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Hi, I'm Ricky, with your evening Newsround. | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
First, the United Nations have said that half of Syria's population is | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
now in urgent need of aid. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
the UN has launched its biggest ever appeal and so far around one and a | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
half billion pounds has been donated. But he says this amount | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
isn't even half what they need to deal with the crisis. 9.3 million | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
Syrians are thought to be affected by the war, which has raged for | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
nearly three years now. Next to a row about smartphone apps | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
that turn plastic surgery into a game, which a charity has said are | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
"dangerous". Players are shown a figure of a girl and are invited to | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
make her thinner using surgery. Apple and Google both removed a | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
version aimed at kids aged nine and older, but earlier this afternoon we | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
told you that a very similar version was still available aimed at kids | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
aged 12 and above. Since then, Apple appear to have removed that one, | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
too. The eating disorder charity Beat told Leah earlier that games | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
like this are sending a bad message. We are very concerned about this app | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
because we know how dangerous it can be for young people to feel bad | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
about themselves and their bodies and we don't sell -- see how this | :01:16. | :01:23. | |
can do anything but add to that. An app has to be approved. What do you | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
think about that? If this really has gone through an approval process, I | :01:32. | :01:39. | |
don't think it is vigorous enough. It doesn't take into account the | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
serious consequences of people having access to this. They should | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
have a more responsible attitude. Google told us that they: "don't | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
comment on individual apps but will remove apps that breach guidelines". | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
As for Apple, we've asked them several times today whether they | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
feel the plastic surgery game is appropriate for kids, but we've so | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
far heard nothing back. Next, Liam Payne has said sorry | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
after a pic was posted on Twitter of him balancing on the edge of a | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
balcony hundreds of feet up a tall building. The pic has been taken | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
down, but the 1D star tweeted: Note to anyone going sea kayaking: | :02:12. | :02:31. | |
it's generally a good plan to steer clear of a 20-tonne whale. This | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
happened in Norway last week. A humpback whale came up for air right | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
next to this guy's kayak! He said he didn't realise he was sitting on the | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
whale's back and didn't have time to be afraid. | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
Last up, head online to see some amazing pics from the air of Sochi's | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
Winter Olympic venues. And check out our interview with | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
British slopestyle skier and medal hopeful James Woods. | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
That's it. Newsround is back in the morning. Bye! | :02:58. | :02:59. |