05/02/2018 Newsround


05/02/2018

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Hi, this is Newsround

and I'm Whitney.

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Can you imagine how it would it feel

if someone told you your opinion

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didn't matter - just

because you were a girl?

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Well, that's what it was like

until a hundred years ago in the UK,

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when women and poorer men won

the right to vote for their MP.

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These kids have been finding

out what that was like.

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Today, we are going to be

voting on some really,

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really important issues that

will have an effect on all of you.

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You've been split into two teams.

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We have the yellows

and we have the greens.

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We're going to vote

on whether the greens can only have

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brussels sprouts for the rest

of the whole week.

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Only the yellows can vote!

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So write yes or no on here,

what you agree with, OK?

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And place your votes, and then go

back and sit in the middle.

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So, we have just got the votes

in and the yellows voted

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for the greens having

to eat brussels sprouts

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for the rest of the week.

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Next, we are going to have a race,

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greens versus yellows,

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to see who can cross

the room the fastest.

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But we're going to have a vote

on whether the greens

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have to hop across.

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Only the yellows

are allowed to vote.

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The class has voted...

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That the greens will

only be allowed to hop.

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YELLOW TEAM: Yes!

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Go!

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Hands up if you thought

those votes were unfair.

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Do you guys know that 100 years ago,

women were not allowed to vote?

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So imagine how they would have felt.

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After I voted, I felt kind of guilty

that I had voted for something bad

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to happen to the Greens.

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I found it unfair, because I'm

making decisions for other people.

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It's just unfair that some people

can't vote and some people can.

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I was really surprised.

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I thought it was all women

and I thought that was

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unfair for only men.

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It doesn't matter your gender

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or where you come from or how rich

you are that you should vote.

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Everyone should be able to vote.

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It's time for this

week's Big Question -

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you can build skyscrapers and pirate

ships with it, and it's a nightmare

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if you stand on it -

but who invented it?

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Watch this...

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Building, stacking, creating.

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We're talking about Lego,

the plastic brick that's one

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of the most recognisable toys

in the world.

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But who invented it?

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Well, way back in 1932 in a small

village called Billund in Denmark,

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a master carpenter called

Ole Kirk Christiansen

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and his 12-year-old son

Godred Kirk Christiansen set up

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a business making ladders,

stools and wooden toys.

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In 1934, they decided to call

the little company Lego,

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from the Danish words "leg godt",

which translates to "play well".

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A year later, the company

made its first official toys,

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a wooden duck and a building game

called Kirk's Sand Game.

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Fast forward to 1949,

and the company is now making around

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200 different plastic and wooden

toys, including the automatic

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binding bricks, an early version

of the bricks we know today.

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Almost ten years later in 1958,

the Lego brick is invented

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and patented, protecting the idea

from other people copying it.

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Since then, the toy has

grown and developed.

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And now around 75 million items

are sold every year in more than 140

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different countries.

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The Lego brick has just

celebrated its 60th birthday,

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and the bricks made in 1958

still work the same way

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as the ones made today.

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Finally, how cool is this?!

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It's the International

Wind Games in Spain.

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200 flyers from all over the world

competed as indoor skydivers.

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Organisers want it to become

an Olympic sport in 2020.

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Wow!

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That's it from me.

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Have a great evening.

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