:00:18. > :00:22.Good afternoon, Newsrounders, Nel and Ricky here. We're live, it's
:00:22. > :00:28.five, so let's take a dive into the biggest stories of the day. Coming
:00:28. > :00:32.up, we'll meet Kurt, the dog whose hearing is out of this world. And
:00:32. > :00:37.Leah has getting up to her knees in fish to kick off a brand-new series
:00:37. > :00:41.of Wild Five. But first to new rules about the
:00:41. > :00:44.way your homework gets handed out. The man in charge of education in
:00:44. > :00:47.England, Michael Gove, says that schools should have more of a say
:00:47. > :00:49.on how many extra hours you do. It's after parents complained that
:00:49. > :00:53.too much homework meant kids were spending less time with their
:00:53. > :00:59.families. But as I've been finding out, the new rules don't
:00:59. > :01:03.necessarily mean you'll have less to do.
:01:03. > :01:07.Homework, the one word guaranteed to get a reaction. I don't like
:01:07. > :01:12.homework at all. I only like it when it is creative. I like it
:01:12. > :01:18.sometimes. For years, you have been asked to do a bit extra after class,
:01:18. > :01:23.but in England the rules have changed. In the 1998, the Labour
:01:23. > :01:27.government outlined the current guidelines that recommend it or
:01:27. > :01:32.five-7 euros to one of homework per week. All that kids are expected to
:01:32. > :01:35.do two and a half hours. So how would the new rules differ? The
:01:35. > :01:39.Government want their teachers to decide how much you do instead. The
:01:39. > :01:44.change came about because parents complained that too much homework
:01:44. > :01:50.meant kids were not getting enough time to enjoy family life. I think
:01:50. > :01:54.that we do get too much in year six. No, I don't think we get enough,
:01:54. > :01:59.because we only get one page per week. Who should decide how much
:01:59. > :02:03.you do, teacher or government? think it should be the head teacher,
:02:03. > :02:06.because the Government have more pressing problems than homework.
:02:06. > :02:09.Northern Ireland and Wales already have different roles, and in
:02:10. > :02:14.Scotland teachers, pupils and parents decide on the amount of
:02:14. > :02:19.homework together. But how do they make that decision? How do you
:02:19. > :02:22.decide how much homework we have? In this school, we leave it to the
:02:22. > :02:26.teachers to decide how much is realistic for each class and how
:02:26. > :02:30.much they need to do. The changes are already in place, but that does
:02:30. > :02:34.not mean you will get less homework. You could end up with more homework
:02:34. > :02:44.than you bargained for. Well, you've been having your say
:02:44. > :02:56.
:02:56. > :02:59.Now it's time to kick off a special week of Wild Five reports. For two
:02:59. > :03:02.months, Leah has been travelling all over the UK to seek out the
:03:02. > :03:04.biggest stories from our coastline. Today she's looking at the problem
:03:04. > :03:14.of overfishing, something that costs countries around Europe
:03:14. > :03:29.
:03:29. > :03:32.Fish and chips always tastes much better by the seaside, but what a
:03:32. > :03:36.long we have been eating the same types of fish, and that is putting
:03:36. > :03:43.the ocean and a lot of pressure. For years, fishermen caught
:03:43. > :03:48.whatever they wanted, and as boats got bigger, so were the catchers.
:03:48. > :03:53.Overfishing makes it on to our card because popular species have taken
:03:53. > :03:56.a big hit across Europe. That prompted Britain and other
:03:56. > :04:01.countries in the European Union to get together and agreed limits on
:04:01. > :04:04.how much should be caught. The limits stop fishermen being able to
:04:04. > :04:10.catch whatever they wanted, and that in turn meant that numbers
:04:10. > :04:13.have slowly started to recover. I have come to Newlyn harbour, where
:04:13. > :04:20.fishermen have been changing the way they catch, making sure they
:04:20. > :04:24.take just enough and not too much. Welcome aboard, let's go fishing.
:04:24. > :04:27.It is called sustainable fishing. Stefan used to catch cod and
:04:27. > :04:33.haddock. Now he fishes to order and puts back the thing she does not
:04:33. > :04:37.need. Today he is after herring and sardines. It is a lot different,
:04:37. > :04:41.because we are targeting fish, rather than telling nets for miles
:04:41. > :04:46.and scooping up different varieties that we do not want. This is very
:04:46. > :04:51.targeted, that is why it is sustainable. His boat uses sonar
:04:51. > :04:55.technology so it can identify what type of fish are in the water. If
:04:55. > :05:04.he is at the sardines, he can see exactly where they are, which means
:05:04. > :05:12.he does not waste time catching And then our biggest catch of the
:05:12. > :05:16.night. So we have a 20 tan catch of herring in that that right now. We
:05:16. > :05:24.only need about five, so we will take what we need and put the rest
:05:24. > :05:28.Fresh of the boat, the skies will be sent to supermarkets, and they
:05:28. > :05:32.could end up on your plate, but because of the big effort from
:05:32. > :05:41.everyone here and how they are caught, it should mean there is
:05:41. > :05:44.plenty more fish in the sea. Tomorrow she is looking for
:05:44. > :05:48.dolphins off the north of Scotland. Now, we've all heard of guide dogs
:05:48. > :05:51.for the blind, but what about dogs for the deaf? For the first time,
:05:51. > :05:54.specially trained hearing dogs have been given to kids in the UK, and
:05:54. > :05:58.it's making a big difference. Getting out of bed in the morning
:05:58. > :06:02.can be tough, but 11-year-old James has a secret weapon. He's deaf and
:06:02. > :06:08.can't hear his alarm. But his dog Kurt is always on hand to help him
:06:08. > :06:12.out. He's one of the first kids in the country to get a specially
:06:12. > :06:17.trained hearing dog for the deaf, and it's making quite a difference.
:06:17. > :06:19.I love my dog, and he's a very good boy. Kurt has been trained to
:06:19. > :06:23.respond to certain sounds and commands, and that means he can
:06:23. > :06:31.also help his mum out around the house. If I'm cooking downstairs, I
:06:31. > :06:37.can call the dog. Kurt will go and get James, give him a nudge. James
:06:37. > :06:41.will say, what is it? And he'll follow Kurt back down to me.
:06:41. > :06:44.most importantly, Kurt helps keep James safe. James can't hear things
:06:45. > :06:52.like a smoke alarm, so when it goes off, Kurt finds James and lies down,
:06:52. > :06:59.telling him that there is danger. Kurt is one of just 12 hearing dogs
:07:00. > :07:06.helping kids in the UK. Kurt is my best friend. And it's clear that
:07:06. > :07:12.James wouldn't swap him for the world.
:07:12. > :07:16.What a lovely story! Finally, the latest PCs of nature making a big
:07:16. > :07:19.splash, this is a classic in Argentina in South America. Huge
:07:19. > :07:25.chunks of ice have been crashing into the sea, creating these