BBC News:奧巴馬稱波士頓炸彈襲擊為懦弱的恐怖行徑

[00:00.00]BBC News with Julie Candler 朱莉·坎德勒為你播報BBC新聞。 [00:03.32]President Obama has described Monday’s deadly bomb attack on the Boston Marathon as a cowardly act of terror. 總統(tǒng)奧巴馬稱周一波士頓馬拉松的致命炸彈襲擊是懦弱的恐怖行徑。 [00:09.93]But he said it remained unclear whether those responsible were foreign, domestic or if it was the work of malevolent individual. 但他說尚不清楚襲擊者究竟是外國人、本國人還是惡意的個人。 [00:16.89]The two bombs are reported to have been relatively small, but they killed three people and injured more than 170. Paul Adams reports from Boston. 據(jù)悉這兩枚炸彈都比較小，但卻導(dǎo)致3人喪生，170多人受傷。保羅·亞當(dāng)斯在波士頓報道。 [00:25.40]The centre of Boston is still a crime scene: streets closed off, large numbers of police and National Guard on duty. 波士頓市中心仍是犯罪現(xiàn)場的景象：街道上關(guān)了門，大批警察的國民警衛(wèi)在巡邏。 [00:31.94]The city’s flags are flying at half mast as they are across the country. 像整個美國其他地方一樣，該市的國旗也降了半旗。 [00:35.86]The authorities have appealed to the public to come forward with information and photographs and it’s clear that many people already have. 當(dāng)局呼吁公眾提供信息和照片，顯然很多人都提供了幫助。 [00:42.46]What’s less clear is how much of a picture investigators have already built up. 但尚不清楚調(diào)查者目前對整個事件的了解如何， [00:46.86]It’s been reported that the two bombs were made from pressure cookers packed with ball bearings, nails and metal shards. But this hasn’t been confirmed. 據(jù)悉兩枚炸彈都是用高壓鍋制成，包上鋼球、釘子和金屬碎片，但這一點未經(jīng)證實。 [00:55.21]A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake has shaken southeastern Iran. 伊朗西南部發(fā)生7.8級大地震， [01:00.46]The quake was centered on the sparsely populated province of Sistan and Baluchestan. Officials there say no death have been reported so far. 震中在人口稀少的錫斯坦省和俾路支省。官員稱目前尚無死亡案例報道， [01:08.50]But across the border, Pakistani army officers say more than 30 people were killed. Caroline Hawley reports. 但鄰國巴基斯坦的官員稱30多人喪生?？_琳·霍利報道。 [01:14.49]This was a massive earthquake, stronger than the one that struck Haiti in 2010. 這是一場大地震，比2010年海地那場還要強。 [01:20.29]But its epicenter was in a remote area of mountains and desert close to Iran’s border with Pakistan and so far at least the casualty toll appears to be relatively low. 但其震中在偏遠(yuǎn)的山區(qū)和沙漠，在伊朗與巴基斯坦邊境附近，至少目前死亡人數(shù)比較小。 [01:30.41]Iranian state television announced that the earthquake had been felt throughout the Gulf such was its power with some skyscrapers in Dubai being evacuated. 伊朗國家電視臺稱整個海灣地區(qū)都有震感，迪拜的一些摩天大樓都進行了人員疏散。 [01:40.03]Thousands of genetic tests carried out across the European Union have found that almost 5% of processed beef products on sale have been contaminated with horsemeat. 在歐盟各國進行的數(shù)千次基因測試表明，近5%在售的加工牛肉制品都被馬肉污染了。 [01:50.51]Laboratories also find that only one in 200 samples contain traces of horse drug bute. 實驗室還發(fā)現(xiàn)，200個樣品中只有一個含有馬藥保泰松的痕跡。 [01:56.41]The EU Commission for Health Tonio Borg said food safety had not been compromised. 歐盟健康委員會托尼奧·博奇稱這并沒有危害食品安全。 [02:01.43]“The incidents of the presence of bute in the horsemeat were extremely low, less than 0.5%. 馬肉中出現(xiàn)保泰松的幾率很低，不到0.5%， [02:10.46]And also the fraudulent link within the percentage was an original 4.6%. 其中存在欺詐現(xiàn)象的比率只有4.6%。 [02:17.70]Still this has been a serious violation of the labeling in this nation and we intend to impose and to propose new measures.” 不過這種違法的貼標(biāo)簽行為仍很嚴(yán)重，我們準(zhǔn)備對此采取新措施。 [02:25.28]The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has expressed alarm on the deteriorating security situation in the Central African Republic. 