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Hello there! A big welcome to you, you're watching Newsround with me, | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
Nel. Lots to get through today including some of this: Find out | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
why scientists are staying up all night to track down this animal. | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
And it's Day 7 of the Paralympics. I'll be live with all the latest | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
from the Olympic Park. First though, lots of you are back | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
school this week and maybe you've got new shoes or coat for the start | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
of a new school year. But a growing number of kids in the UK don't have | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
basics like warm clothes or enough to eat. The charity, Save the | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
Children, normally helps children abroad but today it's launched its | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
first appeal here in the UK. It says there 3.5 million children | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
living in poverty and with the country suffering lots of money | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
problems it expects that number to grow. They spoke to 1,500 children | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
and found one in eight don't get a warm meal every day - apart from | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
the one they might get at school. Hayley's been speaking to two girls | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
who know a lot about what it means to feel hungry. We've changed their | :01:19. | :01:29. | |
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names and hidden their faces to protect their identity. | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
I still get hungry sometimes because my mum cannot afford to buy | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
a proper seafood. Sometimes I have to have unhealthy food like oven | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
chips. For as long as they can remember, there has never been a | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
day when the cupboards were full of healthy food. They told me how | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
worrying that can be. So times you can wake up in the night because | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
you are so hungry. How does it affect your school life? When you | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
don't eat, you cannot concentrate in class. If you have been hungry | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
ones, it is no doubt it will happen again. Does it worry you that you | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
don't know when he will next eat? If you haven't eaten in a while, it | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
feels like a pain in your stomach. Scarlett and Charlene's parents | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
realise they were not getting enough food at home and was | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
suffering. So they contacted a local charity who now give them | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
healthy four meals a week. When I was in year three, I was below | :02:37. | :02:44. | |
average in most of my A-levels. Now I am in year six I am above average | :02:44. | :02:51. | |
and in the top group. Your school work has improved? Yes. | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
important is food to you guys? scale of 1 to 10, I would rate it | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
as 10, definitely. One of the UK's biggest police | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
forces has told Newsround that the number of children stealing food is | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
on the up, compared to those stealing things like sweets. | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
Greater Manchester Police told us they think it's down to kids not | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
having any food available to them in their homes. In Islington in | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
London, officers are giving out food vouchers to kids try to stop | :03:15. | :03:25. | |
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them from turning to crime. They are hungry and at break times | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
and lunchtimes they are going out and shoplifting from local | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
supermarkets and sweet shops. Because they're hungry they are | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
turning to crime? Some of them do, but they are not stealing sweets | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
and chocolate and chewing gum, they are going out and stealing bread | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
and food for themselves and their family. $$NEWLNE Money problems can | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
affect families in lots of different ways. We've been asking | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
you if you worry about money, or if your family hasn't had as much to | :03:55. | :04:05. | |
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spend recently, and lots of you Thanks to everyone who got involved | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
in our chat. Here on the sofa I've got Peter Gibson. He works for a | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
charity called Rathbone, which provides support for kids and | :04:29. | :04:38. | |
teenagers. When we say kids are living in poverty, what do we mean? | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
In means they cannot afford the close they might want to buy. It | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
might mean they are struggling to travel to school because they | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
cannot afford the bus fare. But sometimes they don't get a decent | :04:49. | :04:57. | |
meal. I I -- I am meeting inspiring young people every day, who despite | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
their poverty, go on and achieve. If there are kids watching this, | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
what should they be doing? They should never be ashamed of the fact | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
they have not got enough money. It does not make them a bad person. | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
They should turn to a trusted adults, and I think they will find | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
the adults will say to them, we have been through tough times | :05:18. | :05:25. | |
before, we can get through them again. Key positive. Are there any | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
charities that they can talk to? Should they be worrying? I don't | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
think they should be worrying. It does not mean the rest of your life | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
will be like this. There are charities like wrath bone, | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
citizens' advice and the local church group might be able to help. | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
Keep a smile on your face, stick together. | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
Peter thanks for coming in. OK time to update you on all the action | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
from the Paralympics. Ricky is there at the Olympic Park for us. | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
Ricky what's been going on today? Hi Nel. Well I've just got back | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
from inside the Olympic Park where I've heard from so many kids who've | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
told me that their views on people with disabilities have really | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
changed over the past couple of days. You can hear some of those | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
views tomorrow. But, back to the action. David Weir was on the | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
athletics track again just hours after winning gold last night. He | :06:12. | :06:22. | |
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cruised through in 800m, T54 heat. Let's talk a bit about cycling. | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
Sarah Storey has been in storming form. She got her third gold | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
earlier today in the time trial and that gives her 10 gold medals | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
overall. If she wins an 11th gold, she'll be on a par with Britain's | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
greatest Paralympian, Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson. There has also been | :06:41. | :06:48. | |
a silver medal in the cycling. Mark Coleborn has won in the time-trial. | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
But the big thing everyone's been looking forward to today is the | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
start of the wheelchair rugby. It's one of the Paralympics most | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
exciting events but it's not for faint hearted - as Ore's been | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
finding out. It's speedy... It's nail-biting... | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
It's brutal! And they call it "Murderball"! It's the toughest | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
sport on wheels, with full-on wheelchair contact allowed, and | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
that makes for some crunching collisions. Here are the rules of | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
wheelchair rugby. It's played on a basketball court with four players | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
per team. They can be men or women but they must have a physical | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
impairment that affects the arms and legs. The aim of the game is to | :07:26. | :07:36. | |
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carry the ball across your opponent's line. It's played in | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
four eight-minute quarters. For spectators, the biggest thrill is | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
watching the chairs colliding at speed and it's no wonder the event | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
sold out in record time. But that can lead to some serious injuries. | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
GB captain, Steve Brown, fell out of his wheelchair during a game | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
after crashing with two other players. He broke his breastbone | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
and four ribs and was in hospital for six weeks. Ouch! Great Britain, | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
currently ranked 5th in the world, are among eight teams competing for | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
gold. They finished fourth at the last two Paralympics so they'll be | :08:03. | :08:11. | |
hoping the support in London will help them grab a medal on home turf. | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
Well, rugby's already under way with GB playing the USA this | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
afternoon. I can tell you there were plenty of major collisions. | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
But it ended with a US victory, 56- 44. Lots more matches to come. | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
Tonight, keep an eye out at 7:00pm for the blade runner himself, South | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
Africa's, Oscar Pistorius. He's back in action for the 100m, T44 | :08:27. | :08:36. | |
heats. Fingers crossed he can do it after his controversial silver | :08:36. | :08:46. | |
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medal in the 200 metres. This is one of Europe's MoTs | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
strangest animals. Scientists say they are rare and because they only | :08:51. | :08:56. |