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20121201BBC

BBC News with Sue Montgomery.

Israel has authorized the construction of 3,000 new homes on occupied Palestinian land a day after the United Nations General Assembly voted to revise the status of the Palestinians to that of non-member observer state. US officials have condemned the Israeli move as counterproductive. Kevin Connolly reports.

就在联合国大会表决批准巴勒斯坦为非会员观察国后，以色列授权在被占领的巴勒斯坦领土上建设3000处新房屋。美国官方称以色列的动作将事与愿违。Kevin Connolly报道。

Israel has been struggling to calibrate its reactions to the Palestinian campaign for upgraded status of the United Nations. But it clearly felt that allowing the development to pass without some form of political response would be seen as a sign of weakness. So it has announced its granting permission for 3,000 new homes in the west bank in eastern Jerusalem and speeding up the processing of a further 1,000 existing planning applications. The Palestinians and the overwhelming majority of the international community see the area in question as land occupied by Israel.

以色列一直努力调整自己对巴勒斯坦提升在联合国地位活动的反应，但以色列显然认为，不作出政治回应就让巴勒斯坦得逞可能被视为软弱。因此，以色列就宣布批准在耶路撒冷东部的西岸地区建设3000处房屋，加快对目前的1000所计划中项目的事实。巴勒斯坦和国际社会绝大多数国家都将该地区看做是被以色列占领的领土。

Tens of thousands of Egyptians have been protesting in Cairo against the country's President Mohamed Mursi and a new draft constitution. The demonstrators already critical of sweeping powers assumed by Mr. Mursi are angry the draft was rushed through in just 16 hours. Bethany Bell spent the day in Tahrir Square.

数万名埃及人在开罗抗议总统穆罕默德?穆尔西和新起草的宪法。游行者早就对穆尔西授予自己大权的做法进行批评，而只用16小时就匆匆完成的宪法草案更令他们感到愤怒。Bethany Bell在塔里尔广场报道。

President Mursi has said the reason he took the step to give himself those powers was because he was worried the court, the judges were trying to prepare a legal challenge to the body that was writing the constitution and they were going to hold everything up. So a real tussle going on here and it's really a question of who you believe more, whether you believe the suspicions of the opposition, or whether you do believe President Mursi is going to give up those powers. So a real shushing match over Egypt's future taking place on the streets of Cairo and other cities across the country.

总统穆尔西称，之所以授权自己这些权力，是因为担心法庭和法官们会起诉起草宪法的机构并独揽大权。因此，斗争的实质问题是：

你更相信谁，是相信反对派的怀疑，还是相信总统穆尔西将放弃权力。因此，在开罗和各国各城市的大街上，人们高呼口号开始游行。

Russia's powerful Investigative Committee says it has evidence, a number of opposition activists were trained abroad as a part of alleged foreign-sponsored plans to provoke unrest. Here's Tom Esslemont.

俄罗斯强大的调查委员会称，有证据表明一些反对派活动人士正在接受培训，以进行由外国赞助的挑起动乱的阴谋。Tom Esslemont报道。

In the 12 months since mass opposition demonstrations began in Russia with the aim of ending Vladimir Putin's rule, the leaders of those protests have grown more determined and more defiant. Among them, 35-year-old Sergei Udaltsov, he and fellow activists Learnid ResvojaEd and Kostantin Lebedev have already been charged with organising mass disorder. Now the Investigative Committee, a state body with extended powers, says it has further evidence including witness testimony showing how the men were seeking cash from abroad to fund mass unrest in Russia. The men denied the charges.

自从12月前俄罗斯发生意在结束普京统治的大规模反对游行以来，两起抗议的领袖都变得更坚决更无畏。其中有35岁的Sergey Udaltsov和其他活动人士，Leonid Razvozzhayev和Konstantin Lebedevhe均被指控策划大规模动乱。目前，调查委员会—具有更大权力的国家机构—称已得到进一步证据，包括目击证据表明这些人从外国获取资金来支持俄罗斯的大规模动乱。这些男子否认这些指控。

The Spanish authorities have for the first time shown some of the treasure from a frigate that sank more than 200 years ago. The treasure estimated to be worth $ 500 million was discovered by a U.S. salvage company. But Spain successfully claimed ownership.

