:00:17. > :00:23.Greetings, news fans. Hayley and Sonali here with tonight's top
:00:23. > :00:27.stories. Coming up on Newsround, we've got some of this... How China
:00:27. > :00:31.has rocketed into the space race. And we take a giant leap back in
:00:31. > :00:34.time to see how zoos have changed over the years. First, to this
:00:34. > :00:37.place, St Paul's Cathedral in central London. It's been getting a
:00:37. > :00:41.lot more attention than usual over the past few weeks because of the
:00:41. > :00:44.tent town that's sprung up all around it. The protestors have been
:00:44. > :00:48.there for two weeks now and though there's been talk of going to the
:00:48. > :00:52.courts to try and get rid of them, in the last hour both St Paul's and
:00:52. > :00:55.the city authorities have said they don't want to do that at the moment.
:00:55. > :01:03.The Cathedral wants to sort this out by talking to the demonstrators
:01:03. > :01:06.instead. Joe has been to St Paul's to find out what's going on.
:01:06. > :01:10.For the past two weeks, more than 200 tents have been pitched outside
:01:10. > :01:14.St Paul's Cathedral. Britain's biggest banks have large offices in
:01:14. > :01:22.this area, which is why these people have decided to protest here.
:01:22. > :01:26.It's a really well-organised camp. Behind me there is an info tent, a
:01:27. > :01:30.book shop and toilets. And if you look over here, I've seen a cafe
:01:30. > :01:33.where you can get a cup of tea, a recycling centre and even a place
:01:34. > :01:36.where you can plug in your computer and get on the the Internet.
:01:36. > :01:39.Although everyone is calling this a protest, what the people gathered
:01:39. > :01:42.here are protesting about isn't straightforward. I spoke to lots of
:01:42. > :01:44.different people. Some said they think the banks are making too much
:01:45. > :01:48.money, others think government spending cuts are wrong and some
:01:48. > :01:51.are even saying they're protesting against war. The camp has caused
:01:51. > :01:56.problems between the protesters and the cathedral. Some senior people
:01:56. > :02:01.who worked there have quit as a result. But St Paul's says it will
:02:01. > :02:04.not be taking action to force protesters to leave. It was thought
:02:04. > :02:06.the City authorities would issue protesters with a deadline to leave,
:02:06. > :02:12.but in the last hour they've decided to follow the Cathedral's
:02:12. > :02:15.decision and have pressed the pause button on legal action. Behind me,
:02:15. > :02:19.the camp are having a big meeting to decide what to do. They're
:02:19. > :02:26.facing loads of pressure from the people that own this land - but the
:02:26. > :02:32.question is, will they go? How long have you been here? I have been
:02:32. > :02:36.here since the first day, so this is the 17th day. I had one weekend
:02:36. > :02:43.off, when my mum was visiting. you going to go? Not if I can help
:02:43. > :02:47.it. You have been here since the start, but when you go now? I'm not
:02:47. > :02:50.planning on leaving, and most people feel the same. For now it
:02:51. > :02:59.looks like the protesters will not be forced out. But nobody knows
:02:59. > :03:02.exactly how long they will be able to stay. Two Pakistani cricketers
:03:02. > :03:05.have been found guilty of cheating in a Test match against England
:03:05. > :03:07.last summer. Watch out for flashing pictures coming up. Former captain
:03:07. > :03:10.Salman Butt and fast bowler Mohammad Asif plotted to
:03:10. > :03:13.deliberately bowl no-balls at certain times during the match at
:03:13. > :03:16.Lord's. It was all part of a big betting scam. They've both already
:03:16. > :03:20.been banned from international cricket for at least five years,
:03:20. > :03:24.and could now be sent to prison. Wayne Rooney is the only Brit on
:03:24. > :03:27.the shortlist for a top footie award called the Ballon D'Or. It's
:03:27. > :03:30.not hard to see why. The Manchester United wonderboy and 22 other
:03:30. > :03:33.players are up for World Footballer of the Year. After winning the
:03:33. > :03:38.award for the past two seasons, Barcelona's Lionel Messi is on the
:03:38. > :03:42.list again. The last British player to win the award was Michael Owen,
:03:42. > :03:46.ten years ago. Right, let's talk about the battle for space
:03:46. > :03:52.supremacy. 50 years ago, the Soviet Union sent the first ever man into
:03:52. > :03:56.space. A few years later, America went one better and put a man on
:03:56. > :04:00.the moon. It was known as the space race - a fight to see who could
:04:00. > :04:03.come out on top when it came to space exploration. Now, China wants
:04:04. > :04:13.some of the action. It's just launched a rocket in a bid to
:04:14. > :04:15.
