05/02/2016 Newsround


05/02/2016

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I'm Leah, and you're live with Newsround,

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Coming up: Saving the monkey puzzle tree - by growing

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And the robot that's the best golfer in the world.

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It's just six months to go until the start of the Olympic Games

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The athletes are in training and the venues are almost ready.

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But there are some problems still to deal with.

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The BBC's Wyre Davies is in Rio for Newsround.

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From a sporting perspective, everything looks pretty good.

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The four distinct Olympic venues around

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the city are coming on fine, and most of the stadium are nearly

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finished, and also the test events they have been holding

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here in the city are going pretty well.

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There is some cause for concern, particularly

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water quality here in the bay around the city, and also transport links

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between Rio and the main Olympic park.

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There's a new tube line which will only be finished a matter

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Now, two Russian cosmonauts have done a space-walk

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from the International Space Station.

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The pair are living with British Astronaut Tim Peake

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They went outside to set up some experiments and bring some tests

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There's a devastating virus that's destroying millions of colonies

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It can stop their wings growing properly, which stops them flying.

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British scientists says it's not caused by a problem in nature,

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but by the trade in moving honeybee populations around the world

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to areas where there aren't enough to pollinate the food we eat.

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Next - how do you protect trees that are in danger of disappearing?

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You collect sees from other countries and create the biggest

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The Monkey Puzzle Tree is one of those under threat.

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These are the unmistakable trickles of the monkey puzzle tree. They are

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found in many gardens, but in the wild they are in danger of dying

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out. So conservationists are working faster make sure they survive. Back

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in 2009 team went to Chile and South America to collect seeds from the

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last remaining cluster of monkey puzzle trees. Some went in a mass

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approach, others were planted. Six years on, they look like this. As

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soon as you sow them, you will see a written a couple of weeks, and

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within six months or so you'll get a lovely shoot coming up from the top,

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but it takes them six years to get to the stage in their life. But

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these have done amazingly well. It could be a prehistoric landscape,

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the trees date back 200 million years to the dinosaur times. These

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conifers can grow to over 130 feet in height. Along with the monkey

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puzzle tree seeds, thousands of others were also collected in Chile.

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They were brought back to the faults of the millennium seed bank, and was

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sorted, put into jars and put into huge fridges for safekeeping. There

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are seeds from 36,000 other species of plants from all over the world.

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In the next few years it is hoped a forest landscape like that in Chile

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can be rated here in Sussex. These trees in Chile are under threat for

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all sorts of different reasons. Fire, clearance, so collecting the

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seed and propagating it and having the scientific collection of monkey

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puzzles will help to detect the future of these trees for many

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generations to come. Luckily, they are tough, strong trees which can

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tolerate snow, rain and wind, which are all very common in the UK.

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In tennis, 16-year-old Katie Swan and Heather Watson have both

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won their games in the Fed Cup tennis opener against South Africa.

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Jocelyn Rae and Anna Smith won in the doubles.

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This very rare Ferrari car is expected to fetch up to over

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It's been described as a "fabulous star" which had been driven by some

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of the best drivers in racing history since it was made in 1957.

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And finally in golf, how easy is it to hit a hole in one?

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Well, if you're a robot, it's pretty easy.

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This is Eldrick the robot, who managed to make the golfing

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The robot is named after a famous golfer called Tiger Woods.

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That's all from me, Newsround's back right here in about half an hour.

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