1、1BBC新闻100篇 BBC News Item 1 政治：英国首相确定大选时间 The BBC has learned that the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has decided that the British general election will take place on May 6th. Mr. Brown will go to Buckingham Palace tomorrow Tuesday to ask Queen Elizabeth to dissolve parliament, and then make a f
2、ormal announcement of the election date. That will start the official election campaign, which, a BBC correspondent says, will be dominated by issues of taxation and spending in the wake of the global recession. BBC News Item 2 政治：大选在即，布朗遭遇挑战 Less than six months before a general election in Britain
3、, the governing Labour Party is embroiled again in internal strife. Two former cabinet ministers have called for secret ballot of members to decide whether the Prime Minister Gordon Brown should continue as party leader. Mr. Brown has called a general election by June this year. Our political corres
4、pondent Rob Watson reports. The two former cabinet ministers Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt had stunned everyone at Westminster with their last-minute efforts to challenge Gordon Browns leadership. But Downing Street and Labour Party officials have moved quickly to quash any revolts. Most importantl
5、y, current cabinet ministers have come out and backed the prime minister, orbiting some cases with little apparent enthusiasm. So the latest challenge looks likely to be short lift. Although many within the Labour Party doubt Mr. Browns leadership qualities, they also seem to think it would only mak
6、e things worse to get rid of him before the general election. BBC News Item 3 军事：英国核缩减计划 The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is offering to scale back Britains nuclear deterrence if an international agreement is reached to cut the worlds nuclear arsenals. Mr. Brown is expected to tell a special
7、session of the United Nations Security Council on Thursday that hell be willing to give up one of four royal navy submarines that carry Trident nuclear missiles. Officials are insisting that cost isnt a factor here. Heres our defence correspondent Nick Childs. Gordon Brown is saying hell be ready to
8、 throw part of the trident force into the port in the context of a much bigger global disarmament deal. He said so in general terms before. This offer though is more concrete. There is a growing sense that to avoid what some fear could be a sudden cascade of new nuclear states, the established nucle
9、ar powers need to do more in terms of disarmament to keep the proliferation regime intact. The Prime Minister will hope his move will be seen as an important gesture. But the key to the process will be the actions of the big players, the United States and Russia. BBC News Item 4 军事：英国派军阿富汗 The Briti
10、sh Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to confirm that he is sending hundreds more troops to Afghanistan, bringing the total number of British troops there to about 9,500. Britain has the second largest NATO contingent in Afghanistan after the United States. Our defense 2correspondent Caroline W
11、yatt reports. In his statement on Afghanistan, its believed Mr. Brown will say hes agreed in principle to send around 500 extra British troops to Helmand. The military advice says that extra forces are needed to help maintain progress and dominate the ground more effectively to keep the Taliban out
12、of key areas. However, there will be caveats. The Prime Minister will want assurances from military chiefs that the extra troops will be properly equipped. But hell also expect Britains NATO partners to follow suit by offering more forces themselves. NATO defense ministers are likely to discuss troo
13、p levels on a meeting formally in Bratislava next week. BBC News Item 5 经济：欧美股市大跌 Stock markets in Europe and the United States have fallen sharply in response to further signs that the debt crisis in Greece is intensifying and could spread to other countries. Share prices in New York, London, Frank
14、furt and Paris fell by more than 2% after a major international credit rating agency Standard he was part of the clean-up in all of this. BBC News Item 58 军事：乌克兰宣布销毁其所有高浓缩铀储藏 As leaders from nearly 50 countries meet in Washington for a major summit on Nuclear Security, Ukraine has pledged to elimina
15、te stockpile of highly enriched uranium by 2012. Ukraine will also convert several nuclear research facilities to use low enriched uranium. The summit, the biggest international meeting hosted by the US since 1945, has been called by president Obama. Our diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus repo
16、rts from Washington. The timing may have been choreographed for the decision by the Ukraine authorities is just the sort of news president Barack Obama wants to hear. This summit is all about securing stocks of fissile material, highly enriched uranium and plutonium could potentially be used by terr
17、orists to build a nuclear bomb. US officials said that Ukraine has sufficient highly enriched uranium for several nuclear weapons. This will be removed with some help from the United States. This is a precedent Obama would like other countries to follow and just to underscore the gravity of the pote
