英国新闻听力 美国任命网络安全主管（在线收听）

After a 7-month search, the Obama administration has named a man who will take overall charge of computer security in the United States. He is Howard Schmidt, a former head of cyber security at Microsoft and Ebay. Emilio San Pedro has more.

A White House statement has described Howard Schmidt who had previously served as a cyber advisor to former President Bush as one of the world’s leading experts in the field. And in his new capacity as head of cyber security, Mr. Schmidt will have daily access to President Obama who has described computer hacking as one of the most serious economic and national security challenges the US faces. It’s estimated that US government computer systems come under attempted attacks millions of times a day. Still just by the high profile, Mr. Schmidt reportedly got the job after it was turned down by other candidates who felt that the position lack the finances and policy-making authority needed to be successful.

Reports from the United States say the FBI is investigating the apparent theft of tens of millions of dollars from Citi Bank by computer hackers. The Wall Street Journal newspaper quoted US government officials as saying the hackers were connected to a Russian cyber crime gang. But Citi bank itself denied that its systems had been breached, saying that its customers had not lost any money.

It’s been another day of recriminations over the outcome of the Copenhagen Climate Summit. Describing it as a disaster, the Swedish Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren said countries outside Europe notably the United States and China had shown a lack of will. He said that the pressure on the US had now risen.

I would say actually or I would draw the claim that expectations and then pressure on the United States has raised after / Copenhagen due to the process they have in their country due to the expectations they expressed before Copenhagen, we should expect them to deliver now during this spring and that will be also part of a global agreement later on.

An investigation in Lithuania has found that the CIA set up at least 2 secret detention centers in the country in the aftermath of the attacks on the United States in September 2001. The investigation also concluded that CIA flights into Lithuania may have carried Al-Qaeda suspects without the knowledge of officials or the Lithuanian government. 3 Lithuanian security services officials will face further investigation. The Lithuanian Foreign Minister Vygaudas Usackas told the BBC that the report hadfound no proof that suspects had been detained on Lithuanian territory.

What is important from this report is that the alleged information about alleged CIA prison about the violation of human rights, about possible detention of the people from the CIA prisons in Guantanamo or somewhere else we are not prove it.

The Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has said that a full military and police operation is underway to rescue a provincial governor who was kidnapped on Monday by suspected left-wing FARC rebels. The authorities say that a group of around 10 armed men seized the governor Luis Fernando Cuellar from his house in Caqueta region. Jeremy McDermott reports from Colombia.

The FARC had been collecting political hostages to combine with some 22 members of the security forces they hold as bargaining chips for a prisoner exchange. However, after the rescue in July 2008 of Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages, the rebels unilaterally released all of the politicians they still held. With this seduction, however, it appears the guerrillas have revived their plans to force a prison exchange or at least pressure the government into opening a dialogue with them.

The Mexican President Felipe Calderon has described as an act of cowardice the murder on Monday by suspected drugs traffickers of the family of a Mexican marine. The marine’s mother, his two siblings and his aunt were killed in their home in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco, in an attack by gunmen which the authorities are treating as a reprisal killing. The marine had died last week during a raid against drug traffickers in which one of the leaders of a powerful drugs cartel Arturo Beltran Leyva was killed.

The Iranian opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi has been dismissed from one of the public posts he’s been holding as the head of Iran’s Arts Institution. The body is affiliated to the office of President Ahmadinajad and Mr. Moussavi had been running it for more than a decade.

The European Union has granted15 million Euros or about 17 million dollars in budget support to Serbia. An EU statement said a similar amount will be forthcoming next year along with loans totaling almost 300 million dollars to maintain Serbia’s economic stability.

经过7个月的搜寻，奥巴马政府任命霍华德·施密特(Howard Schmidt)全权负责美国网络安全问题。他曾担任eBay和微软的网络安全官员。Emilio San报道更详细内容。

白宫发表的声明称，霍华德·施密特(Howard Schmidt)曾担任前总统布什的网络顾问，是该领域处于领先地位的专家。作为网络安全方面的负责人，施密特将定期向奥巴马总统汇报工作。奥巴马称电脑黑客是美国面脸的最为严重的经济和国家安全挑战之一。据估计，每天有数百万人次试图袭击美国政府电脑系统。然而，尽管施密特即将担任该职位，此前，该职位却遭遇其他候选人的拒绝，他们感到该职位缺少成功必备的财政和政策制定部门支持。

来自美国的报道称，花旗银行数千万美元资金被电脑黑客窃取，FBI正在进行调查。华尔街时报引用美国政府官员的话说，这些黑客与俄罗斯一网络犯罪团伙有联系。但是花旗银行却否认自己的系统被入侵。他们表示，花旗银行的客户没有损失任何资金。

今天，各地又充满了对哥本哈根气候峰会结果的批判。瑞典环境部长Andreas Carlgren称哥本哈根峰会是一个灾难，他说，欧洲以外的国家，尤其是美国和中国缺少诚意。他说，现在美国面临的压力在不断增长。

我应该说，由于美国国内的程序，由于哥本哈根会议之前他们所表达的期望，峰会过后，对美国的期望和压力都在不断增长。我们期望他们在今年春天能够达成协议，并且作为随后出台的全球协议的一部分。

立陶宛一项调查发现2001年美国发生9.11恐怖袭击之后，CIA设立了至少两座秘密拘留中心。调查还发现，CIA进入立陶宛的航班可能在没有通知官员或立陶宛政府的情况下运送了基地组织嫌疑人。3名立陶宛安全官员将面临进一步的调查。立陶宛外交部长Vygaudas Usackas告诉BBC，该报道没有发现任何证据证明恐怖嫌疑人被拘留在立陶宛领土。

这份报告中最重要的部分是对CIA监狱违反人权的指控，立陶宛可能关押了CIA关塔纳摩监狱或其他地方的嫌疑犯，我们还没有证明。

哥伦比亚总统乌里韦称，正在采取全面的军事和武装行动来拯救周一被左翼FARC(哥伦比亚革命武装力量)反叛分子绑架的一名省长。哥伦比亚当局称，大约10名武装分子在Caqueta地区路易斯-弗朗西斯科-奎利亚家中将其绑架。Jeremy McDermott在哥伦比亚报道。

FARC正在绑架政治家，与他们现在劫持的大约22名安全人员一起作为交换囚犯的谈判筹码。然而，在2008年7月Ingrid Betancourt和其他14名人质的拯救工作之后，反叛力量单方面释放了他们劫持的所有政治家。但是这次绑架事件似乎表明，反叛分子恢复了交换囚犯的计划，或者至少给政府施压，与他们进行对话。

周一，一名墨西哥海军士兵的家人被毒品走私嫌疑犯谋杀。墨西哥总统卡尔德龙称这种行为是懦弱的。当时，持枪者在墨西哥Tabasco州发动袭击，这名士兵的母亲，两个兄弟，一个阿姨全部在家中遇难，墨西哥官方将此作为报复性仇杀处理。上周，这名士兵在打击毒贩的袭击中牺牲，势力强大的毒品卡特尔Arturo Beltran Leyva一名头目被击毙。

伊朗反对派领袖穆萨维被解除了其中一个公共职务，伊朗艺术学院院长。该机构隶属总统艾哈迈迪-内贾德办公室，穆萨维已经领导了十余年。

欧盟拨款1500万欧元，大约1700万美元的预算来支持塞尔维亚。欧盟发表的声明称，明年还将提供同样数额的资助，同时还有总额高达3亿美元的贷款来维持塞尔维亚的经济稳定。