美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-05-01

 I’m Carl Azuz. And this is CNN Student News. Thanks for watching. In Boston, authorities are letting residents and business owners back into the area where last week’s terror attack happened. Yesterday there were private services for two of the victims of last week’s violence, eight-year old Martin Richard and MIT police officer Sean Collier. The surviving suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is in the hospital. He couldn’t appear in front of a judge, so on Monday, a judge came to him. That’s when the suspect was read his Miranda rights. We explained what those are in yesterday show.

 

The suspect has been communicating with investigators¹. He’s suggested that he and his brother, the other suspect, were not members of a terrorist group. He also indicated that his brother who died after a shootout with police directed last week’s attack. Security cameras were big part of identifying the bombing suspects. But for some people, these cameras raise a debate of privacy vs. security. Allen Constantini of affiliate² KARE has more on that.

 

Where is the line, how do we set it up so that we don’t lose that sense of not being under a constant observation.

 

Minnesota Civil Liberties Union executive director Charles Samuelson says he realizes that private surveillance cameras were used by Boston authorities to identify the two suspects in the marathon bombings a week ago. The question is, can such wide use of video surveillance impinge on individual liberties.

 

If you create a society where everything is on videotape, or actually directed digital media kind of stuff, where everything is recorded and everything is kept forever, you have absolutely no privacy.

 

The flip³ side of that concern, as you might imagine, comes from the people running some of the cameras.

 

This is public safety camera systems, so this is an umbrella of safety, if you will, for the public. It allows us as a police department to take a look at some of our key business corridors.

 

Commander Scott Gerlicher runs the Minneapolis Police Strategic Information Center, where more than 100 cameras amend⁴ seven days a week. He says they have their eyes on the hundreds of privately⁵ owned surveillance cameras in the city. 

 

And we help to be able to tap into(接进) that in the coming months and years.

 

In the debate involving privacy and security, we’d like to know which side you leaned on. Find us on our blog at cnnstudentnews.com. It’s first names only, so no last initials or schools or teachers. Please let us know your thoughts on cameras, security and privacy.

 

We’re gonna check out some international news now, with stories from three different continents, starting in Northern Africa and an attack in Tripoli, the capital city of Libya. Tuesday morning a car bomb exploded there outside of the French embassy. It was so powerful, it blew the front wall off the building and blew out windows and nearby neighborhoods. No one was killed. But two French security guards and a local teenager were injured. Investigators are trying to figure out who’s behind the attack.

 

 

Next, Asia, recovery efforts in central China’s Sichuan province following a deadly earthquake.

 

Since the original quake hit on Saturday, there had been more than 2,000 aftershocks. Those are making recovery efforts harder, because the tremors⁶ could cause landslides⁷ or more damage.

 

Latest reports say more than 190 people had been killed, more than 11,000 have been injured, more than 20 people are still missing.

 

Finally, in Europe, a vote in France on the issue of same sex marriage. Yesterday, French lawmakers voted to make same sex marriage legal. The bill has to be signed by France’s president before it can become law. And opponents are planning to file a legal challenge against the bill. A lot of countries are split on this issue, but if the bill in France does become law, it will be the 14th nation to legalize same sex marriage.

 

 

1 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 affiliate   

vt.使隶(附)属于；n.附属机构，分公司

参考例句：

• Our New York company has an affiliate in Los Angeles.我们的纽约公司在洛杉矶有一个下属企业。
• What is the difference between affiliate and regular membership?固定会员和附属会员之间的区别是什么？

3 flip   

vt.快速翻动；轻抛；轻拍；n.轻抛；adj.轻浮的

参考例句：

• I had a quick flip through the book and it looked very interesting.我很快翻阅了一下那本书，看来似乎很有趣。
• Let's flip a coin to see who pays the bill.咱们来抛硬币决定谁付钱。

4 amend   

vt.修改，修订，改进；n.[pl.]赔罪，赔偿

参考例句：

• The teacher advised him to amend his way of living.老师劝他改变生活方式。
• You must amend your pronunciation.你必须改正你的发音。

5 privately   

adv.以私人的身份，悄悄地，私下地

参考例句：

• Some ministers admit privately that unemployment could continue to rise.一些部长私下承认失业率可能继续升高。
• The man privately admits that his motive is profits.那人私下承认他的动机是为了牟利。

6 tremors   

震颤( tremor的名词复数 )； 战栗； 震颤声； 大地的轻微震动

参考例句：

• The story was so terrible that It'sent tremors down my spine. 这故事太可怕，它使我不寒而栗。
• The story was so terrible that it sent tremors down my spine. 这故事太可怕，它使我不寒而栗。

7 landslides   

山崩( landslide的名词复数 )； （山坡、悬崖等的）崩塌； 滑坡； （竞选中）一方选票占压倒性多数

参考例句：

• Landslides have cut off many villages in remote areas. 滑坡使边远地区的许多村庄与外界隔绝。
• The storm caused landslides and flooding in Savona. 风暴致使萨沃纳发生塌方和洪灾。