26/07/2016 Newsround


26/07/2016

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It's Tuesday, Ayshah here, live this morning,

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The penguin with a new 3D printed boot.

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And the UK's tallest mountain under the sea.

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We're starting with a record breaker.

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An aircraft powered entirely by the sun has finished its epic

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Solar Impulse 2 touched down in Abu Dhabi in the early

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The journey involved 17 separate stages around the world.

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The final flight from Cairo in Egypt took more than 48 hours.

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Well, BBC science correspondent Jonathan Amos has been

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following the journey and is here with us now.

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Thank you for joining us. How big a deal is this journey? This is the

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first time a solar plane has flown all the way around the world, so it

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is a big deal. The two pilots take turns to fire this plane, the two

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Swiss gentleman. When they first said they wanted to do this, they

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went to manufacturers and said, can you build is this plane? They said,

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we can't. It sounds crazy. They were refused to be put down and spoke to

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people, developers the technology that can give us a plane to fly

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through the day and through the night. It gets plenty of sun but it

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needs to store the energy. The journey wasn't easy, they had some

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problems. They did this huge journey across the western Pacific Ocean,

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which took five days and five nights. Imagine being stuck in the

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cockpit for that time, you can't get out and go for a walk. When they did

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it, they damage their batteries so had to stay in Hawaii the ten months

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to fix it. Finally, people will be wondering, will we be flying in a

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solar plane any time soon? Can I go to Barcelona for my holidays on it?

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You can only fit one person in it. We may see some small planes in the

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future with a few passengers, but you will still be going in a jet on

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your holiday. Thank you for joining us.

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Next, scientists exploring the UK's tallest mountain aren't

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packing their hiking gear and walking boots, they're

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That's because the biggest mountain is hundreds of metres underwater off

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It's called the Hebrides Terrace Seamount, and is 1700 metres tall.

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Scientists are using robots to explore the mountain,

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and find out more about the wildlife that live around it.

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They've found samples of coral which could be thousands of years

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old, and say it could be a hot spot for marine life.

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It is so exciting to do this type of research. We see the sea floor come

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out, and you don't know what you will find. This is the first time

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anybody has seen this seamount and the animals, how they live, what

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they live on, in between, he lives with them, not really exciting. We

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saw some incredible things. -- that's really exciting.

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So that got us thinking, where would you like to

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Maybe a safari or some ancient ruins?

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Let us know where and why online now.

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Next up, many children around the world are forced to work -

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that means they can't do normal things like playing with their

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This happens to thousands of children in Ghana in West Africa,

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It's the African country's biggest fishing ground.

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About 20,000 children are being forced to work on its waters -

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some of them are sent to work by poor families in the hope

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But they end up being made to work as fishermen,

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and treated like slaves - made to work without pay

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When he was ten, Dampson was taken from his family and made to work

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Dampson worked in dangerous conditions.

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Some of the boys he met were injured or died.

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Dampson was eventually rescued by a charity called

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He is now living with his dad and is back at school.

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Dampson is slowly rebuilding his life.

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If anything in that report has upset, you can go online

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where we've got a guide to help you with lots of information there.

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And finally, meet Purps the penguin from Connecticut in the USA.

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She injured her left foot five years ago.

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But now, thanks to school kids and experts at an aquarium,

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they've designed a special boot for her - using a 3D printer.

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That is all from me, Newsround is back at 4:20pm.

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