英国新闻听力 德黑兰再次发生抗议活动(在线收听

Thousands of opposition supporters in the Iranian capital Teheran have staged fresh protests against last month’s controversial presidential election. Police fired tear gas to disperse the crowds who chanted the name of Mir Hossein Mousavi, the candidate officials say came second; reports also speak of several arrests. Earlier the former President Ali Akbar Rafsanjani delivered a powerful sermon at Friday prayers. He said many Iranians had doubts about the reelection of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The situation created after the announcement of election results is bitter. I don't think anyone from any faction wanted this. And now all of us have been harmed, all have been harmed. Why did it happen? Today we need unity more than anytime in the past.

Indonesian police say bomb attacks on two luxury hotels in the capital Jakarta were carried out by two suicide bombers. At least nine people were killed including the bombers and many others injured. Police are describing a bedroom at the Marriott hotel where a bomb was defused and bomb making materials were found as the attackers’ control center. Indonesia’s ambassador to the United Nations Marty Natalegawa said those behind the attacks would be punished.

We are not going to speculate at this juncture who the possible perpetrators are, and so really do the good old-fashioned policing work and let our authorities work in a diligent manner to find the perpetrators. Let me assure you of one point. These people who perpetrated these heinous acts, they may be able to try to run, but they cannot hide.

An Italian judge has jailed more than fifty members of a Sicilian Mafia syndicate, some of them for up to twenty years in jail, in a case the Italian government says is a landmark in the battle against organized crime. The accused, who’re all linked to the Lo Piccolo crime family were prosecuted for running protection rackets involving shops and businesses on the island of Sicily. The BBC correspondent in Rome says failure to pay often led to violence, arson and occasionally murder. It’s the first time that local groups of Sicilian businessmen working closely with the police have achieved a successful prosecution.

The American space shuttle Endeavour has successfully docked with the International Space Station two days after its launch. Charles Scanlon reports from Miami.

The seven crew members on board the Endeavour are joining six already at the space station making it the largest number of astronauts ever assembled in orbit. The shuttle will remain for a week and a half to complete work on a Japanese space laboratory. Before docking the Endeavour performed a back flip so that scientists at the space station could photograph its entire surface. They were looking for any damage caused during Wednesday’s launch. NASA says the shuttle’s in no danger even though it was hit by debris thought to be foam that peeled off from the fuel tank.

The American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived in Mumbai at the start of her visit to India. Before going Mrs. Clinton called on the country to join the United States in supporting Pakistan’s fight against terrorism. Relations between the South Asian neighbors have been tense since the Mumbai bomb attacks last year which India blames on Pakistani militants. Mrs. Clinton’s agenda is also likely to include trade and climate change.

Supporters of the deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya have staged demonstrations across the country amid reports that the ousted leader is about to return home. President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela said Mr. Zelaya who’s been in neighboring Nicaragua would cross the border soon and had his full support. The United States has called for restraint.

The Polish philosopher and political theorist Leszek Kolakowski has died in hospital at Oxford in England. He was 81. A former communist Kolakowski spent almost half his life in exile in the West. The Polish Parliament held a one minute’s silence in remembrance of his contribution to a free and democratic Poland. Adam Easton reports from Warsaw.

After the war he studied philosophy and became a professor. Seeing the destruction wrought by the Nazis in Poland he joined the Communist Party. But he gradually became disillusioned and more daring in his criticism of the system. In 1966, he was expelled from the Party and two years later he lost his job. Seeking exile in the West, he eventually settled at Oxford, in the 1980s from his base in Britain, he supported Poland's pro-democracy Solidarity Movement which overthrew communism in 1989.

French police are investigating an incident where two cyclists in the Tour de France were shot at and slightly injured with an air rifle. The organizers of the tour said the New Zealand rider Julian Dean, was hit on the finger, Oscar Freire of Spain was also injured.