西班牙政府首次公开展示一艘200多年前沉没的护卫舰上的珍宝，这些珍宝由美国一家打捞公司发现，价值大约5亿美元。西班牙成功获得所有权。

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The authorities in northern Pakistan say at least 18 people are missing including eight soldiers after they were hit by an avalanche. An official in the Nilam Valley in Pakistan-administered Kashmir said the party had been on a mission to find three soldiers who were hit by an earlier avalanche when another avalanche struck.

巴基斯坦北部当局称至少18人在遭遇雪崩后丧生，其中包括8名士兵。巴控克什米尔地区尼勒姆山谷的一名官员称，一支任务组被派去寻找早些时候遭遇雪崩的士兵，结果也遇上雪崩。

The governor of Nigeria central bank has defended his call for the number of civil servants to be halved. The governor Lamido Sanusi told the BBC that the Nigerian government spent 70% of its income on less than 1% of the population. He said spending should be channeled towards education, health and improve power supplies.

尼日利亚央行行长为自己要求将公务员数量减半的呼声辩护。行长拉米多?萨努西告诉BBC，尼日利亚政府将70%的收入用在不到1%的人口上，他说应把财政用在教育、卫生和改善电力供应上。

The Italian government has moved to tackle a crisis that threatened to end production at one of Europe's biggest steel mills in the southern city of Taranto. Pollution from the ILV A plant has long been blamed for causing higher-than-average rates of cancer in the area. The owners denied this, but on Monday announced that because of legal pressure, they would close the plant down. The government has now issued a decree forcing the company to invest in the technology needed to clean the plant up. Here's Ellen Johnston.

意大利南部城市塔兰托一座欧洲最大钢厂遭遇停产危机，对此意大利政府开始着手应对。据悉Ilva钢厂的污染导致该地区患癌率高于平均水平，厂长对此否认，但已于周一宣布由于法律压力将关闭钢厂。政府发布命令迫使钢厂投资必需的技术以清理工厂。Ellen Johnston 报道。

The mill will be allowed to continue operating while this work is being done. The government is obviously desperate to ensure that there is no shutdown and no job losses. The mill is the only major employer in an area which is already economically depressed. At the same time, the plant produces about one third of Italy's steel and even a temporary halt to production might have had an impact on many areas of the country's manufacturing industry.

这家钢厂获准在清理工作完成后继续运行，政府想尽办法确保不关厂也不减员。在这里经济萧条的地区，这家钢厂是唯一的雇主。同时，这家工厂生产的钢铁占意大利钢铁总量的1/3，因此，即使是暂时停产也会对该国的制造业造成影响。

An American company says it has found a way to make bread stay mold-free for two months. Tests showed that putting slices in a sophisticated microwave oven for around ten seconds kill the spores that turn bread black. Food waste is a huge problem in most developed countries.

美国一家公司找到让面包在两个月内不受霉菌侵蚀的办法。测试显示，将面包切片放在精密微波炉里10余秒就可以杀死导致面包变黑的孢子。食物浪费在大多数发达国家都是大问题。

20121202BBC

BBC News with Sue Montgomery.

The Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has announced a referendum on a new draft constitution on December 15. A recent decree given Mr Morsi extensive new powers has prompted widespread protests by his opponents, who have accused him of being a dictator in the making. From here is Bethany Bell.

埃及总统穆罕默德?穆尔西宣布12月15日就新宪法草案举行公投。穆尔西最近颁布法令授予自己无上权力，这使他遭到反对派的普遍反对，他们谴责他要做独裁者。贝瑟尼?贝尔报道。

President Morsi called on all Egyptians to participate in the referendum on the constitution whether they agreed with it or not. He said Egypt had to overcome this faith of tension, and he appealed for a comprehensive national dialogue over the concerns of the nation. The entire world is watching our experiment, he said. Meanwhile huge crowds of the president's supporters have rallied in Cairo and other towns across Egypt. And in Tahrir Square, the opposition demonstration continues.

总统穆尔西呼吁所有埃及人参与公投，决定是否赞成新宪法。他说埃及必须克服信仰困境，呼吁就国家问题进行全面的国民对话。他说，全世界都在关注我们的实验。与此同时，总统的大批支持者聚集开罗和埃及的其他城市，反对派在塔里尔广场继续抗议。

The new Mexican leader, Enrique Pena Nieto has made his first speech as a president shortly after his inauguration. He promised to promote economic growth, entrance for Mexico into the world power. Mr Pena Nieto also promised to respect human rights and bring peace to the country. Will Grants reports from Mexico City.

