CNN 2011-11-04(在线收听) |
Come to Nov, a new month commercial headline form CNN student news. Coming to you from the CNN news room,here in Atlanta Gorge, I am CA. We are going to start with anending after 7 months the NATO mission in Libya is officially over. NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 28 countries are members of NATO. When NATO takes a mission like it did in Libya. The operation is carried out by military forces, for some of its member nation, in this case, that main country US and France fly air strike over Libya. Part of NATO mission was protect Lybia's * during its civil war. NATO secretary general went to Libya on Monday, you see him getting off the plane; he announced the formal end of the mission. NowLibya’s new leader said they thought that was a mistake. One official said he expected NATO to suspend its mission in Libya, but not cancel it completely. US defend department said its plan to keep monitoring in Libya from the sky at least for a little while.
Yesterday, we solved another mile stone and we talk about last week, the world's population pasted 7 billion. Lot of country make clean, but this lady was the first to make official announcement as the world 7th billion baby. She was born in Philippians just before midnight on Sunday. Some experts are concerning about population grow as you might imagine. They are concern about whether or not there will be enough resources for everybody, talking about things like food and water. UN official say the world can overcome this challenge as long as people take steps to deal with them. Might be hard to rag your head around justhow large 7 billion is. It took the world around 12 years to go from six billion people to 7 billion. If you are counting from 6 billion to 7 billion,it will take you more 30 years to do it. If you understand equator, it took 7b steps you would walk around the world more than 100 times and 7 billion seconds ago, the year was 1789. |
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