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BBC News with Leon Newence.
The former American Vice President, Al Gore, has challenged Americans to abandon energy generated by fossil fuels within a decade. Mr. Gore said the United States relies on foreign oil left it vulnerable. It should switch instead to renewable energy on economic and environmental and national security grounds.
"I challenge our nation, to commit to producing 100% of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within ten years. We're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that has to change.“
European antitrust regulators have accused the computer chip maker Intel of paying a leading retailer not to stock rival products. A European Commission statement said Intel had provided substantial rebates to a leading European PC retailer on condition that it sold only Intel-based PCs. It also stands accused of paying a PC manufacturer to delay the launch of a product line incorporating rival AMD chips and giving it substantial rebates to encourage it to switch to Intel chips.
A United States judge has ruled that the first war crimes trial for detainees at Guantanamo Bay can go ahead as planned. The former driver of Osama bin Laden, Salim Hamdana, is accused of supporting terrorism. From Washington, here is Jack Izzard.
This was Salim Hamdan's last-gasp attempt to avoid being put on trial. Born in Yemen, he worked for Osama bin Laden for four years in the run-up to the Sep. 11 attacks. He is due to be tried at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay next week, accused of supporting terrorism. If convicted, he faces life in prison. Today at a hearing in Washington, his lawyers argued for a delay in the trial, while they challenged the legality of the military tribunal system. But the civilian judge rejected their calls, opening the way for the military trial to start as planned.
Eleven British tabloid newspapers have apologized unreservedly for articles which falsely accused a local man of involvement in the high-profile disappearance in Portugal last year of three-year-old Madeleine McCann. At the High Court in London, the man, Robert Murat, was awarded 1.2 million dollars in damages. The newspapers accepted that their suggestions that Mr. Murat lied to the Portuguese police and that he had pedophile tendencies were entirely untrue. Mr. Murat expressed satisfaction with the settlement.
"I think the focus still needs to be on the child that is missing. Now this is vindication for me today for everything was printed, the millions of copies of newspaper that went out, it's taken the focus off what's this whole situation is about. And I think everybody has to be incredibly careful with that, when sensationalism takes over what is important.
World News from the BBC.
The International Monetary Fund has warned that fighting inflation should be the top priority for politicians around the world. In a forecast for the global economy, the IMF says many economies are finding themselves caught between sharply slowing demand and rising prices. But an IMF spokesman says countries should consider raising interest rates to avoid further economic problems next year.
The main actor's union and production studios in Hollywood have failed to agree a new contract, raising the specter of a strike that would cost the entertainment industry billions of dollars. Rajesh Mirchandani reports now from the Los Angeles.
The contract that regulated payments to 120, 000 actors, including some of the biggest star names, expired nearly three weeks ago. The Screen Actors Guild, the largest and most powerful actors union in Hollywood, wants more money for its members from DVD sales and programs broadcast online. Both revenue sources are expected to grow massively in coming years. Production studios say they have offered more money, but negotiations between the two sides failed to settle their differences, and no more talks are planned. Studios are not keen to start work on movies that may be interrupted, if a strike is called. The result is that Hollywood is approaching a virtual standstill until a new contract is agreed.(Www.hxen.net)
Lebanon has accused Israel of violating its sovereignty by making what it sees as threatening phone calls to its citizens. Hundreds of Lebanese have reportedly received voice messages on their mobile phones, calling on them to abandon support for the Islamist Hezbollah movement or face another war with Israel.
A son of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has been released on bail in Switzerland after being charged with assault. Hannibal Kadhafi and his wife have been accused of beating and threatening two of their servants. They denied any wrongdoing.
BBC News.
last-gasp: adj. Undertaken as a final recourse; last-ditch.
las gasp: n. 最后一击，垂死挣扎
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BBC News with Leon Newence.
The former American Vice President, Al Gore, has challenged Americans to abandon energy generated by fossil fuels within a decade. Mr. Gore said the United States relies on foreign oil left it vulnerable. It should switch instead to renewable energy on economic and environmental and national security grounds.
"I challenge our nation, to commit to producing 100% of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within ten years. We're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that has to change.“
European antitrust regulators have accused the computer chip maker Intel of paying a leading retailer not to stock rival products. A European Commission statement said Intel had provided substantial rebates to a leading European PC retailer on condition that it sold only Intel-based PCs. It also stands accused of paying a PC manufacturer to delay the launch of a product line incorporating rival AMD chips and giving it substantial rebates to encourage it to switch to Intel chips.
A United States judge has ruled that the first war crimes trial for detainees at Guantanamo Bay can go ahead as planned. The former driver of Osama bin Laden, Salim Hamdana, is accused of supporting terrorism. From Washington, here is Jack Izzard.
This was Salim Hamdan's last-gasp attempt to avoid being put on trial. Born in Yemen, he worked for Osama bin Laden for four years in the run-up to the Sep. 11 attacks. He is due to be tried at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay next week, accused of supporting terrorism. If convicted, he faces life in prison. Today at a hearing in Washington, his lawyers argued for a delay in the trial, while they challenged the legality of the military tribunal system. But the civilian judge rejected their calls, opening the way for the military trial to start as planned.
Eleven British tabloid newspapers have apologized unreservedly for articles which falsely accused a local man of involvement in the high-profile disappearance in Portugal last year of three-year-old Madeleine McCann. At the High Court in London, the man, Robert Murat, was awarded 1.2 million dollars in damages. The newspapers accepted that their suggestions that Mr. Murat lied to the Portuguese police and that he had pedophile tendencies were entirely untrue. Mr. Murat expressed satisfaction with the settlement.
"I think the focus still needs to be on the child that is missing. Now this is vindication for me today for everything was printed, the millions of copies of newspaper that went out, it's taken the focus off what's this whole situation is about. And I think everybody has to be incredibly careful with that, when sensationalism takes over what is important.
World News from the BBC.
The International Monetary Fund has warned that fighting inflation should be the top priority for politicians around the world. In a forecast for the global economy, the IMF says many economies are finding themselves caught between sharply slowing demand and rising prices. But an IMF spokesman says countries should consider raising interest rates to avoid further economic problems next year.
The main actor's union and production studios in Hollywood have failed to agree a new contract, raising the specter of a strike that would cost the entertainment industry billions of dollars. Rajesh Mirchandani reports now from the Los Angeles.
The contract that regulated payments to 120, 000 actors, including some of the biggest star names, expired nearly three weeks ago. The Screen Actors Guild, the largest and most powerful actors union in Hollywood, wants more money for its members from DVD sales and programs broadcast online. Both revenue sources are expected to grow massively in coming years. Production studios say they have offered more money, but negotiations between the two sides failed to settle their differences, and no more talks are planned. Studios are not keen to start work on movies that may be interrupted, if a strike is called. The result is that Hollywood is approaching a virtual standstill until a new contract is agreed.(Www.hxen.net)
Lebanon has accused Israel of violating its sovereignty by making what it sees as threatening phone calls to its citizens. Hundreds of Lebanese have reportedly received voice messages on their mobile phones, calling on them to abandon support for the Islamist Hezbollah movement or face another war with Israel.
A son of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has been released on bail in Switzerland after being charged with assault. Hannibal Kadhafi and his wife have been accused of beating and threatening two of their servants. They denied any wrongdoing.
BBC News.
last-gasp: adj. Undertaken as a final recourse; last-ditch.
las gasp: n. 最后一击，垂死挣扎
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