05/02/2016 Newsround


05/02/2016

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Hello, everyone.

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It's Friday and I'm Leah - and you're live with Newsround.

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Coming up: The robot that's the best golfer in the world.

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And the amazing snow and ice sculptures wowing crowds in Japan.

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First this morning.

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

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in Rio in South America.

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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 stadiums 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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of weeks before the Olympic Games.

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But the biggest cause for concern here in Rio now is the appearance

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of the Zika virus.

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This is a virus which is transferred by a tiny mosquito

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and there are millions of these mosquitoes across Brazil.

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It is believed that as many as a million

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people in Brazil may have caught the virus itself.

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It's not physically harmful, but of course

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Olympic officials are hoping by the time the Olympic Games come

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around, it'll actually be the winter here in the southern hemisphere,

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and most of those mosquitoes will not be in the season,

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and everything will hopefully be all right for visitors

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here to Rio and the Olympic Games.

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

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of bees all over the world.

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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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seed bank in the world.

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The monkey puzzle tree is one of those under threat.

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Hayley's got more.

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These are the unmistakable trickles of the monkey puzzle tree.

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They are found in many gardens, but in the

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wild they are in danger of dying out.

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So conservationists are working fast to make sure they survive.

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Back in 2009 a team went to Chile in South

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America to collect seeds from the last remaining cluster

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of monkey puzzle trees.

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Some went in a massive fridge, others were planted.

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Six years on, they look like this.

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As soon as you sow them, you will see a root within a couple

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of weeks, and within six months or so you'll get a lovely shoot

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coming up from the top, but it takes them six years to get

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to the stage in their life.

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But these have done amazingly well.

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It could be a prehistoric landscape, the trees date back 200 million

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years to the dinosaur times.

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These conifers can grow to over 130 feet

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in height.

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Along with the monkey puzzle tree seeds, thousands of others were also

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collected in Chile.

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They were brought back to the vaults of the millennium seed bank,

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and were sorted, put into jars and put into

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huge fridges for safekeeping.

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There are seeds from 36,000 other species

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of plants from all over the world.

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

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in Chile can be created here in Sussex.

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These trees in Chile are under threat for

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all sorts of different reasons.

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Fire, clearance, so collecting the seed and propagating it

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and having the scientific collection of monkey

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

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generations to come.

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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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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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for six months.

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

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back inside to look at the results.

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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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And go online to see the story about the 16-year-old girl

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in Germany who found a gold bar while she was swimming.

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Well, now she's been told she can keep it.

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What a lovely surprise!

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It's worth more than ?15,000 and was found in a lake in Bavaria,

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near the Austrian border.

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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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wonder in his first try in the US.

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Take a look at that!

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A hole in one.

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You'll love this snow festival that's opened

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in Northern Japan, guys.

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An annual snow festival opened in Japan's northernmost region

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of Hokkaido on Friday, with part of the celebrations

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dedicated to the upcoming opening of a high speed train

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from the south.

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

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?30 million at an auction in Paris.

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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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That's all from me.

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Jenny's back at 4.20 with more Newsround.

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Have

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Have a

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Have a great

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Have a great day,

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Have a great day, -now.

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