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Hi, I'm Leah with your Newsround update. | 0:00:06 | 0:00:08 | |
Coming up, find out who's joining Germany in the World Cup final - | 0:00:08 | 0:00:11 | |
Argentina or the Netherlands? | 0:00:11 | 0:00:15 | |
The giant underground trampoline in Wales. | 0:00:15 | 0:00:17 | |
And find out why this crocodile is getting married! | 0:00:17 | 0:00:22 | |
But first this morning, lots of you won't be going to school today | 0:00:24 | 0:00:27 | |
because your teachers are joining over a million council workers, | 0:00:27 | 0:00:30 | |
nurses and firefighters in a strike. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:33 | |
It's the biggest protest over pay that the current Government has ever | 0:00:33 | 0:00:37 | |
faced and will affect services across England, | 0:00:37 | 0:00:40 | |
Wales and Northern Ireland. | 0:00:40 | 0:00:42 | |
Hayley's got more. | 0:00:42 | 0:00:45 | |
Firefighters, hospital staff, government workers | 0:00:45 | 0:00:48 | |
and even teachers. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:51 | |
They are all supposed to be at work today, but many of them won't be. | 0:00:51 | 0:00:54 | |
That's because more than 1 million of these | 0:00:54 | 0:00:56 | |
workers have decided to strike. | 0:00:56 | 0:00:59 | |
A strike is when a group of workers agrees to stop working | 0:00:59 | 0:01:02 | |
for a period of time. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:05 | |
They do this when they want to protest against something they | 0:01:05 | 0:01:08 | |
think is unfair at their job. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:10 | |
They think that by stopping work, politicians will listen more | 0:01:10 | 0:01:13 | |
carefully to what they want. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
Teachers think they are having to work too hard and do too many things | 0:01:16 | 0:01:19 | |
to be able to teach properly. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:22 | |
The support staff - classroom assistants, | 0:01:22 | 0:01:24 | |
dinner ladies, caretakers - are going on strike because | 0:01:24 | 0:01:28 | |
they are not being paid enough. | 0:01:28 | 0:01:31 | |
People in the UK have had the right to | 0:01:31 | 0:01:34 | |
legally strike for over 200 years. | 0:01:34 | 0:01:37 | |
The first big strike was held in 1926, when nearly all of the UK came | 0:01:37 | 0:01:40 | |
to a standstill over a row about coal miners' working conditions. | 0:01:40 | 0:01:43 | |
Since then, people have gone on strike over things like pay, | 0:01:43 | 0:01:47 | |
working conditions, equal treatment for men and women, and job losses. | 0:01:47 | 0:01:51 | |
But after a series of big protests by miners in the 1980s, | 0:01:51 | 0:01:55 | |
the government introduced new rules that made it harder to strike. | 0:01:55 | 0:01:58 | |
Back to today, and the government say they can't afford to pay what | 0:01:58 | 0:02:02 | |
the people on strike are asking for. | 0:02:02 | 0:02:05 | |
We can only do what we can afford to do as a country. | 0:02:05 | 0:02:09 | |
The only people who are going to be injured or hurt by these strikes | 0:02:09 | 0:02:12 | |
are those who have got nothing to do with the dispute whatsoever. | 0:02:12 | 0:02:15 | |
For you, it may come as a day off school. | 0:02:15 | 0:02:19 | |
But for teachers, other workers and the government, the row is expected | 0:02:19 | 0:02:22 | |
to continue for a bit longer. | 0:02:22 | 0:02:25 | |
Next, a big disappointment for the Netherlands, but a huge | 0:02:25 | 0:02:29 | |
celebration for Argentina, who made it through to the World Cup final | 0:02:29 | 0:02:33 | |
last night after a gruelling match that was goalless after extra time. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:36 | |
Here's BBC Sport's Olly Foster with a recap of the match. | 0:02:36 | 0:02:41 | |
Welcome to Rio de Janeiro. | 0:02:41 | 0:02:44 | |
After 62 matches over the last four weeks all over Brazil, we?re just | 0:02:44 | 0:02:47 | |
three days away from the final and we know who?s going to be playing | 0:02:47 | 0:02:51 | |
