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The Deputy Opposition Leader is playing down an internal rift that called Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership into question. The outspoken Coalition MP Wilson Tuckey has branded that the opposition leader is arrogant and inexperienced, after he offered the government conditional support for his proposed emission’s training scheme. Mr. Turnbull isn’t commenting on the attack, but his deputy Julie Bishop says Mr. Tuckey’s comments don’t reflect this unity.

More than six people have died and four are missing in the wave of landslides in western Japan. The area has been hit by torrential rain. Most of the dead were residents of nursing home that was partly buried by mud and rocks.

The future of Washington DC’s Watergate Hotel is in doubt after it failed to attract any bids at auction. The conflicts made famous by burglary that led to the President Richard Nixon's resignation went on the market after its owners defaulted on a loan. Bidding opened at twenty five million US dollars. There were no takers but auctioneers are still hoping to raise interest from a private buyer.

And hundreds of millions of people across Asian are about to witness the longest solar eclipse of the century. Residents in China, India, Nepal and Bangladesh will see the moon block rays from the sun for more than six minutes.

We will have more news later.

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• Pronunciation
• Simple Meaning

• play down
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• 淡化

• rift
•  
• A rift between people or countries is a serious quarrel or disagreement that stops them having a good relationship.

• outspoken
•  
• Someone who is outspoken gives their opinions about things openly and honestly, even if they are likely to shock or offend people.

• brand
•  
• to describe sb as being sth bad or unpleasant, especially unfairly

• arrogant
• /ˈærəɡənt/
• Someone who is arrogant behaves in a proud, unpleasant way towards other people because they believe that they are more important than others.

• propose
•  
• If you propose something such as a plan or an idea, you suggest it for people to think about and decide upon.

• unity
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• Unity is the state of different areas or groups being joined together to form a single country or organization.

• landslides
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• A landslide is a large amount of earth and rocks falling down a cliff or the side of a mountain.

• torrential
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• Torrential rain pours down very rapidly and in great quantities.

• nursing home
•  
• 养老院

• bid
• [bid]
• A bid is an offer to pay a particular amount of money for something that is being sold.

• auction
•  
• An auction is a public sale where goods are sold to the person who offers the highest price.

• burglary
• /ˈbɜːɡləri/
• If someone commits a burglary, they enter a building by force and steal things. Burglary is the act of doing this.
  

• resignation
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• 辞职

• defaulte on
•  
• If a person, company, or country defaults on something that they have legally agreed to do, such as paying some money or doing a piece of work before a particular time, they fail to do it.

• solar eclipse
• /ˈsəʊlə(r)/  /ɪˈklɪps/
• 日食

• The Deputy Opposition Leader
•  
• 副反对党领袖

• Coalition MP
•  
• 联合政府议员

• Watergate Hotel
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• http://the-watergate-hotel.visit-washington-dc.com/

• Nepal
•  
• 尼泊尔

• Bangladesh
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• 孟加拉共和国

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