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路透社:数十万人参加气候变化示威游行
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Thousands take part in climate change demos
数十万人参加气候变化示威游行
It was the biggest of its kind in history. Hundreds of thousands of people in cities around the world marched to bring attention to the issue of climate change on Sunday. In New York, some 310,000 people walked through the streets of Manhattan holding signs and chanting slogans... (together united...) In London, celebrities like actress Emma Thomson and musician Peter Gabriel joined the march. Gabriel said climate change is a real problem and can't be ignored any longer.
这是历史上最大规模的同类示威活动。世界各个城市数十万人参加游行，提醒人们关注周日的气候变化会议。在纽约，大约310,000人走过曼哈顿街头，手持标语，高喊口号。在伦敦，女演员Emma Thomson和音乐家Peter Gabriel等明星也参加了游行活动。Gabriel表示，气候变化是一个切实的问题，不能再被忽视了。
(SOUNDBITE) (English) PETER GABRIEL, MUSICIAN, SAYING: "I am now certain that this is a very real threat to our own survival and that we are blindly ignoring it at our peril."
音乐家PETER GABRIEL：“我现在确信这是对我们的生存非常切实的威胁，被我们盲目地忽略了，以至于使人类处于危险境地。”
From Melbourne to Paris, in more than 160 cities protesters said their aim is a world run entirely on clean energy. Some 120 leaders plan to meet Tuesday at the United Nations in New York for a summit on climate change. It includes talks on ways to lower greenhouse gas emissions in 200 countries.
从墨尔本到巴黎，在超过160个城市，抗议者们表示，他们的目的是全球使用清洁能源。大约120名领导人计划周二在联合国纽约总部召开气候变化峰会。峰会期间将讨论在200个国家减少温室气体排放的途径。
I must give back to my country: Sarkozy
萨科齐宣布重返政坛
Sarko to the rescue. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he's not only interested in, but rather obliged to re-enter politics in order to help save his country.
萨科齐希望拯救国家。法国前总统萨科齐表示，不仅仅是因为他感兴趣，更重要的是，为了拯救他的国家，他有责任重新入主政坛。
(SOUNDBITE) (French) FORMER FRENCH PRESIDENT NICOLAS SARKOZY SAYING: "so, I thought about it, and told myself that not only do I want to but I have no other choice. I must give back to my country a part of all it has given me."
法国前总统萨科齐：“所以，我思考了一下，我告诉自己，不仅仅是我自己想，而是我别无选择。我必须重新把国家赋予我的一切奉献给国家。”
Sarkozy lost the 2012 election to current president Francois Hollande. But Hollande's failure to revive the economy and boost the unemployment rate has dropped his approval to a paltry 13%. People on the streets of Paris aren't surprised.
在2012年的竞选中，萨科齐输给现任总统奥朗德。但是奥朗德未能复苏经济，降低失业率，导致他的支持率下降到13%。巴黎街道上的人们对此并不惊讶。
"You get what you ask for, so he is unpopular, he has unpopular actions, he gets 13 percent." "I think he deserves it and that he needs take action if he wants to increase his popularity."
“你得到了自己要求的，所以他不受欢迎。他的政策不受欢迎，只有13%的支持率。”“我认为他活该，如果他想要提高支持率，他需要采取行动。”
During a news conference last week Hollande promised to work hard until the end of his term in 2017 but it might be too little too late.
在上周的新闻发布会期间，奥朗德承诺努力工作，直到2017年任期结束，但是一切似乎都太迟了。
Kabul celebrates president-elect Ashraf Ghani
加尼当选阿富汗新总统
The streets of Kabul are alive with celebration. It's now official -- the new president-elect is Ashraf Ghani. And his supporters couldn't be happier with the announcement.
喀布尔街道上一片庆祝的场景。这是官方正式消息——新的当选总统是阿什拉夫·加尼(Ashraf Ghani)。宣布了该结果之后，加尼的支持者们非常开心。
(SOUNDBITE) (Pashto) SUPPORTER OF ASHRAF GHANI, HABIB UL- RAHMAN, SAYING: "We congratulate Ashraf Ghani and his opponent Abdullah on the formation of a national unity government and we hope to have a peaceful government in the future."
