BBC News:英國將推出全球最難假冒的一英鎊新幣

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I’m Maddy Savage with a selection of highlights fromacross BBC world service news.

我是麥蒂· 薩維奇，通過BBC“全球服務(wù)”欄目，為您帶來今天的新聞要點。

Coming up, pro-Russian gunmen have taken over aUkrainian navy base in Sevastopol a day after Russiamove to annex Crimea. And the head of the Ukrainian navy has been detained. We’ll speak toour correspondent in Sevastopol. “I’m outside the naval quarters here in Sevastopol whichwas stormed earlier in the day by a group of pro-Russian civilians and Russian soldiers. Plus,President Jacob Zuma from South Africa has been told to repay some of the millions of dollarsin public money that he spent on improving his private home. Also in the podcast, frustrationwith the search for the missing Malaysian airline has boiled over with desperate relatives ofChinese passengers dragged away from a news conference. And Britain is going to introducea new one-pound coin designed to be more difficult to fake. But will it be popular?

這次新 聞的主要內(nèi)容有：克里米亞入俄后的第二天，親俄武裝接管了塞瓦斯托波爾一烏克蘭海軍基地，并扣押了烏克蘭海軍司令。我們的記者從塞瓦斯托波爾發(fā)回了報道。 “我現(xiàn)在位于塞瓦斯托波爾海軍基地外面，上午，親俄市民和俄羅斯士兵攻占了海軍基地。另外，南非總統(tǒng)雅各布·祖瑪被要求償還裝修私宅所用數(shù)百萬美元中的部 分公款。馬拉西亞失聯(lián)航班搜尋無果引起中國乘客家屬擔(dān)憂失望，他們被馬方強行帶離新聞發(fā)布會現(xiàn)場。英國計劃推出一英鎊新幣，設(shè)計理念在于更加防偽，它會受 到歡迎嗎?

Britain is going to introduce a new one-pound coin which is designed to be more difficult tofake. It will have 12 sides and be made of two metals. The Treasury here says there arecurrently 45 million fake pound coins in circulation. It says the replacement which is due tocome in about three-year’s time would be the most secure coin in the world. The shape of thenew pound is based on the old three-pence coin which went out of circulation in 1971. Thesepeople in New Castle in northeast England gave their reaction. “I think it looks really nice. I likethe shape of it. It’s totally different.” Well, the BBC’s Dan Damen talks to Tom Hockenhull,curator of modern money at British Museum. So do coins have a hugely symbolic value for thepublic? Did they embody the nation in some ways? “Absolutely. The pound is particularlyimportant.”

英國 計劃推出一英鎊新幣，設(shè)計理念在于更加防偽。新幣將呈12邊形，由兩種金屬制成。英國財政部表示，目前市場上有4500萬枚英鎊假幣正在流通。新幣三年后 問世，屆時將成為是世界上最難假冒的硬幣。新幣的形狀以三便士舊幣為基礎(chǔ)，1971年該舊幣退出流通。下面是英國東北部城市紐卡斯爾市市民對新幣的反應(yīng)。 “我覺得新幣還挺好看的，我喜歡這個形狀，和以往的完全不同。”BBC記者丹·達曼采訪了大英博物館現(xiàn)代錢幣分館館長湯姆·霍肯赫爾。硬幣對公眾來說有著 非常重大的象征價值嗎?在某些方面，可以說它們象征著這個國家嗎?“當(dāng)然。英鎊尤為重要。”

Now is European citizenship up for sale? Across the European Union, what’s becoming knownas “Golden Visas” are being offered to wealthy foreigners. Different EU member countriesoperate their own schemes creating what one politician has called “a race to the bottom” asgovernments underbid each other to try to attract the investments. In Portugal the investorcan get the residence by buying a property for 500,000 euros. They need only spend a fewdays a year in the country.

歐洲公民身份可以花錢買到嗎?富裕的外國人可以購買到歐盟的“金色簽證”。歐盟成員國各有不同的策略，各國政府競相拉低價格吸引投資，一位政治家將此稱為“競次”。在葡萄牙，外國人花50萬歐元購買地產(chǎn)就可獲得居住權(quán)，每年在該國家待上幾天即可。