaited a response from the Iranian government with optimism. Then, he said, it was important to start tackling what he described as a second phase in negotiations.
EU ministers also agreed to toughen sanctions against Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe.
翻译：
欧盟布鲁塞尔部长级会议仍然坚持，会谈是解决伊朗核问题僵局的唯一途径，英国外交秘书长大卫·米利班德告诉合众社说，周六在日内瓦伊朗作为一方与来自美国，欧洲，中国，俄罗斯和其他国家的外交代表进行会谈，是时候伊朗对世界大国作出回应了。会议似乎没有取得任何进展。据报道，伊朗代表在谈及核项目时态度强硬，坚持核项目只是为了和平目的。美国和几个欧洲国家认为伊朗很有可能正在建造核武器。
欧盟外交政策主管索拉纳在周二的一个新闻发布会上说，与伊朗对话的大门仍然敞开着，他抱着乐观的态度期待伊朗政府作出回应。之后，他又说，启动第二阶段谈判非常重要
欧盟各国外长还一致同意加强对津巴布韦总统罗伯特·穆加白的制裁。
新词：
adamant 坚定的
impasse绝境，僵局
steadfast坚定的，不动的
还是有很多人名听不出来，今天这篇文章比昨天的容易一点，所以花了一个小时就听完了










[ 本帖最后由 massive 于 2008-7-27 18:05 编辑 ]

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A military statement said 12 Kurdish rebel forces in Northen Iraq was targeted by the Turkish forces early Sunday .It also said all the planes returned safely . The attacked centered on the Qandil mountains near the Iraqi-Iranian border.
It is believed the region is the base for most of the leadership of the Kurdistan Workers Party, the PKK. A pro-Kurdish news agency confirmed the raid, saying it lasted two hours.
The same agency said the attack had caused panic among civilians. No figures were given for rebel or civilian casualties. But with strikes occurring in a mountainous sparely populated region, civilian causalities are rare.
Ankara accuses the PKK of using neighboring Northern Iraq as a base to launch strikes against its forces in Turkey.
On Thursday, Turkey carried out air strikes on 13 suspected PKK targets in the Zap region of northern Iraq. Turkish forces in the past few months have launched numerous air strikes against rebel bases in the region.
Earlier this year, Turkish soldiers entered Iraq in a week-long operation. Such operations against the PKK have been enhanced by U.S. intelligence information.
Retired Turkish General Haldun Solmazturk says these attacks are part of a psychological war against the rebels.
一份军事申明称，土耳其军队星期天清晨在伊拉克北部袭击了12支库尔德叛军，并且，所有战机均安全返回。该袭击目标集中在伊拉克和伊朗边境的Qandil山。
该地区被认为是库尔德斯坦工人党或被称PKK绝大部分头目基地。一家支持库尔德的新闻机构证实了此次袭击持续了两个小时。
该新闻机构称袭击对百姓造成了伤害。还没有数据表明叛军和百姓的伤亡情况。但因为此次攻击主要是在人烟稀少的山区，百姓伤亡很少。
PKK把相邻的伊拉克北部作为反击土耳其军队的基地，对此，安卡拉予以了谴责。
周四，土耳其在伊拉克北部。。地区对13个疑似PKK目标实施了空袭。过去的几个月中，土耳其军队在该地区对叛军基地进行过数多次空袭。
在今年初，土耳其士兵进入伊拉克进行为期一周的军事行动。由于得到美国情报的支持，遏制PKK的军事行动进一步强化。
已卸任的土耳其将军。。。。说这些袭击是抗击叛军心理战的一部分。
新词：
Kurdish库尔德人
Pro-支持某某的前缀
sparely populated 人烟稀少的

[ 本帖最后由 massive 于 2008-7-28 17:35 编辑 ]

