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Thanks for tuning in guys. Leah and Ricky here with Thursday's | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
Newsround. We are live with all the top stories. Stick around for all | :00:26. | :00:36. | |
We'll be heading down to the depths of the ocean. The it is so weird | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
being this close to a lion. Hayley's a brave girl. She's on a | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
mission to rescue these lions. first to Somalia. Leaders from | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
around the world have been meeting in London today to try to find a | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
way to end 20 years of trouble in the East African country. It has | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
not had a proper government for 20 years. Civil war and famine have | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
made it a difficult place to live, and children are some of the worst | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
affected. Figures from Unicef show more than one in six children | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
living there die before their fifth birthday and only one in three go | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
to primary school. Now problems in the country are spreading to the | :01:12. | :01:20. | |
Life in Somalia. 20 years ago the Prime Minister was overthrown and | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
since then the country has not had a government. It has led to chaos | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
and violence. The rise of piracy means countries and the rest of the | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
world have been affected as well, as the threat of attack has caused | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
problems for those travelling in waters near the coast of Somalia. | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
Back on land, the Somalian capital of Mogadishu is a city lying in | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
ruins. But the situation has improved. This was Mogadishu in the | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
past. The streets were a battleground with the sound of | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
gunfire echoing around the city. Now the streets are filled with the | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
hustle and bustle of people trying to rebuild their lives. The | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
Islamist militants used to run this part of the city have been driven | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
out and people are once again happy to live here. The BBC's Andrew | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
Harding who is in the capital says that people there are still facing | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
big problems there are makeshift camps all over Mogadishu with | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
families crowded into basic tense. They are reliant on humanitarian | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
aid for survival. Outside the capital, trouble is never far away. | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
Government troops are fighting a group meaning that thousands of | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
Somali inns are leaving their home to avoid that trouble. The people | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
of Somalia and now looking to the rest of the world to help them not | :02:40. | :02:49. | |
just rebuild the country, but their Congrats to divers Tom Daley and | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
Peter Waterfield who've made it through to tonight's final of the | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
diving World Cup. After a shaky start, an impressive last dive in | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
London's Aquatics Centre helped them finish sixth in the qualifying | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
round. It's Tom's first competition since his diving coach warned him | :03:00. | :03:07. | |
to cut down on his TV work he does. Now to a risky rescue. Over the | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
weekend Hayley travelled to France to help save two lions who were | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
treated badly by a circus. Here in Britain we have strict rules about | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
how animals in the circus should be treated, but things are a bit | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
different overseas. As Hayley found out in this special report, moving | :03:19. | :03:29. | |
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This is Brutus and this is Clarence. They may look happy, but in the | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
past things have not been that good. That is because they were | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
performing lions that lived in a circus. They had lived there since | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
they were born but it was not a happy time. Local authorities | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
became worried for the animals after they thought they were being | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
treated badly. The circus was asked to give up the Lions or risk losing | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
all of their animals. That is how the boys ended up here. They have | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
been rescued by a sanctuary which has kept them safe and happy for | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
over a year. But they still have scars from the life before they | :04:00. | :04:08. | |
were rescued. When they had arrived what were they like? They were not | :04:08. | :04:17. | |
so beautiful. They were skinny, they had bad skin, they were very | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
scared. They would go to the back of the Enclosure, but now they are | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
very calm. They are good lines. the UK, circuses need a licence to | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
keep wild animals, but in France a licence is not needed. The | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
sanctuary is stretched to the limit and wants to help as many animals | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
as possible but there is just not enough room. But if they find a | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
home for Clarence and Brutus it means that more lines that need | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
help can move in. Luckily a wildlife park in England has | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
offered to take the lion's, so Brutus and Clarence are off to a | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
new start. They have just sedated the Lions, which means putting them | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
to sleep with an injection so they can make a journey. The Lions can | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
be quite dangerous, but it is necessary so they can get to the | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
new home. Now they will sleep, and when they wake up they will be in | :05:08. | :05:15. | |
England. It is so we have been this close to a lion. Even though he is | :05:15. | :05:25. | |
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so lated -- sedated, I still feel a That is Brutus and Clarence sagely | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
in their cages and ready proper journey to their new home. The only | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
problem is it is 500 miles that way, but I will be travelling with them, | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
so tune in tomorrow to find out how they get along. Next up, we've sent | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
astronauts up into space but here on earth there are still corners | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
that remain virtually unexplored. One of them is off the coast of | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
Japan in the Pacific Ocean. It's called the Mariana Trench and it's | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
the deepest place on the planet. Now four teams are racing to get to | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
the bottom. I've been finding out more. The Mariana Trench - it's the | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
deepest place on earth. Home to weird sea creatures and, well, the | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
rest is unknown. But not for much longer. So just how big is it? Well, | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
it's seven miles down and it's the deepest point in the ocean. That | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
means you could fit 114 Big Bens down there and it would still feel | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
spacious. So far, only two humans have ever visited the deepest point | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
of the trench, Challenger Deep. That was more than 50 years ago. | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
The dangerous conditions meant they could only stay down for 20 minutes | :06:28. | :06:37. | |
and ever since, people have wanted to return. But now four teams are | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
racing to reach the bottom. Using hi-tech submarines they hope to | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
dive down to the trench's deepest point. It's not an easy task. The | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
subs are made from strong materials to stop them being crushed by the | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
high water pressure. And it's so deep they'll have to pilot their | :06:50. | :07:00. | |
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subs in total darkness. We really don't know what is down there, not | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
just that stretch, at their deepest parts of the ocean. 95 % of the | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
ocean remains unexplored. An incredible number. If the teams | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
succeed, they could potentially reveal the secrets of one of the | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
remotest places left on earth. And finally, if you want to take a | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
peak at what's living at the bottom of the ocean but don't fancy | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
getting your feet wet, don't worry. Some very clever folk have come up | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
with the answer. Scientists have been using a special underwater | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
camera to take photos of the Great Barrier Reef. The idea is that | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
they'll have their own version of Google Street View, and they hope | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
the images will help them understand how climate change | :07:34. | :07:44. |