14/01/2014 Newsround


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This is Newsround. Ricky in the studio this Tuesday afternoon.

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On the way: A row over some of the characters in Moshi Monsters - we

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find out why. And the ab-ZORB-ing pre-season

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training for cricketers. But first, if you've ever wondered

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what life was like as a soldier during World War One, from today you

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can read it in their own words. Millions of pages of soldiers'

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diaries, describing life in the trenches, are being made available

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online. Ayshah's got this one. We are sitting outside our

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headquarters trench in the sun. All should be nice and peaceful and

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pretty, what it actually is is beyond description. Trenches,

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tools, caps everywhere. The Germans quickly got their artillery into

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position, and a considerable amount of shelling was experienced. Our

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casualties in this engagement were slight. The words of a soldier in

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the First World War, who served with a Welsh battalion. His diary has

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been published for the first time online in an archive, along with

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hundreds of soldiers from the First World War. They are going to make

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over 1.5 million pages available in the next few years, and the Imperial

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War Museum is to ring the same thing with their collection too. It is

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really important to have these things online. It means we can

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access them whenever we like and find out what life was like in the

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First World War. This year marks 100 years from the start of the war, and

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this is just one of the ways we will be remembering the sacrifices people

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made for their countries. The diaries are available online, and if

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you are going to check them out, remember that some of them contains

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some pretty upsetting reflections on a war that claimed millions of

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lives. People in Egypt are voting today and

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tomorrow over a new set of rules for how their country should be run.

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Egypt's president was removed from power by the army last summer, and

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the temporary government in charge has now written up a fresh set of

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rules. Hundreds of thousands of police and soldiers are on duty to

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try to maintain control, but some groups are refusing to take part in

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the vote, and there have been some clashes.

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Next, Freakface and Fishlips. Just two of the characters from Moshi

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Monsters which have been criticised by a charity that looks after people

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with facial disfigurements - things like scars or spots. Changing Faces

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is calling for people to sign a petition which they hope will force

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the makers of Moshi Monsters to change the names of its bad guys.

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I've been finding out why. It's one of the most popular gaming

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sites for kids. And last year, the residents of Monstro City hit the

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big screen with the release of their first movie. Like in lots of

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animation, the baddies look a bit different, with bulging eyes and big

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lips. But it's the names given to the characters that have caused a

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problem for one charity. In particular, Fishlips is referred to

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as a one eyed blob of badness. We think that those to scriptures and

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names need to be changed. Changing Faces is worried that the villains

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in Moshi Monsters like, Freakface, make kids connect disfigurement with

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being bad and that could encourage bullying. Why are you singling out

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Moshi Monsters? Our problem is with the baddies. Children's who have --

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children who have disfigurements are exposed to bullying wherever they

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go, and we don't need to add to the armoury. Mind Candy, the company

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that makes Moshi Monsters, says its online game has hundreds of monsters

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with a range of characteristics. They say they're not alone when it

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comes to giving villains quirky and unusual-looking visual

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characteristics. Moshi Monsters have told us today that Freakface is not

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a prominent character and they will not use him again in future

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storylines. Does that satisfy you? That is interesting news. We have

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not heard that. We want to see action now both to remove or change

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the names of Freakface, Fishlips and Bruiser. Today, Mind Candy told me

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they'll keep speaking to the Changing Faces to work things out.

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Last up - do you ever find yourself playing footy and thinking, "This

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isn't hard enough. How can I make it harder?" Me neither. But Hampshire

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Cricket Club obviously did. They've just been filmed playing zorb

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football. It's like normal footy, but players are inside giant plastic

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bubbles. It also means they can run into each other! Don't try that at

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home. That's all from me. Newsround's back

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right here with more at 6:50pm. Bye!

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