12/07/2012

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:00:21. > :00:26.Hey, chaps! Thanks for stopping by! It's live, just after 5:00pm,and

:00:27. > :00:29.you're with Nel and Joe. Stick around because we have a jam packed

:00:29. > :00:33.show including some of this: Charities are calling for more

:00:33. > :00:40.money to help people in the world's biggest refugee camp. And I've been

:00:40. > :00:43.asking Richard Branson about his First, people with O2 and Tesco

:00:43. > :00:46.Mobile phones are getting used to being connected with the world

:00:46. > :00:53.again after major problems with the O2 network that started yesterday

:00:53. > :00:57.afternoon and continued into today. Loads of people found they couldn't

:00:57. > :01:01.use their phones for anything. They were completely useless and it was

:01:01. > :01:04.VERY frustrating. I've been trying to find out what went wrong.

:01:04. > :01:11.Yesterday afternoon, hundreds of thousands of people found that

:01:11. > :01:14.these were totally useless. Customers on the O2 network and

:01:14. > :01:17.Tesco mobile were unable to send texts, make calls or use the

:01:17. > :01:20.internet on their phones well into today. Normally when this sort of

:01:20. > :01:24.thing happens, a faulty transmitter is to blame, which stops people in

:01:24. > :01:28.one area getting mobile reception. But this time, people all over

:01:29. > :01:32.country were affected, even though some people were fine. It's

:01:32. > :01:37.believed to be down to a glitch on O2's central computer system that

:01:37. > :01:40.holds customer mobile numbers. Those numbers aren't being

:01:40. > :01:44.recognised by the computer, so it won't connect customers to the

:01:44. > :01:48.network. This isn't the first time a big company has been hit by

:01:48. > :01:50.serious technical failures. Last month, big banks RBS and NatWest

:01:50. > :01:56.caused chaos for customers when a technical fault stopped money going

:01:57. > :02:00.in and out of accounts. It's estimated that that glitch may have

:02:00. > :02:02.affected up to 7.5 million people. Blackberry customers had problems

:02:02. > :02:08.in October when its instant messenger stopped working for two

:02:08. > :02:17.days. They tried to make it up to customers by offering free apps and

:02:17. > :02:20.games but their reputation was badly damaged. As well as many --

:02:20. > :02:28.making people angry, many people were thinking about how to cope

:02:28. > :02:38.when technology goes down. Reverse charges please! You have been

:02:38. > :02:55.

:02:55. > :02:58.getting your story ins about Charities working at the world's

:02:58. > :03:02.largest refugee camp say they're running out of money to help people

:03:02. > :03:05.escaping drought. Eight organisations, including Oxfam and

:03:05. > :03:08.Save The Children, say millions of pounds are needed to pay for food,

:03:08. > :03:18.shelter and medicine at the Dadaab camp in Kenya. Ricky visited Dadaab

:03:18. > :03:25.last year and he's been looking Almost a year ago, Newsround sent

:03:25. > :03:32.me to Kenya in North East Africa to meet the children of the drought.

:03:32. > :03:36.How long has it taken you to get here today? 18 days. So that's more

:03:36. > :03:39.than two weeks. I met families who had walked for days searching for

:03:39. > :03:42.food and somewhere to sleep. Millions of people are going hungry

:03:42. > :03:46.because of a severe water shortage there. Dadaab is made up of series

:03:46. > :03:49.of camp sites. Some refugees have lived here for more than 20 years.

:03:49. > :03:56.At the moment there are around 465,000 people living in tents and

:03:56. > :04:04.mud huts. Many of them are escaping conflict in neighbouring Somali and

:04:04. > :04:08.Ethiopia. I came here from Somalia five months ago. Where I was living

:04:08. > :04:12.I had no food and had to walk hours to get water, but there is never

:04:12. > :04:16.enough. I don't go to school. During the day it is really hot and

:04:16. > :04:20.windy and during the night it is really cold. Well, that was 12

:04:20. > :04:23.months ago. Today a new appeal has been launched to raise money for

:04:23. > :04:30.the refugees. The charities who are based in Dadaab say they need �16

:04:30. > :04:36.million to meet the needs of the people out there. Last year the UK

:04:36. > :04:42.gave almost �80 million worth of donations. But the money is now

:04:42. > :04:45.running out. With funds running dangerously low, aid agencies in

:04:45. > :04:48.Kenya are worried they won't be able to protect the families who've

:04:48. > :04:51.ended up there. 30,000 new shelters are needed, with only funding

