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It's coming up to 4:20 this Thursday afternoon. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Loads to tell you about today including, on the slopes, | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
a day in the life of a top British snowboarder and, up the cliff, | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
how a staircase is helping one village in China. | :00:14. | :00:26. | |
There's been an investigation into the safety issues that forced | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
17 schools in Edinburgh to close temporarily last year. | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
It started after a wall at this primary school | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
Now a report's been released, it says there should have been | :00:34. | :00:42. | |
The city council says it's learned lessons from what happened, | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
which affected more than 7,000 students. | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
Also today, the torch for next year's Winter Olympics has been | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
unveiled, as it's exactly 365 days until the Games kick | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
Thousands of sports stars from around the world will be | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
Like the Summer Olympics, the winter Olympics take place every four | :01:02. | :01:22. | |
years. In 2018, athletes will compete in seven sports. Triathlon, | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
Bobsleigh, curling, ice hockey, louche, skipping and skiing. 102 | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
gold medals are up for grabs and as many as 100 countries are expected | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
to take part, including Team GB. Let's not forget the mascots. The | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
White Tiger and if there. Excited yet? See you there. | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
Well, it's not just excitement, there's a lot of hard work involved | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
One of them is 19-year-old snowboarder, Katie Ormerod, | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
who sent us this video diary from her training camp in Austria. | :01:53. | :02:05. | |
My knee is Kiki Ormerod and I am a freestyle snowboarder. I am going to | :02:06. | :02:13. | |
take you through a day in the life of how I live and what I do as a | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
professional snowboarder. We have found days, so I will show you going | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
to the gym. I hope you enjoy it. Hello. This is Kitty. Still in bed. | :02:24. | :02:39. | |
I got involved with freestyle snowboarding when I was about five | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
years old. I love the fact you can travel the world with your best | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
friends. It has been a dream to get the Olympic gold. It is a bit windy. | :02:49. | :03:03. | |
Where are the afternoon? The gym. If I tried hard, it hurts a little bit, | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
so I am keeping it strong and healthy by having physio now and | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
again. My training has been going really well and I have gotten really | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
good results this season, so I am excited and hope you enjoyed my day | :03:18. | :03:18. | |
in the life. Well, this next story | :03:19. | :03:19. | |
could be an extreme sport, imagine if you had to climb 800 | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
metres to get to your home That's what these kids have to do, | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
but a new giant staircase Seems like a peaceful | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
place to live, right? It's in the Sichuan province | :03:31. | :03:38. | |
of China, but it's had a bit How do you get to | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
the cliff top village? people used to have to climb 800 | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
metres up the cliffs with only these But things are on the way | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
up, quite literally. Brand new steel staircases have been | :03:52. | :04:01. | |
built all the way to the village. Villagers say it's a big help, | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
much safer and they hope tourists No thanks - I'd rather go | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
visit these orangutans! Scientists who have been studying | :04:08. | :04:15. | |
how apes communicate with each other, believe it's help them | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
understand how human That's the sound | :04:19. | :04:20. | |
of orangutans talking. But researchers believe the apes | :04:21. | :04:33. | |
combine these clicks, squeaks and kiss noises to basically | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
'talk', and that this could be the same as how | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
human language started. That's all from me and the team | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
today, I'll be back Don't forget to check out | :04:49. | :04:50. | |
the website for all the rest | :04:51. | :04:56. |