Evermore

花一个小时包括听写加翻译吗？我听3分钟的BBC都要花一个半呢，如果再加翻译那还不得3个小时尼
翻译还得多做呢。

一起加油！

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我也差不多，第一次听的时候两分钟花了两个多小时，把我心伤得呀。不过听多了就好多了，我觉得还是要多看看国际新闻，还要背一些新闻词汇。我买了一本新闻词汇，一本报刊词汇，准备背背单词了

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At least 14 people have been killed and around 100 injured in two explosions in the Turkish city of Istanbul. They occurred in a busy road in a working class residential district about ten minutes apart. There were scenes of panic with people covered in blood as they tried to run from the area. Sarah Rainsford reports from Istanbul

Two bombs were detonated in this attack, planned to cause as much harm as possible. A small device left in a rubbish container exploded first. Minutes later, when a crowd had gathered, a second far larger bomb went off. Istanbul’s governor has said there’s no doubt this was a terror attack, the target, a pedestrian street in a residential area of the city. A popular spot in the summer evenings, the area was crowded when the bombs were detonated.

Cities across India have been put on high alert after 17 explosions in Ahmadabad on Saturday. Troops and riot police have been deployed in Ahmadabad which has a history of religious violence. Damian Grammaticas reports from Delhi.

Ahmadabad was tense. Security forces patrolled the streets. Outside one of the city’s main trauma hospitals …two bombs went off here just as the injured were being brought in for treatment. The hospitals were overflowing with casualties, but it could have been worse. Bomb disposal officers defused several more unexploded devices. The aim may have been to ferment trouble between Hindus and Muslims. And there’s real concern that Indian cities are now the target of a sustained indiscriminate campaign of bombings

A coalition of mainly African aid agencies has strongly criticized the joint African and United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Darfur region of Sudan. The group known as the Darfur Consortium said the mission was too small inadequately equipped and was failing to protect civilians. Our world affairs correspondent Mark Doyle reports

The joint United Nations-African union mission in Darfur, or UNAMID, began operations six months ago. The hybrid force came about because the United Nations Security Council promised protection to some four million people caught up in the war between the Sudanese government and rebels. But Khartoum insisted that Africans should make up the bulk of the soldiers.
土耳其伊斯坦布尔城两起爆炸造成至少14人死亡，100多人受伤。爆炸发生在离上班族聚居地区大约十分钟路程的一条繁马路上。爆炸时试图逃跑的人被炸的浑身是血，场面很凄惨。

此次袭击事件中爆炸的两枚炸弹，企图造成大破坏。最先爆炸的是一个安装在垃圾桶内的小炸弹，几分钟后，人群聚集起来，第二颗更大的爆炸了。伊斯坦布尔市长说毫无疑问这是一次恐怖袭击，目标就是该市居民区的一条步行街。该地区是夏季夜晚的颇受欢迎的景点，爆炸发生时正是人群聚集的时候。

周六发生在印度阿默达巴德的17起爆炸事件让印度数个城市高度警惕起来，军队和防爆警察已经出动部署在阿默达巴德这个有过种族冲突历史的城市。

阿默达巴德局势紧张。防卫部队在街上巡逻。在该市一家医院外就在伤员送进来接受救治时，两颗炸弹爆炸了。医院里到处是伤员，但情况还会变得更糟。清爆警察解除了几处未爆炸的装置。该袭击的目标可能是想激起印度教和穆斯林之间的冲突。而真正让人担心的是，印度的这些城市现在成了一连串毫无规律爆炸袭击的目标。
几家主要的非洲救助机构同盟强烈谴责联合国和非洲联盟在苏丹达尔富尔地区的联合维和项目。该同盟被称为达尔富尔财团，谴责维和项目太小，设备陈旧，保护不了百姓。
位于达尔富尔的联合国和非洲联盟特派团六个月前开始运作。这支混血部队的产生源自联合国安理会的一项承诺，它将对因深陷苏丹政府和反抗势力间的战争泥潭的大约40万人实施保护。但是Khartoum坚持认为军队的大部分力量应由非洲人构成。
新词：
Istanbul伊斯坦布尔，土耳其北部港口城市
detonate使爆炸，引爆
Ahmadabad阿默达巴德，印度西部城市
deploy展开，部署（尤指军事行动）
trauma损伤，创伤
coalition结合体，同盟
indiscriminate不加区别的，不分好坏的
UNMAMID联合国非洲联盟特派团
hyrid杂交体，混血
ferment使发酵，激动，骚动
disposal清楚，排列

