7月31日BBC聽力：奧巴馬總統停止非洲之行
Hello, I'm Sue Montgomery with the BBC news.
Eurotunnel says 2,000 migrants tried to break intoits freight terminal in the French port of Calais in adesperate attempt to reach Britain through thechannel tunnel. In scenes Eurotunnel described as"unprecedented", migrants repeatedly tried to hide aboard vehicles bound for Britain, orclimbed over fences to board shuttles. John K is from Eurotunnel.
"Every night, trucked tunnel found underside by hundreds of migrants. There were groups of50 to 100 migrants attacking the fences, trying to break through, trying to get down to wherethe trains and the trucks are loading, trying to climb on them and get to the UK in a very verycoordinated, very organized activity."
Lawyers for a former US Navy Intelligence officer convicted of spying for Israel say he has beengranted parole. Jonathan Pollard is expected to be freed in Novermber after serving 30 years ofa life sentence. The American Secretary of State John Kerry denied the parole was linked to therecent nuclear deal with Iran which Israel strongly opposed. From Washington, GaryO'Donoghue.
"Jonathan Pollard and his wife Anna admitted passing secrets to Israelis for years in the mid1980s. When colleagues became suspicious about the removal of classified documents, thePollards attempted to escape by fleeing to the Israeli embassy, but were turned back by theguards. The FBI then pounced, and eventually both Pollard and his wife entering through aplead bargain with prosecutors sending him in prison for life and seeing her get five years."
The leader of the Kurdish majority party in Turkey has said he believes the proposed safe zonein Northern Syria is an attempt by Ankara to stop Kurds from forming their own territory.Earlier this week, the US government said it had agreed the Turkish demands to set up a bufferzone inside Northern Syria in return for allowing US aircraft to use Turkey’s military bases toattack Islamic State.
The United Nations says it’s deeply disturbed by death sentences given to nine Libyans,including the son of the deposed leader Colonel Gadddafi. Saif al-Islam and eight othermembers of Colonel Gadhafi’s inner circle were found guilty of war crimes.
President Barack Obama has ended his tour in Africa with a speech to regional leaders in whichhe said the continent's progress depends on democracy, freedom and human rights. In thefirst address by sitting US president to the African Union, he said African leaders should stepaside when their terms ended.
"Just as the African Union condemned coups and illegitimate transfers of power, The AU’sauthority and strong voice can also help the people in Africa ensure their leaders abide by termlimits and constitutions. Nobody should be president for life." He said the best indicator of acountry’s progress was how it treated its women.
BBC news.
The Peruvian army says it's rescued 39 people from a farm where the Shining Path rebel groupkept them as slave workers. Some of the captors said they’d been kidnapped 30 years ago. Thehostages said they were also forced to work in the fields in central Peru.
The Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi is traveling to the northwest of the country wherefighting has forced hundreds of people to flee to neighboring Malawi. Gorvenment troops havebeen clashing with opposition Renamo fighters in Tete province.
The Swedish military says a submarine wreck found off the country’s central coast is probablya Russian vessel from the First World War. There had been speculation that the remains werethose of a mysterious modern-day submarine, suspected to be Russian. But expertsconcluded that the vessel dated from 1916.
An American tourist accused of killing a lion in Zimbabwe has said he didn’t know his target wasCecil, the country’s best-known lion. The Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force said the touristpaid a professional hunter and a local landowner 50,000 dollars to kill the animal. Here is AlexD.
"Walter Palmer, an American dentist from Minnesota with the love of hunting big game animalsusing a bow arrow had suddenly become the object of an international outcry after beingidentified by conservationists as the man who killed Cecil, a lion. Walter Palmer had previouslyposted photographs of himself online with a dead leopard and a white rhino which he killed forsport. A spokesman for Mr Palmer reportedly said he may have shot the lion, but had thecorrect legal permits."
Mexico’s Football Federation has sacked the national team coach after he was accused ofhitting a journalist. A Mexican sport reporter said the coach Miquel Herrera punched him. Theteam was returning home after winning the gold cup in Philadelphia to become champions ofNorth and Central America.
BBC news.
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