04/08/2016

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:00:00. > :00:13.We meet the nine-year-old girl going into battle on Robot Wars.

:00:14. > :00:25.The bus in China taking travel to a whole new level.

:00:26. > :00:28.But, first, lots of you have probably spent lots of time

:00:29. > :00:31.on your smartphones, tablets and the internet today.

:00:32. > :00:33.Well, new research says adults are spending too

:00:34. > :00:39.One-in-three say they're missing out on family time because of it.

:00:40. > :00:41.One-in-four teenagers say being online too long has made

:00:42. > :00:53.Well, experts reckon too much tech isn't great.

:00:54. > :01:01.Kids and parents are not spending as much time talking together as a

:01:02. > :01:05.family, whether that is the parents with their phones bleeping away with

:01:06. > :01:08.messages from work, or the kids on the dining table trying to catch

:01:09. > :01:15.Well we've been out and about asking "are you addicted to tech too?"

:01:16. > :01:27.I think I am on my iPad more than outside. When I get home from school

:01:28. > :01:32.I always on her bed I spend a lot of time on my phone text thing and

:01:33. > :01:37.playing games. I have a lot of games on my iPad, as well. I spent quite a

:01:38. > :01:44.lot of time online. I find it hard to stay off my iPad. I still have an

:01:45. > :01:49.Xbox so I can use that. I play on it when I wake up in the morning. I

:01:50. > :01:51.think my mum is on her phone the most, then my dad and then me and my

:01:52. > :01:54.most, then my dad and then me and my sister.

:01:55. > :01:57.Now we didn't want to get into trouble by asking

:01:58. > :02:00.you to spend more time online, but we did want to get

:02:01. > :02:03.Matthew says tech is not taking over his family.

:02:04. > :02:06.He's been in the garden loads and his sister has been

:02:07. > :02:09.Tech's useful, but there are better things to do.

:02:10. > :02:12.But Sarah in Derbyshire admits she's on her tablet longer than she should

:02:13. > :02:15.be and is keen to get away from her tech a bit more.

:02:16. > :02:18.Ben in Oxford says he does a bit of coding, but it's his little

:02:19. > :02:21.sister wanting to watch Peppa Pig all the time that

:02:22. > :02:28.A big row has been taking place on Downing Street,

:02:29. > :02:29.where the Prime Minister lives, in London.

:02:30. > :02:31.But this time it's not the politicians,

:02:32. > :02:41.BBC Political Correspondent Chris Mason has been investigating.

:02:42. > :02:46.Larry, the Prime Minister's cat, and Palmerston,

:02:47. > :02:51.the Foreign Secretary's cat, fighting.

:02:52. > :02:54.Experts say it is all down to territory.

:02:55. > :02:57.Larry sees Downing Street as his patch and Palmerston

:02:58. > :03:06.We are at the home of PURR-litical reporting, the home

:03:07. > :03:09.of Prime Minister Theresa May and the home of Larry the cat.

:03:10. > :03:14.And now there is another cat on the block.

:03:15. > :03:21.So, a friend to join Larry patrolling the streets of power

:03:22. > :03:26.With all this fighting, could a third pet prove

:03:27. > :03:39.Newsround has met the nine-year-old taking on the competition

:03:40. > :03:43.April, with the help of her dad, took her fearsome machine

:03:44. > :03:46.Earlier today, she told Ayshah why she thinks more girls

:03:47. > :04:03.Robots can let us do amazing things that we wouldn't probably be able to

:04:04. > :04:08.do like cool hours ago to see the Titanic and mean that little girls

:04:09. > :04:13.like me can make big old men cry! Brilliant! We need girls in this, as

:04:14. > :04:15.well. Girls need to bring lots of sparkle into this.

:04:16. > :04:18.You'll have to watch Robot Wars on Sunday

:04:19. > :04:22.Here's another young contender hoping to beat the grown-ups.

:04:23. > :04:24.At 13, Gaurika Singh, from Nepal, is the youngest competitor

:04:25. > :04:30.She'll be taking part in the women's 100 meters backstroke on Sunday.

:04:31. > :04:33.From tomorrow, we'll bring you all the excitement ahead

:04:34. > :04:45.Finally, to this huge new bus being road-tested in China.

:04:46. > :04:47.It's hoped it will stop traffic jams by letting cars travel underneath.

:04:48. > :04:50.Its fastest speed is 60 kilometres-an-hour and it can carry

:04:51. > :04:57.Newsround's back bright and early tomorrow morning at 07.40am.