VOA新聞聽力教程News No.15

[00:00.00] News No. 15 [00:07.31]At 18 hours universal time. Here is the news on the Voice of America. [00:13.37]I'm Steve Norman in Washington. [00:20.11]15.1 Serbian police have blocked antigovernment protesters from marching through the capital. [00:24.74]Officers prevented more than 20,000 opposition supporters from marching through Belgrade after a rally in the city central square. [00:31.95]The crowd later dispersed and no major incidents have been reported. [00:35.42]The opposition has staged almost daily protests for five weeks now to pressure President Slohodan Milosevic [00:41.27]to recognize local election races they won last month. [00:44.93]15.2 Japan has welcomed the Peruvian government success of securing the release Saturday [00:49.58]of twenty hostages held by rebels at the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima, [00:54.07]but a greater sense of urgency has developed since Japanese officials [00:57.73]have received a letter from Japanese businessmen still being held captive. [01:01.78]They say their situation is getting more dangerous by the day. [01:05.25]There are 83 people still being held. More than 400 people have been released since the crisis began two weeks ago. [01:11.63]15.3 Central America's longest running civil war will officially come to an end later today [01:16.54]when Guatemalan government officials and representatives of four guerrilla factions sign a formal peace treaty. [01:22.52]VOA's Jim Tibo reports from Guatemala City several guerrilla leaders returned home late Saturday to a tumultuous welcome. [01:30.31]Representatives of Guatemala's four guerrilla groups flew into the capital's airport Saturday night [01:42.32]and were greeted by thousands of supporters. [01:44.83]After years of negotiations,the guerrillas and Guatemala's president will sign eleven peace accords later Sunday [01:50.60]bringing to an end the 36-year-old war. [01:53.42]One of two rebel commanders to arrive Saturday night was Lulanda Maron. [01:57.32]He says fulfilling all of the peace agreements will be difficult,but he is glad to see an end to more than three decades of conflict. [02:04.53]"I'm...I think that this is the greatest experience in my life." [02:09.85]Commander Maron and other members of the 4-member guerrilla coalition, [02:13.62]known as the URNG, say they will now work within the Guatemalan political system to accomplish their goals. [02:19.31]Under the peace accords, several thousand guerrillas will be free to live openly in Guatemala [02:23.65]once they are disarmed by the United Nations,a process which observers say will take several months. [02:28.56]Jim Tibo,VOA news, Guatemala City. [02:31.28]15.4 There is more extremist violence being reported in Algeria. [02:35.01]VOA Middle East correspondent Lorrie Kasman reports [02:38.98]Algerima state-run news agency says Moslem radicals have slaughtered at teast 28 people in the village,southwest of Algiers. [02:46.27]This came on the same day a car bomb exploded in the capital. [02:48.99]The news agency issued the security statement about the killings just a few hours after it reported another car bombing [02:55.39]outside a popular cafe in the southern El Harash neighborhood of Algiers, [02:59.91]At least three car bombs have exploded since last Monday in the capital. [03:04.19]They have killed at least a dozen people and wounded more than 150 others. [03:08.19]No group has claimed responsibility for the bombings. [03:11.24]But Algerian authorities usually blame Moslem extremists for the attacks. [03:14.87]The radicals have been waging a bloody battle against the authorities since 1992, [03:20.25]when the military cancelled general elections the Islamic Salvation Front was poised to win. [03:25.22]The party was outlawed. [03:26.86]Its leaders fled into exile or landed in jail. [03:29.76]Since then,the extremist violence in Algeria has claimed more than 50,000 victims. [03:34.83]Human rights monitors have denounced the atmosphere of terror that prevails in Algeria blaming both sides for the violence. [03:41.26]Lorrie Kasrnan, VOA news, Middle East Bureau. [03:44.31]15.5 North Korea has officially apologized for an incursion by its submarine in South Korean territory last September. [03:50.14]It was a brief statement today carried by the official central news agency [03:53.59]and in it a North Korean foreign ministry spokesman expressed deep regret for the submarine incident. [03:58.97]The spokesman also pledged that North Korea will never repeat such an act. [04:02.96]Seoul cautiously accepted the statement calling it adequate. [04:06.20]15.6 Some 20,000 angry strikers massed in Seoul to demand South Korean legislators abolish a law that, workers say,threaten their jobs. [04:14.98]Police have authorized Sunday's rally, but used tear gas to break up street demonstrations after the gathering. [04:26.34]Subway service in Seoul and Pusan was erratic aster unionized workers walked off the job joining South Korea's biggest labor action ever. [04:34.73]More than 370,000 workers are now on strike there. [04:38.83]15.7 Palestinian leader Yasser Ararat will meet with Israeli Defense Minister Yitzak Mordicai about security in Hebron [04:45.28]after Israeli troops leave the West Bank city. [04:47.87]This news comes as talks on an expected Israeli troop pullout enter the final