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The masked knife wielding¹ man known as Jihadi John who appeared in Islamic State beheading videos has been identified. It's been disclosed that his name is Mohammed Emwazi, a Kuwaiti-born British citizen. Danny Shaw reports.?

视频中名为Jihadi John的伊斯兰恐怖组织蒙面持刀砍头男子身份已经被确认，他的真实名字为Mohammed Emwazi，是出生在科威特的英国公民。下面是本台记者发回的报道。

For the past six months, the identity of Jihadi John has been the source of rumour² and speculation³. Only now has his name emerged publicly. He is Mohammed Emwazi, a Kuwaiti-born man, raised and educated in London. Dressed in a black robe, his face almost entirely⁴ covered by a balaclava, Emwazi appears in at least 7 Islamic State videos in which hostages including the British aid workers Alan Henning and David Haines were beheaded. Mohammed Emwazi is believed to have traveled to Syria in 2013, several years after coming to the attention by the British Security Agencies.

在过去的六个月中，该男子身份成为公众猜疑的重点。直到现在他的真实姓名才公之于众。他的真实名字是Mohammed Emwazi，出生于科威特，在伦敦长大并接受教育。视频中他身穿黑色长袍，帽子几乎遮住了整个面部。Mohammed Emwazi在最近伊斯兰恐怖组织发布的7个人质被斩首视频中都有出现，包括斩首英国援助工作者Alan Henning和David Haines。据了解Mohammed Emwazi2013年前往叙利亚，几年之后才引起英国安全机构的注意。

US Intelligence Agencies have placed cyber attacks at top of their lists of threats to United States posing a greater risk than terrorism. In its annual assessment⁵ of worldwide threats the office of the director of national intelligence said that catastrophic distruction of infrastructure⁶ was unlikely, but it said that cyber attacks by foreign governments [profit] by the criminals and ideologically⁷ motivated hackers⁸ would increasingly undermine US economic competitiveness and national security. 

美国情报机构已经将网络攻击列为重点威胁对象，重视程度远高于恐怖主义威胁。在年度工作报告中美国情报总监办公室表示网络攻击对基础设施造成灾难性毁灭的可能性不大，但是来自国外的犯罪行网络攻击和意识形态的黑客行为会日益削弱美国经济竞争能力和国家安全。

A judge in Argentina has dismissed claims that President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and her Foreign Minister covered up alleged⁹ involvement by Iran, in the deadly bombing of a jewish centre in Buenos Aires 20 years ago. Leonardo Rocha reports.?

阿根廷一位法官驳回对总统 Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner及其外交部长涉嫌协助伊朗掩盖20年前布宜诺斯艾利斯犹太中心制造爆炸案的指控。下面是本台记者发回的报道。

Judge Daniel Rafecas said he was throwing out the case because no crime had occurred. And the evidence against the President and her Foreign Minister was weak. The accusation¹⁰ came from special prosecutor¹¹ Alberto Nisman, who was found dead last month in his flat, hours before he was due to testify in congress against Ms. Fernandez and Mr. Timerman. It's not clear whether he was murdered or killed himself. President Fernandez has always rejected the allegations. She said Mr. Nisman had been fed misleading information by a rogue¹² intelligence Agent, as part of a plot to discredit¹³ her government.?

丹尼尔法官表示他之所以做出此判决的原因是没有证据表明发生了犯罪行为。并且对总统及其外交部长指控的证据不足。这一指控是由特别检察官尼斯曼提出的，但是他在上个月出庭指控Fernandez和Timerman前几小时被发现在公寓内死亡。目前仍不清楚是他杀还是自杀。总统Fernandez对这一指控一直持否定态度。她称尼斯曼受到了流氓特工的误导，作为推翻其统治的手段。

The Ukrainian army and pro-Russian rebels say they are withdrawing heavy artillery¹⁴ from the frontlines in eastern Ukraine in line with the ceasefire signed earlier this month. Reports from the region say fighting has largely subsided¹⁵. The Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg said he was hopeful the ceasefire would last, and urged Moscow to play a positive role.?

乌克兰军队和亲俄叛军表示根据本月早些时候签订的停火协议，其正在从东乌克兰前线地区撤离重型武器。据当地报道称冲突已经基本平息。北约秘书长Jens Stoltenberg表示他希望停火协议能够持续下去，并督促莫斯科方面发挥积极作用。

It is important that all parties fully¹⁶ respect the ceasefire and withdraw heavy weapons. Russia has transferred in recent months over one thousand pieces of equipments, tanks artillery, advance defence systems. And they have to withdraw these equipments and they have to stop supporting the separatists.?

