23/01/2012 Newsround


23/01/2012

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We are live and we have got all the news you need to know. There is no

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other show it like Newsround. We have got Ore and Leah to break down

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the top stories. Sonali has got all the talk as the Winter Youth

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Olympics come to a close. I look at the techniques sports scientists

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are using to help Team GB win medals. First, to a row about how

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much money poorer families should get from the government to live on.

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They want to cut the amount Britain spent on benefits, the money people

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can get if they are sick or out of work. They want to make the system

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fairer it so people don't get more money from benefits than actually

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going to work, but some people say the changes could call real

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suffering two children. A lot of stories on the news have been all

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about money, it is kind of important. How much money does a

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family actually need to live on, and how much should people be given

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if they hit hard times? Today the government is trying to change the

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law to stop any family from being given more than �500 per week or

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�26,000 a year in benefits. The same amount of money an average

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working family would make. For modern benefits system was

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introduced after the Second World War to do something about the huge

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numbers of people living in poverty. The idea was that the government

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took money from everyone's taxes and gave it to people who became

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sick and couldn't work all lost their jobs. Before the system

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people could go homeless or hungry if they couldn't work, so the

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system made life much better for a lot of people. Britain spends more

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on benefits than anything else, �192 billion. The government thinks

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that is too much. They say the system isn't right because some

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people can earn more money by not working staying at home and

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claiming benefits and the good from getting a job. The government says

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it isn't fair on the people who do work and pay taxes. That is why

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they want to stop families getting more than �500 per week in benefits

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but charities say changing the law would mean some families would have

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to leave their homes and kids in bigger families would be worse off.

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The House of Lords is debating the changes today. If the government

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gets its way the new measures would come into force in 2013. Even if

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they are defeated they are unlikely to try to stop changing the way

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people out of work are helped. You may have caught the start of her

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incredible journey earlier but Blue Peter's leading lady has finally

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done it. Allen's goal to's 500 mile expedition is over. -- Helen

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Skelton. She has become the first person to use a bike as part of her

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expedition to the South Pole. Here is how she sounded when she made it.

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It has definitely been a tough way to live, we came here on 23rd

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December, camping and cookie in temperatures as low as -48,

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definitely pretty tough. -- cooking. People keep asking why I kept going.

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When you meet people through Sport Relief you realise it puts things

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in perspective so I have been fortunate enough to the people and

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realise that makes a difference. She is a machine. The first ever

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Winter Youth Olympics came to a close yesterday, but not for before

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Team GB clocked up three medals. We caught up with Misha men kneel and

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Jesmond Saunders. -- Mike McNeill. They won a medal in the bobsleigh.

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How are you feeling? We came here hoping to win a medal and we got

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silver, we are really pleased. feels amazing to be taking part,

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great to get a medal. 10 days of action-packed competition. Closing

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ceremony going on behind us. Are you feeling a little bit emotional?

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It is release that it has come to a close. We spent over a week here in

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Innsbruck, had the time of our lives, and said to be leaving.

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Loads of your team-mates had been telling me it has been the best

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week of their lives, even if they haven't done as well as they wanted

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to. I don't think you will experience anything like this again.

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Even if we go to the senior games it will be totally different again.

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It has been amazing. Congratulations on being the first

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tee be -- Team GB athletes to compete in 2012. If you won their

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four-storey watch Blue Peter on Thursday, 5:45pm, on the CBBC

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channel. -- If you want their full story. The stars of the London

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Olympics are training for the biggest event of their lives. To

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get them over the line they will need all the help they can get. We

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have been looking at the science behind the sport. The 2008 Beijing

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Olympics. Teme GP's best performers for 100 years. It is not just the

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people on the podium he worked hard. -- Team GB. It isn't just about

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spending hours in a gym on Europe, baroque whole team of people behind

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every athlete. They are called sports scientists and they are

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putting me through my paces. are about to a maximum treadmill

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test, to exhaustion, go as long as carp -- and hard as you can. At the

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last Olympics �245 million was spent on making our athletes fitter,

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faster and stronger. Lot of money were spent in facilities like this

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one in Preston. Your last three seconds, come on. This time �330

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million are being poured into our hopeful are Olympians at

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Paraolympians. Superb. This ultra fitness test measures of how well

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your heart, lungs work under pressure. Another test uses a 3 D

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modelling system to see how good your running technique is. Mine

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couldn't -- could do with some improvement. You can tell Baston

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out of information, but you can't account for talent. We try to

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redress the 1% of the 2% change in performance that could make all the

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difference between the gold or silver medal. In exchange for

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record levels of funding athletes have been set a goal to finish in

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the top four, and won more medals in more sports so it is game on for

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our teams and a sports scientist behind him. Great effort. Finally,

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Chinese New Year started today, the Of the Dragon, but it might not be

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a good ear for the Chinese lantern. The Marine Conservation Society

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want to see the making, selling and releasing of lanterns banned in

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