20/05/2014 Newsround


20/05/2014

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Good morning, you're watching CBBC, and this is Newsround.

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Coming up this Tuesday:

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We meet the artist turning sand into works of art.

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And freak weather hits Brazil just weeks before the World Cup.

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First up, we're talking mummies, Egyptian mummies.

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Have you ever wondered what's lurking beneath those bandages?

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Well, the British Museum has used ground-breaking techniques to reveal

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amazing details about the people inside them.

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Using a state-of-the-art CT scanner, scientists were able to discover

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the mummies' age, what they ate and how they died.

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The BBC's Pallab Ghosh has been to unravel the mystery.

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This is how we're used to seeing mummies,

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entombed in their burial caskets.

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The CT scans enable us to see right through the casket

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and even through the bandages.

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Here's the body of a 40-year-old woman buried with

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her precious amulets.

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It's the first time that this has been seen for 4,000 years.

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The aim of the study is to learn more about the people underneath

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the bandages and, in a sense, bring the mummies back to life.

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Almost a million people in Bosnia-Herzegovina are without

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clean water, around one million, after the worst flooding

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since modern records began.

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Three months' worth of rain fell in the south-eastern European

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country in just a few days.

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More than 35 people have died, and as many as 500,000 people have

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had to leave their homes.

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An international rescue operation is taking place.

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Thousands of secondary-school children are setting off for special

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tours of battlefields in Belgium and France to remember the hundredth

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anniversary of the First World War.

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It's all part of a government programme designed to help teachers

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and students understand the conflict and to encourage them to share

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their knowledge when they get home.

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14-year-old Charlotte discovered that her great-great-uncle was

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buried in a Belgium cemetery.

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It was a bit emotional, but I just wanted to just say

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a little prayer in my head.

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I think it's really important, because, again,

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you feel a connection to the people that are here.

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And I guess it's another opportunity, because these people,

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when their family passes, they won't get to have people visit

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their graves.

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Next to the artist turning sand into works of art:

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after winning Ukraine's Got Talent, Kseniya Simonova has become

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an international star, with millions of hits, likes and views online.

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Her extraordinary creations feature stories from her childood in Crimea.

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Now the artist is using her creations to speak about the future

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of Ukraine after months of unrest.

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Kseniya produces these stunning images using sand and light.

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I'm Russian, but I was born here.

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My adult life was in Ukraine.

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These animations helped her to win Ukraine's Got Talent in 2009.

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It is like space. I close the door, and now I'm not here:

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all my mind, all my organisation is there, in the sand.

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Since winning, her life has changed dramatically, and

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so has the situation in Ukraine.

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The Russian artist was born in Crimea, the region at the centre

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of a big argument between the world's most powerful countries.

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In March, Crimea, which used to belong to Ukraine,

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was taken over by Russia.

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Kseniya says she is troubled with the current conflict and she is

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worried about the levels of violence in eastern parts of the country.

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When I look at the events which happen for example in Ukraine,

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when I occasionally see the news, I get upset.

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The artist says the place where she grew up in Crimea helps her

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to create these images.

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I'm just trying to show the diversity of us,

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in particular me, for example, because I have this mixture.

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Despite the tensions in eastern Ukraine, the artist is

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hopeful for the future.

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After everything happens, the things for me will be still the same.

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Whatever it is, Ukraine, Russia, Jupiter or Moon, I will always be

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happy here, whatever country it is.

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Next to freak weather in Brazil:

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Sao Paulo, the country's largest city, where the World Cup kicks

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off in a matter of weeks, was hit my an unusually heavy hailstorm.

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and loads of people decided to take pictures and even play in the ice.

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The hail left many roads flooded or coated white.

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Finally, imagine playing a footy match here, the Etihad Stadium.

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Well, that's what some very lucky schoolchildren are getting ready to

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do today, because the finals of the Premier League schools

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tournament kick off this morning.

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And at 8:15,

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Martin will be live from the home of Manchester City to tell us more.

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