NPR 2010-01-19

Thousands of Haitian earthquake survivors¹ have been trying to leave Port-Au-Prince today after giving up on waiting for emergency food and water there. Most buses out are packed and some have reportedly doubled their fares. The United Nations World Food Program says it plans to distribute 200 tons of emergency food supplies in Haiti today, enough to feed 95,000 people, but hundreds of thousands are in need. Tim Callahan, who heads a US Agency for International Development Team says his group is bringing in medical kits³ from the World Health Organization.

"We are bringing in several of those and I believe each kit² has enough medical supplies for approximately 10,000 people for three months."

The US ambassador to Haiti Kenneth Merten told NBC today that the security situation in Port-Au-Prince while not perfect is stable for now.

"Our troop is standing⁴ by in cases where neither the Haitian police nor the UN troops can provide security, but so far in most cases the Haitian police and the UN forces have been able to, to handle the situation."

But UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has asked the Security Council to increase by 2,500 the number of UN Security Forces and peacekeeping troops in Haiti.

European Union nations have boosted their pledges of assistance to Haiti including an agreement to forgive some of that country's debt. Teri Schultz reports from Brussels.

The EU wants to send a message to Haiti it would not be forgotten after this first rush of assistance. The 27 member states pledged 132 million dollars in immediate⁵ aid complemented⁶ by triple that amount from the European Commission. But Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton who convened⁷ this emergency summit of development ministers says she’s also talking to the US and other partners about putting together a donors⁸ conference.

"We need to put it together, do it at the right time and make sure it is about supporting Haiti for both medium and the long term."

In addition, EU members are looking at staffing a police force of about 150 people to help with security on the ground in Haiti, a request put forward by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. For NPR News, I’m Teri Schultz Brussels.

A French government official has complained after US forces at the airport in Haiti turned away two supply flights from a group in France. Eleanor Beardsley reports

One French government minister called on the UN to clarify the US role in Haiti, saying that international aid efforts were about helping⁹ Haiti not occupying it. His comments came after US forces over the weekend turned back a French aid plane carrying a field hospital. The US military controls the damaged, congested airport in the Haitian capital Port-Au-Prince where only one runway is functioning. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, a former humanitarian¹⁰ worker and founder¹¹ of Doctors Without Borders, warned the governments and aid agencies not to compete with one another. Kouchner said people always wanted it to be their plane that lands but what's important is the fate of the Haitians. For NPR News I am Eleanor Beardsley in Paris.

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Taliban militants¹² wearing explosive vests staged a series of attacks on government targets in Afghanistan’s capital today. Gun battles raged for hours, paralyzing the city. At least a dozen people were killed, most of them attackers and dozens of others were wounded. The assault came as Afghan President Hamid Karzai was swearing in cabinet members inside the heavily fortified¹³ presidential palace.

Foreign journalists in China say that their Google email accounts have been infiltrated¹⁴. Google last week threatened to shut down its China-based operations following similar breaches¹⁵ of security. NPR’s Anthony Kuhn has more from Beijing.

The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China sent emails to its members on Monday, warning them to be on guard against malicious¹⁶ links and attachments¹⁷ in their emails. It said that reporters in at least two news bureaus found that their Gmail accounts have been hacked¹⁸ into and data forwarded into unfamiliar¹⁹ recipients²⁰. The FCC didn’t say whose accounts were compromised, but the Associated Press identified one of their reporters as theirs. The attacks were apparently²¹ similar to those which prompted Google to threaten its pullout. Human rights groups and foreign journalists in China were targeted by virus bearing emails after riots in Tibet in 2008 and protests during the Olympic torch relay. Anthony Kuhn, NPR News, Beijing.

The man who shot and wounded Pope John Paul in 1981 was freed from jail today after spending nearly 30 years behind bars in Italy and Turkey. In a written statement, Mehmet Ali Agca called himself a messenger of God. Agca's bullets caused wounds to Pope John Paul’s stomach, hand, and an arm, but the pontiff met with him two years after the attack in an Italian prison and forgave him.

I’m Craig Windham, NPR News in Washington.

1 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

2 kit   

n.用具包，成套工具；随身携带物

参考例句：

• The kit consisted of about twenty cosmetic items.整套工具包括大约20种化妆用品。
• The captain wants to inspect your kit.船长想检查你的行装。

3 kits   

衣物和装备( kit的名词复数 )； 成套用品； 配套元件

参考例句：

• Keep your kits closed and locked when not in use. 不用的话把你的装备都锁好放好。
• Gifts Articles, Toy and Games, Wooden Toys, Puzzles, Craft Kits. 采购产品礼品，玩具和游戏，木制的玩具，智力玩具，手艺装备。

4 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

5 immediate   

adj.立即的；直接的，最接近的；紧靠的

参考例句：

• His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
• We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。

6 complemented   

有补助物的，有余格的

参考例句：

• The excellent menu is complemented by a good wine list. 佳肴佐以美酒，可称完美无缺。
• In vitro analysis must be complemented by studies of the virus replication cycle in plants. 体外的分析必须辅之以植物体内病毒复制周期的研究。

7 convened   

召开( convene的过去式 )； 召集； （为正式会议而）聚集； 集合

参考例句：

• The chairman convened the committee to put the issue to a vote. 主席召集委员们开会对这个问题进行表决。
• The governor convened his troops to put down the revolt. 总督召集他的部队去镇压叛乱。

8 donors   

n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 )；献血者；捐血者；器官捐献者

参考例句：

• Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去，请给我们发电子邮件。
• About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》

9 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

10 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。

11 Founder   

n.创始者，缔造者

参考例句：

• He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
• According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。

12 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

13 fortified   

adj. 加强的

参考例句：

• He fortified himself against the cold with a hot drink. 他喝了一杯热饮御寒。
• The enemy drew back into a few fortified points. 敌人收缩到几个据点里。

14 infiltrated   

adj.[医]浸润的v.（使）渗透，（指思想）渗入人的心中( infiltrate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The headquarters had been infiltrated by enemy spies. 总部混入了敌方特务。
• Many Chinese idioms have infiltrated into the Japanese language. 许多中国成语浸透到日语中。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

15 breaches   

破坏( breach的名词复数 )； 破裂； 缺口； 违背

参考例句：

• He imposed heavy penalties for breaches of oath or pledges. 他对违反誓言和保证的行为给予严厉的惩罚。
• This renders all breaches of morality before marriage very uncommon. 这样一来，婚前败坏道德的事就少见了。

16 malicious   

adj.有恶意的，心怀恶意的

参考例句：

• You ought to kick back at such malicious slander. 你应当反击这种恶毒的污蔑。
• Their talk was slightly malicious.他们的谈话有点儿心怀不轨。

17 attachments   

n.（用电子邮件发送的）附件( attachment的名词复数 )；附着；连接；附属物

参考例句：

• The vacuum cleaner has four different attachments. 吸尘器有四个不同的附件。
• It's an electric drill with a range of different attachments. 这是一个带有各种配件的电钻。

18 hacked   

生气

参考例句：

• I hacked the dead branches off. 我把枯树枝砍掉了。
• I'm really hacked off. 我真是很恼火。

19 unfamiliar   

adj.陌生的，不熟悉的

参考例句：

• I am unfamiliar with the place and the people here.我在这儿人地生疏。
• The man seemed unfamiliar to me.这人很面生。

20 recipients   

adj.接受的；受领的；容纳的；愿意接受的n.收件人；接受者；受领者；接受器

参考例句：

• The recipients of the prizes had their names printed in the paper. 获奖者的姓名登在报上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The recipients of prizes had their names printed in the paper. 获奖者名单登在报上。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

21 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。