加尼的支持者HABIB UL- RAHMAN：“我们恭贺加尼和他的对手阿卜杜拉组建全国统一政府，我们希望将来能够拥有一个和平的政府。”
Under the terms of the deal, Ghani will share power with a chief executive proposed by Abdullah. It ends months of turmoil over the disputed election that destabilized the country. And tonight, brings song to the streets.
根据协议条款，加尼将与阿布杜拉提议的执行官分享权利。该结果结束了由于有争议的选举导致的动荡整个国家的混乱局面。今晚，街道上歌声一片。
路透社科技:帮助盲人鉴别道路障碍的设备
Aurora prototype device helps the blind pulse through obstacles
帮助盲人鉴别道路障碍的设备
Budapest resident Noemi Kiraly has been gradually losing her sight since childhood. Today she is almost totally blind. But a group of Hungarian postgraduate students are hoping to lend her a helping hand with this device. It's called Aurora and aims to help Kiraly 'pulse' through everyday obstacles using an ultrasonic sensor, says co-developer Hunor Menyhart. (SOUNDBITE) (English) DEVELOPER, HUNOR MENYHART, SAYING: "The ultrasonic sensor emits an ultrasonic sound and it is reflected from the object before the device. The sound that comes back is detected by the device and the micro-processor translates this to vibration." The Aurora is meant to complement the conventional cane. It detects obstacles up to four metres away, five times the distance a cane can achieve. It can also locate holes in the ground and descending stairs, places of potentially grave danger for people such as Kiraly. (SOUNDBITE) (Hungarian) BLIND VOLUNTEER, NOEMI KIRALY, SAYING: "I'm just practicing with it for now but it does really help. If I hold it at the right angle it signals if there's an obstacle." Another tester, David Nemeth, says the device helps him define the edges of an obstacle. (SOUNDBITE) (Hungarian) BLIND TESTER, DAVID NEMETH, SAYING: "This is the point when it alerts me that an object is getting close as it vibrates faster and faster, and then I either find the edge of the obstacle with the white cane or I can use this device to find a point when it doesn't vibrate so much." The team developed the prototype after studying other supportive devices for the blind. They concluded a vibration system placed on the hand would be the most helpful. (SOUNDBITE) (English) DEVELOPER, HUNOR MENYHART, SAYING: "Many developers try to put such a device on the head of the user but those who are born blind do not develop the common head movement so they don't look where they are moving, this wouldn't work. And other devices use sound as feedback and this cancels one of the remaining senses of the blind people." Currently Aurora runs on conventional AA batteries, but needs some improvements in durability and water resistance. And with the help of crowd-funding websites, the team hopes it will soon assist the blind come rain or shine.
白宫发言:奥巴马于下周参加联合国大会
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Josh Earnest, 9/19/2014
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
12:41 P.M. EDT
MR. EARNEST: Good afternoon, everybody. At the beginning of today’s briefing -- you see that I’m joined today by the National Security Advisor to the President, Susan Rice. She is here to do two things. The first is to give you a little preview about the activities planned for the President’s trip to the United Nations General Assembly next week. After she presents -- sort of lays out what the President’s activities will look like, she will stick around and take a few questions. She does have to go to a meeting shortly, so she won’t be able to take a lot of questions, but she’ll take a few of them and then I will take whatever is left over.
So with that, Susan, you want to begin?
AMBASSADOR RICE: Good afternoon, everyone. Actually, what I want to do is say a few things about what has transpired over the course of the last week, and then preview the President’s trip to the UN General Assembly and then take a few questions.
So as you’ve seen over the course of the last week, the President has been very engaged in driving our progress on a number of national security priorities. Let me highlight a few of those areas and then I’ll get into the UNGA.
First, we continue to implement our strategy to go on the offensive against ISIL. We’re focusing on multiple lines of effort, including using our unique military capabilities to deny ISIL safe haven, and building the international coalition to support our efforts.
As you heard the President say last night, we’re very pleased with the bipartisan vote in Congress to give us the necessary authorities to train and equip the moderate Syrian opposition. And we’re grateful to both the House and the Senate for acting quickly on these authorities.
