2月18日BBC聽力：歐洲理事會主席告誡英國退出歐盟效果
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Syria's president Bashar al-Assad has cast doubt onwhether a ceasefire proposed for later this week canbe implemented. The cessation of hostilities wasagreed by world powers at a security meeting inMunich last week. But president Assad said a ceasefire did not mean that each party would stopusing weapons. In televised remarks, he said any cessation of hostilities should aim to createstability, and stop those he called terrorist from strengthening their positions.
We have been hearing them talking about ceasefire within a week. From a practical perspective,that is difficlut to implement. Any cessation of operations must be done with the aim ofimproving the security situation and reaching a reconciliation or settlement.
The UN's special envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura has arrived in Damascus to try to help toachieve a ceasefire.
The UN has condemned Monday's airstrikes on several hospitals and schools in northern Syriawhich it says killed almost 50 people including children. Three hospitals were destroyed in theattacks. The airstrikes have been widely blamed on Russia. A spokesman for the medical charityMSF, Sam Tailor said one of its field hospitals in Idlib province was deliberately targeted.
The hospital was attacked by four missiles in two seperate attacks within minutes of each otherthis morning, which made us to believe that it was a deliberate attack. And it was not anaccidental attack, it was deliberate. So the level of sufferings to these people who have beendeprived of health care in this war-torn region, it is extremely worrying for us.
A Syrian diplomat said the hospital was hit by a US airstrike.
Reports from Syria say Kurdish-lead forces have captured the town of T from Islamists rebels.Observers said the Syrian Democratic forces and the alliance of Kurdish YPG militia men andArab fighters brought the town under their control after days of intense fighting and Russianairstrikes.
The President of the European Council Donald Tusk has warned that there is a real risk that theEU could break up if the UK decides to leave. Speaking in Romania, Mr. Tusk said talks withBritain were at critical moment. The British prime minister David Cameron has beendemanding concessions before a referendum is held on whether the UK should leave the EU.Mr. Cameron has been meeting French persident Francois Hollande ahead of Thursday's summitin Brussels. Cartie Adler reports.
France is extremely concerned about the prime minister's push to protect non-Eurocountries from Euro zone regulations. Fair enough, you might say, most EU countries use theEuro, why should they be allowed to gang up to the disadvantage of non-Euro countries likeBritain. But France thinks David Cameron is being sneaky, that what he wants is a special dealfor the city of London, that what he wants is a back door veto on wider Euro zone legislation.
World news from the BBC.
Pope Francis has asked Mexican indigenous people for forgiveness over the way they havebeen exclused from society. He was speaking as he celebrated Mass in three native languagesafter a new Vatican decree approved their use in M. He told the congregation of indigenousMexicans that with their deeper appreciation for nature they had much to teach the rest of theworld.
Leaders of the Southeast Asian Regional Organisation, known as ASEAN, are meeting for theirfirst summit to be hosted by the United States. President Obama has championed therefocusing of US trade and foreign policy towards Asia during his term of office. And themeeting is expected to concentrate on economic and trade issues for the first day.
More than 150,000 penguins from a single colony have died over the past five years in theCommonwealth Bay area in East Antarctica, after a giant iceberg got stuck there. There are nowonly 10,000 Adelie penguins left in the area. The iceberg is blocking the access to their naturalfeeding waters, and they now have to walk 60 kilometers to feed. Scientists from the Universityof New South Wales say this is impeding the penguins' breeding attempts. They have seenthousands of freezing carcasses and abandoned eggs.
The winners of this year's Grammy awards will be announced during a televised music gala inLos Angeles. Several artists are with the chance to pick up multiple awards but the frontrunner is the US hiphop artist Kendrick Lamar, as Peter Bowes explains.
He has 11 nonimations which are just one shorter of the record number of nominations for asingle artist set by Michael Jackson a few years ago. His lyrics have been impressed by theblack lives in Martin movement. and we understand that he would perform quite a politically-charged performance on the Grammys tonight. This is of course, in the wake of thecontroversy over the lack of racial diversity of the Oscars. Tailor Swift and the Weekend haveboth been nominated 7 times.
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