BBC | 2018-04-13

美俄叙利亚问题、飞机坠毁

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1[① (VERB) 不再反抗;屈服 If you capitulate, you stop resisting and do what someone else wants you to do.
@They were finally forced to capitulate to the terrorists' demands. 他们最后被迫屈从恐怖分子的要求。

2[[不可数名词] ~ (for sth) the state of being ready or prepared for sth 准备就绪
@Everyone has doubts about their readiness for parenthood. 自己是否作好了为人父母的准备，人人都会感到疑虑。]

3[① (VERB) （人或动物）惨死，猝死 If people or animals perish, they die as a result of very harsh conditions or as the result of an accident.]
@A family of four perished in the fire. 一家四口死于此次火灾之中。

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BBC news with Suman Gamry.
President Trump has warned Russia in the starkest terms that he will respond to reported chemical weapon attack by Syrian government allies. Barbara Plett Usher reports from Washington.
The President has again taken to combat by Twitter as the Pentagon weights a military strike against Syria. In a tweet Mr. Trump said "get ready Russia, because missiles will be coming" as he put it, "nice and new and smart". He also said Russia shouldn't have allied itself to President Bashar al-Assad who he called a "gas killing animal". Earlier Russia's ambassador in Lebanon said his country would shoot down any US missile fired at Syria.

Reports from the Syrian city of Douma said dozens of people died in a gas attack just before rebels there [1]capitulated President Assad's government denies using chemical weapons.
The speaker of the US House of Representatives Paul Ryan has announced that he will not run for re-election in November. Mr. Ryan told the news conference he was proud to have seen through congressional reforms, including sweeping tax cuts and increased support for the military.

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Probably the two biggest achievements for me are, first, the major reform of our tax code for the first time in 36 years, which has already been a huge success for this country. That's something I've been working on in my entire adult life. And after tax reform, addressing our [2]military readiness crisis that was a top priority that we got done last month as well.
Mr. Ryan's departure follows a wave of retirements of Republican members of the House.

A military plane is crashed in Algeria, killing more than 250 people. The aircraft came down shortly after takeoff at Boufarik military airport near the capital Algiers. Roni Jeva reports.

Pictures from the scene of the crash showed dozens of body bags lying in an open green field. Officials from Algeria's Ministry of Defence say most of the dead are military personnel. Others who [3]perished in the crash included the crew and people described as family members of those on board. An official from Algeria's [4]ruling party[执政党;] said there're also 26 members of the Western Sahara Polisario Movement on board the military aircraft. The Polisario Front is an Algeria-backed separatist group, which has been struggling for the independence of the disputed Western Sahara territory that was annexed by Morocco in 1975.
BBC news.