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It's Monday morning. | 0:00:05 | 0:00:06 | |
I'm Ayshah with all you need to know to start your week. | 0:00:06 | 0:00:13 | |
Using new fingerprinting methods to tackle ivory poaching. | 0:00:13 | 0:00:14 | |
And the twins born either side of the New Year. | 0:00:14 | 0:00:21 | |
First this morning, an earthquake has struck in north-east India. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:26 | |
The quake measured 6.8 in magnitude and was felt 1,000 kilometres away | 0:00:26 | 0:00:31 | |
in the capital of the neighbouring country Bangladesh. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:35 | |
Buildings have been badly damaged and some have collapsed. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:38 | |
In Scotland, more than 30 flood warnings are in place with strong | 0:00:38 | 0:00:44 | |
winds and heavy rain expected today. | 0:00:44 | 0:00:44 | |
Experts say the rain won't be as bad as it was during Storm Frank, | 0:00:44 | 0:00:48 | |
which flooded thousands of homes last week, but showers may last | 0:00:48 | 0:00:51 | |
longer, causing river levels to rise again. | 0:00:51 | 0:00:57 | |
The wildlife trade has become one of the biggest threats to some | 0:00:57 | 0:01:00 | |
of the world's most endangered animals. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:02 | |
Here's Martin with a new breakthrough which it's hoped | 0:01:02 | 0:01:04 | |
will help catch those involved in the illegal trade. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:07 | |
An African elephant's tusks are made of ivory. | 0:01:07 | 0:01:10 | |
You might not know it, but hippos have big ivory teeth. | 0:01:10 | 0:01:14 | |
And sperm whales? | 0:01:14 | 0:01:19 | |
Yes, they have ivory teeth too. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:19 | |
Ivory poaching has had some devastating effects | 0:01:19 | 0:01:21 | |
on the populations of some endangered species around the world | 0:01:21 | 0:01:25 | |
because it is worth a lot of money. | 0:01:25 | 0:01:29 | |
A single ivory tusk can be worth between ?5,000 and ?10,000. | 0:01:29 | 0:01:33 | |
A rhino horn, just one kilogram of that, is worth more than gold. | 0:01:33 | 0:01:39 | |
Just to give you an example, in Africa, where ivory poaching | 0:01:39 | 0:01:42 | |
is particularly common, 30,000 elephants per year are killed | 0:01:42 | 0:01:49 | |
for their tusks. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:50 | |
That is the equivalent of about 80 every single day. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:53 | |
Now a team of scientists from King's College in London might | 0:01:53 | 0:01:57 | |
just have come up with a way to tackle the problem. | 0:01:57 | 0:02:00 | |
This is my fingerprint. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:01 | |
It is unique because no one else in the world as the same one. | 0:02:01 | 0:02:05 | |
That even includes members of my own family and it is fingerprinting that | 0:02:05 | 0:02:10 | |
could be the key to protecting some of these animals. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:12 | |
Normally, fingerprints are done using a certain kind of powder, | 0:02:12 | 0:02:17 | |
which normally reveals a clear print you can actually see. | 0:02:17 | 0:02:20 | |
So why hasn't this been done with ivory in the past? | 0:02:20 | 0:02:24 | |
Previously that wouldn't have been possible, to get a fingerprint | 0:02:24 | 0:02:27 | |
of that clarity. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:28 | |
Ivory itself, even though it looks quite smooth and hard, | 0:02:28 | 0:02:31 | |
if you look at it under a microscope, it is full of tiny | 0:02:31 | 0:02:34 | |
holes and your fingerprint will actually disappear | 0:02:34 | 0:02:36 | |
down those holes. | 0:02:36 | 0:02:38 | |
The powder that we use here is much smaller and if you decrease | 0:02:38 | 0:02:44 | |
the powder size it needs less to stick on to. | 0:02:44 | 0:02:46 | |
This type of fingerprinting still has to be tried out for real. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:50 | |
