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hey everyone Otis here with your Tuesday BBC news round

大家好，我是奥蒂斯，为您带来BBC周二新闻简报

don't go anywhere because we've got all this to come

别走开，接下来内容很精彩

the town hoping to get everyone reading comics

这座小镇正号召全民读漫画

meet the little dog with a very big job

来认识身负重任的小狗

and speaking of jobs

说到工作

we want to find out what you want to do

我们想知道你想做什么

when you're older

等你长大以后

we're starting

我们首先来看

with a big story in France

法国的一则重要新闻

where hundreds of schools were closed yesterday

昨天当地数百所学校停课

that's because

原因是

the French government thought

法国政府认为

it wouldn't be safe to open them

开学不安全

after protests about education sentence turned violent

此前教育相关抗议演变为暴力事件

it should equal with more on this story

接下来详细了解这起事件

crumbling walls

墙面坍塌

water dripping from ceilings

天花板漏水

rats running through the halls

走廊里老鼠乱窜

these are just some of the reasons

这些只是部分原因

that high school students

高中生们

across France

遍布全法的

are taken to the streets in their thousands

数千人走上街头抗议

the students say they're unhappy

学生们表示不满

about the poor conditions of school buildings

不满校舍条件恶劣

overcrowded classrooms and a shortage of teachers

教室拥挤，教师短缺

the protests started in a suburb of Paris

抗议始于巴黎的一个郊区

the capital city

也就是法国首都

but they soon spread right across the country

但很快蔓延至全国

buildings are like falling apart

校舍差不多要塌了

there's no nurse there's no differ

没有护士，人手不足

we have cockroaches

还有蟑螂

crawling around the classrooms and corridors

在教室和走廊爬来爬去

as well as rats

还有老鼠

while many students say they're protesting peacefully

很多学生称他们是和平抗议

some demonstrations have become violent

但部分示威演变为暴力事件

fireworks have been set off

有人燃放烟花

and there have been clashes with police

还和警方发生冲突

some students as well as school staff have been injured

部分学生和教职工受伤

and school buildings are damaged

校舍也遭到损坏

thousands of people have been arrested

数千人被逮捕

the government says

政府表示

the student protesters

参与抗议的学生中

have been joined by other people

混入了其他社会人员

who don't go to the schools

这些人不是学生

but who've become violent

但他们使用暴力

and taken over some demonstrations

还掌控了部分示威活动

French Prime Minister Sebastian Lecorgneu

法国总理塞巴斯蒂安·勒科尔尼

said his government

称其政府

would do more to address the difficulties

将采取更多措施解决难题

faced by high school students and educational staff

高中生和教育工作者面临的难题

BBC's James Waterhouse

BBC记者詹姆斯·沃特豪斯

has been following the events in France

一直在追踪法国的近况

and he shared this with us

他给我们带来了相关报道

the students here argue

当地学生表示

that their classrooms aren't very good

他们的教室条件很差

that they're chairs and tables

配套的桌椅

are very old and need replacing and there's a shortage

老化待换，同时还有

of teachers

教师缺口

they feel that their schools get less money

他们认为学校获得的拨款

compared with richer schools closer inside cities

远低于巴黎等城市的富裕学校

like Paris the government says

法国政府表示

these students have a right to protest under French law

根据法国法律，学生有权抗议

but what they can't do

但他们不得

they argue is blockade schools

封锁学校

which we've seen with the use of wheelie bins

目前已有学生用垃圾桶堵校门

some fires have been set in some areas

部分地区还出现了纵火事件

government ministers say that is irresponsible

政府官员称这种行为不负责任

but as you can see these demonstrations aren't

但目前这些抗议活动并没有

calming down

平息的迹象

people really want to see change and in 6 months time

民众迫切希望改革，半年后

France will elect a new