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Hi guys, Jenny here, live with an amazing dolphin rescue | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
on the way, plus What caused the biggest supermoon, in 20 years? | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
First, going to the toilet is something most of us do every day, | :00:08. | :00:19. | |
But imagine living somewhere where finding a working loo | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
That's the case for hundreds of millions of people in India, | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
And sorting the problem out, is more difficult than you'd think. | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
India's home to some of the world's most famous cities and landmarks. | :00:32. | :00:39. | |
But alongside them, tens of millions of people live in slums like this. | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
Homes here don't have their own toilets. | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
There are no pipes to the sewers, there's no space for them | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
in these narrow alleys, so there's nowhere for the waste to go. | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
There are shared toilets, but there aren't enough of them | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
There are so many people living here and only one toilet. | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
We'd be waiting an hour if we tried to use that. | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
So most of us in this locality just go out and use | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
It leaves millions of people with no choice but to go outside. | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
More than 600 million people in India don't have access to | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
a proper toilet, that's around 10 times the population of the UK! | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
India's new government wants to build five million new toilets | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
in 100 days, that's roughly one every second, | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
but the authorities say generating the money to build them isn't the | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
Most of the land is occupied by slums, so you have to demolish | :01:36. | :01:43. | |
a slum to make a public toilet, so the only alternative now left is | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
to demolish and reconstruct a toilet and add toilet seats. | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
It's not just a problem in the cities, in the countryside | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
the situation isn't much better, with similar problems meaning many | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
India does have some highly developed towns and cities. | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
But with such huge numbers going without access to a simple toilet | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
everyday, one of the big challenges for the current government is | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
closing the gap between the richest and poorest people in the country. | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
Next to how magic tricks are being used to help kids with disabilities. | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
These children all suffer from a type of cerebal palsy called | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
Hemiplegia, which means one side of their body | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
But experts at a special camp in London found that | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
by practicing magic tricks, 9 out of 10 kids improved | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
the strength on their weaker side, and started using both hands. | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
TV magician Dynamo worked with the children. | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
By giving them cards to practice shovelling and to giving them the | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
skills to help them learn, it gives them more chance to move. They | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
forget they are exercising their muscles. It is a good way to get | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
them to do exercises while having fun. | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
Now, I don't know if you noticed, but there was something pretty | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
different about the sky overnight. No, it wasn't the stormy weather, | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
I'm talking supermoons. Yes, last night our moon was much bigger and | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
brighter than usual. Why? Well watch this. | :03:15. | :03:28. | |
As you can see it is a really bright, really really bright. | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
Sunday stargazers the world over, were in for a treat last night, as | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
a moon 14% bigger and 30% brighter than normal, lit up the night sky. | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
The spectacular supermoon, known by astronomers as a perigree, occurs | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
when the moon is closest to the Earth in its orbit, making it appear | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
We usually think of the Moon going around the world in a circle, but it | :03:49. | :04:06. | |
actually goes around in an ellipse, that means it is sometimes closer, | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
sometimes further away. When it is closer, it looks spectacular. Super | :04:12. | :04:22. | |
moons occur every 13 months, but the one yesterday was brighter than | :04:23. | :04:23. | |
usual. But if you missed the supermoon, | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
don't worry, the next one is due to And there are more amazing supermoon | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
pictures for you on the Newsround And finally, | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
just enough time to tell you 13-year-old Finley from Nottingham, | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
and his uncle Simon, were on holiday on the Isle of Mull, | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
when they spotted the animals, who had become stranded | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
near a beach on the Scottish coast. This is the footage of his uncle who | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
spent the next two hours helping 19 dolphins to safety, by picking them | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
up and moving them to deeper waters. That's all from me, Newsround's back | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
bright and early tomorrow morning. | :04:53. | :04:59. |