02/09/2011 Newsround


02/09/2011

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Hi there, it's Ricky and Sonali with your end of the week Newsround.

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Coming up: the dangers of working with animals. This is one of the

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rarest cubs in the world. But what does the future hold? And the shot

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of a lifetime - but find out why this boy still missed out on a

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�30,000 prize. But first, it's time for a galactic

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clean-up. We're not talking crisp packets and fast food wrappers but

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space junk - old rocket boosters and disused satellites. NASA has

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been warned there's far too much rubbish floating about in space,

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and scientists are worried the debris could smash into spacecraft.

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So how do you tidy up in zero gravity?

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Humans have been sending things into orbit for more than 50 years.

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Lots of it is stuff that's needed to get you into space but not back

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down, so it's just dumped. Around 20,000 big bits of junk are

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whizzing around at more than 17,000 miles an hour. The worry is they

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could collide with spaceships, putting astronauts at risk, or

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destroy valuable satellites. There have been near misses, like when

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the International Space Station had to dodge some space debris, forcing

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the crew to get into their escape capsules to prepare for an

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emergency evacuation. In 2009, two satellites crashed in orbit,

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creating lots more rubbish. talk about clumsy, this is the

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moment a NASA astronaut dropped a tool bag. So what's the solution?

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Space experts have come up with a few ideas, including magnetic nets

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to catch the junk, and an umbrella- shaped device to sweep up the

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debris. And we've had a few ideas of our own. The stardust sweeper.

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That's just really a big broom. Or for those tough to reach bits of

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junk there is always this. We've got an important few days

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coming up for the home nations footy-wise. The latest round of

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Euro 2012 qualifiers begins tonight. That's right. Here's a reminder of

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who's playing who. England could give Man United trio Chris Smalling,

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Phil Jones and Tom Cleverley their first outings with the senior side

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against Bulgaria this evening. Wales play Montenegro, and Northern

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Ireland take on Serbia. Scotland face the Czech Republic tomorrow.

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We all remember the pictures of the massive earthquake and tsunami that

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struck the north of Japan earlier this year. Thousands of people died

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and the destruction was devastating. But lots of people were saved

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because they knew exactly what to do. Earthquakes are so common in

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this part of the world that every year the whole country rehearses to

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make sure everyone is prepared if disaster strikes. And this year was

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no different. Hundreds of thousands of people took part in the drill

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across Tokyo. Commuters evacuated a station, protecting their heads

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from imaginary wreckage. Rescue teams practised freeing survivors

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from collapsed buildings. Tokyo is the largest city in the world, so

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if a big earthquake hits, millions of people could be trapped.

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Rehearsals like these might seem extreme, but being prepared can

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save lives. Time now for 11-year-old twin

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brothers. An ice hockey stick, a tiny hole and a �30,000 prize.

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The challenge was tough: with one shot, hit the hockey puck into a

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tiny hole and win a huge cash prize. Ip possible, some might say. But

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watch how 11-year-old Nate Smith wax the puck through the hole 27

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metres away. Call it luck, call it whatever you want, but that was

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impressive. So, cue celebrations. When I came to sit back down

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everyone was giving me high fives. But there was a small detail the

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twins didn't let slip to begin with. This was a charity challenge and

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Nate took part using his procedure's ticket. That was

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against the rules. They didn't get the cash prize but donators are

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giving �20,000 to the club. thought honesty was the best policy

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and we wanted to set a good example to the kids. Give them the prize!

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If you've seen better animal pictures than these today I want to

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know where. They are great but they are both seriously endangered. A

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new BBC show is finding the world's most at risk animals and finding

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out what can be done to protect their babies.

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Martin, tell us about Nature's Miracle Babies. What it is focusing

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on is work around the world to try to conserve endangered animals. We

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went to China to look at pandas. That's a huge success story, as it

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has taken them years to get right but gradually they've got better

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and now they have a 100% success record, so they all survive. What

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was it like spending time with such a beautiful creature? I got badly

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scratched but they were gentle with me. They for my clothes to shreds

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literally. They sound very gentle! We looked at leopards. There are

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nine different species of leopards in a sub-species and only 30 of

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this type left in the world, so it is really important that they can

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breed successfully in captivity. I got to hold two baby leopard cubs.

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They were really fierce but that's good. They need to be fierce. They

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need minimal contact with humans or they become like pets. Was it hard

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to look at these cute, cuddly pictures? That's the danger. We've

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got to love the ugly once as well. Some of the difficult ones, the

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little tamarind monkeys, they are not easy animals. They are grumpy

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and they fight with each other. But we have to try to love them as well.

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It is easy to love the panda. It is much harder to love an ear wig.

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Make sure you check out our baby animal Picture Gallery on the

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Newsround website. If you were told there was a

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crocodile in your pool you would be right to be scared, unless it it

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was that one. He turned up for an early morning zip in Darwin

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