03/12/2012 Newsround

It's Monday 3rd December, you are watching Newsround. I'm Joe.

Hayley. Stay where you are for some of this.

A Royal baby is on the way! The Duchess of Cambridge is pregnant.

Recorders are out and ukuleles in in many school music lessons.

And some of the world's whackiest cars are up for sale. This is

First, congratulations are in order for the Duke and Duchess of

Cambridge. The Royal couple have announced that Kate is pregnant.

People have been speculating for some time about when William and

Kate would have their first child and St James's Palace say she went

to hospital with morning sickness, a sign that a baby is on the way.

The Royal baby will be third in line to the throne and the palace

are said to be delighted. Next, with Christmas fast

approaching, today's the biggest day of the year for online shopping.

Many people will be using Amazon, a company which, along with Google

and Starbucks, is being criticised for not paying enough tax in the UK.

Despite making hundreds of millions of pounds each year, the companies

pay relatively small amounts to the Government and they are not doing

anything illegal but some think this is unfair.

Starbucks, Google and Amazon, three brands many of us use almost daily.

They make millions or even billions of pounds every year, but do they

pay enough tax? Everyone has to pay tax. It's

usually taken from your wages and the amount you pay depends on how

much you earn. For shops and businesses in the UK, it's exactly

the same. They pay corporation tax on the money they make.

Taxes are used to pay for hospitals and schools and other things. Lots

of international companies who sell their goods in the UK base their

headquarters in European countries. The UK-based parts of them buy the

rights to use their logo, meaning they make less profit here so pay

less money to the UK Government. Some people think this is unfair,

but what they are doing isn't actually illegal. Starbucks sold

nearly �400 million worth of drinks to UK customers but paid no tax at

all. Partly, it says, because it spent so much money on buying

coffee beans and other things from Starbucks-based headquarters in

other countries. Two weeks ah bosss from Google, Amazon and Starbucks

had to answer a committee looking into how much tax they pay. Why on

earth do you manipulate your accounts so that you get away with

not paying corporation tax which is what this afternoon's about in the

Respectfully, I would disagree with that characterisation. We do not

manipulate anything anywhere. We do nothing to avoid taxes.

Being in the news for paying little or no tax when you make millions of

pounds in your cash registers could mean customers might go elsewhere.

Starbucks say they are going to change the way they pay tax and

meanwhile, the Government today announced they'll be tougher on

companies, even if they appear to be using existing tax rules

correctly. The draw's been made for the Rugby World Cup in 2015.

England and Wales have been drawn in the same group and it's a tough

one, it's got Australia in it too. Scotland are in the same group as

South Africa and Samoa, while Ireland will play against France

and Italy. The tournament will be held in England and Wales. In

September and October is when they'll take place.

That is 2015. For over 2,000 primary school children, last year

things were more serious because they were arrested by the police.

I've been to a police cell to see what it's like and to ask if it's

as serious as it sounds. Getting arrested by the police is a

big deal. For an adult, it can mean getting a fine, going to court and

even being sent to prison. But it's not just grown-ups getting

in trouble with the law. Every day; six primary school kids are

arrested across England an Wales. In England and Wales, you can be

arrested for a crime from the age of ten. But what happens when you

are arrested? I've come to one of the biggest custody facilities in

Cheshire to find out. If a child is arrested, and it's

rare in Cheshire, they'll come into a block blieck this, they'll be

brought in front of a sergeant -- block like this. They'll ask

questions to the arresting officer as to why they've been arrested. We

don't want to put people in cells. Unfortunately, sometimes we need to.

For children, that should be and is very rare, but sometimes it does

happen. Since 2008, more than one million kids under the age of 18

have been arrested in England and Wales.

Many people believe the figures shouldn't be that hiefplt I don't

think ten-year-olds should be arrested at all where possible. For

children, it can be traumatic. If you can avoid it, should.

number of people arrested was down on last year and everyone agrees

that it's very important that the figures keep falling.

Now, for years, the recorder has been one of the first instruments

you pick up at school, but could its days be numberd? More schools

are choosing the ukulele and it's proving very popular. Teachers say

it's cheaper than a recorder and apparently produces a better sound.

Ricky has been seeing for himself. How to play an instrument with

Ricky. Each week, I'll tell you how to play a different instrument.

Last week, it was the piano. This week it's the recorder.

No, Ricky, we don't play that here. Yes, the ukulele is the new

instrument on the block with more schools ditching the recorder in

favour of the ukulele. McFly are fans and the web is full of ukulele

tutorials. This one is my favourite. I've come to a school in Cheltenham

which has stopped teaching the recorder. Instead, they replaced it

with one of these. How long have you been playing it for? Two weeks.

How many weeks? Two weeks. Can you play a little bit for me? Yes.

on then, let's see what you can do? Wow.

The teachers here reckon it sounds a lot better and it's a much more

sociable instrument. It's got the whole group together. So small so

it's easy for young people like myself to learn. You can play on

your own if you like, it's nice and small. I love it.

You have to think quickly to move your fingers around? Yes, you can

put the thing up there, down there, and it comes into seven. I think I

need a bigger ukulele! I think I've learnt a few things. Can we put it

into practice? Yes. Nice ukulele playing!

You might remember, we told you about the owners of this house in

China who refused to budge to make way for a new motorway. It meant

the road had to be built around them after the rest of the road had

been flattened. The house has been finally knocked down after the

owners were offered more money to move out and find somewhere else to

live. Bit of a shame I think. I liked it, it was like a different

roundabout. To the musician who got a frosty reception. Charlie Simpson,

the lead singer of Fight Star earned a place in the record books

by giging in one of the coldest places on earth. -- gigging. He

entertained a small crowd gathered in snowy Siberia. After the second

song, I thought about stopping because my fingers, one of the most

painful experiences in my life. sounded cold. Brrr... Bet you have

never seen cars like these on the road. They are the most famous