stages. [04:53.17]Meanwhile,Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israeli troops will leave the West Bank, [04:58.06]but no one should expect Israeli presence in the region to end. [05:01.51]"Anyone who tells you that we are leaving Hebron is telling you a lie. [05:05.16]We are there, and we are there to stay, forever,for all time." [05:08.35]That was Benjamin Netanyahu. [05:09.89]He is the Prime Minister of Israel. [05:12.24]15. S Syria says it would welcome new peace talks with Israel [05:15.22]if negotiations can resume at the same point where they broke off nearly ten years ago. [05:19.69]The Syrian Foreign Minister Farugal Shara says that means Israel must make a commitment [05:24.78]to withdraw all of its troops and all its presence from the Golan Hights territory, [05:29.59]which it captured during that 1967 Middle Eastern War. [05:33.56]I'm Steve Norman reporting from Washington. [05:36.67]This is the Voice of America. [05:39.10]15.9 Afghanistan's capital Kabul reported quiet today after three days of fighting between forces of the ousted government [05:46.33]and fundamentalist Taliban Islamic group. [05:48.71]UN workers said they planned to continue using Kabul airport despite light damage caused by bombing [05:54.40]from the former government forces that happened on Saturday. [05:57.49]The presidential palace was also targeted, but it was not clear what if any damage actually occurred there. [06:03.52]15.10 Hundreds of people remain trapped in a snow clogged highway tunnel in Russia's Caucuses Mountains. [06:10.18]Officials say teams or foot on foot have been able to take food and blankets to about 300 trapped motorists. [06:16.82]Its heavy snow and avalanches have made it impossible to free the stranded motorists by helicopter. [06:22.33]Troops and highway crews are trying to reopen the snow-blanketed roads in the area in the Eastern and Central Europe [06:27.92]in general has been ravaged by snow and record cold temperatures. [06:31.26]Subzero temperatures have killed dozens of people in that area. [06:35.28]15.11 Rwanda Radio today quotes the director of Rwanda's Refugee Repatriation Program as saying all refugees in Tanzania [06:42.78]are now back home with none remaining either in camps or on the road to Rwanda. [06:47.28]State radio says 485, 000 refugees have returned since Tanzania began the repatriation two weeks ago. [06:54.30]Aid workers agree hat no large group of refugees remain in Tanzania. [06:58.46]15.12 Residents of the island nation Madagascar went to the polls Sunday to elect their new president. [07:03.94]In a final runoff balloting,the voters were faced with the choice of two old political figures, [07:09.14]impeached President Arbel Zarbi and ousted military ruler Didia Rashirag. [07:14.18]Mr.Rashirag made a strong comeback bid,and is now the favorite candidate. [07:18.83]Correspondent Sonia Laurence Green has nore from the VOA East Africa Bureau. [07:23.45]Some six and half million residents of Madagascar were eligible to vote in the country's presidential runoff election, [07:29.65]but voter turnout was extremely low as many voters stayed home saying they did not like either candidate. [07:35.78]The two candidates on offer are both old political hands and both have public records which are less than sparkling. [07:42.55]President Arbel Zarbi, who was impeached by parliament in September,falls in the current election. [07:47.62]The other candidate is former military ruler Didia Rashirag, [07:51.59]who has made a remarkable comeback and is against all odds the favorite candidate. [07:55.92]Mr.Rashirak,a self-styled Marxist who published his own little red book of policies, [08:01.52]ruled impoverished Madagascar for seventeen years. [08:04.68]He was forced from power after an angry public accused him of human rights abuses and corruption in the government and his family. [08:11.31]Final results will not be tallied for days or even weeks given poor communications on the island, [08:16.80]which is often now in the midst of its rainy season,hampering work further. [08:20.48]Sonia Laurence Green,for VOA news, East Africa Bureau. [08:24.40]15.13 Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been allowed to leave her home for the second time [08:29.54]after being confined to her home for most of the last month. [08:32.60]The Nobel Peace laureate attended a wedding Sunday held by a member of her National League for Democracy. [08:38.32]Later she visited a museum dedicated to her late father, independence hero, General Aung San, who was assassinated in 1947. [08:46.89]Aung San Suu Kyi, out of her house for the first time in a month there in Burma. [08:50.91]15.14 These are the hour's news headlines. [08:52.58]Serbian police blocked street marchers by thousands of antigovernment protesters. [08:56.53]Japan welcomes the Peruvian government's success at securing the release of twenty hostages Saturday at the Japanese ambassador's residence. [09:03.92]Guatemala's government and four rebel leaders prepare to sign a peace treaty to formally end a 36-year-old civil war. [09:10.40]And Afghanistan's capital Kabul is reported,calm today after three days of fighting [09:15.23]between the forces of the ousted government and the Taliban. [09:18.16]That's the news on the Voice of America.

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