BBC在线收听下载:飓风桑迪吹袭美国曼哈顿

BBC News with David Auston.
Up to 15 million people on the east coast of the United States are preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Sandy which is expected to make landfall in the coming hours. Speaking at the White House, President Obama issued a warning that the storm would cause many days of severe disturbance and possible fatal consequences. Sandy has continued to pick up strength over the Atlantic Ocean throughout the day. Public transport has been shut down in New York. Dirtry Parker from the city's Metropolitan Transport Authority says they feared the subways themselves could be flooded.
美国东海岸近1500万人正为将即将到来的飓风做准备，飓风桑迪可能会在未来几小时内着陆。总统奥巴马在白宫发出警告，台风可能会对生活造成数天的严重干扰，并可能带来致命后果。这几天桑迪一直在从大西洋积攒力量。纽约公交系统已经关闭，该大都市运输局的Dirtry Parker解释道，他们担心洪水会淹没地铁。

The worst storm has not hit us yet, We are alert to what's going on in the underriver tubes. We are also removing some of our singal equipments, you know our governor has said salt water and subways don't mix. We can continue pumping water out if we loses electricity our pump will not be operable, so it really depends on how much damage we sustain.
这场最严重的风暴目前还未袭击我们，但我们要时刻警惕地下水管的动静。我们已经移除一些信号设备，州长已下达指示不能让咸水混入地下水。如果断电造成水泵不能工作，我们得继续将盐水抽出来，因此一切取决于我们将会遭遇多大破坏。

But the BBC's Barbara Plett is also in New York.
The wind is definitely getting worse, it comes in strong gusts and those gusts could go up to 70 even 90 miles per hour when the Hurricane comes ashore later on today. We just heard news that a crane in a midtown Manhattan 57th street and 7th revenue has broken off. And flooding has started somewhat and the water has already become beginning to come up over the seawall in lower Manhattan. And there are some flooding in the streets of Queen as well. So again officials are urging people in those evacuation areas to leave while they have the chance, they say the window will be closing soon.
很明显，风已经越变越大，强风一阵紧似一阵，今天晚些时候台风到岸时，风速达70甚至90英里每小时。有新闻报道称，在曼哈顿市中心第57大街第7大道的一台起重机被刮断了。洪流已经形成，开始冲过海堤涌入曼哈顿地势较低的地方。洪水也漫过了皇后大街。政府工作人员因此催促人们抓住机会赶紧撤离政府划定的疏散区域，并将门窗关闭好。

Syrian opposition activists say the government has launched its heaviest air raids since it started using warplanes earlier this year. The opposition groups, the Syrian observatory for human rights said the military launched more than 60 air strikes around the country. Meanwhile state media reported that at least ten people were killed in two car bomb attacks in Damascus.
叙利亚反对派活动家称政府发动了空袭，这是自今年早些时候使用战机以来最猛烈的空袭。反动派组织，驻叙利亚人权观察组织公布军方在全国上下共发动了60多次空袭。与此同时，据政府媒体报道，至少10人在大马士革发生的两次汽车爆炸袭击中死亡。

The Iranian state news agency says flotilla of Iranian warships has docked port Sudan in what it called a message of peace and security and in an effort to confront piracy and terrorism. The arrival of the flotilla which includes helicopter carrier and destroyer comes just days after a weapon's factory was attacked  in the capital Khartoum. The Sudanese authorities blamed Israel for the bombing. Reports in western and Israeli newspapers suggested the raid by Israeli bombers was to halt Iranian weapons being produced in Sudan for use by the Palestinian rebel movement Hamas.
据伊朗国家通讯社报道，伊朗军舰船队已停靠苏旦港口，旨在抗击海盗和恐怖袭击以维护和平、保障安全。这只抵达港口的舰队包括航母和驱逐舰，几天之前苏旦首都喀土穆的一家武器工厂遭遇袭击。苏旦当局认为是以色列实施了此次恐怖行动。西方及以色列媒体的报道暗示道，以色列实施此次爆炸是为了阻止苏旦生产伊朗的武器，因为这些武器将由巴勒斯坦反判运动组织哈马斯使用。

A prominent ally of Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has been killed in a drive-by shooting in the western city of Kisumu. Shem Onyango Kwega, who was due to stand in next year's parliamentary election was reportedly fired up by assailant on a motorbike.
肯尼亚总理拉伊拉•奥廷加一位著名助手在该国西部城市基苏木遭遇飞车射击身亡。据报道，Shem Onyango Kwega先生将于明年参加国会选举，被摩托飞车开枪刺杀而死。

World News from the BBC
A court in southeastern England has jailed a man for 20 years for smuggling Nigerian children into Britain to be sold to European prostitution gangs. The man, Osezua Osolase is said to have used West African witchcraft rituals to terrorize the children into submission. Jane Peal has the details.
英格兰东南部的一家法庭宣布监禁一名男子长达20年，这名罪犯从尼日利亚向英国走私、贩卖儿童，然后再卖给欧洲的卖淫团伙。据说这名叫Osezua Osolase的男子使用西非的巫术仪式恐吓这些孩子，使他们屈服。见Jane Peal详细报道。

Osolase preyed on poverty stricken Nigerian orphans, he treated them into travelling to the UK with the promise of better life. But he treated them as commodities, attempting to send them to mainland Europe to be sexually assaulted by gangs. Osolase used West African witchcraft rituals to terrorize his victims, one of whom was just 14. Sentencing him to 20 years, the judge said he was devoid of conscience and compassion.
Osolase的主要走私目标是贫穷的尼日利亚孤儿，他欺骗要带他们去英国旅行，并承诺会有美好的生活。但是，事实上他把他们当做商品，企图将他们卖给欧洲大陆的卖淫团伙以供玩耍。Osolase利用西非的巫术仪式吓唬这些受害孩子，其中的一名只有14岁。法官对其处以20年监禁，称此人没有良心和任何同情心。

International election observers have delivered a stinging criticism of the parliamentary election in Ukraine saying they were marred by corruption and abuses of power. With over half of the votes counted in Sunday's poll, President Viktor Yanukovych's governing party said it  had secured a majority. The head of the OICE observer mission, Walburga Habsburg Douglas said democratic progress in the country had been reversed.
国际选举观察员们就乌克兰的国会选举发表了严厉批评，指责选举被贪污受贿和滥用职权所玷污。周日的选票统计结果只有超过半数的选票，总统亚努科维奇所属的执政党却宣布已获得大多数选票。OICE观察代表团的负责人道格拉斯先生认为该国的民主进程已经开始倒退。

The 28th October parliamentary elections were characterised by the lack of  a level playing field caused primarily by the abuse of administrative resources, lack of transparency of campaign and party financing and lack of balance media coverage.
10月28日进行的国会选举的几大特点是：缺乏公平的竞争平台，主要是由于滥用权力资源所致；缺乏竞选透明性且有政党融资赞助；缺乏平衡的媒体报道。

A former minister has gone on trial in Argentina over the discovery of large amounts of cash in her office bathroom. The former economy minister, Felisa Miceli quit her post five years ago, after police found a paper bag containing $64,000 in her office suite. At the time Ms. Miceli said the money was left there by her brother to buy a property.
因在其办公室的浴室内发现大量现金，阿根延一位前部长接受审判，目前已经审理完毕。这位前经济部长，Felisa Miceli在警方在她办公室套间内发现装有64,000美元的纸袋后，于五年前辞职。当时，Miceli女士称钱是其弟暂放自己这里的购房款。