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美國表示，他們不允許外交癱瘓成為敘利亞領導層的盾牌。此前，俄羅斯利用聯合國安理會五個常任理事國會議阻止了一份決議，該決議原本授權採取措施保護敘利亞平民，美國國務院對其提出了批評。聯合國，Nick Bryant報導。
英國召集了安理會五個常任理事國舉行了會議，討論授權對敘利亞使用武力的決議。但是最終未能打破外交僵局，英國，美國和法國支持對上周的化學武器襲擊做出軍事反應，俄羅斯和中國一再反對對阿薩德政權採取懲罰性措施。美國隨後表示，他們在閉門會議上聽到的態度與俄羅斯無異，敘利亞政府不能繼續隱藏在莫斯科政府的強硬立場後。
俄羅斯外長謝爾蓋·拉夫羅夫(SergeiLavrov)表示，在聯合國武器調查小組對上周化學武器襲擊的調查結束之前，聯合國不應考慮任何協議草案或者對敘利亞的任何行動。與此同時，敘利亞駐聯合國大使賈法裡(Bashar Jaafari)也呼籲允許聯合國調查人員在沒有軍事或政治壓力的情況下完成工作。
大馬士革敘利亞人做好準備迎接可能遭遇的空襲，一些人聚集在基礎設施附近，或者試圖逃離可能的襲擊目標。BBC記者Jeremy Bowen從大馬士革發回報道。
在我年初來過的地方，大馬士革看上去非常寂靜。這座城市正在等待其他地方做出的決定。敘利亞戰爭即將進入新的階段。自戰爭開始以來，軍隊在進出黎巴嫩邊境的高速公路上每隔幾英里就設置路障。我看到軍事基地附近有一些活動，人們在入口處活動。新聞機構引用居民和阿薩德政權反對者的話說，一些重武器已經運出軍事基地，總部大樓部分職員也已經撤離。
奧巴馬總統在華盛頓向人群發表講話，紀念馬丁·路德·金《我有一個夢想》講話50周年。奧巴馬總統讚譽了馬丁·路德·金高超的演說術。他還讚揚了當時其他民權示威者。
“因為他們示威遊行，民權法得以通過。因為他們示威遊行，投票法得以簽署。因為他們示威遊行，機會和教育的大門才向他們的子女打開，他們才能暢想自己的生活，而不是幫別人洗衣服擦皮鞋。因為他們示威遊行，市政委員會才發生改變，國家立法才得以改變，最終，國會和白宮才得以改變。”
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以色列當局完成了希望在以色列安家的埃塞俄比亞猶太人古老社區居民的最後一次重大空運活動。兩架搭載著450人的航班抵達特拉維夫。一個世紀以前，“法拉沙人”(Falash Mura)的祖先迫于壓力從猶太教徒改為基督徒，但是還保留著一些猶太習俗。數千名埃塞俄比亞猶太人重新定居以色列，但是許多人抱怨稱在新的土地上受到歧視。
在美國，軍事法庭判處2009年槍殺13名士兵的陸軍心理醫生死刑。檢控官表示，伊斯蘭教信徒哈桑(Nidal Hasan)在德克薩斯州胡德堡陸軍基地向士兵開槍，目的是報復阿富汗和伊拉克的平民傷亡。Alistair Leithead報導。
主犯哈桑(Nidal Hasan)坐在輪椅上，軍隊陪審團宣佈判決。哈桑在槍擊事件中受傷癱瘓，這才阻止他在四年前繼續亂槍掃射士兵。現在，他的鬍鬚已經蒼白淩亂。檢控官歷數被他殺害的每一個人的生命歷程和鰥寡孤獨者遭受的痛苦時，42歲的哈桑認真傾聽。他逐一觀看了13名遇難者的照片，其中一人是孕婦，未出生的嬰兒也蒙難。但是他沒有表現出任何情緒。
加利福尼亞科學家表示，全球變暖速度放緩可以通過太平洋部分地區的天然冷卻作用來解釋。他們的研究發表在《自然》期刊上，解釋了為何過去15年沒有明顯的全球變暖現象。這些科學家表示，太平洋東部較冷的水溫抵消了人造二氧化碳不斷增加的影響。但是他們警告稱，太平洋未來將會進入更加溫暖的時期，屆時全球平均氣溫將會加速上漲。
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The United States says it cannot allow diplomatic paralysis to serve as a shield for the Syrian leadership. The State Department criticized Russia after it used a meeting of the five permanent members of the Security Council to block a resolution which would have authorized measures to protect civilians in Syria. From the United Nations, here is Nick Bryant.
