BBC新闻100篇 BBC News Item 1

BBC新闻100篇BBC News Item 1

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[00:00.00]The BBC has learned that the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown [00:03.44]has decided that the British general election will take place on May 6th. [00:07.56]Mr. Brown will go to Buckingham Palace tomorrow Tuesday

[00:11.41]to ask Queen Elizabeth to dissolve parliament,

[00:13.53]and then make a formal announcement of the election date.

[00:16.34]That will start the official election campaign,

[00:18.96]which, a BBC correspondent says,

[00:21.32]will be dominated by issues of taxation and spending

[00:24.31]in the wake of the global recession.

BBC新闻100篇BBC News Item 2

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[00:00.00]Less than six months before a general election in Britain,

[00:04.71]the governing Labour Party is embroiled again in internal strife.

[00:08.20]Two former cabinet ministers have called for secret ballot of members [00:12.11]to decide whether the Prime Minister Gordon Brown

[00:14.66]should continue as party leader.

[00:16.53]Mr. Brown has called a general election by June this year.

[00:19.27]Our political correspondent Rob Watson reports.

[00:22.44]The two former cabinet ministers Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt [00:26.98]had stunned everyone at Westminster

[00:29.22]with their last-minute efforts to challenge Gordon Brown's leadership. [00:32.64]But Downing Street and Labour Party officials

[00:35.81]have moved quickly to quash any revolts.

[00:38.18]Most importantly, current cabinet ministers

[00:42.03]have come out and backed the prime minister,

[00:44.40]orbiting some cases with little apparent enthusiasm.

[00:48.19]So the latest challenge looks likely to be short lift.

[00:51.86]Although many within the Labour Party doubt

[00:54.60]Mr. Brown's leadership qualities,

[00:56.28]they also seem to think it would only make things worse

[00:59.58]to get rid of him before the general election.

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[00:00.00]The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown

[00:03.89]is offering to scale back Britain's nuclear deterrence

[00:06.81]if an international agreement is reached

[00:09.30]to cut the world's nuclear arsenals.

[00:11.35]Mr. Brown is expected to tell a special

[00:13.72]session of the United Nations Security Council on Thursday [00:17.14]that he'll be willing to give up one of four royal navy submarines [00:21.24]that carry Trident nuclear missiles.

[00:23.23]Officials are insisting that cost isn't a factor here.

[00:26.47]Here's our defence correspondent Nick Childs.

[00:28.58]Gordon Brown is saying he'll be ready to

[00:31.51]throw part of the trident force into the port

[00:33.37]in the context of a much bigger global disarmament deal.

[00:35.92]He said so in general terms before.

[00:38.60]This offer though is more concrete.

[00:40.59]There is a growing sense that to avoid what some fear

[00:44.07]could be a sudden cascade of new nuclear states,

[00:46.50]the established nuclear powers need to do more

[00:48.99]in terms of disarmament

[00:50.35]to keep the proliferation regime intact.

[00:52.34]The Prime Minister will hope his move

[00:54.40]will be seen as an important gesture.

[00:56.08]But the key to the process will be the actions of the big players, [00:59.44]the United States and Russia.

BBC新闻100篇BBC News Item 4

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[00:00.00]The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to confirm [00:04.60]that he is sending hundreds more troops to Afghanistan,

[00:07.09]bringing the total number of British troops there to about 9,500.