:00:23. > :00:28.Hello, you're live with Newsround just after 5.00pm. Taking you
:00:29. > :00:31.through to the Easter weekend. You've got Leah and Ore keeping you
:00:32. > :00:34.up to date today. Coming up: There'll be no baby pandas for
:00:34. > :00:38.Britain this year. And, forget carrying around a phone, now all
:00:38. > :00:43.you need is a pair of digital glasses.
:00:43. > :00:47.First, the weather. Britain has been hit with snow and rain in the
:00:47. > :00:49.past week - but believe it or not the county is also in the middle of
:00:49. > :00:52.a big water shortage. Twenty million people in England
:00:52. > :00:57.are being told they aren't allowed to use their hoses because there's
:00:58. > :01:00.just not enough water around. I've been digging up the details.
:01:00. > :01:04.Digging! If you live in the north you don't
:01:04. > :01:09.need me to tell you it's been freezing. This week, loads of snow
:01:09. > :01:13.has fallen and it's left over 1,000 homes without electricity. Power
:01:13. > :01:17.cables were brought down by the weather. In the south, though, it's
:01:17. > :01:21.a totally different story. Believe it or not, the last two-
:01:21. > :01:23.year period has been one of the driest on record and in some places
:01:24. > :01:27.it's officially being called a drought.
:01:27. > :01:31.If you live in these areas, the Government says you have got to be
:01:31. > :01:36.smarter about how you use your water and that means using a hose
:01:36. > :01:42.to water the garden, wash your car or even fill up your paddling pool,
:01:42. > :01:46.is out. Anyone caught could have to pay �1,000 punishment.
:01:46. > :01:49.How come this is happening when there's been so much rain and snow?
:01:49. > :01:53.At the moment we have dry conditions in the south. We have
:01:53. > :01:56.had a quarter less rain than you normally expect. In the north and
:01:56. > :01:59.west we have had more rain. The reason for that, most of the
:01:59. > :02:03.weather comes from the west over the Atlantic Ocean, it's very wet,
:02:03. > :02:06.it's very moist and so if you live on the west you get more rain. But
:02:06. > :02:09.if you live on the east that air that weather has travelled over
:02:09. > :02:13.land, so it's drier, therefore you get less rain.
:02:13. > :02:19.What's got a lot of people angry is the amount of water wasted by
:02:19. > :02:24.leaking pipes. Around 3 billion litres of water are lost every day,
:02:24. > :02:28.that's the equivalent of 1,300 Olympic-sized swimming pools. But
:02:28. > :02:32.water companies say they are working hard to to fix them. Big
:02:32. > :02:35.sports events have been let off the hosepipe ban. The people organising
:02:35. > :02:41.the Olympics will be able to water the grass at all the different
:02:41. > :02:45.venues. But for all you guys living in the areas hit, chances are you
:02:45. > :02:49.won't be able to use your hose all summer.
:02:49. > :02:52.OK. Sad news if you're fans of Sweety and Sunshine, as time has
:02:52. > :02:56.run out for the world's most famous panda duo at Edinburgh Zoo. Female
:02:56. > :03:00.pandas can only breed for 36 hours a year so the last two days have
:03:00. > :03:02.been really important. Months of planning went into it and one very
:03:02. > :03:10.secret weapon, as Joe's been finding out Oh well, maybe next
:03:11. > :03:14.year. In this box is a panda breeding
:03:14. > :03:20.secret weapon. The precious cargo has travelled more than 200 miles,
:03:20. > :03:24.and now it's being taken to the lab for special top secret analysis. So,
:03:24. > :03:33.this is it. The sample. Yeah. What's inside here? There we go.
