23/09/2014 Newsround


23/09/2014

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Hi, guys - Jenny here, with some amazing stories coming your way.

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Coming up, the scientific breakthrough that could help predict

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Plus, the turtle and his penguin pals preparing for a long trip

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Fighter planes have started dropping bombs on Syria for the first time

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as President Barack Obama continues his plan to try and beat a radical

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IS is a militant Muslim group which has taken over large parts

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of Iraq and Syria in the last couple of months.

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It wants to create a new country with strict Islamic

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rules and has tried to harm people who don't agree with its aims.

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Obama has promised to stop the group and has already bombed

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Next, to the scientific discovery that could help predict -

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for the first time ever - when earthquakes will happen.

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Experts have spent years trying to figure out when devastating quakes

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will occur but and now a team in Sweden they think they might

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Big earthquakes don't tend to happen in the UK but in some parts

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of the world they can destroy entire cities and leave millions

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But for years they have been the only natural disaster experts

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REPORTER: It is bigger than the US state

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of California and it is powering ever closer to shore.

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Weather forecasters can plot paths of tornadoes and hurricanes

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and predict heavy rains or flooding and even volcanoes are monitored

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for warning signs that show when they are about to erupt.

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But the same could never be said about earthquakes - until now.

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Scientists think they have come up with the new method and it is

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Earthquakes are caused when huge pieces of rock on the Earth's

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surface called tectonic plates rub together and force waves of energy

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This causes the tremors and shakes felt during

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an earthquake, and experts examining groundwater before two separate

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earthquakes in Iceland found the chemicals in the water changed

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They think it is all because of stress building in the rocks beneath

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Firstly, it shows that something happens before an earthquake,

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and if we are ever going to be able to predict earthquakes we need

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Secondly, that something is something we can measure and detect.

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This is just one study and some scientists say the new

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It is possible for changes in fluid flow to arise

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Fluids in volcanically active regions can be affected

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So just because we observe them doesn't necessarily mean there is

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But everyone is hoping that more work to successfully predict

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when earthquakes will happen could help save millions

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In other news, could you last a day without watching TV?

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New guidelines to try and make people more healthy say families

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The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence says limiting

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viewing could mean fewer of us might be overweight.

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They also recommend walking or cycling to school and taking the

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Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, is expected to call

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for 16 year-olds to be able to vote in all future elections.

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He'll speak about the issue when the Scottish Parliament meets today, the

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first time since Scotland voted no to becoming an independent country.

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The voting age was cut to 16 for last Thursday's referendum, for

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Now - penguins, sharks and other sea life are all taking to the motorway

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this morning as they prepare for a big homecoming later today.

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Last winter's storms destroyed the Sea Life Centre in Hunstanton,

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near Norwich, and all the animals who lived there had to be moved.

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But after ten months their original home has been repaired

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and wildlife experts will spend today transporting as many of them

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You probably can't see because of the reflections on the glass

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but there is a huge replica of a dinosaur above us here.

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This tank will welcome a turtle, the fastest turtle in the East.

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He is on the way down from another sea life centre on the coast, it

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was an incredible operation, tidal flooding caused the damage here.

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And, this turtle. I will have to guide him in the water, whenever

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anything enters the water such as a foreign objects that are told tends

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to move away so to get him to do what I want to do, we will have to

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guide him into the stretch ourselves and won't he is in, when she out of

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the tank. How much damage was done here? More damage than your worst

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nightmare could have imagined when the tidal flood reached the sea wall

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back in December. Absolutely devastating.

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We had three or four feet of sea water

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We lost mains power and we were just

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All the way around the building we had

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water coming in through every doorway and

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It became very apparent that we were facing a major event.

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?3 million they have spent to try to reopen the aquarium.

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They have three weeks to go until it reopens but today is a big operation

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to start bringing some of the animals back into the tanks.

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That's all from me, Newsround's back at 4.20 with Martin.

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