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Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- from a different perspective. I'm Jingnan

Coming up：

--Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Russia has further boosted ties between the two countries

--The so-called Islamic State group is being driven out of its two strongholds in Syria and Iraq

--and The first group of students of the Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development at Peking University will soon graduate

For more on this, CRI'Jingnan is now joined in the studio by Political analyst¹ Lin Shaowen and Beijing-based Russian journalist Constantin Shepin；Li Guofu,Senior Research Fellow with China Institute of International Studies early talked with Jingnan; Awan Riak, Former Minister in the Presidency² from the Republic of South Sudan early spoke³ with Zhao Ying.

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1 analyst   

n.分析家，化验员；心理分析学家

参考例句：

• What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务？
• The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。

2 presidency   

n.总统(校长，总经理)的职位(任期)

参考例句：

• Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
• Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。

3 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。