[ 本帖最后由 massive 于 2008-7-29 17:12 编辑 ]

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Ten days ahead of the opening of the Olympic Games in China, the human rights group, Amnesty International, has released a scathing assessment of Beijing’s human rights record since being awarded the Games back in 2001. The report says that far from improving, China’s human rights record had actually worsened. Vaudine England reports from Hong Kong.

When China was awarded the chance to host the Olympics, it promised to uphold the values of human dignity associated with the Olympian tradition. It said human rights would improve, the media would be free, and that all social conditions including health and education would be enhanced. Amnesty International says the opposite has occurred. The Amnesty report concludes that Chinese activists have been locked up, people have been made homeless, journalists have been detained, websites blocked, and the use of labor camps and prison beatings increased.

Talks have continued late into the night in Geneva in an attempt to avoid a breakdown in negotiations to liberalize world trade. A spokesman for the World Trade Organization said the talks had reached a very tense and uncertain stage. A BBC correspondent says the biggest obstacle to a deal is a dispute over how much developing countries can protect vulnerable industries from competition. United States trade negotiator Susan Schwab said China and India were demanding too much

Those countries are advocating selectively reopening the package, and therefore there is a real threat to the delicate balance that we achieved on Friday night, and I’m very concerned that it would jeopardize the outcome of this round.

India said Washington was favoring rich countries at the expense of efforts to combat poverty

President Bush has told the Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani that he still regards his country as a strong ally in the fight against terrorism. Mr. Bush said after talks at the White House that Mr. Gilani had made a very strong commitment to securing Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan.

Talks between the government of Zimbabwe and the main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, have run into difficulties. The talks in the South African capital Pretoria aimed at trying to resolve the country’s political crisis began last week. Peter Bowes has the details.

According to unnamed sources in the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, a dispute may have arisen over the allocation of key posts in a new government. Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF Party had apparently suggested that the MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai be appointed the third vice-president, even though Mr. Tsvangirai won a majority of the votes in the elections in March. Some reports indicate that the talks have broken off for the time being. But Mukoni Ratshitanga, the spokesman of the South African President Thabo Mbeki, who’s the chief facilitator, said he heard nothing about the talks being deadlocked.

翻译

在距离奥运会在中国开幕还有十天的时候，人权组织—国际，，发布了一份言辞激烈评估报告，评价了自2001年北京申奥成功时北京的人权记录状况。该报告称，中国的人权状况，不仅没有一点点改善，实际上是越来越糟糕。

在中国获得奥运会主办权的时候，曾承诺提高人类权利价值，与奥林匹亚传统相协调，人权得到改善，媒体也会更加开放，并且，一切包括健康和教育在内的一切社会条件将得到加强。但国际。。。称实际的情况却完全相反，它的报告得出的结论是，中国将政治上的活跃分子关押了起来，人民无家可归，把新闻工作者扣留住，把网站封锁起来，而且，劳改所数量和虐囚事件不断增加。

日内瓦会谈一直进行到深夜，努力使世界贸易自由化的谈判进程不至于垮台。世贸组织发言人说，这次会谈到了非常紧张，充满不定因素的阶段。BBC通讯员报道说，阻碍达成协议的最大障碍是关于发展中国家能在多大程度上保护脆弱的经济不受到竞争的威胁的争论。美国贸易谈判代表苏珊·萨克瓦说，中国和印度还需要费很大的力气

