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that government decisions on the eurozone debt crisis have dented their popularity.
There's been a series of attacks on historic monuments in Rome. In the first, a man was filmed on closed-circuit television cameras hitting a marble statue on a fountain in the Piazza Navona. Hours later, a man was filmed throwing a rock at the Trevi Fountain in the city centre, and a 20-year-old American student was caught scaling a wall of the Colosseum and also trying to chip away pieces of marble from the Roman amphitheatre.
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Fighters loyal to the National Transitional Council in Libya, who are surrounding the desert town of Bani Walid, say talks with pro-Gaddafi forces there have failed. Hundreds of rebel fighters in trucks mounted with heavy weapons are stationed within kilometres of the town, southeast of the capital Tripoli. The rebels' chief negotiator Abdullah Kenchil spoke to reporters about the failure of the negotiations.
正在包围沙漠小镇班尼瓦里(Bani Walid)的全国过渡委员会忠诚战士宣布亲卡扎菲的力量已经失败。乘坐卡车的全副武装的数百名叛军战士已经驻扎在首都的黎波里东南部这个小镇几千米以外。叛军首席谈判人员Abdullah Kenchil告诉记者谈判已经失败。
"I don't have anything to offer right now, and I hope those brigades in Bani Walid to leave soon."
“现在我已经没有任何条件可以提供,我只希望班尼瓦里的部队可以尽快撤离。”