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1、BBC新闻讲解附字幕:全球粮食价格可能进一步攀升(2011-03-07) President Obama has again demanded that the embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi step down. Mr Obama repeatedly told a White House news conference that Colonel Gaddafi had lost the legitimacy to lead. He warns that those responsible for violence against civili
2、ans will be held accountable. With more, heres Kim Ghattas in Washington.Its not the first time that Barack Obama has called on the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to leave office. Last week, the White House put it in a written statement. This time, Mr Obama did it in a televised press conference. Its
3、 part of the slow but steady ramping up of the pressure on Mr Gaddafi. Mr Obama also said he had instructed the Department of Defence and the State Department to examine a full range of options so that the United States could act rapidly if the situation deteriorated.The International Organisation f
4、or Migration says 200,000 migrant workers have now left Libya, crossing into Egypt, Tunisia and Niger. An international airlift has been organised. Jeremy Bowen sent this report from a Libyan border crossing into Tunisia.Without the foreign workers on whom this countrys economy relies, Libya is feel
5、ing even more isolated. The good news for Colonel Gaddafi is that the road from here, the Tunisian border, back to Tripoli is under his control, except for the centre of one town, Zawiya. The bad news is that his security services dont know who they can trust here in western Libya. They are still ra
6、iding houses at night and taking people away. The colonel does have genuine support but has genuine opposition, too. The use of lethal force by the security services is so far this week deterring demonstrations.There have been more attacks by Libyan air force planes on areas of eastern Libya control
7、led by anti-Gaddafi forces. A ship loaded with flour was sent to the city of Benghazi by the World Food Programme but had to turn back after reports of explosions. Earlier a Libyan opposition spokesman had reported bombing raids on anti-Gaddafi forces in nearby Ajdabiya and on the airport at Brega,
8、which has a major oil terminal.Tunisias interim President Fouad Mebazaa has announced the first details of elections promised after the overthrow two months ago of President Ben Ali. Speaking on national television, Mr Mebazaa said that voting for a representative council that would rewrite the cons
9、titution would be held by the 24 July at the latest. He said that until then a new interim government would run the country and he would stay in office, despite a 60-day limit on caretaker office holders under the current constitution.The United Nations food agency says global food prices reached a
10、record high last month. The Food and Agriculture Organisation is warning that costs could spiral even further if unrest in Libya and the Middle East keeps driving up the price of oil. Rising food costs helped spark the recent protests in Egypt and Tunisia.Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo a
11、re to set up a joint investigation into a gold smuggling network operating in the region. With more, heres Will Ross.Officials from the Democratic Republic of Congo want to break up a gold smuggling network, and they see Kenya as a major hub. The recent discovery in Nairobi of two and a half tonnes
12、of gold, worth around $100m, led to an investigation by Kenyas revenue authority. But over the weekend, the man heading the probe was shot dead outside his home. The Congolese and Kenyan presidents have now agreed to form a joint team to crack down on illegal gold smuggling, but past form shows that
13、 its extremely hard to clean up the Congolese mineral trade.The United Nations Security Council has said its seriously concerned about violence in Ivory Coast. On Thursday, troops loyal to Laurent Gbagbo, who has refused to leave office after a disputed presidential election, shot and killed six wom
14、en marching in the main city. Barbara Plett reports.The Security Council expressed deep concern about the escalation of violence and the risk of a return to civil war in Ivory Coast. It urged UN peacekeepers to use all necessary means to protect civilians, alarmed in particular by news that troops l
15、oyal to Laurent Gbagbo had opened fire with heavy machine guns on women protesters supporting his rival, the recognised winner of recent presidential elections Alassane Ouattara. Mr Gbagbos forces have also targeted the peacekeepers. A senior UN official said UN troops had responded by conducting st
16、ronger patrols and using tear gas to break through blockades. But the Ivory Coasts ambassador here said that was not enough.The Manchester City footballer Kolo Toure has been suspended after failing a drugs test. The English Premier League club said in a statement that Toure, an Ivory Coast international, had tested positive for what it called a specified substance, but didnt say what that was. The club made no further comment.奥巴马总统再次要求四面楚歌的利比亚领袖卡扎菲(Mua
