09/03/2017 Newsround


09/03/2017

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Good afternoon, I'm Jenny and this is Newsround.

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First up, the Queen has unveiled a new war

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It's to pay tribute to the UK men and women who served

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in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, between 1990 and 2015.

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A special service took place, where the sculpture was shown

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for the first time, and Prince Harry, who served in Afghanistan,

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Next, what should Britain do about the children, escaping war,

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who have travelled to Europe on their own?

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It's part of a big argument, about whether the UK has already

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done enough to help child refugees, or whether it should do more.

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I went to meet one politician who was a child refugee himself,

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and has been campaigning to allow more lone children into the UK.

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This was Europe 80 years ago. Many people were fleeing the Nazis, who

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killed millions of people in Europe in what is known as the Holocaust.

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The largest group of victims were Jewish people, almost seven out of

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every ten Jews living in Europe were killed. But more than 10,000

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children escaped to safety in the UK. One of them was Alf Dubs who

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lived in a country then called Czechoslovakia. He is now a UK

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politician. I was six years old, living in Prague, the capital

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city, and then the Germans occupied Prague in March 19 39. Things

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changed and there were German soldiers everywhere, tanks, German

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soldiers marching in the streets. My mother was refused permission to

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leave, she put me on the Kindertransport, the trains that

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took thousands of people to Britain to safety, maybe Jewish children. I

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can still remember the scene, my mother looking anxious, a friend of

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hers, I was about the youngest person on the train, there were

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maybe 150 people on the train -- 150 children and then we went on the

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train, on the night boat and on the train to Liverpool Street station.

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Looking back how important was the Kindertransport to you? My chances

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of being alive would have been nil if I had not come out on the

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Kindertransport. I think the Kindertransport saved my life. Many

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children are still arriving in Europe today, how do you think they

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feel? I think it's tough. It is awful that thousands of young

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children have no one to protect themselves with my colleagues, I

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thought we should have a campaign to get some of these children to this

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country, to safety. What did you hope what happened? I hope several

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thousand of them would come to Britain. I never said they should

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all come to Britain. I hoped they would find a bit of love and safety

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after their experiences. The government said 200 loan children

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had been brought to Britain under the scheme set up by Alf Dubs and

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that it would close. There is now a row about whether the UK Government

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has done enough. Alf Dubs doesn't think so. I am bitterly

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disappointed, not for myself but for the children because they had a hope

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of a better life under the government feel ashamed for what

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they've done. The government say they have helped unaccompanied

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children and councils can't take any more and it only encourages more

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children to make a dangerous journey across Europe. What do you say to

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that? I don't agree. Councils have said we can take some or more, we

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just have to be asked. You can't say because some might come we are going

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to ignore the others. It is awful, we can't turn our backs on them. I

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think it's shocking what the government have done and we are

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going to hard with them at every opportunity to say that they should

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change their minds. We asked the government to respond. They said, we

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want to do everything we can to protect children fleeing conflict.

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They say they have helped more than 8000 children in the last year and

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20,000 Syrians will get a new home in the UK by 2020.

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One of the most amazing comebacks of all time.

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Barcelona were down 5-3 on aggregate in the 88th minute

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against Paris St-Germain but then this happened.

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Neymar scored two cracking goals in the final minutes of the game.

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They were followed by another goal for Barca from Sergi Roberto.

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The last minute goals secured one of the most amazing comebacks,

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of all time, and made Champions League history.

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The win means Barcelona are in the quarter-finals

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And go online to see five more incredible

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That's all from the team today, Newsround's back

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Don't forget to go online for loads more, including why pandas are black

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