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路透社:克里承诺向加沙提供2.12亿美元援助
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Kerry pledges $212 million aid for Gaza
克里承诺向加沙提供2.12亿美元援助
World leaders come together in Cairo -- a renewed attempt at Mideast peace. That message of hope was heard loud and clear at the Gaza reconstruction conference, where U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pledged $212 million in aid for Gaza.
世界各国领导人在开罗召开会议，为中东和平再次作出努力。在加沙重建会议上，希望的信息被大声而清晰地传达出来。美国国务卿约翰·克里承诺向加沙地带提供2.12亿美元的援助。
(SOUNDBITE) (English) UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE, JOHN KERRY, SAYING: "Out of this conference must come not just money, but a renewed commitment from everybody to work for a peace that meets the aspirations of all. For Israelis, for Palestinians, and for all the peoples of this region."
美国国务卿约翰·克里：“这次会议不仅仅涉及钱的问题，每个人还必须为和平而努力，达成每个人的愿望。对以色列人，巴勒斯坦人，对该地区所有人来说都是如此。”
But Kerry gave no specifics on how to restart negotiations. The last round of U.S.-brokered peace talks broke down in April. After which a seven-week war raged between Israel and the Palestinians. Casualty numbers soared with each passing day. More than 60 Israelis, most of them soldiers, and more than 2,100 Palestinians, most of them civilians were killed in the conflict. An estimated 18,000 Palestinian homes were destroyed. And the Palestinians have put a $4 billion price tag on the cost of reconstruction. ...A focus of this meeting, including findinga peaceful way forward in the embattled region.
但是克里并未透露如何重启谈判的细节。美国促成的最后一次和平谈判在4月份宣布破裂。此后，以色列和巴勒斯坦之间爆发了为期七周的战争。随着每一天的过去，伤亡数字都在增加。超过60名以色列人，其中大部分是士兵，和超过2,100名巴勒斯坦人，其中大部分是平民，在冲突中遇难。大约18,000座巴勒斯坦房屋被摧毁。巴勒斯坦人称重建费用大约为40亿美元。这次会议的焦点包括寻找促使该四面楚歌的地区继续前进的和平方法。
Yazidi refugee: Islamic State took women "for themselves"
伊斯兰国激进分子劫掠女性
A Yazidi woman sits on a mattress with her newborn at a refugee camp in northern Iraq. She faces a daily fight to survive, as her ethnic population faces the threat of extinction from Islamic State fighters. Human Rights Watch has released a report citing the personal accounts of several survivors. One Yazidi woman says she saw her husband's life end before her eyes.. She says that Islamic State fighters are after women.
在伊拉克北部一个难民营，一名雅兹迪女性抱着新出生的孩子坐在垫子上。她每天都必须为生存而抗争，因为她的民族面临着被伊斯兰国战士灭绝的危险。人权观察组织发表了一份报告，引用了几名幸存者的个人描述。一名雅兹迪女子表示，她亲眼目睹丈夫的生命在自己面前终结。她说，伊斯兰国战士正在追逐劫掠女性。
(SOUNDBITE) (Kurdish) YAZIDI WOMAN, WITH HER FACE COVERED, SAYING: "They killed my husband in front of me, as well as my brother-in-law and my father-in-law, within minutes. Now, my mother-in-law and my sister-in-law are under their grip. The Islamic State were looking for women and they took them for themselves." Another elderly Yazidi woman also says girls have been taken by the extremist militants.
蒙面的雅兹迪女性：“他们在我面前杀害了我的丈夫，丈夫的弟弟和公公。现在，我的婆婆和小姑子正在他们的魔爪中。伊斯兰国正在寻找女性，据为己有。”另外一名老年雅兹迪女子也说女孩们被激进分子战士带走了。
(SOUNDBITE) (Kurdish) ELDERLY YAZIDI WOMAN, SAYING: "When Islamic State came, they surrounded the house. They separated the men, women, and girls. They ordered our men to convert to Islam, but they refused. They put the girls in three cars and took them away."
老年雅兹迪女子：“当伊斯兰国激进分子来的时候，他们把房子包围了。他们把男人，女人和女孩分开来。他们命令男人向伊斯兰分子归顺，但是他们拒绝了。他们把女孩赶上三辆汽车带走了。”
Human Right Watch reports that boys have also been kidnapped, and forced to convert to Islam. The group says that some 366 Yazidis are being held by Islamic State militants.
