09/03/2017

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:00:11. > :00:13.Good afternoon, I'm Jenny and this is Newsround.

:00:14. > :00:15.First up, the Queen has unveiled a new war

:00:16. > :00:23.It's to pay tribute to the UK men and women who served

:00:24. > :00:26.in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, between 1990 and 2015.

:00:27. > :00:30.A special service took place, where the sculpture was shown

:00:31. > :00:33.for the first time, and Prince Harry, who served in Afghanistan,

:00:34. > :00:38.Next, what should Britain do about the children, escaping war,

:00:39. > :00:41.who have travelled to Europe on their own?

:00:42. > :00:45.It's part of a big argument, about whether the UK has already

:00:46. > :00:48.done enough to help child refugees, or whether it should do more.

:00:49. > :00:50.I went to meet one politician who was a child refugee himself,

:00:51. > :00:59.and has been campaigning to allow more lone children into the UK.

:01:00. > :01:06.This was Europe 80 years ago. Many people were fleeing the Nazis, who

:01:07. > :01:10.killed millions of people in Europe in what is known as the Holocaust.

:01:11. > :01:16.The largest group of victims were Jewish people, almost seven out of

:01:17. > :01:20.every ten Jews living in Europe were killed. But more than 10,000

:01:21. > :01:25.children escaped to safety in the UK. One of them was Alf Dubs who

:01:26. > :01:30.lived in a country then called Czechoslovakia. He is now a UK

:01:31. > :01:43.politician. I was six years old, living in Prague, the capital

:01:44. > :01:46.city, and then the Germans occupied Prague in March 19 39. Things

:01:47. > :01:48.changed and there were German soldiers everywhere, tanks, German

:01:49. > :01:50.soldiers marching in the streets. My mother was refused permission to

:01:51. > :01:54.leave, she put me on the Kindertransport, the trains that

:01:55. > :01:58.took thousands of people to Britain to safety, maybe Jewish children. I

:01:59. > :02:38.can still remember the scene, my mother looking anxious, a friend of

:02:39. > :02:42.hers, I was about the youngest person on the train, there were

:02:43. > :02:45.maybe 150 people on the train -- 150 children and then we went on the

:02:46. > :02:47.train, on the night boat and on the train to Liverpool Street station.

:02:48. > :02:49.Looking back how important was the Kindertransport to you? My chances

:02:50. > :02:52.of being alive would have been nil if I had not come out on the

:02:53. > :02:54.Kindertransport. I think the Kindertransport saved my life. Many

:02:55. > :02:57.children are still arriving in Europe today, how do you think they

:02:58. > :02:59.feel? I think it's tough. It is awful that thousands of young

:03:00. > :03:01.children have no one to protect themselves with my colleagues, I

:03:02. > :03:04.thought we should have a campaign to get some of these children to this

:03:05. > :03:06.country, to safety. What did you hope what happened? I hope several

:03:07. > :03:09.thousand of them would come to Britain. I never said they should

:03:10. > :03:11.all come to Britain. I hoped they would find a bit of love and safety

:03:12. > :03:13.after their experiences. The government said 200 loan children

:03:14. > :03:17.had been brought to Britain under the scheme set up by Alf Dubs and

:03:18. > :03:19.that it would close. There is now a row about whether the UK Government

:03:20. > :03:21.has done enough. Alf Dubs doesn't think so. I am bitterly

:03:22. > :03:24.disappointed, not for myself but for the children because they had a hope

:03:25. > :03:27.of a better life under the government feel ashamed for what

:03:28. > :03:30.they've done. The government say they have helped unaccompanied

:03:31. > :03:34.children and councils can't take any more and it only encourages more

:03:35. > :03:40.children to make a dangerous journey across Europe. What do you say to

:03:41. > :03:45.that? I don't agree. Councils have said we can take some or more, we

:03:46. > :03:49.just have to be asked. You can't say because some might come we are going

:03:50. > :03:57.to ignore the others. It is awful, we can't turn our backs on them. I

:03:58. > :04:00.think it's shocking what the government have done and we are

:04:01. > :04:02.going to hard with them at every opportunity to say that they should

:04:03. > :04:06.change their minds. We asked the government to respond. They said, we

:04:07. > :04:09.want to do everything we can to protect children fleeing conflict.

:04:10. > :04:13.They say they have helped more than 8000 children in the last year and

:04:14. > :04:20.20,000 Syrians will get a new home in the UK by 2020.

:04:21. > :04:28.One of the most amazing comebacks of all time.

:04:29. > :04:30.Barcelona were down 5-3 on aggregate in the 88th minute

:04:31. > :04:32.against Paris St-Germain but then this happened.

:04:33. > :04:35.Neymar scored two cracking goals in the final minutes of the game.

:04:36. > :04:38.They were followed by another goal for Barca from Sergi Roberto.

:04:39. > :04:40.The last minute goals secured one of the most amazing comebacks,

:04:41. > :04:42.of all time, and made Champions League history.

:04:43. > :04:44.The win means Barcelona are in the quarter-finals

:04:45. > :04:47.And go online to see five more incredible

:04:48. > :04:50.That's all from the team today, Newsround's back

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:05:00. > :05:01.and white!