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Hi, I'm Ricky, live from the Newsround studio. | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Our top story today comes from Kiev, the capital city of Ukraine in | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
Eastern Europe, where a peace agreement between the government and | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
demonstrators has broken down. This morning, anti-government protestors | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
and police clashed, and at least 21 people are reported to have died | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
there today. In the last hour, politicians from European countries | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
have agreed to impose sanctions, like travel bans, on those they | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
think are responsible for the violence. There's a guide on our | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
website if you want to know more about the crisis in Ukraine. And if | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
you've been upset by this or any other story in the news, there's | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
advice there as well. To Sochi now, and Team GB will now | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
at least equal a record medal haul at the Winter Olympics after | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
Britain's women won a curling bronze. Eve Muirhead's side secured | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
a dramatic 6-5 victory over Switzerland with the last stone of | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
the match in the third-place play-off. So with one curling medal | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
in the bag and another guaranteed tomorrow when Britain's men take on | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
Canada in their final, it's fair to say that the Newsround team and | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
millions more of you at home are gripped with a bad case of curling | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
fever. Curling fever is continuing to sweep | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
the UK. It's the event everyone is talking about, curling. Oh, my | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
goodness! Shops have run out of curling equipment. Everybody wants | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
to have a go at curling. Curling. Curling. Curling. The fists are in | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
the air! OK, that may be slightly over the top, but it's fair to say | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
that a lot of us are getting caught up in the curling drama at Sochi | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
2014. But how do you play? The aim of the game is to get your team's | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
stones close to the centre of this target, called the "house". Get | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
closer than your opponent and you'll score more points. Sweepers brush | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
the ice using a special broom to make sure the ice surface is | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
perfectly smooth. A single hair can alter the direction the stone is | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
travelling. As well as their brooms, players need special shoes to walk | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
on the ice. Here we have a pair of curling shoes for a right-handed | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
player. So on the left foot here we have some plastic, which makes this | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
sole very slippery. On the other side, we have some soft rubber pads | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
here, which help you grip. And the good news is it's not over yet. The | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
men's curling finals take place tomorrow, and Team GB has high hopes | :02:27. | :02:34. | |
for a gold medal. Go Team GB! Back here in the UK, there was an | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
earthquake this afternoon. Experts say it happened five kilometres | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
under the Bristol channel between North Devon and the coast of Gower | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
in South Wales. It was recorded at around 1:20 this afternoon, and | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
people nearby said it sent their houses rocking, but no damage has | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
been reported and no-one was hurt. That's all from me today. Ayshah is | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
back here tomorrow morning at 7:40. Bye. | :02:57. | :02:59. |