15/03/2016 Newsround


15/03/2016

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Hey, it's Ayshah, live with Newsround online and on TV this

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Wednesday afternoon.

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Keep watching to find out how T-Rex grew into a fearsome monster.

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And the tiny mighty robots that are strong enough to pull a car!

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First this afternoon to Syria in the Middle East,

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where there's hope for peace, five years after the civil

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war first started.

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Russia has announced that it's sending home fighter planes

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from the country, which many people think is positive step.

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The BBC's Geneva Correspondent, Imogen Foulkes, explains what this

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means for peace talks happening in Switzerland right now.

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Another round of Syrian peace talks is taking place

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here in Geneva in Switzerland.

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Today also coincides with the fifth anniversary of the start

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of the Syrian conflict.

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For five long years, there has been fighting and bombing.

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250,000 people have been killed.

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Even schools and hospitals have been attacked.

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Millions of men, women and children have had to flee their homes,

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and thousands are trying to find safety in Europe.

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And there have been many rounds of peace talks here in Geneva,

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and they have all failed - until now, when we think

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there is perhaps some faint progress.

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And that's because Russia has announced it will withdraw

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its military from Syria.

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Russia had been bombing what it said were Islamic extremist

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groups in Syria.

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But other countries said what Russia was really doing was bombing

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all the opposition in a bid to keep Syria's current president,

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Bashar al-Assad, in power.

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Now that's all going to change.

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The Syrian opposition and UN negotiators have welcomed Russia's

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move as a positive start.

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There will be more talks today, and the focus will be on peace,

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and finally, elections, so that the Syrian people can

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at last choose the government they really want.

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Thanks Imogen.

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Children living in Syria have also been explaining what life

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is like for them.

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Head online if you want to know more about what's been

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happening in Syria.

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And if anything in the news upsets you, there's lots of advice online,

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too.

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Fossils revealing how T-Rex became a fearsome dinosaur have been found

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in Uzebekistan in Central Asia.

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The new species of Tyrannosaur helps show how these dinosaurs evolved

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into giant monsters.

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The BBC's Science Reporter, Victoria Gill, sent Newsround this

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report.

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So, this is it here, some of the fossils,

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not all of them, but the ones we have here.

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A small box for a dinosaur?

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A small box.

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What we have inside are two of the bits.

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Can I hold it?

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Yeah, of course.

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There you are.

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Be careful, of course.

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90 million years old.

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There's only one of them.

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Amazing.

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It's a totally new species of Tyrannosaurus, it is called

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Timurlengia.

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Way back in the Jurassic period, Tyrannosaurus weren't a whole lot

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bigger than me.

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Tyrannosaurus stayed that way - human-sized, dog-size,

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a little bit bigger, until about this time,

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90 million years ago or so, when they started to very suddenly

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get huge and become dominant, and go right to the top

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of the food chain.

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This is one of those Tyrannosaurus on the cusp of becoming a T-Rex

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type of animal.

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Take a look at these tiny but powerful robots.

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These microtugs can pull objects 2000 times heavier than themselves -

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that's the same as one of us pulling a blue whale.

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But when scientists at Stanford University in the US

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join them together, they can do this.

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Here they are moving a car 3000 times their combined weight.

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Impressive!

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That's all from me and the Newsround team this afternoon.

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We're back tomorrow morning at 7.40am with Ricky.

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Enjoy your evening.

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Bye.

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