Britain convened a meeting of the permanent five members of the Security Council to discuss a possible resolution authorizing the use of forces in Syria. But it failed to break the diplomatic deadlock between the UK, US and France who favor a military response to last week's chemical attack and Russia and China which have repeatedly blocked punitive measures against the Assad regime. America said afterwards they heard nothing different from the Russians during the closed-door meeting and also that the Syrian government couldn't continue to hide behind what it called Moscow's intransigence.
The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the UN can not consider any draft resolution or proposed action in Syria before the UN weapons inspectors there finish their investigation into last week's alleged chemical attack. Syria's ambassador to the UN Bashar Jaafari has at meanwhile called for UN inspectors to be allowed to complete their work without military or political pressure.
Syrians in Damascus are preparing for possible air strikes with people stocking up on basic supplies or trying to find somewhere to stay away from the likeliest targets. The BBC's Jeremy Bowen sent this report from the city.
Damascus seems quiet among trips I made here earlier this year. The city is waiting decisions that are been taken elsewhere. The Syrian war is about to move into a new phase. Army roadblocks stop traffic every few miles down the highway in-and-from the Lebanese border as they had since the war started. I saw some activities around military bases, men moving about the entrances. News agencies quoting residents and opponents of the Assad regime have reported that some heavy weaponry has been moved out of bases and staff are partially vacated some headquarters’ buildings.
President Obama has been addressing crowds in Washington commemorating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's landmark I Have A Dream speech. President Obama praised what he called Dr. King's soaring oratory. He also hailed other civil rights demonstrators of the time.
“Because they marched, the civil rights law was passed. Because they marched, a voting rights law was signed. Because they marched, doors of opportunity and education swung open so their daughters and sons could finally imagine a life for themselves beyond washing somebody else's laundry or shining somebody else's shoes. Because they marched, city councils changed and state legislators changed and Congress changed, and yes, eventually the White House changed.”
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Israeli authorities have completed once said to be the last major airlift of an ancient community of Ethiopian Jews seeking a new home in Israel. Two flights carrying 450 people have arrived in Tel Aviv. The Falash Mura, a community whose ancestors converted from Judaism to Christianity under duress a century ago, but who've retained some Jewish customs. Thousands of Ethiopian Jews have resettled in Israel, but many complain of discrimination in their new homeland.
In the United States, a military court has sentenced a former US army psychiatrist to death after finding him guilty of shooting dead 13 soldiers in 2009. Prosecutors say that Nidal Hasan, a convert to Islam, targeted soldiers at the Fort Hood base in Texas in revenge for civilian death in Afghanistan and Iraq. Alistair Leithead reports.
Major Nidal Hasan sat in a wheelchair as the panel of the military juries delivered their ruling. He was paralyzed by the shots that finally stopped his killing spray on the same base four years ago. His beard now unkempt and greying. The 42-year -old listened carefully as the prosecutor went through the personal stories of each life he took, the loss suffered by parents, widows and children. He looked at each photograph of the 13 he killed, one a pregnant woman, her unborn child also died, but he showed little sign of emotion.
Scientists in California say a slowdown in the rate of global warming can be explained by a natural cooling in part of the Pacific Ocean. Their research published in the journal Nature, explains why there has been no significant global warming in the past 15 years. The scientists say that the colder waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean have counteracted the increased levels of man-made carbon dioxide. But they warn that the Pacific will enter a warmer phase at some point at which the global average temperatures will accelerate upwards.
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