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路透社:韩国流行音乐会事故 16人身亡
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Sixteen killed in South Korea pop concert accident
韩国流行音乐会事故 16人身亡
The victims of Friday's accident died after falling more than 30 feet into this ventilation shaft, the cover collapsing beneath their weight.They were among 700 people attending a pop concert at a shopping mall near Seoul. Local fire department chief Choi Young-Gyun told reporters there were many people standing on the ventilation cover when it collapsed. At least of eleven of those who fell were admitted to hospital with serious injuries. Emergency service officials say the death toll is likely to rise.
周五，遇难者坠入30多英尺深的通风井内身亡。由于承担不起多人的重量，通风井盖坍塌。700人参加了在首尔附近一个购物商场举行的流行音乐会。当地消防局长Choi Young-Gyun告诉记者，许多人站在通风井盖上，导致井盖坍塌。坠井的至少11人被送往医院，伤势严重。紧急服务部门官员表示，死亡人数可能还会上升。
Climate protest at Australia coal port
澳大利亚煤港举行气候抗议活动
A song for the earth - activists from South Pacific countries protest against climate change. They're trying to stop ships leaving Newcastle in Australia, the world's biggest port for coal export. Climate change experts say the burning of coal is a major cause of global warming. That's caused rising tides, which protesters say are swallowing smaller islands.
为地球而歌唱——来自南太平洋国家的活动积极分子抗议气候变化。他们试图阻止船只离开澳大利亚纽卡斯尔，世界上最大的煤炭出口港。气候变化专家表示，煤炭燃烧是导致全球变暖的主要原因，导致涨潮吞没了较小的岛屿。
(SOUNDBITE) (English) 350.ORG ACTIVIST, GEORGE NACEWA SAYING: "These expansions are exporting destruction to the islands so that's why we're here. We're trying to change the narrative from 'we are drowning' to 'we are not drowning, we are fighting'." Hundreds joined their campaign on kayaks and canoes. But surrounded by police boats, they didn't manage to stop any coal ships. One protester said the police were aggressive.
活动积极分子GEORGE NACEWA：“这些煤炭的出口将破坏性的影响也带到其他岛屿，所以我们来到这里。我们试图将陈述从‘我们正在溺亡’改为‘我们没有溺亡，我们正在抗争。’”数百人乘坐小艇参加了抗议活动。在警方船只的包围下，他们未能阻止任何运煤船。一位抗议者表示，警方非常激进。
(SOUNDBITE) (English) ENVIRONMENTAL CAMPAIGNER DONNA BARTLET SAYING: "They're playing chicken with us. I am a 47-year-old Nan. This is direct action from the police, that was their jetski. They've come up and as you can see I'm wet, he's just basically rammed us. But it doesn't matter, I'm going to get this fixed. I'm going to get back on that boat and they can do it again."
环保活动积极分子DONNA BARTLET：“他们在跟我们玩对抗游戏。我是47岁的Nan。这是警方采取的直接行动，这是他们的摩托汽艇。他们已经行动，你可以看到，我全身都湿了。他拼命撞我们。但是这并不重要。我会调整好的。我会重新回到船上，他们也会重新采取行动。”
Millions of tonnes of coal mined across Australia pass through the port each year.
每年，澳大利亚数百万吨煤通过这个港口出口。
Hurricane Gonzalo hits Bermuda, power out for thousands
飓风贡萨洛袭击百慕大群岛
Hurricane Gonzalo left a path of destruction as it pummeled Bermuda overnight. Its torrential rain and howling winds of around 110 miles per hour, left tens of thousands of people without power. Authorities are warning residents not to approach downed wires when inspecting the damage. So far, no serious injuries have been reported from the strongest storm ever to sweep the island. Now, Gonzalo is spinning toward Newfoundland. Officials say it's expected to pass just to the southeast of the Canadian island on Sunday.
飓风贡萨洛夜间袭击百慕大群岛，飓风过处造成严重破坏。暴雨和时速110英里的狂风造成数万人断电。当局警告居民检查损坏状况时不要靠近跌落的电线。目前为止，该群岛遭遇的最强风暴并未造成严重伤亡。现在，飓风贡萨洛正在向纽芬兰移动。官员们表示，预期飓风周日将到达加拿大东南部岛屿。
路透社科技:纪录片介绍斯诺登生平
An intimate look at Edward Snowden
纪录片介绍斯诺登生平
A new documentary will take audiences inside Edward Snowden's world. "Citizenfour" tells the story of the former National Security Agency contractor who blew the whistle on the U.S. government's mass surveillance programs. Director and producer Laura Poitras premiered the movie at the New York Film Festival. "Citizenfour" takes its title from the alias Snowden used when he first approached Poitras in early 2013 through a series of encrypted emails with a view to leaking details of the top-secret programs to the media. SOUNDBITE: Laura Poitras, film maker, saying (English): "This is a continuation of looking at - focusing on post 9-11 American. And it's looking at how surveillance is used as a form of control on populations. And how the war on terror is kind of coming back to the U.S." Ben Wisner, Snowden's attorney, hopes viewers will walk away with a better understanding of his client. SOUNDBITE: Ben Wisner, attorney, saying (English): "One of the things that I'm so happy about with this film is that now for the first time much of the world will get to see Edward Snowden as I've gotten to know him over the last year. This is someone who is responsible, who is serious, who a visionary. Who is self effacing , who is brilliant and who made historic decision by himself without any legal advice and without know what the consequences would be for himself. So it was a privilege to have a change to advise him after the fact." The documentary will open in U.S. movie theaters on October 24th.