18、ntial threat. John Briton, a senior US counter-terrorism official, has warned that al-Qaeda has been seeking material for a nuclear bomb for over 15 years and that interest remains strong. BBC News Item 59 军事：克什米尔的枪声 The sound of gun shots and explosions echoed through the centre of Srinagar after g
19、unmen opened fire in Lal Chowk, the main square in the citys commercial district. After a relatively quiet period in Kashmir, there have been several recent attacks four soldiers were killed in an ambush by militants last week. But this latest attack is even more audacious, right in the heart of one
20、 of the most heavily policed cities in the world. Violent separatist groups, some of them backed by Pakistan, have taken up arms against Indian rule against Indian rule in Kashmir for 20 years. The fighting is far less intense than it was in the 1990s, but a political solution to Kashmirs problems r
21、emains elusive. So its been a bloody start to the New Year in this highly sensitive region, which has been divided between India and Pakistan for decades. In another sign of the complexity of the conflict, four Pakistani soldiers have been killed by a suicide bomber in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
22、 Its a worrying development for the Pakistani authorities, which suggests that Taliban militants may be trying to expand their area of operations. BBC News Item 60 军事：在阿富汗的北约军队 NATO troops in Afghanistan have rescued a reporter of the New York Times newspaper who had been held by the Taliban in the
23、northern province of Kunduz since Saturday. The New York Times said the journalist Stephen Farrell was unharmed after being released in the gun battle. Chris Morris reports from Kabul. A military operation led by NATO forces rescued Stephen Farrell from a village in the northern province of Kunduz w
24、here he had been kidnapped last week while reporting on the aftermath of a NATO airstrike. In remarks quoted on the New York Times website he says he heard British and Afghan voices as bullets started flying around. That suggests that British troops were 18involved in the rescue although there has b
25、een no confirmation of that. Stephen Farrells colleague Sultan Munadi, an Afghan interpreter whos worked for the New York Times for several years was killed in the exchange of fire. BBC News Item 61 军事：二战70周年纪念 A day of commemorations will begin in Poland shortly to mark the 70th anniversary of the
26、outbreak of the 2nd World War. The first ceremony will take place at dawn on the Westerplatte peninsula near Gdansk. Greg Morsbach reports. 70 years ago to the day, the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire on a Polish military outpost in the Baltic peninsula. This heralded the start of t
27、he Second World War, a conflict that claimed more than 50 million lives. 70 years old leaders and top officials from nations such as Germany, Italy, Ukraine, France, the U.S., Russia and Poland are reattending a series of ceremonies on the Polish coast. Moscow is sending a top-level delegation with
28、Prime Minister Vladimir Putin scheduled to deliver a speech commemorating the event seven decades ago. BBC News Item 62 军事：尼日尔发生军事政变 A coup attempt appears to be under way in Niger. Soldiers have forced their way into the presidential palace and taken the head of state Mamadou Tandja to a military b
29、arracks. Johnny Hawk reports. Latest information says President Tandja has now been separated from his ministers and taken to an unknown military camp. French diplomats have confirmed that hes indeed in the hands of a mutant faction of the army after soldiers stormed the presidential offices where c
30、abinet meeting was under way. The heavy exchanges of fire which broke out on Thursday afternoon have left at least 3 people dead and 10 injured. Exactly which part of the military carried out the operation remains unclear. Niger has been rocked by months of political crisis after the president chang
31、ed the constitution to remain in power. BBC News Item 63 军事：北约军队错杀阿富汗南部平民 On the second day of a major offensive against the Taliban in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, NATO-led forces have killed 12 civilians by mistake. A NATO statement said two rockets veered off target. Martin Patience r
32、eports. According to military officials, the two rockets were supposed to target insurgents who they say were firing from a compound. But the weapons missed their target by 300 meters, killing the civilians in Marjah. In a statement, NATO-led forces say theyve suspended the use of this particular ro
33、cket while they investigate. Despite the deaths, commanders say the operation is proceeding as planned. Progress, however, has been slow in Marjah town as forces clear homemade bombs and booby traps from roads and compounds. BBC News Item 64 科技：大型强子对撞机模拟宇宙大爆炸后初态 Scientists at the worlds largest part
