BBC双语新闻讲解:克里称伊朗将大量铀运往俄罗斯

时间:2016-01-06 09:55:18  / 编辑:Abby
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  The American defense secretary Ash Carter hashailed the recapture of the Iraq city of Ramadi bygovernment troops as a significant step forward inthe campaign to defeat IS. Earlier the BBC wasshown the extent of destruction rolled by the battles to control the city. Thomas Fessy isthere.

  Iraqi forces have cleared the main street but no one dares to step unto the rubble or enter theshattered buildings. Booby traps are everywhere.

  Operations are still under way in the city center and in the northern quarters where Iraqi troopssupported by coalition war planes are hunting retreating IS militants. But in the neighborhoodsthat we visited, there was no sign of life except for the soldiers standing guard. Iraqi troopsare close to victory in Ramadi but this is a city that has been sacrificed in battle.

  The US secretary of state John Kerry says Iran has taken a significant step towards fulfilling itsnuclear commitments by removing a large quantity of uranium from the country. Mr Kerry wasspeaking after Iran dispatched a shipment of more than 11 tons of low enriched uranium toRussia. R reports.

  Six international powers spent nearly two years negotiating with Tehran over its nuclearprogram in return for an end to most financial sanctions. The Obama administration took agamble by pushing the deal in the face of a Republic-dominated congress. Kerry was keen tostress that the shipment to Russia represented an important progress.

  Saudi Arabia says it will cut fuel and utility subsidies in the country as part of measures to dealwith a record budget deficit. The Saudi press agency reported that the price of petrol will riseby at least 50 percent. Electricity, water and current subsidies will also be cut after thegovernment registered a budget deficit of 98 billion dollars for 2015. Saudi officials say theshortfall was due to a sharp drop in global oil prices.

  A wave of attacks by female suicide bombers in Northeastern Nigeria has killed more than 50people. This report from Abdullahi Kaura Abubakar.

  The latest attack targeted a busy market in town of Madagali in Adamawa state. At least 25people were killed at the market near a bus station. Earlier, female bombers carried out multipleattacks that killed at least 31 people and injured over 100 in Maiduguri Borno State. It appearsthe Jihadist wanted to approve they are still able to inflict as much destruction as they want.

  The Somali parliament has passed a new media law which imposes fines of up to 10,000 dollarsfor what it calls breaches of journalist ethics. It also requires all media houses to be registeredand pay an annual license fee to the government. The National union   of Somalia Journalistssays the bill will seriously damage independent media and freedom of expression.

  This is the latest world news from the BBC.

  A grand jury in the US state of Ohio has cleared two white police officers in the fatal shootingof a twelve-year-old black boy who was armed with a toy gun in November last year. The countyprosecutor said the shooting of Tamir Rice in Cleveland was a human error and that theevidence did not indicate criminal action by the police. Cleveland's mayor Frank Jackson saidthe city would begin a review process.

  Now that the criminal side is over with, and there's been a determination in terms of thecriminal side, we're now going to proceed with this administrative review of what happened.

  The government of Burundi has rejected a date set for peace talks aimed at ending months ofpolitical violence. Following a preliminary meeting in the Ugandan town of Entebbe, TheBurundian government delegation also said it did not recognize one of the opposition coalitiongroups there. Burundi has descended into violence since president Pierre Nkurunzizaannounced in April that he was running for a third term.

  Some of the relatives of Alan Kurdi, the Syrian boy whose body was photographed washed upon a Turkish beach have arrived in Canada. The three year old died with his mother andbrothers trying to reach Greece in September. Alan's father who lives in Iraq said after thedeath that he would not move to Canada.

  The US basketball player known as the Clown Prince of Harlem Globetrotters Meadowlark Lemonhas died. He was 83. Lemon played for the side during his heyday from the mid 1950s to thelate 1970s. He delighted fans around the world with his trick shots and good-natured gaks. Inan interview in 2001, he said the Harlem Globetrotters were never driven by money. We werehaving fun. We enjoyed what we did. And I've found that the young kids today, they go tocollege to learn to play basketball so that they can make a lot money. This wasn't with us.

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