BBC双语新闻讲解:气候变化大会形成新协议草案

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  Syrian opposition groups have agreed a commoon approach towards peace talks with thegovernment which is expected to be held next month. A framework document signed at theend of two-day meeting in Saudi Arabia drops a previous demand that president Bashar al-Assad leave office before any negotiations. The opposition said Bashar al-Assad must stepdown when a transitional government is established. A US state department spokesman JohnKirby welcomed the agreement as a critical first step towards negotiations on Syria. There isstill more work to do bewteen now, the conclusion of today's meeting. And sometime in earlyJanuary,when we hope this political negotiation can continue. For instance, one big thing is topick a negotiating team.

  A Senior US treasury official has said Islamic State militants have looted up to a billion dollarsfrom banks in territory held by the group in Iraq and Syria. Adam Szubin told the BBC howJihadists acquired the cash. As they rigged through in terms of their initial military campaignand took over cities like Mosul, there were banks standing there, that banks have cash in theirvault of course, I saw them obtained control over those bank vault. The good news is thatonce that money is spent, it is not renewable. Mr Szubin said IS made a further 500 milliondollars from oil sales. He said the costomers included government of president Bashar al-Assadwhich is fighting to overthrow. US official said the militants' finance chief known as Abu Salahhas been killed.

  The French foreign minister Laurent Fabius has submitted a new drafted agreement at theclimate change talks in Paris as delegates continue negotiations for the second night running.Here is Roger Harrabin. Mr.Fabius has been saying from the start but it is expected to closematters at five o'clock this evening, so people could get home for the weekend. That is lookingan increasingly for long hope. Things had been going well but the revised negotiating text hasclarified deep divisions over what countries expect each other. Vulnerable nations wantprotection and money. Rich nations want to clear date for ending carbon emissions and foremerging economies to make more effort.

  A campaign group Anmesty International has accused Saudi Arabia and its allies of delibatelyattacking schools in Yemen. It says since the Saudi led coalition began conducting airstrikes inMarch, more than a thousand schools have been put out of action. And it calls on US andBritain to suspend arm sales to Saudi Arabia.

  A US army sergeant who was held captive by the Taliban for nearly five years after walkingaway from his military base in Afghanistan has spoken publicly about his decision for the firsttime. Bowe Bergdahl said he was trying to draw attention to bad leadership within his unit.World news from BBC.

  The Vatican has told Roman Catholics they should not try to convert Jews in a furtherdeparture from the historical tradition of antipathy towards Judaism. It conincides with the50th anniversary of a Vatican statement repudiating the doctrine that Jews born collectiveguilt for the death of Jesus. Brownie Mccanthy reports. Although not a formal change toCatholic doctrine, this new document stressed unique relationship of the two faiths and calledon Christians to consider Jews as their elder brothers. Written by the Vatican's commission forregilous relations, it said Jews could attain salvation without accepting divinity of Jesus Christ.

  Russia has led a revolt against proposals to introduce a worldwide annual view of whethercountries that signed up to the Geneva conventions on the rules of war are abiding by them.The move was blocked at a meeting of the international committee of Red Cross in Geneva.Most international treaties have a review process the Geneva Conventions do not, encouragingrespect is done through confidential discussions between the international committee RedCross and warring parties. The ICRC itself isn't sure that is working.It has warned theconventions are being violated on a regular and brutal scale. ICRC president spent most of thenight lobbying the countries in the hope they would agree to a more formal review. The move toreject the proposal came from Russia but it received world support.

  The American firm SpaceX is lauching its first mission next week since an unmanned rocketcarrying supplies to the international space station exploded in June. A spokesman saidupgraded version of the Falcon 9 rocket would carry commerical communication satellites.BBCworld service news.

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