BBC News:美國男子陰謀制造機(jī)場爆炸被捕

00:00

00:00

MP3下載 文本下載

https://online2.tingclass.net/lesson/shi0529/0009/9013/20131215bbc_1.mp3

https://image.tingclass.net/statics/js/2012

The 3-day period during which the body of NelsonMandela lay in state has come to an end. SouthAfrican officials say around 100,000 mourners haveviewed Mr. Mandela's body at the union buildings inPretoria. Some had to be turned away because queues were too long. Peter Biles reports fromPretoria.

In the Sandstone Amphitheater that is soon to be on Nelson Mandela's name, three days oflying in state ended with the playing of the South African National Anthem Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika.From the spot where Mr. Mandela was sworn in as president in 1994, his coffin was carrieddown the steps to the waiting hearse as military helicopters circled over the city.

The body will remain in Pretoria overnight, and there will be a ceremony at a local air forcebase in the morning to allow members of the governing African National Congress to say a lastfarewell before Mr. Mandela's funeral in the eastern Cape on Sunday.

The charity Save the Children is warning of an increasingly dire humanitarian situation at theCentral African Republic as spokesman said 40,000 people had gathered at the camp at theairport near the capital Bangui with many complaining of starvation. The country has been inchaos since rebels overthrew President Francois Bozize in March. Richard Hamilton reports.

A spokesman for Save the Children described scenes of appalling depravation. He said childrenwere suffering from diarrhea and malaria and people were defecating in the open as there wasonly one latrine. They were also having to sleep outside despite heavy rains. And he added thatthere was rubbish scattered every where.

The United States says a retired FBI agent who is believed to have been held in Iran for the last7 years was not a government employee when he went missing. US media have said that Mr.Levinson was on an unauthorized CIA intelligence operation when he went missing on theIranian island of Kish. From Washington, here is our correspondent Jonny Dymond.

In a carefully phrased response to the Associated Press's story, White House spokesman JayCarney said that Robert Levinson was not a government employee at the time of hisdisappearance. Mr. Carney also criticized as irresponsible the publication of the story. TheAP said that Mr. Levinson was on an informal mission for the CIA organized by a group ofagency officers outside of the normal oversight procedures. Mr. Levinson was last heard fromin a video made public in the early 2011 where looking gaunt and sounding weary, he asked forUS government assistance.

Mr. Levinson's family has criticized the US government, saying some officials were failing to dotheir best to locate him.

The authorities in the United States say they have arrested a man who was planning todetonated a car bomb at an airport in Kansas. The district attorney for Kansas said TerryLoewen who is an aviation technician had been charged with attempting to use a weapon ofmass destruction at the mid-continent airport in Wichita.

World News from the BBC.

Police in the US state of Colorado have been called to a shooting at a high school south ofDenver. The Arapahoe county chief sheriff says the suspected gunman who was a student atthe school has killed himself and the incident is now over. Television pictures have shownstudents coming out of the school with their hands up. Two people are reported to have beeninjured.

Scientists say a mud volcano in Indonesia that's displaced tens of thousands of people shouldstop erupting much sooner than previously thought. The assessment is based on satellitemonitoring of the area around the Lusi Volcano in east Java. Here is our sciencecorrespondent Jonathan Amos.

The eruption which began in east Java in 2006 is the largest of its kind, the result of a drillingoperation that went wrong.

The gooey noxious muck spewing out from the earth has so far displaced tens of thousandsof people and has to be controlled by huge dams. Initially more than 100,000 tons of mudoozed to the surface each day. This has decreased ten fold and a new analysis based onJapanese satellite observations of ground subsidence suggest a further ten fold decrease canby expected by 2017.

Police in Colombia have arrested relatives and several alleged associates of a prominent gangleader Dario Usuga, known as Otoniel. Mr. Usuga who leads the Urabenos criminal gang is stillat large. His cousin Arley Usuga Torres was arrested at a farm in northern Colombia. He isaccused of killing more than 20 police officers and is wanted in the United States for drugtrafficking.

The German football authorities say they will use a new resort village being built in Brazil astheir World Cup base after deciding that local facilities would not be good enough. Theannouncement coincides with growing controversy over the preparations for the World Cupnext year. Three of the stadiums are behind schedule. The village on the coast of Bahia innortheastern Brazil is being built by a German entrepreneur. The complex have buildingsaround a pool will feature a press center and a training pitch.

BBC News.