The reason this is so important is that our strategy entails using local forces to fight ISIL on the ground. Iraqi security forces have already taken the fight to ISIL, along with their Kurdish colleagues, with U.S. support. And obviously now we’ll be in a position to train and equip the Syrian opposition forces, which will have the ability to do the same inside of Syria.
To be clear, as we’ve said repeatedly, our strategy does not involve U.S. troops on the ground in a combat role in either Iraq or Syria. And no U.S. troops will be in Syria as part of the train-and-equip program. This program will be hosted outside of Syria, in partnership with neighboring countries.
At CENTCOM earlier this week, the President underscored the importance of building a broad coalition of nations to offer assistance in the comprehensive campaign to combat ISIL. To date, more than 40 countries have offered assistance, and we’re particularly pleased that France has joined us in conducting airstrikes in Iraq, and there are many other countries in the region and beyond offering other important assistance.
This afternoon, Secretary Kerry will be in New York to chair an important session of the United Nations Security Council on Iraq. And that session will underscore international support for the new inclusive government in Iraq, and it will galvanize and support our efforts to build this coalition to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL.
This work of coalition-building is ongoing. It is something that all of the President’s senior advisors are actively involved in, and of course, the President himself. And this process will continue through next week at UNGA and beyond.
Another important element of the President’s agenda this week was our trip to the CDC in Atlanta, where the President outlined our intensified response to confronting the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. The President has made very clear that this is a national security priority. And while we assess that the Ebola epidemic does not pose a significant risk of spreading to the United States, it is nonetheless the largest epidemic of its sort in history, and the first such in West Africa.
And therefore, we have put in place a whole-of-government effort that will build on the measures that we began back in March when this first occurred. But the response now will leverage the unique capabilities of the United States military, as well as that of our AID and development community, and of course our health and disease control experts to bring this epidemic under control.
And then, of course, yesterday we welcomed President Poroshenko of Ukraine to the White House, and this was a very important opportunity for us to reaffirm the United States’ very strong support for Ukraine, its independence, its sovereignty, its territorial integrity, and its democratic transition and economic evolution.
Yesterday, we were able to announce an additional $53 million in assistance to Ukraine. That is primarily additional security systems of $46 million. I think that totals to assistance to Ukraine from the United States of about $290 million thus far this year.
Now, let me turn, if I may, to next week, which will be another intense foreign policy and national security week.
The President will travel to New York on Tuesday. His first engagement at the UN will be the Climate Summit, which is a meeting of world leaders convened by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The meeting will showcase climate action commitments from governments, local leaders and the private sector in an effort to build will and a new global climate change agreement in time for 2015, when the milestone summit will occur.
President Obama will speak at that summit and emphasize the ambitious actions that we’ve taken under his climate action plan to reduce carbon pollution at home, and he’ll also stress that all major economies need to step up to the plate if we’re to avoid the dangerous consequences of climate change.
The President will then attend the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting, as he has in the past, where he’ll address how the administration, in partnership with other governments, non-governmental organizations and the philanthropic community is deepening its commitment to defend and strengthen civil society globally. This even will mark one year since the President launched the Stand With Civil Society Initiative last week at -- last year at the General Assembly. This was a groundbreaking effort to support, defend and sustain the work of civil society around the world amidst a rising tide of restrictions on its work.
On Wednesday morning, the President will deliver his annual address to the UN General Assembly, and later in the day, he will chair a landmark meeting of the United Nations Security Council, focused on the foreign terrorist fighter threat. This convening of world leaders is another element of our comprehensive response to the challenge posed by ISIL. And we expect during that U.N. Security Council session to be able to adopt a Chapter 7 resolution that will expand upon current obligations within international law, and underscore the centrality of countering violent extremism, which is a key part of the effort to suppress the foreign terrorist fighter threat.
This will be only the second time that an American President has chaired the United Nations Security Council. Some of you may recall that President Obama did it back in 2009. That was the first time, and that was a summit on nonproliferation. As in 2009, the United States has the rotating presidency of the Security Council for the month of September, and thus, the ability to convene and chair such a summit.
Later the same day, the President will speak at the Open Government Partnership high-level event. You may recall, this is an initiative that the United States launched in 2011. It is co-hosted this year by Indonesian President Yudhoyono, who is, as you know, outgoing; and Mexican President Pe?a Nieto.
