朝鮮判處韓裔美國人十年勞改

　　5月6日BBC聽力：朝鮮判處韓裔美國人十年勞改

　　African leaders are meeting in Kenya to discuss ways to stop the poaching of elephants andsave the animals from extinction. The Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta called for decisiveaction to stop the illegal trade in ivory, Ann Soy is in Nairobi. When you look at the statisticsin the 1930’s and 1940’s, there were about three to five million elephants, but today thatpopulation has been decimated by factor of ten. There are just about 400,000 elephants andevery 20 to 40,000 are killed. So it means that in about a decade or so, if this slaughter goeson unabated, then they could face extinction. So part of goals of this meeting is to raise fundsto support conservation, but the other thing that they're also talking about which they say isvery important is getting communities to support anti-poaching efforts.

　　The embattled South African President Jacob Zuma will learn today whether the high court inPretoria intends to reinstate nearly 800 corruption charges against him. In 2009, the actingdirector of public prosecutions withdrew them,a move that enabled Mr. Zuma's election laterthat year. The opposition Democratic Alliance says the prosecutor’s decision was politicallymotivated, Nomsa Maseko is in Pretoria. The Democratic Alliance wants the court to set asidethe controversial decision taken in 2009 by then acting prosecutions head Mokotedi Mpsheto drop more than 700 corruption charges against the President. The decision was based onevidence that the timing of indictment against Mr.Zuma had been manipulated to block hispolitical ambitions. The evidence emerged from spy tapes which are recording the phoneconversations between South Africa's former spy chief and former top prosecutor in which theyallegedly plotted to block Mr. Zuma in his quest to become president of the country.

　　Hundreds of demonstrators have blocked traffic outside the venue in California,where theRepublican presidential hopeful Donald Trump was holding a rally, a number of arrests weremade, James Cook reports. Donald Trump came to California on Thursday night for a rally inCosta Messa with the Republican party's presidential nomination almost within his grasp.Outside the event,hundreds of demonstrators gathered waving anti-Trump banners andbringing traffic to a halt. The businessman, who’s vowed to deport millions of illegalimmigrants, faces strong opposition in parts of California particularly among Latinos. Reportsfrom the scene said some protestors had thrown rocks at motorists while others had jumpedon top of a police car. There are no reports of serious injuries.

　　People in Iran are voting in parliamentary run-off elections. They would decide whetherhardliners or moderate forces backing President Hassan Rouhani will control the legislature.World news from the BBC.

　　Civil defense workers in the Syrian city of Aleppo now say at least 55 people were killed bygovernment airstrikes that hit a hospital on Wednesday night. The group known as the WhiteHelmets were still digging through the rubble 24 hours after the bomb struck. More than 200people are reported to have died in Aleppo in the past week as a result of rebel shelling as wellas government airstrikes. Sam Taylor of the charity Doctors without Borders says their report.This is not the first time. This is the 7th time that a Doctors without Borders supportedhospital has been attacked this year alone. And there are many more hospitals that SMFdoesn't support. So these continuing attacks on medical structures is horrific.

　　North Korea has sentenced a Korean American man to ten years of hard labor for spying.China's state news agency said Kim Dong Chul, a US citizen, was arrested last October. KevenKim reports from Seoul. In a news conference in Pyongyang earlier this year, Kim Dong Chulsaid he served as a spy for South Korea by secretly sending information on North Korea'sleadership and military back to Seoul. According to North Korea's state news agency, he wasdetained last year while in possession documents link to North Korea's nuclear program andmilitary facilities. Many believe Americans are often arrested and sentenced to pressure theUnited States for dialogue. In the past, many of the convicted have been freed when the Northwishes to signal better relations with Washington. The news comes at a time of heightenedmilitary tension on the Korean Peninsula.

　　There are renewed fears of avalanches caused by helicopters in the upper slopes of MountEverest. The authorities in Nepal say helicopter firms are continuing to carry out unauthorizedsight-seeing flights above base camp. BBC news.

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