BBC news 2011-12-21 加文本

短语讲解：

1. Mr Mutlaq said that he and other Sunni leaders feared the same treatment as the Vice-President Tariq al-Hashimi, who's been issued with an arrest warrant over alleged links to terrorism.

issue with提供
例句：Have all the students been issued with books for the new course?
这门新课要用的书是否已经发给所有学生了?

2. Video footage posted online is reported to show the body of a young child torn in half in the ruins of two houses hit by army shelling in Homs.

tear in在…上撕出…; 撕成
例句：I gave him a ticket for the film, and it was torn in two.
我给他一张电影票, 他却把它撕成了两半。

3. China has consulted the US and South Korea on how to deal with the consequences of the death of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.

deal with应付, 处理; 对待
例句：He must deal with many difficulties.
他必须应付许多困难。

4. Beijing says all three countries agree on the need for peace and stability in Korea.

agree on对某事〔物〕有同样看法, 商定〔同意〕某事, 商定做某事
We agree on the question.
我们在这个问题上意见一致。

5. In what's being described as a highly unusual move, all the regional and political groupings represented on the UN Security Council have come together to criticise Israeli settlement activity in occupied Palestinian territory.

describe as描述为
例句：I should describe the attempt as a failure.
我认为这次尝试失败了。

6. President Joseph Kabila was sworn in earlier today after claiming victory.

swear in使宣誓就职
例句：The new Governor is being sworn in next week.
下星期新总督要宣誓就职。

7. The journals, Science and Nature, are due to publish details of the research in a Dutch laboratory where a highly contagious version of the H5N1 virus was created.

due to预定, 预期
例句：The boat is due to arrive at 12.
船预计在12点到。

8. A government committee said it was concerned the details of the virus, which appears to spread more easily among mammals, could be used for a biological weapon.

be used for用来做…
例句：Wood is used for making paper.
木材用于造纸。

9. However, one planet may have had conditions so similar to Earth that it once supported life, as our science correspondent Pallab Ghosh reports.

similar to跟...类似得,与...同样的
例句：My problems are very similar to yours.
我的问题和你的差不多。