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I'm Jenny, you're watching Newsround, live on CBBC, coming up | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
this Friday: The world's coolest games are back as Sochi welcomes the | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
Paralympians. And the German backpacker who had to eat flies to | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
stay alive in the Australian outback - it could only be Newsround! First, | :00:17. | :00:24. | |
wax up your skis and grab your curling stones because the coolest | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
games in the world are back! In the past few minutes, the opening | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
ceremony of the Winter Paralympics got under way. These are pictures of | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
the spectacular start just moments ago. In the next hour or so, | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
youngest ever winter Paralympian, 15-year-old Millie Knight, will be | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
flying the flag for Great Britain as they parade into the huge stadium. | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
Millie told the BBC how excited she is to be representing Team GB. It's | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
incredible it's the best feeling in the world. It's been my dream since | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
I was tiny and now I'm doing it, it's amazing! Millie's sport, which | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
starts in a week's time, is downhill skiing, but she's partially-sighted, | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
so how does she speed down the slopes? And what are her hopes for | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
the competition? My guide will talk to me through their microphone and | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
it will come to me through ear pieces here in the helmet. I'm top | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
in the world, but the 12 people in front of me are incredible. When I | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
go to Sochi it is purely for the experience. I'm aiming to come maybe | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
higher than last! So if I come second last I will be really happy! | :01:34. | :01:41. | |
Moving on to the man at the centre of the crisis in Ukraine: Russian | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
President, Vladimir Putin. We've talked about him a lot on Newsround | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
over the past few weeks, but who exactly is he? Here's Nel. Unlike | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
many world leaders today, Putin isn't from a rich background. He | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
grew up in what was then the Soviet Union in the 1950s. Many families, | :01:58. | :02:06. | |
like Putin's, were very poor indeed. Growing up, the young Vladimir | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
dreamed of becoming a spy. After university he joined the KGB, which | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
spied on foreign governments and helped to keep strict control on | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
people living in the Soviet Union. He moved into politics and quickly | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
became a powerful figure behind the scenes. Putin has put a lot of | :02:21. | :02:30. | |
effort into creating a character of a tough, all-action president. He | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
likes to make sure that TV cameras are around to film him showing off | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
his strength as a judo black belt, or out hunting and fishing. It's a | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
plan that won over many ordinary Russians - voting him in as | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
President back in the year 2000. There is no doubt, as Russia's | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
president, Putin is a very powerful man. But many don't agree with how | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
much power and control he has in Russia, particularly over what TV | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
reports say. There were huge protests in Russian cities before | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
Putin was re-elected in 2012. And now many world leaders are critical | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
of his actions against Crimea, meaning President Putin remains a | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
leader who splits opinion both at home and around the world. Back here | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
in Britain, the National Trust says it's seen the biggest loss of trees | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
in a generation in its parks and gardens across England, Wales and | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
Northern Ireland. Experts say January's powerful winter storms | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
blew down hundreds of trees, including ancient specimens like the | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
rare black walnut, old oaks and chestnuts too. Next - malaria, the | :03:30. | :03:37. | |
deadly blood disease spread by mosquitoes, affects over 200 million | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
people around the world each year, mainly in poorer countries. It's an | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
illness that's particularly dangerous for children. Now | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
scientists say rising temperatures could mean even more people are at | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
risk. Until recently, areas higher up in Africa and South America have | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
been free from the disease, because it's too cold for the malaria | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
parasite, and the mosquitoes that carry it, to survive. But new | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
research suggests that with temperatures set to rise in future, | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
more and more people might end up getting the disease, who would not | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
normally have been affected. Next to an extraordinary tale of survival | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
from the Australian state of Queensland. Police there say that a | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
German backpacker is lucky to be alive after attempting to walk, | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
alone, more than 50 miles across scorching desert. But he lost his | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
way in the outback and was missing for more than two-and-a-half weeks - | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
leading to an interesting choice of diet. Look it appears he has lived | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
on some very small number of provisions. He had some baked beans | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
and some cereal we're led to believe. But once that run out after | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
the first few days, he says he's been living on flies! That's all | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
from me this Friday. But get onto the Newsround website right now for | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
a baby hippo to brighten up your day! | :04:53. | :04:58. |