10/06/2014

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:00:00. > :00:11.Hello, it is time for your 6:50PM update.

:00:12. > :00:13.First up, the question of whether it's cruel

:00:14. > :00:17.to keep animals like this at home, like you would a cat or dog.

:00:18. > :00:20.At the moment it's not illegal, but politicians have been looking at

:00:21. > :00:26.Monkeys. Gibbons. Lemurs.

:00:27. > :00:30.The thought of having a pet lemur, like these little ones here,

:00:31. > :00:32.might seem like fun - but there's a big debate

:00:33. > :00:37.at the moment over whether primates should be kept at home as pets.

:00:38. > :00:40.At the moment, it's not against the law.

:00:41. > :00:43.You don't need a licence to buy, sell, or breed smaller species -

:00:44. > :00:49.A group of MPs looking into this say it's not right,

:00:50. > :00:52.but have stopped short of saying there should be a ban.

:00:53. > :00:56.Something animal rights groups disagree with.

:00:57. > :00:59.They're extremely intelligent and complex animals, wild animals,

:01:00. > :01:04.So what is the difference between primates, like these lemurs

:01:05. > :01:09.In the wild, these live in quite big groups,

:01:10. > :01:12.so you don?t necessarily have the space to keep all these animals.

:01:13. > :01:15.They are very expensive to keep and they have a special diet.

:01:16. > :01:19.Also some animals, like marmosets and tamarins - which are the small

:01:20. > :01:22.monkeys that you don?t need a license for now - they need special

:01:23. > :01:28.If you do not have that UV lighting they can get bone diseases.

:01:29. > :01:31.The politicians say there's an urgent need to find out how many

:01:32. > :01:34.primates are being kept as pets before any final decision

:01:35. > :01:39.No one really knows and with anything from 3,000 to

:01:40. > :01:51.20,000 out there, it could be a while before anything more is done.

:01:52. > :02:03.Team GB's most successful sailor has launched a pitch to to earn a

:02:04. > :02:10.trophy. Sir Ben Ainslie is entering a team in the America's Cup. Sir Ben

:02:11. > :02:13.Ainslie 18 last year as part of Oracle Team USA. He says they're

:02:14. > :02:20.competing for Team GB will be better than that. It would be massive for

:02:21. > :02:29.us to bring the cup back to British waters. A huge group of sharks

:02:30. > :02:36.swimming close to the shore, several closures of beaches in America.

:02:37. > :02:37.Experts think that fish left by fishermen in the water may have

:02:38. > :02:44.attracted the sharks. The UK?s first ever indoor

:02:45. > :02:46.trampoline park, The converted warehouse has

:02:47. > :02:49.wall-to-wall trampolines, basketball nets for dunking,

:02:50. > :02:52.and foam pits for a safe landing. That is about all from Newsround

:02:53. > :02:57.and CBBC.