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发表于1分钟前回复 :带领观众深入了解飓风卡崔娜,为墨西哥湾沿岸地区的人口、经济与地形所带来的重创。飓风威力果真愈演愈烈?卡崔娜又是如何形成?节目将探索飓风卡崔娜的生命周期,并以特殊的角度,带您认识美国史上死伤最多、损失最惨重的天灾。节目中还将穿插现场报导,并访问美国联邦急难管理总署(FEMA)在内的联邦与州政府官员,以及路易斯安那州、密西西比州与佛罗里达州的生还者。心力交瘁的他们如今极需水、食物与医药等救援物资。节目将从2005年8月29日的凌晨时分开始记录,当时迈阿密国家飓风中心的科学家设法追踪风暴路径,预测飓风的登陆时间与地点。当卡崔娜横扫沿岸,科学家记述了罕见5级飓风背后的自然因素,以及卡崔娜特别惊人致命的原因。节目焦点放在「风暴潮」的现象,还有当风暴仍在几百哩外的海上,一项测量飓风破坏潜力的先进科技,间接促使了有关当局发出史无前例的疏散命令,及时拯救几千条人命。除了记录飓风卡崔娜在墨西哥湾的破坏路径,节目中还将解释,何以纽奥良并未直接遭受飓风袭击,但该市的地形却使得它受创极深。墨西哥湾沿岸大部分地区如今因为飓风卡崔娜的摧残而陷入瘫痪,形成美国史上最严重的天灾之一,布希总统在飞越该区视察后,警告复原工作恐将耗时多年。《夺命飓风:剖析卡崔娜》也将从历史角度探究,何以许多科学家认为我们正进入飓风活跃期,像卡崔娜这样的强烈风暴日后将越来越常见。
尹子维
发表于7分钟前回复 :After four decades of reporting from the continent, Jonathan Dimbleby returns to Africa on a 7,000-mile journey to discover how it is changing.【Mali, Ghana and Nigeria】He starts his African journey in the capital of Mali, Bamako, the fastest-growing African city. Following the course of the Niger river, Dimbleby finds not a continent of beggars but of industrious people, some of whom go to extraordinary lengths to make a living, free-diving 20 feet to excavate building sand.Travelling north-east, he sees how tradition is preserved in an area where a sophisticated urban society has thrived for 1600 years. Jonathan gets his hands dirty as the apprentice of a 74-year-old mud mason in Djenne, a town built entirely of mud.In Ghana, one of Africa's freest and most stable countries, Jonathan sees a spectacular festival before playing a game of golf with the King of the Ashanti, who recalls his time working for Brent council. Dimbleby attends the King's court to see what lessons the UK can draw from traditional African structures that promote harmony and reconciliation.Jonathan discovers that the African brain drain is turning into a brain gain as economic opportunity and patriotism draw people home. Football unites Ghana like nothing else, superseding political and tribal divisions. There is a rich seam of young football talent on the continent in the year that the World Cup is hosted by an African nation for the first time.In Lagos, Nigeria's business capital, Jonathan Dimbleby sees a different take on a city that is often depicted as a hotbed of violence, crime and corruption. He is taken on a private jet by Africa's richest man, then savours the creative talents of two of African music's rising stars who are helping to cement Lagos's place as the continent's cultural hub.【Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania】On the second leg of his illuminating journey across Africa, Jonathan Dimbleby travels 2000 miles through East Africa's Rift Valley.Starting in Ethiopia, where he was the first journalist to report the 1973 famine, Dimbleby discovers the great strides being made to safeguard the country from future catastrophes.In Kenya he finds out how mobile phones are revolutionising small businesses and even the lives of Masai tribes.In Tanzania he joins in a football match with the judges and guards of Africa's own Human Rights Commission and meets the street kids in Dar-es-Salaam who are building an international profile for their music.【Congo, South Africa and Zambia】On the final leg of his 7,000-mile odyssey, Jonathan Dimbleby travels from Congo to Durban in search of the stories revealing contemporary Africa.He learns how China's billion-dollar deals have rebooted African economies, once dependent on Western aid and investment.Passing through Zambia, Jonathan survives a training session with boxing world champion Esther Phiri and meets Hugh Masekela, who shares with him his view of Africa's emerging revival.