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The United Nations says the situation on the Tunisian-Libyan border is now a full-blown humanitarian¹ crisis. There are scenes of mounting chaos², as thousands continue to pour into Tunisia to escape the growing turmoil³ in Libya. Jim Muir is there.

Well, there’s a scene of total chaos going on here at the Libyan-Tunisian border. This is no-man’s land. This area here controls access to a narrow passage to the Tunisian passport control. There’re just thousands upon thousands of people waiting desperately⁴ to cross that border. Some of those who are at the front of the crowd here are being overcome, are being crushed. (er) They’re being taken over the crowd, but they are arriving in a condition of complete exhaustion⁵ and hardly able to breathe.

The United Nations General Assembly has voted to suspend Libya from the UN Human Rights Council. The resolution, passed by consensus⁶ by the entire UN membership, accused Libya of committing gross and systematic⁷ violations⁸ of human rights.

Opposition⁹ protesters and Iranian police have clashed in several locations in Tehran. Dozens of people are said to have been arrested. Our Iran correspondent, James Reynolds, has been monitoring events from London.

Iran’s opposition has been watching events in the Arab world with a certain amount of envy, so this afternoon they tried to hold their own protest – their third in as many weeks. But the establishment was waiting for them. Thousands of anti-riot police were deployed¹⁰ in the streets of Tehran. The police used batons¹¹ to move people along. Witnesses say that the police used tear gas to disperse¹² demonstrators near Azadi Square in the centre of the city. Elsewhere, protestors poured diesel¹³ onto the streets to try to make it harder for police officers on motorbikes to go after them.

The authorities in Tunisia have legalised the Islamist Ennahda movement for the first time since it was created 30 years ago. Ennahda leaders said they are delighted and looking forward to forming a political party to compete in Tunisia’s planned July elections. From Tunis, Owen Bennett-Jones reports.

Back in 1989 at a time when Ennahda was banned, candidates sympathetic to the party won at least 17 per cent of the national vote. One of the senior party leaders Ali Laria, who served 13 years in solitary¹⁴ confinement¹⁵ because of his Ennahda activities, says the party will now have to move on from its opposition to the Ben Ali regime and, instead, start focusing on working within a democracy. Meanwhile, the government in Tunis continues to lose ministers. The prime minister resigned on Sunday, and since then four more have followed suit.

The United Nations refugee agency says there’s been an increase in attacks by rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army on communities in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The UNHCR has reports of 52 raids since January. The attacks have left 35 people dead and more than a hundred people have been abducted¹⁶.

World News from the BBC.

Britain is to end its international aid to 16 countries. The International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell told parliament that he wanted to concentrate the money where it would do "most good". Nations like Lesotho and Kosovo will lose direct funding, but others like Ethiopia and Bangladesh will receive more aid from the Department for International Development, or DFID.

“As a result of this review, we have decided¹⁷ to focus British aid more tightly on the countries where Britain is well-placed to have a significant long-term impact on poverty. By 2016, DFID will have closed significant bilateral¹⁸ programmes in 16 countries. This will be a phased process honouring our existing commitments and exiting responsibly.”

The French fashion house, Christian¹⁹ Dior, says it’s sacking its British chief designer John Galliano. He was arrested last week after being accused of shouting anti-Semitic abuse at a couple in a bar in Paris. Later, a video clip emerged of him declaring that he loved Adolf Hitler. Dior’s managing director condemned²⁰ the designer’s comments, saying that they were in complete opposition to the company’s values.

US investigators²¹ say they’ve traced the gun used in a shooting in Mexico of two American immigration agents and it came from the Texas city of Dallas. Officials said they’d arrested three people there on suspicion of smuggling²² guns to Mexico, one of which was used in the attack on Immigration and Customs agents, Jaime Zapata and Victor Avila. Mr Zapata died and Mr Avila was injured when gunmen opened fire on them in central Mexico two weeks ago.

The International Olympic Committee is creating a task force to coordinate²³ the fight against illegal betting and match-fixing in sport. The announcement followed a summit held in Switzerland between representatives from sports federations²⁴, national governments, and the betting industry, as well as the international police agency, Interpol.

