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Hi there. Sonali and Ore in the Newsround driving seat today. | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
That's right and we have a feast of news and views for you. Coming up: | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
I've been finding out about the end of time! Sort of. And I've worked | :00:27. | :00:34. | |
out whether yetis actually exist or not. Well, nearly. | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
I can't wait for that. First though, the RSPCA says it's running out of | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
time to raise enough money to open a brand new hospital for abandoned | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
animals. Thousands of creatures have been cared for at their old | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
centre near Birmingham, but now it's falling apart. The RSPCA was | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
the world's first animal charity and the new hospital will bring it | :00:52. | :01:02. | |
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right into the 21st century. They say every four minutes of an | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
abandoned animal is rescued by the RSPCA. Many of them end up here, at | :01:17. | :01:26. | |
The centre was built 50 years ago and now it has reached its sell-by | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
date. Broken glass, cracked walls and out of date equipment. On the | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
telly it is really hard to get a picture of how bad this place | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
really is because not only does it look depressing, but it smells as | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
well. In the bricks, diseases all over the place. That is why this | :01:45. | :01:52. | |
part has been abandoned because it is not say for the animals. -- say. | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
Everything is falling apart. It gets to a point where you can't | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
pitch up -- catch up buildings any more and they have to be rebuilt. | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
We have to provide them with their care they need, but without the | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
facilities, it is very difficult. The RSPCA have started work on a | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
brand-new Hospital for animals, costing over �10 million. It is a | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
15 minute drive from the old centre and the races on to get it finished. | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
So this is it. It might not look like much right now, but by | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
September next year, hopefully this will be complete and we will have a | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
state-of-the-art hospital and it will be bigger, brighter and safer | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
for the animals. Her there is a bit of a problem, though. With less | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
than a year to go, the RSPCA has not raised enough cash, but they | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
are confident they will eventually get there. | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
Why are you looking at your watch? We have got 297 days to go until | :02:53. | :03:03. | |
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the Olympics. But it also tells the time in hours and minutes. Time | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
decides everything we do from when we get up in the morning to when we | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
go to bed and everything in between. But did you know it's Britain that | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
sets the time for the whole world? It has done for more than 100 years, | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
but that could all be about to change. | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
This is the home of time. This line at the Royal Observatory here in | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
Greenwich and when the sun passes over the line, that's midday here. | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
And the rest of the time all around the world is worked out from that. | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
It's called Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT, and even astronauts up in | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
space set their clocks by it. But time hasn't always been worked out | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
this way. Every town around the world used to figure out its own | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
local time using the sun. So, for example, when it was noon in | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
Plymouth, it was 12.17 in London. But when the railways were built, | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
that had to change. People needed a way of knowing exactly when the | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
train was going to arrive and so Greenwich Mean Time became the time | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
that was used across the whole country, and later to work out | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
timezones around the world. But some people think this is now out | :04:03. | :04:11. | |
of date. What is the main problem with just using Greenwich Mean | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
Time? It is based on the rotation of the Earth and takes about 24 | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
hours, but that is slowing down over time. We have been introducing | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
seconds to help account for this, but this might introduce a problem | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
where you might make mistakes and it might interfere with a use of | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
technology. Have some people think the solution is to switch to atomic | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
clocks. They are far more accurate, it would take millions of years for | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
one to go wrong by even a second. If the switch happens, it will not | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
make any difference to our day-to- day lives, but it means for the | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
first time ever, time won't be worked out from the spinning of the | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
Earth. TIME for some pop news now. See | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
what I did there? Jessie J, who's no stranger to shocking the pop | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
world, says she now wants to do something else unexpected - raising | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
�1 million for charity by shaving her head! She reckons it's about | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
time to have a new hairstyle, and she was inspired after visiting | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
kids in hospital. Shaving her head - classic charity | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
move. As is crossing the Channel for cash. This is British sprint | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
canoeist Paul Wycherley. The Olympic hopeful has kayaked all the | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
way to France in a new record time - two hours and 28 minutes, | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
smashing the previous record by more than half an hour! He also | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
raised more than �100,000 for charity. It makes your arms ache | :05:31. | :05:39. | |
just watching him. That would be exhausting. | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
For years, explorers have been trying to track down a mysterious | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
creature. It's huge and hairy and lives in the shadows. But enough | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
about Ore! No, we're talking about the yeti, the abominable snowman | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
himself. People have long argued about whether such a creature could | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
exist in the remote Himalayas and Siberia. Now the largest expedition | :05:56. | :06:06. | |
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for over 50 years is about to set Plenty of places to hide. Despite | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
hundreds of supposed sightings, the yeti still refuses to come out of | :06:10. | :06:19. | |
its icy cave to say hello to actual But just perhaps, this is about to | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
end. A team of Russian and American experts has joined forces to go in | :06:24. | :06:33. | |
search of. The abominable snowman, but the problem is where to begin. | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
They're searching in the Kemerovo region, which is in Siberia, 3,000 | :06:36. | :06:43. | |
miles east of Moscow. There have been loads of recent reports of | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
sightings there. Locals say they steal hens and sheep to eat, and | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
one expert even reckons there could be a family of 30 roaming around. | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
But what do they look like? Well, this apparent footprint found in | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
the snow is so big that some people reckon they're up to seven feet | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
tall. In the 1960s, even Dr Who featured a yeti that was covered in | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
hair and looked a bit like an overgrown bear, just slightly | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
scarier. The yeti's just one of the weird and wonderful creatures | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
that's shrouded in legend and secrecy. You may have heard of Big | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
Foot, the giant ape-like man roaming the American wilds, or the | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
Loch Ness Monster lurking in the depths. None have ever been proven | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
to exist and while the Yeti hunters are confident, I think it's a fair | :07:30. | :07:40. | |
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bet the hairy fellow will remain a mystery for the time being. | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
Forget diamonds, it's wax that every superstar dreams of. And now | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
Rihanna's had the star treatment, with London's famous Madame | :07:52. | :07:55. |