BBC双语新闻:法国极右翼政党领先大区选举

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  With most votes counted in the first round of the French regional elections, the far-rightNational Front Party has topped the polls with nearly 30 percent of votes. The elections are thefirst since IS militants killed 130 people at Paris last month. The leader of the National FrontMarie Le Pen said her party was the strongest in the country. The people have expressedthemselves and with the people France raises its head. This vote confirms what former balancehad announced and what official observers did not want to admit yet and national movementis without context the first party in France. The governing Socialist Party which trailed third inthe overall vote says it will contest two regions in the second round in a bid to thwart theNational Front there.

  BBC current affairs program Panorama has seen evidence that suspended president of FIFASepp Blatter, already under a criminal investigation in Switzerland, is also being investigated bythe FBI. The probe relates to alleged bribes a sports marketing company paid to FIFA officialsincluding Blatter's predecessor Joao Havelange in the 1990s. Our sports correspondent DonRow has the details. Sepp Blatter denied knowing about the bribes and took no action. Now thePanorama program has seen a letter attained by the FBI which suggests he knew about thebribes all along. Apparently signed by Joao Havelange, it talks the payment that he andHavelange received. It says that Mr Blatter had full knowledge of all activities and was alwaysappraised of them. Sepp Blatter declined to comment.

  Venezuelans have been casting votes in congressional elections that could see the oppositiongain control of the national assembly for the first time since the Socialist came to power underthe late Hugo Chavez. Voters in many pro-government districts were woken before dawn byfireworks and music. Queues formed at some polling stations before they opened. Will Davisreports from Caracas. While the electronic voting system used in these elections appears tohave been largely fair and transparent, there has been clear pro-government media coverageand what opponents claim is the bending of election rules. President Nicolas Maduro has saidhe will not let the socialist revolution of his predecessor Hug Chavez to be, in his words,stolen. But the opposition alliance thinks it will have won enough support from those affectedby Venezuela’s deep economic crisis.

  The German vice chancellor Sigmar Gabriel has urged Saudi Arabia to stop supporting ISradicals by financing fundamentalist mosques. Mr Gabriel said many dangerous Islamists inGermany were coming from Saudi-funded mosques which preached the ultra-conservativeWahhabi version of Islam. World news from the BBC.

  Clashes have broken out in the Greek capital Athens between police and left-wing protestors onthe 7th anniversary of the death of a 15-year-old boy who was shot dead by police. Petrolbombs and bricks have been thrown and cars were smashed. The police have fired largeamounts of tear gas.

  Turkey has told Iraq that it won't send more troops to an area near the city of Mosulcontrolled by Islamic State militants. On Saturday, the Iraqi government said Turkish forceshad entered Iraqi territory there without its knowledge and insisted that the troops bewithdrawn. The Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has now written to his Iraqicounterpart Haider al-Abadi, assuring him that there will be no further deployment until Iraq'sconcerns are addressed.

  President Barack Obama is to deliver a rare oval office address in a few hours on last week'smass shooting in California. The White House said he would discuss the threat of terrorism andwhat steps his administration was taking to defeat it. David willis reports. A massive FBIinvestigation is currently underway. The US Attorney General Loretta Lynch says they havealready interviewed more than 300 people. She went on to say that the key aim of PresidentObama's address to the American people tonight will be to reassure a nervous nation that thethreat posed by Islamic State and other terrorist groups can be overcome.

  The former US president Jimmy Carter was reported to have said that his brain cancer hasgone. Doctors have been treating four small melanoma lesions on his brain.

  An unmanned rocket has blasted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida on its way to theInternational Space Station, with shipment of much needed groceries and other supplies. It'sthe first American supply rocket to go into space since June when a Space X Falcon9 rocketexploded shortly after liftoff. The International Space Station has been relying on Russian andJapanese supplies ever since.

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