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BBC news with Jonathan Izard.
Thousands of people have attended the funeral in New York of Rafael Ramos one of the two policemen shot dead in their patrol car a week ago. Vice presidentJoe Bidentold mourners that the death touched the soul of the entire nation. In his address, the governor of New York Andrew Cuomotouched on the subjects of racial and ethnic diversions.
New York knows this topic too well, New York has long been the entrance point for our country welcoming people from across the globe. The statue of Liberty stands in our harbour lighting out past. We know the difficulties of dealing with different races and ethinicities. But we also know the joy, and the success, and the richness that it has brought to New York.
When the Mayor of New York Bill de Blasio rose to speak many officers watching on screens outside turns their backs on him. They accused him of fostering anti-police sentiment by supporting protests against them.
Chineses state media are reporting the North Korea has suffered a further Internet failure and an escalating war of words will be US over a cyberattack on Sony pictures. The country's Internet and 3G mobil networks were reportedly paralyzed for at least 2 hours. Charles Scantland for my Asia -Pacific desk has more.
Informations coming from the agency which maintains a buraue in Pyongyang and they are saying that there has been a Internet outages being very unstable basically for most of the day. Then at 7:30 eveing local time, the Internet was totally blackout and on their 3G networks. This seem to be exatly what happened on last Tuesday when another Internet also went down that time for 9 hours. We don't know who's behind this, but what we do know is that the North Korea's believe is the US.
Officials in Somalia say a senior member of the Islmaic group al-Shababhas been captured in a town near the Kenyan border. They say the man Zakariya Ahmed Ismail Hersi was hidding in a house. There's been no independent confirmation. More details from our Africa editor Mary Hamper.
The distrcit commissioner of the town of El Wagtold the BBC Somali forces stormed the house after receiving a tipoff that Mr. Hersi had been hidding there for 6 days. He said that although Mr. Hersi had a pistol, he didn't put out to fight. In 2012, the US government offered a 3 million dollar reawrd for information leading to the location of Mr. Hersi, a leader of al-Shabab's much feared intelligent wing. Earlier this year, he fell out with the group's then leaderAhmed Abdi Godanewho was killed in a US air strike in September.
The Turkishman who shot almost killed Pope John Paul IIin 1981 has laid flowers on the late pontiff's tomb in the Vatican, a Italian media quoted Mehmet Ali Agca is telling police he felt he needed to make the gesture. His visit to the Vatican came 31 years of the day since the Pope visited him in prison and forgave him for the attempt on his life.
World news from the BBC.
The Lierian former football star George Weah has won a landslide vistory in senate elections held last week despite the Ebola outbreak. Mr.W won 78% of the vote for the important Montserrado county seat which includes the capital Monrovia. He beat Robert Sirleaf the son of the Liberian presidentEllen Johnson Sirleaf. Low vote turnout was blamed on concerns about Ebola.
Swiden's centre-left government has announced a deal with the mainstram opppostion in order to avoid hloding a snap eletion. The agreement sidelines the anti-immigration Sweden democrats who helped vote down the government's budget earlier this month. The pary had been demanding a reversal in Sweden's liberal immigation laws in return for its support. Arken Bravent reports.
Among surfaces, the purpose of the deal was to establish stability in Sweden which was facing its most severe political crisis in 16 years. But the subplot was to neutral the anti-immigrant Sweden democrats the third biggest party which provides voice to those opposed to the nation's generous open-door policy. Some political commentators believe the new deal will intensify the debate over immigration rather than suppress it. Sweden antipates that next year, it will grant silent to more than 100,000 refugees from Syria and Iraq.
Former Urkainian soildiers have been released by Russia-back rebels as part of the biggest prisoners swap since the start of the conflict in Ukraine 10 months ago. This brings the number of government troops to be freed to 150. So far, 220 pro-Russian fighters have been released.
An ice cream parlour in Venezuela famous for its 863 different flavours has become the latest victim of the country's economic crisis. Coromoto based in the Venezuela Andes has told customers it had to close for the time being beacuse of the shortage of milk. The stall listed in the Guinis book of record is hugely popular with tourists for its exotic tasting ice creams which range from beer to beans.
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詞匯解析
capacity
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
n.容量；容積；能力；職位；資格
參考例句
用作名詞 (n.)
That bowl has a capacity of two pints.
那只碗的容量有兩品脫。
She alone was in a capacity to begin the negotiation.
只有她有資格開始談判。
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thrust
難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞
英漢解釋
v.刺；插入；推擠
n.刺；推力；要旨
參考例句
用作動詞 (v.)
The mugger thrust at his victim with a knife.
搶劫者用刀子向受害人刺去。
用作名詞 (n.)
The fencer parried his opponent's thrust.
擊劍手擋開了對手的猛刺。
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abuse
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
n.濫用；惡習
vt.濫用；辱罵；虐待
參考例句
用作名詞 (n.)
The government has set up a working party to look into the problem of drug abuse.
政府已成立工作組調(diào)查濫用毒品問題。
用作及物動詞 (vt.)
I don't consider it good for a person to be afraid of being abused.
一個人怕挨罵,我看不好。
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radical
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
adj.激進的；徹底的；基本的
n.激進分子
參考例句
用作形容詞 (adj.)
Lambert did not reach the more radical conclusion.
蘭伯特還沒有達到更本質(zhì)的結(jié)論。
用作名詞 (n.)
Ted is a fire-eating radical.
泰德是個咄咄逼人的激進份子。
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prominent
難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞
英漢解釋
adj.顯著的；杰出的；突出的
參考例句
用作形容詞 (adj.)
That school is prominent in baseball.
那個學校以棒球著稱。
She is having a lean, gaunt frame with prominent bones.
他骨瘦如柴的身材又細又瘦,骨骼突出的
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efficient
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
adj.效率高的；勝任的
參考例句
用作形容詞 (adj.)
The success of CAD systems is becoming more dependent on the efficient drafting.
cad系統(tǒng)的成功在很大程度上取決于草圖的制圖效率。
I'll say this for them--I'll admit that they're efficient.
我得為他們說句話——我會說他們很有能力。
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recognize
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
vt.承認；認出；意識到；表示感激；識別
參考例句
用作及物動詞 (vt.)
His thorough knowledge and competence were recognized.
他的淵博的學識和工作能力得到了承認。
The firm recognized Tom's outstanding work by giving him an extra bonus.
公司發(fā)給湯姆一筆額外獎金以表彰他出色的工作。
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