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I am high above London, where air pollution has hit its worst level | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
today. First, playground politics in Westminster. Year for at Dairwendeg | :00:27. | :00:36. | |
primary school told us they thought they were acting like children. Alex | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
thinks it is ridiculous and childish. Those are just some of the | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
comments you have been sending in, telling us exactly what you think of | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
two of the most important politicians in the UK hurling | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
insults at each other in Parliament. Most of you are not too impressed. | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
Yesterday, Ed Miliband called the Prime Minister this... And then | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
David Cameron called Ed Miliband a Muppet. It is basic maths, not so | :01:01. | :01:08. | |
much The Wolf Of Wall Street, more the dance of Downing street. I will | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
take a lecture from almost anyone in the country about the sale of Royal | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
Mail, but not from the two Muppets who advised the last Chancellor on | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
selling the gold. This morning, David Cameron defended his use of | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
Muppets, saying there is a lot of banter in Parliament, and it was not | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
inappropriate. We have been to a school in London to see what they | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
thought. Why do you think they are acting so childish, aren't they | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
supposed to be setting an example? It is a great question. You would | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
not expect your parents to behave like that, you should not expect the | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
leader of the country to behave like that, or someone who wants to be the | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
leader of the country. But remember, this is a one-off, a really rare | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
situation. What do you think about the argument? I do not think there | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
are any MPs who approve of it, and I suspect the Prime Minister does not | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
approve, or the leader of the opposition. I think the fact that | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
you, the younger generation, are making it clear that this is a bad | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
example, is a pretty good lesson, not just to the two leaders, but to | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
every MP in Parliament. How do you feel about the language that has | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
been used in the House of Commons? We are not allowed even to call each | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
other by our names. If you were an MP, I would be standing up, and if I | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
wanted to comment on something you said, I would have to say, the | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
honourable lady. I am not allowed to mention your name. That is designed | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
to stop us trying to get too personal in our exchanges. I will be | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
surprised if we see it again. Lots of you have been in touch online | :02:51. | :02:51. | |
about this. Next, those high levels of air | :02:52. | :03:11. | |
pollution we told you about yesterday. There has been another | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
government warning today after some parts of England reached the worst | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
level on the air quality scale. What is going on? We got a good view from | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
high above the rooftops of London. Let's go over to Leah now. Over the | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
past few days, London has been covered by a hazy smog. Today, | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
things got worse, across Greater London and the South East, reaching | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
the maximum of ten on the Government's scale, the highest | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
level for air pollution. But it is not just here in London. The smog | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
has been spreading across the country, hitting places like the | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
north-west of England, the Midlands and north Wales. Joining me now is | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
Benjamin Barritt, an air-quality scientist. Should we be worried? We | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
should be worried, but not too alarmed. If you have asthma and you | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
are outside, do not go running around too much. Carry your medicine | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
with you at all times. It has been lingering in some areas, why is | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
that? The dust in this pollution is so small, you cannot see it. It | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
comes from all the vehicles, but it merges with the pollution from | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
cities across Europe, which drifts across the UK. When was it this | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
bad? In London we have episodes like this for five times a year, in the | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
rest of the UK, maybe once or twice. We will have to wait until tomorrow, | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
when we are expect in some wind from the Atlantic to blow this smog away. | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
Back to you. That is all from Newsround today. There is loads more | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
on the website, including a story about a cat that got stuck down the | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
back of a sofa in a shop for five days. I will be back at ten to | :04:59. | :04:59. |