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2019-12-15来源:和谐英语

BBC news with Jonathan Izard.

Police in India have arrested the owner of a building in Delhi which caught fire over night, killing at least 43 people. Fire fighters say there was no safety equipment at the factory, and it had no fire safety certificate. Many of the victims were laborers sleeping in the building.

Rwanda has launched its first ever vaccination campaign against the Ebola virus. The minister of health said 200,000 people will be vaccinated in the areas bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo.

A senior US democrat has said if the impeachment case against president trump was presented to a jury, it will find him guilty in three-minute flight. Jerry Nadler told cnn the evidence on the president's dealings with Ukraine was part of a pattern of conduct. Its house of representatives judiciary committee could vote on impeachment articles by Friday.

Donald Trump has said the North Korea leader Kim Jong un has everything to lose if he acts on a hostile way. Hours earlier, Pyongyang said it has carried out a test at a satellite site.

Finland's biggest party the Social Democrats has picked the candidate to take over as prime minister after the previous cabinet resigned. The transport minister Sanna Marin will become Finland's youngest ever leader at the age of 34.

Two polar explorers who are running out of food on frozen ice in the arctic have been rescued. The South African Mike Horn and Boerge Ousland of Norway trekked about 1800 kilometers over two months from Alaska to the north pole and onwards towards the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.

The American rapper Juice WRLD, whose latest album topped the Billboard chart has died at the age of 21. The authorities say he suffered what they called a medical emergency at an airport in Chicago.

And the man who played the "Sesame Street" character Big Bird Caroll Spinney has died in the United States, he was 85. Stepping inside big bird's eight-foot tall by yellow costume, he entertained and educated millions of children around the world for nearly 50 years.

BBC news.