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VOA 2007-06-14



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It's 10:00 Universal Time. This is news from the Voice of America.

From the VOA News Center in Washington, I'm BIll Hazard, VOA News.

Iraqi police say bomb blasts have damaged a revered Shiite Muslim shrine in the city of Sumarra, raising fears of further escalation of sectarian violence. Authorities say the explosion caused the two minarets of the Askariya Mosque to collapse. There were no reports of casualties. The Iraqi government imposed an indefinite curfew in Baghdad, starting at 11:00 UTC and Sumarra after the attack. Anti-American Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called for three days of mourning and his Mahdi militia urged restraint following the blasts. Sunni religious leaders also called for calm. A 2006 attack on a shrine destroyed the mosque's golden dome and fueled Iraq's decent into sectarian bloodshed. In other developments, Iraqi police say militants blew up part of a bridge near the northern city of Kirkuk in the latest attack on Iraq's infrastructure this week.

Indonesian police say they have arrested the country's most wanted militant Abu Dujana, the alleged leader of the Southeast Asian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah. Abu Dujana was captured Saturday along with several other suspected terrorists in raids on Indonesia's main island of Java. Police announced the arrests Tuesday. Officials say DNA contest confirmed his identity. Asian and western authorities accused the al-Qaida linked Jemmah Islamiyah of carrying out deadly bomb attacks on Indonesia's Bali Island in 2002 and 2005 and an attack on the Autralian embassy in 2004. Abu Dujana is an Indonesian thought to be an associate of Malaysian terrorist mastermind Noordin Mohammad Top, who is at large still. The arrest of Abu Dujana is considered a major breakthrough in Indonesia's efforts to stop Jemaah Islamiyah's activities.

Factional fighting between rival Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah spread to the central Gaza today. Hamas says it seized two more Fatah security positions in the latest fighting. On Tuesday, Hamas took over positions in northern Gaza. And in Gaza City, six more fighters were killed in factional clashes today. On Tuesday, Fatah warned it will pull out of the Palestinian unity government with Hamas unless the fighting stops.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has narrowly won the leadership of Israel's Labor Party in a runoff election. Official results gave Mr. Barak more than 51% of the vote over a former security chief. Labor is the main partner of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's Kadima Party in Israel's coalition government. Mr. Barak has called for Mr. Olmert's resignation following harsh criticism of its handling of last year's war against Hezbollah guerillas in Lebanon, though Mr. Barak is expected to join Mr. Olmert's cabinet, replacing Amir Peretz as defense minister. In his victory speech, Mr. Barak said he will work for uncompromising security and will pursue peace.

The State Department's annual report on human trafficking world-wide rank several of the United States golf lines in a lowest / in subject of possible sanctions. VOA's David Gallust reports.

The State Department's rankings mandated by an act of Congress in 2000 authoritized only mild sanctions for the worst defenders and the officials here say the main purpose of the exercise is to focus the attetion on the problem of human trafficking including forced labor and the international sex trade. At a news conference, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said partly because of the annual assessments, more and more countries are beginning to see human trafficking for what it is on modern-day form of slavery. "We hope that this greater awareness translates into greater prevention." Rice paid tribute to several governments, including Georgia, Hungary, Slovenia, Israel, Taiwan, Indonesia, Brazil and Bolibia, which she said had moved to tackle trafficking problems raised in previous US reports. But she lamented what she said was disturbing evidence that trafficking prosecutions around the world have leveled off over the past year and said in some countries with major problems only a couple of offenders have been prosecuted. David Gallust, VOA News, the State Department.

In Washington, I'm Bill Hazard, VOA News. Get more news now on our website at voanews.com.


[ 本帖最后由 vanbryan 于 2007-12-18  19:15 编辑 ]

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This the VOA Special English Health Report.

Today we have a second half of a report about some concerns with the use of drug treated corn any stands. These are small metal tools designed be placed inside ardaries in heart patients. The spent is usually left in permanently have the doctors clean out a narrowed ardary with angel plastic treatment. Doctors expand the spand to hold the passege open. so blood can flow normally to the heart. Medicine on the stand is realeased slowly over time to start the development of scartissue. Scartissue can cause the ardary to become narrow again.

Views the devices have been appoved in the United States for the past four years. For patients with simple blockage and no history of a heart attack. But some doctors use drug a routine stands as they are called for patients with more serious heart problems. This is known as off-label use and is permitted. But to recent studies questioned the safety of off-label use of drug treated stands. Both found that some patients would more serious conditions were likely to suffer a renarrowing of the ardary.

This is called rest knowsis. So far, researchers have mostly investigated the stands themselves and how they are made. But now attention is turning also to the way they are been used. The question is how much of the problem of stand failure may be the result of stands not been put in right, or maybe they are been expanded enough to feed firmly in the ardary.

One recent study found that stands were incorrectly placed in almost 70% of the patients in next study. Now a heart research organization hopes to solve the mistory. The cardial vescued research foundation is a big support of the use of drug treated stands. The foundation is going to carry out a large study. Spokeswoman O* D* says it will involve 11,000 patients at ten centers in the United States and tow in Germany. A heart doctor with the foundation would be one of the leader investigates.

