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BBC News Item 1政治：美国民主党得到参议院60 个席位
President Obama’s Democratic Party has cured the critical 60 at majority in the US Senate that can help it override any Republican obstructions on Capitol Hill. This happened when the Democrats won the last undecided nate at from November’s election after the Supreme Court in the state of Minnesota declared the Democratic candidate Al Franken the winner. Richard Lister
reports from Washington.
For almost eight months the two candidates had been locked in a bitter fight in the Minnesota Courts over the result of November’s Senate election. Just a few hundred votes parated them after the 2.8 million cast. The initial count favoured the Republican Norm Coleman but the recount gave the majority to his Democratic Party rival Al Franken. And the State Supreme Court is now upheld that verdict. His victory gives the Democrats 60 votes in the nate and the potential to overturn Republican efforts to block legislation.
BBC News Item 2 政治：美国和以色列关系面临考验
琅琊榜歌曲Reports in Israeli media say Israel’s ambassador to the United States Michael Oren told Israeli diploma
ts that American-Israeli relations were facing a crisis of historic proportions. Washington is furious at last week’s announcement by Israel during a visit by the US Vice President that more new Jewish homes were to be built in occupied East Jerusalem. But on Monday, the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Israeli parliament the building project would continue. Paul Wood reports from Jerusalem.
Mr. Netanyahu has been prented with a choice, a breach with the right-wing members of his coalition, or with the Americans. With his speech to the Knest, he ems to have chon to put the needs of domestic politics first. It ems the Americans are so angry becau they believe Mr. Netanyahu went back on an understanding. This was apparently that Israel would not push forward of any big new ttlement building projects in East Jerusalem. This was necessary of the Palestinians were to be persuaded to join the long delayed negotiations so painstakingly put together by US mediators.
BC News Item 3 政治：奥巴马推迟访问印尼和澳大利亚
President Obama is postponing a trip to Indonesia and Australia, so he can stay in Washington to try to get his health care reforms pass by congress. Mr. Obama had already delayed the long arranged t
rip once and was due to t off on Sunday. But with the crucial vote on the reform is expected within days, the trip has been put off entirely until June. From Washington Mark Martell reports.
The president’s make changes to American health care insurance system, his flagship domestic legislation is dragged on for over a year and divided the country.
He will be damaged if he can’t get it through. The climax is near, so far there is no sign of any republicans voting for it, its fate lies in the hands of handful in the president’s own party, who either feel it allows for easier abortion or who simply fear a back lash in November’s elections, if they vote for a measures their constitution dislike.
BBC News Item 4 政治：英国新首相
After days of political hor-trading the UK finally has a new government and a new Prime Minister, following the resignation of La bour’s Gordon Brown on Tuesday evening.Since last Thursday’s general election resulted in a hung parliament, a situation in which none of the political parties has an overall majority, British politicians have been attempting to form a coalition government.
Such a government is comparatively rare in the UK. Indeed this is the first coalition since the Second World War.
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BBC News Item 5 经济：美国财政官员失职
An investigation of United States has found that the country’s top financial regulator, the Securities and the Exchange Commissioner SEC, fail to uncover the 65 billion dollar fraud carried out by the convicted financier Bernard Madoff over a 16-year period, despite 5 parate investigations in his business dealings. Greg Wood reports.
The report by the SEC’s expe cted general David Kotz reads like a catalog of bungled opportunities to catch Bernard Madoff, long before he owned up to the largest fraud in US history. He was investigated five times. SEC staff caught him in lies but failed to follow them up. They rejected offers from whistleblowers to provide additional evidence. Many of the investigators were inexperienced. The scale of the SEC’s incompetence is laid bare by this report.
BBC News Item 6 经济：美国银行同意支付罚款了结控诉
贯高The Bank of America has agreed to pay 33 million dollars to ttle accusations by the US government over billions of dollars of bonus paid out last year by its investment on Merrill Lynch.
Bank of America took over Merrill Lynch to save it from collap in a deal backed by American taxpayers’ money. John Bithry reports.欧美顶级居家私拍
Bank of America had promid its shareholders that no bonus would be paid to bankers at Merrill Lynch without its express permission. It’s agreed to buy the struggling investment bank in September. On the same weekend that talks to save Lehman Brothers from collap failed. Like Lehman, Merrill Lynch was brought to its
knees by debt links to the US housing market that became toxic and lost its value. But after Merrill was rescued by BOA, it went ahead and paid its staff 3.6 billion dollars in bonus anyway. Shortly afterwards Bank of America was forced to go to the government for billions of dollars in extra taxpayer support, and the revelation of the payments caud a public outcry.
BBC News Item 7 经济：加州财政预算出了问题
After weeks of negotiations, the governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger has reached an outline agreement with legislative leaders on a plan to tackle the state’s massive budget shortfall. The deal, which will have to be approved by the state legislature, includes plans for billions of dollars in budget cuts, but no tax ris. Peter Bolger reports.
California has a budget shortfall of 26 billion dollars. State workers have been put on short time and many social and education rvices have been cut. The state has even resorted to issuing IOUs to c
ompanies it does business with and to individuals who are owed tax refunds. Governor Schwarzenegger described the comprid deal as a basic agreement to clo the state’s huge deficit. He and fellow Republicans have refud to rai taxes, all the opposition Democrats said fought to
prerve social rvices.
