BBC xin wen 100 pian News Item 61

Song BBC新闻100篇 News Item 61
Artist 英语听力
Album BBC新闻100篇

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[00:00.00] A day of commemorations will begin in Poland
[00:04.80] shortly to mark the 70th anniversary
[00:07.14] of the outbreak of the 2nd World War.
[00:09.08] The first ceremony will take place at dawn
[00:11.57] on the Westerplatte peninsula near Gdansk.
[00:14.01] Greg Morsbach reports.
[00:15.89] 70 years ago to the day,
[00:18.13] the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein
[00:20.62] opened fire on a Polish military
[00:22.97] outpost in the Baltic peninsula.
[00:24.95] This heralded the start of the Second World War,
[00:28.05] a conflict that claimed more than 50 million lives.
[00:31.26] 70 years old leaders and top officials from nations
[00:34.27] such as Germany, Italy, Ukraine, France, the U.S.,
[00:38.39] Russia and Poland are reattending a series of ceremonies
[00:41.95] on the Polish coast.
[00:43.12] Moscow is sending a top-level delegation
[00:45.96] with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
[00:47.79] scheduled to deliver a speech
[00:49.73] commemorating the event seven decades ago.