[BBC新闻听写]5月19日：敬重生命，举国同哀


China has announced three 3 days of national morning mourning for the tens of thousands of victims of last Monday’s Monday's earthquake. it will It'll begin tomorrow with a three minutes 3-minute silence exactly a week after the quake stuck struck Sichuan province Province. Daniel Griffith send Griffith's sent us this report from Chengdu. the "The period of official morning mourning will be began begin on Mondaygovernment . Government buildings will flight fly flags at half master mast and the nation will hold three minutes of silence of at the exact time when the earthquake struck. the The Olympic torch relay will also be suspended for three days. Rescue workers continue to pull a few people alive from the reb rubble but those moments are increasingly rare. Aid is getting through to those effected affected by the earthquake but more is needed specially especially in remote areas . areas."



Red Cross Says Clean Water Urgent to Prevent Disease in Burma(2/2)

He says the heavy rains that are predicted in the coming days were will make it even more difficult for aid workers to reach those in need. "I think it is already now almost impossible to reach by normal that sea roads the areas because the ground is so soke this soaked. This obviously is to going to become even worse. , "I would say every day count counts at presentits . It is a match matter of daysits . It is not a match matter of weekswhat . What we will have to do is we will have to adapt to the m ecological meteorological conditionswe . We are in discussions from legistic a logistics point of view to look at seaborne aid in one form or the otherwe , floating well houses we flading warehouses with landing craftit made 27000 , etc." An estimated 27,000 local red cross Red Cross volunteers begin began providing aid to the victims immediately after cyclone nargis Cyclone Nargis struck Burma two weeks agosince . Since the storm, 21 ex red cross expatriate Red Cross and red cross Red Crescent aid workers have join joined the team. more More aid is being f to flown into Burma. but But, the military rulers continue to refuse entrance entry to foreign experts whose skills are needed to distribute the aid speedly speedily and officiallyefficiently. humanitarian Humanitarian officials agree many lives will be lost unless the government reverses this policy.