7月1日BBC聽力：歐洲引導人贊成回收數萬災黎
Hello, I’m Justin Green with the BBC news.
After hours of heated discussion, European leadershave agreed to take in tens of thousands migrantswho've arrived in the EU, but only on a voluntarybasis. More than 150,000 migrants have attemptedto enter the EU this year. Damian Grammaticas in Brussels has more.
"The leaders argued until well after two in the morning about how to deal with the migrant crisisin the Mediterranean. France’s president said there'd been moments of tension, but eventuallyEurope's nations all agreed that they will help on taking in 40,000 asylum-seekers from Italyand Greece, and with 20,000 outside the EU. Hungary, which has seen thousands of migrantscross its border by land, and Bulgaria, one of the EU’s poorest countries have been bothgranted exemptions. The UK has a opt-out which it's using, while nations in Eastern Europerefused to accept set quotas. So this game will only be voluntary.
Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi expressed disappointment at the small numbers involved,but said there was an agreement at all was a sign of progress.
"As you know, the agreement is not entirely defied at the end of the first day, an agreementthat could be much more ambitious. It mentions 40,000 persons, but it is the first step to saythat finally there's an European policy rather than a policy of one single state."
The Greek debt crisis was also on the agenda in Brussels after Athens and its internationalcreditors again failed to agree on measures to prevent a default. The German ChancellorAngela Merkel said a meeting of Euro Zone ministers on Saturday would be decisive in finding asolution. She said government leaders couldn’t intervene in the negotiations with creditorsand there was no new money available.
Reports are coming in over an attack on African Union base in Somalia. Military sources say asuicide car bomber drove at speed into the main gate of the base illegal along the main roadconnecting the capital Mogadishu and B. They say dozens of al-Shabaab fighters were involved.The BBC's Mohammed B in Mogadishu has been speaking to eye witnesses.
"So they say a suicide car first of all hit the gate of the army base and then heavy shooting haserupted. They say in a few moments the peaceful dawn turned into violent attackthunderstorm, and now the situation is tensional still, and the shooting is going on thereaccording to the resident."
The International Crisis Goup has warned that western counter-terrorism policies in Saharahregion of North Africa are failing. The Brussels-based campaign group condemned thetendency to label nonviolent Islamists as potential jihadists. It said youngsters in Niger,Chad and Libya with little access to education or jobs saw migration or Islamism as their onlyfuture. It said doners should tie development aid to improve governments instead of counter-terrorism measures.
BBC news.
Nine people in Northern Nigeria have been sentenced to death for blasphemy. The verdict washanded down by an Islamic court in the state of Kano, which met in secret. The defendants arethought to include one woman. The head of the religious police in Kano told the BBC that hehad pleaded guilty.
Funerals have been held for two of the African Americans shot dead by a white gunman in achurch in Charleston, South Carolina. Police officers stood guard as mourners rememberSharonda Singleton and Ethel Lance. Later today, President Obama will deliver an eulogy at thefuneral of the church’s pastor, Clementa Pinckney, who was also a state senator.
Queen Elizabeth will visit the site of the former concentration camp in Berlin, Bergen-Belsen onthe final day of her state visit to Germany. The camp where the teenage diarist Anne Frank diedof typhus now serves as the memorial of those who died at the hand of the Nazis. Beforevisiting the camp, the queen will view the Brandenberg Gate in Berlin. Peter Hunter reports.
"These are two potent reminders of Germany’s past. The Prussian-built Brandenberg Gate,which came to symbolize the country’s cold war division and Bergen-Belsen, where tens ofthousands of people were killed in the holocaust and tens of thousands more died from diseaseafter they were liberated by Bristish soilders. During what's being described as 'a personal andreflective visit', the queen will lay a wreath, visit Anne Frank's grave, and meet a small groupof survivors and liberators. ”
US Spanish language television network, Univision, said it’s cutting ties with a billionairebusinessman Donald Trump and dropping its coverage of the Miss USA beauty pageant, abusiness that he part-owns. It's said the move follows the disparaging remarks made by MrTrump about Mexican immigrants. In a speech announcing his candidacy for the US Republicanpresidential nomination last week, Mr Trump said Mexicans brought drugs and crime into theUS.
BBC news.
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