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第一篇

[00:00.00]BBC News with Neil Nunes.

尼尔·努涅斯为你播报BBC新闻。

[00:04.58]The prosecutor in the Cleveland kidnapping case has said he will press charges for each act of sexual violence allegedly committed by Ariel Castro.

负责克利夫兰绑架案的检察官称，他将就阿里尔·卡斯特罗犯下的性侵罪逐个指控。

[00:14.39]Mr Castro has already been charged with several accounts of kidnapping and rape for holding Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight captive for many years.

科斯特洛被控犯下数起绑架罪，并抢劫了所绑架的阿曼达·贝瑞、德吉瑟斯和蜜雪儿·奈特多年。

[00:23.69]The county prosecutor Tim McGinty said the victims had been through a traumatic ordeal.

郡检察官提姆·麦克金蒂说受害者受到了精神创伤。

[00:29.45]"Based on the facts, I fully intend to seek charges for each and every act of sexual violence, rape, each day of kidnapping, every felonious assault, all his attempted murders,

基于事实，在这十年折磨期间，嫌犯挟持人质犯下了很多罪行，我将指控此人所犯下的每起性暴力、枪击案、每天犯下的绑架罪、每次性犯罪、所有谋杀未遂罪，

[00:43.33]and each act of aggravated murder he committed by terminating pregnancies that the offender perpetuated against the hostages during this decade- long ordeal."

以及因终止怀孕而犯下的加重攻击行为。”

[00:55.20]Mr McGinty said he would consider whether to seek the death penalty in the case.

麦克金蒂说他将考虑是否判处嫌犯死刑。

[01:00.12]The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has said Syria will supply it with what it says are game changing weapons.

黎巴嫩武装组织真主党称叙利亚将向自己提供所谓改变游戏规则的武器。

[01:08.28]The group's leader Hassan Nasrallah said the new arms would been supplied in response to recent Israeli air strikes against what it believes to be covert arms shipments from Syria to Hezbollah.

该组织领袖哈桑·纳斯鲁拉称叙利亚之所以提供新武器，是因为最近以色列实施空袭，据悉这是为了掩饰从叙利亚向真主党输送武器的行为。

[01:19.56]He made the comments in a televised speech.

他在电视台讲话中说：

[01:22.00]"We, the resistance in Lebanon, announced we are ready to receive any sophisticated weapons, even if they are weapons that would break the balance of force.

我们黎巴嫩抵抗力量宣布准备接受一切先进武器，前提是这些武器将打破目前的力量平衡。

英语

[01:34.81]And we are ready to safeguard these weapons and we will use them to defend our people, our country and holy sites from aggression." 我们准备保卫这些武器，并将拿来捍卫人民、我们国家和圣地不受入侵。

[01:42.53]Mr Nasrallah also said his group would support Syria in any effort to drive Israel out of the Golan Heights.

纳斯鲁拉说本组织将尽力支持叙利亚以将以色列驱逐出戈兰高地。

[01:49.50]The BBC has learnt that the Kenyan government has asked the United Nations Security Council to try to stop the prosecutions of President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto at the International Criminal Court.

BBC了解到，肯尼亚政府请求联合国安理会努力阻止国际刑事法庭对总统肯雅塔和副手威廉.鲁托的起诉。

[02:03.52]They have been charged with orchestrating violence after the 2007 elections. Richard Hamilton reports.

两人被控在2007年的选举中策划暴力事件，理查德·汉密尔顿报道。

[02:09.43]In a letter sent last week, the Kenyan ambassador to the UN said the cases against the two men were falling apart because of a lack of evidence and the withdrawal of witnesses.

肯尼亚大使上周致信联合国，称由于缺少证据，且目击者已经撤走，因为对这两人的指控已经失败。

[02:19.85]He also said that if the trials went ahead, the prevailing peace in Kenya could be undermined.

他说，如果继续审判，将危害肯尼亚目前的太平景象。

[02:25.71]For its part, the ICC appears to determine to go ahead with prosecutions and has amended the charges against Uhuru Kenyatta to include the use of guns by criminal gangs in the post-election violence.