在伊朗首都德黑兰,反对派支持者对上月有争议的总统选举发起新的抗议活动。集会人群高呼处于第二位的候选人穆萨维的名字,警方发射催泪弹来驱散人群。据报道还有一些抗议者被逮捕。早些时候,前总统拉夫桑贾尼在周五的祈祷周发表了有力的讲道。他说,许多伊朗人民对总统内贾德的再次当选存在疑问。

宣布选举结果之后,伊朗的形势更加严峻。我认为,任何一个党派都不希望看到这样。现在,所有人都受到了伤害。为什么会发生这种情况呢?今天,我们需要比以往任何时候更加团结。

印度尼西亚警方表示,首都雅加达两家豪华酒店发生的炸弹爆炸袭击由两名自杀式爆炸者实施。包括爆炸者本人在内共有至少9人死亡,多人受伤。警方称,在万豪酒店一个房间内拆除了一枚炸弹,房内还发现了一些制造炸弹的原料,这应是袭击者的控制中心。印尼驻联合国大使Marty Natalegawa称,爆炸袭击的幕后主使者应当受到严惩。

在这个关键时刻,我们不会推测谁是罪犯,而是让警方按部就班的工作,让官方勤奋地找出罪犯。我可以保证一点。实施恶行的人可以逃跑,但是不可能永远躲避。

一名意大利法官判处黑手党组织50多名成员监禁,其中一些被判20年。该案件被意大利政府称作打击团伙犯罪的里程碑。被控者均与黑手党犯罪团伙有关,被控诉在西西里岛向商铺和企业收取保护费。BBC驻罗马记者称,如果商铺不交保护费,通常会遭遇暴力,纵火甚至谋杀。这是西西里岛当地商人组织与警方的合作首次获得胜诉。

美国奋进号航天飞机发射两天之后与国际空间站成功对接。Charles Scanlon在迈阿密报道。

奋进号航天飞机上的7名宇航员加入已经在空间站的6人,成为轨道上宇航员人数的最大规模。航天飞机将停留一周半的时间,完成日本太空实验室的工作。在此之前,奋进号进行了环游,以便空间站的科学家能够拍下整体外貌。他们检查了周三的发射中可能造成的任何损坏。NASA称,尽管航天飞机被怀疑从油罐剥落的碎片击中,但是飞机本身没有危险。

美国国务卿希拉里·克林顿抵达孟买,开始印度之行。动身之前,克林顿呼吁印度加入美国的行列,支持巴基斯坦打击恐怖主义。自去年的孟买恐怖袭击案以来,这两个南亚邻国之间的关系一度紧张,印度一直指责袭击是巴基斯坦好战分子所谓。克林顿的日程还可能包括贸易和气候变化方面。

洪都拉斯全国均在报道被驱逐的总统塞拉亚即将回国,塞拉亚的支持者发起示威活动。委内瑞拉总统查韦斯称,现正在邻国尼加拉瓜的塞拉亚总统即将穿越边境。查韦斯将全力支持。美国要求各方进行克制。

波兰哲学家和政治理论家莱斯泽克·克拉科夫斯基在英国牛津一家医院去世,享年81岁。克拉科夫斯基以前曾是共产主义者,半生都被流放在西方。波兰议会默哀一分钟,纪念他对自由民主的波兰所作的贡献。Adam Easton在华沙报道。

战后,克拉科夫斯基学习哲学,并成为专家。看到纳粹分子引起的破坏,他加入了共产党。但是他的幻想逐渐破灭,在批判系统中更加大胆。1966年,他被驱逐出党,两年后失业。在西方的流放过程中,他最终在牛津定居。八十年代,在英国定居期间,他支持波兰的团结工人运动,最终于1989年推翻了共产主义。

在环法自行车赛中,两名自行车赛选手被气枪打中,造成轻伤,法国警方正在进行调查。自行车赛的组织者称,新西兰车手Julian Dean手指受伤,受伤的还有西班牙选手Oscar Freire。

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