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Hello guys. Ricky and Leah here tonight. We've got all the big | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
stories for you, so stay tuned for some of this. | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
Find out why these Romans are racing chariots in Wales. | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
And we meet Harry, the paragliding pooch! | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
First our top story, and we're heading to Pakistan, because there | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
are calls from around the world for the release a Christian girl who | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
was arrested in the capital city, Islamabad. The girl, who we think | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
is around ten to 13 is accused of burning pages from the Islamic holy | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
book, the Koran. The country has strict laws when it comes to the | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
Koran. I've been finding out what it means for anyone who breaks them. | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
This is the neighbourhood where Rimsha grew up. Although Pakistan | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
is a mainly Muslim country, some Christians live here too. It's | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
quiet now, but last week this waste ground was full of angry crowds | :01:06. | :01:13. | |
after Rimsha was accused of setting fire to pages from the Koran. It | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
might be hard to imagine that a schoolgirl could get into so much | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
trouble and be put in danger for damaging a book. Even now we don't | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
know that she did. But for Muslims the Koran is sacred. They believe | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
it's the word of God and damaging it is viewed as insulting. | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
respect it and show the utmost honour towards the holy Koran | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
Pakistan if people are accused of these sort of crimes, then the | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
death penalty is an option. But in most case there is's never been a | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
death penalty in relation to these crime es. It is not the first time | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
this sort of situation has fuelled anger. There was outcry around the | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
world when a Danish newspapered insulting images of the prophet | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
Mohammed. Violent protests followed, including the bombing of an airport. | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
The American flag was also set alight. Rimsha's house has been | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
locked up and her family have moved away. There are different reports | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
about how old she is and whether she might be mentally ill. Police | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
say they've arrested Rimsha and locked her up, partly to protect | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
her from angry mobs, but Christian groups say she's a vulnerable child | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
who needs help. Xavier Williams spoke to her after she was arrested. | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
Can you describe her condition in one sentence? It breaks my heart. | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
She is a child. She did not do anything intention aerblgs so her | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
actions must be -- intentionally, so her actions must be treated as | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
that of a child. Although cases like this are common in Pakistan, | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
most often they are dropped. Pakistan's President has ordered an | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
inquiry. The people fighting for Rimsha are hoping it won't be too | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
long before they are -- before she is released. | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
Now, communicating when you're hard of hearing is a frustrating problem | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
for many people, including me. But there's a new gadget being tried | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
out that could change all of that, and it's all down to these gloves. | :03:21. | :03:30. | |
Nice to meet you. They record and measure the way people who are | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
using sign language move their hands. It then translates it | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
through a computer and speaks the words. It's been invented by a team | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
in Ukraine. It's not available yet though, it's just a prototype at | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
the moment. News just in - an action woman who | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
was trying to become the first woman to swim from Cuba to Florida | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
without a shark cage has given up the challenge It was Diana Nyad's | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
fourth attempt to swim the 103 miles to America. On the way she | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
had to battle with storms, jellyfish stings, and dodge sharks. | :03:54. | :04:02. | |
But it's not all bad - she also got to swim with dolphins. Next to our | :04:02. | :04:10. | |
daily update to the Curiosity robot on Mars. It has tested its robotic | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
arm. NASA has announced it is sending another robot there in four | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
years' time. It is hoped one will drill deep below the surface to | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
discover how the planet is formed. Next we're heading to the Arctic, | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
where scientists think ice is melting so fast that it could soon | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
reach an all-time low. Research done by scientists in America | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
suggests that if the ice continues to melt at its current rate, it | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
will reach its lowest amount on record in the next few weeks. | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
Arctic sea ice plays an important role in helping keep Polar regions | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
cool and controlling the climate around the world. | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
It's only a week since Team GB picked up their medals, packed up | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
their bags and moved out of the Olympic Village. For two weeks the | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
eyes of the world were on them, but now that the Games are over, what | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
next? Bronze medallist Beth Tweddle is one of the athletes who's | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
thinking about giving up competing internationally. She spoke to Joe | :04:55. | :05:05. | |
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Kick strong. Lift up, two twists, a big step back but she saved it! | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
Congratulation on an amazing London 2012 Games. What's next for you? | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
lot of chill time, seeing my boyfriend and family. I've got my | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
dreams now and I finished one the one thing I had to achieve. That | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
has been ten years in the making! There's other things I want to do. | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
I will never walk away from gymnastics, I just wants to do | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
other things in life. I will miss the competition side of it but not | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
all the hours training. And if you're still missing | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
watching all the amazing sporting action, get ready for something | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
quite amazing. We're talking about the World Alternative Games. Expect | :05:54. | :06:03. | |
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snails, bathtubs and, er, wife # What's that coming over the hill | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
# Is it a monster? #. No, but it is something rather strange - athletes | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
dressed as Romans in a mountain bike chariot time trial! It's one | :06:12. | :06:21. | |
of 35 unusual events in the World Alternative Games in Wales. Over | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
two weeks there's kayaking in a bathtub, and bog snorkelling, an | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
annual event here in Llanwrtyd Wells. The town is famed for | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
peculiar sports, so with the Olympics coming, people here | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
decided to put on their very own Games. They've even got the snails | :06:37. | :06:45. | |
involved. I think it inspires people to make them think more | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
about sport. Gold, silver and bronze medals are | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
handed out, just like in London 2012, but the focus here is on the | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
taking part. Competitors have come from all over the world, and so | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
have some of the events, such as wife carrying, which started in | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
Finland. We've had the Olympics, but these athletes are making a | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
splash in a different way. Finally, to my favourite story of | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
the day. It's not often you look in the sky and see a dog paragliding | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
with it's owner. But if you're from Newcastle in Northern Ireland and | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
happened to look up last week, that's exactly what you would have | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
seen. Harry the dog was strapped into a paraglider with his owner, | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
gliding over 2,000 feet from the peak of a nearby mountain to the | :07:20. | :07:30. | |
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bottom of a beach. So did Harry Harry is getting ready for takeoff. | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
The ten-year-old collie cross is about to take to the skies above | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
Newcastle for the first time. He's paragliding with his owner, Tony. | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
The pilot and pooch were in the air for 20 minutes. It looks like Harry | :07:56. | :08:06. | |
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is loving every moment. Got him hooked in, made sure | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
everything was good and off we went. At the beginning he thought it was | :08:11. | :08:21. | |
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a bit strange, but he relaxed very Even when we land, he just sat down | :08:28. | :08:37. | |
on the sand on the beach and waited for me to unlaunch him. Tony has | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
been paragliding for nine years and knows what he is doing. When Harry | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
landed he was give an treat - cooked ham. | :08:46. | :08:50. |