week4-Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash: what we know

10:50 a.m. EDT July 21, 2014

All 298 people aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 were killed when the airliner crashed Thursday in eastern Ukraine at Russia's border.

As the investigation unfolds, USA TODAY Network rounds up what we know and the questions left unanswered.

What happened?

The United States says a surface-to-air missile took down the jet. The Boeing 777 was flying over Ukraine's war-torn Donetsk region, the site of fighting between Ukraine and pro-Russian Ukrainian separatists.

Vice President Biden said the crash was "not an accident. It was blown out of the sky." Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk called the attack an "international crime." President Obama called it a "global tragedy."

Who took down the jetliner?

The Pentagon said Friday it is unlikely that pro-Russian separatists in east Ukrainecould obtain or operate the sophisticated missile system allegedly used to shoot down the Malaysia Airlines plane without Russian help.

The Pentagon says there is strong evidence the missile, a SA-11, was fired by Russian-backed separatists since the missile was fired from an area controlled by rebels.

The Obama administration said preliminary evidence suggests the aircraft was hit by a surface-to-air missile. Ukraine's government says the jetliner was shot down by a Russian aircraft.

Who was on board the flight?

The jetliner was carrying 298 people, including 80 children. The victims came from 11 countries. They included an acclaimed AIDS researcher from Amsterdam, a nun and teacher from Sydney, a Dutch senator, a Malaysian actress and a World Health Organization spokesman.

In a briefing Friday, President Obama said one American citizen was killed. Quinn Lucas Schansman was a dual citizen of the United States and The Netherlands, according to State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki.

What does the investigation look like so far?

World leaders demanded Friday that pro-Russia rebels who control the crash site give immediate, unfettered access to independent investigators to determine who took down the plane.

About 30 officials, mostly from the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe, arrived at the crash site. The rebels allowed the officials to carry out a partial and superficial inspection.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Saturday warned that any party that tries to block access to or contaminate the crash site is "no friend of justice" and "no friend of peace."

"Australia takes a very dim view of countries which facilitate the killing of Australians. The idea that Russia can wash its hands of responsibility because this happened in Ukrainian airspace just does not stand up to serious scrutiny. We all know what's happening in the Ukraine," he said.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/07/18/malaysian-airlines-mh17-crash/12825433/

Structure of the Lead：

WHO-All 298 people aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 

WHEN-Thursday

WHAT- airplane crashed

WHY-shoot down by Ukraine

WHERE-Ukraine

HOW-not given

Keywords：

1.missile:發射物

2.sophisticated :複雜的

3.preliminary :初步的

Week3-Anti-China Riots in Vietnam Leave at Least 21 Dead

• Per Liljas
 

May 15, 2014

Protests against China's territorial ambitions in the South China Sea have spread to central Vietnam, where more factories have been torched. Hundreds of ethnic Chinese have fled the country

At least 21 people were killed as anti-China riots in southern Vietnam escalated and spread to the center of the country on Thursday.

A doctor in Ha Tinh province described five of the dead as Vietnamese workers and others as Chinese. He said they were among roughly 100 people sent to his hospital, Reuters reports. Over 600 Chinese have fled across the border to Cambodia.

The riots erupted following a large-scale demonstration on Tuesday to protest China’s May 1 deployment of an oil rig in waters claimed by both Beijing and Hanoi, triggering the most critical stand-off between the two countries in over three decades.

Rioters have torched and vandalized dozens of foreign-owned factories, mistaking them for Chinese enterprises. On Wednesday, they attacked a $20 billion Taiwanese-owned steel plant set to be the largest in Southeast Asia once it is completed in 2020.

About 600 people have been arrested for looting and inciting the crowd in Binh Duong province, where the riots started, state-run Thanh Nien newspaper quoted the local police chief as saying.

An editorial in the Beijing-friendly Global Times said that Vietnam had “cornered itself” and pointed out that demonstrators during similar outbursts of nationalist fervor in China — such as the anti-Japan demonstrations of 2012 — were more restrained. (However, Japanese automakers lost an estimated $250 million in output during the protests over the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu islands.)

Vietnamese and Philippine hopes of a united regional stance in the face of Chinese assertiveness were meanwhile dashed as Southeast Asian leaders failed to agree on a joint statement during the ASEAN summit last weekend. Hanoi and Manila are the most embroiled in territorial conflicts with China in the South China Sea, but face opposition from neighboring countries with precious economic ties to Beijing.

The United States has called on both sides to show restraint, with White House spokesman Jay Carney telling a regular briefing that this kind of dispute needs “to be resolved through dialogue, not through intimidation.”


http://time.com/100492/vietnam-anti-china-riots-21-dead/


 Structure of the Lead：

WHO-At least 21 people
WHEN-Thursday
WHAT-At least 21 people were killed as anti-China riots in southern Vietnam
WHY-Protests against China's territorial ambitions in the South China Sea have spread to central Vietnam

WHERE-anti-China riots in southern Vietnam
HOW-not given

Keywords：
1.erupt:爆發
2. escalate:逐步增強
3.vandalize:摧毀
4.assertiveness:斷言
5.embroil:使捲入
6.restraint:克制
7. intimidation:恐嚇