20/03/2014 Newsround


20/03/2014

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Good evening, I'm Leah, with your last update on Thursday.

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First to a story that has made headlines all over the world: a

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Malaysia Airlines plane that has been missing for almost two weeks.

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Search teams have been looking for the aircraft after it lost contact.

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Since then, there has been no trace of the plane, leaving investigators

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really confused, because it is so rare for something like this to

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happen. But now experts are checking out pictures of what they think

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could be wreckage in the sea near Australia. These satellite images

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show what investigators think could be parts of the missing plane. The

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grainy images were taken several days ago over the southern Indian

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Ocean. It is thought this could be the first major breakthrough in the

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search for the plane so far. There has been a huge search for the

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Malaysia Airlines plane, and 26 countries are now involved in the

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search, including the UK. Here's what we know so far. Flight MH370

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took off from Kuala Lumpur on the 8th of March and not long afterwards

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it stopped all communication. When the plane didn't arrive in Beijing,

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teams from nearby countries started to search areas around Malaysia. But

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then, as the days went on, the search got a lot bigger, but still

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nothing came up. Some people criticised the way the Malaysian

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authorities were handling the investigation. But now Australian

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officials think they have found something, about 1,500 miles off the

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coast of western Australia. There are two objects in the pictures.

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It's far from clear what they are. One is 24 metres across. The other

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one is smaller than that. They haven't been able to pick up any

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markings on it. But they are saying it could be part of the plane.

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That's why they've deployed a number of surveillance planes in the area,

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and also some of their ships, as well. We're still waiting to find

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out for sure if this is a part of the missing plane. It's still not

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clear what happened and why contact was lost. But losing touch with an

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airline happens so rarely, and that's the reason the world has been

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gripped by this mystery. And if you're worried or upset about

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anything you see on the news, there's info and advice for you on

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the Newsround website. Head to the home page and click on the link.

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OK, next to a story about a climbing duo, a safety rope and one of the

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world's biggest caves: American and German climbers Chris and Stefan set

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out on a mission to climb up this huge cave in Oman in the Middle

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East. With only a safety rope as their security, it was a risky

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challenge that had never been attempted before. The pair had some

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scary moments but managed to reach the top successfully after two

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weeks. That's all from me, but, Little Mix

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fans, catch a special Sport Relief Newsround in the morning. The girls

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head to Africa to see how some of the money is spent helping some of

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the world's poorest children.

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