after a crazy couple of semifinals. | 0:02:51 | 0:02:54 | |
We had that amazing result with Germany beating Brazil 7-1. | 0:02:54 | 0:02:58 | |
And almost completely the opposite, no goals last night between | 0:02:58 | 0:03:02 | |
Argentina and the Netherlands, even though they had some of | 0:03:02 | 0:03:04 | |
the world's best strikers playing. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:07 | |
Arjen Robben, Robin van Persie and Lionel Messi. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:11 | |
They couldn't even get a goal in extra time | 0:03:11 | 0:03:14 | |
so they had to take penalty kicks. | 0:03:14 | 0:03:18 | |
Argentina didn't miss any of theirs, as the Dutch had two saved | 0:03:18 | 0:03:21 | |
by Romero. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:24 | |
He is Argentina's hero who has taken them to the World Cup final, | 0:03:24 | 0:03:28 | |
where they face the Germans here in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:32 | |
And for all the highlights of that match and the latest | 0:03:32 | 0:03:35 | |
World Cup fact of the day, go to the Newsround website. | 0:03:35 | 0:03:39 | |
Now to what could be the best thing ever. | 0:03:39 | 0:03:44 | |
This is an underground trampoline made out of an old mine in Wales | 0:03:44 | 0:03:48 | |
to create a giant underground play area. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:51 | |
BBC Wales reporter Tomos Morgan was lucky enough to have a go - | 0:03:51 | 0:03:54 | |
take a look. | 0:03:54 | 0:03:58 | |
During the 1900s, these slate mines were the beating heart of the town. | 0:03:58 | 0:04:03 | |
How times have changed. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:06 | |
Hardhats aside, this isn't a mine any more, but a giant playroom. | 0:04:06 | 0:04:12 | |
Twice the size of St Paul's Cathedral, with a kilometre | 0:04:12 | 0:04:15 | |
of ropes to hold everyone up, this is the largest, possibly the only, | 0:04:15 | 0:04:20 | |
underground trampoline in the world. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:23 | |
And it is already proving a sell-out attraction. | 0:04:23 | 0:04:26 | |
I'm tired! | 0:04:26 | 0:04:28 | |
It's brilliant. I feel like a kid again. | 0:04:28 | 0:04:32 | |
The lighting's great. The atmosphere's fantastic. | 0:04:32 | 0:04:36 | |
It's just very tiring. I need to get a bit fitter! | 0:04:36 | 0:04:40 | |
It's a game of snakes and ladders between the three levels, | 0:04:40 | 0:04:44 | |
with walkways up and chutes down. | 0:04:44 | 0:04:47 | |
It took four months to clear the cave to make this funhouse. | 0:04:47 | 0:04:51 | |
Local sports clubs have already booked in their fitness sessions. | 0:04:51 | 0:04:55 | |
And after an hour's bouncing around, it's easy to see why. | 0:04:55 | 0:04:59 | |
After a while, even lying down seems to be a challenge. | 0:04:59 | 0:05:03 | |
But could this be even cooler than the trampoline - a transformer plane | 0:05:03 | 0:05:06 | |
that splits into three smaller ones. | 0:05:06 | 0:05:09 | |
The company who designed this believe their creation could one day | 0:05:09 | 0:05:13 | |
help planes fly more efficiently. | 0:05:13 | 0:05:16 | |
It doesn't stop there - they've also designed a 3D printing plane | 0:05:16 | 0:05:20 | |
which could print rescue vehicles. | 0:05:20 | 0:05:23 | |
They're just ideas at the moment, but could be developed by 2040. | 0:05:23 | 0:05:26 | |
Now, a crocodile isn't a wedding guest I'm sure I'd like to see. | 0:05:26 | 0:05:29 | |
But the mayor of a fishing town in Mexico has married one! | 0:05:29 | 0:05:33 | |
It sounds strange, but it's a tradition there. | 0:05:33 | 0:05:36 | |
People believe the croc is a princess and that | 0:05:36 | 0:05:39 | |
the ceremony will bring them plenty of fish and other seafood. | 0:05:39 | 0:05:42 | |
After the wedding, there was a party where | 0:05:42 | 0:05:45 | |
the mayor danced with his new wife. | 0:05:45 | 0:05:48 | |
I wonder if the guests bought the newlyweds some croc-kery?! | 0:05:48 | 0:05:51 | |
That's all from me, Newsround's back at 4.20pm. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:55 | |
Have a nice day. | 0:05:55 | 0:05:58 |