CNN 美国有线新闻 2014-12-07

搜索关注在线英语听力室公众号：tingroom，领取免费英语资料大礼包。

It's great to see all of you. Welcome to CNN Student News. First up, this December 4th, the Syrian town of Kobani. You've heard us mentioned it before. It's right by Syria's northern border with Turkey. It's been targeted for months by ISIS terrorist groups which controls a third of Iraq and Syria but ISIS hasn't been able to take total control of Kobani.  It's been hit by US led airstrikes. Americans and Syrian officials disagreed about whether theses airstrikes have been effective in stopping ISIS but the terrorists have also gotten strong resistance in Kobani by K. and other ethnic¹ groups. All this has taken its toll² in the border town.  Some areas are just hips³ of rubble⁴. Previously⁵, we could only show you fighting there from our journalists who were across the border in Turkey. Now, with the help of some of those who are fighting ISIS, we are able to show you what is like inside Kobani.

We've been taken down the street towards the eastern frontline behind those Kurds they've put up to protect them from snipers by B. and M. who 2 of the female YPG fighters escorting us down there. And this is near the eastern front where there's much more intense fighting in the past 3 or 4 days and we got different figures from whom you've speak to hear about quite how much of this city is controlled. You see here the quite remarkable⁶ devastation⁷ caused by the explosive used. What's quite clear is that ISIS are far from giving up on this fight. In fact, try to take ground everyday. They move across the official border across 3 or 4 days ago. That was a substantial advance they tried. They were beaten back but each night, particularly last night, we had very intense clashes further down this streets toward this eastern frontier. You can hear... You can see the absolute devastation here as we get closer towards ISIS's positions here to the northeast of the city. Some of those caused by airstrieks but some, too, from the daily constant. Sometimes, every 5 minutes .... ,some home made by ISIS. They've been pounded on Kobani for months now. We can see Turkey eventually just behind us but here they through this wreckage⁸,  closer and closer to the places ISIS are trying to push forwards.

分享到：