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Hundreds of people aremissing after a landslide 1 in the northeast ofAfghanistan. That is according to a provincialgovernment spokesman 3 who’s been speaking to theBBC. It is feared that an entire village has beenwiped out. More than 350 victims have been foundso far. The provincial 2 police chief is major general.Now we can only help the displaced 4 people.

阿富汗东北部发生山崩，导致成百上千人失踪。BBC在对省政府发言人进行采访时获悉这一情况。很可能整个村庄被掩埋。目前已找到350名受害者。省警察局长、一位少将在接受采访时说，“现在我们能帮助的只有那些无家可归的人。”

There are dozens perhaps a hundred or so tents which have been put up today. They've arrivedtoday. Some food has arrived. Some blankets have arrived. As families, women and childrensitting on open hillsides where they spent the night, they didn't have much to eat or to drink.Two government ministers who have spoken to a series of government officials who've beenhere say that it’s very unlikely that any of the body to be found. Indeed by today, peoplehave been given up digging for body. Yesterday, they were digging. But they realized that itwas hopeless.

今天搭建了几十顶或上百顶帐篷。它们是今天送达的，还有一些食物和毯子。包括妇女和孩子在内的村民都坐在开阔的山腰上，度过了缺吃少喝的一晚。两位政府部长向现场一些官员了解情况后说，搜寻尸体不太可能了。今天，人们已经放弃了搜寻尸体的工作。昨天，他们还在挖，但后来意识到希望渺茫。

I mean, earlier local officials have been talking about 2000 people feared dead. Is the figurereally gonna be that high?

之前，当地官员在讨论死亡人数可能达到2000人。实际数字会有那么高吗?

I don’t think you know, we may ever have a total of the number of people. We are talking about370 families.I think what we were hearing from the provincial government yesterday when theincident first happened, 350 houses destroyed, that’s around 2.5 thousand people. And thatis probably the sort of death toll 5 that we are talking about.

我认为死亡总数很难统计。我们现在确定有370个家庭遇难。昨天灾难发生后，省政府给出的数据是350座房屋被摧毁，大约就是2500人。这很可能就是我们现在所说的死亡人数。

As of last night, David, the Afghan government haven't asked for any internationalassistance. Has it changed its position? And if not, why not?

大卫，截止到昨晚，阿富汗政府没有请求国际援助。现在政府改变姿态了吗?如果没有，为什么?

No, they are not asking for helicopters. They are not asking for major equipment, because theythink they got it. They are getting support from international aid agencies as well as foodprogram here.

没有，他们没有要求支援直升机和大型设备，因为他们认为这些都已经具备了。国际救援机构以及当地食物救援项目已经给予他们相应的援助。

Now it seems nobody is better at confronting 6 German Nazi 7 history than the Germansthemselves. At the moment in Berlin, films from the Nazi era are being screened, but with acondition there must be a lecture and debate before each screening. Steve Evens went along towatch.

目前，似乎没有任何人比德国人更善于处理和面对德国纳粹的历史。柏林正在展映纳粹时期的影片，但前提是每部电影展映前，必须提交报告并进行探讨。史蒂夫埃文斯前去观看了电影。

In a dark cinema projection 8 room in Berlin, a black-and-white film is spinning just like it did 80years ago. It is very well made and well acted.

在柏林一间昏暗的电影放映室内，黑白电影胶卷在旋转着，正如80年前放映电影时的情形。电影制作精良，演员表演到位。

20 years ago or so, people would have been more frightened to see these films in public.

大约20年前，人们在公共场合看到这样的电影会比现在觉得害怕。