英音听力讲解:美国插手英俄特工案纠纷

音频下载[点击右键另存为]

BBC news 2018-03-16

BBC news with Nick Kelly.

The White House has accused Russia of undermining the sovereignty and security of countries worldwide with its nerve agent attack on a former spy in an English city. In a forthright statement staunchly backing Britain, the US called it part of a pattern of subversive behavior by Moscow. The British government is significantly boosting its funding for the military laboratory whose scientists helped identify the rare nerve agent used in the attack. It's modernizing its defense program with the new chemical weapons defense center.

President Trump has picked a TV commentator Larry Kudlow as his new economic advisor. The former investment banker replaces Gary Cohn, who resigned last week over new steel and alumni tariffs.

Researchers in the US say they have found particles of plastic in some of the most popular brands of bottled water in the largest study of its kind. Those companies whose brands are tested told the BBC they stood by the safety of their products.

A military helicopter has crashed in Senegal killing six of the twenty people on board. The aircraft went down in the mangrove forest in the coastal area in the southwest.

A prison riot in Bolivia has ended with seven inmates dead. Riot police stormed the notoriously overcrowded prison in the eastern city of Santa Cruz.

Slovenia’s Prime Minister Miro Cerar has stepped down. It follows decision by the Supreme Court to annul a referendum result approving a key government railway project because the government campaign has been one-sided.

And a woman in the American state of Minnesota who killed her boyfriend in a YouTube video prank that went wrong has been jailed for six months. The boyfriend Pedro Ruiz convinced Monalisa Perez to shoot him at close range with a powerful pistol, believing that the thick book he held in front of his chest would shield him. They wanted the video to go viral.

BBC news.