这些发展中国家主张选择性开放国家工业，这样一来，就我们周五晚上取得的一点点的均衡就会受到实实在在的威胁。我非常担心会危及到这轮会谈的成果。

印度称，目前美国政府放弃抗击贫困的措施，转而支持富有国家。

布什总统对巴基斯坦总理约瑟夫·吉拉尼说，他仍然认为美国是反恐战争中强大同盟。会谈后布什在白宫发言说，吉拉尼郑重承诺保卫巴基斯坦边境不受阿富汗侵扰。

津巴布韦执政党和首席在野党就民主改革运动举行会谈，目前会谈进入了困境。会谈在南非首都普利托里举行，旨在努力解决津巴布韦自上周开始的政治危机。

有消息称，在民主改革运动的反对方中，对新政府关键席位的分配产生了争议并有可能升温。罗伯特·穆加贝所在的加努党显然是在暗示，任命MDC的领导人摩根·塔伊万吉瑞任副总统。而塔伊万吉瑞在三月份的选举中以多数票胜出。有报道指出此次会谈已经暂停，但南非总统发言人作为会谈主要协调人却说，他没有听说过任何关于会谈僵局的消息

新词：

Amnesty International 大赦国际（各个国家营救政治犯的组织）

scathing严厉的，尖刻的，不留情面的

昨天网络出了问题，今天才传上来昨天的

[ 本帖最后由 massive 于 2008-7-31 14:57 编辑 ]

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The European Union’s trade commissioner Peter Mandelson, has described the collapse of international trade liberalization negotiations as a very painful failure, and a real setback for the global economy. The talk in Geneva broke down after nine days because of a dispute between the United States and emerging economies of India and China. 国际贸易自由化谈判轰然倒塌，欧盟贸易委员会委员彼特·麦德森将其形容为非常痛苦的失败，是全球经济遇到的现实的挫折。由于美国与印度和中国这两个经济不断发展的国家之间存在的异议，日内瓦会议在进行了九天之后中断。
For several blurring days, ministers have been trying to reach compromise on one key issue without success. It was about the ways in which developing countries could be allowed to protect their farmers from being driven out to business by imports of cheap produce from abroad. Iran pitied the United States against India and China, and ultimately, neither side was prepared to back down. As each blamed the other, the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, Pascal Lamy, said both parties had taken a collective responsibility for undermining the Doha Round.
在这混乱的几天里，部长们一直努力想在一件关键问题上达成协议未果。这个关键性问题就是，发展中国家进口廉价农产品时，如何以合理方式保护本国农民不受威胁继续做买卖。伊朗和美国站在一边与印度和中国对立，最终，双方都打算让步。双方互相指责时，世贸组织总干事帕斯卡·拉米说，双方都要为开展多哈会谈承担共同的责任
An estimated 15 thousand supporters of the former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic have demonstrated in Belgrade, protested his arrest and impending transfer to the Hague, where he is wanted on war crime charges relating to the Bosnian conflict in the 1990s.
With Radovan Karadzic still waiting to be extradited, supporters brought their anger and their passion to the central Belgrade. The rally, organized by the Nationalist Radical Party, attracted at least ten thousand demonstrators, all condemning what they see as the government’s willingness to cave into the international pressure. Briefly, the situation seems threatening, but for all the teargas, the broken windows, this was not repeat of the rampant violence that followed Kosovo's declaration of independence in February.
在贝尔格莱德，约1万5千多个波塞前领导人卡拉季奇的支持者举行了游行示威，对卡拉季奇被捕即将转到海牙刑事法庭表示抗议。这次集会是那些激进的民族主义者组织起来的，至少吸引了1万多示威者。他们谴责政府意图屈服于国际社会的压力。总之，局势似乎一触即发。不过，使用催泪弹，砸窗户这些暴力行为却不是科索沃二月宣布独立时那样不可控制
The latest United Nations’ report on HIV and AIDS says there has been a drop in the annual number of deaths from the disease. It says two million people died from AIDS last year, down from 2.2 million three years ago. There was also a drop in the number of new HIV infections. But the report warns that the rate of infection is still rising in a number of big countries.
联合国最新艾滋病与HIV报告称，艾滋病年死亡人数有所下降。报告说，去年有20万人死于艾滋病，比三年前的22万有所降低。并且，新的HIV感染人数也有所下降。但是该报告警示，一些大国的HIV感染率仍然在上升
The reports also say that although worldwide efforts to treat and prevent AIDS are saving lives, rates of HIV infection arising in many countries, including China, Indonesia, Kenya, Russia and Mozambique. And increases are being seen in some of the older epidemics. AIDS continues to be the leading cause of death in Africa, but the report says the HIV epidemic has stabilized across much of sub-Saharan Africa.
报告还说，虽然全世界都在努力防治艾滋病，但是在包括中国，印度尼西亚，肯尼亚，俄罗斯和莫桑比克在内的很多国家，HIV感染率一直在上升。同时，一些以前的流行病也有所上升。艾滋病仍然是非洲头号杀手，但报告称，在撒哈拉以南地区HIV感染趋于稳定
South Africa has said that an increasing number of countries want the International Criminal Court to suspend its moves to indict the president of Sudan, Omer Hassan Al-Bashir, for alleged war crimes in the troubled western region of Darfur. The South African ambassador of the United Nations, Dumisani Kumalo, said that such delay would, as he put it, give peace a chance.
南非说，越来越多的国家希望国际刑事法庭停止指控苏丹总统巴希尔在达尔富尔多事的西部地区犯下的战争罪。如南非驻联合国大使杜米萨尼·库马洛所说的，推迟控告就是给和平一个机会。
Iraq will be allowed to take part in the Beijing Olympics in two-weeks time after the International Olympic Committee overturned an earlier decision to ban it. The new move came after last Monday’s talk in Switzerland during which Iraq promised to hold free election for its national Olympic Committee, under international observation. The original ban had been imposed because of political interference in the country’s Olympic Organization..
国际奥委会推翻禁止伊拉克参赛的决定，伊拉克将在两周内恢复北京奥运会参赛资格。这是在上周一在瑞士举行的会谈中取得新进展。在会谈中，伊拉克承诺将在国际社会的监督下民主选举国家奥组委。禁止伊拉克参赛的原因是伊拉克奥组委受到政治干涉。

