06/01/2014 Newsround


06/01/2014

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Hi there. I'm Leah with your last Newsround update of the day. First,

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all day we've been talking about the extreme weather battering parts of

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America as well as the UK. The United States has been hit by a

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blast of air from the Arctic which has created some of its coldest

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weather in 20 years. And over here, giant waves and flooding have caused

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chaos in parts of the country. Last month was the stormiest in the UK

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for more than 40 years. Could this bad weather across the globe be

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linked? Ayshah went to ask weather expert Simon King. At the moment

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we've got colder towards the north with warm air coming from the south.

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As they meet we have the jet stream which is a bigger conveyor belt of

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air and what happens is storms develop and come across the United

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Kingdom. That's what we've had over the last couple of weeks.

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Next, imagine becoming an astronaut or helping launch a rocket into

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space. I'm sure these sound like dream jobs to some of you but the

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good news is they might not be impossible dreams. The Chancellor,

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George Osborne, who is in charge of the country's money, says he wants

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the UK space industry to treble over the next 20 years. That should mean

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loads more jobs for when you grow up, whether it's helping to send up

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the satellites that make mobile phones work or making devices like

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this one to map the stars. Well, earlier today Ricky spoke to

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two girls whose school science projects were about to get sent into

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space. Mine is looking at antibiotics and

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we're going to see whether the medicine works better or worse in

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space. You are working on something

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fascinating. It's a single organism that acts

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like it has a brain that will grow to have a food source. We hope that

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it will grow 3-dimensional leave. How do you feel knowing that

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something you have worked on is going to be looked at in space?

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It's absolutely amazing. I can't wait for the results.

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Really, really surreal. Next, take a look at this driver

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caught on a police safety camera in Yorkshire. The 36-year-old man

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drives his car for about 30 seconds with both hands behind his head at

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62 mph. In court, he argued he was in control of the car but was found

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guilty of dangerous driving. Head online to see the amazing

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pictures from an ice festival in China where sculptors have made a

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whole city from ice. And you can also play our quiz.

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That's all from me. Newsround's back bright and early tomorrow.

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