06/12/2011 Newsround


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Hello and welcome to Newsround, with Hayley and Joe. We have got a

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tasty Tuesday fall of Newsroundy treats for you. Coming up:

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We will find out about the major operation to rescue stranded seals.

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And the bomb blast that has devastated lives in Afghanistan.

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But first to some exciting news about space. The final frontier! A

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new planet has been found outside our solar system that is so similar

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to ours that scientists are calling it Earth's twin. Scientists at NASA

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are getting very excited about it because they reckon it could

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actually support life. But don't pack your bags yet, Hayley, because

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if you think Mars is a bit of a trek, this is 600 light years away!

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They call it Kepler-22b. It's more than twice the size of Earth, and

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has a nice, cosy temperature of 22 Celsius. And in an enormous,

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constantly moving universe made up of fireballs and ice planets,

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finding a place that is similar to the Earth is pretty special. And

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this is why. Here is us - Earth. We orbit the Sun from about 90 million

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miles away, close enough to keep warm and not too close to evaporate

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all of our precious water. This is Kepler-22b. As you can see, it also

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orbits its sun at about the same distance away. It is this area that

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they call the Goldilocks zone - not too hot, not too cold, just right.

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Since launching their Kepler telescope into space two years ago,

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NASA has been searching for planets like this. They have found more

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than a thousand new worlds since then, but this is the first where

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conditions are most like Earth. But there is a lot they still don't

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know. Is it rocky on Kepler-22b or gassy? Could it be made up of

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liquid? And if it is 600 light years away, how on Earth are we

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going to get there? So many questions! Well, if anyone

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knows the answers, it is probably space supremo Professor Brian Cox.

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Yeah, but we could never get hold of him, could we? We could, and we

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did! Kepler is a long way away. Could we

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ever get there? Yes, it is in principle possible. Even if you

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think something is one light year away because you are very close,

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you might think you could any travel -- if you could only travel

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at the speed of light, it would take a year to get there. But

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Einstein tells us that strange things happen when you approach the

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speed of light. The closer you get to it, the more your time it slows

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down, or distances shrink. So if you were Arabian of light, you

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would jump across the universe instantaneously. We could not do it

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in modern spaceships, though. is the trouble, it is an

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engineering problem. They have called it Kepler-22b, not very

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catchy. Why? It is named after the Kepler mission. Kepler was the guy

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who first understood planetary orbits. All day, we have been

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asking the guys on the website to send in their ideas for a planet.

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What would you call a planet? one, you could call it Earth

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version 2.0, because it could be very similar to the earth. Let's

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call it Earth to. Catchy. Not very catchy, is it?

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You have been getting in touch all day with your suggestions for the

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Now to a big rescue operation for hundreds of stranded seals off the

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coast of Lincolnshire. The pups were separated from their mothers

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by big waves. The extra high tide struck the seal colony at Donna

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Nook a week ago, and it is estimated that up to 75 seal pups

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may have died. It is a known seal sanctuary, and visitors to the area

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have been shocked by the news. really sad, because it is an

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amazing sight to see. It is quite a shock, because there was a thriving

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community. The first time we came, 600 pups were born.

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Next to Afghanistan, where a suicide bomb has killed more than

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50 people. The bomb exploded when people were celebrating a religious

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festival in the capital, Kabul. It comes just a day after big talks

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took place between Britain and other countries, aimed at securing

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a safe future for people in the country. But now that has been

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thrown into doubt. The centre of Kabul in the

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aftermath of one of the biggest attacks in the city's history.

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Hours earlier, people were celebrating a special festival for

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Shiite Muslims. Tensions exist in Afghanistan between Shiites and

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other Muslims called Sunnis, but there has not been an attack of

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this scale in the country since the fall of the terrorist group the

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Taliban ten years ago. This bombing was different to most of the recent

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violence in Afghanistan, which has been aimed at the foreign troops

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there. Doctors, nurses and the police struggled to count the

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number of dead and injured. One bystander had this to say - a "this

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action is against humanity and against Islam". Afghanistan's

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President spoke about the attack while attending a set of talks in

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Germany with other world leaders about how Afghanistan will be run

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after foreign troops leave in three years' time. This is the first time

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on such an important religious day in Afghanistan that terrorism of

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that horrible nature is taking place. World leaders are still

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trying to secure peace and progress for the future of Afghanistan. But

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for the people here now, it is hard to look beyond today.

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Sport, and it's crunch-time tonight for this guy. Chelsea manager Andre

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Villas-Boas needs his under-fire team to either win or draw 0-0 to

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progress in the Champions League. They play Valencia at Stamford

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Bridge. And even though the Blues are going through a bad run at the

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moment, the manager says he has no intention of changing his tactics.

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We will not change our strategy just because we are playing such an

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important game. The strategy will be the same. We will take the

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initiative with the ball. We do not speculate with the game.

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What next for David Beckham? Goldenballs has one more game for

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LA Galaxy before his contract ends. He says he's not sure if he'll stay

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in America or play at the 2012 Olympics, but don't worry, Becks

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fans - he says he has no intention of retiring.

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Hot on the heels of Newsround's autism special, there is another

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one on the way tonight on the CBBC channel tonight at 6:20pm. It is

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about two kids who live different lives, but who spend a week in each

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Before we go, imagine opening your lunchbox and finding a two-year-old

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sandwich inside. How gross would that be? Ugh! Well, a sandwich

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which stays fresh for two years has been developed for the US army.

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