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Hello, guys, Leah and Sonali taking care of things at Newsround today. | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
We know you are busy with your summer holidays but stick with us | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
for a few minutes and we'll give you this. The firefighters battling | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
to save the countryside and the chimp. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
Tanks and troops have been attacking anti-government | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
protesters in some of the most serious violence since | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
demonstrations started in Syria back in March. More than 100 people | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
are reported to have been killed in the city of Hama. Demonstrations | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
have been going on for months, but it's hard to tell exactly what is | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
going on because foreign journalists aren't allowed in. Some | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
of the pictures were filmed on mobile phones by people living | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
there. The American President, Barack Obama, is appalled by the | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
violence used by the Syrian government against protesters in | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
countries including the UK have had an emergency meeting at the UN to | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
discuss what to do about it. Next, we are talking wildfires. | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
They are often sparked by hot dry weather. In Dorset, fire crews have | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
been setting them on purpose. Here is why. | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
This was the Dorset countryside two months ago. A massive area of heath | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
land home to rare plants and animals was destroyed and people | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
living nearby had to leave their homes. | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
It was so bad that everyone decided drastic action was needed. It might | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
seem bizarre that these guys set fire to the countryside | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
deliberately, but they hope this will help them understand the | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
nature of fire so when it does happen for real, they'll be better | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
prepared. Wildfires can move quickly and | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
without warning so an operation like this takes lots of planning. | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
The heath is home to lots of animals and they have to be removed | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
to keep them safe. We have caught quite a few common | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
lizards, slow worms and a female adder. We had to put in an effort | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
to get as many animals off the plots that are being burned as | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
possible. Once the animals are taken care of, paths are put in to | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
stop the fires from spreading. Fire crews were on stand-by in case the | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
flames got fout of control. We have had some really big fires and we | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
are aiming to improve our tactics to look at how the fire behaves, | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
how the flames move, how the smoke moves and how the fire spreads. | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
Getting water to remote areas is difficult and so the crews are also | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
testing new techniques. Spraying this foam on the plants stops them | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
from catching fire which prevents the blaze from spreading. | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
Although the burn lasts just a few minutes, it's given researchers | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
value yoobl information to work with and before we go, there's one | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
last job, putting the animals back with they belong -- valuable | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
information. It's been a great few weeks if you are an England cricket | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
fan. The lads are on the verge of winning their sect test against | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
India. They were set a world record victory target of 478 which was | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
always going to be tough but they've been reduced to 143 for 8 | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
with India's star batsman, 10-10 ten, being taken out by Jimmy | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
Andersen again. He got half a century though. | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
-- India's star batsman, sach Tendulkar. This is the volcano's | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
fourth and biggest eruption in a month with lava fountains as high | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
as 500 metres. Last up, to the tiger cub who is have an unlikely | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
babysitter. They do. The chimp. He was trained to feed the cubs with a | :03:50. | :03:55. |