:03:33. > :03:37.Where is it? That's it. OK. Ever since Edinburgh zoo's famous pandas
:03:37. > :03:41.arrived last year keepers have been preparing for them to breed. But
:03:41. > :03:45.it's notoriously difficult to get pandas to have babies as they can
:03:45. > :03:49.only breed for about 36 hours every year. Keepers have been waiting for
:03:49. > :03:53.them to be ready to get pregnant and the clues to when this will be
:03:53. > :03:58.are in her we,. That's where scientists at this laboratory come
:03:58. > :04:01.in. They are animal poo and wee experts and have been examining the
:04:01. > :04:07.wee for months. How many samples like this have you received from
:04:07. > :04:10.Scotland? We have had 122. This is just a few of them. It's about a
:04:10. > :04:13.coke bottle's full which isn't that much. One the samples are tested,
:04:13. > :04:17.the results are plotted on this graph to predict when the pandas
:04:17. > :04:20.should be put together. The lines are two different chemicals in the
:04:20. > :04:25.body and we are looking for when they cross over one another. You
:04:25. > :04:28.have this pattern here. Breeding pandas in captivity is rare, maybe
:04:28. > :04:33.one in every ten years, so there's lots of people involved to get it
:04:33. > :04:37.right. Why does it have to be so precise? Why can't we put them
:04:37. > :04:44.together? The pandas can be aggressive and we need to put them
:04:44. > :04:48.in together at the right time. There is always next year. Best of
:04:48. > :04:50.luck to you. Now to the coolest pair of glasses
:04:50. > :04:53.on the planet! They look pretty normal right? But that's where
:04:53. > :04:56.you'd be mistaken. Because these specs can check the weather, access
:04:56. > :04:59.maps, search the internet, take photos and even start video chats!
:04:59. > :05:06.You won't find them in the shops yet but the creators, Google, says
:05:06. > :05:11.users can control the glasses with their voice.
:05:11. > :05:14.Interesting, cool, isn't it. Yesterday was our big 40th birthday.
:05:14. > :05:16.It was. To celebrate, we've been looking back at what's happened in
:05:16. > :05:26.each decade since Newsround started. Today, Hayley revisits the decade
:05:26. > :05:33.
:05:33. > :05:37.which gave us smartphones, Harry Today I am rewinding the clock back
:05:37. > :05:43.to the year 200, that's why I am in front of this landmark that was
:05:43. > :05:46.built specifically to celebrate the new millennium. Our top stories...
:05:46. > :05:50.This was what Newsround looked like ten years ago, the decade of the
:05:50. > :05:54.gadget. They changed how we watch TV, listen to music, play games and
:05:55. > :05:59.kept in touch. Phones went from looking like this, to like this.
:05:59. > :06:05.And forget having a games console, computer TV and mobile, just one
:06:05. > :06:09.gadget could do all that and more. As far as films, it was all about
:06:09. > :06:13.one waving wizard and Newsround was there right from the start. Only
:06:13. > :06:17.one TV programme, ours, was allowed on to the movie set for a series of
:06:17. > :06:21.world exclusive interviews. I found out that you could audition by
:06:21. > :06:25.sending a picture of yourself and some information to Newsround.
:06:26. > :06:31.Harry Potter hit the cinemas in 2001, the series was soon to become
:06:31. > :06:37.the most successful in film history. One of the big stories we covered
:06:37. > :06:40.was the death of the Queen's mum. In April April 2002, at the age of
:06:40. > :06:45.101 the Queen mum died and the nation went into mourning. She had
:06:45. > :06:50.lived for more than a century and survived two world wars. When her
:06:51. > :06:54.husband, King George VI, died in 1952, her daughter Elizabeth became
:06:54. > :06:57.Queen. Before the funeral Prince Harry and Prince William joined a
:06:57. > :07:01.procession behind the coffin. Schools around the country joined
:07:01. > :07:04.in a two-minute silence to show their respects. Not everyone in
:07:04. > :07:07.Britain agrees about whether the Royal Family is a good thing, but
:07:07. > :07:11.the death of the Queen Mother united the country.
:07:11. > :07:15.Not everything that made it on to Newsround this century was quite so
:07:15. > :07:20.important, though. I will leave you with a taster of some of the
:07:20. > :07:24.stories that probably didn't make headlines anywhere else.
:07:25. > :07:28.They've rather unusual rubbish collectors in Sicily. Donkeys. Six
:07:28. > :07:33.of the animals have replaced trucks there to save money and help the
:07:33. > :07:38.environment. In other news, a runaway cow has caused chaos in a
:07:38. > :07:41.German city, she broke out of the farm on went on the rampage,
:07:41. > :07:45.causing �17,000 worth of damage. Every night this week we will be
:07:45. > :07:50.looking back at what else has changed since we have been on air.
:07:50. > :07:53.So tune in on CBBC. Definitely do that. If you miss
:07:53. > :07:56.Hayley's full report you can check it on the website. While you're
:07:56. > :08:00.there, check out our guide to why we eat chocolate eggs at Easter.