澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2015-03-09

 Relatives of Andrew Chen and Maryan Sukumaran will visit them today for the first time since they'll move to an Indonesian island to await their executions. It's almost two weeks since the two Australian drug smugglers were transferred from the Bali Prison and high security. Members of the European Parliament have written to Indonesia's president, urging him to call off the executions. 

 

 

Reporting to the disapperance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has revealed the battery of the underwater locator beacon¹ run out more than a year before the plane vanished. The year-long investigation² has failed to shed new light on the mistery. The flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing went missing a year ago with 239 people on board, including 6 Australians. 

 

 

A court in Moscow has charged two men in connection with the murder of the Russian opposition³ leader Boras. Nevsove. One of the men has admitted being involved in the shooting more than a week ago. The two accused are reportedly of Chechnyan origin. Three other suspects have also appeared in court and have been remained in custody⁴. 

 

 

And a coroner will hand on his findings today into a fatal nursing home fire in Sydney in 2011. Former nurse Roger Dean is serving a life sentence for deliberately⁵ starting the fire at the Quaker's Hill Nursing Home that killed fourteen people. The inquestors were told that Dean was unsupervised, had accesses to drugs and his work experiences hadn't been checked by the nursing home's owners. 

1 beacon   

n.烽火，（警告用的）闪火灯，灯塔

参考例句：

• The blink of beacon could be seen for miles.灯塔的光亮在数英里之外都能看见。
• The only light over the deep black sea was the blink shone from the beacon.黑黢黢的海面上唯一的光明就只有灯塔上闪现的亮光了。

2 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

3 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。

4 custody   

n.监护，照看，羁押，拘留

参考例句：

• He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
• He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。

5 deliberately   

adv.审慎地；蓄意地；故意地

参考例句：

• The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
• They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。