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versus Arsenal. MOTD Kickabout, tomorrow, see you then!

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Happy Friday, guys! Ayshah here with your morning headlines. Coming up:

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Ricky gets his brain scanned and finds out how robots may soon be

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able to think just like us. A zoo in America welcomes a new baby

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gorilla in a very unusual way. Only on Newsround.

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First, an update on the latest in the crisis surrounding Ukraine.

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Efforts to resolve the problems there reach a critical point today.

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World leaders want Russia to stop its action in Crimea, in the

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southern region of Ukraine. During trouble there last month, the area

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came under Russian control and the Russian army moved in. A big vote

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will be held this Sunday asking the people of Crimea to choose whether

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they want to be part of Russia, or for the region to operate as a

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republic of its own. This morning, The US Secretary of State, John

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Kerry, is preparing for important talks with Russia's Foreign Minister

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and says America and Europe will be watching Russia very carefully.

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All week we've been showing you how a new wave of robotics is changing

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the way we work, play and live with robots. But, according to some

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experts, it's not going to be too long before robots are thinking like

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you and I. In fact, the chief engineer at Google reckons in just

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15 years' time computers will be more intelligent than humans. They

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will be able to understand what we say, learn from experience and even

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tell stories. It sounds pretty cool, but should we be trying to build

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human-like robots at all? Here's the last of Ricky's special robotic

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reports. The brain is the most complex organ

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in the body. It is the command centre back controls everything from

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our heart beat to how we feel. Electrical signals sent information

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along pathways that allow us to think, feel and act. Now scientists

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are using what they know about the human brain to build a supercomputer

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that could one day allow a robot to think for themselves. Spinnaker is

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one of the most advanced tutors in the world. When it is finished it

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will contain 1 million microprocessors. This is a scan of

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my brain. You are trying to create a computer which is based on the same

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principles, is that correct? Yes. We know how the brain is struck at, but

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we don't fundamentally understand how it works. We are building a

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machine that allows us to build little computer models of the

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brain. That might improve understanding. Some experts have

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concerns about giving robot the ability to think for themselves. It

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is a good idea if we know that what we are into that -- that what we are

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interacting with is actually an artificial creation. We probably

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don't want to pass robots offers humans. There is a demand for robots

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that they'd like us. Google is working on an artificially

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intelligent search engine. Whether it is right or wrong, that is a

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debate we are unlikely to be having more and more as the world of

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robotics continues to evolve. You've been sending us your robot

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designs all this week, and later on this afternoon we'll be showing some

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of them to a robotics expert. Head to the website to check out a

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selection of your designs in our gallery, and that's also where you

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can catch up with all the rest of Ricky's robot reports.

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Sport now and it's been a pretty dodgy week all round for British

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clubs in Europe, with Arsenal and Man City's Champions League dreams

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ending. Tottenham are in real trouble in the Europa League, too.

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They lost 3-1 at home to Portuguese side Benfica last night, which means

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they will have a huge job to do in the away fixture if they're to reach

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the quarterfinals. England's cricketers head into the

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World Twenty20 later this month off the back of a win against West

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Indies, inspired by Barbados-born Chris Johnson. They had already lost

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the three-match series, but won a cracking final game by just five

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runs yesterday. England have just over a week until their first match

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of the World Twenty20 in Bangladesh. It wouldn't be Friday without a cute

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animal story! A baby gorilla has been delivered by a rare animal

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Caesarean-section at the San Diego Zoo in America. 18-year-old mother

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Imani gave birth to a two kilogram newborn girl. A team of surgeons

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delivered the baby after the mother struggled during birth, they say

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mother and baby are now doing well. Finally, we want your questions for

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the UK's first official astronaut, Major Tim Peake. In 2015, Tim will

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spend six months onboard the International Space Station carrying

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out scientific experiments, but we're speaking to him today. So, get

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to the Newsround website and send us your questions.

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That's it from me. We'll be back, though, at 8.15am.

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