人权观察组织报道称，男孩们也被绑架，被迫皈依伊斯兰教。该组织表示，大约366名雅兹迪人被伊斯兰国激进分子劫持。
Typhoon Vongfong threatens Japan's main islands
台风黄蜂威胁日本
Typhoon Vongfong is nearing Kagoshima, where the docks are empty. The typhoon has already battered the Island of Okinawa and injured 31 people. It has since lost intensity and been downgraded to a tropical storm, but government agencies are taking precautions. Ferry services here have been suspended, and more than 400 flights were canceled due to strong winds. The typhoon follows the path of another storm that hit Japan's main island less than a week ago, which prompted the evacuation of hundreds of thousands. Seven people died when that storm hit,including three U.S. airmen.
台风黄蜂正在逼近鹿儿岛，码头已经清空。这场台风已经袭击了冲绳岛，造成31人受伤。自那时起强度开始减弱，降低为热带风暴，但是政府机构正在采取预警措施。狂风导致轮渡服务暂停，400多个航班取消。这场台风遵循的是不到一周前袭击日本本岛的另外一场风暴的路径，当时造成数十万人疏散，7人死亡，包括3名美国飞行员在内。
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Rockettes get into the Christmas spirit
火箭女郎歌舞团为圣诞做准备
It's Christmas in October for the Rockettes. The legendary kickers invited media inside their rehearsal for a sneak peek of the annual holiday show Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Arizona native Logan Reginato will be making her debut when the show begins on November 7th. SOUNDBITE: Logan Reginato, Rockette, saying: "I have an envision of what I think it might feel like. But until I get there, I have butterflies talking about it right now. But until I get there I just, you know, I expect it - I don't even know. I can't wait to be on that stage." Nine year veteran Danelle Morgan explained the intensity of rehearsals. SOUNDBITE: Danelle Morgan, Rockette, saying: "We rehearse six hours a day, six days a week for about six weeks to get ready for the Christmas Spectacular so that, you know, once we get to the stage there's no questions. It's just show time." The Christmas Spectacular will run until December 31st.
白宫发言:埃博拉疫情会议后奥巴马发表讲话
Remarks by the President After Meeting on Ebola
埃博拉疫情会议后奥巴马发表讲话
THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. I just had an opportunity to get a full briefing from my entire team across administrations -- across agencies on the aggressive steps that we are taking to fight the Ebola epidemic, to stop the epidemic at its source in West Africa but also to make sure that we are doing everything we need to do to prevent an outbreak here in the United States.
As I’ve said from the start of this outbreak, I consider this a top national security priority. This is not just a matter of charity -- although obviously the humanitarian toll in countries that are affected in West Africa is extraordinarily significant. This is an issue about our safety. It is also an issue with respect to the political stability and the economic stability in this region.
And so it is very important for us to make sure that we are treating this the same way that we would treat any other significant national security threat. And that’s why we’ve got an all-hands-on-deck approach -- from DOD to public health to our development assistance, our science teams -- everybody is putting in time and effort to make sure that we are addressing this as aggressively as possible.
I know that the American people are concerned about the possibility of an Ebola outbreak, and Ebola is a very serious disease. And the ability of people who are infected who could carry that across borders is something that we have to take extremely seriously. At the same time, it is important for Americans to know the facts, and that is that because of the measures that we’ve put in place, as well as our world-class health system and the nature of the Ebola virus itself -- which is difficult to transmit -- the chances of an Ebola outbreak in the United States is extremely low.
Procedures are now in place to rapidly evaluate anybody who might be showing symptoms. We saw that with the response of the airplane in Newark and how several hospitals across the United States have been testing for possible cases. In recent months we’ve had thousands of travelers arriving here from West Africa, and so far only one case of Ebola has been diagnosed in the United States, and that’s the patient in Dallas. Our prayers are obviously with him and his family.
