05/02/2016

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:00:00. > :00:08.I'm Leah, and you're live with Newsround,

:00:09. > :00:12.Coming up: Saving the monkey puzzle tree - by growing

:00:13. > :00:25.And the robot that's the best golfer in the world.

:00:26. > :00:29.It's just six months to go until the start of the Olympic Games

:00:30. > :00:35.The athletes are in training and the venues are almost ready.

:00:36. > :00:37.But there are some problems still to deal with.

:00:38. > :00:41.The BBC's Wyre Davies is in Rio for Newsround.

:00:42. > :00:44.From a sporting perspective, everything looks pretty good.

:00:45. > :00:45.The four distinct Olympic venues around

:00:46. > :00:49.the city are coming on fine, and most of the stadium are nearly

:00:50. > :00:52.finished, and also the test events they have been holding

:00:53. > :00:55.here in the city are going pretty well.

:00:56. > :00:56.There is some cause for concern, particularly

:00:57. > :01:01.water quality here in the bay around the city, and also transport links

:01:02. > :01:05.between Rio and the main Olympic park.

:01:06. > :01:08.There's a new tube line which will only be finished a matter

:01:09. > :01:13.Now, two Russian cosmonauts have done a space-walk

:01:14. > :01:15.from the International Space Station.

:01:16. > :01:17.The pair are living with British Astronaut Tim Peake

:01:18. > :01:23.They went outside to set up some experiments and bring some tests

:01:24. > :01:29.There's a devastating virus that's destroying millions of colonies

:01:30. > :01:35.It can stop their wings growing properly, which stops them flying.

:01:36. > :01:39.British scientists says it's not caused by a problem in nature,

:01:40. > :01:42.but by the trade in moving honeybee populations around the world

:01:43. > :01:48.to areas where there aren't enough to pollinate the food we eat.

:01:49. > :01:53.Next - how do you protect trees that are in danger of disappearing?

:01:54. > :01:55.You collect sees from other countries and create the biggest

:01:56. > :01:59.The Monkey Puzzle Tree is one of those under threat.

:02:00. > :02:11.These are the unmistakable trickles of the monkey puzzle tree. They are

:02:12. > :02:16.found in many gardens, but in the wild they are in danger of dying

:02:17. > :02:21.out. So conservationists are working faster make sure they survive. Back

:02:22. > :02:25.in 2009 team went to Chile and South America to collect seeds from the

:02:26. > :02:30.last remaining cluster of monkey puzzle trees. Some went in a mass

:02:31. > :02:36.approach, others were planted. Six years on, they look like this. As

:02:37. > :02:40.soon as you sow them, you will see a written a couple of weeks, and

:02:41. > :02:45.within six months or so you'll get a lovely shoot coming up from the top,

:02:46. > :02:51.but it takes them six years to get to the stage in their life. But

:02:52. > :02:55.these have done amazingly well. It could be a prehistoric landscape,

:02:56. > :03:02.the trees date back 200 million years to the dinosaur times. These

:03:03. > :03:07.conifers can grow to over 130 feet in height. Along with the monkey

:03:08. > :03:11.puzzle tree seeds, thousands of others were also collected in Chile.

:03:12. > :03:17.They were brought back to the faults of the millennium seed bank, and was

:03:18. > :03:23.sorted, put into jars and put into huge fridges for safekeeping. There

:03:24. > :03:28.are seeds from 36,000 other species of plants from all over the world.

:03:29. > :03:34.In the next few years it is hoped a forest landscape like that in Chile

:03:35. > :03:40.can be rated here in Sussex. These trees in Chile are under threat for

:03:41. > :03:43.all sorts of different reasons. Fire, clearance, so collecting the

:03:44. > :03:47.seed and propagating it and having the scientific collection of monkey

:03:48. > :03:54.puzzles will help to detect the future of these trees for many

:03:55. > :03:58.generations to come. Luckily, they are tough, strong trees which can

:03:59. > :04:01.tolerate snow, rain and wind, which are all very common in the UK.

:04:02. > :04:03.In tennis, 16-year-old Katie Swan and Heather Watson have both

:04:04. > :04:06.won their games in the Fed Cup tennis opener against South Africa.

:04:07. > :04:11.Jocelyn Rae and Anna Smith won in the doubles.

:04:12. > :04:14.This very rare Ferrari car is expected to fetch up to over

:04:15. > :04:21.It's been described as a "fabulous star" which had been driven by some

:04:22. > :04:28.of the best drivers in racing history since it was made in 1957.

:04:29. > :04:32.And finally in golf, how easy is it to hit a hole in one?

:04:33. > :04:35.Well, if you're a robot, it's pretty easy.

:04:36. > :04:38.This is Eldrick the robot, who managed to make the golfing

:04:39. > :04:49.The robot is named after a famous golfer called Tiger Woods.

:04:50. > :04:55.That's all from me, Newsround's back right here in about half an hour.