CNN Student News 받아적기 (10.28 )
- ENGLISH
- 2011. 10. 30.
First up, A good day for the stock market, not just the U.S.one, markets in Japan, China, Germany, France did well
when stocks go up, Usually It means investors are feeling positive.
Experts think a big reason for yesterday's positivity was a deal over Europe's debt crisis.
After a marathon of talks, EU leaders came to agreement on how to tackle three related problems.
First, Greece's debt will be reduced.
Second, they found ways to increase the power of a bailout fund.
Third, they are making new rules to help make Europe's banks stronger.
So, why are other markets reacting well to this deal? Remember what we said yesterday.
Different economies are connected, so if the crisis in Europe has gotten worse, it could have had an impact worldwide.
This deal hopefully indicates that won't happen.
Next up, we are heading to southeast asia to the country of Thiland. Its capital city Bangkok, home to millons of people and many of them are daeling with this : Massive flooding
Thai's officials say it's the worst to hit thier country in half a century.
Homes are flooded. people's belongings destroyed. we are talking about billions of dollars in damages.
Experts thought that most of the Bankok could end up under flood waters yesterday.
It might take more than a month before these waters go back down in some areas.
Thailand's government declared five holidays starting yesterday, a lot of people used that as a reason to get out of Bangkok.
Sera sidner is there. She has more on the evacuation efforts.
Reporter:
We are in northen Bankok and what you are seeing right now is the road, the road to the north, that's now a river.
What's happening here is that the army is going and helping to get people to safety.
and you are seeing truckloads of people coming from areas that have been inundated with water.
but, What's also happening here is that people are trying to figure out just how far this water is gonna go into town.
So far, 9.5 million people in Thiland have been affected by these floods and there have been hundreds of people killed so far.
This water was supposed to crest in the next few days.
There is a great concern that it will make it all the way in to the business district which will further hurt the economy here.
On this day in history.
Back in 1636, Havard college was found in Massachusetts that means the shool is 375 years old today
In 1886, The statue of liberty was dedicated in New York harbor, The famous landmark was a gift of friendship from French to the U.S.
In 1919, U.S congress pass the act that enforced 18th amendments which made it illegal to make or sell an alcohol.
In 1962, The cuban missile crisis came to an end. It was a tense standoff between the U.S and the Soviet Uniont that could have caused a nuclear conflict.
Jim has a report on another historic event, It hasn't happend yet but it's coming in a few days.
According to estimates from the U.N. this coming Monday, the world population will hit 7 billion.
With more and more people, there are some concerns about whether there are enough resources to go around.
Reporter:
October 31, 2011, that's the date, the U.N says, 7 billion person will be born on an earth. That's a crowded planet.
It took only 12 years to go from 6 billion to 7 billion.
and it's expected to take maybe another 14 years to go to 8 billion so that the trajecotry is still rising quickly.
All those people mean more demands for food, more stresses on the land and more loss of water.
But that's not the biggest problem.
The big problem is that in the poorest countries.
Families are still having six, seven or eight children.
That's what putting this tremendous growth of population continuing.
because in the high income countries fertility rates have come down to 2 children on average or even less.
This map shows you birthrates across the world.
Mulifle births about five are cenetered in Africa. Most lowered birth rates are in develop countries.
Dr. sach says, rapid population growth in poor countries often creates conflicts and political stress at borders.
and On top of that, cultural values and available healthcare in developing countries creates a barriers on proper control.
So Lions , Tigers , and sharks, those are examples of Apex's predators. but it turns out shark populations are actually decreasing.
When you take away an Apex pradators, it can affect the rest of that food chain. Larson looks at some of the potential ripple affects and explains why the ocean's top pradators have become prey.
Reporter:
Shark populations are crashing around the world. Millions die by finning to feed the growing demand for sharks fin soup in Asia.
Roughly a third of all sharks and ray species face some threat of extinction. Without them the marine food web could start to unravel.
Marine biologist is on a mission to protect sharks. We met up in the Bahamas.
Actually, the marina that we`re in right now was one of the first shark-free marinas in Bahamas.
Sharks are an Apex pradator which means they are at the very top of the marine food chain.
They grow slowly and mature late and produce few young making them vulneralbe to the overfising.
We are supposed to have certain number of sharks to be out of control able to control all of these animals which are blow them. So what we do is we take out that apex and we allow
a lot of other fish to breed underneath them. they basically annihilate everything below them, that leads to trophic collapse which means we don't have a heathy ocean systems and we won't be able to pull food or product from there anymore.
The bahamas ban commersial shark fising and that's helped lure more divers and tourist dollars to the islands.
We jumped in to see some sharks up close.
Can animals sue? That is one question about a lawsuit filed on behalf of 5 orcas or killer whales.
Peta is sueing sea world on behalf of the whales for slavery. How?
Take a look at the 13 amendments. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime . shall exist within the United States.
It doesn't say humans, persons or people. It says parties.
So peta says this applies to animals too, because the whales are taken from their natural habitat and forced to work for the seaworld, making animals involuntary servants.
Sea worlds calls the lawsuit offensive and a publicity stunt. it says it follows all government's and stat's laws
regarding the treatment of its animals and gives them best care and contributes to conservation.
we don't know what the court is gonna say about this but you can say what you think at cnn studentnews.com.
Finally, When I say the word 'interactive, what's the first thing you think of?
A museum exhibit, obviously. Well, at least this one. A three story slide sticking your head inside some kind of tank.
glasses that can turn entire thing upside down.
If it gets too exhusting you can lay down to relax, or maybe take a sit on this giant carousel. Definately, a different take on visiting a museum.
It is supposed to be art. Does this exibit qualified as art? sometimes, we just have to judge these things on a sliding scale. We've reached the end of the our show. we'll spend the week cavassing for headlines and have them ready for you.
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