澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2009-08-10
时间：2018-12-11 作者：英语课 分类：澳洲ABC新闻快递2009年
on caixiqiang, excellent! by homeway2000
Rio Tinto has declined to comment on / allegations that it has been spying in China for the past six years. China’s state security watchdog has accused Stern Hu and his colleagues of spying there for the past six years and extorting 1 Chinese steel companies out of 122 billion dollars.
The Federal Opposition 2 will today reveal its alternative to the government’s emissions 3 trading plan, which looks set for defeat in the Senate this week. But the Opposition Leader has other things on his mind. Malcolm Turnbull will have to face his party room critics tomorrow in the wake of more disappointing poll results. His personal satisfaction rating has fallen to just 26% in the latest Newspoll.
In Iraq, an Australian and a British security guard are dead after an apparent argument in Baghdad’s Green Zone. Thirty-seven-year-old Queensland Darren Hoare and Briton Paul McGuigan were shot. Iraqi authorities have charged a British co-worker with their deaths.
And Typhoon Morakot has hit China’s southeast, causing severe flooding and wide-spread damage. At least one person was killed in the typhoon struck Fujian province with winds about to 120 (here the newsreader says: a hundred and twenty，No typhoon can reach 220km/h, it's not Formula One) km/h. Almost a million people have to be evacuated 4 from the region.
And there will be more news later.
- Corrupt government officials were extorting money from him. 腐败的政府官员向他敲诈钱财。 来自辞典例句
- He's been charged with extorting protection money from the shopkeepers. 他被指控对店主敲诈勒索保护费。 来自互联网
- The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
- The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。