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精品文档 1欢迎下载 2 BBC2 BBC NewsNews withwith IainIain PurdonPurdon The Italian port authorities say about 40 people remain unaccounted for after a cruise ship ran aground on thewest coast of Italy with more than 4 000 passeng ers and crew on board A major rescue operation has continuedall day Three peo ple are known to have died The president of the cruise line said preliminary e vidence suggestedthe ship had struck a rock The BBC s Alan Johnston is on the island of Giglio 一艘游轮在意大利西海岸触礁 当时船上有 4000 名游客 意大利港务局称仍有 40 人下落 不明 搜救工作已进行了一整天 目前确认 3 人死亡 游轮船长称 初步证据表明 这 艘船撞上了一块大石头 BBC 记者 AlanJohnston 在吉利奥报道 I can see four or five coast guard vessels in an arc around the ship with searc h lights playing on the waters andover on the left I can see what looks like q uite a large team of men no doubt more search rescue teams goingout to the sh ip And through the day we know that divers have been going down into the deck s that aresubmerged now and looking through the cabins and staterooms there an d this operation continues and it mustdo with so many people still unaccounted for 我能看到有四五艘护卫舰弧状围着这艘船 探照灯照向睡眠 左边好像看到一大批男子 没错 更多救援队已经赶来 整整一天 我们看到潜水员不断潜到现已沉没的甲板上 在 驾驶室和客舱里搜索着 他们还会继续搜索 因为有这么多人仍下落不明 Reports say prosecutors have detained the ship s captain after questioning 有报道称 公诉人已将船长审讯并逮捕 3 3 Security forces in Egypt have raided the offices of a number of pro democracy and human rights groups Computers and papers are said to have been seized Among the offices raided are two US based organisations the National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute The United States said it s deeply concerned over the raids A spokeswoman Victoria Nuland described them as inappropriate 埃及安全部队突袭数个亲民主和人权组织 据说没收了电脑和文件 被袭击的办公室中有 总部在美国的两个组织 国家民主研究所和国际共和研究所 美国称对这些袭击事件非常 担忧 发言人 Victoria Nuland 称这些行为很不当 We call on the Egyptian government to immediately end the harassment of NGOs NGO staff return all property and resolve this issue immediately Egypt recently blamed foreign intervention for the resurgence of anti government protests 我们呼吁埃及政府尽量结束骚扰非官方组织 NGO 及其工作人员 迅速归还所有财物 处 理好该事件 埃及最近将反政府叛乱抗议归咎于外国的干涉 4 4 意大利意大利游轮船员坚守职责游轮船员坚守职责 承担重任解救数百乘客承担重任解救数百乘客 Divers searching a submerged cruise ship in Italy say they will work through the night to try to find more survivors Fifteen people are still unaccounted for while five are known to have died Earlier two more bodies 精品文档 2欢迎下载 were found Filippo Marini is a spokesman for the Italian coast guard The bodies of two elderly people have been found They ll be identified as soon as possible The correct procedures will be observed and then we will proceed with identification It s a sad piece of news to give Our divers have found themselves with this very sad situation The bodies are being brought onto the mainland They re two elderly people found on the third floor in a meeting area section of the ship The vessel the Costa Concordia smashed into rocks off the Italian coast on Friday The ship s captain has been questioned He argues that nautical charts failed to show any spike of rock but the authorities say he brought the ship too close to the island of Giglio where it ran aground 5 5 The governing AK party in Turkey has admitted that Turkish warplanes which attacked northern Iraq overnight killing 35 people probably hit the wrong targets Turkey s pro Kurdish party described the killings as a massacre of civilians Janet Barrie reports 土耳其执政的公正发展党承认 此前夜间突袭伊拉克北部 杀死 35 人的土耳其战机 很可 能是未能瞄准目标所致 土耳其亲库尔德党称这次杀人事件为 屠杀平民 Janet Barrie 报道 A spokesman for the governing AK party said the raids were saddening and he promised there d be no cover up of any mistakes He said the victims were not Kurdish separatist guerrillas but smugglers bringing cigarettes into Turkey from Iraq Local people say smugglers often use the remote mountain passes to cross the border but so too do Kurdish rebels from the separatist group the PKK The Turkish authorities say they are now investigating possible failures in intelligence reports 执政的公正发展党发言人称 袭击事件很让人伤心 他承诺不会掩饰任何错误 他说受害 者并不是库尔德分裂分子游击队 而是携香烟从伊拉克到土耳其的走私者 当地人称 走 私者经常走偏远的山路越境 不过 PKK 分裂组织的库尔德叛军也这样越境 土耳其当局称 目前正调查情报中可能存在的失误 6 6 Infectious diseases like AIDS malaria and tuberculosis get a lot of attention worldwide But another group of illnesses is even more deadly Now an international group of health experts says the time has come to take concerted action against non communicable diseases The diseases include heart disease stroke cancer and diabetes Together these non communicable or chronic diseases represent a major cause of death and they aren t just diseases of wealthy industrialized countries And if we look worldwide these non communicable diseases account for about two thirds of deaths overall About four fifths of these deaths are in low income countries and they affect about a third of people under the age of 60 said Martin McKee of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine McKee is one of 44 co authors of a paper describing the challenge of non communicable