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I'm Leah, and you're live with Newsround, | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Coming up: Saving the monkey puzzle tree - by growing | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
And the robot that's the best golfer in the world. | :00:13. | :00:25. | |
It's just six months to go until the start of the Olympic Games | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
The athletes are in training and the venues are almost ready. | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
But there are some problems still to deal with. | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
The BBC's Wyre Davies is in Rio for Newsround. | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
From a sporting perspective, everything looks pretty good. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
The four distinct Olympic venues around | :00:45. | :00:45. | |
the city are coming on fine, and most of the stadium are nearly | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
finished, and also the test events they have been holding | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
here in the city are going pretty well. | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
There is some cause for concern, particularly | :00:56. | :00:56. | |
water quality here in the bay around the city, and also transport links | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
between Rio and the main Olympic park. | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
There's a new tube line which will only be finished a matter | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
Now, two Russian cosmonauts have done a space-walk | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
from the International Space Station. | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
The pair are living with British Astronaut Tim Peake | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
They went outside to set up some experiments and bring some tests | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
There's a devastating virus that's destroying millions of colonies | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
It can stop their wings growing properly, which stops them flying. | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
British scientists says it's not caused by a problem in nature, | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
but by the trade in moving honeybee populations around the world | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
to areas where there aren't enough to pollinate the food we eat. | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
Next - how do you protect trees that are in danger of disappearing? | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
You collect sees from other countries and create the biggest | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
The Monkey Puzzle Tree is one of those under threat. | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
These are the unmistakable trickles of the monkey puzzle tree. They are | :02:00. | :02:11. | |
found in many gardens, but in the wild they are in danger of dying | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
out. So conservationists are working faster make sure they survive. Back | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
in 2009 team went to Chile and South America to collect seeds from the | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
last remaining cluster of monkey puzzle trees. Some went in a mass | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
approach, others were planted. Six years on, they look like this. As | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
soon as you sow them, you will see a written a couple of weeks, and | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
within six months or so you'll get a lovely shoot coming up from the top, | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
but it takes them six years to get to the stage in their life. But | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
these have done amazingly well. It could be a prehistoric landscape, | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
the trees date back 200 million years to the dinosaur times. These | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
conifers can grow to over 130 feet in height. Along with the monkey | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
puzzle tree seeds, thousands of others were also collected in Chile. | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
They were brought back to the faults of the millennium seed bank, and was | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
sorted, put into jars and put into huge fridges for safekeeping. There | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
are seeds from 36,000 other species of plants from all over the world. | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
In the next few years it is hoped a forest landscape like that in Chile | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
can be rated here in Sussex. These trees in Chile are under threat for | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
all sorts of different reasons. Fire, clearance, so collecting the | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
seed and propagating it and having the scientific collection of monkey | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
puzzles will help to detect the future of these trees for many | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
generations to come. Luckily, they are tough, strong trees which can | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
tolerate snow, rain and wind, which are all very common in the UK. | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
In tennis, 16-year-old Katie Swan and Heather Watson have both | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
won their games in the Fed Cup tennis opener against South Africa. | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
Jocelyn Rae and Anna Smith won in the doubles. | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
This very rare Ferrari car is expected to fetch up to over | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
It's been described as a "fabulous star" which had been driven by some | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
of the best drivers in racing history since it was made in 1957. | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
And finally in golf, how easy is it to hit a hole in one? | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
Well, if you're a robot, it's pretty easy. | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
This is Eldrick the robot, who managed to make the golfing | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
The robot is named after a famous golfer called Tiger Woods. | :04:39. | :04:49. | |
That's all from me, Newsround's back right here in about half an hour. | :04:50. | :04:55. |