BBC在线收听下载:日产将在全球裁员1万多人

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The South Korean military say they believe that North Korea was testing a new type of weapon in a missile launch earlier today. The North fired what appeared to be two short-range missiles into the sea to the east of the Korean Peninsula. Here's Laura Bicker in Seoul.
韩国军方表示，他们认为今天早些时候，朝鲜在导弹发射中测试了一种新型武器。朝鲜疑似向朝鲜半岛东部海域发射了两枚短程导弹。以下是劳拉•比克在首尔报道。

North Korea has mentioned a few times in state media releases over the last few weeks that it is angry at the idea that the United States and South Korea would take part in joint military exercises. These exercises, which Donald Trump has called 'war games' happen every year, every August. They've now been scaled back to stop antagonizing North Korea, but still North Korea sees them as a provocation. So it may well be that North Korea is saying, look, we do not want these exercises and we're holding some of our own.
在过去几周，朝鲜在官方媒体上多次提到，它对美国和韩国将参加联合军事演习的想法感到愤怒。这些演习，唐纳德•特朗普称之为‘军事演习’，每年8月举行。为了停止与朝鲜的对抗，他们现在已经缩减了规模，但朝鲜仍然视其为挑衅。所以现在朝鲜可能是在说，看，我们不想要这些演习，我们也有自己的演习。

At least thirty people have been killed in a spate of attacks across Afghanistan. Ten died in a series of blasts in the capital Kabul.There were more fatalities in Takhar province in the North and Nangarhar, which borders Kabul. Enetron Nasmyth reports.
阿富汗发生一连串袭击事件，造成至少30人死亡。10人在首都喀布尔的一系列爆炸中丧生。北部的塔哈尔省以及与喀布尔接壤的楠格哈尔省死亡人数更多。以下是是内史密斯的报道。

Three bombs went off in quick succession in Kabul. A bus carrying mining ministry staff was hit by a suicide bomber before a second targeted people gathering to help the victims. Minutes later, another bombing said to be on an international forces convoy in eastern Kabul. The Taliban say they carried out that assault and another in Takhar on tow police checkpoints. In Nangarhar, a family traveling to a wedding were killed in a roadside blast. Some say the insurgents are increasing attacks to gain leverage in ongoing peace talks with the US. From the ground, at least, peace seems far away.
三枚炸弹在喀布尔接连爆炸。一辆载有矿业部工作人员的公共汽车遭到自杀式炸弹袭击，第二次袭击的目标是聚集在一起帮助受害者的人。几分钟后，据说另一起爆炸发生在喀布尔东部的一个国际部队车队中。塔利班表示是他们实施了那次袭击，并在塔哈尔省的两处警察检查站实施了另一起袭击。在楠格哈尔省，参加婚礼一家人在路边爆炸中丧生。一些人表示，叛乱分子正在增加袭击的力度，以在与美国正在进行的和平谈判中获得筹码。从目前情况来看，和平似乎还很远。

The Japanese car maker Nissan has announced that it will cut twelve thousand five hundred jobs worldwide over the next three years, about eight percent of its workforce. It's aimed at halting a steep fall in profits. Our business correspondent Theo Leggett has this report.
日本汽车制造商日产宣布，未来三年将在全球范围内裁员1.25万人，约占员工总数的8%。其目的是阻止利润的急剧下降。以下是本台商业记者席欧•莱格特的报道。

Battered by scandal and struggling to curb falling sales, Nissan is taking dramatic steps. It now plans to cut twelve thousand five hundred jobs worldwide and close or scale back output add up to fourteen factories as it tries to reduce excess capacity and cut costs. In the three months to the end of June, the company made a net profit of just forty-seven million pounds compared to more than eight hundred million pounds in the same period last year, a decline of more than ninety-four percent. Sales in the United States, one of its biggest markets, have declined sharply while there have also been concerns in Europe.
受到丑闻和销量下滑难以抑制的影响，日产正在采取一些大胆的措施。目前，该公司计划在全球范围内裁员1.25万人，并关闭或缩减总计14家工厂的产量，以减少过剩产能，削减成本。在截至6月底的三个月里，该公司的净利润仅为4700万英镑，而去年同期的净利润超过了8亿英镑，降幅超过94%。美国是日产最大的市场之一，其销量大幅下滑，而欧洲也有同样的担忧。

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