Browse content similar to 17/03/2014. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
Hi, Ricky here with the top stories from around the world. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Coming up this Monday afternoon: Paris goes to extreme measures to | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
reduce its smog. And the rope swing in South Africa | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
that is just insane. This is Newsround. | :00:14. | :00:22. | |
First to Ukraine, and Crimea's parliament has formally applied to | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
join Russia, a day after more than 96% of people who took part in a | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
vote backed the region to join its neighbours. The man in charge of | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
Russia, Vladimir Putin, says the vote was fair but Western leaders | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
across Europe and the United States say it was illegal. I've been | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
looking into why the vote has caused such a big debate. | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
Balloons, fireworks and cheers on the streets of Crimea. Crowds of | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
people celebrated after 96% of people who voted said they wanted | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
Crimea to leave Ukraine and become part of Russia. | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
But although many people in Crimea are happy about it - leaders across | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
Europe and in the United States aren't. | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
And here's why. In most cases when a referendum to vote on something | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
happens, it's planned and announced a long time before voting actually | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
takes place. In Crimea, it happened in less than two weeks. | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
On the ballot paper, voters were given two options - they were asked | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
whether they would like Crimea to rejoin Russia. And asked whether | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
they supported the status of Crimea as a part of Ukraine. But some argue | :01:29. | :01:37. | |
that the words used were complicated and a simple yes/no question would | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
have been better. Since the Ukrainian President, Viktor | :01:41. | :01:41. | |
Yanukovych, who supported Russia, was removed from power last month, | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
Russian troops have taken over control of Crimea with thousands of | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
them on the ground. When the vote was announced, a number of Ukrainian | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
TV stations were taken off air and some replaced with Russian channels. | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
Lots of people who live in Crimea think of themselves as Russian and | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
want to join their neighbour. But many people living in the region | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
refused to vote - and people who see themselves as Ukrainian more than | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
Russian are now worried about their futures. Europe and the United | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
States have called the vote illegal and say they won't recognise the | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
result. But the Russian President Vladimir Putin says he thinks the | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
vote was fair, arguing that he needs to protect the Russians living in | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
Crimea. For more information about the | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
situation in Ukraine, head online for our in-depth guide. | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
Next to Paris in France, where the amount of smog - the build up of | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
factory and car emissions - has got so bad that only half the number of | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
cars in the city are being allowed on the road. Only cars with | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
odd-numbered registrations are allowed to be driven today and if | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
the restrictions remain in place, it will be the turn of those with | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
even-numbered plates tomorrow. But as Nel's been finding out, Paris | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
isn't the only city that's had to battle the smog. | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
Paris at its best: the Eiffel Tower in all its glory. | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
Paris on a bad day: smog hanging over the city. | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
The smog in the French capital is mainly caused by fumes from cars and | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
factories and has been made worse by unexpected warm weather and cool | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
nights in the city. Because smog can make it hard to breathe, people in | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
Paris decided to ban half the cars on its roads until things improve. | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
But it's not just in France where smog is a problem. | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
Milan, Italy: cars have been banned from streets when air pollution | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
reaches a certain level. Beijing, China: some of the worst | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
smog levels in the world. In the past, half the cars were banned and | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
factories closed but the smog hasn't gone away and dealing with it is | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
back on the government's to-do list. And Los Angeles, America: In the | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
1950s, the smog was sp bad that schools and factories were | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
temporarily shut down. The ban on cars in Paris is set to | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
continue until the smog clears, but if it returns, drivers will need to | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
get used to keeping their cars at home. | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
Next to athletics and Mo Farah says he's "feeling good" despite | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
collapsing after finishing the New York half-marathon yesterday. The | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
double Olympic champion came second in the race and was taken away in a | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
wheelchair but has told fans that "it's no big deal". Mo will make his | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
full marathon debut in London in April. | :04:12. | :04:24. | |
What do you get if you cross a giant swing with a bungee rope? An insane | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
rope-swing bungee, of course! This amazing contraption was created by | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
Mike Wilson and Andrew Kirkpatrick, who travelled to South Africa to | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
build it. The swing plunges 600 feet down and riders experience a four | :04:35. | :04:36. | |
second free-fall. Finally, some of South America's | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
cutest cats have been shown off by their owners during a Feline Fair in | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
Colombia. All different types of cats took part, some were fluffy and | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
others didn't have any fur at all! It was the sixth year the festival | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
has been running. Head over to the website to see more | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
of the purrrrrfect pets that took part. | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
Let's look at that rope swing one more time! Incredible. I'm back | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
before 7pm. See ya. | :04:59. | :05:02. |