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Hello and welcome to Newsround with me, Hayley. And me, Ricky. We've | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
got a jam packed show to kick start your week, including this: | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
It's Newsround's 40th anniversary on Wednesday and we've been taking | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
a look at Newsround past. And I've been running the 100 | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
metres in the Olympic stadium. But first, 30 years ago today, | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
Britain and Argentina went to war over the Falkland Islands. People | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
around the UK are remembering those who died in the conflict. The war | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
started when Argentine forces invaded the islands, and British | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
forces were sent out to defend them. Even though the Falkland Islanders | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
are British, many people in Argentina believe the islands | :00:56. | :01:03. | |
belong to them. And we'll be looking closer at how | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
Newsround covered the Falklands War 30 years ago in our 6.55 bulletin | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
tomorrow. Next, this is a really special week | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
for Newsround. Our very first programme went on air 40 years ago | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
on Wednesday. All this week, we'll be looking back at how the world's | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
changed since that first broadcast. To kick off, Leah's been back to | :01:21. | :01:31. | |
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Welcome to the 70s. In 1972, when Newsround first went on air, most | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
people watched it on black-and- white TV's and more than half of | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
phones did not have one of these, a telephone. He is a look at what you | :01:49. | :01:57. | |
missed. In 1972, Newsround started. It looked a bit different to how it | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
does nowadays and so did the children who watch it. It was a | :02:02. | :02:11. | |
decade with a lot to report on. Man first set foot on the moon in 1969. | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
During the 70s, there were five more manned moon landings. And they | :02:15. | :02:23. | |
even took up bodies. Technology was changing and it was all thanks to | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
this, a silicone chip. It meant computers could get a lot smaller | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
and cheaper. Doing maths suddenly got a whole lot easier with the | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
first pocket calculator and digital watches became the must have a | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
high-tech gadget. The idea of this is to be able to stand a one-legged | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
the longest. On TV there were only three challenge -- channels to | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
watch and only an hour of judges TV each day. Blue Peter was already a | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
favourite and do you recognise this guy? Noel Edmonds did a lot of | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
presenting on children's TV back there, too. A law comes into force | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
today to protect the world's rarest animals. From the beginning the | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
programme always covered the importance stories, but we have | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
also covered some rather silly things, too. 60 for women and 102 | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
men have been helping search for that perfect lavatory seat. They | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
will test out different seats and help the government decide which | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
seat is best for the British bottom. Every night this week we will be | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
looking back at what else has changed since we've been on air. | :03:30. | :03:38. | |
Tune in at 6:55pm on CBBC. Du Kunitsyn at 655 on the Sidibe | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
Channel And tune in at 6.55 on the CBBC | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
Channel for much more of that in the first of our special | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
anniversary programmes. Next to this - Mount Etna. It's the | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
biggest active volcano in Europe and yesterday it erupted again. It | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
didn't cause any damage and no-one has been hurt, but what's amazing | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
is it's the fifth time Etna has erupted this year! Sounds a lot, | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
but Mount Etna has always been pretty busy. | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
Firing molten lava high into the sky, Mount Etna is an amazing and | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
frightening sight. But for the people of Catania, the town that | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
lies 18 miles below the top of the volcano in Sicily, this is nothing | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
new. There are about 1,500 active volcanoes in the world, but Etna is | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
one of the most active and records of its eruptions stretch back as | :04:17. | :04:24. | |
far as Roman times. But why is Etna so busy? Well, it's all down to | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
what's happening underground. The Earth's crust is made up of moving | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
plates. Underneath these plates is magma. An eruption happens when a | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
plate moves and the magma is allowed to push its way to the | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
surface. One of the plates underneath Etna is being pushed | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
under the other, which makes it so explosive. Being so explosive makes | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
living nearby pretty worrying and it's because of what happened here | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
almost 2,000 years ago. The Roman city of Pompeii on the mainland was | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
destroyed by a huge eruption from Mount Vesuvius and people are | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
worried that Etna could one day do the same in Sicily. But should they | :04:59. | :05:08. | |
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be worried? A thing possibly not. The magma is flowing down the Mote | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
in -- Mountain, building a new layers, which is what happened with | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
the sort of volcanoes. Of volcanoes are unpredictable and who knows | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
what will happen? So while Etna might be quiet now, you can expect | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
to more amazing pictures like this very soon. | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
Yesterday saw the biggest event to take place inside London's Olympic | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
Stadium so far. 20,000 people were invited to warm up the track in | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
east London ahead of the Summer Games. And I was lucky enough to | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
take part in a 100m race. But as you'll see, I wasn't quite the | :05:40. | :05:50. | |
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We've been through security, I've got my special pass, thousands are | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
making their way into the London Olympics Stadium with a very -- for | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
the first time. But I'm not here to watch, I'm taking part. I'm here to | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
win. Thousands of people took part in the Gold Challenge charity run, | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
raising a serious a matter of cash. This is one of the first test | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
events to take place inside the stadium. In a few months it will | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
see some of the biggest sporting stars like Usain Bolt, Jessica | :06:18. | :06:25. | |
Ennis and now me. Get ready for some real competition. I've been | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
invited to a special 100 metres charity race. Are you excited to be | :06:29. | :06:39. | |
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here? Yes. We've never been before. Ready! Then it was my turn. Can you | :06:41. | :06:48. | |
see me? By men purple. You can just about see me at the back. I didn't | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
come first but it was a day of firsts. The first marriage proposal | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
to place inside the stadium, I met the first deaf person to run on the | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
track and it is the first time a Newsround presenter has competed | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
inside the Olympic Stadium. Champion! | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
I didn't come last. I came in 6th place. And I had a cold. | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
Now, this kid might be dizzy after this stunt, but he's also a record | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
breaker. He's the first ever skateboarder to successfully | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
complete three full spins after taking off from a ramp. Tom Schaar | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
is from Malibu in California, and get this, he's only 12 years old! | :07:22. | :07:25. |