澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2015-02-26

 Thanks, Michael. Leading our news this morning. Prime Minister Tony Abbott has telephoned Indonesia’s President to make a direct plea to spare the lives of two Australians in Bali. Final preparations have been made for the executions of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. The families have gone on an Indonesian television to make another impassioned plea for mercy.

 

An Australian who traveled to Syria to join Kurdish fighters battling jihadist has been killed. The man has not been named, but the ABC has previously¹ been told that former Australian soldier and Northern Territory Labor² Figure Matthew Gardiner had joined the Kurds in / province.

 

British police have expanded their inquiry³ into Sir Cliff Richard over claims that the singer sexually assaulted a young boy in the 1980s. It’s been revealed police are now looking into more than one allegation. Officers raid the singer’s home last August. Sir Cliff has denied any wrong doing.

 

Qantas is expected to show return to profit when it releases its half-year results this morning. The airline is forecast to report a pre-tax profit of between 300 million and 350 million dollars for the first six months for the first six months of the financial year. That’s a big turnaround from last year’s record loss.

 

And Australia’s Food Standards Authority has defended its decision not to elevate the low risk rating for imported frozen berries in the wake of Hepatitis A outbreak. There are now 18 cases of Hepatitis A linked to the berries from two processing plants in China.

1 previously   

adv.以前，先前（地）

参考例句：

• The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
• Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。

2 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

3 inquiry   

n.打听，询问，调查，查问

参考例句：

• Many parents have been pressing for an inquiry into the problem.许多家长迫切要求调查这个问题。
• The field of inquiry has narrowed down to five persons.调查的范围已经缩小到只剩5个人了。