24/11/2015 Newsround


24/11/2015

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This is Newsround, you're live with me Ayshah this morning.

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Stick around for some of this.

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These cuties make their debut at a New York zoo and the maker

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of a new dinosaur movie drops in to tell us all about it.

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But first, to a big break through that scientists

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hope one day could wipe out one of the most deadly diseases on earth.

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Experts in the US say they've created a mosquito that is

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unable to carry malaria.

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The disease is passed to humans through bites from mosquitos

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like these.

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It's a huge problem in countries across Asia,

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Africa and South America.

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Scientists have worked out how to change the insect

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so that it is resistent to malaria and not just that.

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When the insect produces young, the new mosquitoes are malaria free too.

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They hope this plan, if it works in the wild, will

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eventually wipe out the disease.

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Next to the girl who is being turned into a comic hero.

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Fed up of not seeing cartoon characters with disabilities,

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Emily decided to take action.

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Along with ther dad, Dan, they've invented a comic strip

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called The Department of Ability and Ricky went to meet them.

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Emily is nine years old.

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She has a condition called spina bifida which makes it

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difficult to move around.

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Like loads of young kids, she loves reading, playing guitar,

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football, and basketball, and when she's not busy doing all

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that, she is also a superhero.

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Dad Dan has turned his daughter into a comic book star and it's

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in this room where the characters come to life.

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There's five characters, and the name of the comic is DOA,

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short for Department of Ability.

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And we've got our own theme tune.

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They're all disabled apart from the creator of them, the person

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who joined them all together.

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So what kind of superpowers does your character have?

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A flying wheelchair, lasers on her wheelchair.

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Emily's dad is obsessed with comics.

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Some of the characters he's created are based on other

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children with disabilities.

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Together they make up Team Strong Bones.

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The Department of Ability came to life when Emily was born, and at

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the time we just started watching television, reading comics, she was

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looking for something she could relate to, ie disabled characters.

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And when we couldn't find any, I set about designing my own group of

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superheroes with disabilities that she could read and actually enjoy.

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Some shows I don't really see people in wheelchairs.

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And how does that make you feel?

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Kind of upset.

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The aim of the comic is to remind young people

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that anyone can be a superhero.

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The charity Strong Bones is publishing the very first issue of

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the comic at the start of next year.

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Go Super Emily!

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Arsenal are fighting to stay in the Champions League. They need a win

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against Dinamo Zagreb to stand any chance of qualifying. But if results

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go Chelsea's way a victory at Maccabi Tel Aviv would send them

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through.

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After more than 15 years working as a writer, an animator and even

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the voice behind the character Squishy in Monsters University,

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Peter Sohn is trying his hand at directing for the very first time.

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The Good Dinosaur is the next Disney Pixar animation to hit

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the big screens this Friday and Martin caught up with him.

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Peter, I've got to be honest, I love animated films.

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What is The Good Dinosaur all about?

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It's about this young dinosaur boy who's like 11 years old.

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He's born in a farm family and he's afraid of everything.

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And so he goes on this journey and he meets this new friend that helps

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him become more brave and stronger, and he learns to survive out there.

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Why is this animation so special for you?

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This is my first time directing a feature.

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I directed a short, but it was only about five minutes

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long, this is 85 minutes long, so it's a whole other game.

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It's the same kind of thing with the storytelling.

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Aren't you the cutest thing?

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What is the process like?

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I can imagine it being pretty difficult.

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What is interesting about animation is that you have to make everything,

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you can't photograph anything, so you have to build everything, really

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design the eyes, so every little thing about the dinosaurs in the

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world has to be made and it takes a long time.

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Get out of your sister's bubble.

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One of my favourite animations of all time is Up.

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You've got a story when it comes to that animation,

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can you tell us about it?

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Yes, absolutely.

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In working that movie, you are sitting around with

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your friends drawing each other.

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One of my friends drew a really kooky drawing of me that kind of

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looks like a thumb with a hat on it.

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Shake.

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Speak. Hi there.

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And they started using that design, that drawing of a thumb as Russell,

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that character in the movie. But they just based the shape of him

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after my face and it was so funny.

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And check out this couple of cuties!

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These red pandas have just made their public debut at a zoo

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in the US.

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The little creatures were born in July in New York,

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but haven't been given names yet.

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Red pandas look similar to raccoons and have a reddish-brown coat

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and a long furry tail, but unlike giant pandas they're not

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members of the bear family.

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Everyone was excited to see little guys because they're considered to

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be very vulnerable in the wild.

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That's all from me, Ricky's here at 4.20pm. Bye!

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