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Интересные новости из Англии + урок английского языка Выпуск 85


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Интересные новости из Англии + урок английского языка

Выпуск 85 18 декабря 2006 г. описание форум архив e-mail

Sunday December 17, 2006

A good week for ...

Mel Gibson

Not-so-mad Mel has done it again - making a film, that is, which nobody thinks they'd like to see, which then storms to success at the box office. Apocalypto, his tale of Mayan life spoken entirely in ancient dialect, was last week's top earner at the US and Canadian box offices.

Winston Churchill

He's not just a pretty face (and much-loved war-time leader). The former Prime Minister is a massively collectable artist, too. One of his paintings was sold last week for £612,800.

A bad week for ...

Peter Willows

Whatever go-ahead Westminster Tories say, members like the 75-year-old councillor still hit the headlines for more, ahem, robust views. He equated homosexuality with paedophilia - re-education awaits him.

Evel Knievel

The daredevil racing driver, pictured, is trying to sue rapper Kanye West for trademark infringement. The musician posed as 'Evel Kanyevel' in a music video. Evel, please: look carefully and we're sure you'll find a sense of humour.

 


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15 December, 2006
 
Saudi deal probe dropped
 

Britain's attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, has announced that a fraud investigation into a multi-billion-pound arms deal with Saudi Arabia has been abandoned. According to British press reports, the Saudis had threatened to cancel the deal if the investigation had continued. Roger Hardy reports.

Few relationships are so highly regarded by successive British governments as that with Saudi Arabia. It's considered a moderate, pro-Western state in a turbulent region, an ally in what President Bush calls the "war on terror" and an important trading partner on which the British economy, and British jobs, depend.

Al Yamamah, which means 'the dove', is quite simply the biggest arms deal Britain has ever signed.

The trouble is that selling arms to this particular ally regularly involves 'commissions' - in plain language, bribes - to well-placed people including members of the Saudi ruling family.

British businessmen and diplomats know this and accept it, arguing that if they didn't get the contracts, they'd go to rivals such as the French.

In making his announcement, Lord Goldsmith pointedly claimed he was acting, not in Britain's commercial or economic interests, but to avoid damage to British security and British foreign policy in the Middle East.

That's unlikely to stop the government's critics from saying it's simply covering up corruption.

Roger Hardy, BBC News.

highly regarded
seen as very important

successive British governments
one government after another

moderate
reasonable, not extreme

turbulent
troubled, unstable

commissions
extra amounts of money paid to people or organisations according to the value of services they have provided

bribes
money or gifts given illegally to persuade people to do something

well-placed people
people who have a lot of power

rivals
firms they are competing with which want to do better than them

interests
benefits, gains

covering up corruption
hiding illegal or immoral behaviour, such as giving bribes

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