12/03/2016 Newsround


12/03/2016

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It's Saturday afternoon, you're live with me Ayshah on CBBC

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with all of this coming your way.

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Help to save habitats for hedgehogs and...

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Meet the kangaroo living in an unusual place.

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There's a big game this afternoon in the Six Nations rugby tournament.

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England take on Wales at Twickenham in London,

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and whoever wins today will be on course to be crowned champions.

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Both coaches think their team is going to do well.

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It is the side that is going to be smarter that will win the game.

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There is an old saying, if you are relying just on physical

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advantage to win a game of rugby, you are

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going to come second.

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We know we have to be physical.

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If we can't match them physically, we are not in the game.

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I think our game is in good shape at the moment.

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We've been very pleased with the way that we

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have scrummaged, and particularly that young front row that have

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continued to improve and, hopefully,

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it is an area on Saturday that we can go out and dominate.

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This week we had BBC News School Report Day,

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when school children have been making the news about subjects

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important to them.

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So, if you couldn't see, would you ever think of having

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a bionic eye implanted to help you?

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After a ground-breaking operation was successfully carried out

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earlier this year, BBC school reporter Kelsey,

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who is blind, investigates the impact the technology could have

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on his own life.

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See you later.

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Bye, Kel.

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Bye.

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I am Kelsey and I am totally blind, and

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I'm on my way to school at Watford Boys.

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Back in January, this lady, Rhian Lewis, was implanted

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with a bionic eye and it made me think, if there was technology that

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could help me see, would I want it?

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My school is a mainstream school which means I

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get taught alongside everybody else.

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Do you think it's any different teaching me overall in comparison

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to a sighted student in the class?

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It is different in the sense that you

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have got different needs.

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I have to plan a couple of weeks in advance

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more than I usually would, but it's no different to every

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people having their own individual needs.

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-- every pupil.

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My friends, like Michael and Charlie,

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are important because they treat me like everybody else.

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All this makes me feel no different to any other

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student.

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I am happy being blind.

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Me and my dad have come to the BBC to

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do a radio interview with Professor MacLaren.

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He was the surgeon who carried out the operation on a Rhian,

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who I told you about earlier.

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What's the point in having a little bit of sight restored

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with a bionic eye?

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Someone who's never seen anything before, there would be

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little point in trying to bring some vision back.

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We're talking about people who have lived their lives

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using eye-sight and that has then unfortunately been lost.

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The ability for these patients to be able to see

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the shape of an object in front of them, the position of the window,

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for instance, is very helpful.

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Having spoken to teachers, friends and the professor,

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I have concluded that although this technology has

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obvious advantages for some, it's just not for me.

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Being blind is not negative, it's different.

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American astronaut Scott Kelly has announced his retirement.

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Less than two weeks after returning to Earth, after spending nearly

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a year on board the International Space Station.

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He holds the record for the most amount of time spent in space.

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A new study has found that hedgehogs might soon be extinct in Britain.

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It's thought that the number of hedgehogs decreases

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by 5% each year.

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Hayley's been looking at what one park in London is doing to help

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the prickly animals.

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Hedgehogs are animals that come out at night and like to live in gardens

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and parks where they can find food, shelter and lots of insects.

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But thanks to more roads being built and more gardens being covered over,

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the habitats that hedgehogs need to thrive are disappearing,

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and so, too, are the hedgehogs.

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There are a number of reasons why hedgehogs could be declining.

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There has been an increased use of pesticides.

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People are paving their gardens it is they are easier to maintain,

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but you are losing foraging opportunities for hedgehogs.

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And then because of developments and roads, it is just

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fragmenting the habitats that they need.

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It's thought that over the past 10 years, almost a third

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of all our hedgehogs have dissapeared from Britain.

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And thanks to a recent survey from charity Hedgehog Street,

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we know that they have almost disappeared completely

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from our cities, parks and gardens.

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But there is one park in central London where the hedgehogs

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are surviving, and it's thanks to volunteers and rangers

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who are keeping the park hedgehog-frinedly.

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-- Friendly.

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Every metre or so, we have cut the bar, made a fist sized hole

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for them to get through so they can move

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between the two areas.

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It just expands the amount of habitat they have got.

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Anything that we can do to make them have a better chance of finding food

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resources and each other and places to nest, will hopefully

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in the long-term keep their numbers growing.

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So far, hedgehog numbers in Regents Park are on the up,

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but it's thought that if more building over green land takes place

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that Britain's hedgehogs might be threatened with extinction.

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Before we go take a look at this.

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A baby kangaroo has been adopted by a police station

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in Western Australia.

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Police officers have been looking after the four-month-old

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since its mother died.

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That's all from me and the team today.

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I'll be back with your Sunday

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morning stories just before 10am.

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I'll

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I'll see

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I'll see you

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I'll see you then.

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