9月6日BBC聽力：90%海鳥胃裏大概有塑料
Hello, I'm Marian Marshall with the BBC news.
United Nation has released satellite photos takenover Syria which it says shows the Temple of Bel inthe ancient city of Palmyra has been destroyed bythe Islamic State militants who control the site.David Bason reports.
At the weekend, Syrian residents near to ancient Palmyra have reported a massive explosionindicating that Islamic State militants were setting about the earliest of their task of destroyingthe 2000-year-old Temple of Bel. But Syria's head of antiquities though having no access to thearea have raised some hopes that militants had failed by saying the structure was still mostlyintact. Now the United Nation's satellite pictures indicate there is no doubt. The UN statementsaid they could confirm the destruction of the main building as well as the line of stonecolumns that once stood beside it.
Thousands of pages of emails from the private server of the former Secretary of State HilaryClinton have been released by the US state department shortly. Mrs Clinton has said it was amistake for her to use a private server to send government correspondence. Richard L reports.
This is the fourth and largest release of Hilary Clinton's emails as Secretary of State amountingto some 7000 pages. Mrs Clinton is adamant that she never sent or recieved any informationmarked as classified using her home server. But around 150 of the latest batch of emails havenow been marked as classified as a result of the investigation. Her political opponents haveaccused her of putting America's security at risk by using an insecure computer system.While she remains the leading Democratic contender in the battle for the White House, supportfor her has now fallen to the point that vice president Joe Biden is seriously consideringchanging her for the nomination.
A jury in the United States has convicted a 74-year-old man of shooting three people deadoutside two jewish centers in the suburb of Kansas city. During his trial, Frazier Glenn Crosssaid he carried out the killings last year because he believed Jews were too powerful and weredestroying the white race. None of his three victims was jewish.
Austria has stepped up the inspection of vehicles arriving from Hungary to look for migrantshidden in vans or lorries. Officials said they discovered more than 200 people since Sundayevening and detained several suspected smugglers. Bethany Bell was at the Hungarian-Austrian border.
I saw one van. I think it was carrying vacuum cleaners. It was stocked on the border for quitea long time. And I saw police escorting a woman carrying a tiny baby and three men who haveclearly been in one of the vehicles. The migrants were then taken to a makeshift sealed hospitalthe Red Cross has set up on the border there. As well, we've also seen action on the trainstoday. The stream of people keeping on.
World news from the BBC.
The White House says president Barack Obama is considering a wide range of options to closethe US military prison at Guantanamo Bay. There are still 116 detainees at the facility.
A Russian nuclear official based in the United States has pleaded guilty to arranging 2 milliondollars worth of corrupt payments. The US justice department said Vadim Mikerin helped toillegally transfer to offshore counts money that was paid by US companies seeking businesswith Russian nuclear materials trader.
Three journalists have been remanded in custody in southeast Turkey by a court on charges ofhelping militant groups. The two British reporters and their translator were working for the ViceNews group in the city of Adana. The journalists denied the accusations.
Scientists say it is possible that 90 percent of the world's seabirds have plasitc in theirstomaches. The study has also warned that the problem was getting worse and action is takento stop waste getting into oceans. Here is our scientific correspondent Johnson I.
To the far reaching seabirds, discarded plastic, cigerette lighter or a shiny bottle caps mightlook like a fish. And if eaten, the debris may simply stay in the gut. As more plastic waste findsits way into the oceans so the hazards increase. And on current trends by the century, it'slikely no seabirds would be able to avoid it. As the pressing of all the sounds, the problem issolvable, the scientists say. The study indicates that if the stream of plastic waste gettinginto the oceans can be shut off,then seabirds have the capacity to recover quite quickly.
The Guatamalan president Otto Perez Molina says he will not step down of the accusation ofcorruption despite months of protests demanding his resignation. The congressionalcommittee recommended on Saturday that he be stripped of immunity from prosecutionover his alleged involvement in a customs scandal. Mr Perez Molina has denied any wrongdoing.
BBC news.
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