CNN news 2016-06-02 加文本

CNN news 2016-06-02

Let`s get started. One of the biggest stories we`ve covered this academic year centers on the millions of migrants and refugees streaming into Europe, the most since World War II. Some are leaving war-torn countries behind them. Some are running from terrorists and their control. Some are just looking for a better life than their home countries have to offer.

Many of these people are trying to get to Europe by cross the Mediterranean Sea. It`s dangerous. They`re often overloaded on small votes and over the past week, at least 65 people have died trying to cross. But hundreds are still missing from several shipwrecks. And officials are afraid that more than 700 lives might have been lost.

It could have been worst. Italian authorities say they`ve rescued more than 14,000 people in the Mediterranean, just in the past week. The overcrowded boats aren`t the only thing officials have to watch for.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

NICK PATON WALSH, cnn SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The route from Libya to Europe across these waters is really exploding, especially since Greece and Turkey cracked down on their shores. You could be talking about 100,000 people trying to cross the Mediterranean.

But that`s not the only problem. ISIS are trying to get in on it.

SUBTITLE: Smuggling Jihadis to Europe.

WALSH (on camera): This trade in human souls is awful enough until you think that perhaps ISIS are using this passage of human life into Europe to try and infiltrate the continent with sleeper cells.

(voice-over): A smuggler said it begun about two months ago, 52 Tunisians tried to travel from Libya to Europe in the last (INAUDIBLE), he said. And he was also offered $40,000 by an ISIS leader to take 20 ISIS people across, but he declined.

So, ISIS already control about a tenth of Libya`s huge coastline, about 4,000 to 6,000 fighters are in that area, but the U.S. thinks many in the main stronghold of Sirte. They`ve been helped by Libya being in chaos, with three different governments now claiming they should be in charge.

(on camera): Fighting the migrant across this, the whole coastline of Libyan capital Tripoli are just six boats like this, some of which not in particularly good service. You simply can`t imagine how under-resourced things are here, so close to Europe.

(voice-over): Libya`s been a failing state for years, but now, it`s a new and thriving home to ISIS as well. And what`s so staggering is that after they`re allowed to grow in Syria and Iraq, that is happening again, this time even closer to Europe and the West is doing next to nothing about it.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

AZUZ: Not far from the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, a battle is raging for the city of Falluja. The ISIS terrorist group took over the area in 2014.

But now, Iraqi and local forces who are supported by a U.S.-led coalition are fighting to get the city back. The international group has captured some of the surrounding areas and they entered the city yesterday in fighting described as intense.

Meantime, there were several suicide attacks in Baghdad that reportedly killed dozens of people. ISIS said it was responsible for those. The terrorist group is also suspected of killing men and boys in Falluja who refused to fight for ISIS. Hundreds of families have fled the city to safe areas nearby, but officials say tens of thousands of people could still be caught in the crossfire.

Yesterday was Memorial Day in the United States. It`s observed every year in the last Monday in May, and it`s a time for Americans to remember those who died while serving in the military.

As commander in chief of that military, U.S. President Barack Obama participated in the traditional wreath-laying at the Tomb of the Unknowns.

The monument was originally used for the burial of an unidentified American soldier from World War II. Unidentified troops from other U.S. wars were added in later years.

Memorial Day started as Decoration Day, a time when Americans decorated the graves of Union and Confederate troops from the Civil War. Now, flags, flowers, services and ceremonies are held nationwide in honor of falling U.S. troops.

Barbara Starr attended in observance at Arlington National Cemetery.

完整版: http://www.hxen.net/englishlistening/CnnStudentNews/2016-05-31/428602.html