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路透社:苏富比粉色钻石拍出8300万美元纪录价
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Ford defies calls for leave of absence of latest drug incidents
多伦多市长吸毒丑闻后拒绝辞职
(SOUNDBITE) (English) TORONTO MAYOR ROB FORD, SAYING: "I really effed up. And that's it."
多伦多市长福特(Rob Ford)：“我确实说了粗话。确实如此。”
Up against the Toronto City Council, an embattled Mayor Rob Ford continued his apology tour on Wednesday. But defied the council's call to take a leave of absence after a string of drug-related incidents has surfaced in the media. Instead, he indicated he'd run for re-election.
周三，在多伦多城市委员会，陷入困境的市长福特(Rob Ford)继续进行道歉的艰难历程。但是，尽管媒体曝光了与这位市长吸毒有关的一系列丑闻，福特仍然对委员会要求他休假的呼吁置之不理。相反，他暗示将竞选连任。
(SOUNDBITE) (English) TORONTO MAYOR ROB FORD, SAYING: "There is no need for me to take a leave of absence. I'm returning my calls. I'm going to committees. I'm watching every single dime that's being spent here. I've done it for 13 years. I'm going to continue doing for five more years-- one this time and four more after October 27."
多伦多市长福特(Rob Ford)：“我不需要休假。我回应了大家的要求。我将面见委员会。我监督着政府花费的每一分钱。我已经从事这份工作13年。我要继续做五年——本届任期的一年，10月27日以后的四年。”
During the meeting, Ford insisted on having a zero tolerance for drugs and gangs, but admitted to buying illegal drugs in the last two years. The incidents began earlier this year when it was reported Ford was seen on video smoking what appeared to be crack cocaine. He finally admitted last week having smoked the drug in a quote "drunken stupor," appearing to be the latest straw for some of his colleagues.
在会议期间，福特坚持对毒品和犯罪团伙零容忍，但是承认自己在过去的两年曾经购买违法药物。丑闻始于今年年初，报道称有视频显示福特正在吸食疑似高纯度可卡因的物品。上周，福特终于承认自己在“喝醉的情况下”吸食可卡因。对于他的一些同事来说，这是他抓住的最后一根稻草。
(SOUNDBITE) (English) JAYE ROBINSON, TORONTO CITY COUNCIL MEMBER SAYING: "Over the past six months, and especially the past few weeks, we have grown increasingly concerned by the seemingly endless cycle of allegations denials and belated admissions about your behavior."
多伦多城市委员会成员JAYE ROBINSON：“过去六个月，尤其是过去的几周，你对所有指控矢口否认，承认自己的错误行为也姗姗来迟，我们越来越担忧。”
The council has no power to force the mayor to step down or take a leave of absence unless he is convicted of a crime.
城市委员会没有权利强迫市长辞职或休假，除非他被判有罪。
Pink diamond sells for record $83 million
苏富比粉色钻石拍出8300万美元纪录价
(SOUNDBITE) (English) SOTHEBY'S AUCTIONEER, DAVID BENNETT, SAYING: "Sixty-eight million? Very good choice." The huge "Pink Star" pink diamond sold for just over $83 million U.S. dollars in Geneva Wednesday -- a world record price for a gemstone auction, according to Sotheby's. That price included commission costs.
苏富比拍卖行DAVID BENNETT：“6800万？非常好的选择。”周三，这颗名为“粉红之星”的粉色钻石在日内瓦以超过8300万美元的价格成交，创下了宝石拍卖的新纪录。其中包括委托费用。
(SOUNDBITE) (English) SOTHEBY'S AUCTIONEER, DAVID BENNETT, SAYING: "Sixty-eight million francs is then the world record bid ever for a diamond or precious stone and it's right here. Congratulations."
苏富比拍卖商DAVID BENNETT：“6800万法郎是钻石或宝石拍卖史上的世界纪录。钻石就在这里。祝贺你们。”
It was purchased by a man bidding in the room, who represented a person not present. The man did not give his own identity to reporters. The star jewel was sold at Sotheby's semi-annual jewelry sale in Geneva, held in a heavily-guarded hotel showroom, which followed strong Hong Kong auctions last month.
这枚钻石由现场一名投标者买中，真正的买主并未出现。这名男子并未向记者透露自己的身份。这颗“粉红之星”钻石在瑞士日内瓦半年一度的珠宝拍卖会上售出，存放在戒备森严的宾馆展览室。上月香港也举行了隆重的拍卖会。
Shots fired outside Pittsburgh high school
美国匹兹堡高中外发生枪击案
Aerials from a news helicopter show a victim being taken away on a stretcher and loaded into an ambulance. Police are on the scene in Pittsburgh after shots were fired outside Brashear High School Wednesday afternoon. At least three people were hurt in the shooting. Local media is reporting all three victims are students and have non-life threatening injuries. A school official says the shooter came out of the woods, shot the students, and ran back into the woods. Police are searching for at least one gunman.
来自一架新闻直升机的资料显示一名受害者被担架抬走，送上救护车。周三下午，布莱雪高中外发生枪击案，警方正在现场进行调查。至少3人在枪击案中受伤。当地媒体报道称，所有3名受害者都是学生，伤势没有生命危险。一名学校官员表示，枪手从树林里出来枪击学生，然后又回到树林。警方正在搜索至少一名枪手。
CCTV:日本斥资300亿美元清理福岛核电站污染
Japanese readies another $30 bln for Fukushima clean-up work
日本斥资300亿美元清理福岛核电站污染
The Japanese government is considering borrowing an additional three trillion yen, or about 30 billion US dollars, to fund the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant.
The money will be used to help the Tokyo Electric Power Company pay for compensating the evacuees and cleaning up the contaminated area outside the wrecked plant. Cleaning up and compensation work have been underway since the nuclear leak occurred two years ago. The latest plan adds to the clean-up project’s already soaring costs. The loan would bring all Fukushima-related expenses to 80 billion US dollars.
It’s also an indication of TEPCO and the government’s struggles to hit initial targets for lowering radiation levels in the towns and villages hardest hit by the fallout. Fukushima is the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
CCTV9:中国计划生育政策缓解资源和环境压力
China's "family planning policy" relieves pressures on resources, environment
中国计划生育政策缓解资源和环境压力
China's "family planning policy" restricts most urban couples to one child, and rural couples to two.
Since China introduced the family planning policy in the late 1970s, it’s estimated to have prevented adding 400 million people to the current population. That more than the entire population of the United States.
China’s birth rate in 2012 dropped to 12 per thousand from the 33 per thousand in 1970. As a result the population growth rate has declined to one-fifth of what it was in 1970, and only half of the world average.
