CNN 2012-04-11

 hey there everyone, I'm Ben Tinker filling in today for Carl Azus. we hope you had a great weekend, we are all rested up and ready to kick off a brand new week of CNN student news.and we are going to start today in Afghanistan.

 

Officials from that country and the United State have agreed on a deal concerning military raids that happen at night, American commander say these raids are important part of the operation in Afghanistan but many Afghan people are angry about non-Afghan forces entering their homes.Yesterday's deal is aimed at finding a solution. It says from now on these night raids will happen unless they've been approved by Afghan authorities.They will also be run according to Afghan law, and only Afghan special forces will go into the homes, US troops will not enter unless they are asked to. Nick Paden Mosh has more on the agreement from Kabul.

 

Raids at night by special forces here in Afghan have been a long issue of contentious¹ American. Official said they are vital for the campaigner but Afghan officials are expressing broad-felt Afghan popular distaste towards them  because of the intrusion they cause into Afghan homes. Today's deal should hopefully see the back of some of that, some of the Afghan official anger towards this NATO policy. This deal effectively formalizing a system of Afghan officials' reviewing a raid before it happens. They effectively  grant approval for some kind of legal authority here in Afghan for a raid to happen at key demand of Afghan officials.This does effectively give Afghan Government some kind of veto over which operations can or can't occur , ISSAD??  said they don't really have a problem with that because they normally agreed with the  reviewing the decisons of all these Afghan groups before.They remains² to be seen exactly how Afghan people will react to this new procedure despite many of the Afghan governance agreements have been met by the sufficient official documents. Nick Pagen Mosh, CNN, Kabul.

 

On this day's history back in 1865, Confederal General Robert Edward  Lee surrendered at Appomattox courthouse in Virginia, officially ending the civil war. In 1959, NASA introduced the first American astronauts.That prestigious³ group was made up of 7 men who are all US military test pilots. And in 2003 Iraqi civilians⁴ and US troops toppled a statue of former dictator Saddam Hussein,the man himself was captured later that year.

 

Now when you see a video like this I report showing a huge cloud of smoke the first word you think of might be something other than miracle, but that's exactly the word that one US navy Admiral used to describe the situation.You see, last Friday , a navy fighter jet crashed into an apartment complex in Varginia beach. The jet had a  " catastrophic mechanical mal-function " during take off. It crashed along 3 miles from the runway and sparked a fire in five apartment building, The reason Admiral called it a miracle is that  no one was killed. Can you believe it? Look at that video. At least 7 people, though, were injured, and that includes the two pilots who ejected from the plane before impact. the navy says it could take weeks to find out exactly what happened. 

 

Next stop, the US government's latest job report show that the country added about 120,000 jobs in March, the unemployment rate also dip from 8.3% to 8.2. But CNN business correspondent Christine Roman explains why some economic analysts⁵ consider that news somewhat disappointing.

 

He says when there is a  drop in the unemployment rate, are negative , disappointing. Well, when you always create 120,000 jobs in the months and you have been creating 200,000 plus in the prior three months. This is the disappointment here, and some economics are telling us the unemployment rate fell a little bit is because about 164,000 people, many of them white women by the way, dropped out of the work force. And so that's why the unemployment rate fell. Let's take a look at where the jobs are or where we started to lose jobs in the months. Retail⁶ jobs. This is kind of interesting. 34000 retail jobs were lost in the month of March. We've seen retail sales pretty strong in this country, so this caught some people by surprise.Probably the only place you saw strenthened retail was home and garden stores because of the good weather. So a lot of people are watching this to see if it's some sort of harbinger of weakness coming for the consumer and as we know the consumer drive two third of economic activity in this country whether we like it or not. Let's look at the politics of itm because here is the trend overall.This is the big, big job lost at the end the Bush administration, and into the early months of the Obama administration and then here is the very painful period. This is stimulus⁷ by the way, and also a sensuous⁸ hiring where you saw job creation here. Then this painful period of wondering whether we  were gonna have a double dip recession. And this is the transcendent.A lot of economics would have like to have seen this getting bigger and bigger, but you've got a little bit of slowdown in hiring here. It's something that bares watching, 7 more of these job reports until the election.

 

Fascinating staff Christine, thanks. 

Around the world yesterday,  people celebrated⁹ Easter. The observants commemorates¹⁰ the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It's considered the most important holiday on the Christian¹¹ calender. A large crowd of worshipers gathered at Vatican where Pope Benedict the 16th led mass and gave traditional Easter  message. In that speech the Pope sometimes addresses current events,and this year he called  for an end to the violence in Syria and push for peace in the Middle East. 

 

our international cemetery¹² outside Washington DC hosted its annual Ester sunrise ceremony. The service provides spiritual support to military members and their families and it is also open to the general public as well.

1 contentious   

adj.好辩的，善争吵的

参考例句：

• She was really not of the contentious fighting sort.她委实不是好吵好闹的人。
• Since then they have tended to steer clear of contentious issues.从那时起，他们总想方设法避开有争议的问题。

2 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

3 prestigious   

adj.有威望的，有声望的，受尊敬的

参考例句：

• The young man graduated from a prestigious university.这个年轻人毕业于一所名牌大学。
• You may even join a prestigious magazine as a contributing editor.甚至可能会加入一个知名杂志做编辑。

4 civilians   

平民，百姓( civilian的名词复数 )； 老百姓

参考例句：

• the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
• At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。

5 analysts   

分析家，化验员( analyst的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
• I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。

6 retail   

v./n.零售；adv.以零售价格

参考例句：

• In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
• These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。

7 stimulus   

n.刺激，刺激物，促进因素，引起兴奋的事物

参考例句：

• Regard each failure as a stimulus to further efforts.把每次失利看成对进一步努力的激励。
• Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.光是促进植物生长的一个因素。

8 sensuous   

adj.激发美感的；感官的，感觉上的

参考例句：

• Don't get the idea that value of music is commensurate with its sensuous appeal.不要以为音乐的价值与其美的感染力相等。
• The flowers that wreathed his parlor stifled him with their sensuous perfume.包围著客厅的花以其刺激人的香味使他窒息。

9 celebrated   

adj.有名的，声誉卓著的

参考例句：

• He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
• The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。

10 commemorates   

n.纪念，庆祝( commemorate的名词复数 )v.纪念，庆祝( commemorate的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• A tombstone is erected in memory of whoever it commemorates. 墓碑是为纪念它所纪念的人而建的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• A tablet commemorates his patriotic activities. 碑文铭记他的爱国行动。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

11 Christian   

adj.基督教徒的；n.基督教徒

参考例句：

• They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
• His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。

12 cemetery   

n.坟墓，墓地，坟场

参考例句：

• He was buried in the cemetery.他被葬在公墓。
• His remains were interred in the cemetery.他的遗体葬在墓地。