12/01/2017 Newsround

Good morning all. It's Thursday, it's Newsround.

I'm Ricky.

Coming up:

We meet the spy cameras hiding in the wild.

And what one teenager has built with snow in his back garden.

First, this year is going to see some big changes

to the way our country deals with its neighbours.

Martin and Ayshah love the seaside, even at this time of year,

so we sent them out to find out more.

This is Brighton.

It's got a pier, it's got a tower, it's got the sea,

and it's even got sand.

Well, kind of.

This is Blackpool.

It's got a pier, it's got a tower, and, you guessed

it, it's got the sea.

But there were some differences between the two when it comes

to the vote that adults took last year for Britain to leave

a club of countries called the European Union.

Here in Brighton, most people voted to stay.

But here in Blackpool, most people voted to leave.

Now, this year, the UK Government is going to tell the European Union

that we're leaving.

So what do kids in these two places think of that decision?

I think leaving the EU is a good thing, because we will have more

control of our money and can give it to services who need it

most, like hospitals and schools.

I chose to stay in the EU because I want to be united

with other countries.

For a few weeks or a couple of months, we might take a bit

of time to get used to the idea that we're not in the EU any more,

we don't really have any countries to really back us up as we used to.

But I do feel that we will get used to it and that we will make

Britain great again.

If we'd stayed in we could have moved on and forgotten about it

and still have the good deals and good relationships with them.

And now, because we've left, we have to find different

deals, we have to find, in a way, new friends.

I think that people coming from different countries

is like losing our money, so getting people's life back

on track will get more money for us, because we're only a small country

and the money that we give away is quite a lot.

I feel that we could be not as safe as we were.

There is a bigger chance that we could make enemies

with the other countries in the EU now.

It's frustrating when big decisions are getting made,

because we don't get a say in the decisions and I think

we should, because we're the ones that are going to be

affected by them.

To football, and England women's record goal-scorer,

Kelly Smith, says she's

going to retire from football.

The 38-year-old scored 46 goals in 117 appearances for her country.

She's now going to work as a coach at Arsenal.

Now, if you're missing Planet Earth II, there's a

new nature show called Spy In The Wild on tonight.

Think furry robots, spy cameras, and you've got one

pretty unique nature show.

Do you ever get the feeling you're being watched?

By a meerkat!

Meet Huw Williams.

He's a cameraman on the brand-new show Spy In The Wild,

which uses animal robots to help spy on animals in the wild.

We wanted to find out a little bit more about these

rather hairy robots.

Tell us who have we got here?

Here we have spy meerkat and spy peccary.

There's 34 different robots, how did you make them?

It's kind of a group effort.

We have different engineers from around the world and some

people do the internal robotics, whilst others do the aesthetics

and design the skins and make them look the part.

So these are the remote controls.

Yes.

That looks familiar.

This is almost like your average PlayStation remote control.

This controls the spy peccary here.

Look at that!

You are moving its head.

That's quite realistic, the way it's moving its head.

Yeah.

That's the key, really, is to make these robotics look

and act like the real thing, just to try and convince

the animals out there and make them feel comfortable.

Where would the camera be?

The cameras are in fact in the eyes.

All of our spy creatures are hiding a hidden camera.

They're in the eye.

What was the most surprising thing you learned in this series?

There's one in particular, a spy meerkat here, the wild

meerkats actually handed over baby-sitting responsibilities

to our spy meerkat, and so they left these babies with him,

whilst they went off hunting for food, which was fantastic.

If you could create any robotic animal, which animal would it be?

I think it would be the cheetah.

Purely because I would just love to see

a robot moving at that pace.

But I think that's going to be the next step for us.

There's been lots of wintry weather across the UK overnight -

strong winds, low temperatures and even some snow showers.

But will the UK get enough snow for a proper snowman?

Well, we want your weather updates.

If the snow starts falling where you are, you can send

us your pictures or your own weather report by going online.

If you do get snow in your area, you might want to try this.

A teenager from Austria has built his very own miniature ski

resort in his back garden.

Kevin Pobatschnig has created chair lifts,

ski slopes and skiers as part of his mini ski village.

That's all from me.

Newsround's back at 4:20.

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