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The migration 1 crisis in Europe is expected to dominate the final EU summit of the year beginning today in Brussels. Beforehand, the German counselor 2 Angle Merkel and several other EU leaders will hold talks with the Turkish prime minister to try to find ways to resettle tens of thousands of Syrian migrants straight from camps in Turkey. Chris Morris reports. As the tumultuous year draws to a close, European leaders are struggling to maintain unity 3. There is nearly a million migrants and refugees who have arrived on European shores. Now Angle Merkel is once again taking the lead, trying to work out ways to admit Syrian refugees straight from camps in Turkey. Initially 4 figures in the hundreds of thousands were being found. Already that has fallen to tens of thousands. And plans for resettlement will only move forward if Turkey takes decisive steps to cut off the illegal flow of people crossing the Aegean Sea.The Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has expressed his fears that his country could become a vast holding pan for migrants. More than 3000 migrants continue to arrive each day in Greece but only those fleeing wars and violence in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan are being allowed to continue their journey north.

欧盟最后峰会今日在布鲁塞尔开始召开。欧洲移民危机有望成为讨论的主要话题。之前，德国总理安格拉·多罗特娅·默克尔和其他欧盟领导人与土耳其总理举行会晤，试图找到办法安置上万名从土耳其到来的叙利亚难民。克里斯·莫里斯为您报道。“随着动荡的一年即将结束，欧洲领导人正在努力保持团结。有将近一百万的移民和难民抵达到了欧洲海岸。现在德国总理默克尔再次带头试图解决从土耳其营地直接前往欧洲的叙利亚难民。最初，数十万的难民被发现。现在数字已经下降到几万。只有土耳其果断采取措施切断人群跨越爱情海非法进入欧洲，移民安置计划才能够取得进展。”希腊总理阿莱克斯·齐普拉斯表达了自己的担忧，他担心希腊会成为一个巨大的移民熔炉。每天有3000多名难民到达希腊，但是只有那些恐惧叙利亚、伊拉克和阿富汗战争和暴力的人会继续自己的北上之旅。

A new study in the US has concluded that life style choices like smoking and drinking too much alcohol may help to cause the vast majority of cancers. Researchers at Stony 5 Brook 6 University in New York based on their findings on the reanalysis on cancer data. The lead researcher Doctor say that the study suggests that random 7 simulations rarely lead to cancer without external factors like toxic 8 chemicals or radiations. We undertook several approaches for different approaches to try and get a quantitative 9 estimate of what is the contribution of those external factors to the incidents of cancer. And those means of investigation 10, for us, they all came to the a very similar conclusion that the contribution of external factors can be as large as 70 to 90 percent.

美国一项新的研究发现，吸烟以及酗酒这样的生活方式可能会引发癌症。纽约市石溪大学的研究人员基于对癌症数据再分析得出了研究结果。首席研究医生称研究结果表明如果没有有毒化学物质以及辐射等外部因素，随机模拟很少会导致癌症。我们采取了不同的方法，来对导致癌症的外部因素进行定量分析研究。我们的调查方式，都得出相似的结论，外部因素导致患癌症的几率高达70%~90%。

The US and Cuba have reached an understanding to allow regular commercial flights between them. Negotiators said an official announcement on this issue was imminent 11. Scheduled flights will ease journeys for US citizens wanting to visit Cuba. From Havana, here is Will Grant. The move to restore commercial flights between the US and Cuba coincides with the first anniversary of the announcement of an end the hostilities 12 between the old enemies. In some regards, it is one of the most significant steps of the past 12 months in that it will further facilitate the arrival of American visitors to Cuba. With tourism increasingly becoming the main economic motive 13 for the communist-run island, it comes as little surprise that the Cuban government was as keen on this particular measures as their counterparts in Washington. World news from the BBC.

美国和古巴已经达成共识，允许普通的商业航班。谈判代表称官方消息马上就会宣布。预定的航班将会便利想要去古巴的美国公民。直到现在，想要去古巴的美国公民不得不严密规划行程或者通过第三世界国家到达古巴。请听威尔·格兰姆从哈瓦那为您发回的报道。美国和古巴恢复商业航班，这一举动，符合第一次周年大会上宣布的结束宿敌之间的仇恨。在某些方面，这是在过去12个月，进一步便利美国游客到古巴游览的重要一步。旅游日益成为古巴主要的经济来源，古巴和美国政府都对这一特别的举措非常的热衷，着实让人小小惊讶。

World stock markets have responded positively 14 to the first rise in American interests rates since the worst financial crisis in decades. The US Federal Reserve signaled its confidence in continued economic growth with a quarter of a percentage point increase in its key short term rate. The rise was matched by the Central Bank in Hong Kong.

自金融危机爆发之后，美元利率首次上调，世界股票市场对此作出积极回应。美国经济持续增长，美联储为显示经济增长的信心，将利率上限提升25个基点。对此，香港中央银行也作出反应。

Delegates from Libya's two rival parliament signed an agreement in the Moroccan resort of Skhirat to form a government of national unity later today. The deal has been painstakingly 15 brokered 16 by the United Nations. Rana Jawad reports. Dozens of Libyan delegates have already arrived in the Moroccan town for the signing. The UN-backed deal is expected to go ahead despite objections by the leaders of Libya's rival legislative 17 bodies. They refused to hold a vote to formally adopt or reject the agreement. The international community believes that sealing this deal is the first step in the long process that will soon need to address plans on how to secure the country and the government. Those agains the signing are divided over the ministers in the proposed unity government as well as the details in the agreement of a military leadership.

利比亚两个对立议会代表团17日在摩洛哥海滨城市斯希拉特签署《利比亚政治协议》，同意结束分裂局面，共同组建民族团结政府。该协议的签署由联合国精心安排。Rana Jawad为您报道。数十名利比亚代表团已经抵达摩洛哥城进行协议签署。尽管利比亚立法机构负责人反对协议，但签署将会继续进行。利比亚立法机构拒绝对协议是否签署进行投票。但是国际社会认为签署协议是解决保证国家和政府安全计划的第一步。对于协议的签署以及协议中军事领导权的细节问题联合政府部长们产生分歧。

Scientists in Austria say they've identified the closest potentially habitable planet outside our own solar system. Wolf 1061C is 40 lightyears away. Researchers from University of New South Wales made the discovery by examining information on distant galaxies 18 collected by European telescopes in Chili 19. The planet orbits its star at a distance where conditions would be ideal to supper liquid water and life.

澳大利亚科学家称发现了太阳系之外最可能适宜人类居住的行星。Wolf 1061C距离地球40光年。智利的欧洲望远镜收集了遥远星系的信息，新南威尔士大学的研究人员通过检查这些信息得到了此发现。该行星围绕恒星转动，其距离是液态水和生命存在的理想条件。

The Ethics 20 Panel of football's world governing body is to hear the appeal by Sepp Blatter against his temporary suspension from the sport. Mr Blatter, the head of FIFA would appear in person at the hearing in Zurich. He was given a temporary ban over a 2 billion dollar payment to Michel Platini who is head of European Football. BBC news.

国际足联道德委员会主管部门，将要听塞普·布拉特被暂停职位的诉讼。布拉特原是国际足球联盟的的主席，将会出现在苏黎世听证会上。赛普布拉特获得临时禁令，米歇尔·普拉蒂尼是现任的国际足联的主席，将如何延续国际足联年收入20亿美元的辉煌。