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Afternoon everyone. Newsround has arrived on BBC One with Leah and | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
Joe. We have another action-packed show, and here's the proof: | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
We find out what's powering the fastest thing ever on four wheels. | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
And we carry on Space Week by cranking up the heat on the biggest | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
star in our universe. First up we're talking school | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
dinners. A few years ago, the celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver, | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
started a big campaign to try to make them more healthy, but there | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
are worries they're still not as good as they should be. Now, the | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
Government is sending the people behind fast food health chain Leon | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
to schools to check if you guys are getting the right things for lunch. | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
Hayley's been to a school that's undergone a revolution in healthy | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
cooking since the summer, with salads, fruit and all sorts of | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
other good stuff on the menu. But it doesn't mean they still can't | :01:08. | :01:16. | |
enjoy the odd treat. It is lunchtime here at this primary | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
school in North London. On the menu today we've got burgers chips and | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
beans, vegetable pasty, jelly or fruit. Most of the kids today have | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
gone for burgers and chips, but it's a Friday. What have you had | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
for dinner today? Burger and chips. I had chips, a burger and some | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
beans. How was it? Really nice. There are figures out there, | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
according to Government figures just under half of kids each one | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
portion of fruit a day but over half of schoolchildren eat some | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
fried or cooked food like pizzas and burgers every day. It is up to | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
this guy to do something about that. This is John, the man from Leon, | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
who is on a mission to make meals happier. We've been forced into a | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
position of creating I guess a plan for how we can get more kids eating | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
great food. The other thing is to try to make school food exciting | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
for kids. Make sure they don't have to queue for long and that the | :02:24. | :02:31. | |
dining rooms are attractive. Jamie Oliver did this four years ago, why | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
are you having to do this again? Jamie publicised some of the | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
problems out there and started to make people realise that it is | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
possible for kids to eat better. What we now need to do is take it | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
from where it is, which is better than it was and make it better | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
again. Many people are saying you are not going to do anything with | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
it, what are you going to do? make a good point. We don't want to | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
delay anything. We want to make it better straight away. Over the next | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
year John promises to keep news the loop. On Newsround we hear that | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
kids care a lot about the food they eat at school. Would you be able to | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
keep us up to date with your findings and your action plan over | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
the next year? We would be delighted to do that. It's a big | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
part of what we hope to do. Well, we want to hear what you | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
think of your school dinners. Do you want healthier options, or | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
would you be upset if things like chips were taken off the menu | :03:28. | :03:38. | |
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completely? Loads of you have been Next up, we're halfway through our | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
special space week on Newsround, where we're finding out about the | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
most interesting stories in the universe. Today we're talking about | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
the one thing we most definitely couldn't live without - the Sun. | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
It's going through some massive changes, so I've been to meet the | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
people trying to understand what's happening, and predict what it'll | :03:59. | :04:09. | |
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mean for all of us in future. Our Sun, a huge chemical factory | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
burning at 15 million degrees Celsius. It is 93 million miles | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
away, but without it we wouldn't be here. For our an c'est overs it was | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
seen as a God, bringing light and warmth to Earth. Even today people | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
travel to Stonehenge in Wiltshire to worship the star. Our | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
understanding of the Sun has progressed thanks to NASA's | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
observatory. But at the moment something's happening to our star | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
and scientisting like Liz have noticed big changes. Tfrplgts Sun | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
has an 11-year cycle. Every 11 years it gets a lot more active. | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
There'll be a lot more sunspots. These are a sign that the Sun is | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
moving around a lot more. It throws out huge amounts of particles. They | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
can damage satellites. They can affect computers and power lines. | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
They can stop your television transmission. Predicting and | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
preparing for these events is really important. That in mind the | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
European Space Agency are in the middle of their most daring noigs | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
the Sun yet. The solar orbiter be launched in 2017. It will cost | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
hundreds of millions of pounds but get scientists closer to the star | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
than ever before. Surely it is going to melt? The top of the heat | :05:35. | :05:42. | |
shield are get to over 1,200 degrees Celsius. That's twice as | :05:42. | :05:49. | |
hot as an oven. A maximum of 50 degrees assessies. And that will | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
protect the electronics become there? Yes it will. Some cameras | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
will look at the surface of the Sun. Others will concentrate on the | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
atmosphere and a couple will look at the extended atmosphere. The Sun | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
will continue to burn for 5 billion years ago. There are lots of | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
unanswered questions about how it affects Earth, but most of us will | :06:11. | :06:18. | |
carry on enjoying it regardless. The Sun is one of which 200 billion | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
that make up our galaxy. It is nice to think that somewhere out there | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
is one just starting its cycle. And don't forget to tell us what | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
area of space you think we should be exploring next over on the | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
Newsround website. We'll be revealing the results of our big | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
space survey on Friday. Next, it's a big day for fast cars. | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
And we're talking really fast cars. Bloodhound is a rocket-powered car. | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
The British team behind it say it's faster than a bullet. They've | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
designed it to reach speeds of more than 1,000 miles per hour - enough | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
to break the land speed record by 2014. And today they're giving it a | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
test drive for the first time. Nel went to meet the engineers who | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
created it. If successful, this is what the first car to reach 1,000 | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
miles per hour will look like. The guys behind the Bloodhound are | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
confident that it is fast. This car is faster than a bullet. Will it be | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
the fastest horizontal thing that has a man in it. It breaks the | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
airspeed record as well as the land speed record. That record was | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
broken three years ago in North America. This is going 300 miles | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
per hour faster than Thruster went. This will be unbelievable. On | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
Wednesday what we are doing for the first time is firing the rocket | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
system in one go. We are using pumped liquid into the rocket. | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
That's amazing in itself. Bloodhound has the same engine as a | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
jet fighter. Will it be driven bay pilot and will look like kit fly to | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
the Moon. But keeping it on the ground is one of the biggest | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
challenges. You have to try and stop the car from flying, which is | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
never a good thing. It has four wheels all in contact with the | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
ground. They must stay in contact to get a record, let alone keeping | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
our drivers safe. The attempt to hit the 1,000 miles per hour mark | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
won't happen until late next year, something everyone is only too | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
aware of. I'm sure we've got the best car but competition is what | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
makes this exciting. We've got four other credible computers. Two | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
American, one Australian and one from New Zealand. We want to get | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
the record for Britain. To do that the engine needs to work perfectly. | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
That's why today's testing is such a big deal. | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
Would you like to drive that? would be terrified. | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
Finally, ever wondered what happens when you flush the loo? A water | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
company in Poland has created an app that lets people in one town | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
follow the passage of their poo! They say users can even compare the | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
speeds at which it travels through sewers. It's supposed to get young | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
people interested in the sewage systems. I'm not sure it's going to | :08:43. | :08:47. |