澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2012-06-28(在线收听) |
Leading the news this morning The Prime Minister has made a plea to the Senate to pass the bill that would break the asylum seeker deadlock.It took six hours of emotional debate for the legislation to pass the House of Representatives last night.The bill by independent PM,Rob Oakeshott,would restore offshore processing and allow asylum seekers to be sent to both Malaysia and Nauru,but it's unlikely to pass the Senate,because the opposition and the Greens are refusing to support it. Another asylum seeker boat has sent out a distress call.The boat was 20 nautical miles,south of Indonesia,when it sent out the call late yesterday.Indonesian authorities are taking responsibility for that rescue and 130 people were rescued from an asylum seeker boat that capsized yesterday.4 people are thought to have drowned.
Emergency crews are still cleaning up after an oil tanker crushed north of Melbourne overnight.The tanker collided with a car on the Hume high way near Walen,spilling thousands of liters of petrol over the road.The Hume High Way is close in both directions and the cleaning up is expected to take several hours,disrupting peak hour traffic.
More than 32,000 people have fled their homes as huge wild fires threat the US city of Colorado Springs.Roads were choked with traffic as people hurry to evacuate the city and the nearby city airforce academy.More than 800 firefighters are battling the blaze,extreme fire warnings have been issued across several western US states. |
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