05/08/2016 Newsround

Hi, Leah here with your Friday Newsround.

First, the big day has finally arrived.

Today, the Olympics in Rio De Janiero will begin

with a massive opening ceremony and Ricky has made the trip

to South America and will be covering all the action for us.

DANCE MUSIC PLAYS

Rio is ready!

The venues are waiting. And the athletes?

They're just eager to get started.

You know, I go out there, and I just stay very within myself.

Quite reserved and just do what I know I can do.

We believe we can go out there and get a medal.

And we'll do our best to go out there and do that.

I'm excited about it. We've got a great group around us.

And all the teams, the women's, the men's, sprint, row,

BMX, we've got a pretty strong team, I think!

For me, being able to do that dive now is taking so much

pressure off my shoulders.

I think my dives are now across-the-board strong enough

to get me a gold medal in the Olympic Games.

For me, I want to run for medals and run for history.

And Newsround is ready too. Here we are at Olympic Park in Rio.

Tonight, the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games 2016 will take

place at the Maracana Stadium.

We don't know what exactly is going to happen during

the opening ceremony because a lot of information

is being kept under wraps.

But we can expect a lot of music and dancing and fireworks.

Team GB are expecting to win lots of medals right

here in the park.

During the London 2012 games, they won a total of 65 medals.

Can they better that here in Rio? Fingers crossed!

Over the summer holidays, lots of you will probably be taking

trips out to museums near you.

But one of the country's most popular, The Science Museum

in London, says it's planning to charge money to go

to one of its exhibits.

It's summer - and here at the Science Museum in London,

lots of kids have come with their families to see

all the cool stuff on display.

It's free to come here to see most things.

But the museum are giving one of the most popular interactive

exhibitions a makeover.

And they say they'll be charging people to come and visit it

when it opens in October.

National museums in England, Wales and Scotland are free

to visit, but they can still charge for some special displays.

But what do kids here think about the new charge?

Because folk are on tight budgets, they may not be able

to experience everything.

They need the money to keep the museums going.

If it's really good, you feel good about it,

that you've paid the money but if it's really bad, you feel

like they have ripped you off.

If they didn't, they wouldn't have enough money to improve the museum.

I don't think that's very fair, that some parents have to fork out

when some parents can't.

The new exhibit, Wonderlab, is still being built at the moment -

I spoke to Natalie, who's in charge of it.

Why did you not feel you could make an example and not charge families?

Why did you not just say, look, we've got this to show off

and everyone can come?

It costs a lot of money to run an interactive gallery like this

and the ticket charge goes towards running it.

For a family of four people, it could cost up to ?30.

How do you feel about families who cannot afford it?

So, we will be having initiatives to get those families

to come to this gallery, if they find that

ticket charge barrier.

We're doubling the number of schoolchildren who will

visit this gallery. They will visit for free.

We will be working with schools directly, and pupils who perhaps

might not have been able to come can get tickets.

The new exhibit has cost the science museum around ?6 million to complete

but when it open in just two months it will be the visitors who'll judge

whether it's worth paying for.

And finally - what's the last thing you'd expect see at the seaside?

How about a family of bears enjoying a splash around at the beach.

This video filmed on a mobile shows a fully grown bear and her two cubs

splashing around at Pope beach in California earlier this week.

splashing around at Pope beach in California earlier this week.

They were completely unfazed by people nearby -

before heading off back into the woods.

That's all from me, Newsround's back right here in about half an hour.

Bye!