02/10/2013

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:00:00. > :00:06.Afternoon, everyone, I'm Ricky with Wednesday's dose of Newsround. Stick

:00:06. > :00:13.around for some of this... The cyclist who narrowly avoided being

:00:13. > :00:23.teeth-shaped toothbrush that claims to clean your teeth in six seconds.

:00:23. > :00:29.government shutdown. Lots of things are closed because politicians

:00:29. > :00:33.couldn't agree on how the country should spend its money, and hundreds

:00:33. > :00:36.of thousands of workers have been sent home from their jobs without

:00:36. > :00:39.pay. President Obama today cancelled his travel plans and has urged

:00:39. > :00:42.politicians to work together. Until they do, many places and services

:00:42. > :00:47.run by the government will stay closed. This panda and her cub are

:00:47. > :00:51.in the national zoo - they are still being fed but because the zoo is

:00:51. > :00:53.closed, no-one can come to see them. Holiday-makers weren't happy to

:00:53. > :01:02.closed, no-one can come to see them. tourist attractions shut down.

:01:02. > :01:07.We are coming from Paris in France, so we are really disappointed. We

:01:07. > :01:11.just wanted to go inside the statue. Next, a warning why you should never

:01:11. > :01:14.ignore level crossings. These CCTV pictures show a cyclist narrowly

:01:14. > :01:21.avoiding being run over by a train. They just managed to pull back in

:01:21. > :01:25.time as the train sped through. Now, what would you do if someone

:01:25. > :01:28.had a go at a member of your family? A top politician, Ed Miliband, is

:01:28. > :01:31.angry with one of this country's biggest newspapers for criticising

:01:31. > :01:33.his dad - who had strong political views himself. It has been creating

:01:33. > :01:42.This is Ed Miliband - he is leader views himself. It has been creating

:01:42. > :01:44.This is Ed Miliband - he is leader of the Labour party and wants to be

:01:44. > :01:50.the next Prime Minister. Politicians are used to being written about

:01:50. > :01:52.the next Prime Minister. Politicians be criticised - part of the job

:01:52. > :01:52.the next Prime Minister. Politicians do. But Ed Miliband is angry with

:01:52. > :01:58.one of them. The Daily Mail. It do. But Ed Miliband is angry with

:01:58. > :02:20.because the newspaper has criticised his dad, who died in 1994. The

:02:20. > :02:22.because the newspaper has criticised saying that he hated Britain. And

:02:22. > :02:28.that is alive. It is a lie. It is the Second World War. He was a

:02:28. > :02:33.Jewish refugee trying to escape the Second World War. He was a

:02:33. > :02:35.Nazis. At that time, Europe was the Second World War. He was a

:02:35. > :02:39.dangerous place for Jews. He signed up for the British Navy and fought

:02:39. > :02:42.for his new country. Ed hit back in the newspaper, writing his own

:02:42. > :02:47.article about why he thought the paper was wrong to print what they

:02:47. > :02:50.did. The Mail say it is OK to talk about these sort of things because

:02:50. > :02:53.Ed Miliband is a very important politician and the public have a

:02:53. > :02:55.right to know more about him. They say his dad's opinions could have

:02:55. > :03:00.influenced his ideas on the way say his dad's opinions could have

:03:00. > :03:07.Minister David Cameron, who normally disagrees with Ed Miliband, has

:03:07. > :03:12.backed him on this. If someone attacked my dad, who I think about a

:03:12. > :03:15.lot, and I miss him every day, I would definitely rush into print and

:03:15. > :03:22.defend him as best I could, and would definitely rush into print and

:03:22. > :03:26.probably think of paintings like this, which are pretty good, by

:03:26. > :03:28.probably think of paintings like way. You certainly wouldn't think of

:03:28. > :03:31.millions of pounds. Well now, you just might. Here's why. Out in the

:03:31. > :03:36.playground, these kids are about to meet a very special addition to

:03:36. > :03:40.years old and worth millions of pounds, this is a painting by one of

:03:40. > :03:45.the most well known artists in visiting this school in Shropshire

:03:45. > :03:55.as part of a scheme to take valuable and important works of art into

:03:55. > :03:59.as part of a scheme to take valuable classroom for a day. It is just

:03:59. > :04:04.amazing to have it here. Like one of Monet's real paintings, just there

:04:04. > :04:08.Plan A day's lessons around the paintings. Here, they are doing

:04:08. > :04:09.picture-hanging, to French cooking. So, have these kids being inspired

:04:09. > :04:23.here. It is a nice opportunity, Monet's pictures. The scheme runs

:04:23. > :04:30.I can tell my friends that when Monet's pictures. The scheme runs

:04:30. > :04:33.until 18th October and paintings like this one will be visiting

:04:33. > :04:48.super speedy tooth-brushing. This by these kids' reactions, it is

:04:48. > :04:54.super speedy tooth-brushing. This toothbrush that promises to clean

:04:54. > :05:01.of your mouth, but will cost you 200 quid. That is it. We are back at