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01/11/2011

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Greetings, news fans. Hayley and Sonali here with tonight's top

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stories. Coming up on Newsround, we've got some of this... How China

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has rocketed into the space race. And we take a giant leap back in

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time to see how zoos have changed over the years. First, to this

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place, St Paul's Cathedral in central London. It's been getting a

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lot more attention than usual over the past few weeks because of the

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tent town that's sprung up all around it. The protestors have been

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there for two weeks now and though there's been talk of going to the

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courts to try and get rid of them, in the last hour both St Paul's and

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the city authorities have said they don't want to do that at the moment.

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The Cathedral wants to sort this out by talking to the demonstrators

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instead. Joe has been to St Paul's to find out what's going on.

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For the past two weeks, more than 200 tents have been pitched outside

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St Paul's Cathedral. Britain's biggest banks have large offices in

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this area, which is why these people have decided to protest here.

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It's a really well-organised camp. Behind me there is an info tent, a

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book shop and toilets. And if you look over here, I've seen a cafe

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where you can get a cup of tea, a recycling centre and even a place

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where you can plug in your computer and get on the the Internet.

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Although everyone is calling this a protest, what the people gathered

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here are protesting about isn't straightforward. I spoke to lots of

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different people. Some said they think the banks are making too much

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money, others think government spending cuts are wrong and some

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are even saying they're protesting against war. The camp has caused

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problems between the protesters and the cathedral. Some senior people

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who worked there have quit as a result. But St Paul's says it will

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not be taking action to force protesters to leave. It was thought

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the City authorities would issue protesters with a deadline to leave,

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but in the last hour they've decided to follow the Cathedral's

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decision and have pressed the pause button on legal action. Behind me,

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the camp are having a big meeting to decide what to do. They're

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facing loads of pressure from the people that own this land - but the

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question is, will they go? How long have you been here? I have been

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here since the first day, so this is the 17th day. I had one weekend

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off, when my mum was visiting. you going to go? Not if I can help

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it. You have been here since the start, but when you go now? I'm not

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planning on leaving, and most people feel the same. For now it

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looks like the protesters will not be forced out. But nobody knows

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exactly how long they will be able to stay. Two Pakistani cricketers

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have been found guilty of cheating in a Test match against England

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last summer. Watch out for flashing pictures coming up. Former captain

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Salman Butt and fast bowler Mohammad Asif plotted to

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deliberately bowl no-balls at certain times during the match at

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Lord's. It was all part of a big betting scam. They've both already

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been banned from international cricket for at least five years,

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and could now be sent to prison. Wayne Rooney is the only Brit on

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the shortlist for a top footie award called the Ballon D'Or. It's

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not hard to see why. The Manchester United wonderboy and 22 other

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players are up for World Footballer of the Year. After winning the

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award for the past two seasons, Barcelona's Lionel Messi is on the

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list again. The last British player to win the award was Michael Owen,

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ten years ago. Right, let's talk about the battle for space

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supremacy. 50 years ago, the Soviet Union sent the first ever man into

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space. A few years later, America went one better and put a man on

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the moon. It was known as the space race - a fight to see who could

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come out on top when it came to space exploration. Now, China wants

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some of the action. It's just launched a rocket in a bid to

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become the number one superpower China is on a mission. It wants its

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very own space station. The plan is for this craft, Shenzhou 8, to hook

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up with another bit of kit, 200 miles above Earth. It'll be the

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first time China has ever done this. On board the spaceship, there's a

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box full of biological experiments, including fish, plants, worms and

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bacteria. Scientists want to find out which kinds of life can survive

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in space, and how they grow. China is one of the fastest-developing

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countries in the world and has decided to spend millions on space

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exploration. The Americans have stopped spending so much cash on

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space, and this year, NASA closed its shuttle programme. Russia isn't

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spending as much as it once did either, but just the other day

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launched a cargo ship to resupply the International Space Station

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with food, fuel and some i-Pads to make sure cosmonauts can keep

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visiting. China thinks this is the perfect time to catch up and maybe

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overtake America and Russia in the great space race. At the moment,

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there is nobody onboard Shenzhou 8, and everything is being controlled

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from down here on Earth. But eventually, Chinese astronauts will

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live on board for up to two weeks and one of them could be the

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country's first female to go up to Now to news that the floods in

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Thailand have left 17 elephants stranded on a small island. Seven

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of them are under four years old and were too small to escape with

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the rest of their herd. So until the waters drop, they're stuck on

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the five-metre-wide island. They're being looked after by keepers who

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regularly row out to the island with fresh deliveries of sugar cane

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and pineapples for them. Loads of us have been to a petting zoo where

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you get to stroke animals like goats and rabbits. But how cool

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would it be if you were allowed to cuddle bigger creatures like a lion

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or a tiger? That's what zoos were like in the past! Joe's been to

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Chessington in Surrey to explore how zoo life has changed. This so

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his 80 years old. When it first opened, it was just a small

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collection of animals. But now it has got species from all over the

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world. And it looks very different now. One change is how close

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visitors can get to animals. About 80 years ago, kids could actually

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hold bears and big cats. Back then, and laws were not looked after as

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well as they are today. -- animals. Elephants and lions were used to

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entertain crowds, but now, it is different. These two are learning

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about how meerkats are cared for. would not mind living here if I was

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a meerkat. I wouldn't mind living here but it would be a bit strange

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seeing people's head poking up from under the holes and then seeing all

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of those faces. The other big change has been conservation.

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Nowadays they only take animals from special breeding programmes.

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This baby was born right here in Chessington only last week. Walking

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around here today, the animals seem happy, but who decides whether you

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are doing a good job? There are laws governing animals in captivity.

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We make sure they have the best environment possible. Some people

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think animals should not be locked up at all. But to sue keepers say

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they are looked after very well these days, and letting kids sea

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