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The latest headlines from BBC world news.
Torrential rain and flooding across southern China has killed 55 people and forced more than a million people to flee their homes. Among the provinces hit by ten days of storm is Sichuan, devastated by last month's earthquake.
The President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai says he has the right to send troops across the border into Pakistan to destroy terrorist hideouts.
A new constitution for Kosovo has come into effect, handing power to the majority ethnic Albanian government after 9 years of rule from the United Nations. It comes 4 months after Kosovo declared independence from Serbia.
President Bush is due in Britain today on the last leg of his farewell tour of Europe. He's warn
Days after a rout in Britain over top secret intelligence files left on a train, it has emerged more confidential papers were lost on the same day. Earlier this week, a classified file was handed to the BBC containing intelligence assessments about Al-Qaeda. Now The Independent on Sunday newspaper says it was handed a separate set of confidential documents. Laura Kuenssberg reports.
Files relating to money laundering and terrorist financing and drug smuggling were discovered by a number of the public on a train bound for London's Waterloo station. A spokesman for the Treasury says there is extremely concerned about what's happened and will be taking steps to ensure it doesn’t happen again. This discovery may be on a smaller scale than recent breaches but it suggests despite repeated government promises the guarding of sensitive data is not taking seriously enough.
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President Bush says Iran has further isolated itself from the international community by rejecting new proposals to end its nuclear programme. At a news conference in Paris, Mr Bush expressed disappointment that Iranian leaders have turned down the offer. From Paris, Hue Scofield reports. The latest proposals from world powers to Iran offers a mix of economic incentives if it agrees to suspend its enrichment of uranium. But the immediate response from a spokesman in Tehran was that that any precondition to give up nuclear activities was unacceptable. Speaking in Paris, where he's on the latest leg of a European tour, Mr Bush said he was disappointed that the Iranian leaders have rejected out
International donors meeting in Paris have pledged $20 billion to rebuild Afghanistan over the next 5 years, less than half the $50 billion president Karzai had asked for. The United States is the biggest single donor having promised about $10 billion. Emma Jane Kirby reports from Paris. The Afghan government welcomed the news, saying it needs the money to build roads and dams, to train the national army and police force, and to improve education and agriculture. Recently there has been criticism that international aid has often been poorly coordinated. Involved donors agreed to give Afghan people still urgently needed help. They warned the money must be used more efficiently and urged the Afghan government to do more to stamp out widespread corruption.
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Police in Japan have raided two companies suspected of illegally supplying North Korea with vital equipment for enriching uranium. The authorities were acting on a tip-off from United Nations inspectors who discovered a Japanese made vacuum pump in North Korea. Chris Hogg has more. The police raided a manufacturing company in Kanagawa prefecture south of Tokyo, and a trading company in the capital. They search five sites in all. The suspect the pump found in North Korea which was used as a part in a device which enriched uranium was transported from Japan to the north
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开始尝试听写BBC新闻,每篇都很短,从今天开始坚持一个月
BBC080610_2
http://user.hjenglish.com/bbc2/BBCclover/BBC080610_2.mp3
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