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浏览:10562006-11-25 22:00:43 来自cxyf413: download The American ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton says this week’s assassination of a Lebanese Minister Pierre Gemayel may be the first stage in a coup against the Lebanese government. Mr. Bolton told the BBC that the recent investigations into political killings in Lebanon suggested Syrian involvement. Nick Miles reports From Washington. The United States is in a diplomatic quandary. It seems increasingly likely that a key advisory panel on future strategy in Iraq will suggest bringing in Syria to create a long-time solution to the violence. But the assassination of Pierre Gemayel has made that all the more difficult. Mr. Bolton told the Today Program that he didn’t want to prejudge any investigation, but he said that given Syria’s previous involvement in killings in Lebanon, people can draw conclusions from that. He reiterated Washington’s position that Syria has to end support for terrorist groups before relations can be normalized. Government ministers in Lebanon are meeting later today to approve a United Nations’ plan for an International Tribunal to try those accused of murdering the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Syria has been implicated in the bombing that killed Mr. Hariri last year but denies involvement. The Russian ambassador in London has been asked to provide information about the death of a former Russian intelligence agent Alexander Litvinenko, who died in London on Thursday. British officials say Mr. Litvinenko was poisoned by radiation, probably by a substance called “Polonium210”. The British government’s Emergency Security Committee has met to consider the case. The Russian President Vladimir Putin along with the government has strongly denied any involvement in the killing of the former agent. But the Russian government’s being urged to provide more information about investigations into the suspected contract killings in a number of cases including murders of journalists. The call comes from Miklos Haraszti, the official charged with upholding media freedom among member states of the European security organization, the OSCE. Mr. Haraszti said the Russian government bears some responsibility for the recent death of the investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya. If in earlier cases of journalist killing, the killers had been tracked down, then probably in the case of political critique of the government, the murders would not have gone so far, failing to be exposed. You’re listening to the world news from the BBC. A study in Brazil has shown that as many as a fifth of adolescences who joined the main drug gangs in Rio De Janeiro are killed within two years, the majority by the police. The researchers, specializing in violence in Brazil’s shanty towns, followed 230 boys over a two-year period. Our correspondent Steve Kingston has been looking at their findings. The report’s authors spoke to young men performing a range of paid roles for drug gangs. Some were dealers; others worked as lookouts. The third group were known as soldiers protecting their territory from rival groups. A third of those questioned said they joined the gang to make money, but nearly half said they spent their earnings on clothes. Other reasons offered for turning to crime included the feeling of power and the rush of adrenalin it gave. Sixty per cent of those questioned worked for more than 10 hours a day. Half were on duty 7 days a week, and a majority had been involved in armed conflicts with rival gangs. 楼主
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