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Hello, and welcome to Newsround. Me and Joe have got all the headlines | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
from around the world today. Yep, we've got the news, sport, showbiz | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
and a couple of weird stories as well! Here's what's coming up: Find | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
out why you might be seeing more goals from girls. And the sorry, | :00:34. | :00:44. | |
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sorry song from our deputy prime First up, in the last few hours an | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
inquiry into the Grand National, Britain's biggest horse race, has | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
recommended several changes to prevent any more horses from dying. | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
Animal rights groups were unhappy after two horses died and lots of | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
other were hurt in this year's race. BBC Sport Correspondent Andy Swiss | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
has been taking a more detailed look at the report and joins us now. | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
What has this report say? The race is always started next to the | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
grandstand. They are moving it further away from the grandstand so | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
the horses feel happier and are much more calm and can run better. | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
Of course, the Grand National, everybody talks about the huge | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
fences. They are not changing the size of the fences but they are | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
changing what they are made of, which is a more flexible material, | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
a bit more soft. Should the horses hit the fence they have a better | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
chance of getting over. For all its stock horses dying in this race? | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
That is what we hope. Everybody hopes it will make a difference. | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
Horse welfare groups say this is not enough. What they wanted to see | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
was the number of runners in the race cut. There were 40 in this | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
year's race and they say there was too many but horses were bumping | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
into each other and causing accidents but the numbers have not | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
been cut. Organisers say it will make a difference. Does more need | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
to be done in the future? It is a very tough one. What people have | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
about the Grand National is that it is a huge challenge and it is a | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
long course and the ultimate test for a horse. That is why millions | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
around the world watch it. But you have to balance that with keeping | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
the horses say. Fingers crossed they have got it right. Thank you, | :02:16. | :02:26. | |
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What year it has been for British women sports with the Olympic and | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
Paralympic heroes. Bat has been leading to a call for more heroes | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
to be on our screens. This summer it has all been about girl power. | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
From Ellie Simmonds in the pool to Nicola Adams in the ring. Women's | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
sport has never looked so good. And we could be seeing a lot more of it | :02:53. | :03:01. | |
on our screens. I always thought it would be a good Olympic games for | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
women, and the Paralympics was very good for women as well. But I was | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
really heartened by the fact that people wanted to know more and | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
people were asking why we had not seen these women before. Where had | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
they been for the last four years? Good question. Why had we not seen | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
them before. When it comes to sport, TV bosses say it is about demand. | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
Last night almost one million people tuned in to watch the | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
English women beat Croatia. It sounds like a big audience, but for | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
0.7 million watched Real Madrid verses Manchester City and it was | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
watched by 16 times more fans in the stadium. So the Olympics have | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
changed things, but there's a long way to go until the girls catch up | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
with the boys. And the government are keen to make this happen. The | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
minister in charge of Culture, Media and Sport has written to | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
broadcasters urging them to not cut their coverage of women's teams now | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
the Olympics are over. On the BBC there's definitely room for new | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
sports. Over the past the is the network has lost the rights to show | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
some of the big stuff like live Premier League games, cricketer and | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
Horseracing. Earlier this week the new head of the BBC, George | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
Entwistle said he would like to make the most of growing interest | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
in the women's sport and look at showing more of it. If the coverage | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
increases, it is hoped the interest in goalscoring girls will go | :04:21. | :04:28. | |
through the roof. Other news now, and scientists say sea ice in the | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
arctic has melted to an all time low. The ice melts every summer | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
before freezing again when it gets colder. But figures just released | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
show this year's melt has reached a new record. An area 12 times the | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
size of the UK has disappeared. Last week we brought you a report | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
on protests in the Middle East in which 30 people died. Muslims there | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
were unhappy about a video made in America, representing the prophet | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
Mohammed in a way that they thought was offensive. Now, there are | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
worries over tensions rising again, as a magazine in Europe has | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
published pictures making fun of Security forces around the world | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
are on high alert, and all because of a cartoon published in a | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
magazine. These new images make fun of Muslim protests that took place | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
last week, and they show pictures of the prophet Mohammed that have | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
been described as offensive. But the people who make the magazine | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
say the cartoons are just a joke. They say their magazine makes fun | :05:19. | :05:28. | |
of all religions, and they have a right to continue. When we attack | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
the Catholic hard right, nobody talks about a bit we cannot make | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
fun of the Muslim hardliners. It is a new rule and we will not obey it. | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
Stopping magazines and newspapers saying what they like worries some | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
people. They think that everyone should have the freedom to say what | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
they like. But other people say that when it comes to religion, | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
it's too offensive to joke about. France has the largest Muslim | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
community in the European Union. One in ten people there follow the | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
religion, but while reaction within the community has been furious, | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
French religious heads have been quick to ask for a peaceful | :05:58. | :06:05. | |
understanding. We expressed to him the indignation felt by Muslims | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
following a series of provocations but we have always tell the | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
minister of our peaceful intentions and we will not give in to such a | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
tanks. -- such attacks. Here in Britain, people make fun of people | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
in the news, like this cartoon of George Osborne and Nick Clegg. But | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
many people think that a line is crossed when it comes to religion. | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
In France, it's the same as in the UK. People are allowed the right of | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
speech but we also consider it a crime to encouraging religious | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
hatred. Protests haven't begun yet over these images, and the French | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
authorities are on high alert just in case, but its hoped they will be | :06:38. | :06:48. | |
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able to sort their differences out peacefully.. Now we've all heard of | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
posh restaurants set up by celebrity chefs like Jamie Oliver | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
and Gordon Ramsey. But there's a brand place opening near Cardiff | :06:55. | :07:03. | |
that's grabbing the headlines today. The restaurant is run by prisoners. | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
The idea behind it is to give inmates new skills for their life | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
after prison. There's one in Surrey already and the plan is to create | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
two more every year. Some people say the �12-a-week wage is too low | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
but the inmates say working in the restaurant is great. It's the first | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
time I've ever had a proper job so it's a good experience. Before | :07:20. | :07:30. | |
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prison I was leading the easy life, but now you have to work for it. | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
You might think Robbie Williams would be pretty happy after the | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
birth of his baby daughter Teddy this week. But it turns out the ex- | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
Take That singer has set his sights on another landmark - getting a | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
knighthood. He says he wants to top the special OBE award former | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
bandmate Gary Barlow got from the Queen for organising her Jubilee | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
concert earlier this year. Now that Gary has got an OBE, I have to go | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
for a knighthood. Don't bother sending me any other stuff up, your | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
Majesty. Just the night could well do, thank you. They are always at | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
it, those two. -- just the knighthood will do. Finally, most | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
theme park rides last for a measly minute at most but these guys got | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
their money's more and a lot more. For four hours these Californians | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
were stranded more than 100 metres in the air. Eventually they were | :08:15. | :08:23. | |
all let down, bored but unhurt. It is not often you hear a politician | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
say they are sorry, so rare that when Nick Clegg squeezed out an | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
apology yesterday that someone got all creative and turned it into a | :08:30. | :08:38. | |
song. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry. He has given permission | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
for the pranksters to make the song. He said sorry for the pledge he | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
made to future students about how much money they would pay to go to | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
university. The clever remixes been released as a single with money | :08:49. | :08:52. |