白宫发言:奥巴马:美国公共教育有所进步
Look, let’s face it: Some of these changes are hard. Sometimes they cause controversy. And we have a long way to go. But public education in America is actually improving. Last year, our elementary and middle school students had the highest math and reading scores on record. The dropout rates for Latinos and African Americans are down. (Applause.) The high school graduation rate -- the high school graduation rate is up. It’s now above 80 percent for the first time in history. We’ve invested in more than 700 community colleges --which are so often gateways to the middle class -- and we’re connecting them with employers to train high school graduates for good jobs in fast-growing fields like high-tech manufacturing and energy and IT and cybersecurity.
Here in Chicago, Rahm just announced that the city will pay community college tuition for more striving high school graduates. We’ve helped more students afford college with grants and tax credits and loans. And today, more young people are graduating than ever before. We’ve sent more veterans to college on the Post-9/11 GI Bill -- including several veterans here at Northwesten -- and a few of them are in this hall today, and we thank them for their service. (Applause.)
So we’ve made progress on manufacturing and creating good jobs. We’ve made progress on education. Of course, even if you have the right education, for decades, one of the things that made it harder for families to make ends meet and businesses to grow was the high cost of health care. And so the third cornerstone had to be health care reform.
In the decade before the Affordable Care Act, aka, Obamacare -- (laughter and applause) -- in the decade before the Affordable Care Act, double-digit premium increases were common. CEOs called them one of the biggest challenges to their competitiveness. And if your employer didn’t drop your coverage to avoid these costs, they might pass them on to you and take them out of your wages.
Today, we have seen a dramatic slowdown in the rising cost of health care. When we passed the Affordable Care Act, the critics were saying,what are you doing about cost. Well, let me tell you what we’ve done about cost. If your family gets your health care through your employer, premiums are rising at a rate tied for the lowest on record. And what this means for the economy is staggering. If we hadn’t taken this on, and premiums had kept growing at the rate they did in the last decade, the average premium for family coverage today would be $1,800 higher than they are. Now, most people don't notice it, but that’s $1,800 you don’t have to pay out of your pocket or see vanish from your paycheck. That’s like a $1,800 tax cut. That's not for folks who signed up for Obamacare. That's the consequences of some of the reforms that we’ve made.
And because the insurance marketplaces we created encourage insurers to compete for your business, in many of cities they’ve announced that next year’s premiums -- well, something important is happening here -- next year’s premiums are actually falling in some of these markets.
One expert said this is “defying the law of physics.” But we’re getting it done. And it is progress we can be proud of.
So we’re slowing the cost of health care, and we’re covering more people at the same time. In just the last year, we reduced the share of uninsured Americans by 26 percent. That means one in four uninsured Americans -- about 10 million people -- have gained the financial security of health insurance in less than one year. And for young entrepreneurs, like many of you here today, the fact that you can compare and buy affordable plans in the marketplace frees you up to strike out on your own, chase that new idea -- something I hope will unleash new services and products and enterprises all across the country. So the job lock that used to exist because you needed health insurance,you’re free from that now. You can go out and do something on your own and get affordable health care.
And meanwhile, partly because health care prices have been growing at the slowest rate in nearly 50 years, the growth in what health care costs the government is down, also. I want everybody to listen carefully here, because when we were debating the Affordable Care Act there was a lot of complaining about how we couldn’t afford this. The independent, nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office recently reported that in 2020, Medicare and Medicaid will cost us $188 billion less than projected just four years ago. And here’s what that means in layman’s terms: Health care has long been the single biggest driver of America’s future deficits. It’s been the single biggest driver of our debt.
Health care is now the single biggest factor driving down those deficits.
And this is a game-changer for the fourth cornerstone of this new foundation -- getting our fiscal house in order for the long run, so we can afford to make investments that grow the middle class.
Between a growing economy, some prudent spending cuts, health care reform, and asking the wealthiest Americans to pay a little bit more on their taxes, over the past five years we’ve cut our deficits by more than half. When I took office, the deficit was nearly 10 percent of our economy. Today, it’s approaching 3 percent. (Applause.) In other words, we can shore up America’s long-term finances without falling back into the mindless austerity or manufactured crises or trying to find excuses to slash benefits to seniors that dominated Washington budget debates for so long.
And finally, we’ve put in place financial reform to protect consumers and prevent a crisis on Wall Street from hammering Main Street ever again. We have new tools to prevent “too big to fail,” to stop taxpayer-funded bailouts. We made it illegal for big banks to gamble with your money. We established the first-ever consumer watchdog to protect consumers from irresponsible lending or credit card practices. We secured billions of dollars in relief for consumers who get taken advantage of. And working with states attorneys general like Lisa Madigan, we’ve seen industry practices changing.
Now, an argument you’ll hear oftentimes from critics is that the way to grow the economy is to just get rid of regulations; free folks up from the oppressive hand of the government. And you know, it turns out, truth be told, there are still some kind of dopey regulations on the books. (Laughter.) There are regulations that are outdated or are no longer serving a useful purpose. And we have scrubbed the laws out there and identified hundreds that are outdated, that don’t help our economy, that don’t make sense, and we’re saving businesses billions of dollars by gradually eliminating those unnecessary regulations. But you have to contrast that with rules that discourage a casino-style mentality on Wall Street, or rules that protect the basic safety of workers on the job, or rules that safeguard the air our children breathe and keep mercury or arsenic out of our water supply. These don’t just have economic benefits, these are rules that save lives and protect families. And I’ll always stand up for those -- and they’re good for our economy.
So here’s the bottom line: For all the work that remains, for all the citizens that we still need to reach, what I want people to know is that there are some really good things happening in America. Unemployment down. Jobs up. Manufacturing growing. Deficits cut by more than half. High school graduation is up. College enrollment up. Energy production up. Clean energy production up. Financial system more stable. Health care costs rising at a slower rate. Across the board, the trend lines have moved in the right direction.
