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Hi, everyone, Ricky here with all your news this | 0:00:18 | 0:00:20 | |
Thursday afternoon. | 0:00:20 | 0:00:21 | |
First up, a rocket has exploded at the launch pad at | 0:00:21 | 0:00:23 | |
the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:25 | |
The company say no-one has been hurt but we don't know | 0:00:25 | 0:00:28 | |
why the blast happened. | 0:00:28 | 0:00:29 | |
Smoke is still coming from the site and the blast shook | 0:00:29 | 0:00:30 | |
buildings several miles away. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:32 | |
Nasa say SpaceX were planning to use the rocket to take a satellite | 0:00:32 | 0:00:35 | |
into space this weekend, but the satellite | 0:00:35 | 0:00:37 | |
has been destroyed. | 0:00:37 | 0:00:42 | |
Next, over to these incredible mammals and the uncertain | 0:00:42 | 0:00:44 | |
future they face. | 0:00:44 | 0:00:46 | |
In the last seven years, 30% of Africa's elephants | 0:00:46 | 0:00:48 | |
have disappeared. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:49 | |
Every year, it's thought around 30,000 are lost - | 0:00:49 | 0:00:51 | |
many of them killed for their ivory tusks. | 0:00:51 | 0:00:53 | |
For two years, a massive project called the Great Elephant Census has | 0:00:53 | 0:00:56 | |
flown above 18 countries in Africa to see how many | 0:00:56 | 0:00:59 | |
are left in the wild. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:00 | |
The drop in numbers is thought to be due to poaching - that's | 0:01:00 | 0:01:03 | |
when elephants are hunted for their meat and tusks. | 0:01:03 | 0:01:05 | |
BBC reporter Alistair Leithead is at an elephant sanctuary | 0:01:05 | 0:01:07 | |
in Kenya and sent us this. | 0:01:07 | 0:01:17 | |
It is feeding time at the moment for the baby elephants. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:25 | |
A lot of their mothers were killed by poachers, and that is why | 0:01:25 | 0:01:28 | |
they end up here, to be looked after and eventually reintroduced | 0:01:28 | 0:01:31 | |
to the wild. | 0:01:31 | 0:01:33 | |
Joining me here is Edwin, the head keeper here. | 0:01:33 | 0:01:38 | |
About half of these elephants were orphaned because of poaching? | 0:01:38 | 0:01:45 | |
Yes, about half of them, and others, have been killed by poachers, | 0:01:45 | 0:01:48 | |
and that is why we had to bring them in. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:50 | |
So that we can give them another chance to survive. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:53 | |
One of them almost knocked the cameraman over while we were | 0:01:53 | 0:01:55 | |
doing that interview a second ago. | 0:01:55 | 0:01:58 | |
If the poaching rates go on, then half the elephants in Africa | 0:01:58 | 0:02:01 | |
will be gone in just nine years' time. | 0:02:01 | 0:02:06 | |
That is a very depressing future. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:11 | |
There's less than one week to go until the Paralympic Games kick | 0:02:11 | 0:02:14 | |
off in Rio in Brazil. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:17 | |
One of the British stars going for gold is wheelchair | 0:02:17 | 0:02:19 | |
tennis player Gordon Reid. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:20 | |
He's hoping to add a Paralympic medal to the Wimbledon title | 0:02:20 | 0:02:23 | |
that he won earlier this year. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:24 | |
Martin has been to meet him. | 0:02:24 | 0:02:27 | |
The Paralympics is a different story. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:29 | |
You represent your country, you're part of a big | 0:02:29 | 0:02:31 | |
Paralympics GB team. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:40 | |
I always feel a bit more inspired, a bit more motivated | 0:02:40 | 0:02:43 | |
when wearing the GB shirt. | 0:02:43 | 0:02:47 | |
Hopefully, I can get up on top of that podium with | 0:02:47 | 0:02:49 | |
the national anthem. | 0:02:49 | 0:02:50 | |
One of the things I love the most about the sport is that it | 0:02:50 | 0:02:54 | |
translates really easily, from someone playing on their feet | 0:02:54 | 0:02:56 | |
to someone playing on their chair. | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
Playing the same court, playing the same size net, | 0:02:59 | 0:03:01 | |
the same scoring system... | 0:03:01 | 0:03:06 | |
The only difference is, I get two bounces of the ball. | 0:03:06 | 0:03:11 | |
So, it's dead easy to play with someone who is on their feet. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:15 | |
You can play with your family and your mates. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:17 | |
You have had such a successful year ? Melbourne, Wimbledon... | 0:03:17 | 0:03:20 | |
It has always been a dream of mine to play singles at Wimbledon, | 0:03:20 | 0:03:24 | |
so to go there and have that opportunity after a few years | 0:03:24 | 0:03:26 | |
of playing doubles there was special. | 0:03:26 | 0:03:28 | |
And then, obviously, to be the first-ever | 0:03:28 | 0:03:29 | |
winner on home soil, the support and atmosphere | 0:03:29 | 0:03:34 | |
from my friends and family there, I think it was heard | 0:03:34 | 0:03:36 | |
around all the grounds, never mind just on our court. | 0:03:36 | 0:03:39 | |
I have heard a few stories from some of the guys who were at the Olympics | 0:03:39 | 0:03:43 | |
about some of the conditions and the organisation. | 0:03:43 | 0:03:48 | |
So I am kind of going in with low expectations and then, | 0:03:48 | 0:03:50 | |
if it runs smoothly, it will be a nice surprise for me. | 0:03:50 | 0:03:53 | |
There's always a bit of negative chat before any Games. | 0:03:53 | 0:03:56 | |
The Olympics as well. | 0:03:56 | 0:03:57 | |
And, OK, not everything ran perfectly, but they still staged | 0:03:57 | 0:03:59 | |
a pretty successful event, in my opinion. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:01 | |
You know, there were still some great moments made. | 0:04:01 | 0:04:06 | |
Some great performances, especially from Team GB. | 0:04:06 | 0:04:10 | |
So, you know, it is just trying to go out there, | 0:04:10 | 0:04:12 | |
focusing on myself as the athlete, and focus my performance. | 0:04:12 | 0:04:16 | |
Our division is really competitive. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:19 | |
I think there's probably six or seven players in the men's | 0:04:19 | 0:04:24 | |
division who could win gold. | 0:04:24 | 0:04:26 | |
My aim is to try and win two golds - singles and doubles. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:28 | |
Gordon, if you win a gold medal, will you cry? | 0:04:28 | 0:04:31 | |
I probably will! | 0:04:31 | 0:04:32 | |
I was just about crying watching Andy Murray up there, | 0:04:32 | 0:04:34 | |
never mind if I was up there myself! | 0:04:34 | 0:04:36 | |
And check this out for a doggy day-spa. | 0:04:36 | 0:04:38 | |
It's a dog massage parlour! | 0:04:38 | 0:04:42 | |
Yep, these dogs are getting the five-star treatment | 0:04:42 | 0:04:44 | |
in a new pet hotel in Taiwan. | 0:04:44 | 0:04:46 | |
She looks like she's enjoying that! | 0:04:46 | 0:04:47 | |
The people behind the hotel are offering massage classes | 0:04:47 | 0:04:50 | |
to owners and say it really helps to build the relationship | 0:04:50 | 0:04:52 | |
between pooch and human and gives them both a real treat. | 0:04:52 | 0:04:55 | |
That's all from me. | 0:04:55 | 0:04:56 | |
Newsround's back right here tomorrow morning at 7.40am. | 0:04:56 | 0:04:59 |