:00:00. > :00:13.Ayshah here with your last Newsround update.
:00:14. > :00:16.First - in the past few minutes Scotland's parliament has voted to
:00:17. > :00:19.allow same sex couples to marry. The final vote passed by 105 votes to
:00:20. > :00:23.18, but religious groups will be able to opt out of marrying gay
:00:24. > :00:27.couples if they don't agree with it. Same sex marriage became legal in
:00:28. > :00:30.England and Wales in July last year, with the first marriages able to
:00:31. > :00:42.take place from next month. But in Northern Ireland there are no plans
:00:43. > :00:46.to allow it. Next, the future king had to travel by boat and tractor
:00:47. > :00:49.today, to visit people in the flood-hit Somerset Levels, where 25
:00:50. > :00:52.square miles of the county is under water. Prince Charles spent the day
:00:53. > :00:55.speaking to families, farmers and emergency workers to see the damage
:00:56. > :00:59.caused by the floods, which have gone on for over a month. The
:01:00. > :01:02.Prince's Countryside fund will give ?50,000 from its emergency fund to
:01:03. > :01:04.help people in the area. Meanwhile, in Eastern Europe they're
:01:05. > :01:08.enduring terrible weather too, but with added ice... Slovenia is having
:01:09. > :01:11.some of the worst winter blizzards for decades. A quarter of houses
:01:12. > :01:14.have been left without electricity, transport has been disrupted and
:01:15. > :01:17.more than a third of the country's schools are closed. Nearby countries
:01:18. > :01:26.of Croatia, Syria, and Germany have also been severely affected by snow.
:01:27. > :01:30.Next to my worst nightmare. Imagine rats the size of sheep! Well that's
:01:31. > :01:41.what scientists reckon we could see in the future. But why you ask?
:01:42. > :01:48.Large level on earth have either been extinct or are like the
:01:49. > :01:54.elephant. If they go extinct, then there will be a hole to fill. Rats
:01:55. > :02:04.can develop to large sizes. They will clearly evolve into new
:02:05. > :02:08.creatures in millions of years. Next, to a British man who may have
:02:09. > :02:12.broken the record for the biggest wave ever surfed... This huge wave
:02:13. > :02:15.is being surfed by Andrew Cotton on Sunday, at a legendary surf spot off
:02:16. > :02:19.Nazaray in Portugal. It could be the highest that's ever been ridden. At
:02:20. > :02:22.80 feet the wave was as tall as four giraffes, eight TARDISes or 15
:02:23. > :02:26.Newsround Nels. We won't know if he's definitely broken the record
:02:27. > :02:30.until May. When Nel's not being used as a unit
:02:31. > :02:33.of measurement, she's off making brilliant reports for us. Here's a
:02:34. > :02:39.sneak preview of tomorrow morning's report, and the mysterious case of
:02:40. > :02:44.the Mexican castaway. This man says he has spent more than
:02:45. > :02:49.a year floating adrift in the middle of the ocean. He claims to have been
:02:50. > :02:55.lost at sea for 13 months when a fishing trip went horribly wrong. He
:02:56. > :02:59.is said to have eaten fish, birds and turtles that he caught with his
:03:00. > :03:00.bare hands. Do not miss tomorrow