34、icle accelerator have successfully collided beams of protons at the highest energy levels ever seen. There was cheering in the control room at CERN, the European nuclear research center in Switzerland as one of the biggest and most complicated 19scientific experiments got fully underway. The experim
35、ent is seen as a major breakthrough in efforts to understand the fundamental nature of the universe. Doctor Martin White is a research fellow at CERN. “One of the great mysteries of the universe is that most of the mass in the universe is some kind of dark matter. Its some kind of particle that does
36、nt match anything weve seen before. And if you look into space, you can see this because you can see its gravitational pull. So wonder thing is that we hope to get, recent and earlier, an effective scene in the next two years of some idea of what this dark matter is.” BBC News Item 65 科技：科学家证实行星撞地球是
37、恐龙灭绝主因 Scientists say they can now definitively back, the long held theory that a huge asteroid striking the earth some 65 million years ago was responsible for wiping out the dinosaurs and more than half of all animal species on the planet. The scientists finally discounted an alternative theory th
38、at volcanic eruptions caused the dinosaurs demise. Our science correspondent Pallab Ghosh reports. The popular conception is that dinosaurs reign supreme until they were suddenly eradicated from the face of the planet. The theory goes that a giant asteroid crashed into the earth, wiping out half of
39、all life on earth. Some scientists though say that those evidences that dinosaur survived the asteroid impact and became extinct some 300,000 years later. But a new analysis of all the available research has backed the view that it was a giant asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. BBC News Item 66
40、科技：东非宽带发展 It has been an ambitious project. Laying a 17,000 kilometre fibre optic cable under the sea linking Europe and Asia with East and Southern Africa. Seacom, a Mauritius-based company, is today officially launching the arrival of a fast broadband internet service in Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambiqu
41、e and South Africa. It should be commercially available in a few weeks time. Three other fibre optic cables are due to become operational soon including one which is backed by the Kenyan government. In theory the region could be on the brink of an internet revolution. But it all depends how well the
42、 service is rolled out across the region. BBC News Item 67 科技：去太空旅游吧 Its 60 feet long, made of lightweight, fuel-efficient material and can carry eight people out of this world and back. The first commercial spaceship was unveiled by Sir Richard Branson, who hopes to start passenger trips within two
43、 years. The price tag: 130,000. “In time we hope to get that price down and down and down so that, you know, one day, people can think: Shall I take my family on holiday to the Caribbean or maybe we should try space travel this year? Thats our aim.” Those that can pay will get the ultimate three-hou
44、r thrill ride. The spaceship rockets to 62 miles above the earths surface. Passengers will feel weightless for up to five minutes before heading down through the atmosphere and gliding back to earth. Organisers say some 300 have already signed up. Space, as a tourist destination, may be one 20step c
45、loser. BBC News Item 68 科技：网络上的交通 The United States government has announced the plans that it says will ensure that the all traffic on the internet is treated equally regardless of how much behind with it to takes up. The head of Federal Communications Commission Julius Genachowski said it is vital
46、 to safeguard open and neutral internet. Maggie Shiels has more. In the major speech to a Washington think tank Julius Genachowski outlined the roadmap for all operators including wireless to follow. He is meant to ensure that the internet service providers can not block or slow down internet traffi
47、c like the ban with hogging video downloads. Mr. Genachowskis move to extend the rules to wireless is going to more people getting on line using a mobile phone. Gigi Sohn of public knowledge backs the inclusion of wireless operators because she says wireless is the next frontier and where the great
48、growth of internet accesses is going to come from. BBC News Item 69 科技：登上火星的计划 Two of the astronauts took part in the first moon landing 40 years ago today have called for a new effort to send the manned machine to the planet Mars. They were speaking at a rare public reunion of the crew of the Apoll
49、o 11 mission. Command module pilot Michael Collins said the future of space exploration should be directed at getting to Mars. “Mars was always my favorite as a kid and it still is today. As soon as your bodies go, the moon is not a particularly interesting place. But Mars is. And Mars is the closest thing to earths sister that we found so far.” BBC News Item 70 健康：睡眠的意义 Pythons, bats and giant armadillos are among the longest sleepers at over 18 hours a day. Human babies need 16 hours, and most of us probably feel we need around eight hours sleep to functi