国际刑事法庭显然决定继续起诉，并修正对肯雅塔的指控，罪行还包括在后选举暴力中用持枪犯罪团伙。

[02:38.00]The Rwandan authorities have vowed to tackle sex abuse in schools after a report revealed more than 40% of students have been victims of abuse including rape.

有报道称，卢旺达有40%的学生遭受包括强奸在内的虐待罪，对此当局决定解决校园性虐问题。

[02:48.57]The Education Minister said teachers were among the worst offenders.

教育部长称罪行最重的犯罪者中有教师。

[02:51.83]A government report said old man, known as sugar Daddies, were to blame for getting a large number of girls pregnant.BBC World News 政府的报告称一些有钱老男子致使很多女孩怀孕。这里是BBC新闻报道。

[03:00.05]A Tunisian man has been charged in the United States with attempting to stay in the country fraudulently so he could facilitate a terrorist network.

一名突尼斯男子被控试图非法留在美国，这样就可以成立恐怖网络。

英语

[03:09.57]Prosecutors say the man, Ahmed Abassi, arranged a meeting in New York with a fellow suspect Chiheb Esseghaier who was recently arrested in Canada in connection with a plot to derail a train.

检察官称男子艾哈迈德·阿巴西和从犯艾萨格海尔在纽约召开了会议，后者最近因最近在加拿大阴谋使铁路脱轨而被捕。

[03:20.85]An undercover FBI officer was present at the meeting, and Mr Abassi allegedly made it clear:

一名FBI秘密调查员也参加了这次会议，据悉阿巴西明确表示：

[03:26.77]he wanted to obtain immigration documents to remain in the US, so he could engage in projects relating to future terrorist activities. 他希望得到移民文件从而留在美国，所以他将加入与未来恐怖活动有关的项目。

[03:34.59]The video sharing site YouTube is launching its first pay channels which will allow content providers to sell its subscriptions through their videos.

视频共享网站YouTube推出首个支付平台，这样内容提供者就可以通过自己的视频出售内容。

[03:44.54]YouTube, one of the world's most visited websites, said the new service was a pilot one which would allow program makers to set their own distribution services through the site.

全世界访问量最大的YouTube称，这项新服务是个试点，意在帮助节目制作者通过本网站建立自己的分销服务。

[03:54.42]The BBC's Amira Hussain in New York explains.

BBC记者阿米拉·侯赛因在纽约报道。

[03:57.53]"Right now if you go on to YouTube and you watch a video, you have to watch an advert,

现在你如果登陆YouTube，观看一个视频，你就能看到一个广告，

[04:02.99]and the problem for those producers of some of the program that you see on YouTube is that the money that you get from those adverts are really out that much.

你在YouTube上会看到的一些节目，对于其制作者来说，问题在于这些得到的收入全部都来源于此。

[04:11.91]And you also have people on YouTube that they've really made a name for themselves,

很多人在YouTube上出名了，

[04:14.93]really created a program that people actually go to YouTube to watch.

他们能制作吸引人们来YouTube的节目。

[04:18.49]So for people like that, they say, "well, we can probably make more money doing that, and for YouTube to now have channels, that means a lot more money for YouTube."

所以这些人会说，‘好，我们可以从这里挣钱，而YouTube现在有了频道，这意味着我们可以挣很多钱了。

英语

[04:27.74]Campaigning in Pakistan has ended ahead of this weekend's general election. Violence has marred the campaign train with more than 100 deaths.

巴基斯坦本周将举行大选，目前正进行竞选活动。暴力活动破坏了宣传火车，导致100多人丧生。

[04:39.54]On the final day, the son of the former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was abducted by gunmen in the city of Multan.

在最后一天，前总理优素福·拉扎·吉拉尼之子在木尔坦遭武装分子绑架。

[04:46.65]Officials say tens of thousands of troops will be deployed at polling stations on Saturday after the Taliban threatened to carry out suicide attacks.That's the latest BBC World News.

