【5分钟环球新闻掠影1113】(文稿)人类首次探测器登陆彗星

【5分钟环球新闻掠影1113】(文稿)人类首次探测器登陆彗星

2014-11-14    04'34''

主播: 罗叔英语

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介绍:
Our top stories include: China and the US have vowed to work together to combat climate change. "We published a joint statement about dealing with climate change and together announced our individual action goals for after 2020." A European spacecraft has made a historic landing on a comet. "We were having, when I left the control room we were still having interruption in the link." A China-ASEAN leaders'meeting is being held in Myanmar. "We will provide an opportunity during the two-day meeting for the discussion of accelerating the building of the AEC. " and NATO says Russia is sending troops to Ukraine. "We have seen columns of Russian equipment, primarily Russian tanks entering into Ukraine." Those stories and more over the hour and towards the end of the show we'll be looking at comments online about a controversial autumn outing here for high scoring high school students in Beijing. We'll talk about them later but first our global survey of headlines. First up, in Asia, In Afghanistan, cultivation of opium poppies in the country has hit new records this year as NATO pulls out combat troops. In Japan, a second man has burned himself to death in protest against a shift in military policy to allow the country's military to fight overseas. In Oceania, In Australia, the National Australia Bank has taken the first step towards settling a class action lawsuit brought against the country's major banks over late payment fees. Staying in the country, the Defense Department has confirmed it is monitoring Russian naval vessels currently travelling through international waters north of Australia. Moving on to Africa, The World Health Organization says that the number of people killed by Ebola has risen to 5,160. In Nigeria, a female suicide bomber has blown herself up at a college in northern part of the country, killing at least three people. Staying in the country, Nigeria's ambassador to the US has criticized Washington for refusing to sell his government "lethal" weapons to fight militant Islamists. And in the Middle East, In Libya, car bombs have detonated in two eastern cities of Tobruk and Al Bayda, leaving at least five people dead and many more injured. In Egypt, gunmen in a fishing boat have exchanged fire with an Egyptian naval vessel near the Mediterranean port of Damietta. Looking to Latin America, In Mexico, demonstrators have attacked the Guerrero state congress in new protests against the government's handling of the disappearance of 43 students. In Colombia, the country's largest left-wing rebel group, the Farc, has apologized for killing two members of the Nasa indigenous group last week. In Brazil, the Brazilian Forum on Public Safety has revealed the country's police have killed more than 11,000 people over the past five years. And in Europe, In Russia, the authorities says its air force will conduct regular air patrols from the Arctic Ocean to the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. In Portugal, an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease has killed five people and infected more than 230 others. And finally in North America, In Canada, frigid temperatures and snow have expanded into Ontario and Quebec as a wave of cold air moves east. In the United States, tens of thousands of nurses across the country have staged protests and strikes over insufficient protection for health workers dealing with suspected Ebola patients.