聯(lián)合國秘書長潘基文對中非共和國日益惡化的安全局勢感到擔(dān)憂， [02:32.85]There’s been further violence in the capital Bangui where members of the Seleka Movement which seized power last month have clashed with elements loyal to the former President Francois Bozize. 在首都班基，上月奪權(quán)的Seleka運動與忠于前總統(tǒng)弗朗索瓦·博齊澤的分子發(fā)生沖突，暴力局勢進一步加劇。 [02:42.88]American Airlines has grounded all its flights in the US after a computer malfunction. 美國航空公司在一臺電腦出現(xiàn)故障后取消所有航班， [02:48.71]The airline said a problem had occurred in its reservation system. 該公司稱其預(yù)約系統(tǒng)出現(xiàn)問題， [02:51.86]The flights will be grounded until Tuesday afternoon. Queues are already building up at airports. World News from the BBC 航班將到周二下午恢復(fù)，機場現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)排起了長隊。這里是BBC新聞報道。 [02:59.58]Venezuela’s attorney general says violent clashes at opposition protests over disputed presidential elections have left at least seven people dead. 委內(nèi)瑞拉大法官稱，反對派抗議有爭議的總統(tǒng)選舉導(dǎo)致暴力沖突，至少7人喪生。 [03:09.57]The country’s president-elect Nicolas Maduro said the opposition was responsible. Irene Casella reports from Caracas. 該國當(dāng)選總統(tǒng)尼古拉斯·馬杜羅稱反對派對此負(fù)責(zé)，艾琳·卡塞拉在加拉加斯報道。 [03:16.63]Nicolas Maduro who was proclaimed the president on Monday after a narrow victory blamed the deaths and violence on opposition candidate Henrique Capriles. 在選舉中險勝的尼古拉斯·馬杜羅周一剛宣布成為總統(tǒng)，他將死亡和暴力事件歸咎于反對派候選人卡普里萊斯。 [03:26.26]Mr. Maduro said the pattern of violence was similar to that of the coup attempt in 2002 when Hugo Chavez was deposed for two days. 馬杜羅說這次暴力的模式與2002年的那次政變類似，當(dāng)時烏戈·查韋斯被趕下臺兩天。 [03:34.76]Mr. Capriles has not accepted the results of Sunday’s election. He asked supporters to carry out peaceful protests by banning pots and pans around the country. 卡普里萊斯尚未接受周日選舉的結(jié)果，他請求支持者發(fā)起和平抗議，在全國禁止使用鍋碗瓢盆。 [03:44.83]Police in Pakistan say a bomb targeting an election campaign rally in the northwestern city of Peshawar has killed at least eight people. 巴基斯坦警方稱西北城市白沙瓦的競選集會上發(fā)生炸彈襲擊，至少8人喪生。 [03:53.09]The bomb exploded as senior members of the Awami National Party which opposes the Taliban were arriving for a meeting. 爆炸發(fā)生時，反對塔利班的人民民族黨的資深成員正趕來參加會議。 [03:59.76]Attempts by the former president General Pervez Musharraf to stand in the poll have been dented by the rejection of his candidature by election tribunals. 前總統(tǒng)穆沙拉夫上將試圖參加選舉，但選舉法庭否決了他的候選人資格， [04:08.00]His lawyer Ahmed Raza Kasuri said Mr. Musharraf would appeal arguing that the decision was undemocratic. 他的律師Ahmed Raza Kasuri說穆沙拉夫?qū)⑸显V稱該決定不民主。 [04:14.88]“They are trying to establish that dictatorship or democracy is a frame of mind. 他們試圖表示獨裁或民主是一種思維狀態(tài)， [04:22.13]A man in uniform can be democrat and a man in the shirt while can be a dictator. And they’ve also had dictatorship judicially. 穿制服的人可能是民主的，而穿T恤的人可能是獨裁者，他們的司法體系也是獨裁的。 [04:32.00]Prosecutors in Italy have ordered the seizure of assets worth more than two billion dollars from the Japanese Bank Nomura. 意大利檢察官下令查封來自日本野村投資銀行價值20多億美元的資產(chǎn)， [04:38.79]They have also opened a criminal investigation into two of the bank’s former senior executives. 還開啟對該行兩名前資深執(zhí)行官的犯罪調(diào)查。 [04:44.00]The measures are part of a probe into allegations that Nomura helped managers of the Italian bank BMPS hide huge losses. 據(jù)悉該銀行幫助意大利BMPS銀行的管理者掩藏大筆損失，此舉就是對此進行調(diào)查的一部分。 [04:52.02]In the statement the Japanese bank said it would vigorously contest any suggestions of wrongdoing.BBC News 野村投資銀行在聲明中稱將極力反對任何有罪指控。

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