官方称，由于塔利班威胁要实施自杀式袭击，周六已向投票站派遣了无数兵力。这里是BBC世界新闻。

第二篇

[00:00.00]BBC News with Julie Candler

朱莉·坎德勒为你播报BBC新闻。

[00:04.25]Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have reached a symbolic high.

大气中的二氧化碳水平达到历史最高。

[00:08.87]For the first time in human history, daily measures of CO2, which is an important factor in global warming, have topped 400 parts per million. Roger Harrabin reports.

二氧化碳浓度日均值是衡量气温变暖的重要因素，该数据首次达到400ppm。罗杰·海拉宾报道。

[00:18.64]Before the Industrial Revolution, CO2 levels were 280 parts per million.

工业革命之前的二氧化碳水平是280ppm，

[00:23.79]The Hawaii measuring station in the Pacific far from pollution sources is reckoned to be the most authoritative monitor of daily CO2 levels and it’s now showed they have topped 400 parts per million. 远离污染源的太平洋夏威夷测量站是二氧化碳浓度日均值最权威的监测器，目前显示这里的数值达到400ppm。

[00:36.36]The last time CO2 was regularly above that level was about three to five million years ago before modern humans existed.

上次二氧化碳水平超过这个数字是在500万年前，当时现代人类尚未出现。

[00:43.51]Scientists are alarmed that CO2 levels keep rising because the climate was much warmer then.

由于现在的气候比那时更暖和，科学家担心二氧化碳浓度还会上升。

英语

[00:49.11]There’s no sign though that world governments have the political will to make real their promises to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

但是没有迹象表明各国政府有做出减少温室气体排放承诺的政治意愿。

[00:56.06]A woman is recovering in hospital after being rescued from the rubble of the garment factory that collapsed 17 days ago in Bangladesh. 17天前孟加拉国一家服装厂倒塌，目前一名从废墟中被救出的妇女已经从医院康复。

[01:03.68]She’s said to have survived by drinking from a water pipe and scavenging for food in the lunch boxes of dead colleagues. Andrew North reports from Dhaka.

据说她在废墟中饮用水管的水，搜寻丧生同事的午餐盒中的食物为食，因此活了下来。安德鲁·诺思报道。

[01:12.28]Rescue teams are hailing it as a miracle.

援救队称这是一个奇迹，

[01:14.73]More than two weeks since the eight-storey factory complex collapsed, they’d given up hope of finding anyone else alive. 这座8层厂房已经倒塌两周多，他们已经放弃了搜寻幸存者的希望。

[01:21.02]But as soldiers cleared a lower floor, they heard sounds below. Detection equipment was sent in and they saw a woman waving her hand. 但就在士兵们清理较低一层楼时，他们听到下面有声音。然后就弄来探测设备，然后看到一名妇女在挥手。

[01:29.71]She shouted “I’m still here” and said her name was Reshma. 她高呼“我在这儿”，说自己名叫润丝曼。

[01:33.59]Speaking from her hospital bed, Reshma told a reporter she desperately tried to alert the rescue workers.

润丝曼躺在医院病床上，告诉记者自己不顾一切地想让援救者知道自己的存在。

[01:39.86]“It was very difficult to make myself heard. I kept banging as loud as I could with my legs but no one could hear me.”

“让外面的人听到自己的声音很难，我用双腿狠狠地弄出声音，但没人听到。”

[01:48.78]More than 1,000 people are now known to have died in the disaster.

据悉目前已有1000多人在这场灾难中身亡。

[01:52.47]Nigerian police say they’ve found 17 pregnant teenage girls in a raid on a house in the south-east of the country at a searching for a woman suspected of planning to sell their babies.

尼日利亚警方称在该国东南一处房屋的追捕中发现17名怀孕少女，他们当时在在搜寻一名涉嫌计划出售这些女孩婴儿的妇女。

[02:03.84]They said they’d also found 11 children waiting to be sold. Here’s Richard Hamilton.

他们称还发现11名即将出售的婴儿，理查德·汉密尔顿报道。

[02:08.87]The police said they were still looking for the owner of the house where the babies were found called Madam One Thousand. 警方称仍在追捕这座发现婴儿的房屋的主人，此人人称“女士一千”，