11月25日CNN聽力：天下衛生構造被責備未能針對埃博拉疫情實時作出預警
Hi.I'm Carl Azuz, delivering your Tuesday, November24th edition of CNN STUDENT NEWS.
Our first story concerns last year's outbreak of adeadly Ebola virus in West Africa.
It was the largest epidemic in history.
The worst hit countries were Guinea, Liberia andSierra Leone, though it spread across the worldafter some people who traveled to the region returned home with the virus.
Since last year, Ebola has more killed more than 11,300 people and it's not completelycontained.
Liberian health officials just confirmed three new cases.
A new report by international health experts suggests the outbreak wouldn't have been as badif the World Health Organization had sounded the alarm sooner.
The group was part of the United Nations.
It aims to monitor and protect people's health worldwide.
It was accused of waiting until last August to declare the outbreak a public health emergencywhen it allegedly knew Ebola was out of control in the spring.
The director of the Harvard Global Health Institute which contributed to the report says thecost of the U.N. organization's delay was enormous.
The World Health Organization responded by saying it welcomed the report, that some of thereport's recommendations were already being put in place and that the tide has been turnedagainst the outbreak.
French investigators are facing together clues of what led up to the November 13 terroristattacks in Paris.
They haven't yet identified all seven of the ISIS terrorists who were killed.
But officials believe that three of them entered France as refugees.
As many as 10,000 police officers and 6,500 soldiers have been deployed across the Frenchcapital.
Brussels, Belgium, remains under that nation's highest terror threat level.
At least one suspect there has been charged in connection with the Paris attacks.
Others are being detained for further questioning.
Meantime, international airstrikes against ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria continue.
Are they having an impact?
It has been more than a year since the coalition airstrikes began in Iraq and Syria.
So, now, where do we stand in the fight against ISIS?
The fight against ISIS.
The first airstrike against ISIS began August 8, 2014.
The U.S. Defense Department says since then, more than 8,000 airstrikes had hit Iraq andSyria.
Almost two-thirds of those had been launched by the United States at a cost of nearly $5billion.
Targets include oil refineries, pipelines, buildings, armored vehicles, tanks and fighting positions.
The targets are strategic, designed to weaken ISIS both militarily and financially, bydestroying the oil infrastructure that enables ISIS to sell oil on the black market.
There are now 65 coalition partners, but not all of them are engaged in combat.
Only nine, including the United States, are actually involved in airstrikes against ISIS.
At the start of the bombing campaign, the CIA said there were as many as 30,000 ISISfighters.
The CIA has yet to update those numbers.
ISIS considers itself a state and is setting up governments in captured cities like Raqqa inSyria, and Ramadi and Mosul in Iraq.
ISIS has also made significant gains in Libya and Egypt.
And then there's the question of loyalties.
In Syria, there's President Bashar al Assad on one side, and ISIS on the other, with a numberof rebel factions in between, whose loyalties can be very difficult to figure out.
The U.S. has spent hundreds of millions of dollars training moderate Syrian rebels with little tono success.
Drone strikes have killed several high value ISIS leaders in the region, including Hafiz Saeed, theISIS leader in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Mohammed Emwazi, also known as Jihadi John,who was killed in November.
But now, ISIS is entering a dangerous new phase in response to coalition advances, launchingexternal operations in which European nationals train and fight alongside ISIS fighters to carryout attacks like the one in Paris.
And now, they are threatening more.
ISIS has also claimed responsibility for taking down a Russian passenger plane in Egypt inOctober, an attack it says was in retaliation for Russian airstrikes in Syria.
Those airstrikes are not being launched in coordination with the United States because thetwo nations disagree on whether Bashar al Assad should stay in power-yet another sign ofjust how complicated this fight is amidst the chaos.
Well, it's time to take roll.
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I think it's just surprising that the first, the first accumulating snowfall we've had has been sobad.
Usually, you know, the first one doesn't even stick.
But this one did.
The first significant snowfall of the season has hit the northern U.S.
And while seeing snow in the north is like seeing sand at the beach,
what's different this time around is that some spots saw several inches relatively early in theseason.
These are scenes from southern Wisconsin.
A different kind of weather event just brought snow to folks in northwestern Michigan,northeastern Ohio, and northwestern New York.
One thing they all have in common besides northern latitudes, they're near one of the GreatLakes, so they're no stranger to lake-effect snow.
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