06/03/2013 Newsround

$:/STARTFEED. Hi, guys - Ricky here with your Wednesday afternoon

Newsround. Coming up... A Bronze Age boat trip for these brave

historians. And I'm here in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan,

with the latest on Syria's refugee crisis.

First, Syria's refugee crisis continues to spiral out of control.

Today the United Nations announced that the number of refugees who

have fled the country has passed one million people. For nearly two

years now, we have been telling you about the fighting between

government forces and rebels in Syria. In a minute, Leah will have

a special report from one of the biggest refugee camps. But first, I

have been looking at the terrifying journeys so many Syrians have had

to make. Frantically packed suitcases. Heavy bags dragged

through the sand in the dead of night. One million ordinary people

- families, with children - have been torn from their daily lives in

a desperate bid to find safety. Syria's brutal civil war has forced

them into to refugee camps in neighbouring countries like Jordan,

Lebanon, and Turkey. The war has been going on for nearly two years

- but the number of people fleeing Syria has almost doubled in just

two months. Incredibly, half of those leaving are children, many of

them under 11 years old. Thousands of them arrive at the camps alone,

with only the clothes they are wearing. The Zaatari camp on the

border with Jordan is one of the largest. It's been growing rapidly

in size over the past six months - with more and more tents having to

be added as the thousands of people pour in. This morning Leah was in

the Zaatari camp, close to the border between Syria and Jordan,

and she sent us this report. This is there's of a refugees end up,

Zaatari. One million people have left Syria, half of them children.

Right now, about 100,000 people have made this place their home.

The people that run the camps say resources are stretched, and that

they are fighting to keep up. have got the space is to set up

camps but we do not have the money to build the camps, to build the

latrines, to buy the food or the tents, to build the schools. UNICEF

wants to build two more schools here but does not have the money.

So many people are talking about the situation in Syria and the

needs of the Syrian people and how children are so important, but we

do not have money to build schools. Every way you dock, there are

children. They will tell you they want to be doctors, artists or

writers when they grow up. They love Arabic lessons, they love

playing in the playground. Some of them love Real Madrid and Cristiano

Ronaldo. I will be bringing you more of their stories on Newsround

later in the month. Thanks, Leah. If you want to find out more about

what life is like in the refugee camp, check out Leah's picture

gallery on the website. OK - 18 brave historians took to the sea

from Falmouth in Cornwall this afternoon in an exact replica of a

boat used some 4,000 years ago! The boat was built from scratch using

traditional tools, as well as moss and sheep fat to keep it watertight.

The hope is the experiment will help the team learn more about how

people living in Britain during the Bronze Age travelled to other

countries to trade. Not so good sailing off the coast of Panama in

central America, though, where wild and windy weather has grounded at

least six ships, including several giant cargo vessels. No injuries

have been reported and it is not thought the shipwrecks have caused

any damage to the environment. The strong winds were created by a big

band of cold weather that's sitting over North America. OK, animal

lovers, listen up - it's the return of panda Watch! Keepers at

Edinburgh Zoo are preparing their two giant pandas - Yang Guang and

Tian Tian - for this year's breeding season. The prize pair

failed to mate last year but have been showing signs that they may be

ready to try again. It's tricky for female pandas to become pregnant as

it can only happen once a year, in a really short period of time.

We're seeing behaviours that indicate they know about each other,

they are interested in each other. One of them is eating prodigious

amounts of bamboo, building himself up. He is even doing an occasional

handstand. Finally, well done Justin, you made

it on stage two minutes early last night! After a huge fuss yesterday

when technical problems meant the Biebmeister was late for his first

show at London's O2 Arena, the second show last night went off

without a hitch. He has got a night off tonight, but he has two more