:00:00. > :00:12.Hi, I'm Ricky with all you need to know this morning.
:00:13. > :00:23.Keep watching for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the debut
:00:24. > :00:31.of Hetty Feather on the west end. And we go panda crazy ex-macro --
:00:32. > :00:38.panda crazy ex-macro. British forces are dropping aid to
:00:39. > :00:42.people stranded in the mountains Tens of thousands of people are
:00:43. > :00:46.in desperate need of food, But how did they get there
:00:47. > :00:56.and how much will the aid help? This is part of an operation to help
:00:57. > :01:01.people who are trapped in the mountains. They are hiding because
:01:02. > :01:04.an extremist group is trying to take control of parts of a rock and
:01:05. > :01:09.threatening Christians and other religious groups as they sleep
:01:10. > :01:16.through the country. They have fled to this mountain out of fear, and
:01:17. > :01:19.now thirst, hunger and heat are just as dangerous. They need aid but
:01:20. > :01:27.transporting it by road is dangerous. They help the shark of
:01:28. > :01:38.the help they are receiving comes from Gloucestershire. This is what
:01:39. > :01:41.they were carrying. Northern Iraq can reach the overtures of 50
:01:42. > :01:46.degrees at this time of year and several thousand of these have been
:01:47. > :01:51.sent, they are full of water, but what -- once the water has been
:01:52. > :02:01.drunk, you can fill it up with dirty water and with a -- and with a few
:02:02. > :02:06.pumps get some clean water. Each pallet has to have a peer shoot on
:02:07. > :02:10.it to help it floats to the ground. America has now agreed to give
:02:11. > :02:15.weapons to Iraq's Army to help them fight back against Islamist state
:02:16. > :02:18.fighters. And the UK will continue to drop eight until a better way to
:02:19. > :02:23.help the people can be found. Next, if you love Jaqueline Wilson
:02:24. > :02:25.books, you'll love this. The award-winning children's author
:02:26. > :02:33.has written loads of the most popular children's books like the
:02:34. > :02:36.Tracy Beaker series and My Sister Jodie. Now another favourite, Hetty
:02:37. > :02:39.Feather, has been made into a show. Ayshah went along to London's
:02:40. > :02:55.West End to get a sneak peak. Hetty Feather was the first
:02:56. > :03:00.published in 2009 and has gone on to some millions of books and has
:03:01. > :03:05.become a success all over the world. It is a story about a young girl in
:03:06. > :03:10.19th-century London who is abandoned as a baby but she overcomes all in a
:03:11. > :03:14.search to find her true mother and a family all of her own. It is a
:03:15. > :03:18.hugely popular story and one that has captured the imagination of
:03:19. > :03:23.everyone who has read it. Now it has made it to the west end. Tell us
:03:24. > :03:26.what it was like when you found out that you were playing Hetty Feather.
:03:27. > :03:32.I've read the story and immediately fell in love with it. When I got the
:03:33. > :03:38.phone call to say I've got the job eye was over the moon. When you
:03:39. > :03:42.don't know who you are, you can be anyone you want to be. Hetty Feather
:03:43. > :03:46.has already been on an international tour since the view area of this
:03:47. > :03:51.year. What does the writer of the book think of being on one of the
:03:52. > :03:56.greatest theatre stages of them all? It is wonderful if you get your
:03:57. > :04:01.favourite novel adapted as a stage play. It is very colourful and
:04:02. > :04:05.exciting, all sorts of amazing circus tricks and hilariously funny
:04:06. > :04:19.bits by the end of the show. Each time I've have seen it it puts
:04:20. > :04:23.smiles on people 's faces. Having spent a day behind the
:04:24. > :04:28.scenes, the cast is ready, the stage is set, all we now now -- all we
:04:29. > :04:30.need now is the audience. Tickets, please ex-macro I am heavy feather
:04:31. > :04:37.and this is my story. We asked you
:04:38. > :04:40.which book you'd turn into a show Excitement has been building at
:04:41. > :05:03.Edinburgh Zoo, where it's believed Zookeepers reckon she may give
:05:04. > :05:08.birth at the end of the month. Breeding pandas is very
:05:09. > :05:12.difficult and if she does give birth it will be the first giant
:05:13. > :05:15.panda to be born in Britain. We sent Jenny to Scotland where
:05:16. > :05:30.already children are on panda watch! I am really excited. If there is, it
:05:31. > :05:36.is quite good, because it is the first panda and it will be amazing.
:05:37. > :05:41.I'd think it is brilliant and a first for everybody. What you think
:05:42. > :05:44.about the daddy panda? He is really big. I am excited and when it is
:05:45. > :05:53.Board I am going to come back and see it. -- when it is born.
:05:54. > :05:57.And if you want to see just how cut baby pandas can be, tune in
:05:58. > :06:02.at five to nine to see more of these little guys born in a zoo in China.