11/08/2014 Newsround


11/08/2014

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Hi guys, Jenny here, live with an amazing dolphin rescue

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on the way, plus What caused the biggest supermoon, in 20 years?

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First, going to the toilet is something most of us do every day,

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But imagine living somewhere where finding a working loo

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That's the case for hundreds of millions of people in India,

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And sorting the problem out, is more difficult than you'd think.

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India's home to some of the world's most famous cities and landmarks.

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But alongside them, tens of millions of people live in slums like this.

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Homes here don't have their own toilets.

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There are no pipes to the sewers, there's no space for them

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in these narrow alleys, so there's nowhere for the waste to go.

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There are shared toilets, but there aren't enough of them

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There are so many people living here and only one toilet.

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We'd be waiting an hour if we tried to use that.

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So most of us in this locality just go out and use

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It leaves millions of people with no choice but to go outside.

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More than 600 million people in India don't have access to

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a proper toilet, that's around 10 times the population of the UK!

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India's new government wants to build five million new toilets

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in 100 days, that's roughly one every second,

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but the authorities say generating the money to build them isn't the

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Most of the land is occupied by slums, so you have to demolish

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a slum to make a public toilet, so the only alternative now left is

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to demolish and reconstruct a toilet and add toilet seats.

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It's not just a problem in the cities, in the countryside

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the situation isn't much better, with similar problems meaning many

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India does have some highly developed towns and cities.

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But with such huge numbers going without access to a simple toilet

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everyday, one of the big challenges for the current government is

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closing the gap between the richest and poorest people in the country.

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Next to how magic tricks are being used to help kids with disabilities.

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These children all suffer from a type of cerebal palsy called

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Hemiplegia, which means one side of their body

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But experts at a special camp in London found that

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by practicing magic tricks, 9 out of 10 kids improved

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the strength on their weaker side, and started using both hands.

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TV magician Dynamo worked with the children.

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By giving them cards to practice shovelling and to giving them the

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skills to help them learn, it gives them more chance to move. They

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forget they are exercising their muscles. It is a good way to get

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them to do exercises while having fun.

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Now, I don't know if you noticed, but there was something pretty

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different about the sky overnight. No, it wasn't the stormy weather,

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I'm talking supermoons. Yes, last night our moon was much bigger and

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brighter than usual. Why? Well watch this.

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As you can see it is a really bright, really really bright.

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Sunday stargazers the world over, were in for a treat last night, as

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a moon 14% bigger and 30% brighter than normal, lit up the night sky.

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The spectacular supermoon, known by astronomers as a perigree, occurs

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when the moon is closest to the Earth in its orbit, making it appear

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We usually think of the Moon going around the world in a circle, but it

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actually goes around in an ellipse, that means it is sometimes closer,

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sometimes further away. When it is closer, it looks spectacular. Super

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moons occur every 13 months, but the one yesterday was brighter than

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usual. But if you missed the supermoon,

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don't worry, the next one is due to And there are more amazing supermoon

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pictures for you on the Newsround And finally,

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just enough time to tell you 13-year-old Finley from Nottingham,

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and his uncle Simon, were on holiday on the Isle of Mull,

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when they spotted the animals, who had become stranded

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near a beach on the Scottish coast. This is the footage of his uncle who

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spent the next two hours helping 19 dolphins to safety, by picking them

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up and moving them to deeper waters. That's all from me, Newsround's back

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bright and early tomorrow morning.

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