This is a very important initiative that was launched by the President, as I mentioned, with seven other founding members three years ago. And now, it has grown to some 64 countries, and we have generated commitments from countries around the world to more open, transparent and accountable governance, fighting corruption and energizing civic engagement.
The last day will be Thursday the 25th, and the President will then address a high-level meeting chaired by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the Ebola epidemic. And we will build on the momentum of the President’s announcement this week where he stepped up our commitment, and we expect this will be an occasion where other countries will announce additional commitments to the global fight against Ebola. And it will also be an opportunity for the U.N. to detail its plans to support the effort to meet unmet needs. And we expect commitments in the form of financial assistance, equipment, personnel, and efforts to construct treatment units.
Finally, while in New York, the President will, as he always does, have the opportunity to hold some bilateral meetings with other world leaders, and to participate in other functions such as his reception that he hosts every year for visiting heads of state, the Secretary-General’s annual luncheon, et cetera. And we’ll have more details about those engagements and the schedule in the coming days.
MR. EARNEST: All right. Jim, do you want to get us started?
Q Thank you, Ambassador Rice. Wanted to ask you about ISIL. The French say that, in full support of the mission, they’re willing to carry out airstrikes but only in Iraq. And I’m wondering whether you run -- as you build a coalition, whether you run the risk of creating a bifurcated coalition, one that is willing to carry out the fight against ISIL only in Iraq but not in Syria. And I’m wondering if you have any other more commitments to take the fight to Syria, as you have from Saudi Arabia, to conduct training there?
AMBASSADOR RICE: Jim, I don’t think we’re going to have a bifurcated coalition. This will be a unified coalition. It’s one operation. It will be under a common command. And we will continue to welcome the involvement of partners who will make different contributions based on their capacity, based on their varying political circumstances. But it will be unified, it will be cohesive, and it will be under one single command authority.
And so I’m quite encouraged that we will have a number of countries participate in various different ways. Already, Australia has indicated an active involvement; the British have been involved along with the French and the Australians and the Canadians in the humanitarian operation inside of Iraq. And we do anticipate that to the extent that action is necessary in Syria, that there will be other countries involved in this alongside the United States.
Q So the President told us last week that he had authorized airstrikes in Syria. What more needs to take place before that actually happens? Has he received recommendations from the Pentagon?
AMBASSADOR RICE: Well, I think we’ve been clear, and the President has outlined, that his strategy entails not only broadening the effort against ISIL in Iraq, and going on the offensive in support of Iraqi forces against ISIL in Iraq, but it will necessarily in all likelihood involve action in Syria. And he has said he is prepared to take that action.
I don’t think it would be appropriate or wise for me to telegraph from the podium exactly when that will occur and what steps may need to be taken before that is to occur.
Q But do you need to build a broader coalition, or is it -- what --
AMBASSADOR RICE: I think, as I said, I’m not going to give you any precision or prediction on when that might occur. Obviously, we are working every day to build the coalition that -- we’re making good progress in that regard. And there are other elements of the comprehensive approach that we’re pulling together that are important aspects of the overall strategy.
MR. EARNEST: Roger.
Q Thank you. On the UN Security Council resolution -- do you have agreement among the members now? Do you expect any trouble? And what does the resolution seek?
AMBASSADOR RICE: Well, the resolution -- first of all, I do expect that we will have a successful resolution, which means agreement among at least a majority of member states and no vetoes. But I expect, actually, it will be a resolution that we’re able to reach unanimity on, given the import of the issue.
In my experience, in New York, the resolutions are rarely concluded this far out in advance. I know the negotiations are going on, but I think they’re going comparatively well.
Such a resolution would build on the existing international legal architecture. You may recall UN Security Council Resolution 1373 that was passed not long after 9/11 that dealt in part with the challenge of the flow of foreign terrorists into combat zones. This will build on that. It will increase the obligations on states to try to prevent and deter the flow of foreign fighters. It will also place new emphasis on the challenge of countering violent extremism in one’s own domestic context, is an important part of the larger challenge.
So it will move the ball down the field in terms of the international legal architecture and obligations on states to try to combat this challenge.
