Aylan Kurdi Buried in Syria As Refugees Defy Hungary Border

Aylan Kurdi Buried in Syria As Refugees Defy Hungary Border

The father of Aylan Kurdi, the Syrian toddler that has become a symbol of Europe’s failure to welcome refugees, buried his family in Syria Friday as thousands of refugees marched in defiance of Hungarian borders.

"I will have to pay the price for this the rest of my life," the father Abdullah Kurdi told mourners, after burying his sons 3-year-old Aylan, 5-year-old Galip, and their mother Rehan. The three drowned after two boats capsized while trying to reach Greek shores.

Images depicting Aylan Kurdi lying face down on the shoreline and then being gently carried by an official have provoked worldwide revulsion and calls for Europe to take drastic action to accept more refugees from the war-torn country.

"We want the world’s attention on us, so they can prevent the same from happening to others. Let this be the last," Kurdi said Thursday when recovering the bodies in Turkey.

Despite global calls to bring an end to what has been dubbed the world’s deadliest border, the toll of refugees losing their lives in their attempts to reach Europe continues to rise. On Friday, the International Organisation for Migration reported that at least 30 more refugees are feared to have drowned off the Libyan coast.

The tragedy and the indignation that followed has put pressure on European nations to alter their migration policy but sharp divisions in the union have stalled any significant action.

Meanwhile, refugees stuck in Hungary continue to defy border security in their attempt to reach Austria and Germany.

Thousands of refugees have reportedly started walking to Austria after being refused entry to trains departing to Western Europe. The 202-kilometers walk could take refugees up to 41 hours. Some were on crutches, while some parents carried their children on their shoulders.

"We are very happy that something is happening at last, The next stop is Austria. The children are very tired, Hungary is very bad, we have to go somehow," a 23-year-old Osama from Syria told AFP.

Another group of 500 refugees have defiantly remained inside a train for a second day after Hungarian riot police forced hundreds of refugees from the train and put them into camps on Thursday. 

Hungarian police have reportedly also resorted to racial profiling by indiscriminately removing people of color from regular trains in their operations against refugees, according to journalists on social media.

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Aylan-Kurdi-Buried-in-Syria-As-Refugees-Defy-Hungary-Border-20150904-0025.html

1.toddler 嬰孩

2.defiance 蔑視

3.mourners 送葬者

4.capsized 翻船

5.revulsion 厭惡

6.indignation 憤慨

7.defy 違抗

8.riot 暴動

9.drastic 激烈

10.resorted 採取

when-no

where-Hungarian borders

what-thousands of refugees marched in defiance of Hungarian border.

who-  Aylan,refugees

how-provoked worldwide revulsion

Water on Mars: Nasa faces contamination dilemma over future investigations

Nasa scientists may still be celebrating their discovery of liquid water on Mars, but they now face some serious questions about how they can investigate further and look for signs of life on the red planet.

The problem is how to find life without contaminating the planet with bugs from Earth.Researchers at the space agency are keen for the Curiosity rover to take a closer look at the long dark streaks created by liquid water running down craters and canyon walls during the summer months on Mars.

But the rover is not sterile and risks contaminating the wet areas with earthly bugs that will have hitched a ride to the planet and may still be alive.

The vehicle has been trundling around the large Gale crater looking for evidence thatMars was habitable in the ancient past. It has so far uncovered evidence of past river networks and age-old lakes.

However, the dark, damp streaks, called recurring slope lineae (RSL), are a different prospect. Because they are wet at least part of the time, they will be designated as special regions where only sterile landers can visit. But such a restriction could hamper scientists’ hopes of looking for current life on Mars.

“There will be heated discussions in the next weeks and months about what Curiosity will be allowed to do and whether it can go anywhere near the RSLs,” said Andrew Coates of University College London’s Mullard space science laboratory.“Curiosity now has the chance, for example, to do some closer up, but still remote, measurements, using the ChemCam instrument with lasers, to look at composition. I understand there is increasing pressure from the science side to allow that, given this new discovery.”

An organisation called the committee on space research (Cospar) draws up the rules on what is called planetary protection, which exist to prevent missions from Earth contaminating the pristine environments of other worlds. Landers that are searching for life must be exceptionally clean, and fall under category IVb, but those entering special regions are category IVc missions and must be cleaner still.

Curiosity was designed for category IVb, and under Cospar rules is not allowed to enter areas where water might be flowing. But that might be up for discussion. Nasa’s Jim Green argues that the intense radiation environment on Mars, in particular the ultraviolet light, might have killed any bugs Curiosity carried into space, and so may be clean enough to move into the sites.

