President Obama is calling for a big increase in theuse of body cameras for police officers in the UnitedStates, following the fatal shooting of an unarmedblack teenager, Michael Brown, in the St. Louissuburb of Ferguson. Mr. Obama says he wants 75 million dollars spent on providing tiny lapelcameras for 50,000 more officers to wear when they are on patrol. Our North Americacorrespondent, x, says the aim is to build trust.

　　I was in Ferguson for much of last week, and it's absolutely clear that you have a police forcepresiding over a community where there is little trust between the two, and what PresidentObama is saying is these funds will be spent over three years and go towards the cost of thesebody cameras, so that the public would think Right, okay, well, this is being recorded, thisinteraction, and then people would be able to make a proper judgement. Because of course, inthe whole case of Michael Brown, there were such conflicting accounts of what actually unfolded.

　　The International Criminal Court in the Hague has rejected an appeal by the Congolese militialeader, Thomas Lubanga, against his conviction for using child soldiers. The judges alsodismissed a challenge against his 14-year sentence. At his original trial, Mr. Lubanga wasfound to have recruited children under the age of 15 to fight during the conflict more than adecade ago in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Some of them were used as his personalbody guards. Mr. Lubanga is the first person to have been convicted by the ICC.

　　The World Food Program says that for the first time in four years, it will supply no food aid inDecember to 1.6 million Syrian refugees because of a lack of funding. Until now, refugees hadbeen assumed with food vouchers to use in shops in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt.The WFP said the move would have devastating consequences for refugees already strugglingto cope with the cold weather.

　　Speaking at an unofficial camp in Lebanon, x from the WFP said people were clearly in need.Many of the refugees are not prepared for this winter. They are living in informal settlements,like this one. Plastic sheetings, you know, they are taking cover. They are trying to burnwhatever they can, so that they have fire at night to warm their kids. It's a very difficultsituation.

　　The former British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has decided to stand down next year aftermore than three decades as a Labour member of Parliament. He made the announcement toparty activists in Scotland.

　　I'm not going back to Westminster, not to the House of the Commons after the generalelection, and not to the House of Lords. It is faith where our home Mrs and where we willwhere our children Shawn and Frieze who hear tonight at * school. And it's strong faith where Iwill do the new and extended work as the UN's special convoy on global education.

　　Mr. Brown spent ten years as Chancellor of the Exchequer and three as Prime Minister beforehis party lost power in 2010.

　　World news from the BBC.

　　The Colombian President, Juan Manuel Santos, has demanded explanations from the armedforces on the circumstances of the kidnapping of a General by the FARC two weeks ago.General Ruben Dario Alzate and two companions were abducted while traveling by boat in aremote jungle area where the rebels were known to operate. The hostages were freed onSunday. The kidnapping led the government to suspend peace talks with the rebels.

　　The Iraqi Prime Minister, Haidar al-Abadi, appears to have forced more than 20 officials at hisInterior Ministry to take early retirement. He said this was part of his effort to restructure thesecurity forces.

　　The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has said that Moscow is being forced to withdraw fromthe construction of a gas pipeline which would have supplied gas to southern Europe viaBulgaria, by passing Ukraine, due to the E.U.'s reluctance to support the project. He wasspeaking after talks with his Turkish counterpart. Our Turkey correspondent, x, reports.

　　It was planned to pump Russian gas across the Black Sea into Bulgaria and then into Europe,called South Stream. But challenged by the European Commission for breaking competitionlaws, it was also hit by the West's conflict with Russia over Ukraine. Now Vladimir Putin says itwill be halted because of the E.U.'s opposition. He told journalists in Ankara that Russia wouldincrease gas supplies to Turkey and lower prices.

　　And this year's BBC African Footballer of the Year has been named after hundreds of thousandsof votes, Algeria and Porto star, Yacine Brahimi, has been declared the winner. From Portugal,here is x.

　　Never before in the 23-year history of the competition has an Algerian won this award, butBrahimi won the prize after an unforgettable 2014. He scored a match-winning goal againstSpanish giant, Barcelona, a hat-trick in the Champions League, and played a lead role as Algeriareached the World Cup knockout stages for the first time in their history. This was goodenough for the BBC audience to vote him Africa's Best.

　　词汇解析：

　　1.preside vi. 主持，担任会议主席 vt. 管理

　　The PM returned to Downing Street to preside overa meeting of his inner cabinet.

　　首相回到唐宁街去主持一场核心内阁会议。

　　2.voucher n. 收据;证人;保证人;证明者;代金 vt. 证实...的可靠性

　　The winners will each receive a voucher for a pair of movie tickets.

　　获胜者每人将获得一张代币券，可换取两张电影票。

　　3.hostage n. 人质;抵押品

　　It is hopeful that two hostages will be freed in the next few days.

　　两名人质有望在几天后获释。

　　4.reluctance n. [电磁] 磁阻;勉强;不情愿

　　Troops were displaying an obvious reluctance to get involved in quashing demonstrations.

　　部队显然并不愿意参与镇压示威游行。

　　5.settlement n. 解决，处理;[会计] 结算;沉降;殖民;定居地

　　The village is a settlement of just fifty houses.

　　这个村子是个仅有50家住户的定居地。

　　6.counterpart n. 副本;配对物;极相似的人或物

　　The Foreign Minister held talks with his Chinese counterpart.

　　外交部长与中国外交部长举行了会谈。

　　7.hat-trick 帽子戏法

　　I scored a hat-trick against Arsenal.

　　我在和阿森纳队的比赛中上演了帽子戏法。

　　8.halt vi. 停止;立定;踌躇，犹豫 n. 停止;立定;休息 vt. 使停止;使立定

　　The plan for armistice talks was halted.

　　和平谈判计划被迫中止。