1 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。

2 chaos   

n.混乱，无秩序

参考例句：

• After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后，城市一片混乱。
• The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。

3 turmoil   

n.骚乱，混乱，动乱

参考例句：

• His mind was in such a turmoil that he couldn't get to sleep.内心的纷扰使他无法入睡。
• The robbery put the village in a turmoil.抢劫使全村陷入混乱。

4 desperately   

adv.极度渴望地，绝望地，孤注一掷地

参考例句：

• He was desperately seeking a way to see her again.他正拼命想办法再见她一面。
• He longed desperately to be back at home.他非常渴望回家。

5 exhaustion   

n.耗尽枯竭，疲惫，筋疲力尽，竭尽，详尽无遗的论述

参考例句：

• She slept the sleep of exhaustion.她因疲劳而酣睡。
• His exhaustion was obvious when he fell asleep standing.他站着睡着了，显然是太累了。

6 consensus   

n.(意见等的)一致，一致同意，共识

参考例句：

• Can we reach a consensus on this issue?我们能在这个问题上取得一致意见吗？
• What is the consensus of opinion at the afternoon meeting?下午会议上一致的意见是什么？

7 systematic   

adj.有系统的，有计划的，有方法的

参考例句：

• The way he works isn't very systematic.他的工作不是很有条理。
• The teacher made a systematic work of teaching.这个教师进行系统的教学工作。

8 violations   

违反( violation的名词复数 )； 冒犯； 违反（行为、事例）； 强奸

参考例句：

• This is one of the commonest traffic violations. 这是常见的违反交通规则之例。
• These violations of the code must cease forthwith. 这些违犯法规的行为必须立即停止。

9 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• 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。

10 deployed   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
• The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。

11 batons   

n.（警察武器）警棍( baton的名词复数 )；（乐队指挥用的）指挥棒；接力棒

参考例句：

• There were many riot policemen with batons. 有许多带警棍的防暴警察。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Chinese police fight? Number one is a person with batons to fight! 满街飘的中国国旗，是一个老华侨在事发时那出来分给大家的，很感动，真的，从来一向多一事不如少一事的中国人今天团结到一起站出来反抗。 来自互联网

12 disperse   

vi.使分散；使消失；vt.分散；驱散

参考例句：

• The cattle were swinging their tails to disperse the flies.那些牛甩动着尾巴驱赶苍蝇。
• The children disperse for the holidays.孩子们放假了。

13 diesel   

n.柴油发动机，内燃机

参考例句：

• We experimented with diesel engines to drive the pumps.我们试着用柴油机来带动水泵。
• My tractor operates on diesel oil.我的那台拖拉机用柴油开动。

14 solitary   

adj.孤独的，独立的，荒凉的；n.隐士

参考例句：

• I am rather fond of a solitary stroll in the country.我颇喜欢在乡间独自徜徉。
• The castle rises in solitary splendour on the fringe of the desert.这座城堡巍然耸立在沙漠的边际，显得十分壮美。

15 confinement   

n.幽禁，拘留，监禁；分娩；限制，局限

参考例句：

• He spent eleven years in solitary confinement.他度过了11年的单独监禁。
• The date for my wife's confinement was approaching closer and closer.妻子分娩的日子越来越近了。

16 abducted   

劫持，诱拐( abduct的过去式和过去分词 )； 使（肢体等）外展

参考例句：

• Detectives have not ruled out the possibility that she was abducted. 侦探尚未排除她被绑架的可能性。
• The kid was abducted at the gate of kindergarten. 那小孩在幼儿园大门口被绑架走了。

17 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

18 bilateral   

adj.双方的，两边的，两侧的

参考例句：

• They have been negotiating a bilateral trade deal.他们一直在商谈一项双边贸易协定。
• There was a wide gap between the views of the two statesmen on the bilateral cooperation.对双方合作的问题，两位政治家各自所持的看法差距甚大。

19 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。

20 condemned   

adj. 被责难的, 被宣告有罪的 动词condemn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He condemned the hypocrisy of those politicians who do one thing and say another. 他谴责了那些说一套做一套的政客的虚伪。
• The policy has been condemned as a regressive step. 这项政策被认为是一种倒退而受到谴责。

21 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

22 smuggling   

n.走私

参考例句：

• Some claimed that the docker's union fronted for the smuggling ring.某些人声称码头工人工会是走私集团的掩护所。
• The evidence pointed to the existence of an international smuggling network.证据表明很可能有一个国际走私网络存在。

23 coordinate   

adj.同等的，协调的；n.同等者；vt.协作，协调

参考例句：

• You must coordinate what you said with what you did.你必须使你的言行一致。
• Maybe we can coordinate the relation of them.或许我们可以调和他们之间的关系。

24 federations   

n.联邦( federation的名词复数 )；同盟；联盟；联合会

参考例句：

• These problems are women's special problems and special work of women's federations. 这样的问题，就是妇女的特殊问题，就是妇联的特殊工作。 来自互联网
• The Bridge Federate is a feasible solution to achieve multi-federations interconnection. 基于桥接成员实现多联邦互连是目前较为通用和可行的方法。 来自互联网