:04:15. > :04:19.become the number one superpower China is on a mission. It wants its
:04:20. > :04:23.very own space station. The plan is for this craft, Shenzhou 8, to hook
:04:23. > :04:27.up with another bit of kit, 200 miles above Earth. It'll be the
:04:28. > :04:30.first time China has ever done this. On board the spaceship, there's a
:04:30. > :04:36.box full of biological experiments, including fish, plants, worms and
:04:36. > :04:41.bacteria. Scientists want to find out which kinds of life can survive
:04:41. > :04:44.in space, and how they grow. China is one of the fastest-developing
:04:44. > :04:51.countries in the world and has decided to spend millions on space
:04:51. > :04:56.exploration. The Americans have stopped spending so much cash on
:04:56. > :04:59.space, and this year, NASA closed its shuttle programme. Russia isn't
:04:59. > :05:02.spending as much as it once did either, but just the other day
:05:02. > :05:05.launched a cargo ship to resupply the International Space Station
:05:05. > :05:12.with food, fuel and some i-Pads to make sure cosmonauts can keep
:05:12. > :05:17.visiting. China thinks this is the perfect time to catch up and maybe
:05:17. > :05:20.overtake America and Russia in the great space race. At the moment,
:05:20. > :05:23.there is nobody onboard Shenzhou 8, and everything is being controlled
:05:23. > :05:27.from down here on Earth. But eventually, Chinese astronauts will
:05:27. > :05:34.live on board for up to two weeks and one of them could be the
:05:34. > :05:39.country's first female to go up to Now to news that the floods in
:05:39. > :05:42.Thailand have left 17 elephants stranded on a small island. Seven
:05:43. > :05:46.of them are under four years old and were too small to escape with
:05:46. > :05:50.the rest of their herd. So until the waters drop, they're stuck on
:05:50. > :05:53.the five-metre-wide island. They're being looked after by keepers who
:05:53. > :05:58.regularly row out to the island with fresh deliveries of sugar cane
:05:58. > :06:01.and pineapples for them. Loads of us have been to a petting zoo where
:06:01. > :06:05.you get to stroke animals like goats and rabbits. But how cool
:06:05. > :06:10.would it be if you were allowed to cuddle bigger creatures like a lion
:06:10. > :06:19.or a tiger? That's what zoos were like in the past! Joe's been to
:06:19. > :06:22.Chessington in Surrey to explore how zoo life has changed. This so
:06:22. > :06:26.his 80 years old. When it first opened, it was just a small
:06:26. > :06:32.collection of animals. But now it has got species from all over the
:06:32. > :06:38.world. And it looks very different now. One change is how close
:06:38. > :06:44.visitors can get to animals. About 80 years ago, kids could actually
:06:44. > :06:51.hold bears and big cats. Back then, and laws were not looked after as
:06:51. > :06:56.well as they are today. -- animals. Elephants and lions were used to
:06:56. > :07:01.entertain crowds, but now, it is different. These two are learning
:07:01. > :07:08.about how meerkats are cared for. would not mind living here if I was
:07:08. > :07:12.a meerkat. I wouldn't mind living here but it would be a bit strange
:07:12. > :07:18.seeing people's head poking up from under the holes and then seeing all
:07:18. > :07:22.of those faces. The other big change has been conservation.
:07:22. > :07:27.Nowadays they only take animals from special breeding programmes.
:07:27. > :07:32.This baby was born right here in Chessington only last week. Walking
:07:32. > :07:36.around here today, the animals seem happy, but who decides whether you
:07:36. > :07:41.are doing a good job? There are laws governing animals in captivity.
:07:41. > :07:46.We make sure they have the best environment possible. Some people
:07:46. > :07:50.think animals should not be locked up at all. But to sue keepers say
:07:50. > :07:55.they are looked after very well these days, and letting kids sea