在土耳其通往叙利亚的一个过境处,由于叙利亚境内的暴力剧增,你能感到焦虑和不祥之兆。土耳其一度是巴萨尔·阿萨德的亲密盟友,如今表示不再支持准备杀死如此多民众的叙利亚领导人。今天,土耳其正式关闭了与叙利亚接壤的边界线。但仍允许难民进入土耳其境内的大量难民营。今天,一位妇女告诉我,她和小女儿在阿勒颇的空中轰炸中逃出。她说,轰炸太多了,人们只得不去管那些倒下死去的人。
The US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has told members of Congress that he passed on his concerns about the possible manipulation of the key inter-bank lending rate to the British authorities more than four years ago. The revelation comes after Barclays Bank was fined more than $450m for attempting to fix the rate in its favor.
美国财长盖特纳告诉国会议员,他已在4年多以前向英国政府表达过对主要银行间借贷利率可能产生的操纵现象表示了担忧。就在不久前,巴克莱银行因试图操纵利率使之对自己有利而被罚4.5亿美元。
"We did the important and fully appropriate thing, which is to bring the attention not just to the people in Washington, but to the British, of the, not just the reports and the concerns that were broadly built on the market and the public domain, but also of the range of problems in the way this rate was designed that created that vulnerability. And so we gave, we brought those concerns to their attention and we felt – and I still believe this – that it was really gonna be on them to take responsibility for fixing this."