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We are live and we have got all the news you need to know. There is no | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
other show it like Newsround. We have got Ore and Leah to break down | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
the top stories. Sonali has got all the talk as the Winter Youth | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
Olympics come to a close. I look at the techniques sports scientists | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
are using to help Team GB win medals. First, to a row about how | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
much money poorer families should get from the government to live on. | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
They want to cut the amount Britain spent on benefits, the money people | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
can get if they are sick or out of work. They want to make the system | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
fairer it so people don't get more money from benefits than actually | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
going to work, but some people say the changes could call real | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
suffering two children. A lot of stories on the news have been all | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
about money, it is kind of important. How much money does a | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
family actually need to live on, and how much should people be given | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
if they hit hard times? Today the government is trying to change the | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
law to stop any family from being given more than �500 per week or | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
�26,000 a year in benefits. The same amount of money an average | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
working family would make. For modern benefits system was | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
introduced after the Second World War to do something about the huge | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
numbers of people living in poverty. The idea was that the government | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
took money from everyone's taxes and gave it to people who became | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
sick and couldn't work all lost their jobs. Before the system | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
people could go homeless or hungry if they couldn't work, so the | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
system made life much better for a lot of people. Britain spends more | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
on benefits than anything else, �192 billion. The government thinks | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
that is too much. They say the system isn't right because some | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
people can earn more money by not working staying at home and | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
claiming benefits and the good from getting a job. The government says | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
it isn't fair on the people who do work and pay taxes. That is why | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
they want to stop families getting more than �500 per week in benefits | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
but charities say changing the law would mean some families would have | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
to leave their homes and kids in bigger families would be worse off. | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
The House of Lords is debating the changes today. If the government | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
gets its way the new measures would come into force in 2013. Even if | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
they are defeated they are unlikely to try to stop changing the way | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
people out of work are helped. You may have caught the start of her | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
incredible journey earlier but Blue Peter's leading lady has finally | :02:50. | :03:00. | |
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done it. Allen's goal to's 500 mile expedition is over. -- Helen | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
Skelton. She has become the first person to use a bike as part of her | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
expedition to the South Pole. Here is how she sounded when she made it. | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
It has definitely been a tough way to live, we came here on 23rd | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
December, camping and cookie in temperatures as low as -48, | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
definitely pretty tough. -- cooking. People keep asking why I kept going. | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
When you meet people through Sport Relief you realise it puts things | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
in perspective so I have been fortunate enough to the people and | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
realise that makes a difference. She is a machine. The first ever | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
Winter Youth Olympics came to a close yesterday, but not for before | :03:46. | :03:53. | |
Team GB clocked up three medals. We caught up with Misha men kneel and | :03:53. | :04:01. | |
Jesmond Saunders. -- Mike McNeill. They won a medal in the bobsleigh. | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
How are you feeling? We came here hoping to win a medal and we got | :04:06. | :04:14. | |
silver, we are really pleased. feels amazing to be taking part, | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
great to get a medal. 10 days of action-packed competition. Closing | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
ceremony going on behind us. Are you feeling a little bit emotional? | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
It is release that it has come to a close. We spent over a week here in | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
Innsbruck, had the time of our lives, and said to be leaving. | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
Loads of your team-mates had been telling me it has been the best | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
week of their lives, even if they haven't done as well as they wanted | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
to. I don't think you will experience anything like this again. | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
Even if we go to the senior games it will be totally different again. | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
It has been amazing. Congratulations on being the first | :04:51. | :04:58. | |
tee be -- Team GB athletes to compete in 2012. If you won their | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
four-storey watch Blue Peter on Thursday, 5:45pm, on the CBBC | :05:03. | :05:11. | |
channel. -- If you want their full story. The stars of the London | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
Olympics are training for the biggest event of their lives. To | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
get them over the line they will need all the help they can get. We | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
have been looking at the science behind the sport. The 2008 Beijing | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
Olympics. Teme GP's best performers for 100 years. It is not just the | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
people on the podium he worked hard. -- Team GB. It isn't just about | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
spending hours in a gym on Europe, baroque whole team of people behind | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
every athlete. They are called sports scientists and they are | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
putting me through my paces. are about to a maximum treadmill | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
test, to exhaustion, go as long as carp -- and hard as you can. At the | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
last Olympics �245 million was spent on making our athletes fitter, | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
faster and stronger. Lot of money were spent in facilities like this | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
one in Preston. Your last three seconds, come on. This time �330 | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
million are being poured into our hopeful are Olympians at | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
Paraolympians. Superb. This ultra fitness test measures of how well | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
your heart, lungs work under pressure. Another test uses a 3 D | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
modelling system to see how good your running technique is. Mine | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
couldn't -- could do with some improvement. You can tell Baston | :06:31. | :06:40. | |
out of information, but you can't account for talent. We try to | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
redress the 1% of the 2% change in performance that could make all the | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
difference between the gold or silver medal. In exchange for | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
record levels of funding athletes have been set a goal to finish in | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
the top four, and won more medals in more sports so it is game on for | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
our teams and a sports scientist behind him. Great effort. Finally, | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
Chinese New Year started today, the Of the Dragon, but it might not be | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
a good ear for the Chinese lantern. The Marine Conservation Society | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
want to see the making, selling and releasing of lanterns banned in | :07:16. | :07:20. |