:00:00. > :00:00.weekend's action. Good morning, guys. Wecome to
:00:00. > :00:10.Friday, with me, Ricky, and a bit of this on the way: A first sneak-peek
:00:11. > :00:14.at what Aardman Animations are doing to build-up World Cup fever.
:00:15. > :00:23.Plus, the latest twist in the tale of the mountain that's up for sale.
:00:24. > :00:26.This is Newsround. But first this Friday, to plans to
:00:27. > :00:29.search for new medicines under the sea. Scientists say ocean
:00:30. > :00:32.exploration could hold the key to finding new drugs to treat anything
:00:33. > :00:35.from infections to cancer. They think studying the genetic make-up
:00:36. > :00:39.and chemicals inside things like starfish could help them develop new
:00:40. > :00:42.life-saving drugs. Searches are already under way off the coast of
:00:43. > :00:51.Scotland, and the European Union is planning to put almost ?120 million
:00:52. > :00:54.into finding out more. Historically this isn't a place that people have
:00:55. > :00:57.looked, so they haven't exploited it and there's a whole raft of new
:00:58. > :01:05.technologies that are allowing one to screen more methodically, more
:01:06. > :01:10.scientifically. Next, to new measures to try to
:01:11. > :01:12.tackle internet piracy. Big players in the entertainment industry have
:01:13. > :01:18.been in talks with UK internet providers about the issue. As part
:01:19. > :01:20.of the plan, providers will send letters to customers thought to be
:01:21. > :01:29.downloading illegally. They're expected to be sent out in 2015.
:01:30. > :01:33.Next, the chairman of the English FA has been forced to defend new plans
:01:34. > :01:36.to try and improve the fortunes of the England footy team. A special
:01:37. > :01:39.commission has been looking into how to produce more top-quality English
:01:40. > :01:42.players in the future, and presented its ideas yesterday. They include
:01:43. > :01:46.stricter rules on the number of foreign players teams can sign as
:01:47. > :01:49.well as having a new league for Premier League B teams. That was
:01:50. > :01:52.heavily criticised by lots of people, prompting this response from
:01:53. > :01:54.Chairman Greg Dyke. They're difficult proposals and you
:01:55. > :01:58.cant possibly be sure that everyone's going to buy into them,
:01:59. > :02:02.but, the question I asked to the people who don't buy into them -
:02:03. > :02:05.well, what do you want to do? The analysis in this document is pretty
:02:06. > :02:09.damning for the future of English football and English boys'. If you
:02:10. > :02:12.don't want to buy into this, what do you want to do? It's not enough to
:02:13. > :02:16.say we do nothing. Well, the current England team is
:02:17. > :02:19.just five weeks away from the start of the World Cup in Brazil, and
:02:20. > :02:23.these tiny footballers will appear in short films on the BBC, starting
:02:24. > :02:26.this weekend, to help build up the football fever. They were designed
:02:27. > :02:29.by the company behind Shaun the Sheep, and Match of the Day
:02:30. > :02:34.Kickabout's Radzi went to get sneak-peek at how they were created.
:02:35. > :02:53.Danny, this looks incredible. All these shots of Brazil, what exactly
:02:54. > :02:57.is it? It is a journey to Brazil and we follow these for little football
:02:58. > :03:01.figures all the way from the UK all the way over to Brazil and their
:03:02. > :03:05.destiny is to get to the stadium to see the World Cup live. This kind of
:03:06. > :03:08.sums up the flavour of result for us, there's lots of colour, the
:03:09. > :03:11.street art, the football, the beach. How did you get it to work?
:03:12. > :03:14.Presumably the characters themselves can't walk and talk themselves.
:03:15. > :03:19.We'll be using a method called CGI, which is computer-generated imagery.
:03:20. > :03:22.And what that means is we will be creating the characters in the
:03:23. > :03:26.computer and then we'll be putting them into a live-action real film
:03:27. > :03:29.scene and try to make them look as though they're in the same
:03:30. > :03:33.environment. When I think of Brazil, I've got a really strong image in my
:03:34. > :03:36.head, did you have that? I did, yes, especially because in Brazil they
:03:37. > :03:39.are notoriously known for having so much passion about football and
:03:40. > :03:43.football and football! They absolutely love it, and they breathe
:03:44. > :03:46.it and when we got there it just lived up to all our expectations.
:03:47. > :03:50.You would go to Copacabana beach and you would just see balls flying up
:03:51. > :03:53.in the air morning till night, and yes, it was fantastic. It was
:03:54. > :03:56.amazing. And to find out how the finished
:03:57. > :04:06.videos look, check out Match of the Day Kickabout, Saturday morning at
:04:07. > :04:08.7.30 on CBBC. One of Europe's biggest sporting
:04:09. > :04:12.events gets under way in Northern Ireland later. When it comes to
:04:13. > :04:15.cycling, the Giro d'Italia is only second to the Tour de France. In
:04:16. > :04:19.Belfast preparations have been under way for months to get the city
:04:20. > :04:22.ready, and today the racing finally begins. Belfast beat off competition
:04:23. > :04:25.from other cities to host the tournament and many landmarks have
:04:26. > :04:31.turned pink to celebrate. Two-day Belfast road to overcome a
:04:32. > :04:35.race track. The colour pink is absolutely everywhere. That is
:04:36. > :04:40.because this race is known as the fight for pink. The leader wears a
:04:41. > :04:44.pink jersey and in recent days that colour has just gone crazy in this
:04:45. > :04:53.city. Even the famous yellow shipyard cranes have been left up
:04:54. > :05:02.pink at night in honour of the race. -- let up.