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Greetings, news fans. Hayley and Sonali here with tonight's top | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
stories. Coming up on Newsround, we've got some of this... How China | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
has rocketed into the space race. And we take a giant leap back in | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
time to see how zoos have changed over the years. First, to this | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
place, St Paul's Cathedral in central London. It's been getting a | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
lot more attention than usual over the past few weeks because of the | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
tent town that's sprung up all around it. The protestors have been | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
there for two weeks now and though there's been talk of going to the | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
courts to try and get rid of them, in the last hour both St Paul's and | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
the city authorities have said they don't want to do that at the moment. | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
The Cathedral wants to sort this out by talking to the demonstrators | :00:55. | :01:03. | |
instead. Joe has been to St Paul's to find out what's going on. | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
For the past two weeks, more than 200 tents have been pitched outside | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
St Paul's Cathedral. Britain's biggest banks have large offices in | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
this area, which is why these people have decided to protest here. | :01:14. | :01:22. | |
It's a really well-organised camp. Behind me there is an info tent, a | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
book shop and toilets. And if you look over here, I've seen a cafe | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
where you can get a cup of tea, a recycling centre and even a place | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
where you can plug in your computer and get on the the Internet. | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
Although everyone is calling this a protest, what the people gathered | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
here are protesting about isn't straightforward. I spoke to lots of | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
different people. Some said they think the banks are making too much | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
money, others think government spending cuts are wrong and some | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
are even saying they're protesting against war. The camp has caused | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
problems between the protesters and the cathedral. Some senior people | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
who worked there have quit as a result. But St Paul's says it will | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
not be taking action to force protesters to leave. It was thought | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
the City authorities would issue protesters with a deadline to leave, | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
but in the last hour they've decided to follow the Cathedral's | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
decision and have pressed the pause button on legal action. Behind me, | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
the camp are having a big meeting to decide what to do. They're | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
facing loads of pressure from the people that own this land - but the | :02:19. | :02:26. | |
question is, will they go? How long have you been here? I have been | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
here since the first day, so this is the 17th day. I had one weekend | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
off, when my mum was visiting. you going to go? Not if I can help | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
it. You have been here since the start, but when you go now? I'm not | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
planning on leaving, and most people feel the same. For now it | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
looks like the protesters will not be forced out. But nobody knows | :02:51. | :02:59. | |
exactly how long they will be able to stay. Two Pakistani cricketers | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
have been found guilty of cheating in a Test match against England | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
last summer. Watch out for flashing pictures coming up. Former captain | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
Salman Butt and fast bowler Mohammad Asif plotted to | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
deliberately bowl no-balls at certain times during the match at | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
Lord's. It was all part of a big betting scam. They've both already | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
been banned from international cricket for at least five years, | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
and could now be sent to prison. Wayne Rooney is the only Brit on | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
the shortlist for a top footie award called the Ballon D'Or. It's | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
not hard to see why. The Manchester United wonderboy and 22 other | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
players are up for World Footballer of the Year. After winning the | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
award for the past two seasons, Barcelona's Lionel Messi is on the | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
list again. The last British player to win the award was Michael Owen, | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
ten years ago. Right, let's talk about the battle for space | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
supremacy. 50 years ago, the Soviet Union sent the first ever man into | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
space. A few years later, America went one better and put a man on | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
the moon. It was known as the space race - a fight to see who could | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
come out on top when it came to space exploration. Now, China wants | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
some of the action. It's just launched a rocket in a bid to | :04:04. | :04:13. | |
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become the number one superpower China is on a mission. It wants its | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
very own space station. The plan is for this craft, Shenzhou 8, to hook | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
up with another bit of kit, 200 miles above Earth. It'll be the | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
first time China has ever done this. On board the spaceship, there's a | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
box full of biological experiments, including fish, plants, worms and | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
bacteria. Scientists want to find out which kinds of life can survive | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
in space, and how they grow. China is one of the fastest-developing | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
countries in the world and has decided to spend millions on space | :04:44. | :04:51. | |
exploration. The Americans have stopped spending so much cash on | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
space, and this year, NASA closed its shuttle programme. Russia isn't | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
spending as much as it once did either, but just the other day | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
launched a cargo ship to resupply the International Space Station | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
with food, fuel and some i-Pads to make sure cosmonauts can keep | :05:05. | :05:12. | |
visiting. China thinks this is the perfect time to catch up and maybe | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
overtake America and Russia in the great space race. At the moment, | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
there is nobody onboard Shenzhou 8, and everything is being controlled | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
from down here on Earth. But eventually, Chinese astronauts will | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
live on board for up to two weeks and one of them could be the | :05:27. | :05:34. | |
country's first female to go up to Now to news that the floods in | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
Thailand have left 17 elephants stranded on a small island. Seven | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
of them are under four years old and were too small to escape with | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
the rest of their herd. So until the waters drop, they're stuck on | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
the five-metre-wide island. They're being looked after by keepers who | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
regularly row out to the island with fresh deliveries of sugar cane | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
and pineapples for them. Loads of us have been to a petting zoo where | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
you get to stroke animals like goats and rabbits. But how cool | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
would it be if you were allowed to cuddle bigger creatures like a lion | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
or a tiger? That's what zoos were like in the past! Joe's been to | :06:10. | :06:19. | |
Chessington in Surrey to explore how zoo life has changed. This so | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
his 80 years old. When it first opened, it was just a small | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
collection of animals. But now it has got species from all over the | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
world. And it looks very different now. One change is how close | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
visitors can get to animals. About 80 years ago, kids could actually | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
hold bears and big cats. Back then, and laws were not looked after as | :06:44. | :06:51. | |
well as they are today. -- animals. Elephants and lions were used to | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
entertain crowds, but now, it is different. These two are learning | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
about how meerkats are cared for. would not mind living here if I was | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
a meerkat. I wouldn't mind living here but it would be a bit strange | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
seeing people's head poking up from under the holes and then seeing all | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
of those faces. The other big change has been conservation. | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
Nowadays they only take animals from special breeding programmes. | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
This baby was born right here in Chessington only last week. Walking | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
around here today, the animals seem happy, but who decides whether you | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
are doing a good job? There are laws governing animals in captivity. | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
We make sure they have the best environment possible. Some people | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
think animals should not be locked up at all. But to sue keepers say | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
they are looked after very well these days, and letting kids sea | :07:50. | :07:55. |