23/11/2015 Newsround

Hi, I'm Ricky with Newsround this Monday afternoon.

Could this be the worst time ever to get the hiccups?

And the rescued lion that's finally free.

First , Astronaut Major Tim Peake has

completed his training ahead of his trip to the International

Major Tim peat is about to make some serious space history. He is set to

become the first British astronaut to live on board the International

Space Station. This will be his first trip into space.

Yeah we've trained a long time for this, so we're very ready

Tim is travelling with a Russian who has been to the space station

before. If something happens

which he doesn't understand? He has to watch how others react

and not rush. In space everything

moves very slowly. Tim has been practising in this

spacecraft, similar to the one they will travel in.

It can take around 24 hours to get to the station so they need to have

It is a long period, two and a half years. And everything we do here is

in Russia must learning Russian language as well. The whole

experience is a huge privilege and will be tremendously exciting,

seeing the first view of planet Earth from space will be the most

exciting moment. So the crew have passed

their final exam. Next to the story of Mufasa

the lion. It's thought Mufasa had been captured from the wild as

a cub by a South American circus who then kept him chained to the back

of a truck for most of his life. After being rescued

and being brought back to health the big cat was taken on

a three day journey by road and boat to a special reserve in the Amazon

rainforest - where he can now live Next, to news of

a high-tech solar powered plant that It's in Morocco in North Africa and

uses melting salt to create energy. Wasassat,

an ancient city in East Morocco is Row upon row of mirrors capturing

the power of the desert sun. Once complete, it will be able to

provide energy to a million people. During daylight hours, these mirrors

track the sun through the sky. It is known

as concentrated solar power. Each mirror directs

the sun's rays that hit the tube Outside the tube is oil

which is boiled to 400 Celsius, then transported and used here to

make steam and produce electricity. But in order to generate power

after dark, it uses the sun's energy to melt

salt in this huge cylinder which has This thing you see here is a tank

where we store salt just like the During the day, we heat this up,

in order to keep the heat we will use to produce electricity,

and this is quite a big innovation. We are able to store up to

three hours of energy. It's hoped that this sort

of technology is the future of renewable energy and poorer nations

want help from rich countries to develop technology like this to help

fuel the future, day and night. I'm pretty sure singing

your national anthem in front of thousands is something no one

would forget. Well, this 7-year-old boy

from Australia stole the show Ethan stood up to sing

the national anthem before He did make it to then though

and got a massive round of applause from the crowd and high

fives from all the players. That's all from me, Newsround's back

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