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This is Newsrond. It's Friday, 12th October. Leah and | :00:11. | :00:21. | |
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Joe brining you some of this: Egypt Find out which Strictly star has | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
already slipped up with an injury! And the technology allowing | :00:31. | :00:40. | |
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disabled kids to play games. First, should you be able to vote | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
from the age of 16? At the moment you're kept out of the polling | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
station until you hit your 18th birthday. But Scotland's government | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
are about to change that. They're set to finalise plans to let 16 and | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
17-year-olds have their say on whether Scotland should separate | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
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Turning 16 is a big deal. You can leave school. You can work full | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
time and pay taxes. You can join the army. You can even get married! | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
Yet, you still can't vote. On Monday the Prime Minister, David | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
Cameron, and Alex Sammond, The Fist Minister of Scotland are due to | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
sign an agreement that will let 16 and 17-year-olds in Scotland vote. | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
Young adults will get the chance to take part in the vote on whether | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
Scotland stays part of the UK. So why the change and what will this | :01:29. | :01:39. | |
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mean? We got the BBC's Scotland correspondent to tell us more. | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
for the first time politicians are going to be directly targeting | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
younger voters. They're wanting the vote of pupils who are as young as | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
14 years old. So it's likely that in this campaign there will be more | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
use of social media like Twitter and Facebook to persuade people one | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
way or the other. Already some politicians in London are saying | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
this will put pressure on other parts of the UK to lower the voting | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
age and campaigners from the Scottish Youth Parliament here say | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
that is what should happen that young people have a right to have a | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
say in the important decisions of the future. So how do kids in | :02:13. | :02:21. | |
England feel about these possible changes? Not all 16 year olds are | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
very mature Coulstock I think we should wait until 18. I would want | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
to vote when I looked high-school if I could. Six Dean is a bit young, | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
you are still learning. Just because Scotland want to be a | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
different country, does not mean we cannot vote as well. Lowering the | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
voting age is something that campaigners have argued for, for | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
years. We don't have a voice. People are speaking on RPE hoc. | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
They are giving us what they think we want. Campaigning for the right | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
to vote isn't a new thing. Women in Britain weren't allowed to vote | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
until 1918, and then you still had to be over 30. Women had to wait | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
another ten years to get equal voting rights to men. The plans are | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
just for Scotland and only for one vote. But people are already | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
calling for 16-year-olds all over the UK to get their say on future | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
vote too. Wayne Rooney has said he'll keep | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
his cool on the pitch tonight as he captains England in their World Cup | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
qualifying match. He's said he's matured as a player | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
and wants the team to make the headlines for the right reasons. | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
The side will be facing San Marino who are the world's worst ranked | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
team! Wales are also in action against Scotland. | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
Talking of Wayne, he won the BBC's Young Sports Personality Award ten | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
years ago. Since then the likes of Ellie Simmonds and Tom Daley have | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
been crowned winners! The award is for outstanding sports | :03:36. | :03:45. | |
personalities under 16. Nominations are open to public so head to the | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
Newsround website and tell us who you think deserves the award this | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
year. Next to Egypt. A campaign is | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
underway to boost tourism after pictures of protests were beamed | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
all around the world during the Egyptian revolution. The country | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
has always been a popular holiday destination but protests and scenes | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
of violence against the government in 2011 put off a lot of travellers. | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
Now they plan to win holiday makers back. Ricky's got more. | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
Fancy a holiday to Egypt? You might expect some of this. Sun, sea, sand | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
and of course, the Pyramids. But what about this?! And that's the | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
problem. Every year Egypt's ancient monuments pull in loads of tourists. | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
But 2011 changed that. Millions of Egyptians hit the streets to | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
protest. They were fed up of being treated unfairly by the government | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
and had one demand. For President, Hosni Mubarak, to stand down. | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
Eventually he did but not before violence erupted between his | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
supporters and those who wanted him out. Night-after-night news reports | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
screened pictures of huge demonstrations in the country's | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
capital, Cairo. That's put some holiday makers off, with numbers | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
down this year. It's bad news for those who depend on money from | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
tourists at places like the pyramids. To try and attract | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
holiday-makers ministers have opened up one of the pyramids along | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
with six newly-restored ancient tombs. Officials say the country is | :05:03. | :05:13. | |
now a safe place to visit. Egypt is safe and secure and ready to | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
receive any visitors who might come here. A year on from Egypt's | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
revolution, tourists are slowly returning. There are reports of | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
smaller protests breaking out against the new government. But | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
those who depend on money from tourism will be hoping that this is | :05:24. | :05:34. | |
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the Egypt we remember. Denise Van Outen's performance on | :05:39. | :05:48. | |
Strictly Come Dancing is touch and Yes, she picked up an injury | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
Coulstock The computer games industry is | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
changing to make gaming more accessible to kids with | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
disabilities. Charities say the big names in games are recognising not | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
all players are the same and are helping to develop new ways to | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
bring top titles to more living rooms. And as I've been finding out, | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
some of the new technology is pretty impressive. | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
Computer games. Fast and bond but everyone, right? Maybe not. The | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
majority of are too fast, too fiddly and too difficult for people | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
with disabilities to play. But thanks to the latest technology, | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
these guys can use it. Chloe struggles with her balance, but at | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
this charity it does not stop there. She has been working with gaming | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
companies to make sure they produce the latest releases. This game is | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
perfect because he is controlling the car with her eyes. It does not | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
stop there. By altering computer software and controls, charities | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
like this one make it possible to play with your feet and your chin. | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
Gavin and his team say it is important for every child to play | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
computer games, to make friends and improve co-ordination. And the | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
industry is starting to listen. Everybody we speak to a quite | :07:02. | :07:10. | |
receptive. We make some suggestions, and generally they take them on | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
board. So the industry as a whole is friendly and we will get there. | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
Rees is football-mad and until recently his arable Polzeath | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
prevented him from playing football games with his dad. But not any | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
more. I will get him back in a minute. Do you think they are doing | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
in a? It is always saying more could be done, but it is getting | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
better. He gets a lot of enjoyment out of it. It wouldn't happen if he | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
did not have this. Charities like there's no that making a top name | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
titles for every one costs money, but it looks like things could be | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
moving in the right direction. That game was so much done because | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
you are controlling it with your eyes. People are chatting to you... | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
The oldest roller coaster in the UK could be lost forever if action | :08:05. | :08:13. | |
isn't taken soon, according to the English Heritage. | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
The dream Lhanbryde was built in 1919 but was damaged by fire a few | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
years ago. The organisation who look out for important old sites in | :08:21. | :08:29. | |
the UK say it's just one of nearly 6,000 historic buildings. Just time | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
to tell you about this guy, Patrick the lobster. He was saved from the | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
cooking pot by a fish merchant. He's nearly a metre long and | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
experts reckon he could be 50 years old! He's been donated to Bristol | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
Aquarium! And just before we go, have you | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
heard about the prank that JLS pulled on Olly Murs? | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
Yeah, it was a cracker! Tomorrow we'll have Olly Murs on Newsround | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
at 11:55 but here's a sneak peak. It was horrible, my heart fell out | :08:52. | :08:57. |