新词：
impending即将发生的
extradite引渡
rampant猖獗的，无法控制的
Kosovo科索沃

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Ten days after his arrest in Belgrade, the former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has made his first appearance before the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He heard the 11 formal charges against him, relating to the Bosnian conflict of the 1990s, including one count of genocide and five counts of crimes against humanity. Mr. Karadzic waived his rights to legal representation. He also told the judge that he’d been offered a deal in 1996 by Richard Holbrooke who was the US assistant Secretary of State at the time. Mr. Karadzic said that the deal meant he would escape international justice if he stepped down.波塞前总统卡拉季奇于贝尔格莱德被捕十天后，首次出现在联合国海牙特别军事法庭。他聆听了11项与90年代波斯尼亚冲突有关的正式指控，其中包括一项种族灭绝罪，五项反人类罪。卡拉季奇放弃律师代理辩护。他还告诉法官1996年时任美国助理国务卿霍尔布鲁克曾向他提出一项协议，卡拉季奇称，这项协议意味着只要他退出政坛，就不会受到国际制裁。
In 1996, my representatives, statesmen and ministers were presented with an offer by Mr. Richard Holbrooke on behalf of the United States of America, according to which I had to withdraw from public life, I had to make certain gestures, and in return, the US said they would fulfill their commitments. This was on behalf of the United States of America.
在1996年，活儿布鲁克先生代表美国曾向我的发言人，国会议员以及部长们提供了一个建议，根据这个建议，我必须彻底隐退，做出某种姿态，作为回报，美国称他们将履行他们的诺言。这是代表美利坚合作做出的承诺。
Mr. Holbrooke, who negotiated the peace deal that effectively ended the war in Bosnia, flatly denied that any deal had been struck with Mr. Karadzic.
Well, this is an old and completely false story put out by Karadzic after he disappeared from public life. This is the first time I've actually heard it and it's quite hilarious, there was never any deal to give him immunity from capture. It was simply that NATO failed to capture him, that is NATO’s failure, not a deal.
而进行和平协议谈判，有效结束波斯尼亚战争的霍尔布鲁克神情自如，否定曾与卡拉季奇有过任何交易。“这个故事太老套了，完全是卡拉季奇退隐后制造出来的假故事。这实际上还是我第一次听说，太滑稽了。没有任何交易给过他豁免权。只不过是北约没有抓住他，而北约的失误不是交易。”

