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Good afternoon. Welcome to Newsround with me Hayley and for | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
the next nine minutes, here is what I've got in store for you. | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
Astronomers discover a growing galaxy of stars that's got them | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
scratching their heads. A superfast plane that's trying to | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
break the sound barrier. But first, in the last few hours, a | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
man called toe New Nicklinson's lost his battle to get doctors to | :00:45. | :00:52. | |
help him end his own life. He has locked-in syndrome which means he's | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
paralysed from the neck down. He lives in extreme pain and doesn't | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
want to suffer any more. At the moment, it's illegal in the UK to | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
help someone to die, even if they're suffering. Tony went to | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
court to try to get that law changed, today after months of | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
consideration, the judges said they decided this was a decision the | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
courts couldn't make. That's the job of Parliament, they said. Cases | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
like this are extremely rare but Tony and his family said they plan | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
to appeal. I believe the legal team acting on | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
my behalf is prepared to go all the way with this. Unfortunately for me, | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
it means yet another period of physical discomfort and anguish | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
while we find out who controls my life, you or the state. | :01:32. | :01:39. | |
Now, what a week it's been for this man, Tom Daley. He won a bronze | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
medal on Saturday and today he is celebrating getting an A in Spanish | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
in his A-level. Thousands of teenagers like him in England, | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland got their results today and half will | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
head off to university. All that might seem a long way away for you, | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
but what people do when they leave school is starting to change. | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
After months of hard work and exams, the results are finally in and the | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
big question is, what's next? Well done... Some of you might have | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
brothers and sisters heading to uni this year but this year the number | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
applying has gone down 7%, one of the reasons might be that for the | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
first time students in England will have to pay fees of up to �9,000 a | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
year to study at uni. The Government wants to make sure more | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
people can go to university if they want to, but that's not the only | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
option you have when you leave school. | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
Apprenticeships are one way to get a job you are interested in and get | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
training at the same time. Bentley is one of the top car | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
brands of the world. If you drive one of these, you have to earn | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
megabucks. Every year, they take on 0 apprentices, just like these guys. | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
The experience you gain from working in the industry is | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
invaluable and second to none. get to earn and learn at the same | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
time. In three years' time I'm going to have a degree under my | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
belt, four years in a world-class company and I'll have no debts. | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
People learn in different ways. Some people benefit from the hands- | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
on stuff, some people are more like accustomed to academic studies. | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
Whether it's designing cars in a place like this or running your own | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
business, getting a dream job won't be easy. As some of the gays here | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
have been finding out, there are loads of different ways to do it. | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
Lots of you have been in touch to tell us you've already started | :03:24. | :03:34. | |
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Thanks so much, guys and keep your comments coming in. Manchester | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
United have agreed a �24 million deal for Arsenal Captain Robin van | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
Persie. United manager Sir Alex Ferguson says he should be | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
available for selection on Monday's game against Everton as long as | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
final discussions and medical checks go OK. The striker said in | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
July head wouldn't stay with Arsenal because he didn't agree | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
with how the club should move forward. | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
Now, we've often talked on Newsround about the problems faced | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
by children living in Somalia in East Africa. The country hasn't had | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
a proper government for 20 years which has led to war and famine. | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
Now it looks like things might be starting to change. In the next few | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
weeks, elections will be helded to decide who runs the country. In | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
Somali capital Mogadishu, people are beginning to rebuild their | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
lives. When you think of Somalia, you | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
probably wouldn't picture these scenes. A year ago, the pictures on | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
TV of the capital city Mogadishu were more like this. Children | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
affected by famine and violence. The City had been torn apart by | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
fighting between the government and a militant Islamist group called | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
Al-Shabab who controlled more than half the city. Eventually, | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
Government forces managed to drive out Al-Shabab and, although they | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
still remain a threat, carrying out occasional attacks, life has | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
dramatically improved. Now hundreds of thousands of | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
Somalis who lived as refugees outside the country are returning. | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
Some come to visit. Others to rebuild their lives. These children | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
have known nothing but war, but now there are signs of peace, they can | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
begin to look forward to a brighter future. This 15-year-old girl says | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
she's never been to school and now wants to get an education. A new | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
president and Parliament is being nominated and a new Army is being | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
created. Buildings are being re-developed, | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
houses built and new businesses springing up around the city, | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
something which was unimaginable a few months ago. For many people | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
living in Somalia, the situation hasn't changed and stabilising the | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
whole country is still a long way off. But for people living here in | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
Mogadishu, the future is looking a little brighter. | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
Next to a scientific discovery that's got the world's greatest | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
minds scratching their heads. A massive cluster of galaxies has | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
been discovered 5.7 billion years away from earth doing something | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
unusual. Instead of not doing anything like other galaxies, this | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
one is growing two new stars every day. It's forced researchers to | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
reconsider how galaxies are formed. And a bit closer to earth, the US | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
military's carried out test this is week on a new plane designed to fly | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
at least seven times to the speed of sound. The technology is still | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
being developed but if it works, you could fly between New York and | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
London in just under an hour and it's got an awesome name too, here | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
is Joe. This is Waverider. Cool name, cool | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
concept. If things go to plan, this plane could carry paying passengers | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
more than 4,000 miles an hour. That's six times the speed of sound. | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
In other words, it could cut long, boring flights around the world to | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
just minutes. But it's not the first time the aviation industry's | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
created super fast aircraft. This is Concorde, the choice of plane | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
for celebrities, rock stars and politicians. A pilot could travel | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
at twice the sound of speed, which is called supersonic. Concorde is | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
retired and this one's an iconic piece of aviation history. In 2003 | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
after 27 years of supersonic flight, Concordes were cancelled because | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
they were too expensive to run and maintain. And until now, no plane | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
has been built anywhere near as fast. This could be a leap forward | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
even further than Concorde. Do you think we need it? The ordinary | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
person wouldn't be able to pay for it, again it would be the rich and | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
famous who'd use it but it would be an achievement in technology. | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
Waverider's technology is being trested by the US military for | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
weapons. At the moment it's dropped into the sky by a bigger plane. | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
Once in flight, it's designed to ride on its own shock wave. That's | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
where the nickname comes from. It's so quick that a trip from London to | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
New York would take one hour, but it uses a lot of energy so, like | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
Concorde, it would probably be quite expensive. It's not expected | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
to be in flight for passengers until 2050 and we'll have to wait | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
even longer to see if it has a better future than Concorde. | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
Finally, during the Olympics, athletes who won golds each got | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
their own stamp, but until today, paralympians weren't going to get | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
the same special treatment. Royal Mail said it wouldn't create stamp | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
force the athlete bus they've changed their mind. So we could be | :08:47. | :08:52. |