美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-02-15

 Hi, welcome to CNN Student News, most of you are watching the show in classroom, it's just part of your regular routine. You wake up, you go to schoo, not the case for everyone. This is Malala Yusufzai, that name might sound familiar, she is from Pakistan. And in her home country, girls don't always have access to education. Malala stood up for equal education rights for girls. Back in 2011, she explained why she thinks it's important to do it.

"If I didn't raise my voice now, so when will I raise my voice? I have rights, I have the right of education, I have the right to play, I have the right to sing, I have the right to talk, I have the right to go to market, I have the right to speak up."

Because she took a stand, Malala was attacked and she was shot in the head. She was moved to a hospital in the United Kingdom, and this weekend, she had two surgeries. This animation¹ shows where one of the bullets hit Malala, you see that part of the skull² that's missing. Doctors had to remove that to try to prevent severe brain damage. They held on to that fragment to see if it might be reattached. Malala's head and the fragment changed, so this weekend, the surgeons attached a titanium plate to her skull. Her doctor says Malala has no longlasting brain injuries.

You might think that after going through all of that, Malala would just want to focus on her recovery. And she is, but she is also looking beyond that.

"The thing I would just get better very soon, and there will be no problem, I would heal after one month, in this year, I hope, and the thing is that my mission is the same to help people and I would do that."

In the United States, the issue of guns is getting a lot of attention right now. One of the biggest vioces in this conversation is president Obama's, he was talking about guns in Minnesota yesterday. He had meeting with police officers and other officials there, and he told them he thinks it's important to address this issue now. The president is pushing for stricter gun laws, something his critics are pushing against. But there is something to keep in mind, the president may want new gun laws, but he can't make them, he can suggest plans or ideas, but the only group that can actually make and pass laws is Congress. What the president can do is try to move the process forward, one of the ways he can do that is what he was doing yesterday in Minnesota. He hits the road and he tries to rally³ support like he does during a presidential campaign, except instead of rallying⁴ support from his election, he is rallying support for his plan. In this case, his plan for new gun laws.

We asked you for your thoughts on the issue of guns and here is some what you had to say on our facebook page.

From Kari, " The worst way to fight bad guys with guns is to use good guys with guns, violence is not the answer to solving our nation's problems."

But Ameber feels that guns don't kill people, saying that is like saying pencils misspell words. Blake said something similar, "If you take away guns, then you have to take away cars, knives, baseball bats and any other weapon that kills people." And Nomith's point of view is that if no one has gun that no one can kill each other pointlessly, get rid of them.

1 animation   

n.活泼，兴奋，卡通片／动画片的制作

参考例句：

• They are full of animation as they talked about their childhood.当他们谈及童年的往事时都非常兴奋。
• The animation of China made a great progress.中国的卡通片制作取得很大发展。

2 skull   

n.头骨；颅骨

参考例句：

• The skull bones fuse between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five.头骨在15至25岁之间长合。
• He fell out of the window and cracked his skull.他从窗子摔了出去，跌裂了颅骨。

3 rally   

n.集会，公路汽车赛；v.集合，恢复，振作

参考例句：

• The grand mass rally was held on the square.广场上举行了盛大的群众集会。
• The team captain vainly tried to rally his troops.队长试图振作部队的士气，但没有成功。

4 rallying   

恢复( rally的现在分词 )； 价格回升； 集合起来； 嘲笑

参考例句：

• Sometimes the rallying cry is'save the Tomb of Christ from the Heathen!' 有时喊的口号是'把基督的坟墓从异教徒手中夺回来！
• Shaocheng Park was the rallying place. 少城公园是学生们临时集合的地点。 来自汉英文学 - 家（1-26） - 家（1-26）