VOA听力材料：奥巴马访问亚洲
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From Washington, this is VOA News. President Obamaopens 8-day Asia tour in Japan. Ukraine formally calls onEaster truce with pro-Russian separatists. I’m RayKouguell, reporting from Washington.
President Obama is in Japan for the start of 4-nation tourof Asia where he will try to convince allies thatWashington is committed to its rebalancing in the Pacificregion. Security concerns over China’s territorial claimsand North Korea’s nuclear program will be a major focusof Mr.Obama’s trip. Besides Japan, he'll also visit SouthKorea, Malaysia and the Philippines. The 8-day touropened in Tokyo with a meeting with Prime MinisterShinzo Abe. Japan is embroiled in a growing dispute withBeijing over a group of uninhabited islands in the EastChina Sea.
The confirmed death toll from the South Korean ferrydisaster climbed to 150 Wednesday, one week after thepassenger boat capsized off the country’s southwestcoast. Divers are slowly working their way through thethird and fourth floors of the boat which is submergedupside down in murky waters and surrounded by a strongocean current. More than 150 other passengers aremissing and presumed dead. The captain and six crewmembers are under arrest. Most of the passengers werehigh school students, who were headed for an outing onthe resort island of Jeju.
The Australian Agency coordinating the search forMalaysia Airlines’ flight 370 says unidentified materialswashed ashore on western Australia and officials areinvestigating whether it’s related to the missing plane.The Joint Agency Coordination Center says officials arelooking at photographs of the material to determinewhether further physical analysis is required. A massivemultinational search uncovered no confirmed trace of theplane now 7 weeks after it disappeared mysteriouslywhile on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239people on board. Australian officials, however, arevowing to continue the search even as a roboticsubmarine is about to complete the first phase of its, sofar, unsuccessful scan of the Indian Ocean bottom.
Ukraine formally called off the Easter truce against pro-Russian separatists in the east and says anti-terroristoperations are on again and Russia is threatening toretaliate. Ukraine’s acting President Oleksandr Turchynovordered a resumption of anti-terrorist operations againstpro-Russian separatists who continued to occupygovernment buildings in several eastern Ukrainian cities.The presidential order followed discovery of 2 bodiesnear the rebel-held city of Slovyansk. In Moscow, RussianForeign Minister Sergei Lavrov told State TelevisionRussia would retaliate if its legitimate interests or theRussian people are attacked.
The two main Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas haveannounced a reconciliation deal, saying they will try toform a unity government in the coming weeks. Hamasand Fatah split violently in 2007 and have since dividedtheir people between two sets of rulers. It remainsunclear how this plan would succeed where pastattempts have repeatedly failed. But the US and Israelcondemned the agreement.
The World Health Organization says effective vaccinesagainst killer diseases are averting between 2 to 3 milliondeaths every year. Lisa Schlein reports. An increasingnumber of people in all age groups are being immunizedagainst preventable diseases. WHO director ofImmunization, Vaccines and Biologicals Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele says polio is on the verge of eradication. He saysmeasles in Africa has gone down dramatically and thedisease is being eliminated in the Americas and in thePacific region including China. He says the meningitisvaccine has been an outstanding success in saving lives inAfrica. He says Angola and Congo Brazzaville arelaunching the introduction of roto-virus vaccines into thenational health systems to coincide with WorldImmunization Week. Lisa Schlein, for VOA News, Geneva.
Kosovo’s lawmakers have approved a motion for aEuropean union -backed special court to try ethnicAlbanians accused of committing war crimes during the1998-99 war of Independence from Servia. Hundreds ofethnic Serb civilians were allegedly killed so their organscould be harvested and sold on the black market.
Afghanistan’s election commission is delaying release ofpreliminary results from the country’s April 5thpresidential election to allow more time to investigatepossible fraud. Partial results put former Afghan ForeignMinister Abdullah Abdullah in the lead with 44%, followedby former World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani with 33%.I’m Ray Kouguell, VOA News. More on the internet .
