听新闻 练听力 Headline News 2016 March 18

听新闻 练听力 Headline News 2016 March 18

2016-03-18    04'45''

主播: Beijing Hour

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介绍:
China warns DPRK not to escalate tension following missile launch Turkish PM says hopeful of finding common ground with EU on migrants 8 killed, 22 injured in S. Philippine clash Musharraf leaves Pakistan after travel ban lifted Virgin Investigates into Case of Chinese Passenger Abused on Flight China-U.S. nuclear security center starts operation Number of Chinese websites exceeds 4.2 mln Former FIFA head Blatter paid $3.8m in salary in 2015 Chinese authorities have urged North Korea to comply with UN resolutions and stop any action that might escalate tension on the Korean Peninsula. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang made the remarks after North Korea fired a missile early on Friday, in violation of UN Security Council resolutions. The South Korean military says the North fired the Rodong ballistic missile off the country's east coast. It flew about 800 kilometers before falling into the sea. Pyongyang's latest move is seen as a response to the ongoing joint South Korea-US military drills which are being held at an unprecedented scale. Turkey's prime minister says he's hopeful of finding common ground with the European Union at a summit in Brussels aimed at tackling Europe's migration crisis. Ahmet Davutoglu spoke as he arrived for the meeting to be held later on Friday. Earlier, Luxembourg's prime minister said EU leaders had agreed on a joint position to put to Turkey at the meeting. The proposal would see all migrants traveling to Greece from Turkey sent back. In return it is thought the EU might offer Turkey financial aid and visa-free access to Schengen countries. Since January 2015, a million migrants and refugees have entered the EU by boat from Turkey to Greece. More than 132-thousand have arrived this year already. Seven terrorists and one soldier have been killed in a fierce firefight in the southern Philippine province of Sulu. A Philippine army general says a senior leader of the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf was wounded during the fighting that raged for about two hours. Government soldiers used heavy artillery in the clash with around 100 militants. The wounded Abu Sayyaf leader, Radullan Sahiron, is one of the group's original commanders, and has been blamed for several bomb attacks and kidnappings. The U.S. government has offered one million dollars for any information leading to the capture and prosecution of the man. Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf has left the country to seek medical treatment in Dubai, days after the Supreme Court lifted a travel ban. His lawyers say the former leader needs urgent spinal treatment unavailable in Pakistan. Musharraf returned from self-imposed exile in 2013 but had to face an array of charges relating to his time in power. The charges relate to his imposition of a state of emergency in 2007 and the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto the same year. Musharraf denies all the charges, saying they are politically motivated. Virgin Atlantic airlines has confirmed it's investigating claims of alleged racial abuse towards a Chinese passenger. According to an online post, a Caucasian man started swearing at the woman, seemingly without any provocation or reason, and then threatened other passengers who attempted to stop the man's abusive behavior. The Chinese passenger also claims that a flight attendant knowingly ignored the incident. The attendant reportedly threatened to remove the Chinese passenger if she spoke of the incident again. The largest nuclear security center in the Asia-Pacific region, a joint China-US project, has opened in Beijing. The center was built by the China Atomic Energy Authority and the U.S. Department of Energy. It is able to train about 2,000 nuclear-security staff for China and other nations in the Asia-Pacific region every year. The center is the largest nuclear program to have direct Chinese and U.S. government investment. The number of websites in China rose to more than 4- and-a-quarter million as of the end of last year. According to the Internet Society of China, over 3 million websites are operated by companies. The average mobile internet traffic by Chinese internet users exceeded 366 megabytes per month in 2015, up 85 percent year on year. China boasts the world's largest 4G network and has more 4G users than any other country. Former FIFA head Blatter paid $3.8m in salary in 2015 World football governing body FIFA has revealed its president's salary for the first time, saying it paid former head Sepp Blatter 3.8 million U.S. dollars last year. FIFA also says it lost 122 million dollars in 2015 to record its first deficit since 2002 mainly because of the rising costs of battling a corruption scandal. FIFA's total income in 2015 was 1.2 billion dollars and expenses reached nearly 1.3 billion with 61.5 million spent on what it calls "legal matters."