A recent report from the US National Academy of Sciences and the European Science Foundation, however, suggests that UV light might not do the job, and could make matters worse. “Although the flux of ultraviolet radiation within the Martian atmosphere would be deleterious to most airborne microbes and spores, dust could attenuate this radiation and enhance microbial viability,” the report states.

Curiosity could inspect the flows from a distance, using its onboard laser to take more measurements of the dark streaks. But a more controversial option is to find a flat region at the bottom of one of the flows, and scoop up some Martian soil for analysis.

The next rover due to land on the planet is a joint mission named ExoMars from the European and Russian space agencies, set to launch in 2018. The plan is for the rover to drill up to two metres into the Martian soil to look for life past or present.

“For the ExoMars 2018 rover, the planetary protection is being very carefully looked at and a combination of baking and cleaning is planned to avoid any possible mishaps and make sure it is IVb so it can make the best possible life-searching measurements in the regions it can get to,” said Coates, who is leading the camera team on the rover.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/29/nasa-crossroads-mars-water-without-contamination-curiosity-rover

1 craters 隕石坑

2 contaminate 汙染

3 planetary 行星

4  pristine 質樸

5 ultraviolet 紫外線

6 attenuate 衰減

7  controversial 爭論的 

8 mishaps 事故

9 radiation 輻射

10 deleterious 有害

when-2015
what -water on mars
who-nasa
where-mars
how- discovery of liquid water on Mars

Zimbabwe will not charge U.S. dentist for killing Cecil the lion

Zimbabwe will not charge U.S. dentist for killing Cecil the lion

Walter Palmer arrived at work at 07:00 local time (12:00 GMT), met by a throng of media and a few protesters.

Employees were seen escorting Mr Palmer and patients into the surgery, as photographers swarmed the office.

In recent interviews, he has claimed that the hunt was legal and that he was shocked to hear the animal was famous.

Police were present as the dentist parked his vehicle on a nearby street and walked into his office in Bloomington, Minnesota. A staff member clutched his arm as the pair pushed past a group of journalists.

One woman could be heard screaming "Extradite Palmer!"

"We need to thank Dr Palmer," shouts one protester, "we need to thank him for waking us up". For the half a dozen demonstrators here, Cecil the Lion has become a poster child.

Some say they'd never heard of trophy hunting before Cecil hit the headlines. One lady tells me she felt so strongly she is protesting for the first time in her life.

She holds aloft a handwritten board which reads "Roar for Cecil". They are polite. No shouting, screaming or jostling. A mostly quiet but determined presence.

Dr Palmer has said a few carefully chosen words to the local newspaper, perhaps in the hope he could go back to work without a fuss. But for now, he is still a wanted man.

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Mr Palmer did not speak to the media on Tuesday, but did give an interview to the Minneapolis Star Tribune on Sunday.

"I need to get back to treating my patients," Mr Palmer said. "My staff and my patients support me, and they want me back. That's why I'm back."

The killing of Cecil in July prompted a global uproar, which Mr Palmer has claimed led to "some safety issues" for his family.

His clinic and his home in nearby Eden Prairie became the site of protests, and his holiday home in Florida was vandalised.

The 55-year-old is believed to have paid $50,000 (£32,000) to hunt a lion in Zimbabwe's largest game reserve, but he says he was unaware it was so famous.

"If I had known this lion had a name and was important to the country or a study obviously I wouldn't have taken it," Mr Palmer said. "Nobody in our hunting party knew before or after the name of this lion."

Cecil was well known in the Hwange National Park and was being tracked with a GPS collar as part of a research programme run by Oxford University.

The Zimbabwe's safari organisation has said the way in which Cecil was lured out of a national park was unethical and possibly illegal.

Initially, Zimbabwe sought to charge and extradite Mr Palmer, but the government's interest in him has waned in recent weeks.

The Associated Press news agency reported that government officials fear it could hamper a hunting industry that is lucrative and important for the country.

1.escorting 護送

2.clutched 抓住

3.demonstrator 示威者

4.trophy 戰利品

5. jostling 擠

6.fuss 小題大作

7.vandalised 破壞

8.safari 野生動物園

9.extradite 引渡

10.agency 機構

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/12/us-zimbabwe-wildlife-dentist-idUSKCN0S61G320151012

when-no

where-Zimbabwe

what -killing Cecil

who-Walter Palmer U.S. dentist

how-killing Cecil

why- the hunt was legal