【5分钟环球新闻掠影1208】中方坚决反对菲律宾所提南海仲裁案

【5分钟环球新闻掠影1208】中方坚决反对菲律宾所提南海仲裁案

2014-12-08    04'29''

主播: 罗叔英语

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介绍:
Our top stories include: The United States has released six Guantanamo Bay detainees. "These are the people who force feed people and say we are not trying to punish people, we are trying preserve their health and preserve their life." China has rejected Philippine's arbitration move over territorial disputes. and protesters continue to take to the streets in New York to condemn what they call unchecked police violence. “Shame on you! Please don't shoot!” Those stories and more over the hour and towards the end of the show we'll be looking at comments online about the St Louis rams staging hands up and I can't breathe protests. Now our global survey of headlines. First up, in Asia In Pakistan, senior al-Qaeda militant Adnan el Shukrijumah, accused of planning to bomb trains in New York and London, has been killed in northwestern part of the country. In the Philippines, a Swiss hostage kidnapped nearly three years ago by the Abu Sayyaf Islamist group has escaped his captors. In Japan, about 1,600 people have gathered in Tokyo and around 700 in Nagoya to protest against the country's controversial secrecy law enacted a year ago. In Oceania, In Australia, a Qantas international flight has been forced to make an emergency descent and landing in the western part of the country following the loss of the aircraft's air conditioning. In Australia, former New South Wales Supreme Court judge, Roger Gyles, has been appointed by the Government to be the new Independent National Security Legislation Monitor. Moving on to Africa, In Zimbabwe, President Robert Mugabe has been re-appointed as leader of the ruling party, while his wife Grace has been given a top position in the party. In Somalia, Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed has accepted a parliament vote asking him to resign. Staying in the country, at least seven people have been killed in a twin suicide bomb attack in the town of Baidoa in southern part of the country. And in the Middle East, In Yemen, a boat carrying African migrants has sunk off the country's western coast, killing 70 people. In Iran, the country has formally charged the Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian with unspecified crimes after he was detained for more than four months. Looking to Latin America, In Mexico, Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam has confirmed that forensic experts have identified the remains of one of 43 missing students. In Haiti, thousands of anti-government protesters have clashed with police in the capital city of Port-au-Prince, asking the country's President and Prime Minister to resign and long-overdue elections to be held. And in Europe, In Britain, the country is to establish its first permanent military base in the Middle East since it formally withdrew from the region in 1971. In France, the country's interior minister has vowed to make the fight against anti-Semitism a "national cause" following an attack on a Jewish couple last week. In Germany, a man has been jailed for three years and nine months for joining Islamic State militants, in the first trial of its kind in the country. And finally in North America, In the United States, Republicans have increased their majority in the Senate after a runoff from the mid-term elections ended in defeat for the Democrats in Louisiana. Also in the country, official Labor Department figures show that the US economy added 321,000 jobs in November, while the unemployment rate stayed at 5.8%.