2月6日，一场百年难遇的暴风雪席卷包括首都华盛顿在内的美国中大西洋地区，造成交通瘫痪，人们出行严重受阻。虽然暴风雪给人们出行带来了很多不便，但也有不少人苦中作乐，享受到了大雪的乐趣。上图为一男子在宪法大街上滑雪。
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Some of the heaviest snowstorms for decades have struck the eastern United States, paralyzing air and road transport and bring in large parts of the capital Washington to a standstill. Power lines are down across a wide area, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without electricity. All flights out of Washington's national airport have been canceled, along with most flights out of the main international airport in Virginia State. The Governors of Virginia Maryland and Delaware have declared states of emergency. Weather officials are advising people to prepare to stay at home for up to five days. Imtiaz Tyab reports.
Although the snow is still falling, the hard work of crewing it is already underway. Workers have taken to the streets to begin the backbreaking task of digging up the capital despite the fetch weather forecast have said an additional 5 centimeters of snow will be added to the already 30 on the ground every hour. The US media have jokingly doubt the storm who likely to be the worst in 90 years. The snow megaton I wonder the snowstorm has shown no sign of slowing down. Government officials are already trying to figure out how to pay for the cleanup.
The Head of the United Nations Nuclear Agency Yukiya Amano has called for dialogue on Iran's nuclear program to be accelerated after talks with the Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki. The United States, Britain and Germany have all expressed skepticism about comments by Mr.Mottaki on Friday. But Iran was very close to agree in a deal to send its uranium abroad in exchange for enriched nuclear fuel. Our Defense and Security correspondent Nick Childs reports from Munich.
There was certain a flory excitement here in Munich when Iran's Foreign Minister talked of nuclear deal being closed. But still no sign of anything new in terms of substance in the standoff. Even though, between them, the IAEA Chief and the Foreign Minister said their latest talks here had been good and interesting. The Head of the UN Watchdog insisted as far as he was concerned dialogue is continuing. All these things rightly to reinforce western skepticism are believe that Iran is playing for time to trying to deflate the push for tougher UN sanctions.
Voting has officially ended in the southeast Nigerian state of Anambra after an election marked by angry things and long delays. Many polling stations opened hours later and there were confrontations as voters discovered their names were not on the electoral register. Caroline Duffield reports from Lagos.
In polling station after polling station, voters discovered their names had not been properly registered by the authorities. Some registers had only two or four names on then. At Arama Junction War, there were reports of angry crowds forcing officials to write down their names before casting votes. At polling station 14, in a naturally government local area, BBC reporter saw a crowd of 15-20 young men burst in and steal the ballot box. That happened in front of unarmed police officers.
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The Finance Ministers of the world's major industrialized countries, say their commit to canceling their bilateral debts to Haiti in the week of the devastating earthquake. The G7 countries also said they would continue to work towards more general international debt relief to Haiti. Before the earthquake, much of Haiti's debt of 1.2 billion dollars was canceled.
Police in Portugal are continuing to carry out controlled detonations to destroy half of ton of explosives which they found are housing in western Portugal on Friday. Police found the cash after launching a search for two suspects in a van who had fled from a checkpoint near the town of Obidos. Alison Roberts reports from Lisbon.
The half ton cache explosives that housing in Obidos in western Portugal is one of the largest such founds outside Spain and first in Portugal. Police said it points to ETA using bases in the country to organize bombings in Spain. The two suspects linked with the house remained at large, possibly police said wait to a converses. Police said the house had recently received many vistors suggesting a broad ETA structure in Portugal.
The Palestinian Hamas Movement has denied apologizing for the death of Israeli civilians during the Gaza conflict last year. Hamas said in a report to the United Nations on Wednesday that it regretted harm to Israeli civilians, but it said this didn't amount to an apology and Israel had caused the violence by attacking Palestinians. The report was part of the Palestinian response to a UN inquiry that accused both Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes during the conflict.
The South African President Jacob Zuma has made an apology for fathering the child of a woman to whom he was not married. In a statement, Mr.Zuma said he deeply regretted the pain he had caused to his family and to the African National Congress and he reaffirmed his commitment to the family as an institution. Mr.Zuma is a Zulu traditionalist who believed in polygamy and has three wives. The child born last year is Mr.Zuma's 20th.
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