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BBC News with Nick Kelly.
The United Nations Weather Agency has warned that the world is on course for the warmest year since records began, which it says confirms a rising trend consistent with climate change. The Head of the UN Climate Change Secretary Christiana Figueres said that high temperatures of vast areas of the ocean surface were particularly worrying. “The heat is being absorbed by the oceans. There is no doubt that the ocean continues to warm and that on a very very consistent basis, and what it is doing, frankly, is doing us a little favor. They are absorbing the heat that could have gone to the land and paying the price.”
The US Secretary of State, John Kerry, has said that all members of the international coalition against the militant group Islamic State have agreed that military action alone cannot defeat the group. It's necessary to destroy its ideology, funding and recruitment. He was speaking at a meeting in Brussels. Now our correspondent Johnathan Marcus was there. “What was interesting in what Mr. Kerry said is that this really is a job for the governments and peoples in the region itself. It's not simply a military struggle, and Mr. Kerry noted that the military side was only a small part; it's about tackling the ideology, the outlook, the whole approach of all Islamic State. And of course, one has to say that in a region which is afflicted more and more by catastrophic tensions and pressures, many of the governments are ailing, we've seen all of the upheavals in the wake of the so-called Arab Spring. It's hard to be optimistic about the immediate future of the region.” Mr. Kerry has said that any Iranian military action against the Islamic State militant group in Iraq would be positive. But he reiterated that the US was not working with the Iranians.
A grand jury in New York has declined to press criminal charges against a white police officer in connection with the death of an unarmed black man in July. Eric Garner was killed by the policeman's stranglehold, a practice banned by the New York police department. Nick Bryant reports from New York. “Eric Garner's death sparked widespread outrage after a video of the incident was posted online. Filmed in broad daylight, it clearly shows a white police officer holding the unarmed black man in a headlock. Eric Garner, who suffered from asthma, can be heard gasping, “I can't breathe! I can't breathe!” A second video showed him lying motionless on the ground, with police and paramedics making no apparent effort to revive him. He later died in hospital. The grand jury in Staten Island had been asked to consider whether to indict the police officer who held him in a headlock, Daniel Pantaleo. But it has decided against bringing any criminal charges. The Garner family's lawyer said he was astonished.”
World news from the BBC
The Colombian government and the Farc rebels have agreed to resume peace talks that were suspended in mid-November after the kidnapping of an army general. Officials from Cuba and Norway, the two countries that have been brokering the peace process over the past two years said the next round of talks will take place in Cuba this month. Barbara Plett Usher reports. “In a joint statement, the rebels and the government said they considered the crisis to be over, and had agreed to begin another round of talks next week. The Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos suspended negotiations last month when rebels seized an army general who entered their territory without a security detail. Farc leaders in Havana moved swiftly to arrange his release and that of four other prisoners, but they renewed calls for a ceasefire to protect the talks from similar disruptions, that something Mr. Santos rejects, saying it would allow the rebels to regroup.”
Veneuela's chief prosecutor has opened a formal investigation into allegations that a leading opposition figure Maria Corina Machado conspired to assassinate the president Nicolas Maduro. Ms. Machado, a former congresswoman, led a major street protest against president Maduro's government at the beginning the year. She has dismissed the accusations as a shroud designed to silence her.
Human rights advocates in Pakistan said the bodies of six separatist campaigners have been found over the past week in the province of Sindh. They all showed signs of torture. Civil society activists have recently held demonstrations, alleging that Sindhy nationalists have been killed with impunity.
And the head of Sweden's left-of-center governing coalition has called a snap election for March after parliament rejected his minority government's budget. Prime Minister Stefan Lofven took office less than three months ago. He failed to reach a deal with the far rights Sweden Democrats who demanded a reversal in Sweden's liberal immigration laws in return for their support for the budget.
BBC News.
詞匯解析
trend
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
n.趨勢(shì)；傾向；方位
vi.傾向；轉(zhuǎn)向
參考例句
用作名詞 (n.)
This quartet represents a major new trend in modern music.
這首四重奏的曲子反映了現(xiàn)代音樂中一種主要的新趨向。
用作不及物動(dòng)詞 (vi.)
Actually, the trend of Anti-Humanistic thought is also a kind of humanism which is deeply influenced by the shift of western philosophy.
反人道主義思潮受到西方哲學(xué)轉(zhuǎn)向的深刻影響，反人道主義思潮實(shí)際上也是一種人道主義。
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immediate
難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞
英漢解釋
adj.直接的；最接近的；立即的；目前的
參考例句
用作形容詞 (adj.)
The evidence has no immediate bearing on the case.
該證據(jù)與本案無直接關(guān)系。
Today's immediate problem is one of distribution of both food and income.
目前面臨的緊迫問題是食物分配和收入分配問題。
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apparent
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
adj.明顯的；表面上的
參考例句
用作形容詞 (adj.)
It was apparent to all that he was guilty.
眾所周知，他是有罪的。
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resume
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
v.重新開始；再繼續(xù)
n.簡(jiǎn)歷；履歷；摘要
參考例句
用作動(dòng)詞 (v.)
We resumed our work after a rest.
休息之后我們重新開始工作。
用作名詞 (n.)
I enclosed my resume in my letter.
我在信里附上了我的簡(jiǎn)歷。
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silence
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
n.沉默；寂靜
vt.使安靜；使沉默
參考例句
用作名詞 (n.)
His forceful arguments reduced his opponents to silence.
他那有力的論點(diǎn)駁得對(duì)手啞口無言。
用作及物動(dòng)詞 (vt.)
The enemy's guns were silenced by repeated bombings.
敵人的炮火因遭到輪番轟炸而沉寂了。
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settlement
難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞
英漢解釋
n.解決；結(jié)算；協(xié)議；安置；殖民；定居
參考例句
用作名詞 (n.)
After much discussion the negotiators hammered out a compromise settlement.
雙方經(jīng)多次談判達(dá)成一項(xiàng)折衷的解決辦法。
The long French sojourn in Canada before English settlement has left its marks.
在英國(guó)殖民者之前，法國(guó)人在加拿大的長(zhǎng)期居留也留下了痕跡。
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liberal
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
adj.慷慨的；大方的；開明的；自由主義的
n.自由主義者；開明的人
參考例句
用作形容詞 (adj.)
They are liberal in their help.
他們慷慨相助。
用作名詞 (n.)
He is an open-minded liberal.
他是一個(gè)開明的自由主義者。
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