14/08/2012 Newsround


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Good afternoon friends! Ore and Hayley here with a Newsround that's

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as sharp as Jessica Ennis's javelin. Coming up in the next 9 minutes:

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Taking a trip - to an asteroid. And bring on X Factor! We speak to

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Aiden Grimshaw. We're starting, though, in

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Afghanistan. And they're supposed to be on the same side - Afghan

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soldiers, working with British and American troops, learning how to

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keep Afghanistan safe. But things aren't going to plan.

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There's been a big rise in trainee Afghan soldiers attacking the

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mostly UK and US forces who've been teaching them. Now, the British

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Government says it's doing all it can to protect UK troops there and

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keep them out of any danger. Here's Nel. They're called green on blue

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attacks, green the colour of Afghan forces uniforms, blue the colour of

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international peacekeepers, NATO. 34 international soldiers have been

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killed already this year by Afghan security forces who are supposed to

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be working alongside them. The last week alone has seen five of these

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attacks. Troops from Britain and other countries are in Afghanistan

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training local security forces to protect the country when they leave

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in 2014. They've been there for more than

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ten years, trying to defeat Taliban fighters who the UK and US thought

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were protecting terrorists who had attacked America.

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The latest green on blue attack was yesterday. A man dressed in Afghan

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police uniform opened fire on American troops. The Taliban says

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the attacker had been working with them. It's not yet known how

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involved the Taliban are in these attacks or if it's individual

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officers acting alone. Officials here and in the States say it won't

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stop plans to hand over security to Afghan forces and leave the country

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in two years' time. They say they're carrying out tighter checks

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on all Afghans before they begin working with them. But these

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growing attacks have led to a serious breakdown of trust. A trust

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that will shr to be rebuilt if there is to be any hope of a new

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start in Afghanistan. That's not the only story out of

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Afghanistan today. We are hearing that dozens of people have been

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killed in a series of attacks in the south-west of the country. A

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market, where people were preparing to celebrate the end of Ramadan. A

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number of people have been arrested. Next, many of the wildfires that

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have been burning on the Canary Islands have been brought under

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control. Thousands of people living in one of the most popular places

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for British holiday-makers had to leave their homes because of the

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blazes. The islands of Tenerife and La Gomera are the worst hit.

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Now, one six-year-old girl and her little brother are probably the

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most envied kids in the country right now - their parents have just

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won a whopping �148 million. It's the UK's second largest lottery win

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- that's a whole lot of pocket money! Adrian and Gillian Bayford

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from Suffolk say they're going to give some of the cash to children's

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charities. The lucky couple said they almost didn't buy a ticket!

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joked about it, we sort of - have you bought a ticket, I said I

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haven't. He just went neither have I, we went we are not going to win

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then, are we?. We sat for about ten minutes and then he went I have

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some really. I went all right. The question is what would you do

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with �148 million? Here are a few ideas. If you fancy travelling in

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luxury, how about buying your own private jet? Or if you fancy

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bagging yourself Wayne Rooney, actually with that money cow buy

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three. -- money you could buy three. Or a new games console, you could

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get around 600,000 with that sort of money.

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How about your own gold medal, you could grab yourself 330,000 of them.

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Good luck getting one off the Team GB, because they're priceless.

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Yesterday the Olympic flag made the journey from London to Rio de

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Janeiro in Brazil - the next home of the Games in four years' time.

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But London's job isn't over yet. Yesterday work began on getting the

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park ready for the start of the Paralympic Games in two weeks' time.

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Thousands of flags and banners need to be changed. This was the warm-up

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pitch for the hockey, this will be a football venue. We put 3,000-

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seater stand and football field all in this blue area. What you can see

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now we transform into a football stadium. We have about a week to do

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While we were all going Jess and Mo crazy, one of the few stories that

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grabbed people's attention away from the Olympics was the landing

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of the Curiosity Rover on Mars. But it's not just other planets that

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scientists at NASA are keen to explore. British astronaut Tim

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Peake has been working on a mission to get space explorers travelling

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to asteroids. Joe went to meet him. Lift-off... The four astronauts are

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launched into space. In this underwater lab conditions are

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similar to the weightless environment of space. British

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astronaut Tim Peake is getting ready for a trip to the

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International Space Station but this training is for something very

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different. Tim, you spent most of this year under water training,

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what were you doing? The objective of the NASA's Nemo mission was for

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us to be able to try different methods of manoeuvring and working

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on an asteroid. Were there some methods that didn't work out?

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Trying to manoeuvre holding on to a transhraeugs line is hard work F

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you want to hammer into the rock surface very hard to do. On the

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other end of the scale if you are in a foot plate on a space

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exploration vehicle that's a very stable work platform and easy to do.

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President Barack Obama has set a target of landing a crew on an

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asteroid by 2025 or very soon after. Commercial companies are also

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interested in the space rocks as well. And plans to mine them for

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precious metals were announced this year, which caused quite a stir.

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What are your thoughts on this plan to catch asteroids in mid-space?

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And mine them? I think it's a really interesting concept and I

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think it's achievable. Anything is achievable like that. It's a case

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of do the benefits outweigh costs? Whether it's for discovery, or dosh,

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it looks like one of these lonely space rocks should be expecting

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company. Thank you, Joe. Bit of showbiz for you now - and

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what do you need to fill the gaping hole left by the Olympics? Hayley?

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X Factor! Yes, it's back on Saturday. And this year's

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contestants will have a lot of work to do. Judge Gary Barlow has

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accused last year's lot of getting lazy and not realising how much

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hard work is involved. Aiden Grimshaw was on the show two years

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ago. He told Nel just how tough the show is. It was crazy. I was only

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18. One day I worked in Pizza Hut and would bring you pizza and the

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next day I was Mad World Aidan. you think that people misunderstand

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just how much hard work is involved in these talent shows and becoming

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an artist? Yeah, it's hard. I went for the X Factor when I was 14. I

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didn't get through. The most important thing to think about when

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you go on a programme like that is to remember it's an opportunity.

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You got to be confident and make your voice the loudest one.

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You can see a longer interview with Aiden on the Newsround website.

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Now the Olympics may be over, but the sporting spirit is still going

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strong in the south of France. The 49th annual Snail Racing

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Championships is followed by a feast, where all the losers get

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scoffed! This year it was lucky seven-year-old Sebastian who was

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the first to slime his way to the edge of the table. That's awful!

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They get eaten? It's what you got to do. They knew what was going on!

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Finally, if you think all those Team GB superstars gave it their

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all in the Olympics - how about this? Firefighters from around the

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world have been battling it out in a two-day competition in Poland to

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see who's got the best skills. The teams are being tested on hose

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carrying, fake-victim saving and rope pulling - a new Olympic event

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