Bush Visit to London Prompts Demonstrations

ANCHOR
As President Bush's visit continues, organizers are bracing for a huge demonstration in London's Trafalgar Square this Thursday. Protesters denouncing the war in Iraq say they plan to be out in force. Now as Christiane Amanpour now reports, despite tight security, the protests have already begun.

CORRESPONDENT
It was billed as the alternative state procession. Since the U.S. Secret Service decided that President Bush should forgo the traditional carriage ride with the Queen, demonstrators dressed up as look-alikes and took their own horse-drawn buggy through the streets of London. It was all designed to be light-hearted: Kids peaked out of the front of a pink tank fashioned out of wood.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE
Please stay out of the security bubble. We'll have to deploy our nuclear weapons.

CORRESPONDENT
Jokes aside, this visit comes with unprecedented security. Fourteen thousand police deployed in central London throughout the 3-day state visit, concrete barriers, metal detectors and rooftop marksmen. Still, a journalist from a British tabloid managed to infiltrate Buckingham Palace and pose as a footman. The Queen has demanded a full investigation.

London is ranked high on Al Qaeda's list of targets since September 11, though Scotland Yard says it's received no specific threat against President Bush. But the President is unpopular amongst many Britons, an object of scorn and caricature, a target for those uncomfortable with what's perceived as unilateral foreign policy, one that has war as its central platform.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE
I want to stand up and be counted because I so deeply disapprove of what we have done to Iraq.

CORRESPONDENT
But polls show the British are overwhelmingly pro-American and treasure the alliance. We're not anti-American, they say, we're anti-Bush.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE
Bush has squandered. You know, after September the 11th, he had the world's sympathy, anything, and it's just been squandered, squandered.

CORRESPONDENT
Many complain the Bush administration has snubbed international treaties, such as pulling out of the Kyoto Climate Accord. Even Prime Minister Blair's wife, a prominent lawyer, this week criticized Bush for pulling the U.S. out of the International Criminal Court. The protestors are being kept well away from President Bush and he's unlikely to see any of them.

布什访英遭遇抗议

主播
当布什总统继续他的访问行程时，组织者正在准备应对本周四在伦敦特拉法尔加广场的一场大规模示威。公开谴责伊拉克战争的抗议者说，他们计划出动大批人马。据克里斯汀•阿曼保尔报道，尽管采取了严密的安全措施，现在抗议活动已经展开。

记者
示威被安排成标新立异的“正式”游行队伍。由于美国特工处决定应该取消布什总统与女王同乘马车这一传统项目，示威者便装扮成相似的人物，乘上他们自己的双轮马车穿行在伦敦街道上。整个设计都很轻松随意：孩子们站在一辆木制粉红坦克的前端。

女被访者
请站在安全警戒线以外。我们必须部署我们的核武器。

记者
有关此次访问活动，除了开玩笑之外，还采取了史无前例的安全措施。在为期3天的国事访问期间，1万4千名警察被调往伦敦市中心，并安置了混凝土路障、金属探测器和（隐藏在）屋顶的射手。尽管如此，一家英国小报的一名记者还是设法溜进了白金汉宫，假装成一个男仆。女王已下令全面调查此事。尽管伦敦警方称没有获悉明确针对布什总统的威胁，但自从9•11事件以来，伦敦在“基地”组织要袭击的目标名单上就一直首当其冲。然而布什总统在许多英国人当中并不受欢迎。布什的单边外交政策把战争视为其核心平台，那些不赞同的人便把他当成了嘲讽的对象。

女被访者
我想站出来，也算我一个，因为我是如此强烈地反对我们在伊拉克的所作所为。

记者
但民意测验表明，英国人压倒性地亲美，珍惜这个联盟。他们说，我们不反美，我们反对布什。

女被访者
布什浪费。你知道，9•11之后，他得到了全世界的同情，得到了任何东西，但是都被浪费掉了。

记者
很多人抱怨布什政府拒不执行国际条约，如退出《京都议定书》。就连身为名律师的布莱尔首相的夫人，本周也批评布什使美国撤离国际刑事法庭。抗议者被与布什总统远远地隔离开，他将不会看到他们当中的任何人。

注释：
1．Brace vi. 作好防备
2．bill vt. 安排……的演出（或放映）；安排，预定
3．forgo vt. 作罢，放弃
4．tabloid n. 小报
5．scorn n. 轻蔑，嘲笑
6．disapprove vi. 不赞成
7．Squander v. 浪费，滥用
8．Snub vt. 故意怠慢，断然拒绝