英国新闻听力 欧盟伽利略卫星导航系统2014年运营（在线收听）

President Obama’s National Security Adviser General James Jones says Americans will be shocked by the findings of a White House inquiry into the intelligence failures leading up to the attempted Christmas Day airliner bombing. From Washington, here is Mark Mardell.

President Obama’s top security adviser, General James Jones, says that the president is very concerned that America’s intelligence agencies failed to make use the information they had to stop the Detroit bomb plotter boarding a plane bound for the States and failed to join the dots over Fort Hood. Major Nidal Hasan has been charged with shooting dead 13 fellow soldiers in that incident. The president’s national security adviser added, "It’s not theatre. He's alarmed". The president’s due to speak soon about this and make public the results of an investigation into what went wrong with the Detroit case. A report stripped to sensitive material will be published, and General Jones says people will be worried by what they read.

The United Nations’ investigator Philip Alston says video footage which appears to show Sri Lankan troops shooting captured Tamil Tiger rebels is authentic. In the video, naked rebels bound and blindfolded are seen being shot in the head. When the video was released last year, Sri Lanka dismissed it as a fake, but Mr. Alston said that experts concluded that the video was genuine and he called for an independent investigation into the killings.

“Each of these experts subjected the videotape to a very careful and thorough examination, and each of them concluded that there was nothing to indicate that the video was a fake. My own interpretation of their conclusions is that they point very clearly to the authenticity of the video.”

The American security firm, Blackwater, has reached a settlement in a series of lawsuits brought over the killing of Iraqi civilians. The amount of the settlement has not been disclosed. Blackwater, which has since changed its name to Xe, said it could now move on under new management. Jenner Bryon reports from Washington.

The lawsuits were seeking compensation for Iraqis killed in separate shootings between 2006 and 2007, allegedly involving Blackwater contractors. One of the lawsuits accused the company’s founder, Erik Prince, of allowing a culture in which a heavily armed private army was allowed to roam the streets of Baghdad, killing innocent civilians. Last week, criminal charges against the individuals allegedly involved were dropped when a judge said prosecutors had compromised the case and a fair trial was not possible.

The US Justice Department says the two former employees of Blackwater have been charged in connection with the murder of Afghan citizens in Kabul. The suspects allegedly fired on two Afghan men at the scene of a road accident. They have said they acted in self-defence.

Medical staff in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, say at least 12 people have been killed in clashes between Islamist insurgents and government, pro-government forces. The report said that soldiers fired shells into the Yaqshid district, which is controlled by the insurgents, in response to a mortar attack on the presidential palace.

The BBC has learnt that two senior Burmese officials have been sentenced to death for leaking details of secret government visits to Russia and North Korea and of military tunnels that is being built in Burma by the North Koreans. It’s thought that the tunnels are long, and the construction are intended to house communication systems, weapons factories and troops in the events of invasion.

The European Union has announced that its satellite navigation system Galileo will start operating in 2014. Rescue workers will be the first to use it with other services rolled out over the following years. Mark Gregory reports.

The Galileo project is already way over budget in several years late. Two years ago, it was nearly scrapped, but now the first commercial contract has been announced, a clear signal that Europe's alternative to the American GPS satellite locating network will go ahead. A German company, OHB System, will supply 14 satellites. The French group, Arianespace, will launch them into orbit, starting in October 2012. It’s Europe’s largest ever venture in space.

Construction companies building the Dubai Metro say they are slowing down the pace of their work, but they haven’t confirmed reports that it is because of a delay in payments from the Dubai government. The authorities in Dubai said they were committed to meeting their financial obligations on the project and that work was on schedule. Last September, Dubai said the estimated cost of building the metro had almost doubled to 7.6 billion dollars.

奥巴马总统的国家安全顾问詹姆斯·琼斯表示，白宫已对导致圣诞节当天美国航班发生的爆炸未遂事件的情报失误进行调查，美国人民会对调查结果感到震惊。华盛顿，Mark Mardell报道。

奥巴马总统的高级安全顾问詹姆斯·琼斯表示，奥巴马总统非常担忧，美国的情报机构未能利用他们掌握的信息阻止底特律爆炸阴谋者登上飞往美国的航班，未能吸取胡德堡基地惨案的教训。在上次事件中，汗桑少校被控告枪杀13名士兵。总统国家安全顾问补充说，“这并不是儿戏。总统非常警惕。”奥巴马总统很快将发表讲话，将底特律炸机未遂事件调查结果公布于众。届时将会公布一份涉及敏感材料的报告，琼斯称，人们会对看到的内容表示担忧。

联合国调查人员Philip Alston表示，显示斯里兰卡军队枪杀俘虏的塔米尔猛虎组织叛军的视频资料是真实的。在视频中，叛军被捆绑，双眼被蒙，头部被枪击。去年该视频发布时，斯里兰卡称视频是伪造的，但是Alston表示，专家已经得出结论，该视频是真实可靠的，他呼吁对该事件进行独立调查。

“每位专家都对该视频进行了认真，彻底的检查，每个专家都得出结论，没有任何迹象表明该视频是伪造的。我本人对这些结论的理解是，他们确定无疑地表明了视频的真实性。”

美国黑水公司就其职员杀害伊拉克平民的一系列诉讼达成和解。和解具体金额并未透露。黑水公司由此更名为XE。该公司宣称他们将按照新的方式来经营。Jenner Bryon在华盛顿报道。

这些案件要求为2006至2007年间独立的枪击事件中被杀害的伊拉克人寻求赔偿，涉案者包括黑水公司雇员。其中一个案件指控黑水公司的创建者Erik Prince创建了一种文化，在这种文化中，装备精良的军队可以横行巴格达街道，杀害无辜平民。上周，对一些涉案个人的刑事控诉被驳回，因为一名法官称检控官危害了该案件，不可能进行公平的审判。

美国司法部门称，黑水公司两名前雇员被控告与喀布尔阿富汗公民被谋杀事件有关。嫌疑人被指在道路事故中向两名阿富汗男子开火。他们说自己的行动是为了自卫。

索马里首都摩加迪沙医疗工作者称伊斯兰叛军和支持政府派力量之间发生冲突，至少12人死亡。报告称，士兵向反叛分子控制的Yaqshid地区发射炮弹，对此前总统官邸遭受的迫击炮袭击做出回应。

BBC获悉，两名高级缅甸官员泄漏政府俄罗斯朝鲜秘密之行，以及朝鲜在缅甸建立的军事隧道的细节而被判处死刑。据称这些隧道很长，建筑这些隧道是为了在入侵事件中容纳通信设备，武器工厂和军队。

欧盟宣布，其卫星导航系统伽利略号将在2014年开始运营。在接下来的几年，搜救工作者将首次使用该导航系统，其他服务也将逐步开始使用。Mark Gregory报道。

由于超出预算，伽利略号工程被推迟了几年时间，两年前，该工程几乎废弃。但是现在欧盟已宣布了首期商业合同。该信号明确表示欧洲用来

取代美国GPS卫星定位系统的工程将会继续。德国公司OHB系统将提供14颗卫星。法国的Arianespace将把这些卫星发射入轨道，该过程将从1012年10月开始。这是欧洲有史以来规模最大的太空探险。

承建迪拜轻轨的建筑公司称，他们已经减缓了工作进度，但是他们还未证实报道所说的推迟是由于迪拜支付付款方面的延误。迪拜官方表示他们承诺一定会完成该工程的财政任务，工作会如期进行。去年9月份，迪拜称，估计建筑轻轨的成本已经翻倍，高达76亿美元。