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Hey, chaps! Thanks for stopping by! It's live, just after 5:00pm,and | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
you're with Nel and Joe. Stick around because we have a jam packed | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
show including some of this: Charities are calling for more | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
money to help people in the world's biggest refugee camp. And I've been | :00:33. | :00:40. | |
asking Richard Branson about his First, people with O2 and Tesco | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
Mobile phones are getting used to being connected with the world | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
again after major problems with the O2 network that started yesterday | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
afternoon and continued into today. Loads of people found they couldn't | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
use their phones for anything. They were completely useless and it was | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
VERY frustrating. I've been trying to find out what went wrong. | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
Yesterday afternoon, hundreds of thousands of people found that | :01:04. | :01:11. | |
these were totally useless. Customers on the O2 network and | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
Tesco mobile were unable to send texts, make calls or use the | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
internet on their phones well into today. Normally when this sort of | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
thing happens, a faulty transmitter is to blame, which stops people in | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
one area getting mobile reception. But this time, people all over | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
country were affected, even though some people were fine. It's | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
believed to be down to a glitch on O2's central computer system that | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
holds customer mobile numbers. Those numbers aren't being | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
recognised by the computer, so it won't connect customers to the | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
network. This isn't the first time a big company has been hit by | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
serious technical failures. Last month, big banks RBS and NatWest | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
caused chaos for customers when a technical fault stopped money going | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
in and out of accounts. It's estimated that that glitch may have | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
affected up to 7.5 million people. Blackberry customers had problems | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
in October when its instant messenger stopped working for two | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
days. They tried to make it up to customers by offering free apps and | :02:08. | :02:17. | |
games but their reputation was badly damaged. As well as many -- | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
making people angry, many people were thinking about how to cope | :02:20. | :02:28. | |
when technology goes down. Reverse charges please! You have been | :02:28. | :02:38. | |
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getting your story ins about Charities working at the world's | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
largest refugee camp say they're running out of money to help people | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
escaping drought. Eight organisations, including Oxfam and | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
Save The Children, say millions of pounds are needed to pay for food, | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
shelter and medicine at the Dadaab camp in Kenya. Ricky visited Dadaab | :03:08. | :03:18. | |
last year and he's been looking Almost a year ago, Newsround sent | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
me to Kenya in North East Africa to meet the children of the drought. | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
How long has it taken you to get here today? 18 days. So that's more | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
than two weeks. I met families who had walked for days searching for | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
food and somewhere to sleep. Millions of people are going hungry | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
because of a severe water shortage there. Dadaab is made up of series | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
of camp sites. Some refugees have lived here for more than 20 years. | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
At the moment there are around 465,000 people living in tents and | :03:49. | :03:56. | |
mud huts. Many of them are escaping conflict in neighbouring Somali and | :03:56. | :04:04. | |
Ethiopia. I came here from Somalia five months ago. Where I was living | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
I had no food and had to walk hours to get water, but there is never | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
enough. I don't go to school. During the day it is really hot and | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
windy and during the night it is really cold. Well, that was 12 | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
months ago. Today a new appeal has been launched to raise money for | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
the refugees. The charities who are based in Dadaab say they need �16 | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
million to meet the needs of the people out there. Last year the UK | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
gave almost �80 million worth of donations. But the money is now | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
running out. With funds running dangerously low, aid agencies in | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
Kenya are worried they won't be able to protect the families who've | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
ended up there. 30,000 new shelters are needed, with only funding | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
available for 4,000. Many lives could be at risk. Joining us live | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
from Oxford is Jo Harrison. She's been in Dadaab for Oxfam and has | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
just got back. Thank you for joining us. Why do you need the | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
money and how long do you think it will last? I was there quite | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
recently but I was also there this time last year. At that time there | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
were 1,500 people a day arriving who had come from really poor | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
conditions and were quite literally starving. Today it is a much more | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
positive outlook. There is much lower malnutrition levels and | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
people have settled somewhat. Saying that, the situation is still | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
critical. People need shelter and a lot of the tents that were given | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
how last year are falling down due to the harsh climate. People are | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
really just about surviving, only that. So if the funding shortfall | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
will not be met it will have devastating consequences for the | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
people living in the camps. What could be done to find a permanent | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
solution? I was speaking to a lot of the people in the camp, and a | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
lot of young people who were born in the camp and had never been to | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
Somalia. Everyone will tell you the same thing. They want to return to | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
Somalia, the country they are from. But at the moment, of course, there | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
is conflict in the country, so the only solution for people to be able | :06:13. | :06:20. | |
to return is to find peace within Somalia. A key very much. -- thank | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
you very much. If you weren't fed up with the constant rain already | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
there's another reason to hope things dry up soon. The record | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
rainfall over the past few months has been washing rats out of the | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
sewers where they normally live. Health experts are warning that | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
people shouldn't leave food lying around their homes as it might | :06:35. | :06:42. | |
attract the rodents who are looking for drier places to sleep! Space. A | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
lot us look at it as the ultimate adventure but more and more | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
companies are now seeing it as a place to make big bucks. A British | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
entrepreneur says he not only wants to send holiday-makers into space | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
but satellites too. But he's not the only one. For years, | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
governments have spent billions of pounds to but subtle -- shuttles | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
and satellites into orbit and the honour, but now private companies | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
are doing it for themselves in an order to make money. Virgin | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
Galactic car testing ships in the hope they will start a space | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
holiday revolution next year. At the moment a short trip into space | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
will cost about �130,000, way more than most of us can afford. | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
original price is very high, but we can drive that down and down. So | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
people will hopefully be able to go into space, float around, look at | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
the windows and back at the Earth. But space tourism is just the start. | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
Now they want to send satellites into space as well. Satellites have | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
lots of uses from connecting mobile phones to mapping the Earth, so | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
companies want quicker and cheaper ways to put them into orbit. | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
Another British firm are building a plane called Sky long. Earlier this | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
year space agencies made history by becoming the first private company | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
to take suppliers to an international space station. So has | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
space become a place to make money? How much about this is business and | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
how much is about adventure and exploration? As far as I'm | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
concerned everything in life is adventure and exploration. And at | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
the end of the year you try to pay the bills. So if you create | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
something special, you will get all of these people signing up to enjoy | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
it, and therefore you can pay the bills. The UK government want to be | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
a part of the growing space industry and are even looking into | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
bringing -- building their own port or spaceships. We are used to | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
seeing aeroplanes and the sky, but because of private companies, in 10 | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
or 15 or 20 years' time, space ships could be there too. And who | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
knows? Maybe you could be on there. Finally, we know you like weird | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
animal antics but what about a festival where the only thing you | :08:51. | :08:54. |