各方遵守停火协议并撤出重型武器是非常重要的。俄罗斯在最近几个月内已经转移超过1000件设备，坦克炮队和防御系统设备。他们必须撤回这些武器设备，他们必须停止对叛军提供武器支持。

World news from the BBC.?

下面为您播报BBC世界新闻。

US regulators have imposed tough new rules on Internet service providers in an attempt to ensure equal treatment for all customers. The Federal Communication Commission voted to ban a two-tier service where a company could pay a fee to ensure that its products were delivered faster. Critics including senior Republicans complain it will drive up consumer costs and discourage industry investment.?

美国监管机构对互联网服务商提出严厉规则要求做到对待所有用户一视同仁。美国联邦通信委员会投票通过禁止双重服务，即公司将支付一笔费用来确保提供商信息传播速度更快。批评家包括高级共和党人抱怨这一做法将提高消费者成本，阻碍产业投资发展。

A Saudi man has been convicted in New York in connection with the bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania 17 years ago. More than 200 people died in the attacks. Khalid al-Fawwaz was found guilty of 4 charges of conspiracy¹⁷. prosecutors¹⁸ described him as an early leader of Al-Qaeda.?

一位涉嫌参与17年前肯尼亚和坦桑尼亚美国大使馆爆炸案的沙特犯罪嫌疑人在纽约被定罪。该爆炸事件造成200多人死亡。Khalid al-Fawwaz被判4项密谋罪。检察官说他是早期基地组织领导人。

There's been a series of apparently¹⁹ coodinated bomb attacks in Nigeria by suspected militants²⁰. At least 17 people died in an attack carried out by 2 bombers²² at the bus terminal, in the northeastern town of Biu in Borno State. Fifteen people also died in an attack in the central city of Jos. Richard Hamilton reports.?

近期在尼日利亚发生一系列武装分子制造的炸弹袭击事件，至少17人在由两名爆炸袭击者在公交终点站制造的爆炸中死亡。该爆炸发生在博尔诺州北部的Biu城镇。同时还有15人在中部城市Jos爆炸袭击中死亡。下面是本台记者发回的报道。

When a second bomber²¹ tried to detonate his explosives in the same bus station in Biu, he was stopped by a crowd who beat him to death. In Jos, 3 bombs were thrown from a car, also killing²³ people near bus stations as well as the university. For Nigerians there's a ghastly sense of deja vu. On Tuesday, coodinated suicide bombings struck Kano and Potiskum. President Goodluck Jonathan again insisted the military was winning the war against Boko Haram, but he said that before, and now it's difficult to know who to believe.?

当他要继续在Biu同一公交车站实施第二次爆炸时被周围群众发现将其殴打致死。在Jos，三个炸弹从车中扔出，同样造成公交车站和大学附近多人死亡。对于尼日利亚市民来讲对这一事件已经见怪不怪。周二的时候一起自杀式爆炸事件袭击了Kano和Potiskum地区。总统乔纳森再次坚持认为其军队将赢得对抗博科圣地组织的战争胜利，但是他之前是这样说的，现在这一观点让人很难认同。

The President of Yemen Abdu Rabbih Mansour Hady who fled to the southern city of Aden on Saturday has had his first meeting there with the United Nations envoy²⁴ Jamal Ben Omar. Mr. Hady has called for his government to reassemble in Aden in the wake of last month's seizure²⁵ of the Capital Sana'a by Shiite Houthi rebels. Saudi Arabia has announced that its ambassador to Yemen without operate out of Aden, but Houthis promptly²⁶ accuse Riyadh of trying to split Yemen along sectarian lines.?

也门总统Abdu Rabbih Mansour Hady在周六逃往南部城市亚丁，并与联合国特使Jamal Ben Omar进行了第一次见面。Hady在上个月被胡塞叛军占领首都萨那之后呼吁在亚丁重组政府。沙特阿拉伯表示其驻也门大使没有在亚丁地区展开业务，但是胡塞指责利雅得方面试图分裂也门教派。

1 wielding   

手持着使用（武器、工具等）( wield的现在分词 )； 具有； 运用（权力）； 施加（影响）

参考例句：

• The rebels were wielding sticks of dynamite. 叛乱分子舞动着棒状炸药。
• He is wielding a knife. 他在挥舞着一把刀。

2 rumour   

n.谣言，谣传，传闻

参考例句：

• I should like to know who put that rumour about.我想知道是谁散布了那谣言。
• There has been a rumour mill on him for years.几年来，一直有谣言产生，对他进行中伤。

3 speculation   

n.思索，沉思；猜测；投机

参考例句：

• Her mind is occupied with speculation.她的头脑忙于思考。
• There is widespread speculation that he is going to resign.人们普遍推测他要辞职。

