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Good afternoon! You're watching Newsround with me, Leah, this | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
Thursday. Coming up. Hello, this is Chris Hadfield, back | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
from the International Space Station talking to you about living, working | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
and living life in space. And, you tell us your nativity | :00:22. | :00:22. | |
plans. This is Newsround. But first, are you hoping for snow | :00:23. | :00:31. | |
this Christmas? Chances are it's high up on your wish list. But for | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
millions of Syrian refugees, the snow isn't nearly so welcome at this | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
time of year. Over the past year, many families have escaped the | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
fighting in their own country and arrived at refugee camps on the | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
borders. But this week, winter has brought snow, and for the refugees | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
it means a desperate struggle to survive freezing temperatures in | :00:50. | :00:50. | |
makeshift camps. This is the Valley on the board of | :00:51. | :01:03. | |
Syria and Lebanon. Already, in the grip of what could be the harshest | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
winter in a century. Home to more than 800,000 refugees, who have | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
managed to escape the war. Their homes are makeshift shelters. No | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
comfort in these freezing conditions, and it will get even | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
colder in the next few days. Even the close on the washing line are | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
frozen. It has got worse, because we had a very harsh storm, and it is | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
very cold. Many children have no winter clothing, it is a very | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
difficult situation for them, and they need our help. Hundreds of | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
thousands of refugees escaped to places abounding Syria, like | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt. In northern Jordan, authorities | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
installed thousands of caravans, before the rain falling this week, | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
and the flooding it could cause. There are thousands living in tents. | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
Conditions for refugees are hard at the best of times, and weather like | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
this makes things incredibly difficult, but international aid | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
agencies are responding with planeloads of emergency kits, | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
including food and blankets. Whilst life is tough for children living | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
here, they are at least safe and away from the war. | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
Now, from posting YouTube videos about how to brush your teeth in | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
space to singing songs and playing the guitar in zero gravity, Canadian | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
astronaut Chris Hadfield has become a global star. The space traveller | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
is now back on Earth after retiring this year, and he's been talking to | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
Ayshah about his adventures. Thank you so much for joining | :02:36. | :02:50. | |
Newsround, can you tell us what daily life is like in space? It is | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
so much fun to live in weightlessness, to be orbiting the | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
world and flying weightless. You can push off the wall and do 100 | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
somersaults, or you can take your spoon and have your food float in | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
front of you. You can fly, it is an incredible experience. What were | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
some of your favourite moments? I watched a huge thunderstorm, | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
hundreds of kilometres long, over Indonesia, with like pink, the most | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
powerful thing I have seen in my whole life, somebody was drawing big | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
strokes of lightning. Whether any times were worried? The only time I | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
felt a rush of the was when I saw a meteorite or not in between the and | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
the world, and if that Fox had been higher, it could have crashed into | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
our spaceship. How do you spend Christmas in space? I was there last | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
Christmas, we took our Christmas stockings and we hung them above the | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
entrance, and we had Christmas food, although it was dehydrated and in | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
individual packages. We did have the most urbanised Turkey and cans of | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
cranberry sauce, we had trifle, rehydrated. We had a Christmas tree, | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
we can get from the ceiling. We all had Christmas presents that we | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
bought for each other. It is special, even for people not living | :04:21. | :04:22. | |
on the planet. So, from Christmas in space to right | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
back down to earth, and you guys are really on the Christmas countdown | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
now. Loads of you have been starring in nativity plays, and you've been | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
telling us about them on the Newsround website. | :04:33. | :04:50. | |
Door number 12 on the Newsround advent calendar is ready for | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
business, so get clicking to see what's there. | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
I'm back at 6:50pm. Bye! | :04:58. | :05:02. |