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Hello. Welcome to Newsround on BBC One. I'm Leah taking charge of | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
things on my own tonight. Some of this is on the way. | :00:27. | :00:37. | |
Joe finds out what it takes to climb Mount Everest. | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
And movie or pop star - Rhianna says she'll do both! | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
But first to a big row over how much money Britain should give to | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
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other poorer countries around the world. At the moment the UK | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
Government gives about �8 billion a year in foreign aid t, but now they | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
now want to increase that to �11 billion. And as Nel's been finding | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
out, not everyone thinks it's a good idea | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
For years Britain's been giving a portion of its money to poorer | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
countries around the world. But now there's a big debate over | :01:11. | :01:20. | |
whether we're giving too much to help others. Most Western countries | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
sign up to pay a certain percentage of their budget to countries in | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
need. But compared to the rest of the world the UK donates more than | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
most others. It currently gives 0.5% of it's national income - | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
that's almost �8 billion to you and me. Germany donates less than 0.4% | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
of their cash and the USA gives 0.2%, But despite that the UK's now | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
agreed to meet a new United Nations target that'll mean increasing what | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
we pay - from �8 billion to nearly �11 billion by 2014. | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
But the House of Lords say that's a bad idea. The House of Lords say we | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
should focus on the quality of aid, the kind of aid, how it's delivered | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
to poorer countries rather than the amount of money. Critics say the | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
money could be used to sort out problems here in the UK like | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
repairs our roads. They pointed to the fact that Britain has been dope | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
ateing foreign aid for years, and the countries are no better off. So | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
why should the UK be donating money to charity when we could be using | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
the money ourselves? The amount we give to poorer countries is less | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
than 1p per pound. It's a very small amount of money and far, far | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
less than we spend on education and welfare benefits, yet the | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
difference it makes to poorer countries is huge. | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
The Government says cutting funds could cost thousands of lives and | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
the extra money would get millions of children into schools. | :02:44. | :02:54. | |
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You've been telling us what you You can still have your say over on | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
the website. Now she's mostly found sitting | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
pretty at the top of the charts, but Rihanna's branching out to the | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
big screen. She's got her first acting role in new film Battleship | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
and says despite her worldwide fame, she was really nervous on her first | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
day. But don't worry Riri fans - she says whatever happens she has | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
no plans to give up on the music. Music is art for me. I really just | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
want to make a great song. When I make a video, it has to really stay | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
true to the song. I never, ever want to compromise that for | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
anything else. Next, if you have heard everyone | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
going on about passties recently, let me fill you in. | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
The Government's been told off for trying to hike up the price of | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
baked food in it's big budget last week. And it all means a warm | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
sausage roll or stake pie could cost you more than a cold one. | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
Confused? Take a look at this. In its big budget last week the | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
government said an extra tax should be added to the cost of hot pies | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
and pasties. Meaning we'd pay more for them. It's all to do with | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
something called VAT. If something costs one pound, the | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
Government adds 20p, so you pay �1.20. Its added for most things | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
people buy, including hot snacks like fish and chips, but some items, | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
like cold snacks, aren't included. Some people say that's unfair and | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
that's why the Government's changing things. | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
What the Government has to try and do is make sure the VAT rules are | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
fairly applied and so I dont think its fair for instance that the | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
small businessman running the fried chicken takeaway is having to | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
charge his custmers VAT but the big supermarket is not having to pay | :04:44. | :04:52. | |
VAT for the fresh hot chickens. what does it mean for us? If you | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
was to buy a pie today it would cost �1.35. Once the ruling for | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
that would come in, that would rise to �1.62. But it gets more | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
complicated. If this hot pie were to go cold before I paid for it, I | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
wouldn't have to pay any extra money at all. Under the rules, if | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
it's cold VAT would be added, which means I get to keep the extra money. | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
Politicians opposed to the Government say the price rise will | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
hit people already struggling with money, but fish and chip shop | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
owners are behind the plan. One thing is for sure - whatever the | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
temperature of your food, this is a debate that'll take awhile to cool | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
down. It was good, that pie! | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
Now to Mount Everest - the worlds tallest mountain. Adventurer, | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
Kenton Cool, is heading to the top and he's taking a special Olympic | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
gold medal Joe's been finding out more. | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
Mount Everest, almost 9,000 metres of snow, ice and rock. Climbers are | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
faced with deadly crevasses and sheer cliffs. The air gets thinner | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
as you climb, so the higher you go, the harder it becomes to breathe. | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
Climbing to the top is something only the bravest, fittest and | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
strongest people can do, and that is why I have come to the garden of | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
the man who has done it before. Cheers, guys. Kenton Cool is a | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
professional explorer and adventurer. He's preparing to climb | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
the mountain for the 10th time, but this time he has a special job to | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
do. My latest mission is to take this medal to the top of the world, | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
Mount Everest, to fulfil an almost 90-year-old Olympic Games pledge. | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
It was these men who started it. In 1954 they received medals for | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
bravely attempting to climb the tallest mountain in the world. They | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
didn't quite make it, but vowed to try again, taking their medals with | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
them. Something went wrong the second time around and one member | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
died, and they abandoned the mission. To explorers like Kenton, | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
this story is legendary. What do you have to do to prepare? | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
You have to be super fit, so I have done a lot of cycling in the gym. | :07:12. | :07:19. | |
Also, I carry a big rucksack and walk across the hills. You must be | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
- to put yourself through that again. It's an amazing story and | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
deserves to be told. He sets off today with the gold medal safely | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
tucked into his pack. This summer Olympians from all over the world | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
will be competing for one of these. By that time Kenton will have | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
fulfilled a very special dream. Best of luck. | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
And if you couldn't wait to race home from school tonight I bet you | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
weren't as quick as this elephant. She broke out of a circus in | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
Ireland and outran her handlers after they'd tried to give her a | :07:53. | :07:55. |