BBC News Item 8 政治：乌克兰声称发现俄国间谍
Ukraine says that the five alleged Russian spies were caught with a camera concealed inside a pen, other espionage equipment and $2000 — a reported bribe for a Ukrainian contact.The head of Ukraine’s curity rvice says that the five were trying to obtain military crets. Four of them have been expelled from Ukraine, while the fifth has been detained.
Russia’s curity rvice, the FSB, has confirmed the detention, but denied the Ukrainian version of events. The FSB said its actions were a respon to the recruitment of Russians by the Ukrainian curity rvices.
The mutual recriminations come at a highly nsitive time. Just two weeks ago, Russia nt an amb
assador to Ukraine after a five month abnce. And on Sunday, Ukrainians will vote in an election to choo a successor to the outgoing President, Viktor Yushchenko.Mr. Yushchenko’s time in office has been marked by strained relations with Moscow, and his departure was being en as an opportunity for an improvement in ties between the two countries.
BBC News Item 9 军事：俄国总统对美国导弹计划的意见
The Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has welcomed the announcement by
President Obama that the United States is shelving plans for a missile defensive system in Europe. He said President Obama had taken a responsible step by abandoning plans to ba long range interceptors in Poland and the Czech Republic. BBC News Item 10 政治：伊朗总统连任
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been sworn in for a cond term as Iranian President. However hundreds of opposition supporters disputing the election result gathered outside the parliament defying an official ban on protests. John Iion reports.
In a ceremony broadcast live on state TV, Mr. Ahmadinejad took the oath of office as prescribed in the Iranian constitution. He went on to defend the election result. The speaker of parliament Ali Larija独立的成语
ni criticid the west for their hastiness in condemning the result. But outside, opposition protesters gathered to give their contrary view. They were met by hundreds of riot police.
Western countries declined to give their official congratulations, though ambassadors from Britain and the European Union were prent.
BBC News Item 11 军事：伊朗核计划
The head of the UN nuclear agency Mohamed ElBaradei has given Iran and three world powers the text of a draft deal aimed at reducing concerns about Iran’s nuclear programme. The IAEA wants Iran to allow most of its uranium to be shipped abroad for further enrichment before being returned for u in a civilian rearch reactor. Jon Leyne reports.
The deal would mean Iran gets the fuel it needs and stays off pressure for more sanctions. The outside world es Iran’s enriched uranium taken out of the coun try and procesd in a way that will make it more difficult for Iran to make nuclear bombs. But Iran’s still not signed up publicly on
the crucial element, the shipping out of Iran of its precious stocks of enriched uranium, and that could be hard for the Iranian government to accept, in light of the prestige President Ahmadinejad has attached to the nuclear programme.
BBC News Item 12 军事：联合国出台伊朗问题协议草案
城市的英文Iran has agreed to let inspectors from the United Nations Nuclear Agency visit its recently rebuilt cond uranium enrichment plant. They will go there on Oct. 25th, the day was t during a visit to Tehran by the head of the agency Mohammed ElBaradei. The revelation last month said Iran was building an underground facility near Qom heightened internation al concern that it’s cretly trying to develope
nuclear weapons. But Mr. ElBaradei gave an upbeat asssment to relations with Iran.
I have been saying for a number of years that we need transparency on the part of Iran. We need co-operation on the part of the international community. So I e that we are at the critical moment. I e that we are shifting gears from confrontation into transparency and co-operation.
In Washington President Obama’s top curity advisor said things appeared to be moving in the
right direction.
BBC News Item 13 政治：吉尔吉斯坦反对派建立临时政府
There’s been a day of bloodshed and turmoil in Kyrgyzstan with th e opposition saying it t up an interim government. However it is still not clear who is in control
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or where President Kurmanbek Bakiyev is. Rayham Demytrie nt out this report from the capital, Bishkek.
As night fell, widespread looting began in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, hundreds of protesters were moving from one shop to another, tting buildings on fire and causing more chaos on the ground. Random gunshots could be heard all across Bishkek. An interim government has been t up in Kyrgyzstan. It is being led by an opposition leader Roza Otunbayeva. In a comment of a Russian TV channel she said that the situation in the country remains ten and difficult. Early on Wednesday, the country’s prime minister resigned. Some reports suggest that the Kyrgyz’s President Kurmanbek Bakiyev is in the south of the country in the city of Osh.
BBC News Item 14 政治：吉尔吉斯坦总统拒绝辞职
The Kyrgyzstan President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has refud to admit defeat after his political opponents dissolved parliament and demanded his resignation. Latest reports from the capital Bishkek say there was heavy shooting as night fell. From Bishkek, Richard Galpin now reports. After
the bloodshed yesterday, this morning
the main leaders of the opposition announced they’ve taken control of the c ountry, forming a temporary government and dissolving parliament. But at a news conference here in the capital, they admitted there were concerns that the president was trying to rally his supporters in the south of the country in order to fight back. The opposition wanted him to resign immediately, but Mr.Bakiyev has told BBC he has no intention of quitting and still considers himlf to be president.
BBC News Item 15 社会：缅甸某罪犯获释引发讨论
Burme officials have hinted many times that Aung San Suu Kyi may be relead.