墨西哥新总统裴纳尼托完成就职仪式后发表首次演讲，他承诺促进经济发展，使墨西哥进入世界强国之列。裴纳尼托还承诺尊重人权，给国家带来和平。Will Grants在墨西哥城报道。

The first aim of my government, Mr Nieto told his supporters, is to achieve the country at peace. A range of communities in Mexico have been robbed their peace by the violence, he said, and it's the new government's aim to return security to public squares in the streets. He also said the crime couldn't only be tackled using force and that a new crime prevention program will be set up.

裴纳尼托向支持者表示，我们政府的首个目标就是实现国家和平。他说，墨西哥许多社区的和平都被暴力蹂躏了，新政府的目标就是给公共场合带来安定。他还说，不能仅仅利用暴力手段来解决犯罪问题，墨西哥将实施新的犯罪预防计划。

A BBC correspondent in Damascus says people here have been hearing the non-stopped sound of the fighter jets, military helicopters and explosions for a third day. A communications block out that blocked Syrians from knowing what's happening across the country has now eased as the internet has become accessible again.

BBC驻大马士革记者称，三天以来，当地居民不断听到武装机、武装直升机和爆炸的声音。之前为了使国人不得到实时消息，该国实施了通信封网，但目前已有所缓和，人们现在可以上网了。

Tunisian police have clashed with demonstrators in a fifth of protests that appears to be spreading from the city of Siliana. Police fired tear gas as stone-throwing used in the town of Bargo and in Siliana itself, where demonstrators demanded the resignation of the regional governor and the economic development of the region.

突尼斯警察与游行者的冲突进入了第五天，这次冲突从锡勒亚奈市开始蔓延。在Bargo市和锡勒亚奈市，游行者投掷石块，警察动用催泪瓦斯反击。游行者要求地方长官辞职，希望当地经济得到发展。

Hundreds of Brazilians have taken part in a march in Rio de Janeiro to protest against government plans to privatize the city's Maracana football stadium ahead of the 2014 World Cup. Here is Nicolas Nicolas Rocha.

数百名巴西人在里约热内卢游行抗议政府在2014世界杯之前私有化该市的马拉卡纳体育馆。Nicolas Nicolas Rocha报道。

Wearing traditional Indian costumes, many of the demonstrators are carrying banners reading "Maracana is ours". They say the stadium is a symbol of the city, although also with other buildings in the Maracana complex such as an Indian museum which may be demolished. They claimed the government is acting behind their backs by not consulting them on the stadium's future. The authorities say some buildings around in Maracana need to be removed to complete the stadium's renovation.

许多游行者身穿印度传统服装，手持小旗，上面书写“马拉卡纳是我们的”。他们称马拉卡纳体育馆是城市的象征，尽管马拉卡纳的其他建筑，诸如一座印度博物馆可能也要被拆。他们称政府不咨询民众意见，不考虑体育馆的前途就擅自做主。当局称为了完成体育馆的修复工作，体育馆周围的一些建筑需要拆掉。

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Reports from the Democratic Republic of Congo say rebels have now withdrawn from the city of Goma which they captured less than two weeks ago. Eyewitnesses said they saw convoys of the trucks carrying members of the M23 group along the road leading out of Goma. Their withdrawal follows a meeting of regional leaders in the Ugandan capital Kampala aimed resolving the crisis. 来自刚果民主共和国的报道称，叛军现已从两周前占领的戈马市撤出。目击者称看到大批载着M23组织成员的卡车驶离戈马。此前，为了解决这场危机，地方领导人与会乌干达首都坎帕拉商议事宜。

The head of the police Cyber Crime Unit in Tehran has been sacked in connection with a death in custody of an Iranian blogger, critic of the government. Sattar Beheshti was found dead in a cell in November, just a day after being detained on charges of acting against national security through his internet post. Sebastian Usher reports.

德黑兰警察网络犯罪调查组因与批评政府的伊朗博主被拘留期间死亡事件有关而辞职。萨塔尔?贝赫什蒂11月在监狱死亡，就在一天前，他因发帖被控危害国家安全被拘留。Sebastian Usher报道。

Little known before his death, Satah Beheshti swiftly became a symbol both about vulnerability and power that runs dissident bloggers. It was evidence of severe torture posted by dissident sites that force the authorities to hold an official investigation, which found that he had indeed been mistreated with wounds in five places on his body. Mr Beheshti's case has also reveals once again deeps roots within the ruling elite with opposing factions blaming each other.