The United Nations Security Council is meeting to renew the mandate of the joint UN-African Union peace keeping force in Darfur. The vote has been complicated by demand from the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court for the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to be indicted for genocide in Darfur. From UN headquarters in New York, Laura Trevelyan reports.
目前联合国安理会正召开会议延长联合国-非盟混合维和部队在达尔富尔的任期。由于国际刑事法庭检察官的要求起诉苏丹总统巴希尔在达尔富尔犯下的种族灭绝罪，会议的投票表决陷入复杂的境地。
The interests of peace and justice in Darfur have become entwined in a diplomatic row. What should have been a straightforward vote to renew the mandate of the Darfur peacekeepers has turned into an argument about President al-Bashir of Sudan accused by the prosecutor of International Criminal Court of committing genocide in Darfur. African countries want the UN Security Council to use its powers to delay the court’s work for a year, arguing that indicting the Sudanese president will undermine peace in Darfur. Britain, France, the US and Latin American countries don’t want to do this, saying justice must prevail.
达尔富尔和平与公正两大利益取向交缠在一起变成了一个外交争论。原本只是单纯的对延长达尔富尔维和部队任期的投票表决，现已演变成围绕苏丹总统巴希尔的一场争论，因为其因在达尔富尔犯下种族灭绝罪被国际刑事法庭起诉。非洲国家希望联合国安理会动用权力将法庭审判延迟一年，理由是起诉苏丹总统将会威胁达尔富尔的和平。而英国，法国，美国以及拉美国家表示反对，宣称正义是第一位的。
Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger has ordered 22,000 state workers to be laid off and 200,000 to have their wages slashed. American’s biggest state is facing a budget deficit of more than 15 billion dollars. And legislators are struggling to agree a standing plan for the current year. Mr. Schwarzenegger apologized to state workers but said he had no choice.
加州州长阿诺·施瓦辛格下令辞退了2万2千多个公务员，削减了20万人的工资。美国最大的州正面临着1500多万的预算赤字。立法委员会正竭力通过一项长期有效的计划以挽救当前局面。施瓦辛格向公务员道歉，但表示他别无选择。
The President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, says he will nationalize one of the country’s largest banks, the Bank of Venezuela, as part of his program of taking public control of key assets. Mr. Chavez said he would take over the bank after learning that its owners, the Santander Group in Spain, intended to sell it to another Venezuelan bank. In the past two years, Mr. Chavez has increased state control over the oil, telephone, electricity, steel, and cement industries.
委内瑞拉总统乌戈·查韦斯表示，他将要把该国最大银行之一的委内瑞拉银行收归国有，这是将关键资产纳入国家控制计划的一部分。查韦斯说，当他得知西班牙国际银行打算将委内瑞拉银行出售给另一家委内瑞拉的银行后，决定接管这家银行。在过去的两年里，查韦斯增强了对是有，电信，电力，钢铁以及水泥工业的国有控制
新词：
count 罪名
hilarious滑稽的，有趣的
immunity免除，豁免
deficit不足额，赤字
Venezuela委内瑞拉
cement水泥

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我忽然一点都听不懂了，怎么办怎么办怎么办怎么办怎么办怎么办怎么办怎么办

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