来自华盛顿的美国之音新闻。奥巴马总统在日本开启了为期8天的亚洲之行。乌克兰正式向亲俄分离主义者呼吁复活节休战。
奥巴马总统正在出访其亚洲之行的首站日本，访问期间他将努力使其盟友相信华盛顿会致力于推进太平洋地区的“再平衡”。围绕中国领土主张的安全忧虑和朝鲜的核计划将会是奥巴马此行的一个焦点。除日本之外，他还将访问韩国、马来西亚和菲律宾。八天的行程安排开始于在东京与安倍首相的会晤。围绕着中国东海一群无人居住的岛屿，日本不断地卷入与中国的争端。
自韩国客轮在该国西南海岸发生倾覆事故以来已过去了一周，本周三，本次事故已确定的死亡人数上升至150人。目前潜水员正在缓慢地搜寻该船的第三和第四层，这部份船体倒栽在昏暗的水中，周围海流湍急。现在仍有超过150人失踪或疑似死亡。船长及六名船员被捕。船上大多数乘客为高中学生，他们本来是要去济州岛游玩的。
协调马航370搜索工作的澳大利亚机构称，有不明物体被冲上了澳大利亚西海岸，工作人员正在调查该物体是否与失踪航班有关。联合协调中心称，工作人员正在对比该物体的照片，判断是否需要更进一步的物理分析。距离航班神秘失踪已经过去了7周，大规模的多国搜索并未发现飞机的明确踪迹，该航班从吉隆坡飞往北京，机上共有239人。澳大利亚官方承诺会继续搜索工作，其水下机器人对印度洋海底的第一阶段的搜索即将结束，而该搜索目前为止并不成功。
乌克兰宣布针对东部地区亲俄分裂分子的复活节停战活动正式取消，并表示恢复反恐行动，俄罗斯威胁称会采取措施进行报复。乌克兰代理总统图尔奇诺夫下令恢复针对亲俄分裂分子的反恐行动，目前这些亲俄分裂分子依旧占据着多个乌克兰东部城市的政府大楼。该总统令是在在斯拉维扬斯克发现了两具尸体后发布的， 目前该城仍由反叛分子控制。在莫斯科，俄罗斯外长拉夫罗夫告诉俄罗斯国家电视台，如若俄罗斯的合法权益受到侵害或者俄罗斯人民受到攻击，俄罗斯将采取报复行动。
巴勒斯坦两大派别法塔赫和哈马斯宣布达成和解协议，表示将在今后几周内组建联合政府。2007年哈马斯与法塔赫产生严重分歧，从此让民众分属两大统治派别。在过去这样的努力一再失败，该计划能否成功依然前途未明。美国和以色列对此协议予以谴责。
世界卫生组织称对抗致命性疾病的有效疫苗每年挽救2百万到3百万人的性命。利萨·斯克林报道。越来越多的人，不论老少，通过接种疫苗来预防疾病。世卫组织免疫、疫苗和生物制品司司长琼·玛丽·奥克沃·贝里称小儿麻痹症即将灭绝，在非洲麻疹患者人数急剧下降，而在美洲和包括中国在内的太平洋地区，该病已被消灭，脑膜炎疫苗在非洲异常成功，拯救了许多人的性命，为了迎接世界免疫周的到来，安哥拉和刚果正将轮状病毒疫苗引进到国家卫生体系中。利萨·斯克林，自日内瓦带来美国之音新闻。
科索沃立法者通过了一项议案，同意一家由欧盟支持的特殊法庭审判阿尔巴尼亚部族在1998年至1999年从塞尔维亚独立的战争中犯有战争罪。据称上百名塞尔维亚部族平民遭到屠杀，大量的人体器官被拿来在黑市出售。
阿富汗选举委员会推迟公布4月5日总统选举的初步结果，以获得更多时间调查有可能存在的欺诈行为。目前，根据部分结果，阿富汗前外长阿卜杜拉•阿卜杜拉以44%的得票率领先，紧随其后的是前世界银行经济学家阿什拉夫•贾尼，他的得票率为33%。我是雷•寇格尔，美国之音新闻，
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