2016年1月6日BBC聽力：平邑礦難發明8名幸存者
Voters in the Central African Republic are finally due to cast their ballots today in presidentialand parliamentary elections. Thirty candidates are vying to become president to replace thecurrent interim leader. Tomi Oladipo has this report. The elections in CAR have already beenpostponed four times because of problems of security and planning. But the internationalcommunity is keen to see an elected government take office before the term of the presentinterim administration ends in March next year. The hope is that this process will pave theway for lasting peace in the country. Earlier this month, there was a low turnout as voters haveapproved a new constitution in an exercise marred by violence. The militia group which ledthe country into turmoil in the first place has not been disarmed and still pose a majorthreat.The task of ensuring a peaceful vote lies with troops from United Nations and Franceeven though they've so far failed to stabilize the country.
The governor of the US state of Missouri has warned residents that river levels are still risingafter four days of flooding left 13 people dead. Jay Nixon says he has instructed the NationGuard to secure evacuated areas. It's very clear that Missouri is in the midst of a very historicand dangerous flooding event. The amount of rain we received, in some places an excess of aflood, has caused river levels not only to rise rapidly but to go to places they've never beenbefore. All the weekend, Missouri experienced widespread and deadly flash flooding and justthis morning, we were informed of an additional three flood related deaths. This brings thetotal number of fatalities in this storm to 13, 12 of which were caused by vehicles being sweptfrom flooded roadways.
The former Republican governor of New York George Pataki has withdrawn his candidacy forthe presidency. Mr. Pataki has failed to make any impact in the polls. Well, tonight is the end ofmy journey for the White House as I suspend my campaign for president. I'm confident wecan elect the right person some who will bring us together and understands that politiciansincluding the president must be the people's server. Mr. Pataki was New York governor at thetime of the 9·11 attacks. The front runner in the race for the Republican presidentialnomination Donald Trump says he aims to spend 2 million dollars a week on campaignadvertising. Mr. Trump said he would outspend his Republican rivals who've also been raisingfunds for the party primaries in February.
Hillary Clinton who is leading the race for the Democratic nomination to run for US president haswarned that Islamic State militants are committing genocide against religious minorities in theMiddle East. Responding to a question at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire, Ms. Clintondescribed IS attacks on Iraqi Yazidi and other groups as genocide. World news from BBC.
State media in China say eight miners trapped for five days after a mine caved in have beenfound alive. Reports say the rescuers have not yet been able to free the survivors but havemade contact and sent in supplies. The gypsum mine collapsed on Christmas Day.
Newly released government documents show that the British prime minister Margaret Thatcherwas in effect overruled by her cabinet over the handling of the AIDS crisis in 1986. Sherepeatedly queried the explicit language of AIDS advertisements and leaflets fearing it wouldalarm teenagers and their parents.Nick Higham reports. The first AIDS cases were diagnosed inthe UK in 1981. Five years later, the government was facing a possible epidemic of an incurableand fatal disease. It responded with a huge public awareness campaign. Files released todayat the national archives in Kew showed Ms. Thatcher was alarmed. On one memo about whatwere called explicit and distasteful advertisements about AIDS, she scribbled Do we have to dothe section on risky sex? I should have thought it could do immense harm if our youngteenagers were to read it. But her ministers repeatedly ignored her reservations.
Police in Israel have arrested four Jewish men allegedly caught on video celebrating the murderof a Palestinian toddler in a firebomb attack in the occupied West Bank. In the video which hasgone viral, a group of gun-waving extremists are seen dancing and singing. One manrepeatedly stabs a photo of the toddler who was killed along with his parents in an attackblamed on Jewish settlers.
Officials in California have ended a day long standoff with a half-ton elephant seal who had beenblocking traffic on a state highway. Marine mammal specialist used horns and kayak paddles totry to encourage the animal back into the water. The seal made several attempts to cross theroad before a vet struck her with a pole mounted syringe containing tranquilizer. BBC news.
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