We have learned some lessons, though, in terms of what happened in Dallas. We don’t have a lot of margin for error. The procedures and protocols that are put in place must be followed. One of the things that we discussed today was how we could make sure that we’re spreading the word across hospitals, clinics, any place where a patient might first come in contact with a medical worker to make sure that they know what to look out for, and they’re putting in place the protocols and following those protocols strictly. And so we’re going to be reaching out not only to governors and mayors and public health officials in states all across the country, but we want to continue to figure out how we can get the word out everywhere so that everybody understands exactly what is needed to be done.
Meanwhile, at the federal level, we’re constantly reviewing and evaluating the measures that we already have in place to see if there are additional improvements. We continue to look at any additional steps that can be taken to make sure that the American people are safe, which is our highest priority.
And finally, we had a discussion about what we’re doing on site in West Africa. There’s been already extraordinary work done by the Department of Defense in conjunction with the CDC in standing up isolation units and hospital beds. We are making progress. The environment is difficult because the public health system there has very few resources and is already extraordinarily fragile.
And I’ll be very honest with you -- although we have seen great interest on the part of the international community, we have not seen other countries step up as aggressively as they need to. And I said at the United Nations, and I will repeat, that this is an area where everybody has to chip in and everybody has to move quickly in order for us to get this under control.
Countries that think that they can sit on the sidelines and just let the United States do it, that will result in a less effective response, a less speedy response, and that means that people die, and it also means that the potential spread of the disease beyond these areas in West Africa becomes more imminent.
So I’m going to be putting a lot of pressure on my fellow heads of state and government around the world to make sure that they are doing everything that they can to join us in this effort. We’ve got some small countries that are punching above their weight on this, but we’ve got some large countries that aren’t doing enough. And we want to make sure that they understand that this is not a disease that’s going to discriminate, and this is something that all of us have to be involved in.
So the bottom line is, is that we’re doing everything that we can to make sure, number one, that the American people are safe; I’m confident that we’re going to be able to do that. But we’re also going to need to make sure that we stop this epidemic at its source. And we’re profoundly grateful to all our personnel -- our medical personnel, our development personnel, our military personnel who are serving in this effort. It’s because of their professionalism, their dedication and their skill that we are going to be able to get this under control, but this is a faraway place, with roads that in many cases are impassable, areas that don’t have even one hospital. We’re having to stand up, essentially, a public health infrastructure in many of these areas that haven't had it before, and that requires an enormous amount of effort.
I’m very grateful for the people who are on the front lines making this work. It’s a reminder once again of American leadership. But even with all the dedicated effort that our American personnel are putting in, there are going to be -- they need to be joined by professionals from other countries who are putting up similar effort and similar resources. And so I hope they’re going to be paying attention over the next several weeks so we can get on top of this.
Thank you.
Q What do you say to the American people who remain nervous in spite of your assurances?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I just explained to them that the nature of this disease -- the good news is, is that it’s not an airborne disease. We are familiar with the protocols that are needed to isolate and greatly reduce the risks of anybody catching this disease, but it requires us to follow those protocols strictly, and that’s exactly what we are in the process of doing. And the CDC is familiar with dealing with infectious diseases and viruses like this. We know what has to be done and we’ve got the medical infrastructure to do it. But this is an extraordinarily virulent disease when you don’t follow the protocols.
And so the key here is just to make sure that each step along the way -- whether it’s a hospital admissions desk, whether it is the doctors, the nurses, public health officials -- that everybody has the right information. If they have the right information and they’re following those protocols, then this is something that we’re going to be able to make sure does not have the kind of impact here in the United States that a lot of people are worried about. But that requires everybody to make sure that they stay informed. Most particularly, we’ve got to make sure that our health workers are informed.
We’re also going to be working on protocols to do additional passenger screening, both at the source and here in the United States. All of these things make me confident that here in the United States, at least, the chances of an outbreak, of an epidemic here are extraordinarily low.
But let’s keep in mind that, as we speak, there are children on the streets dying of this disease -- thousands of them. And so obviously my first job is to make sure that we’re taking care of the American people, but we have a larger role than that. We also have an obligation to make sure that those children and their families are safe as well, because ultimately the best thing we can do for our public health is also to extend the kind of empathy, compassion and effort so that folks in those countries as well can be rid of this disease.
Thank you very much, everybody.
Q Are you looking to the private sector --
THE PRESIDENT: A lot of volunteering. Thank you, everybody.
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