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Hello there, Newsrounders. Joe and Nel here with today's top stories. | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
We're live. It's 5.00pm, and this is a little taste of what's coming | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
We head to Mars for World Space Week. We head to Mars for World | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
Space Week. And part human, part dolphin - the | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
high-tech gadget taking the seas by storm. | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
But first, there's a warning that one of the world's most incredible | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
natural wonders could be disappearing. The Great Barrier | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
Reef in Australia not only looks amazing, it's also home to more | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
than 1,500 species of fish. But today scientists have revealed | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
that the world's largest living reef is half the size it used to be. | :00:55. | :01:04. | |
I've been looking into why it's such a big deal. | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
It's beautiful peaceful scenes like this that bring thousands of | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
visitors to the Great Barrier Reef every year. But it's not as | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
tranquil as it looks. Although large parts of it are protected | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
from being damaged by humans, this massive natural habitat is under | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
attack from starfish. Scientists are worried that the reef is being | :01:20. | :01:29. | |
eaten by the crown of thorns starfish. They have a really small | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
mouth and no teeth, so to eat the coral, it's a bit disgusting. They | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
have to throw up the stomach, throw it on to the surface, then turn it | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
into a mush they can drink up. The Great Barrier Reef is the | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
world's largest coral reef system. It's so big, it can be seen from | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
space, but it is shrinking. It's 1,600 miles long, off Australia's | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
north-east coast, but the amount of living coral on the reef is now | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
only half what it was 27 years ago. Starfish eating the coral are being | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
blamed, but there are other factors like bad storms and rising sea | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
temperatures. The reef is a breeding ground for | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
thousands of species of fish. Many of them are endangered, so | :02:06. | :02:13. | |
scientist say something needs to be done to stop it being destroyed. | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
we were to lose coral, we'd see a decline in the number and different | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
types of sea animals that rely on the coral to live. Also, they're | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
really important in the same face as rain forests or trees are on | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
land for getting rid of greenhouse gases. | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
Coral is a living thing which can regrow over time, but it can take | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
up to 20 years to get back to full health. Scientists are warning that | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
action must be taken, otherwise the reef could be halved again over the | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
next ten years. In other news, hundreds of people | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
have been helping police to look for a five-year-old girl from mid | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
Wales. April Jones went missing last night in her home town of | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
Machynleth. Police are appealing for anyone with any information to | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
come forward. Meanwhile, volunteers have come from far and wide to help | :03:02. | :03:10. | |
with the search. The community have been amazing. It's pulled the town | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
hall together. Everybody is willing to do anything. They have come from | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
all places to help, and we're so grateful for their help. We're | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
hearing in the last hour a 46-year- old man has been arrested in | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
relation to the disappearance. Police and volunteers are still | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
searching for April. Elsewhere, the teacher arrested | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
after running away to France with 15-year-old student Megan Stammers | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
has agreed to come back to the UK. Jeremy Forrest appeared in a French | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
court today, but British police want to bring him home to deal with | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
him here. He could be back in the country by Thursday where he'll | :03:39. | :03:47. | |
then face further court cases. Yesterday we took you on a journey | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
to the moon, but today we're going a little bit further - all the way | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
to Mars. That's right. | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
In August NASA's Curiosity rover landed on its surface. It's mission | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
- to search for evidence of life. But it's fair to say the big | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
interest in the red planet is nothing new, as I've been finding | :04:02. | :04:10. | |
out. Mars - the subject of films, books | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
and music the world over # Is there life on Mars # | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
But why are we so obsessed with it? Robert Grant is from sci-fi London. | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
During the kind of mid '50s to mid '60s there was an enormous number | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
of films made about Martians and Martian creatures, and Mars became | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
the kind of place that all the bad creatures came from. Away from the | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
sci-fi, there's a lot more to the Red Planet than alien invaders, and | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
scientists believe it's the only planet humans could realistically | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
live on in the future. But it's not easy to get to. We're talking about | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
a planet that's as much as 250 million miles away, and you have to | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
try to avoid space debris, freezing temperatures and solar flairs, so | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
instead of sending humans we have been sending robots. Right now | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
Curiosity is on the Red Planet's surface sending back data and | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
pictures to earth. I met one of the scientists who built it. Why is | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
Mars so important for us as humans to reach? It's so earth-like in so | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
many ways. Liquid water may be flowing under the surface of Mars | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
right now. That's really important because on earth, everywhere we | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
find liquid water, everywhere, we find life. Curiosity's mission will | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
last about two years, but NASA are already planning to send another | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
robbot afterwards temperature European Space Agency want in on it | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
as well. They're sending this Rover up in 2018. Robots can only tell us | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
so much, and scientists know if we want to find out more we'll have to | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
send humans. This will be the fifth robot we | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
have sent to Mars. When are we going to send a human? It's | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
difficult to say because it's far in the future, but we're building | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
the rockets that could take us there. It could be as much as 50 | :05:55. | :06:05. | |
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years but no-one knows. In 2010 the Mars 500 Project cured where humans | :06:06. | :06:15. | |
lived in isolation for many days to see if they could cope. We're | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
building bigger and better robots, so it seems our obsession with the | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
Red Planet isn't going away. And we want to hear if you think we | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
should be going to Mars OR focusing space projects elsewhere. Head over | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
to the Newsround website and tell us your thoughts now. | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
Movie news now and whenever there's a new James Bond film the details | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
of the theme tune are always top secret. But for the new movie | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
Skyfall things haven't gone quite to plan. We revealed yesterday that | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
Adele had secretly recorded the track, which was supposed to be | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
officially released on Firday. But then a rogue version was leaked | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
online and they've had to put it out early. Here's a sneak peak. | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
# Let the sky fall # And it crumbles | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
# We will stand tall # I like it. I love it. | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
Next to the nine-year-old internet sensation who's using her new found | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
fame to help children in Africa. Martha Payne hit the headlines | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
after her school dinner blog got a massive online following. | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
But rather than rest on her laurels she's used her popularity to raise | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
thousands of pounds to help starving kids in Malawi. Here's | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
Ricky with the story. It began with some photos - earlier | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
this year Martha Payne started to take pictures of her school dinners | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
and put them online, giving them a rating, and the rating wasn't | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
always great. For awhile, she was banned from taking snaps of her | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
lunch, but with five million people visiting the site, the school had | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
to give in and let her carry on. But some people said it wasn't fair. | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
Someone made a comment on the board saying, "Why are you complaining? | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
At least you're having school meals" Something they don't always | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
have in Malawi in the south-east of Africa. So back in Argyle with her | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
blog attracting attention around the world she realised her blog | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
could make a difference. She asked people to donate money so it could | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
help people in Malawi. Martha Payne and her family threw to Malawi to | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
see how the money raised was being spent. She got quite a welcome. | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
This building here was the temporary kitchen. For five months | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
the community used that through Martha Payne's efforts we have | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
built this kitchen. Juror to the 450 kids here, the blog has meant | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
they get a bowl of porridge at the school every day. It makes a | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
difference. Here is what she made of it all. | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
It was nerve-racking because everyone was staring at me. It's | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
difficult to stop old habits, and she couldn't resist taking snaps of | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
the food on the plane she says will be on the blog soon. | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
We can't get away without showing you this. | :08:56. | :08:58. |