06/02/2014 Newsround


06/02/2014

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Good morning guys. Ayshah with all the news you need to know this

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Thursday morning. Is there anything Beckham can't do? The Winter

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Olympics have well and truly landed. This is Newsround.

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First, the Prime Minister is going to add extra cash to the pot of

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money given to primary schools in England to spend on sport which

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could mean an improvement to your PE lessons. David Cameron says that if

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his party wins the next election then every year until 2020 schools

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will get to share ?150 million between them. They can spend it

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however they want on new equipment, sports coaches or more after school

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clubs. The idea is to keep you guys more active and carry on the legacy

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of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. We are hoping to speak to the

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Prime Minister about this later today and we want to know what you

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want to ask him. If you have one question to put to David Cameron

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about sport in your school, what would it be?

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Sorry guys, but more bad weather on the way today if you are living in

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parts of Southern England and Wales and that's after days and days of

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heavy rain and battering winds. More than 200 homes have already been

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evacuated and a section of the railway line that connects Exeter to

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Cornwall was destroyed. With the bad weather causing chaos for thousands,

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the Government has promised to spend ?100 million rebuilding those

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communities that have been affected. A group of MPs says that plans to

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cut down on the number of plastic bags used in England won't work. The

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Environment Committee says the scheme is too complicated because

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there are so many different rules. The main one being a five pence

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charge for carriers, but smaller shops the won't have to pay. It the

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committee says the systems work in Ireland and Wales because they only

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have one rule for everyone. Next, the Olympic Games are back.

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Check out the latest pictures behind me. Looking cool. This time the

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sandpits have been replaced with snowballs and the heptathlon with

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half pipes. The winter Games open tomorrow, but the snowboarders hit

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the slopes this mornin -- morning.

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Here is Martin with the ones to watch.

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Break neck speeds. The Olympic Games in Russia will bring together some

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of the coolest athletes in the world. Bobsleighing and freestyle

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skiing are what you have got to p look forward to over the next couple

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of weeks with hopes of a record medal haul for Team GB. You have got

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to go back to the first Games held in France in 1924. But with a new

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generation of young and talented stars, this time we are targeting

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between three and seven medals. So who are the ones to watch? Freestyle

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skiing, Katie Summerhayes won a medal last season. James Woods

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became Britain's first freestyle skiing medallist for 20 years when

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he won silver. In snowboarding, Billy Morgan and Jenny Jones is

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representing the women. There are big hopes Team GB can have success

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on the ice after Eve Muirhead led Scotland to a world title in March,

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but it is in the skeleton that Britain's hopes lie. Lizzie Arnold

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won the junior skeleton title in 2012 and is fresh from winning the

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skeleton World Cup two weeks ago. So let the Games begin!

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Thanks, Martin. Exciting stuff. I'm looking forward to more of that.

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This man has promised to bring some of the world's top players to Miami

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after confirming he is to become the owner of a new football club in

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America. Becks was given the option of running a club when he signed for

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LA Galaxy in 2007. Fans will have to wait for a few years until the team

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is ready and in that time Beckham is looking to build a stadium in

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Florida. Now, head over to the website to get more of the latest

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news including giant ice sculptures which have taken over Japan.

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That's your lot. Newsround is back this afternoon at 4. 20pm.

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