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Hello, and welcome to your Thursday night Newsround, with Hayley and | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
Ricky. We've got all the big stories from around the world | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
coming up, as well as a bit of this. The fight to save the UK's sharks. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
And we'll whizz through the weird and wonderful things making their | :00:30. | :00:37. | |
way into the latest record books. Let's start with some good news in | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
the fight to keep children in some of the world's poorest countries | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
safe and healthy. New figures show almost twice as many kids are | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
living past the age of five compared to 20 years ago. The | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
charity UNICEF says 12 million kids under five died from things like | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
famine and disease in 1990. But now that figure's been reduced to 7 | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
million. The biggest improvements have been in parts of South East | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
Asia and Africa. It's mainly because of better medical treatment | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
and education. But numbers did go up elsewhere in the world. UNICEF | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
say there's still lots of work to be done to get help to the places | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
that need it most. Well, those figures have reignited | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
the debate over how much money Britain should give to poorer | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
countries. This week the Government's been forced to defend | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
plans to increase the amount of aid it sends to some of those places by | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
more than �3 billion. Critics say the money doesn't always go to | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
places that need it most, and that the UK can't afford to keep giving | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
so much. Last year the UK gave away about | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
�7.8 billion in aid to other countries. They say they'll raise | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
this to almost �12 billion in the next few years, which would be 0.7% | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
of the whole country's income. That's less than gets spent on | :01:46. | :01:56. | |
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education, and less than is spent Some people think because of the | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
financial problems in the UK, we should not send money overseas. But | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
while we are having problems in the UK, many other problems are having | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
just as difficult a time, and most of the poorest countries of the | :02:11. | :02:21. | |
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world are having the worst time. One of the places that people think | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
shouldn't be getting so much is India. At the moment we give about | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
�280 million a year in aid to the country. But recently the Indian | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
government announced plans to spend billions on a new space programme, | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
leading some to ask why a country that can afford to send astronauts | :02:35. | :02:43. | |
into space needs so much extra cash? One third of the world's | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
poorest people live in India. Many children in India are still | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
undernourished, and that is where the money is going. | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
The UK say their aid doesn't go directly to foreign governments but | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
is given to specially chosen charities that they think will help | :02:56. | :03:04. | |
the people most in need. This money is going to the communities that | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
need it most, for education and health. The Government say they're | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
going to have a good look at the budget to make sure that it goes | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
exactly where it can make the biggest difference. | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
Violence has spread across several Middle Eastern countries today. The | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
American embassy in Yemen has been stormed by protestors, and American | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
flags have been burned in Egypt. Protestors are angry about a film | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
made in the US which they say is offensive to the Muslim Prophet | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
Mohammed. Four American officials were killed in similar protests in | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
Libya on Tuesday. The Scottish wildcat could be | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
closer to extinction than some experts originally thought. Last | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
year, Leah went to one of the wildcat projects in the Cairngorm | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
mountains in Scotland. In the summer, they told us the cats could | :03:46. | :03:53. | |
be breeding again. But figures show there may be just 35 left. | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
Let's continue the animal watch with these guys. They've been | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
around for 400 million years. But they're not just found in films or | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
far-off seas. They're here in the UK and it turns out they're under | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
threat. The charity the Sharks Trust say more than 70% of sharks | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
in British waters are facing extinction. But the fight to save | :04:14. | :04:24. | |
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them is well under way, as I've Sharks - the deadliest predator in | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
our oceans. But now the hunter has become the prey. Tracked down for | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
its meat, liver oil and its fins. Surprisingly, there are more than | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
30 different species of shark in UK waters, but numbers are going down | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
fast. So fishermen in Scotland now monitor six different species. | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
Today, they are tagging and releasing sharks off the south-west | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
coast. This is what they are looking for - the basking shark. At | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
10 metres long, it looks frightening but it is no risk to | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
humans. Experts warn that saving shots will be a long battle. Able | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
take an awful long time to recover because of their nature. One of | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
them is 20 years old before it has pups and it is pregnant for two | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
years, as long as an elephant. first catch of the day. She is | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
tagged, measured and a DNA sample is taken. The shark is not armed | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
and within minutes that is back in the water. Next, they really in a | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
cat shark. They are increasing in numbers, which is great news for | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
the fishermen trying to protect them. But with many other species | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
down by 95%, conservationists warned that the UK shark population | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
might never fully recover. Well, it's not all bad news in the | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
animal kingdom. A brand new type of monkey has just been found in | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
Africa. It's called the le'zoola, here on the right. Experts say it's | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
most similar to the owl-faced monkey on the left but is a totally | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
new species. Exciting. It's been an amazing summer of | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
sport but you might not know that some of GB's biggest stars are | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
still in action in a town near you. The Tour of Britain cycling event | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
is one of the lesser known races on the calendar. It's currently | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
working its way across the UK, and Leah went to Blackpool to find out | :06:23. | :06:32. | |
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Since the Beijing Olympics, Britain's cycling success had gone | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
through the roof, and this summer has shown that we still have plenty | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
of pedal power. Bradley Wiggins won the world's biggest cycling road | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
race, the Tour de France, to kick it off. And he won again in the | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
Olympic time trials, and the likes of Sir Chris Hoy and Laura Trott | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
dominated in the velodrome, and there was still more to come. The | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
Tour of Britain is made up of eight stages. There is everything from | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
the flat roads of Norfolk, perfect for a sprint finish, to the steep | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
climbs of the Lake District and the Welsh mountains. The race finishes | :07:11. | :07:19. | |
back on familiar roads for Cavendish and Wiggins in London, a | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
massive 1,349.9 kilometres. The Tour of Britain has been going for | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
seven years, but this time the big names are drawing the big crowds. | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
Cycling has seen a real boost, so the result is when cycling events | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
like this come to your town, it makes people want to get out and | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
watch it around their streets. is good to support everyone and it | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
is good fun to watch. Mark Cavendish and Bradley Wiggins. They | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
are very special. They inspire me so much, I want to do it every day. | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
It is not just the fans getting excited. You do not need a ticket | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
to London or the French Alps to get in on the action, because this is | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
the Tour of Britain, where the likes of Wiggins and Cavendish | :08:04. | :08:13. | |
battle it out. And Wiggins has crossed the finish line. And the | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
excitement is sure to build, with three stages still to go. More | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
people than ever have turned out for the Tour of Britain, cheering | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
on the stars and clinging on for that last bit of sporting fever. | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
Before we go, let's look at the latest crop of madcap record | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
breakers making the Guinness Book of Records. They include the | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
world's tallest dog, the smallest woman, the biggest drum kit with | :08:37. | :08:47. | |
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