必克BBC新闻：BBC新闻在线收听(2014-05-21)

[00:00.10]BBC news with Jonathan Izard.

[00:03.54]After a decade of negotiations,Russia has clinched a huge deal to supply China with natural gas.The agreement is thought to be worth 400 billion dollars over 30 years.

[00:13.64]Russia's energy giant Gazprom would only say it was signed on mutually beneficial terms.

[00:18.59]The first gas will be piped in 2018 from new facilities separate from those supplying Europe.

[00:23.74]President Putin said it was a major deal for Russia.

[00:26.73]This is the biggest contract in the history of the gas industry in the former USSR and the Russian federation in terms of volume.

[00:36.64]I want to know that this was indeed a difficult job at the level of export.Our Chinese friends are difficult and tough negotiators.

[00:45.86]The internet auction site eBay is asking users to change their passwords after hackers attacked a database,compromising its security.

[00:57.91]The American company says it has no evidence that credit card details were accessed,

[01:01.93]but the database contains personal information including days of birth,email and postal address.Rory Cellan-Jones reports.

[01:09.05]EBay says the attackers got access to a database containing encrypted passwords,but no financial data by obtaining the log-ins of some employees.

[01:19.45]The attack took place between late February and early March,but ebay says it was only detected two weeks ago.

[01:26.92]The firm hasn't detected any increase in fraudulent activities on the site,but says changing password is the best practice,and will help enhance security.

[01:37.19]The United States has deployed military personnel to Chad to try to help find more than 200 school girls kidnapped in northern Nigeria.

[01:44.64]The girls were abducted more than five weeks ago by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram.

[01:49.45]Several countries including Britain and Israel are assisting the Nigerian military with intelligence expertise.Jane O'Brien reports.

[01:57.03]Using his war powers,president Obama ordered the troop deployment as part of US efforts to locate and return the girls to their families.

[02:05.23]In a letter to Congress,the White House said the 18 military personnel would support intelligence, surveillance and reconnoissance aircraft missions over northern Nigeria and the surrounding area.

[02:15.91]The force will be based in Chad,and will remain there until no longer needed.

[02:20.33]Chad shares a border with Nigeria,where the 276 girls were seized last month by the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram.

[02:28.73]Rebels holding the key town of Kidal in northern Mali have managed to repel an offensive by government forces to try to retake the town.

[02:36.43]A BBC correspondent in Mali says government troops sought refuge in the United Nations' base.

[02:41.87]The UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon called for an immediate ceasefire.

[02:45.92]A Tuareg rebellion in northern Mali in 2012 threw the country into turmoil,triggering a military coup.

[02:52.13]French forces intervened last year to try to drive out the insurgents but they've remained active in some parts since then.BBC news.

[02:59.83]A federal judge in the United States has ordered the Justice Department to hand over videos showing the treatment of a Syrian prisoner at Guantanamo bay detention center who was on hunger strike.

[03:09.81]The videos show the detainee Abu Wa'el Dhiab being forcibly fed through a tube in his nose.

[03:15.61]Last week,in the first ruling of its kind,the judge imposed a ban on force-feeding the prisoner.

[03:20.58]Mr Dhiab has been held without charge since August, 2002.

[03:24.62]The Israeli police say restraining orders have been placed on several Jewish right-wing activists over concerns that they might try to disrupt Pope Francis's visit to the holy land later this week.

[03:35.28]A police spokeswoman said the restraining orders were based on intelligence received by the security service Shin Bet and will be in effect for four days.

[03:43.89]Five young Iranians arrested after they posted a video of themselves dancing to the Pharrell William'shit "Happy" havebeen released.

[03:51.64]But the director of the video is still in custody.Police in Tehran said the online clip hurt public chastity.James Renauld has this report.

[03:59.90]The homemade video shows six young Iranians,three men and three women without headscarves,dancing with abandon on a secluded rooftop and in an apartment.

[04:11.61]Their efforts were too much for Iran's authorities.The performers were soon arrested and filmed on state TV.

[04:20.60]They were apparently made to confess that they were tricked into filming their video.

[04:25.41]Pharrell Williams says that it is beyond sad that the six were arrested for trying to spread happiness.

[04:32.17]The American secretary of state John Kerry says impatience with the Venezuelan government is growing in the region over the failure of recent talks with the opposition.

[04:42.80]Mr Kerry called on president Nicolas Maduro to show good faith in thenegotiations to end the worst political crisis in Venezuela in a decade.

[04:50.53]At least 42 people from both sides of the political divide have been killed in street protests this year.BBC news.

 

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