download

Homework

BBC World News with JW.
The Iraqi parliament is due to hold an extraordinary session later today to discuss the suicide bombing there on Thursday, which killed 8 people. Three members of parliament were among those who died when a bomber managed to get through a tight security cordon and blow self up in the staff cafeteria. Our correspondent in Baghdad Jim Muir says one theory is that the bomber was a member of a MP security staff.
Some of the MP's have been objected to being searched in the stressed security that measures the alarm posed both to get into the Green Zone and to be building of parliament itself. They’re regarded as an entrenchment of the sovereignty song. So they could be that poll so the bomber manage to slip through but certainly there is an extraordinary if they like achievement on the part of the bombers they managed to penetrate into this inner sanctum.

The chief American negotiator on North Korea Christopher Hill is due to hold talks in Beijing today. The meeting comes as the deadline approaches for North Korea to shut down its main nuclear reactor. Steve Jackson has the details.

Under the deal agreed on February, North Korea is meant to shut down its Pyongyang nuclear plan by this Saturday and invite international nuclear inspectors. But Christopher Hill has already acknowledged that meeting this deadline could be difficult. He's been taking to Japanese and South Korea officials. And he's now in Beijing trying to nudge the deal forward. Progress has been delayed by problems in transferring 25 millions dollars worth of North Korea funds. That has been frozen at the bank in Macro, following money-laundering accusations. Pyongyang has refused to make any further move until it gets the money back.

The Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao is rapping up a trip to Japan with a visit to the ancient capital Kyoto. His program on the final day is informal and comes at the end of the visit that Japan officials have called a great success.

The directors of the World Bank have been meeting to the discuss an admission by the bank's president Paul Wolfowitz that he helped his girlfriend get promotion to a high-pay job in the organization. The directors are considering how to respond after the staff representatives called Mr. Wolfowitz to resign for allegedly showing favoritism to his girlfriend.

Fresh efforts is underway to ease the crisis in the Sudanese region of Darfur. Britain's and the United Nations ambassador has set their signs that Sudan might except a plan to strengthen the existing Afghan Union peacekeeping mission where UN continued to using attack helicopters. The new Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said the Sudanese government need to feel threatened by a UN peacekeeping force.
There seem to be some misunderstandings on the part of Sudanese government on this equipment. This is not for any offensive purpose. This peacekeeping is essential by definition is peacekeeping operations. It's not for any offensive. Ban Ki-Moon

You are listening the World News from the BBC.

The missing BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston is not into the second month of what believed to be kidnapping after disappearing in the Gaza Strip on the afternoon of the 12th of March. Thursday saw a call by the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon for Alan Johnston 's immediate and unconditional release.

The American Civil Liberties Union says the US army has paid more than 32 million dollars to civilian victims of actions by the American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. On its website, the organization has posted copies of the actual claim forms obtained on the freedom of information legislation. They were fowled by the families of people mistakenly killed by US soldiers.

The agency oxford has called on the European Union to resume sending aid to the Palestinian government to with turning the Palestinian territory into a failed state. Oxford warms on a report that the year-long international boycott of the Hamas-led government has caused a big increase poverty in Gaza and the West Bank. An Oxford spokesperson JA told the BBC that the resumption of aid would improve the situation both finally and politely for all Palestinian.
People are really facing hardship more than ever have before because of these boycotts and that is also created a number of problems in terms of security there in the Palestinian territories. We have seen a surge in sexual violence of the last year. And we believe that people can get back to their ordinary lives can support their families and that will be a positive step towards resolving other political issues that within the country.

Conservation is in Russia. Say the world biggest cat species, the Amur Tiger has come back from the brink of extinction to reach its high population level for more than a century. Scientist from the conservation group WWF say they believe up to 520 Amur Tigers now live in remote parts of eastern Siberia.

And that is the latest BBC World News.

现在能听懂很多了 就是有些长句还不是很撑钭