04/08/2016 Newsround


04/08/2016

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We meet the nine-year-old girl going into battle on Robot Wars.

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The bus in China taking travel to a whole new level.

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But, first, lots of you have probably spent lots of time

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on your smartphones, tablets and the internet today.

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Well, new research says adults are spending too

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One-in-three say they're missing out on family time because of it.

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One-in-four teenagers say being online too long has made

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Well, experts reckon too much tech isn't great.

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Kids and parents are not spending as much time talking together as a

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family, whether that is the parents with their phones bleeping away with

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messages from work, or the kids on the dining table trying to catch

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Well we've been out and about asking "are you addicted to tech too?"

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I think I am on my iPad more than outside. When I get home from school

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I always on her bed I spend a lot of time on my phone text thing and

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playing games. I have a lot of games on my iPad, as well. I spent quite a

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lot of time online. I find it hard to stay off my iPad. I still have an

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Xbox so I can use that. I play on it when I wake up in the morning. I

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think my mum is on her phone the most, then my dad and then me and my

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most, then my dad and then me and my sister.

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Now we didn't want to get into trouble by asking

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you to spend more time online, but we did want to get

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Matthew says tech is not taking over his family.

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He's been in the garden loads and his sister has been

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Tech's useful, but there are better things to do.

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But Sarah in Derbyshire admits she's on her tablet longer than she should

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be and is keen to get away from her tech a bit more.

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Ben in Oxford says he does a bit of coding, but it's his little

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sister wanting to watch Peppa Pig all the time that

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A big row has been taking place on Downing Street,

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where the Prime Minister lives, in London.

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But this time it's not the politicians,

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BBC Political Correspondent Chris Mason has been investigating.

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Larry, the Prime Minister's cat, and Palmerston,

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the Foreign Secretary's cat, fighting.

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Experts say it is all down to territory.

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Larry sees Downing Street as his patch and Palmerston

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We are at the home of PURR-litical reporting, the home

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of Prime Minister Theresa May and the home of Larry the cat.

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And now there is another cat on the block.

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So, a friend to join Larry patrolling the streets of power

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With all this fighting, could a third pet prove

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Newsround has met the nine-year-old taking on the competition

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April, with the help of her dad, took her fearsome machine

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Earlier today, she told Ayshah why she thinks more girls

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Robots can let us do amazing things that we wouldn't probably be able to

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do like cool hours ago to see the Titanic and mean that little girls

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like me can make big old men cry! Brilliant! We need girls in this, as

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well. Girls need to bring lots of sparkle into this.

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You'll have to watch Robot Wars on Sunday

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Here's another young contender hoping to beat the grown-ups.

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At 13, Gaurika Singh, from Nepal, is the youngest competitor

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She'll be taking part in the women's 100 meters backstroke on Sunday.

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From tomorrow, we'll bring you all the excitement ahead

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Finally, to this huge new bus being road-tested in China.

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It's hoped it will stop traffic jams by letting cars travel underneath.

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Its fastest speed is 60 kilometres-an-hour and it can carry

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Newsround's back bright and early tomorrow morning at 07.40am.

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