9月23日BBC聽力：共和黨候選人稱穆斯林不該該成為總統
The leftwing Syriza party of Alexis Tsipras has been returned to parliament in Greece afterwinning the country's second general election this year. He told crowds of jubilant supportersin the capital Athens that the result gave Syriza a new and clear mandate to rid Greece of thethings that were keeping it stuck in the past. Richard Gaopen is in Athens. Syriza has won thiselection by a much bigger margin than any opinion polls had predicated with the lead of 7percent over its main rival the conservative party New Democracy. Already a right wing anti-austerity party has agreed to join forces with Syriza giving Mr Tsipras a slim majority inparliament of five seats. It will be a carbon copy of the previous administration led by MrTspiras which was elected last January and resigned in August after dozens of its own MPsrebelled over the signing of a new bailout deal which included more harsh austerity measures.A Syriza spokeswoman has said the government will implement the bailout agreement reachedwith international creditors but will hold tough negotiations over the country's massive debt.
Pope Francis has met the former Cuban president Fidel Castro at his home in Havana. TheVatican spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi said the meeting lasted forty minutes and thetwo men discussed world affairs and religion and exchanged presents. The Pope has given toFidel Castro some books, books about the gospel, about the humor in their religion. And Fidelhas given to the Pope a book “Fidel and Religion”. They were very very kind both dedication forthe Pope.
A Republican candidate for the US presidency has said Islam is incompatible with theAmerican constitution. Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon said he would never agree to aMuslim becoming US president. I will not advocate that we put a Muslin in charge of this nation.I absolutely will not agree with that. Responding to the comments, James Zogby, the presidentof the Arab American Institute told the BBC that Mr Carson'e views were downright stupid.'Carson simply is making a bigoted comment. And one would expect him to know better as aneurosurgeon who is running for president. But apparently he doesn't. He is planning todebase the Republican party.
The Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency has visited the controversial Parchinmilitary site in Iran. Yukiya Amano arrived in Tehran on Sunday, one what western diplomatssay is a key visit if an agreement on the uranium nuclear program is to come into effect.International inspectors have only limited access to the complex where western nations believeIran may have tried to develop nuclear arms.
The US has two of its citizens who have been held captive by Houthi rebels in Yemen have beenfreed. A British national was also reported to have been released. World news from the BBC.
Tens of thousands of people have taken part in a rally in Istanbul attended by Turkey'spresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan to protest against attacks by Kurdish separatists rebels in thesoutheast of the country. The crowds heard the speakers condemn the violence in whichdozens of police and soldiers have been killed since the collapse of ceasefire in July between thegovernment and the Kurdish Standard Workers Party, the PKK.
The flow of migrants and refugees through the Balkans to western Europe has continuedthroughout the weekend. Austria says it's expecting 20,000 arrivals, most of them throughHungary and Croatia. The charity Save The Children says as many as one in four of thosechildren could be unaccompanied. Alix Klan works with the agency in Croatia. Most of theunaccompanied children were being through without parents or anyone older to protect them.They are moving in groups, small groups, often with siblings or friends around age 12 to 16.
West Africa mediator seeking to reverse a military coup in Burkina Faso have put forwardproposals to end the crisis. Thomas Fessy reports. After a weekend of talks, the coup leadergeneral Gen Diendere is still in charge. West African mediators failed to have him hand over thepower back to civilians. Instead, their proposed plan to restore transitional authorities grantamnesty to those behind a coup and hold of elections in November will be discussed at asummit of west African leaders on Tuesday. Regional institutions may then approve it butgetting general Gen Diendere to agree to it is not a done deal. He may continue to rule by thegun until a solution is found.
Reports from Northeast Nigeria say there have been three explosions in the town of Maiduguri.And eyewitness said the attack happened near a mosque. Unconfirmed reports say 8 peoplehave been killed and many other injured. No one has claimed responsibility for the blasts. BBCnews.
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