- 听力文本
- 中文翻译
Hello, I'm Jim Lee with the BBC news.
As the European Union wrangled with how to do with the huge influx of migrants, thousands more are continuing to head towards western and northern Europe. The authorities on the Greek island of Lesbos are stepping up efforts to process those arriving there including chartering extra ships to the Greek mainland.Johnny Dymond is in Lesbos. In an abandoned football sealed in the capital city Mytilene, a sliver of a good news for thousands Syrian refugees. In a warm night, orderly queues form in front of 12 tables, documents examined, papers handed out. With the papers issued by the Greek authorities, the refugees all from Syria can buy tickets for specially charted boats to Athens. The operation is led by the Greek government with assistance of the UNHCR. Three ships are going back and forth between the island and Athens help as many as eight or ten thousand will be moved from Lesbos. Earlier,hundreds of migrants broke through Hungarian police line around a holding center near the border with Serbia and headed towards Budapest.
The British prime minister is coming under pressure from the opposition Labor party to reveal more details about what prompted a drone strike that killed two British fighters with Islamic State group in Syria. David Cameron says the strike was carried out in self-defense. Jonathan Bill reports. While the US is longed pursuit of policy of targeted killings, the use of a British drone to kill a British citizen in a country which the UK has not legally authorized military action is highly controversial. The human rights group has accused of the government of coping what he calls the failed model of US secret drone strikes.David Cameron though has insisted the targeting of Reyaad Khan was entirely lawful and an act of self-defense. Mr Cameron said Britain was involved in a plot to attack high profile event over the summer.
Russia has dismissed reports that it is suspending its military support for the Syrian government. The foreign ministry confirmed what it called tactical assistance would continue. The BBC Moscow correspondent says the Russia's main goal remains propping of its ally, president Assad although it now can't stand the support for the fight against Islamic Militants.
The international health charity Medecins Sans Frontieres has warned that death from snake bite are likely to rise as stocks of anti-venom run out. 30,000 people died from snake bite in sub-Saharan Africa every year. Julia reports. MSF says Fav-Afrique the only anti-venom that has been proven safe and effective the use on ten different kinds of snake bite in Sub-Saharan Africa. But the manufacturers claimed that they've been priced out of the market. Experts warn other cheaper products aren't as good, some antivenoms products can cost hundreds of pounds per patient, but as some of the poorest to a most risk. World news from the BBC.
Thousands of people have attended the funeral of a Palistinian woman Riham Dawabsha who was the victim of arson attack in Israel-occupied west bank. Militant jewish settlers are suspected to carry out the attack. Mrs Dawabsha died of her injuries overnight more than a month after the attack. The also claimed the lives of her husband and baby son.
A court in El Savaldor has decided to proceed with the case against a doctor accused by a mother of swapping her baby of birth. The mother Mercedes Casanella says the child handed over after the birth has dark skin. U.R reports. Prosecutors alleged that doctor Dr Alejandro Guidos swapped the baby at the request of child trafficers who presumably wanted a light skin child. He denies any wrong doing but DNA test has confirmed that the baby being raised by Mercedes Casanella and her British born husband is not biologically theirs. Ms. Casanellas says she's prepared to continue looking after baby Jacob if his mother can not be found, but says she won't rest until she gets her baby back.
Italy's top criminal court has explained the decision to throw out a long running case of the murder 8 eight years ago of a British student Meredith Kercher. Mr Kercher's Amercian flatmate Amanda Knox and her Italian former boyfriend were acquitted the killing for the second time in March. The court says the case contains glaring errors.
The authorities in Ecuador have arrested a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle 11 endangered iguanas from Galapagos Islands in his luggage. Ben Ram has more. In a plain white bag hidden in a suitcase where nine marine and two land iguanas. The Ecuadoran authorities say a Mexican man has been trying to smuggle them out of the Galapagos national park. He is being detained but not being named. It's believed he had previously been committed a similar crime in New Zealand. The rescued iguanas are being assessed and monitored before being released back to the wild. BBC news.