CNN News:敘利亞開始銷毀化學(xué)武器工作 困難重重仍然完成

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My name is Carl Azuz.

It's my pleasure to welcome you to CNN STUDENT NEWS.

Our first story on the last day of the week concerns Syria.

For almost three years now, Syria has been torn apart by civil war.

It involves government forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

It involves rebels who want that government overthrown, and it involves terrorists who are trying to increase their power in Syria.

Tens of thousands of people have been killed, millions have had to leave their homes.

Last spring, it appeared that chemical weapons had been used in the conflict.

After pressure from other countries, the Syrian government agreed to get rid of its chemical weapons.

One step in that process was taken on Tuesday.

Dangerous cargo, a Danish ship has set sail carrying the first batch of Syria's chemical weapons due for destruction.

It's an unprecedented situation, unprecedented effort and also, unprecedented in the fact that chemical weapons are actually destroyed outside of the stat party's territory.

The toxic materials were removed under a U.N.-backed deal arranged by Russia and the U.S. in an effort to eliminate Syria's chemical arsenal by the middle of the year.

The departure of this first shipment was delayed more than a week due to fighting in Syria's civil war, logistical problems and bad weather.

The head of the U.N.-backed disarmament mission tells CNN, this is a milestone, but much work remains to be done.

The process of accumulating and consolidating all the other priority on chemicals is still ongoing.

More movements need to take place within the Syrian Arab Republic, to Latakia, the Danish vessel will have to do many trips, multiple trips, rather, to Latakia .

For each of those trips, the vessel carrying chemicals will leave from the Syrian port of Latakia, escorted by ships from China, Denmark, Norway and Russia, headed for an undisclosed port in Italy where the chemicals will be transferred to a U.S. ship capable of destroying them at sea.