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BBC新闻10篇BBC News Item1政治:吉尔吉斯斯坦总统逃亡国外The President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiyev has left the country and flown to neighboring Kazakhstan almost a week after his political opponents seized power.The authorities in Kazakhstan said his departure had been organized with the help of Russia and the United States. Rayhan Demytrie reports.A plane carrying the ousted Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev took off from Jalalabad Airport on Thursday evening.Within an hour,the foreign ministry of Kazakhstan issued a statement,saying Mr Bakiyev landed in the Kazakh city of Taraz.His departure,the statement said,was a result of negotiations between the US,Russia,Kazakhstan and a number of other international diplomats.And it was done for the prevention of civil war and further unrest in the country.BBC News Item2灾难:哀悼遇难波兰总统The pavement in front of President Kaczynski’s palace in central Warsaw has nearly disappeared from sight,covered now with thousands of small glass pots containing candles laid as a mark of respect.The president’s body has been brought back from Russia and is due to lie in state later today.More details of the funeral arrangements are expected over the next day or so.Poland’s health minister has said that only14of the96victims of Saturday’s air crash in Russia are identifiable.Crash investigators say data from the flight recorders appear to show there was no technical fault on the plane,suggesting pilot error may have been a factor in the crash.BBC News Item3灾难:莫斯科地铁连环爆炸案The Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and the Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have vowed to track down those behind the suicide bombings on the Moscow underground.The attacks by two female suicide bombers killed at least37people.President Medvedev spoke to reporters outside the Lubyanka underground station where one of the bombs exploded.“These were simply beasts and regardless of their motives,what they did is a crime under any law and in accordance with any morals.You know I have no doubt that we will find them and destroy them all.”Russia officials believed the bombs were the work of Muslim groups from the Northern Caucasus where rebels in a number of regions including Chechnya and Ingushetia have been waging violent campaigns for independence from Moscow.BBC News Item4健康:亚马逊土著部落受HINI袭击An outbreak of swine flu among the relatively isolated tribes of the Amazon is of particular concern to the authorities because of the potential speed with which it could spread among the indigenous population.Now the London-based international organisation,Survival,says that is already happening among the Yanomami Indians in the border region between Venezuela and Brazil.The NGO claims that seven members of the Yanomami in Venezuela have died from theH1N1virus and that hundreds more have been infected.BBC News Item5经济:压岁钱也有商机According to Chinese tradition,parents give their children clean,fresh banknotes at the start of the new year.But such notes are in high demand in the run-up to the holiday period,and Yao Guan Cheng noticed a gap in the market.“When we first started this business,it was for family members who liked to collect antique banknotes.But later on,it struck me that this service would come in handy for the Chinese New Year.It is one of our customs to put banknotes inside little red envelopes in order to bring our children good luck.“To do that,people change old notes for new ones at the banks.But here in Taiwan,there are all sorts of restrictions as to how much you can change,what days you can do that and which banks you can go to.That’s inconvenient.So I thought:why not give people an alternative?”He doesn’t just soak the notes in water,he uses special chemicals that are a closely guarded secret.His services don’t come cheap,he charges about$10for washing twenty banknotes.But in the run-up to the new year,he’s been in demand,cleaning people’s banknotes and in the process, giving a new,cleaner,image to the term‘money laundering’.BBC News Item6自然与环境:火山灰的影响Conditions on the ground immediately downstream of the volcano are extremely difficult.A lot of ash is falling.Approximately ten centimetres of volcanic dust has settled on the ground.Visibility is down to just a few metres and the authorities are using specially modified vehicles,armoured personnel carriers to visit and check on people who remain in the area.But the top of the ash cloud reaching into the sky has lowered.It is no longer registering on weather radar and scientists estimate its maximum height is now around three to four thousand metres.Much less ash is now being released into the atmosphere compared to the beginning of this eruption and scientists say they believe the volcanic activity may now be entering a different phase.BBC News Item7灾难:图瓦卢或被海洋吞噬The tiny Pacific island state of Tuvalu whose existence is threatened by global warming says it wants all its energy to come from renewable sources by2020.Tuvalu’s Prime Minister says his nation wants to set an example.The state is made up of a string of atolls with the highest point only four metes above sea level.BBC News Item8科技:奥巴马评价40年前的首次登月President Barack Obama has marked the40th anniversary of the first lunar landing by praising astronauts of the Apollo XI mission for inspiring a generation of scientists and engineers. After meeting the first man to walk on the moon,Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin,Mr.Obama recalled as a child watching their return to earth.BBC News Item9关注物种多样性The world’s leading authority on biodiversity and species lost has warned that governments have failed to meet commitments on reducing the global decline in biodiversity with devastating effects.The International Union for Conservation of Nature said almost half of the world’s coral reef species,a third of amphibians and a quarter of all mammals were now threatened to the extinction.Jean-Christophe Viéof the IUCN species programme said that biodiversity was being confronted by a variety of challenges.“The biggest threat is habitat destruction say through logging,damming for rivers, conversion to agriculture,urbanization so that’s the main threat to biodiversity now.Threats on there,climate change is coming as a big threat for many species.And therefore humans,because we are dependent on these species,we need to reduce the level of all these other threats.”BBC News Item10人物:龚如心遗产问题The fight over Nina Wang’s fortune last month in the High Court captivated the Hong Kong public.Feng shui master Tony Chan,Nina Wang’s former lover,claimed her estimated$4.2billion estate based on a will allegedly written in2006.But the High Court deemed it a fake and awarded her estate to the Chinachem Charitable Foundation,run by Ms Wang’s family.。

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