6月24日BBC聽力：香港立法會反對政改計劃
Hello, I'm David Austin with the BBC News.
Police in the United States are searching for a whitegunman, who shot dead nine people during a prayermeeting at an African-American church in thesouthern city of Charleston. From Washington, hereis Tom Bakemen.
“Officers are now searching for the gunman, who they say was white and in his twenties, andthey are treating the attack as a hate crime. The Mayor of Charleston Joseph Riley said it was anunspeakable tragedy.
“It is the large death totally act that one cannot possibly imagine. And we will bring that personto justice.”
The shooting took place at one of the oldest African-American churches in the southern UnitedStates, which traces its roots back two centuries. The police have said they would put all oftheir energies into finding the man who carried out the attack.
Hong Kong legislators have rejected controversial proposals to change the way the territorychooses its leader, with a dramatic end to the debate on the reforms. Julian Liu is in HongKong.
“When Hong Kong government officials gave their final speeches, it was hours ahead ofschedule. Journalists scrambled to retake their seats in the main chamber of the legislativecouncil. Then a bell rang reminding legislators to gather. The Cabinet Room echoed withtension. A voice called out asking to halt the proceedings with just minutes to spare. TheHead head of the Council declined. Pro-government lawmakers walked out in protest. As aresult, the controversial political reform plan failed by a wide margin.”
The United Nations says the number of people forced to flee their homes because of war orpersecution is at the highest level ever recorded. More than half of the nearly sixteen million,who fled last year, were children. Most of the refugees were from Syria. The UN HighCommission for Refugees said the international community seemed incapable of stoppingconflicts.
Finance ministers from the Euro Zone are meeting in Luxemburg today to try to preventGreece from defaulting on its debt in less than two weeks and being forced out of the singlecurrency. But all parties played down any hopes of a breakthrough. Christ Morris reports.
“Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has said we are bringing no new proposals to the meeting.So he is saying, as the Greek government has been saying for some time now, what we need todo is to discuss this at the very highest level，in other words, leaders of Euro Zone countries,Alexis Tsipras, Angela Merkel, Francoise Hollande, sitting down and sorting it out at a politicallevel rather at a technical one. But on the other side, the Euro Zone countries are sayingthere’s no point in politicians sitting down, if there isn’t any technical document in their handsto start with.”
Denmark is going to the polls today with the issues of immigration and the economy holdingcenter stage. Voters will decide whether to keep the country's first female Prime Minister HelleThorning- Schmidt, or elect her center right rivals who were promising tax cuts.
World news from the BBC.
A British corporate investigator says the Chinese authorities denied him urgent medicaltreatment in order to extort a confession. Peter Humphrey has just been released from aprison in China after admitting that he illegally gathered information about Chinese citizens in acase involving the pharmaceuticals giant Glaxo Smith Kline, Kerry Gracie reports.
“Free at last and back on British soil. Peter Humphrey told the BBC his two years in a Shanghaijail cell, had been a shattering experience. He said Chinese authorities had denied himtreatment for prostate problems as a way of trying to force him to confess, already now has atumour as a result of not getting the medical attention he needed.”
Israeli police say a fire that's part of a Catholic church may have been an arson attack. Thechurch, which Christians believe is the site where Jesus performed a miracle for multiplication ofthe loaves and fishes, is on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. A police spokesman said Hebrewgraffiti found in scroll and red script paint denounced the worship of idols.
For the first time in more than a century, a new ten dollars note in the United States will featurethe portrait of a woman. The US Treasury is asking Americans to submit ideas for whose imageshould be used. The new ten-dollar note will mark the centenary of American women gaining therights to vote.
A court in Australia has banned a woman from breastfeeding because she got a tattoo. A judgesaid this put her eleven-month old son at risk of picking up infection. From Sydney, JohnDonison has this report.
“The court in Sydney granted the injunction to stop the woman from breastfeeding despitethe fact she had negative blood tests for both HIV and hepatitis. Nevertheless, Judge MathewMyers said there was still an unacceptable risk to the baby because the tests were notconclusive. Breastfeeding advocates in Australia criticized the decision saying the risk wasincredibly small.”
And those are the latest stories from BBC News.
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