12月17日BBC聽力：南非當局遭信賴危急
The far right National Front Party in France has failed to win control of a single region after asecond round of voting in elections. Exit polls indicate that the Front will finish in third place incontrast to its victory during the first round a week ago. From Paris, Hugh Schofield reports.The result is a big disappointment for Marine Le Pen after the Front National's triumphant firstround score. She'd hoped to take power personally in the northern region around Calais andIle. Her niece, Marion Marechal-Le Pen was aiming for the Cote d'Azur. In the event, neither ofthe Front Nationale's two stars won. What the results show is that a certainly andinsurrectionary mood in the country that favors the nationalist recipes of Marine Le Pen. Butalso there's a natural upper-limit to that support. Marine Le Pen's main rival in her region ofnorthern France the former Health Minister Xavier Bertrand thanked everyone who had votedtactically. I thank the voters for protecting our beautiful region, all the ones who trusted mesince the first round of these elections. I also thank the left voters who voted for me to blockthe National Front. I'm thanking them all because they have shown by this big gathering theirlove for a certain idea of our region, of France and the Republic.
The South African president Jacob Zuma has appointed Pravin Gordhan as his new financeminister, the third within a week. The decision followed short falls on financial markets inresponse to the unexplained sacking on Wednesday of Nhlanhla Nene and his replacementwith the relatively unknown governing party figure David van Rooyen. Mathew Davis reportsfrom Johannesburg. In the job for less than a week, Mr. Van Rooyen whose appointment asfinance minister sent panic through the markets has been replaced by Pravin Gordhan. Nostranger to the job, Mr. Gordhan was finance minister before Nhlanhla Nene and he is creditedwith seeing the country through the global economic crisis of 2009. Under fire from manyquarters, not least from some of its own ruling African National Congress Party, president Zumasaid he heard the voices of discontent and wanted to assure the public that he listens tothem.
The leader of Nigeria's main Shia Muslim sect Ibraheem Zakzaky has been arrested by soldierswho besieged his home in the northern town of Zaria. His daughter told the BBC she had noidea where her father had been taken. More details from Chris Iveco. Reports were getting fromZaria indicates right now that the situation has deteriorated. Nigeria soldiers lead siege to thehouse of Sheik Ibrahim al-Zakzaky, leader of the Shia movement. We hear that Al-Zakzaky'shouse, as well as the center of the sect, has been demolished. But we also hearing that he hasbeen arrested. World news from the BBC.
Foreign diplomats in Hungary have joined several hundred demonstrators in a protest as plansto erect a statue honoring a World War II politician who called for the expulsion of Jews. Theygathered in the city where a life-size bronze of Balint Homan is due to be unveiled later thismonth.
Ecuador and Sweden have signed an agreement allowing the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assangeto be questioned by the Swedish authorities at the Ecuador embassy in London. Candace Piettereports. Swedish prosecutors initially wanted to question Mr. Assange over allegations ofsexual assault made by two women in 2010. He always denied the claims insisting sexualcontact was consensual. Prosecutors have run out of time to file sexual misconduct chargesagainst the WikiLeaks founder. But they're still investigating a claim of rape. Mr. Assange fearsthat if he is taken to Sweden for questioning, he could be extradited to the US.
A Colombian judge has ordered the arrest of a colonel in the army for his alleged role in theextrajudicial killing of civilians eight years ago. Colonel Nelson Velazquez Parrado is accused ofordering the death of 15 people who were then presented as rebels killed in action. The killingshappened as the army came under pressure from the government of Alvaro Uribe to deliverresults in Colombia's conflict with FARC rebels.
Thousands of people have marched through the Polish capital Warsaw in support of thegoverning Law and Justice Party. The demonstration which was led by the party's leaderJaroslaw Kaczynski came a day after tens of thousands of government opponents held protestaccusing it of threatening democracy.
The British musician Ed Sheeran has announced that he is taking a break from social media.Writing on his Instagram account, the singer complained that he was seeing the world througha screen and not his eyes. Ed Sheeran has 16 million followers on Twitter. BBC news.
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