10/07/2014 Newsround


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Hi, I'm Leah with your Newsround update.

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Coming up, find out who's joining Germany in the World Cup final -

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Argentina or the Netherlands?

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The giant underground trampoline in Wales.

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And find out why this crocodile is getting married!

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But first this morning, lots of you won't be going to school today

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because your teachers are joining over a million council workers,

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nurses and firefighters in a strike.

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It's the biggest protest over pay that the current Government has ever

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faced and will affect services across England,

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Wales and Northern Ireland.

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Hayley's got more.

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Firefighters, hospital staff, government workers

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and even teachers.

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They are all supposed to be at work today, but many of them won't be.

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That's because more than 1 million of these

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workers have decided to strike.

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A strike is when a group of workers agrees to stop working

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for a period of time.

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They do this when they want to protest against something they

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think is unfair at their job.

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They think that by stopping work, politicians will listen more

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carefully to what they want.

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Teachers think they are having to work too hard and do too many things

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to be able to teach properly.

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The support staff - classroom assistants,

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dinner ladies, caretakers - are going on strike because

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they are not being paid enough.

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People in the UK have had the right to

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legally strike for over 200 years.

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The first big strike was held in 1926, when nearly all of the UK came

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to a standstill over a row about coal miners' working conditions.

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Since then, people have gone on strike over things like pay,

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working conditions, equal treatment for men and women, and job losses.

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But after a series of big protests by miners in the 1980s,

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the government introduced new rules that made it harder to strike.

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Back to today, and the government say they can't afford to pay what

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the people on strike are asking for.

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We can only do what we can afford to do as a country.

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The only people who are going to be injured or hurt by these strikes

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are those who have got nothing to do with the dispute whatsoever.

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For you, it may come as a day off school.

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But for teachers, other workers and the government, the row is expected

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to continue for a bit longer.

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Next, a big disappointment for the Netherlands, but a huge

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celebration for Argentina, who made it through to the World Cup final

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last night after a gruelling match that was goalless after extra time.

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Here's BBC Sport's Olly Foster with a recap of the match.

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Welcome to Rio de Janeiro.

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After 62 matches over the last four weeks all over Brazil, we?re just

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three days away from the final and we know who?s going to be playing

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after a crazy couple of semifinals.

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We had that amazing result with Germany beating Brazil 7-1.

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And almost completely the opposite, no goals last night between

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Argentina and the Netherlands, even though they had some of

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the world's best strikers playing.

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Arjen Robben, Robin van Persie and Lionel Messi.

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They couldn't even get a goal in extra time

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so they had to take penalty kicks.

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Argentina didn't miss any of theirs, as the Dutch had two saved

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by Romero.

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He is Argentina's hero who has taken them to the World Cup final,

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where they face the Germans here in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday.

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And for all the highlights of that match and the latest

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World Cup fact of the day, go to the Newsround website.

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Now to what could be the best thing ever.

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This is an underground trampoline made out of an old mine in Wales

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to create a giant underground play area.

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BBC Wales reporter Tomos Morgan was lucky enough to have a go -

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take a look.

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During the 1900s, these slate mines were the beating heart of the town.

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How times have changed.

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Hardhats aside, this isn't a mine any more, but a giant playroom.

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Twice the size of St Paul's Cathedral, with a kilometre

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of ropes to hold everyone up, this is the largest, possibly the only,

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underground trampoline in the world.

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And it is already proving a sell-out attraction.

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I'm tired!

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It's brilliant. I feel like a kid again.

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The lighting's great. The atmosphere's fantastic.

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It's just very tiring. I need to get a bit fitter!

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It's a game of snakes and ladders between the three levels,

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with walkways up and chutes down.

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It took four months to clear the cave to make this funhouse.

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Local sports clubs have already booked in their fitness sessions.

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And after an hour's bouncing around, it's easy to see why.

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After a while, even lying down seems to be a challenge.

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But could this be even cooler than the trampoline - a transformer plane

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that splits into three smaller ones.

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The company who designed this believe their creation could one day

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help planes fly more efficiently.

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It doesn't stop there - they've also designed a 3D printing plane

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which could print rescue vehicles.

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They're just ideas at the moment, but could be developed by 2040.

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Now, a crocodile isn't a wedding guest I'm sure I'd like to see.

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But the mayor of a fishing town in Mexico has married one!

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It sounds strange, but it's a tradition there.

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People believe the croc is a princess and that

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the ceremony will bring them plenty of fish and other seafood.

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After the wedding, there was a party where

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the mayor danced with his new wife.

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I wonder if the guests bought the newlyweds some croc-kery?!

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That's all from me, Newsround's back at 4.20pm.

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Have a nice day.

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