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　　North and South Korea said they've reached a dealafter a marathon talks designed to reduce tension of their border. Both countries put theirmilitary forces on alert after a brief exchange of fire last week. Steven Evens reports fromSeoul. "It took just short of 48 hours of talking before the two sides stepped back from seriousarmed confrontation. South Korea agreed to stop broadcasting propaghanda into the Northfrom banks of loudspeakers. And North Korea expressed regret about the incident whichsparked the crisis. South Korea depicted that expression of regret as an apology. Theagreement now reached is not expected to lead to a permanent easing of tension."

　　The leaders of France and Germany have called for European Union countries to work togetherto deal with migrant crisis. At a joint news conference in Berlin, the German Chancellor AngelaMerkel said current rules such as registering migrants were now being followed. The FrenchPresident Francois Hollande called for a fair distribution of asylum seekers between memberstates, and what he called the dignified return of those entering illegally. Here in the U.K, thegovernment has due to announce new proposals to tackle illegal immigration. New figures areexpected to show that migrants to Britain has reached record levels. Daniel Sanford has thedetail. "The immigration bill which should be published before Chritmas will include the criminaloffence in England and Welsh of working illegally. We have now learned that the maximumpenalty will be six months in prison and an unlimited fine as well as the possibility of wagesbeing ceased as proceeds of crimes. Business discovered using illegal workers will no longer beable to claim they didn't know a particular employee was not allowed to work. They'll have toshow that they carried out proper checks before taking them on."

　　It's been a day of turmoil along stockmarkets around the world has fierce deepened overeconomic slowdown in China. At one point the Dow Jones index in the United States was downby 1.000 points, one of its biggest ever falls. Although it later rallied, it still close down morethan 3.5% on the day. The main markets in Europe and Asia fell by more than 4%. And China'sShanghai was down more than 8%. Our economic editor Robert Peston has this assessment ofChina's economic troubles. "For thirty years they grew 10%. The official grow target this year isquite a lot less than 7%. But if you look at the fundamentals that they are so dependent ondebt-fuelled investment, they can't go on much longer,that growth could fall much more to save3%. Now the point is that China has been generating quarter of the world's growth for yearsand years and years. If growth falls from 10% to 3%, I'm afraid that does mean that globalgrowth slows down very dramatically indeed."World news from the BBC.

　　The municipal court judge in Ferguson, Missouri has halted court practices that were seen as amajor factor in a riot that follows a shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a whitepoliceman a year ago. In response to a scathing report by the U.S justice department，JudgeDonald McCullin instructed all arrest warrent issued before this year to be withdrawn. Reportaccused court officials and the local police of exploiting people, mainly African Americans toraise revenue. It said minor infractions often led to multiple fines, arrests and driving bansputting people deeper into debt."

　　The outgoing head of football's world governing body FIFA Sepp Blatter has insisted he is notcorrupt and is leaving the game in exception in good shape. Mr. Blatter announced in Junethat he would step down days after senior FIFA executives were arrested as part of the U.Scorruption inquiry. More from Richard Connalway. "Speaking exclusively to the BBC, the FIFApresident defended his 17 years at the top of the football. 'There is no corruption in football,there is corruption with individuals.''There's no corruption within FIFA?''No, the institutionFIFA is not corrupt.'"But the allegations claimed what happened during his tenure of FIFArefused to disappear. All that is certain is that next Feburary, he and football's world governingbody must move on without each other.

　　Research by scientist in Sweden suggests that an U.N backed programme to cut globalwarming has in some cases significantly undermine efforts to tackle climate change. Thescientists say that majority of what is known as carbon offsetting project don't produce realcuts in emissions, instead the study concludes that the system can result in perverse incentivesto increase production of industrial waste gases.

　　The last known Ebola patient in Sierra Leone has been released from hospital. World HealthOrganizations said no new cases had been reported in the country for more than two weeks.Almost 4,000 people have died of Ebola in Sierra Leone.

　　1.undermine v.破坏

　　例句：Wild life has undermined his health.

　　放荡的生活逐渐损害了他的健康。

　　2.scathing adj. 严厉的

　　例句：If someone excessively flatters you for a minor success, you need to internalize it thesame way you would internalize a scathing insult.

　　如果有人对你的一点点成功就过分奉承，你需要自己内部消化这种阿谀奉承就像你内部消化别人的严厉侮辱一样。

　　3.dramatically adv.显著地

　　例句：This improves the speed of your builds dramatically.

　　这将显著提高您的内部版本的速度。

　　4.loudspeaker n.扬声器

　　例句：The loudspeaker's stopped working.

　　扩音器不响了。

　　5.disappear v.消失

　　例句：She turned down a side street and then disappeared.

　　她拐入一条小街然后就消失了。

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