Browse content similar to 06/12/2012. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
Hello. It's Thursday December 6th. I'm Ricky. And I'm Leah. Coming up: | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
Prince Charles on the news he's to be a grandad. | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
The world at night - new pictures from space. | :00:16. | :00:26. | |
And the mission to the coldest part of the Earth. It is slightly | :00:26. | :00:36. | |
:00:36. | :00:41. | ||
unpredictable and I don't like This is Newsround. | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
First, politicians make speeches all the time - it comes with the | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
job. What they say is pretty much always criticised, but the way they | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
speak doesn't usually come under scrutiny. During a heated debate in | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
the House of Commons yesterday, the Shadow Chancellor, Ed Balls, | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
struggled to find the right words and was criticised for his | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
performance. But today, Ed Balls, who's responsible for Labour's | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
policies on the economy, said his stammer got the better of him and | :01:04. | :01:11. | |
he has nothing to be sorry about. Yesterday, the Shadow Chancellor, | :01:11. | :01:19. | |
Ed Balls made this speech. national deficit is not rising. It | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
is rising, not falling. While talking about the state of | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
the economy, Ed Balls hesitated and seemed confused. | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
It happened during a series of exchanges with this man. George | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
Osborne was making his Autumn Statement to Parliament. He's in | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
charge of the Government's money and how it's spent. Ed Balls said | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
he hesitated because he suffers from a stammer, which is a type of | :01:42. | :01:50. | |
speech disorder. On the radio this morning he said: everybody knows, | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
with me, that I have a stammer. Sometimes my stammer gets the | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
better of me in the first minute or two when I speak, especially when I | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
have the Prime Minister, the Chancellor and 300 Conservative MPs | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
yelling at me at the top of their voices. But frankly, that is just | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
who I am. The Chancellor, George Osborne, | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
said his Labour rival had given the worst reply he had ever heard and | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
said it had nothing to do with his stammer. Mr Balls is said to be one | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
of Labour's best speakers. He's revealed that he faces a daily | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
battle to deliver his words and has to memorise his speeches. Half a | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
million people in the UK suffer from the condition and it's quite | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
common for young children to experience a stammer at some point | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
when they're growing up. Sue Addlestone is a speech and | :02:33. | :02:43. | |
:02:43. | :02:43. | ||
language therapist. Thank you for coming in. First, could a stammer | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
ever stop you from doing a really important job like being a | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
politician or a leader? I don't think it could stop you doing it | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
but it can make jobs quite tricky at some times when you are doing | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
them. A job where you are under pressure. I imagine pressure makes | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
a stammer worse. That is definitely true. Probably most of the time, Ed | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
Balls is able to control the stammer using techniques learned | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
through therapy. But when the pressure becomes intense, it is | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
overwhelming, and that is probably why he ended up stammering. Can you | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
ever get over a stammer? For sure, yes. With the right help it is | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
definitely possible to fix a stammer. And children grow out of | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
it, don't they? Some of them grow out of it and some go on to develop | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
stammers. I would advise anybody who is struggling to seek help, | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
because help is out there. Thank you. | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
The Duchess of Cambridge has left hospital after being treated for | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
severe morning sickness. We found out on Tuesday that she and Prince | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
William are expecting their first child. They left the hospital in | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
London together, with Kate holding a bouquet of flowers. Lots of | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
photographers and journalists have been outside the hospital since she | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
went in, and Kate told them she was feeling much better. She's now at | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
home with William, resting. This afternoon, Prince Charles said how | :04:00. | :04:08. | |
he felt about the prospect of becoming a grandad. I am thrilled. | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
Marvellous. It is very nice to think of being a grandfather in my | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
old age, if I may say so. And I am glad my daughter in law is feeling | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
better, thank goodness. Thank you. Next, to Egypt, where, nearly two | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
years since the start of protests which became known as the Arab | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
Spring, people are still fighting for a democratic system of | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
government. There was serious violence on the streets of the | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
capital, Cairo, last night. At least five people were killed and | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
more than 600 injured. I've been trying to find out why this is | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
happening again. This was Tahrir Square in the | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
centre of Cairo nearly two years ago. At the start of the Arab | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
Spring, peopling countries across the Middle East took to the streets | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
to fight for democracy. Thousands of Egyptians united in protest | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
against the way their country was being run. The army used water | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
cannon and tear-gas to try to stop them, and many people were killed | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
and injured. After weeks of violent demonstrations, President Hosni | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
Mubarak stood down. And earlier this year, Egyptians chose a new | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
President, President Morsi, in the country's first ever free elections. | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
But now demonstrators have returned to the streets, angry at new powers | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
the President has given himself which, they say, could lead to | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
another dictatorship. Basically what we wanted from the beginning | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
was a sense of democracy and people having better lives. We elected the | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
President and then we hoped for that to be achieved. But with the | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
new laws that came out and the decisions he took, they showed that | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
we are actually going on a different road, and not the | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
roadster real democracy. But many supporters of President Morsi and | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
the party he represents have been out demonstrating, too. They argue | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
he was chosen by the Egyptian people and they must trust his | :05:56. | :06:03. | |
decisions. In January 2011, people were passionate because they were | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
united in their cause. Currently, people are divided in their | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
opinions in the country. And I feel that the country needs to get along, | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
or else we risk further turmoil. Violent clashes between the two | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
sides outside the presidential palace last night left at least | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
five people dead and hundreds injured. Today, things have been,. | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
The Egyptian army lined the streets in tanks to prevent any more | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
fighting. But while the President refuses to withdraw his new powers, | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
the country remains divided. If you think it's cold here in the | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
UK at the moment, imagine trekking 2,000 miles in the dark, in | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
temperatures of minus 70 degrees Celsius, or lower! That's what the | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
legendary explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes is set to do. He's going to | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
lead a team on a six-month trek across Antarctica. The journey has | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
never been attempted before in winter. The aim is to try to find | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
out more about life there and to raise money for charity. And | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
they're well stocked up, with nearly 200 loo rolls and over 7,000 | :07:05. | :07:15. | |
tea bags. We will then wait for the official beginning of winter and | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
start the first ever attempt to cross the Antarctic continent, | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
which is far bigger than China and India. No rescue service facility | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
at all, if you run into trouble. And that is the first ever attempt | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
to cross Antarctica in wintertime. We've been asking for your thoughts | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
on where on Earth, or maybe somewhere not on Earth, you'd like | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
to explore. We've had lots of you getting in touch. | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
Ali from Brighton says, "I would like to explore Pluto because no- | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
one has been there yet." Daniel, in Newbury, says he'd love | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
to go to Brazil so he could explore the Amazon rainforest and meet all | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
of the animals. And Emma, in Reading, says she | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
would travel to the stars because they are pretty and no-one has done | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
it before. To cricket, and the England captain, | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
Alastair Cook, has scored a century in the third Test in India, his | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
23rd, which is a record number for an English batsman. Cook made 136 | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
not out as England reached 216 for one in reply to India's 316 all out | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
at the close of day two in the third Test. He becomes the youngest | :08:13. | :08:20. | |
batsman to reach 7,000 Test runs. We end with these stunning images | :08:20. | :08:27. | |
released by the space agency NASA. They show the world lit up at night. | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
Special high-res infared cameras aboard the SUOMI spaceraft capture | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
planet Earth in so much detail. Major cities like London and New | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
York can be clearly seen. This spectacular night-time view of | :08:40. | :08:44. |