02/08/2014

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0:00:07 > 0:00:08Hi, I'm Jenny, live from the Newsround studios,

0:00:08 > 0:00:14with all the news you need to know this Saturday morning.

0:00:15 > 0:00:18First, let's catch up on all the action from

0:00:18 > 0:00:22the Commonwealth Games, last night.

0:00:22 > 0:00:25Glasgow finally got their first glimpse of

0:00:25 > 0:00:29the fastest man in the world doing what he does best, as Usain Bolt and

0:00:29 > 0:00:32his Jamacian team mates coasted in to the 4 by 100m relay final.

0:00:32 > 0:00:35Splash star, Tom Daley, and his diving partner, James Denny, smashed

0:00:35 > 0:00:38their final dive to secure silver in the men's synchronised 10m platform.

0:00:38 > 0:00:41And Scotland's Lynsey Sharp was roared home, by the Hampden Park

0:00:41 > 0:00:46crowd, as she grabbed silver in the 800m final, just hours

0:00:46 > 0:00:51after being treated for sickness.

0:00:51 > 0:00:53Next, Monday marks 100 years since the start of Britain's

0:00:53 > 0:00:55involvement in World War One.

0:00:55 > 0:00:58Lots of the fighting happened in France and Belgium,

0:00:58 > 0:01:01where deep trenches were built for the troops to live in.

0:01:01 > 0:01:04Ricky's been to look at a trench in Belgium to find out what life

0:01:04 > 0:01:09was like for people living there during the war.

0:01:09 > 0:01:10This is a typical trench.

0:01:10 > 0:01:13And obviously, it is not just somewhere they fought, they actually

0:01:13 > 0:01:16ate here, they slept here, they did an awful lot of other things.

0:01:16 > 0:01:18Talk us through what happened in the trenches.

0:01:18 > 0:01:21It would be your normal, daily experience, but all in one place,

0:01:21 > 0:01:24in one location, with the added danger of the German shooting.

0:01:24 > 0:01:26You had to do everything here.

0:01:26 > 0:01:30There was no going anywhere else, unless you were wounded.

0:01:30 > 0:01:33You would eat here, as best you could.

0:01:33 > 0:01:36They might have such things as little cookers like this.

0:01:36 > 0:01:40Really, this is as luxurious as it gets, in this kind of trench.

0:01:40 > 0:01:43What kind of things would they have eaten?

0:01:43 > 0:01:45You get a variety of tinned food.

0:01:45 > 0:01:47Some of them were notorious, and some

0:01:47 > 0:01:49of them were actually very tasty.

0:01:49 > 0:01:53Some of them were so bad that they helped to strengthen the trenches,

0:01:53 > 0:01:55because nobody would eat them.

0:01:55 > 0:01:59For sleeping, if the ground was wet, you just had to do the best you can.

0:01:59 > 0:02:01It was quite a harsh existence.

0:02:01 > 0:02:04Especially in winter, when it was cold and damp.

0:02:04 > 0:02:07Certainly in trenches, that is where we find the development

0:02:07 > 0:02:10of what we call trench foot.

0:02:10 > 0:02:13This is a condition where your feet are permanently wet, all the time,

0:02:13 > 0:02:15and you can never dry them out.

0:02:15 > 0:02:17Your feet actually start to rot.

0:02:17 > 0:02:21The officer would come around adding respectively men's

0:02:21 > 0:02:22featured every day.

0:02:22 > 0:02:26He would make sure they were OK.

0:02:26 > 0:02:29Other things, like going to the toilet, you are not moving anywhere.

0:02:29 > 0:02:32How do you go to the toilet, without a toilet?

0:02:32 > 0:02:33Wonderful things called buckets.

0:02:33 > 0:02:33Buckets!

0:02:33 > 0:02:37So no privacy really.

0:02:37 > 0:02:37No, none at all.

0:02:37 > 0:02:39How did they get rid of the waste?

0:02:39 > 0:02:42At night, the bucket would be emptied.

0:02:42 > 0:02:44They would throw what ever was in the bucket,

0:02:44 > 0:02:47towards the German lines!

0:02:47 > 0:02:50Or, if someone was using the toilet and they really had to go

0:02:50 > 0:02:52there, then onto a shovel, and throw the contents

0:02:52 > 0:02:59as far away from your trench towards the Germans as you could.

0:02:59 > 0:03:01That's all from me, Newsround's back just before 12.