Researchers will exam how doctors in plant and expand stand and how the methods they used might affect outcomes. The study will view a special with serious ardary blockages that been found a year or more after a stand with put in place.

And that's VOA Special English Health Report written by Katty Weaver, The first part of our report can be found in voaspecialenglish.com. I'm Catherine Kohl.

BBC 2007-06-14



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BBC World News. I'm Logue Terry.

The rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas say they have agreed to the attempts of a ever new ceasefire after days of intense fighting in Gaza. A senior Fatah official said it agreed in principal to a list of nine conditions from Hamas including that Hamas should appoint the Palestinian Interior Minister who would be responsible for all Palestinian security forces. Our Middle East correspondent K A reports.

Azzam al-Ahmed, a senior Fatah official as well as Deputy Palestinian Prime Minister, said the ceasefire deal had been reached by Hamas and Fatah in the late afternoon. He said in principal, Fatah had accepted a list of conditions presented by Hamas, although he said more dialogue between the two sides was needed. Since then, Mr. al-Ahmed said Hamas had not responded yet. Hamas's military wing says it has received no orders from the movement's politicians to put down their guns. So the fight continues and it is now on and for Gaza City, the political heart of the territory.

And we've now heard that the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismail Haniya have issued a joint statement in which they said they agreed on the need to end fighting. The statement called on all sides to halt the fighting and return to the language of dialogue.

A anti-Syrian member of the Lebanese Parliament Walid Eido has been killed in a bomb blast in the capital Beirut along with one of his son and at least eight other people. Mr. Eido's death leaves anti-Syrian coalition in Parliament with the majority of only three members. Kim Ghattas reports from Beirut.

The bomb brought deaths and chaos to a side street between two popular beach resorts, the Long Beach and the Sporting Club. Walid Eido and his son had just finished having a late lunch there. The explosives were packed in a sports car parked by the side of the road detonated from a distance as Mr. Eido drove past. Anti-Syrian legislators recently expressed fears there might renewed assassination attempts. Mr. Eido is the third legislator to be killed in the last two years.

The Roman catholic church has said that Catholics should stop donating money to the human rights organization Amnsty International because of its support for some women to be allowed abortions. The head of the Vatican council for justice and peace K R M criticized Amnsty's recent change of policy, as it had thanked to God, there was no internationally recognized right to abortion. Amnsty responded by saying it was not promoting abortion as a universal right but that the women had a right to choose.

The United States' House of Representatives has approved legislations tighten the rules on gun ownership in the wake of Virginia Tech massacre. The bill would strengthen the federal database used to stop people who are bound for owning weapons from buying them. If the bill is approved by the Senate, it would be the most significant US gun control law in more than a decade.

World News from the BBC.

The former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has marked the 25th anniversary of the end of the Falklands War by describing the outcome as a great victory in a noble cause. Baroness Thatcher said aggression was reversed when British forces defeated Argentine troops who'd invaded the islands. Peter Grant describes the atmosphere there.

It's very much a mood of commemoration, celebration of the fact that Britain sent troop 8,000 miles to free them, but certainly commemoration and solemn commemoration of the losses incurred. 255 British servicemen died, more than 700 wounded. 650 Argentinean servicemen died in the conflict as well ,so, a commemoration of losses and reflection on what happened but also celebration of the fact that the islands were freed from Argentinean rule and celebration of the fact that they have 25 years of liberation.

Tens of thousands of South African Trade Unions have taken part in marches in several cities in support of a strike over pay by public sector workers. The nationwide strike call is reported to have partially observed, but the head of the congress of South African Trades Unions, William M, said he was pleased with the way the protest had gone.

"We are quite happy. This is a very successful action. Not only here in A but everywhere in the country. It's an indication and that indeed people are angry, workers are not happy that if the workship would for more than eight months. We thought we haven't achieved anything at all. So I own the hope that after this goal of power by the workers, government will be able to move. "

Plans for a rocket plane to carry tourists into space have been unveiled in Paris. Each flight will give four passengers the opportunity to float in zero gravity for three minutes. The plane differs from other commercial spacecraft in that it will be able to take off from existing airports.

BBC World News.


[ 本帖最后由 vanbryan 于 2007-6-14  16:08 编辑 ]

不错嘛，可是偶的mp3很磋，我下的mp3听力材料都无法播放。:nnnnnn

:aaaaaa 直接在这听老！
ps：顺便帮do do BBC的homework！:mmmmmm

我不习惯直接用电脑听啊:nnnnnn 。正在考虑再买个mp3，推荐下哪种mp3不要求版权，只要东西拷进去就可以听啊？

:llllll 偶从来不用那东西的说！
要买就买苹果的吧，嘎嘎！

ipod用的人太多，没劲 而且电池有点磋。最重要的是，估计大牌的东西都要求版权来着，反正我现在的这个机子就很恶心，英语听力基本上都是cannot play，气死我了

:oooooo sony啵

你怎么知道挖，怪我自己贪图美色，爱慕这个牌子