[BBC新闻听写]6月25日 梅德韦杰夫再掀反腐风暴
Russian
president President Dmitry Medvedev has
decribe described corruption as a threat to his country's national security. Mr Medvedev made
a the comment in an interview with
a v news agency the Reuters News Agency, his first
with western media since
it he took office last month.
Here is Here's our Moscow correspondent James Rodgers.
"Mr Medvedev has made a frank
accessment assessment of the problems which
played plagued the country he has just
uted started to lead. Despite
going whether growing wealth as
Russian Russia has
change changed from
broken down a broken-down former
super power superpower into a global energy
joint giant, challenges remain. Ending widespread corruption is one of them
. Mr
Medvedev called Medveedev calls the problem a
threaten threat to national security which
, he says
, leads to a lack of faith among citizens in the ability of
the government to bring
order .order." World news
form from the BBC.
Britain to Freeze Iranian Bank Assets in Nuclear Dispute (2/
President Bush
welcome welcomed the news
, and said
Gorden Gordon Brown is living up to his commitments
, despite pressure
form from the British public to pull out of Iraq.
"He
has left more troops in
Iarq Iraq than
inicially originally anticipated
and , And like me
, we
been make will be making our
decision as upon decisions based on the conditions on the ground
, the recommendation of our commanders
, without
a an artificial timetable
said set by
politics . politics." There was also a joint
denouciation form denunciation from the
tour two leaders of the government of
Zimbabewe both express Zimbabwe. Both expressed concern about the
ourlook outlook for the upcoming
run off president runoff presidential election.
Gorden Gordon Brown said
whether Mogabe Robert Mugabe must not be allowed to
still steal another
turn term in office.
"And that is why we call for
Zimbabewe troops set Zimbabwe to accept a
united Nations United Nation's human rights
invoid envoy to visit
Zimbabewe Zimbabwe now and to
except accept the international
moniters form monitors from all parts of the world who
are available to ensure that
the this is a free and fair
election. election.” The
Bush Brown Bush-Brown talks also covered Burma
, world
price oil prices, trade
, and
the war on terrorism
during accesstion . During the session with
borders reporters, Mr
. Bush was asked about Afghan
president President Hamid Karzai's threat
just to send troops into
the border in bordering Pakistan to target
terriorist terrorists.
Conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan Drive Up World Refugee Numbers (1/2)
Launching the report
, the
UN high commissioner U.N. High Commissioner for
refugees on T Refugees, Antonio Guterres, said
it that for the second year in a row the number of people
flee fleeing their countries and
deplaced form displaced from their
home homes is on the rise.
"We have today 11.4
millions million refugees
were dwell worldwide, but
together we have 26 million people
displace in displaced within the
borders of
better off countiestheir own countries," he said.
Guterres says conflicts are largely to blame. Refugees from Iraq and Afghanistan
along alone make up half the world's total
the . The 11.4 million
t tally does not include the millions of
Plestinians Palestinians living as refugees in the
middle east Middle East and
else where elsewhere in the world
G . Guterres describes a
bend band of conflict and
instablity instability that includes mostly Muslim countries.
Now "Now, together with the
Palestians Palestinians more than half of the group of refugees are concentrated in the same area
that . That area starts in Afghanistan
, it includes Iraq
Plestanian , Palestine, Sudan
, Chad and Somalia
and . And this is an area of great concern for
us all and I can only ask
the international community to be more and more involved together
action , acting together to make sure that
this these conflicts
finds find an
end,end."
Conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan Drive Up World Refugee Numbers (2/2)
While Afghanistan
, Iraq and the
Durfur Darfur region of Sudan are highly
publisized hot spots UN HCR publicized hotspots, UNHCR's Guterres says many other refugees are created by
less lesser known conflicts and hardships
- often forgotten by the international community.
look on the "And looking only
confidence at one continent Africa
, we
are have been having since the beginning of the year
, with people crossing their borders in
bigger big numbers
of , in thousands we are having new
livers arrivals of
Darfur Darfurians in Chad and Central African
republic Republic, of
travellings Chadians in
come along republicans Cameroon, of Central African Republicans in
Susdan Chad and in Cameroon, of
Somalians Eritreans in
Sudan and in Ethiopia, of Somalis in Yemen
, in
the Kenya, in
J . We Djibouti, we have
Kenyans crossing the border
into Uganda and we are now witnessing the
worst worsening situation in Zimbabwe. Now
these , this demonstrates
crisis a trend that represents a multiplication of crises, with more and more people on
the move." The
UN U.N. agency says global refugee numbers had fallen
for five years before rising again in 2006 and 2007
while . While conflicts are largely to
balme .UN HCR blame, UNHCR says climate change
, the rise in
engergy energy and food prices and
in ensuing poverty are also factors
.VOA news London.
Polls Suggest Close Race Between Obama, McCain
(1/2)
Recent surveys give Senator Obama a
leader lead of between three and six
percetage percentage points over Senator McCain with the election a
litte little more than four
month months away. Democrats are encouraged about their chances of winning back the White House this year after
8 eight years of
republic Republican control under President Bush. But some
republicans Republicans are
presently pleasantly surprised at the closeness of the race given the
publics public's general unhappiness with the economy
, the war in Iraq and Mr
. Bush's
teniertenure.
university Quinnipiac University pollster Clay Richards says a large number of
voter voters apparently have already made up their minds about which
candidates candidate to support in November.
"Between 75 and 80 percent of
the voters said
that their minds are made
up so that is our up," he noted. "So, the campaign
, at this very
early point
this made him , may come down to a battle for about
20 to 25
% percent of the voters
of , with the
have rest having already
utmated committed." A recent
Quinnipiac poll in three crucial
battle ground battleground states in November found
their that economic concerns were pushing more working class voters to support Obama. Those states were Ohio,
Pensenvenia Pennsylvania and Florida
, all expected to be competitive in November.
[BBC新闻听写] 6月26日 红十字会着手艾滋问题
BBC News with Neil Nunes
the international federation . The International Federation of
red cross Red Cross and
red societies says Red Crescent Societies said the
aids Aids epidemic in
southern Southern Africa is so
severe sever that it should be classified as a
disater disaster.
reports in In its annual report on world disasters
it said , the
regions have federation said much of the billions of
dollar spend dollars spent on
finding aids fighting Aids worldwide was not
region reaching highly
of valuable vulnerable groups such as sex workers and drug users. It also
express concerns expressed concern that
aids Aids relief work was often
signed la with sidelined during periods of
conflict conflicts. But the Red Cross
Special Representatives on
the HIV
aids Aids doctor Mukesh Kapila
signed in cited Kenya as a good example of effective
aids Aids policy. After the violence in Kenya this year
, the Kenya Red Cross was approached to ensure
that continue the continuity of care was maintained for people
with of HIV
, and also
condemns condoms and
the prevention messages
were passed to people
who were
be displaced from
home and their homes. And this
is was an example
will where preplanning
for preparedness and
intigrational integration of HIV prevention and care into normal disaster management went on to save additional lives.
Polls Suggest Close Race Between Obama, McCain
(2/2)
Obama had
trival trouble winning working class support in his primary battles with former rival Hillary Clinton
, but
pollster Clay Richards says he appears to be making some
inroads. "Obama is doing better among them than other
democrat Democratic candidates have done in the
past and past," he added. "And if
they he maintains this kind of
lead, or this kind of balance among
the colour of blue collar whites
, he will probably carry
the these three
states. republican states." Republican John McCain
found finds himself
on in the difficult position of trying to succeed
in an unpopular president
form from his own
pary party at a time when Americans are worried about the economy and rising fuel prices and believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. McCain has
state staked his presidential hopes on the
believe belief that Americans would prefer victory in the war in Iraq to a
haste withdraw hasty withdrawal of
US U.S. troops.
Quinnipiac pollster Peter Brown says Americans have
conclued concluded the Iraq war was not worth the cost
, but he adds that they
remained diveded remain divided on what to do next.