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Hi there, it's Ricky and Sonali with your end of the week Newsround. | :00:20. | :00:27. | |
Coming up: the dangers of working with animals. This is one of the | :00:27. | :00:35. | |
rarest cubs in the world. But what does the future hold? And the shot | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
of a lifetime - but find out why this boy still missed out on a | :00:39. | :00:47. | |
�30,000 prize. But first, it's time for a galactic | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
clean-up. We're not talking crisp packets and fast food wrappers but | :00:50. | :00:59. | |
space junk - old rocket boosters and disused satellites. NASA has | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
been warned there's far too much rubbish floating about in space, | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
and scientists are worried the debris could smash into spacecraft. | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
So how do you tidy up in zero gravity? | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
Humans have been sending things into orbit for more than 50 years. | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
Lots of it is stuff that's needed to get you into space but not back | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
down, so it's just dumped. Around 20,000 big bits of junk are | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
whizzing around at more than 17,000 miles an hour. The worry is they | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
could collide with spaceships, putting astronauts at risk, or | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
destroy valuable satellites. There have been near misses, like when | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
the International Space Station had to dodge some space debris, forcing | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
the crew to get into their escape capsules to prepare for an | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
emergency evacuation. In 2009, two satellites crashed in orbit, | :01:39. | :01:49. | |
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creating lots more rubbish. talk about clumsy, this is the | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
moment a NASA astronaut dropped a tool bag. So what's the solution? | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
Space experts have come up with a few ideas, including magnetic nets | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
to catch the junk, and an umbrella- shaped device to sweep up the | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
debris. And we've had a few ideas of our own. The stardust sweeper. | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
That's just really a big broom. Or for those tough to reach bits of | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
junk there is always this. We've got an important few days | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
coming up for the home nations footy-wise. The latest round of | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
Euro 2012 qualifiers begins tonight. That's right. Here's a reminder of | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
who's playing who. England could give Man United trio Chris Smalling, | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
Phil Jones and Tom Cleverley their first outings with the senior side | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
against Bulgaria this evening. Wales play Montenegro, and Northern | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
Ireland take on Serbia. Scotland face the Czech Republic tomorrow. | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
We all remember the pictures of the massive earthquake and tsunami that | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
struck the north of Japan earlier this year. Thousands of people died | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
and the destruction was devastating. But lots of people were saved | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
because they knew exactly what to do. Earthquakes are so common in | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
this part of the world that every year the whole country rehearses to | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
make sure everyone is prepared if disaster strikes. And this year was | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
no different. Hundreds of thousands of people took part in the drill | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
across Tokyo. Commuters evacuated a station, protecting their heads | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
from imaginary wreckage. Rescue teams practised freeing survivors | :03:17. | :03:27. | |
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from collapsed buildings. Tokyo is the largest city in the world, so | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
if a big earthquake hits, millions of people could be trapped. | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
Rehearsals like these might seem extreme, but being prepared can | :03:32. | :03:42. | |
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save lives. Time now for 11-year-old twin | :03:43. | :03:50. | |
brothers. An ice hockey stick, a tiny hole and a �30,000 prize. | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
The challenge was tough: with one shot, hit the hockey puck into a | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
tiny hole and win a huge cash prize. Ip possible, some might say. But | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
watch how 11-year-old Nate Smith wax the puck through the hole 27 | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
metres away. Call it luck, call it whatever you want, but that was | :04:12. | :04:19. | |
impressive. So, cue celebrations. When I came to sit back down | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
everyone was giving me high fives. But there was a small detail the | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
twins didn't let slip to begin with. This was a charity challenge and | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
Nate took part using his procedure's ticket. That was | :04:35. | :04:42. | |
against the rules. They didn't get the cash prize but donators are | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
giving �20,000 to the club. thought honesty was the best policy | :04:46. | :04:53. | |
and we wanted to set a good example to the kids. Give them the prize! | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
If you've seen better animal pictures than these today I want to | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
know where. They are great but they are both seriously endangered. A | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
new BBC show is finding the world's most at risk animals and finding | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
out what can be done to protect their babies. | :05:11. | :05:18. | |
Martin, tell us about Nature's Miracle Babies. What it is focusing | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
on is work around the world to try to conserve endangered animals. We | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
went to China to look at pandas. That's a huge success story, as it | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
has taken them years to get right but gradually they've got better | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
and now they have a 100% success record, so they all survive. What | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
was it like spending time with such a beautiful creature? I got badly | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
scratched but they were gentle with me. They for my clothes to shreds | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
literally. They sound very gentle! We looked at leopards. There are | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
nine different species of leopards in a sub-species and only 30 of | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
this type left in the world, so it is really important that they can | :06:04. | :06:11. | |
breed successfully in captivity. I got to hold two baby leopard cubs. | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
They were really fierce but that's good. They need to be fierce. They | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
need minimal contact with humans or they become like pets. Was it hard | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
to look at these cute, cuddly pictures? That's the danger. We've | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
got to love the ugly once as well. Some of the difficult ones, the | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
little tamarind monkeys, they are not easy animals. They are grumpy | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
and they fight with each other. But we have to try to love them as well. | :06:41. | :06:48. | |
It is easy to love the panda. It is much harder to love an ear wig. | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
Make sure you check out our baby animal Picture Gallery on the | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
Newsround website. If you were told there was a | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
crocodile in your pool you would be right to be scared, unless it it | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
was that one. He turned up for an early morning zip in Darwin | :07:08. | :07:14. |