萨塔尔?贝赫什蒂死前默默无闻，死后迅速成为异己博主脆弱性兼强大能力的象征。异见人士发表的帖子表明，萨塔尔?贝赫什蒂在拘留期间遭受拷打，身体有5处伤痕，这使得当局对此事开始进行正式调查。贝赫什蒂的案子再次表明，相互指责的执政精英和反对派别间的矛盾很深。

Police in the United States say a player for the Kansas City Chiefs American football team, Jovan Belcher has killed himself after shooting dead his girl friend. The police say Mr Belcher drove to the team's training facility shortly after killing his partner and then shot himself. They give no indication of a possible motive for the killings.

美国警方称堪萨斯城酋长美国足球队球员Jovan Belcher在开枪打死女友后自杀。警方称Belcher开车到球队培训场地后不久就开枪打死女友，然后自杀。警方尚不清楚杀人事件的可能动机。

A controversial new law against dangerous driving is coming to effect in Kenya, with drivers facing tougher penalties including life in prisonment. Many of the drivers have been on strike or protests of the legislation, many say they cannot afford the heavy fines. But the government is determined to reduce the number of deaths on the road. Last year, more than 3000 Kenyans were killed in traffic accidents.

肯尼亚争议颇多的反对危险驾驶的新法即将实施，新法规定危险驾驶的司机将面临包括无期徒刑在内的严厉惩罚。许多驾驶员罢工或抗议新法，许多人称无法承受重罚。但政府决心降低道路事故死亡人数，去年，3000多名肯尼亚人死于交通事故。

20121203BBC

BBC News with David Austin.

The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been given a hero's welcome on his return from the United Nations in New York. He was back in Ramallah after securing an enhanced recognition for Palestinians. Yolande Knell is in Ramallah.

巴勒斯坦总统马哈茂德?阿巴斯从纽约联合国总部回拉姆安拉时得到英雄般的欢迎，他为巴勒斯坦争取到在联合国更高的地位。Yolande Knell在拉姆安拉报道。

Cheers as the Palestinian president took to the stage. He hailed the upgrade in status to observer state at the UN as a decisive landmark in the history of the Palestinian national struggle. The world is on our side, he said, but there will references too to the challenges ahead. In response to the UN vote, Israel has already said it will freeze the transfer of tax revenues it had collected on behalf of Mr. Abbas' Palestinian authority and announced the construction of 3,000 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

巴勒斯坦荣升升为联合国观察国，总统走上讲台时全场欢呼，他称这一时刻为巴勒斯坦国民斗争史上决定性的里程碑。他说，全世界都站在我们一边，但我们也面临着挑战。以色列对此回应称，将冻结代表阿巴斯的巴勒斯坦政府征收的税收，并宣布在占领的西岸和东耶路撒冷建设3000处新定居者房屋。

The organization representing Egyptian judges has announced that its members will not supervise a referendum on a draft constitution in two weeks time. The statement by the judge's club comes after a confrontation between Egypt's highest court and Islamist supporters of President Mohamed Mursi. The Constitutional Court announced it was suspending its work indefinitely after its members were prevented earlier today from ruling on the legitimacy of the Islamist-dominated body which drew up the new constitution. The opposition says the document undermines basic freedoms.

埃及法官所属组织宣称，其成员将不对两周后宪法草案公投进行监督。法官俱乐部如是宣告，是因为埃及最高法院和总统穆罕默德?穆尔西的伊斯兰支持者开始对峙。今天早些时候，其成员被禁裁定制定新宪法的由伊斯兰占主导地位的机构的合法性，因此立宪法庭宣称暂时罢工。反对派称新宪法强调了基本自由。

The emergency services in Japan say that a lorry driver who managed to telephone for help from inside a collapsed motorway tunnel has been found dead. Rescue workers also found the charred remains of several bodies inside another vehicle which caught fire when huge sections of the tunnel ceiling collapsed. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports from Tokyo.

日本急救站称一名设法从倒塌的高速路隧道下打电话求助的货车司机已经死亡。隧道顶部倒塌时另外一辆汽车失火了，援救工人还在这辆车内发现烧焦的数具尸体。鲁珀特?温菲尔德海斯在东京报道。

Terrified drivers described watching in disbelief as the roof imploded around them. Close circuit television pictures from inside the tunnel showed huge slabs of concrete, each weighing more than a ton, lying on the roadway. Cars crushed beneath them. For a time there was hope that the lorry driver was alive under the rubble. But by nightfall, rescuers had only found five dead bodies, including that of the lorry driver. People here are now wondering how much more of Japan's aging infrastructure is a lot less safe than they had imagined.

