BBC新闻100篇 News Item 34-英语听力

[00:00.00]Most of the main opposition parties in Sudan [00:03.24]are withdrawing from all the elections this month [00:06.35]the first multi-party elections since 1986. [00:09.21]They won't take part because of concerns [00:12.32]about fraud and security. [00:14.06]On Wednesday, the presidential candidate [00:16.42]for the former southern rebels Yassir Arman pulled out. [00:19.22]President Obama's Special Envoy General Scott Gration [00:22.89]has been in Khartoum trying to save the elections. [00:25.57]James Copnall sent this report from Khartoum. [00:27.68]Several major opposition parties have announced [00:30.48]they will boycott the Sudanese elections at every level. [00:32.97]Earlier today, they told the BBC [00:35.02]they would boycott the presidential elections [00:36.95]in protest of what they believe will not be free and fair polls. [00:40.43]Now several of the parties have decided [00:42.80]not to compete in the parliamentary [00:44.41] or state elections either. [00:45.91]The decision strikes a real blow [00:47.96]at the credibility of elections [00:49.51]which were meant to hold the democratic transformation in Sudan.