土敘邊境一難民營遭空襲

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  5月11日VOA聽力:土敘邊疆一收容所遭空襲

  

  An airstrike on a Syrian refugee camp near the Turkish border is believed to have killed at least30 people. It's not known who carried out the attack in Idlib province,but a journalist in theregion told the BBC local people have blamed the Syrian government which has targeted rebelsin the area in recent weeks. This eyewitness says the victims were all civilians. They're allwomen and children,no one else. Look what those criminals have done. What did the childrendo? Where is Islam? Where is it? Where is the world? Where is it? Where is everyone? They areall liars. Where is everyone? The White House has condemned the attack. The spokesman JoshEarnest said there was no justifiable excuse for carrying out an airstrike against innocentcivilians who had already fled their homes to escape violence.

  The Republican speaker of the US House of Representatives Paul Ryan says he's not ready yetto support Donald Trump as the party's candidate for the presidency. Mr. Ryan said thebillionaire businessman first had to show that he supported Republican principles and that hecould win the votes of majority of Americans. Here is Laura Bicker. Paul Ryan was in therunning to be vice president in 2012. He's now the speaker of the House of Representatives.The House in the past has been critical of Donald Trump's proposal to ban Muslims from theUS. He says he's still not ready to support the billionaire. Donald Trump has responded sayinghe's not ready to support speaker Ryan's agenda and added that the American people havebeen treated so badly for so long, it's time politicians put them first.

  A vast wild fire in the Canadian province of Alberta is continuing to rage out of control. Threedays on, the blaze has grown in size defying the efforts of fire fighters with helicopters and airtankers to contain it. More than 80,000 people have already fled their homes in the FortMcMurry area and an emergency worker Chad Morrison says the flames are fueled by powerfulwinds. Late yesterday, the wild fire grew rapidly due to the increased winds. We had windsrecorded on side up to 70 kilometers an hour. And those winds came from the northwest. Thefire blew out to the southeast corner late last night. And hours late as the premier said the fireis estimated to 85,000 hectares. The Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told parliament itwas the largest evacuation in the province's history. He said the footage of cars racing downhighways as fire spread around them was nothing short of terrifying.

  Israeli war planes have launched attacks on four Hamas positions in Gaza during a continuingflare-up in violence between the two sides. The Israeli military said it was responding tomortar rounds fired at Israel. Several Palestinians were injured and a woman was later killed byIsraeli tank shelling. News from the BBC.

  The Supreme Court in Brazil has suspended the speaker of the lower house of congress whohas led efforts to impeach the President Dilma Rousseff. The speaker Eduardo Cunha has beenaccused of hindering investigations into his own alleged corruption. Candace Piette reports.The Supreme Court voted to strip Mr. Cunha of his post for allegedly obstructing investigationsin accusations that he'd accepted millions of dollars in bribes which he denies. One of Brazil'smost divisive figures, he played a key role in getting back in the lower house for impeachmentproceedings against President Rousseff. The Supreme Court has said it was concerned thatthe allegations against him could taint the work of the congress. But his removal comes too latefor President Rousseff who faces a vote in the senate next week on whether she should standtrial.

  A jury in the United States has convicted a former refuse worker of murdering nine youngwomen and a 15-year-old girl over a period of more than two decades in Los Angeles. LonnieDavid Franklin Jr. has been accused of being the mass killer who was known as the 'grimsleeper' because there was an apparent gap of more than 13 years between two spates ofmurders. A court heard How Franklin preyed on poor and vulnerable young women.

  Security officials in Nigeria say militants have attacked a Chevron oil platform in the Niger Deltaregion. The militants are reported to have badly damaged the equipment that allowed oil to flowfrom one facility to another. A group called the Niger Delta Avengers said it had blown up theplatform.

  Voters across Britain have been taking part in a range of elections for the Scottish parliament,the National Assembly Wales, the Northern Ireland Assembly and more than 100 local councilsin England. It's the first test of political opinion since Britain's main opposition Labor Partychose a new leader last year. BBC news.

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