BBC托管会主席Chris Patten,指控在过去的25年里,英国政客甘愿受报纸左右。Patten爵士告诉Leveson inquiry调查新闻标准的部门,主要政党及其领导人向报社老板献殷勤,降低了身份。他说已劝告过同事及至少一任首相不应过于担心报纸的报道。
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The French Senate is due to vote shortly on a controversial bill that threatens to cause a serious rift in France's relations with Turkey. If passed, it would make it a crime to deny that a genocide was committed by Ottoman Turks against Armenians during the First World War. A motion to throw out the bill failed. Turkey has threatened permanent sanctions if it becomes law. It denies the mass killing was deliberate genocide.
法国参议院近日将为一个有争议的提案进行投票表决,该提案可能造成法国与土尔其严重不和。如该草案被通过,否认奥斯曼土耳其人在第一次世界大战期间对亚美尼亚人实施种族屠杀将成为犯罪行为。取消此提案的动议未被通过。土耳其威胁如果该草案成为法律,它将对法国实施永久制裁。土耳其否认当时大规模的杀戮是有蓄谋的种族屠杀。
A protester has been killed in a clash with police in an ethnically Tibetan part of China, in which activists say Chinese security forces opened fire on a crowd. The reported incident came at a time of great tension in Tibetan-inhabited parts of China as Viv Marsh of our Asia-Pacific desk reports.