When it eventually does, what are the scientists hoping | 0:02:50 | 0:02:53 | |
to achieve with this technique in the future? | 0:02:53 | 0:02:59 | |
In the short term, we can use this type of technology to potentially | 0:02:59 | 0:03:03 | |
link somebody to illegal trafficking of ivory. | 0:03:03 | 0:03:06 | |
Ideally, in the long-term, what we would like to do is stop | 0:03:06 | 0:03:09 | |
hurting the animals. | 0:03:09 | 0:03:11 | |
Next, from royal babies to sending a Brit into space, | 0:03:11 | 0:03:17 | |
2015 was a pretty amazing year. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:21 | |
But what do we have to look forward to in 2016? | 0:03:21 | 0:03:24 | |
Goodbye, 2015, and hello, 2016. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:25 | |
It is going to be a huge year for sport. | 0:03:25 | 0:03:31 | |
In August and September, Rio, the capital city of Brazil, | 0:03:31 | 0:03:33 | |
will host more than 40,000 athletes from 206 countries for the first | 0:03:33 | 0:03:41 | |
ever Olympic and Paralympic games to be held in South America. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:47 | |
And after the success of London 2012, Team GB will be hoping | 0:03:47 | 0:03:48 | |
to beat their haul of 65 medals. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:54 | |
June will see the UEFA European Championship finals | 0:03:54 | 0:03:58 | |
in France, with 24 teams battling it out for footballing glory. | 0:03:58 | 0:04:03 | |
Wales and England face each other after being drawn together in group | 0:04:03 | 0:04:06 | |
B. | 0:04:06 | 0:04:07 | |
And it will be the first time Northern Ireland have ever played | 0:04:07 | 0:04:10 | |
in the finals. | 0:04:10 | 0:04:11 | |
June also brings the super serves and bullet backhands of Wimbledon, | 0:04:11 | 0:04:17 | |
when once again the nation will be cheering on Andy Murray. | 0:04:17 | 0:04:21 | |
And the incredible spectacle of the Tour de France | 0:04:21 | 0:04:23 | |
launches in July. | 0:04:23 | 0:04:25 | |
Britain's Chris Froome will be trying to become the first rider | 0:04:25 | 0:04:29 | |
to successfully defend his Tour de France title. | 0:04:29 | 0:04:32 | |
2016 is the 100th anniversary of author Roald Dahl's birthday | 0:04:32 | 0:04:36 | |
and there is going to be a new film based on his famous book The BFG. | 0:04:36 | 0:04:40 | |
Other big films to watch out for this year are the new version | 0:04:40 | 0:04:45 | |
of the Jungle Book, an Angry Birds movie and the sequel we have | 0:04:45 | 0:04:48 | |
all been waiting for. | 0:04:48 | 0:04:49 | |
I remembered something! | 0:04:49 | 0:04:50 | |
Finding Dory will hit cinemas in June. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:53 | |
And there will be anew President of America. | 0:04:53 | 0:04:55 | |
The current President Barack Obama has served the maximum amount | 0:04:55 | 0:05:00 | |
of time he is allowed, so a new election campaign | 0:05:00 | 0:05:03 | |
starts in November. | 0:05:03 | 0:05:13 | |
In space, NASA probe Insight touches down on Mars in September, | 0:05:14 | 0:05:18 | |
hoping todiscover more about the red planet. | 0:05:18 | 0:05:18 | |
And the Juno probe launched back in 2011 will arrive | 0:05:18 | 0:05:20 | |
at its destination, planets Jupiter, in July. | 0:05:20 | 0:05:22 | |
Queen Elizabeth celebrates her 90th birthday on the 21st of April. | 0:05:22 | 0:05:25 | |
It is going to be quite a year. | 0:05:25 | 0:05:31 | |
These two adorable twins from San Diego in America were born | 0:05:31 | 0:05:33 | |
minutes apart but in different years. | 0:05:33 | 0:05:36 | |
Baby girl Jaelyn arrived on New Year's Eve in 2015 | 0:05:36 | 0:05:42 | |
and her brother Luis was born a few minutes later | 0:05:42 | 0:05:44 | |
on New Year's Day 2016. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:48 | |
That's all from me and the Newsround team this morning. | 0:05:48 | 0:05:51 | |
Martin will be back at 4.20pm this afternoon. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:55 |