:00:06. > :00:13.$:/STARTFEED. Hi, guys - Ricky here with your Wednesday afternoon
:00:14. > :00:22.Newsround. Coming up... A Bronze Age boat trip for these brave
:00:22. > :00:24.historians. And I'm here in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan,
:00:24. > :00:29.with the latest on Syria's refugee crisis.
:00:29. > :00:32.First, Syria's refugee crisis continues to spiral out of control.
:00:32. > :00:36.Today the United Nations announced that the number of refugees who
:00:36. > :00:39.have fled the country has passed one million people. For nearly two
:00:39. > :00:42.years now, we have been telling you about the fighting between
:00:42. > :00:46.government forces and rebels in Syria. In a minute, Leah will have
:00:46. > :00:49.a special report from one of the biggest refugee camps. But first, I
:00:49. > :00:54.have been looking at the terrifying journeys so many Syrians have had
:00:54. > :00:58.to make. Frantically packed suitcases. Heavy bags dragged
:00:58. > :01:01.through the sand in the dead of night. One million ordinary people
:01:01. > :01:06.- families, with children - have been torn from their daily lives in
:01:07. > :01:09.a desperate bid to find safety. Syria's brutal civil war has forced
:01:09. > :01:16.them into to refugee camps in neighbouring countries like Jordan,
:01:16. > :01:19.Lebanon, and Turkey. The war has been going on for nearly two years
:01:19. > :01:23.- but the number of people fleeing Syria has almost doubled in just
:01:23. > :01:29.two months. Incredibly, half of those leaving are children, many of
:01:29. > :01:34.them under 11 years old. Thousands of them arrive at the camps alone,
:01:34. > :01:38.with only the clothes they are wearing. The Zaatari camp on the
:01:38. > :01:42.border with Jordan is one of the largest. It's been growing rapidly
:01:42. > :01:48.in size over the past six months - with more and more tents having to
:01:48. > :01:51.be added as the thousands of people pour in. This morning Leah was in
:01:51. > :02:01.the Zaatari camp, close to the border between Syria and Jordan,
:02:01. > :02:03.
:02:03. > :02:08.and she sent us this report. This is there's of a refugees end up,
:02:08. > :02:13.Zaatari. One million people have left Syria, half of them children.
:02:13. > :02:16.Right now, about 100,000 people have made this place their home.
:02:16. > :02:21.The people that run the camps say resources are stretched, and that
:02:21. > :02:24.they are fighting to keep up. have got the space is to set up
:02:24. > :02:31.camps but we do not have the money to build the camps, to build the
:02:31. > :02:34.latrines, to buy the food or the tents, to build the schools. UNICEF
:02:34. > :02:38.wants to build two more schools here but does not have the money.
:02:38. > :02:41.So many people are talking about the situation in Syria and the
:02:41. > :02:46.needs of the Syrian people and how children are so important, but we
:02:46. > :02:49.do not have money to build schools. Every way you dock, there are
:02:50. > :02:54.children. They will tell you they want to be doctors, artists or
:02:54. > :02:58.writers when they grow up. They love Arabic lessons, they love
:02:58. > :03:02.playing in the playground. Some of them love Real Madrid and Cristiano
:03:02. > :03:07.Ronaldo. I will be bringing you more of their stories on Newsround
:03:07. > :03:10.later in the month. Thanks, Leah. If you want to find out more about
:03:10. > :03:14.what life is like in the refugee camp, check out Leah's picture
:03:14. > :03:17.gallery on the website. OK - 18 brave historians took to the sea
:03:17. > :03:20.from Falmouth in Cornwall this afternoon in an exact replica of a
:03:20. > :03:24.boat used some 4,000 years ago! The boat was built from scratch using
:03:24. > :03:28.traditional tools, as well as moss and sheep fat to keep it watertight.
:03:28. > :03:30.The hope is the experiment will help the team learn more about how
:03:30. > :03:35.people living in Britain during the Bronze Age travelled to other
:03:35. > :03:38.countries to trade. Not so good sailing off the coast of Panama in
:03:38. > :03:43.central America, though, where wild and windy weather has grounded at
:03:43. > :03:45.least six ships, including several giant cargo vessels. No injuries
:03:45. > :03:50.have been reported and it is not thought the shipwrecks have caused
:03:50. > :03:56.any damage to the environment. The strong winds were created by a big
:03:56. > :04:00.band of cold weather that's sitting over North America. OK, animal
:04:00. > :04:03.lovers, listen up - it's the return of panda Watch! Keepers at
:04:03. > :04:07.Edinburgh Zoo are preparing their two giant pandas - Yang Guang and
:04:07. > :04:10.Tian Tian - for this year's breeding season. The prize pair
:04:10. > :04:14.failed to mate last year but have been showing signs that they may be
:04:14. > :04:22.ready to try again. It's tricky for female pandas to become pregnant as
:04:22. > :04:26.it can only happen once a year, in a really short period of time.
:04:26. > :04:30.We're seeing behaviours that indicate they know about each other,
:04:30. > :04:34.they are interested in each other. One of them is eating prodigious
:04:34. > :04:37.amounts of bamboo, building himself up. He is even doing an occasional
:04:37. > :04:41.handstand. Finally, well done Justin, you made
:04:41. > :04:44.it on stage two minutes early last night! After a huge fuss yesterday
:04:44. > :04:47.when technical problems meant the Biebmeister was late for his first
:04:47. > :04:51.show at London's O2 Arena, the second show last night went off
:04:51. > :04:56.without a hitch. He has got a night off tonight, but he has two more