新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2017/05/29

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

Coming up：

--Merkel says Europeans should determine their own destiny.

--Clashes between government troops and militants¹ in the Philippines have left nearly 100 people dead.

--Swedish film "The Square" has won the Palme d'Or of the 70th Cannes Film Festival.

For more on this, we are now joined on the line by Dr. Yahia H. ZOUBIR, Professor of International Studies & International Management, Director of Research in Geopolitics, KEDGE Business School;Youfa LIU, Senior advisor², center for indian studies,the pangoal institution；Professor Mark Yaolin Wang, School of Geography, and Faculty³ of Science, The University of Melbourne.

1 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

2 advisor   

n.顾问，指导老师，劝告者

参考例句：

• They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
• The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。

3 faculty   

n.才能；学院，系；(学院或系的)全体教学人员

参考例句：

• He has a great faculty for learning foreign languages.他有学习外语的天赋。
• He has the faculty of saying the right thing at the right time.他有在恰当的时候说恰当的话的才智。