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Hello, you are watching Newsround, Joe and Ore taking you through to | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
the weekend. That's right, we've got loads of stuff to tell you | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
about on this Friday's show, including the 50 things everyone | :00:24. | :00:33. | |
should try before they're 12. And the big cats making a comeback. | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
First to a subject lots of you feel very strongly about, smoking. Today | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
the Government has said it wants to change the way cigarettes look in | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
England to try to discourage young people from taking up the habit. | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
One in four children aged between 11 and 15 have tried smoking, even | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
though it's against the law for anyone under 18. But the government | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
thinks if cigarette packets looked less exciting, then it might put | :00:54. | :01:02. | |
Smoking could be in for a big image change. No longer will it be flash, | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
but boring and bland. That's if some of Britain's biggest health | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
charities get their way. They're calling for a change in the image | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
of smoking that will stop young people from trying it. According to | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
government figures, more than 300,000 children under the age of | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
16 try smoking every year, and it is hoped that by removing all the | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
bright colours and snazzy designs from packets like these, that | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
number will dramatically decrease. The government has already tried | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
lots of ways of stopping young people from taking up smoking. It | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
has raised the age you can buy cigarettes to 18, it has banned | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
tobacco ads on TV, and it has stopped supermarkets from putting | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
cigarettes on display. But many anti-smoking charities believe | :01:39. | :01:48. | |
packaging needs to change, too. packaging is very attractive to | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
young people, these ones look like Lego, very attractive colours. We | :01:55. | :02:04. | |
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need plain packaging to promote the marketing of brands. Australia is | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
the only country that has so far agreed to plain packets. The | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
government there has decided to scrap all branding and make packets | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
an ugly dark olive green. But tobacco companies are against a ban | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
here in the UK. One of the big firms, Imperial Tobacco, says, | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
"Tobacco packaging has never been identified as a reason why people | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
start to smoke or continue to smoke." Next week the Government | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
will start holding talks about whether the plan is a good idea. We | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
won't know the results for a while, but whatever the outcome, smoking | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
is an issue that refuses to be stubbed out. | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
Now to a country that you don't hear about very often, Burma. Today | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
Prime Minister David Cameron is making a historic visit to the | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
country in Southeast Asia. Historic because he's the first British PM | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
to go to the country ever. He's made the trip in support of the | :02:46. | :02:54. | |
changes being made in a once very For many years, Burma was ruled by | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
military dictatorships. Life for people living there was really hard. | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
Many people were very poor, and foreign journalists weren't allowed | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
in, so it was difficult to know exactly what was going on. Anyone | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
who spoke out was imprisoned, but one woman who dared to make her | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
voice heard was Aung San Suu Kyi. Aung San Suu Kyi's father wanted | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
changed in Burma. He wanted to replace the military with a | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
government that people had voted for. When he died, his daughter | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
carried on the fight. But the leaders punished her for speaking | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
out. For 15 years she was imprisoned in her own home. She | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
wasn't allowed to see her sons or even visit her husband when he | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
became ill. Thanks to her efforts, the rest of the world took notice | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
of what was happening in Burma. Now a new government has taken over. | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
She's been able to take part in elections for the first time, and | :03:44. | :03:51. | |
today she met David Cameron, who The new government has started to | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
open up the country. Some foreign journalists are now allowed in, and | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
for the first time people have been able to access sites like Google on | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
the internet. But life is still tough in Burma. | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
TRANSLATION: Life is a struggle. We only eat if we can find a day's | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
work. We try to save money to send the children to school, but if one | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
of them gets ill, we need money to pay for a doctor. | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
For many years, countries like the US and Britain have tried to | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
encourage change in Burma by restricting what goods can be | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
bought and sold. David Cameron has now said that because the situation | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
in the country is improving, it's time to relax those rules. It looks | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
like things are going in the right direction in Burma, but the rest of | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
the world will be watching closely to see what happens next. Now, have | :04:36. | :04:43. | |
you ever climbed a tree, caught a fish or been camping in the wild? | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
They're just some of the 50 things people at the National Trust think | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
you should have done by the time you turn 11 3/4. They've made a | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
list of 50 activities they think kids should be trying out. So I've | :04:57. | :05:07. | |
been give a few of them a go. Can't wait for this! Things to do before | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
you are 11 and three quarters, some of them obvious, number one, climb | :05:11. | :05:18. | |
a tree. Number 41, eat something grown in the wild. 18, balance on a | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
fallen branch. I am a little bit older than 11 3/4, but there are | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
quite a few activities I have not tried, so I have come here near | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
Preston to start taking things off. Mark from the National Trust is on | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
hand to teach the skies have to do number five, Erskine May's don't. | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
What is it about skimming that it has got it on the list? It is an | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
activity that anyone can join in with, it is free, you can do it in | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
most places where you have got still water. Another thing on the | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
list is bug hunting, something I never really did as a kid. It | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
doesn't take us long to unearth some creepy-crawlies. Build a den, | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
that is easy, you are doing good work, keep it up! The National | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
Trust have published this list to get more kids outdoors. According | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
to a survey last year, one-third of kids have never climbed a tree. You | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
are 10, you have got a lot left on the list. Yes. While is it | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
important to do them before you are 12? They stick in your mind, and | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
you will have memories of childhood. Is the list a good idea? Yes, it is | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
a very good idea. It lets people do stuff that they have never come | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
round to realise. The National Trust are opening up a lot of | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
woodland and estates next weekend for free so you can start ticking | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
off activities. This one you can do anywhere, number 25, make a grass | :06:46. | :06:56. | |
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You did not quite hit the right note! Harder than it looks. I don't | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
want to blow my own trumpet, but when the camera wasn't rolling, | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
seriously, I was playing all sorts of dunes. Finally, good news for | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
the world's most endangered cat. Back in 2005, the numbers of the | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
Iberian lynx had fallen to just 150. The cats live in Spain and Portugal, | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
and a plan to improve their numbers is having some success. These cats | :07:16. | :07:19. |