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Hello, I'm David Harper with the BBC News. Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of the late American financier and convicted pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein, has been refused bail after pleading not guilty to charges that she helped him to abuse underage girls. A full trial is set for July next year. Nada Twafic reports from New York. Jeffrey Epstein's alleged co-conspirator appeared via video link in court from a small white room. Stripped of her privilege in a brown prison top with her hair tied back, she sat mostly expressionless during the hearing, which lasted for more than two hours. But the moment the judge announced that bail would be denied, Ghislaine Maxwell, hung her head and used her finger to wipe under her eye. She had hoped to be released and stay in a luxury hotel until her trial. Instead, she'll remain heavily guarded at a prison in Brooklyn.

大家好，我是大卫·哈珀，欢迎收听BBC 新闻。美国已故金融家、已被定罪的恋童癖杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的前女友吉斯兰·马克斯韦尔对帮助他虐待未成年女孩的指控表示无罪，但被拒绝保释。全面审判将于明年7月进行。请听娜达·托菲克在纽约的报道。她被认为是杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的同谋，在一个白色小房间里通过视频连接出庭。她被剥夺了特权，穿着一件棕色的囚服，头发束在脑后，几乎面无表情地坐在那里，听证会持续了两个多小时。但就在法官宣布拒绝保释的那一刻，吉斯兰·马克斯韦尔低下了头，用手指擦拭了眼角下的泪水。她曾希望被保释并住进豪华酒店直到审判。然而事实相反，她将继续被严密看守在布鲁克林的一所监狱里。

A new study published in the Lancet magazine predicts that the world's population will reach only 9 billion by the end of this century, or about 2 billion people fewer than the total predicted by UN projections. The current global population is nearly 8 billion. Ian McWilliam has more. The study by the University of Washington concludes that most countries in the world will have declining populations by the year 2100. The number of people in China, Japan and a score of other countries will be half of what they are now, it says. While India is predicted to have a somewhat smaller population, though still over a billion. Sub-Saharan Africa will triple in size to 3 billion with Nigeria by far the most populous African country. The study describes a smaller overall population increase to decline in female fertility as women become more educated. Ian McWilliam reporting.

发表在《柳叶刀》杂志上的一项新研究预测，到本世纪末，世界人口将达到90亿，比联合国预测的人口总数少约20亿。目前全球人口接近80亿。请听伊恩·麦克威廉的报道。华盛顿大学的研究得出结论，到2100年，世界上大多数国家的人口将会下降。报告指出，中国、日本和其他一些国家的人口数量将是现在的一半。虽然印度的人口预计要减少一些，但仍超过10亿。撒哈拉以南非洲的人口将增加两倍，达到30亿人，其中尼日利亚是目前为止非洲人口最多的国家。该研究称，随着女性受教育程度的提高，女性生育率下降，导致总体人口增长幅度较小。伊恩·麦克威廉报道。

The Vice President of Venezuela Delcy Rodriguez has announced a total lockdown of the capital Caracas and neighboring Miranda state to control the spread of coronavirus. The measures come into effect on Wednesday. Lower levels of the disease have been recorded in Venezuela than in other South American countries. But Miss Rodriguez said the government was taking action to protect the population and cut the chain of contagion.

委内瑞拉副总统德尔茜·罗德里格斯宣布全面封锁首都加拉加斯和邻近的米兰达州，以控制冠状病毒的传播。这些措施将于周三生效。与其他南美国家相比，委内瑞拉的病例要少得多。但罗德里格斯表示，政府正在采取措施保护居民，切断传染链。

The leading US infectious diseases expert Anthony S. Fauci has said he expects daily deaths from the coronavirus outbreak in America to rise again, but not to the levels seen during the first phase of the pandemic. He attributed this to the lower age of those infected. If you look at the age range of the individuals who are getting infected now, as opposed to early on, a few months ago, it's about a decade to a decade and a half younger. So even if young people, which some do get sick enough to get hospitalized, it is highly unlikely that the death rate among them are gonna be at the level of the death rate of what we saw in the real core of the explosion that we saw in the northeastern part of the country. BBC News.

美国传染病专家安东尼·福奇表示，他预计美国冠状病毒日死亡人数将再次上升，但不会达到疫情第一阶段的水平。他将此归因于受感染人群的年龄较低。现在感染的人的年龄范围和几个月前相比，大约年轻了10到15岁。即使年轻人感染严重而住院，他们的死亡率也不可能达到美国东北部核心暴发地的水平。BBC新闻。

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