4 entirely   

ad.全部地，完整地；完全地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
• His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。

5 assessment   

n.评价；评估；对财产的估价，被估定的金额

参考例句：

• This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.这是一个对该情况的极富洞察力的评价。
• What is your assessment of the situation?你对时局的看法如何？

6 infrastructure   

n.下部构造，下部组织，基础结构，基础设施

参考例句：

• We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
• We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设，发展各类群众文化。

7 ideologically   

adv. 意识形态上地，思想上地

参考例句：

• Ideologically, they have many differences. 在思想意识上，他们之间有许多不同之处。
• He has slipped back ideologically. 他思想退步了。

8 hackers   

n.计算机迷( hacker的名词复数 )；私自存取或篡改电脑资料者，电脑“黑客”

参考例句：

• They think of viruses that infect an organization from the outside.They envision hackers breaking into their information vaults. 他们考虑来自外部的感染公司的病毒，他们设想黑客侵入到信息宝库中。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Arranging a meeting with the hackers took weeks againoff-again email exchanges. 通过几星期电子邮件往来安排见面，他们最终同意了。 来自互联网

9 alleged   

a.被指控的，嫌疑的

参考例句：

• It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
• alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为

10 accusation   

n.控告，指责，谴责

参考例句：

• I was furious at his making such an accusation.我对他的这种责备非常气愤。
• She knew that no one would believe her accusation.她知道没人会相信她的指控。

11 prosecutor   

n.起诉人；检察官，公诉人

参考例句：

• The defender argued down the prosecutor at the court.辩护人在法庭上驳倒了起诉人。
• The prosecutor would tear your testimony to pieces.检查官会把你的证言驳得体无完肤。

12 rogue   

n.流氓；v.游手好闲

参考例句：

• The little rogue had his grandpa's glasses on.这淘气鬼带上了他祖父的眼镜。
• They defined him as a rogue.他们确定他为骗子。

13 discredit   

vt.使不可置信；n.丧失信义；不信，怀疑

参考例句：

• Their behaviour has bought discredit on English football.他们的行为败坏了英国足球运动的声誉。
• They no longer try to discredit the technology itself.他们不再试图怀疑这种技术本身。

14 artillery   

n.(军)火炮，大炮；炮兵(部队)

参考例句：

• This is a heavy artillery piece.这是一门重炮。
• The artillery has more firepower than the infantry.炮兵火力比步兵大。

15 subsided   

v.（土地）下陷（因在地下采矿）( subside的过去式和过去分词 )；减弱；下降至较低或正常水平；一下子坐在椅子等上

参考例句：

• After the heavy rains part of the road subsided. 大雨过后，部分公路塌陷了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• By evening the storm had subsided and all was quiet again. 傍晚， 暴风雨已经过去，四周开始沉寂下来。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

16 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

17 conspiracy   

n.阴谋，密谋，共谋

参考例句：

• The men were found guilty of conspiracy to murder.这些人被裁决犯有阴谋杀人罪。
• He claimed that it was all a conspiracy against him.他声称这一切都是一场针对他的阴谋。

18 prosecutors   

检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )； 告发人； 起诉人； 公诉人

参考例句：

• In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
• You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。

19 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。

20 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。

21 bomber   

n.轰炸机，投弹手，投掷炸弹者

参考例句：

• He flew a bomber during the war.他在战时驾驶轰炸机。
• Detectives hunting the London bombers will be keen to interview him.追查伦敦爆炸案凶犯的侦探们急于对他进行讯问。

22 bombers   

n.轰炸机( bomber的名词复数 )；投弹手；安非他明胶囊；大麻叶香烟

参考例句：

• Enemy bombers carried out a blitz on the city. 敌军轰炸机对这座城市进行了突袭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Royal Airforce sill remained dangerously short of bombers. 英国皇家空军仍未脱离极为缺乏轰炸机的危境。 来自《简明英汉词典》

23 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

24 envoy   

n.使节，使者，代表，公使

参考例句：

• Their envoy showed no sign of responding to our proposals.他们的代表对我方的提议毫无回应的迹象。
• The government has not yet appointed an envoy to the area.政府尚未向这一地区派过外交官。

25 seizure   

n.没收；占有；抵押

参考例句：

• The seizure of contraband is made by customs.那些走私品是被海关没收的。
• The courts ordered the seizure of all her property.法院下令查封她所有的财产。

26 promptly   

adv.及时地，敏捷地

参考例句：

• He paid the money back promptly.他立即还了钱。
• She promptly seized the opportunity his absence gave her.她立即抓住了因他不在场给她创造的机会。