:04:51. > :04:55.available for 4,000. Many lives could be at risk. Joining us live

:04:55. > :05:01.from Oxford is Jo Harrison. She's been in Dadaab for Oxfam and has

:05:01. > :05:06.just got back. Thank you for joining us. Why do you need the

:05:06. > :05:11.money and how long do you think it will last? I was there quite

:05:11. > :05:15.recently but I was also there this time last year. At that time there

:05:15. > :05:20.were 1,500 people a day arriving who had come from really poor

:05:20. > :05:24.conditions and were quite literally starving. Today it is a much more

:05:24. > :05:29.positive outlook. There is much lower malnutrition levels and

:05:29. > :05:35.people have settled somewhat. Saying that, the situation is still

:05:35. > :05:39.critical. People need shelter and a lot of the tents that were given

:05:39. > :05:44.how last year are falling down due to the harsh climate. People are

:05:44. > :05:47.really just about surviving, only that. So if the funding shortfall

:05:47. > :05:51.will not be met it will have devastating consequences for the

:05:51. > :05:56.people living in the camps. What could be done to find a permanent

:05:56. > :06:00.solution? I was speaking to a lot of the people in the camp, and a

:06:00. > :06:04.lot of young people who were born in the camp and had never been to

:06:04. > :06:09.Somalia. Everyone will tell you the same thing. They want to return to

:06:09. > :06:13.Somalia, the country they are from. But at the moment, of course, there

:06:13. > :06:20.is conflict in the country, so the only solution for people to be able

:06:20. > :06:24.to return is to find peace within Somalia. A key very much. -- thank

:06:24. > :06:27.you very much. If you weren't fed up with the constant rain already

:06:27. > :06:30.there's another reason to hope things dry up soon. The record

:06:30. > :06:33.rainfall over the past few months has been washing rats out of the

:06:33. > :06:35.sewers where they normally live. Health experts are warning that

:06:35. > :06:42.people shouldn't leave food lying around their homes as it might

:06:42. > :06:45.attract the rodents who are looking for drier places to sleep! Space. A

:06:45. > :06:49.lot us look at it as the ultimate adventure but more and more

:06:49. > :06:52.companies are now seeing it as a place to make big bucks. A British

:06:52. > :06:58.entrepreneur says he not only wants to send holiday-makers into space

:06:58. > :07:01.but satellites too. But he's not the only one. For years,

:07:01. > :07:04.governments have spent billions of pounds to but subtle -- shuttles

:07:04. > :07:10.and satellites into orbit and the honour, but now private companies

:07:10. > :07:13.are doing it for themselves in an order to make money. Virgin

:07:14. > :07:17.Galactic car testing ships in the hope they will start a space

:07:17. > :07:23.holiday revolution next year. At the moment a short trip into space

:07:23. > :07:27.will cost about �130,000, way more than most of us can afford.

:07:27. > :07:31.original price is very high, but we can drive that down and down. So

:07:31. > :07:36.people will hopefully be able to go into space, float around, look at

:07:36. > :07:39.the windows and back at the Earth. But space tourism is just the start.

:07:39. > :07:43.Now they want to send satellites into space as well. Satellites have

:07:43. > :07:47.lots of uses from connecting mobile phones to mapping the Earth, so

:07:47. > :07:54.companies want quicker and cheaper ways to put them into orbit.

:07:54. > :07:58.Another British firm are building a plane called Sky long. Earlier this

:07:58. > :08:03.year space agencies made history by becoming the first private company

:08:03. > :08:06.to take suppliers to an international space station. So has

:08:06. > :08:11.space become a place to make money? How much about this is business and

:08:11. > :08:14.how much is about adventure and exploration? As far as I'm

:08:14. > :08:17.concerned everything in life is adventure and exploration. And at

:08:17. > :08:22.the end of the year you try to pay the bills. So if you create

:08:22. > :08:27.something special, you will get all of these people signing up to enjoy

:08:27. > :08:30.it, and therefore you can pay the bills. The UK government want to be

:08:30. > :08:34.a part of the growing space industry and are even looking into

:08:34. > :08:39.bringing -- building their own port or spaceships. We are used to

:08:39. > :08:43.seeing aeroplanes and the sky, but because of private companies, in 10

:08:43. > :08:48.or 15 or 20 years' time, space ships could be there too. And who

:08:48. > :08:51.knows? Maybe you could be on there. Finally, we know you like weird

:08:51. > :08:54.animal antics but what about a festival where the only thing you