美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-05-19

 A terrorist plot, leaked information;secret record gathering¹, and that's just the first story on this Wednesday show.

Hi, everyone, I'm Carl Azuz.

This story involves news organization and US justice department. The Associate Press says the government agecy secretly collected 2 months of telephone records from AP employees. The president of AP said, quote Thesse records potentially review communications with confidential² resources, and disclose information about AP's activities and operations that the government has no conceivable rights to know.

The AP report that the government hasn't said why it wanna the records. But the official said they were looking in how details foiled bomb plot were leaked last year.

Attorney General Eric Holder³ runs the US justice department. He says he wasn't involved in the decision to collect the phone records, but he said the leak put the American people at risk. Trying to determine who's responsible for, reqiring his words very aggressive action. You know that the US has freedom of the press, it's in the constitution. But that freedom doesn't necessarily cover everything the press does. CNN legel analyst⁴ Jeffrey Toobin says there is no law that allows reporters to protect their sources. Toobin says what the US justice department did was legal, but it's also farther than any presidential administration has gone before.

JUST THE FACTSBangladesh is a country in southern Asia. It's home to more than 160 million people. A country struggle through poverty over poplulation and political instability. But its economy has been growing in recent years. Its garment industry makes up nearly 80 percent of the country's exports.

People who make those clothes, do so at a fraction of the cost and the fraction of salary of what it takes to make them in the US. Mimimum wage in Bangladesh less than 40 dollars a month.

A recent tragedy has brought a lot of attetion to the bad conditions that many Bangladesh is work in. A day after cracks appeared in a 9-story building near Bangladesh capital, employees of its garment factory were told to work anyway. When the building collapsed⁵ on April. 24th, more than 1,100 people were killed. In the weeks since, more than 2,400 were rescued from the rubble⁶.

The nation's army ended its recovery effort yeasterday. The owners of the building and this factory have been arrested. And the government says it will improves conditions for Bangladesh workers, though some are calling that too little, too late.

Pressures on international, as well. Many companies in the US and Europe have closed manufactory in Bangladesh. They've been pushed to make sure conditions for workers are safe.

Different cultures are around the world approach education differently. Earllier this week, we talked about  Sierra Leone and how girls there haven't traditionally been giving access to education.

In South Korea, the issue is not getting educaiton, it's more about how well you do in school. And what's some students are doing to succeed is having an impact across the entire country.

1 gathering   

n.集会，聚会，聚集

参考例句：

• He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
• He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。

2 confidential   

adj.秘（机）密的，表示信任的，担任机密工作的

参考例句：

• He refused to allow his secretary to handle confidential letters.他不让秘书处理机密文件。
• We have a confidential exchange of views.我们推心置腹地交换意见。

3 holder   

n.持有者，占有者；(台，架等)支持物

参考例句：

• The holder of the office of chairman is reponsible for arranging meetings.担任主席职位的人负责安排会议。
• That runner is the holder of the world record for the hundred-yard dash.那位运动员是一百码赛跑世界纪录的保持者。

4 analyst   

n.分析家，化验员；心理分析学家

参考例句：

• What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务？
• The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。

5 collapsed   

adj.倒塌的

参考例句：

• Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
• The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。

6 rubble   

n.（一堆）碎石，瓦砾

参考例句：

• After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
• After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。