diseases Writing online in The Lancet they set out a program to 精品文档 3欢迎下载 reduce the death toll by two percent a year As many as 36 million lives could be saved over the course of a decade McKee says if priority is given to five major public health goals tobacco control reduction of salt in the diet more generally improving diets and physical activity reducing hazardous alcohol consumption and insuring that people have access to essential drugs and to technologies Those goals are challenging and Martin McKee says it will require committed leadership If you look at the remarkable achievements that have been made in a number of industrialized countries in recent years then it becomes clear that changes can happen and changes can happen relatively quickly So I would say changing the mindset to recognize what is possible to be done The action plan for non communicable diseases comes ahead of a high level United Nations meeting set for September to focus on the issue 7 I7 Iran says its naval forces have carried out a missile test shooting down an aerial target with amedium range rocket The launch came during a large military exercise near the Strait ofHormuz James Reynolds reports Iran s naval commander Mahmoud Mousavi says that the armed forces have successf ullytested a new medium range ground to air missile Iran has tried and failed to buy this kind of weapon from abroad so now it s d esigned its ownas a way of defending itself against an attack Separately the country s nuclear agency hasannounced that its scientists have produced the nat ion s first nuclear fuel rod That spotentially a step towards building a nucle ar programme without any help from abroad Iran has said it will not disrupt shipping in the Straight of Hormuz moderating a threat it made last week to the busy sea route The announcement was made on the final day of naval exercises in the area as James Reynolds reports Ten days of naval exercises in the gulf needed a fitting climax so Iran tested a new surface sea missile The military calls it a long range weapon but it s only able to hit targets within the gulf Iran has been keen to demonstrate its strength within the region Last week the country felt bold enough to suggest that it might even close the Straight of Hormuz if the west imposes sanctions on Iran s oil industry But Iran s navy has now tempered that threat 8 8 Freezing Arctic weather in Europe has led to a shortage of Russian fuel supplies in several countries The Ukrainian energy minister said Russia s Gazprom had reduced gas supplies to Europe through his country by 14 Here s Anna Borzello 欧洲北极严寒气候已导致几个国家的俄罗斯燃料供应短缺 乌克兰能源部长说 俄 气公司通过乌克兰向欧洲供应的天然气已减少了 14 AnnaBorzello 报道 精品文档 4欢迎下载 It s not the first time Ukraine accused Russia of reducing gas supplies to Europe but now the Europe Union has confirmed that supplies have indeed been reduced to cope with increased domestic demand in Russia due to the severe weather conditions there The EU energy spokeswoman Marlene Holzner said there had been a decrease in gas deliveries to eight countries including Austria Hungary Bulgaria Greece and Italy She said the situation was not yet an emergency as the countries concerned had storage facilities and some could replace supplies with liquefied natural gas 乌克兰指责俄罗斯减少对欧洲的燃气供应 这已不是第一次 不过欧盟现已确认 由于 俄罗斯的极寒气候 国内燃料需求增加 俄罗斯只好减少对欧洲的供应 欧盟能源发言人 Marlene Holzner 说 欧洲八个国家的燃气供应都有下降 包括奥地利 匈牙利 保加利 亚 希腊和意大利 不过她说 这还不至于很紧急 因为这些国家都有储备设备 有的国 家可以用液化气来代替燃气 10 10 Scientists working with a species of locusts found in Asia believe they ve made an important discovery about why the insects gather in such vast numbers They say the locusts are looking for food which is high in carbohydrates similar to a junk food diet for humans Writing in the journal Science the researchers say that the insects find this food on land which is low in nitrogen The lead researcher Arianne Cease from Arizona State University said this makes them vulnerable to nitrogen fertilizers that encourage the growth of protein rich foods 研究一种在亚洲发现的蝗虫的科学家认为 他们已得到重大发现 明白为何这种昆虫能以 如此多的数量聚集在一起 科学家说 这种蝗虫在寻找一种高糖食物 相当于人类吃的垃 圾食品 研究人员在 科学 杂志上发表了研究结果 称这种昆虫在含氮低的陆地上寻找 这种食物 来自亚利桑那州立大学的研究负责人 Arianne Cease 说 这样这种蝗虫就易受 氮肥的伤害 因为氮肥能促进富蛋白食物的增加 Our study suggests that sort of counter intuitively that if we have an impending outbreak so a large number of juveniles of this particular locust that we could use nitrogen fertilizer to apply that to some of the localised outbreaks and then that would actually suppress their numbers going into adults and would likely suppress future swarms 没想到的是 我们的研究发现 如果要有虫灾爆发 也就是大规模的这种蝗虫的幼虫 我 们可以用氮肥来制止当地虫灾的发生 这就可以减少成长为成虫的幼虫数量 并可能抑制 未来蝗虫泛滥的局面 11 11 Camps set up for victims of floods in east and central Sri Lanka have themselves been flooded forcing people to go elsewhere to escape the water About a million people have been affected Charles Haviland reports from Colombo A minister in the Sri Lankan government Mohammed Hizbullah told the BBC the situation in the east coast town of Batticaloa was getting worse as night fell He said that 25 out of