惊恐的司机称隧道倒塌时，他们难以置信地看着这一场景。隧道内的闭路电视画面显示重达一吨的水泥块躺在路边，汽车被压在下面。救援人员最初还认为货车司机还在废墟中活着，但到了晚上，工人们只找到5具尸体，其中包括货车司机。人们现在开始怀疑日本还有多少老化的设施已经不安全了。

Suspected Islamist fighters have killed ten Christians in the northeast of Nigeria. Witnesses say the attackers used guns and machetes in an overnight rampage in the village of Chibok. There have been several other attacks in the same region over the weekend with two police officers killed. Islamist fighters, belonging to the Boko Haram sect, have killed hundreds of people since launching an uprising against the government three years ago. They often target security forces, government officials or Christians who they view as infidels.

伊斯兰武装嫌犯在尼日利亚北部杀死了10名基督徒，目击者称袭击者夜间手持枪支和大刀突袭了Chibok村，周末该地区还发生了另外数起袭击案，两名警察身亡。博科圣地伊斯兰组织的武装分子3年前向政府发动起义，到目前为止已杀死数百人。他们通常袭击安全部队、政府官员或被他们视为异教徒的基督徒。

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With time running out for a budget deal in the United States before a year-end deadline. Officials of the two main parties have blamed each other for the stalemate. The Republicans have rejected the latest Democratic proposals for raising taxes for the rich. But the Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner ruled out any deal without higher taxes for the wealthy. He was speaking on CBS's Face the Nation.

现在离美国年终预算协议的期限不远了，两大党的官员相互指责，称对方造成了僵局。共和党拒绝接受民主党最近提出的向富人增税的提议，但财政部长盖特纳不接受任何不向富人加税的协议。他在CBS节目“面对全国”中说：

I think we have a very good chance for coming together on an agreement that not just protects 98% of Americans from a tax increase and protects the economy from deeply damaging upfront spending cuts and protects the economy from leaving us vulnerable to periodic threats of defaults by politicians. I think we can do better than that and do something good for the long-term future of the American economy.

我觉得我们很有希望达成这样一个协议，不仅使98%的美国人免于增税，同时使经济免于受到开支削减的损害，还使我们免受遭受政客们周期性的违约威胁。我想我们可以做得更好，为美国经济的长远发展做出贡献。

Failure to reach a deal will automatically trigger tax rises and spending cuts.

而不能达成共识，则会自动导致增税和削减开支。

Heavy snow has caused a 50-kilometer-long traffic jam on a highway that links Russia's largest cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Thousands of vehicles are stuck. Some of them have been in the queue for more than two days after extreme snow brought traffic to a halt on Friday.

俄罗斯天降大雪，导致连接最大城市莫斯科和圣彼得堡之间的高速公路上发生长达50公里的堵塞。数千辆汽车被困路上，有的车还排着长队等了两天以上。周五，暴雪使交通陷于中断。

A 200-year-old letter in which the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte gave the order to blow up Kremlin citadel in Moscow has been sold at auction for almost 200,000 dollars. Hugh Schofield has this report from Paris.

法国皇帝拿破仑?波拿巴曾在书信中命令炸毁莫斯科克里姆林宫，如今，这份200多年前的书信以近20万美元的价格拍卖。休?斯科菲尔德在巴黎报道。

This letter is of a particular interest, partly because it's in code, a not very complex number for letter substitution, but also because it was written at the turning point of Napoleon's career. As he invaded Russia in 1812, he's captured Moscow, but with the Russian army being withdrawn and winter approaching. He knows he has to turn back. So the letter, to his foreign minister at Vilnius in modern-day Lituania, described how he was given the order of the Kremlin to be destroyed. In the event, only part of the walls were demolished. The emperor himself began the long and disastrous journey back to France, for two years later, he would be defeated and forced to abdicate.

这份书信是用密码写的，用的字母替换法也不难理解，而且书写这封信时，拿破仑正处在事业的转折点，因此这封信很有趣。拿破仑1812年进攻俄罗斯并占领莫斯科，当时俄罗斯军队正在撤离，冬天即将来临。拿破仑知道自己必须返回了，因此他致信在维尔纽斯（在今天的立陶宛）的外长，描述自己下令毁掉克里姆林宫。在这次事件中，只有部分围墙被毁。皇帝开始了返国的漫长艰难历程，两年后，拿破仑败北，被迫退位。