危地馬拉泥石流致數百人失蹤

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  10月14日BBC聽力:危地馬拉泥石流致數百人失落

  

  The United State says Russian has agreed to resume talks to ensure the 2 country’s forcesdon’t clash during bombing campaigns over Syria. The announcement came as the USrevealed that it was overhauling its approach to fighting Islamic State militants in Syria.Because of what’s been seeing as the costly failure as strategy so far. Nick Bryan is inWashington. Two initial groups of US trained rebels suffered embarrassing setbacks. The firstwas rounded up by the Al-Nusra Front, while the second surrendered much of its Americanmilitary equipment to the same extremist group. The administration has just announcedwhat it's calling a pause. As part of this rethink, the Pentagon will now provide basic militaryequipment and weapons to a selected group of vetted leaders in their units who had sucess infighting Islamic State in places like Hebarni. They will also provide these groups with air support.

  Israeli army says Palestinian militants in Gaza has launched a rocket into southern Israel, hoursafter Israeli soldiers shot dead 6 Palestinians on the border. The rocket landed in open ground.On Friday, there were clashes between Israeli security forces and rioting Palestinians. A Hamasspokesman said a new intifada or uprising had begun. The intifada of Jerusalem has begun, andwe are not going back. The enemy is fully responsible and it crossed all the red lines andoffended and angered the feelings of our people. The enemy should only blame itself, and bearthe consequences of its follies.

  US and five European nations have issued a joint statement urging the rival factions in Lybiato agree to proposals to form a unity government. The UN has put forward the plan, whichmust now be considered by the country's two governments.

  Rain has delayed a huge military display in North Korea, marking the 70th anniversary of rulingWorker’s Party. The parade in the capital Pyongyang will involve tanks, missiles, and marchingtroops. Here’s our Korea correspondent, Steve Evens. This morning, lines of army, truckscarried soldiers into the city center as the rain cleared. Kim Joon-un was expected to overseethe event but wasn’t known whether he would addresses people and of course, the outsideworld. The expectation now is that this display on the streets will not be accompanied by thelaunch of a long range missile. If a missile were launched that would be seen in Washington asa highly provocative act.

  Two people have been killed in shootings at universities in the US states of Arizona and Texas.A student killed a classmate and wounded three others at the campus of Northern ArizonaUniversity on Friday. The suspected gunman is in custody. Hours later, one person died andanother was wounded in a shooting in Huston, one person has been arrested. World news fromthe BBC.

  Fears of another landslide have forced the authorities in Guatemala to move families from anarea where more than 250 people died a week ago. Leonardo Rocha has more. "Hopes offinding survivors have been fading for days. The government will decide on Monday whether tosuspend the rescue work. Nearly 400 people who lived in the area are unaccounted for, theyare presumed died, buried under tons of soil and rocks that slid off the rain-sodden hill lastThursday. An investigation has been opened to find out why houses continued to be built in theEl Cambray 2 neighborhood despite with repeated warnings from experts that the hill was beingeroded by a local river."

  Newly released documents from of the personal archive of the former British prime ministerMargaret Thatcher, revealed she was urged to soften her "Iron Lady" image and display a morecaring side. One of her closest advisers, the chief press secretary, Bernard Ingham, wrote her afive-page memo in 1985, in which he said she had gained a reputation having a hectoring,bossy and dictatorial personality. Mrs Thatcher's reaction to that memo is not known.

  And archaeologist in Britain are creating a virtual museum to display the contents of a cave inYorkshire, which was home to rhinos, bears and elephants more than 100,000 years ago.Victoria Cave was first discovered in 1837 by a man walking his dog. Victoria Gill has moredetails. When they excavated, Victorian explorers found objects that revealed the area’s ancienthistory from skulls of extinct rhinos and elephants to much more recent Romano-Britishartefacts. Now, with the help of a local farmer who’s been looking after that collection for 40years, Archaeologist had made 3D scans of every item and the cave itself. They’ll use these todigitally place each object back in the spot where it was unearthed. BBC news.

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