:00:00. > :00:08.versus Arsenal. MOTD Kickabout, tomorrow, see you then!
:00:09. > :00:11.Happy Friday, guys! Ayshah here with your morning headlines. Coming up:
:00:12. > :00:15.Ricky gets his brain scanned and finds out how robots may soon be
:00:16. > :00:19.able to think just like us. A zoo in America welcomes a new baby
:00:20. > :00:22.gorilla in a very unusual way. Only on Newsround.
:00:23. > :00:28.First, an update on the latest in the crisis surrounding Ukraine.
:00:29. > :00:32.Efforts to resolve the problems there reach a critical point today.
:00:33. > :00:36.World leaders want Russia to stop its action in Crimea, in the
:00:37. > :00:39.southern region of Ukraine. During trouble there last month, the area
:00:40. > :00:45.came under Russian control and the Russian army moved in. A big vote
:00:46. > :00:48.will be held this Sunday asking the people of Crimea to choose whether
:00:49. > :00:53.they want to be part of Russia, or for the region to operate as a
:00:54. > :00:56.republic of its own. This morning, The US Secretary of State, John
:00:57. > :00:59.Kerry, is preparing for important talks with Russia's Foreign Minister
:01:00. > :01:05.and says America and Europe will be watching Russia very carefully.
:01:06. > :01:09.All week we've been showing you how a new wave of robotics is changing
:01:10. > :01:13.the way we work, play and live with robots. But, according to some
:01:14. > :01:17.experts, it's not going to be too long before robots are thinking like
:01:18. > :01:20.you and I. In fact, the chief engineer at Google reckons in just
:01:21. > :01:23.15 years' time computers will be more intelligent than humans. They
:01:24. > :01:26.will be able to understand what we say, learn from experience and even
:01:27. > :01:30.tell stories. It sounds pretty cool, but should we be trying to build
:01:31. > :01:38.human-like robots at all? Here's the last of Ricky's special robotic
:01:39. > :01:42.reports. The brain is the most complex organ
:01:43. > :01:48.in the body. It is the command centre back controls everything from
:01:49. > :01:51.our heart beat to how we feel. Electrical signals sent information
:01:52. > :01:57.along pathways that allow us to think, feel and act. Now scientists
:01:58. > :02:05.are using what they know about the human brain to build a supercomputer
:02:06. > :02:08.that could one day allow a robot to think for themselves. Spinnaker is
:02:09. > :02:13.one of the most advanced tutors in the world. When it is finished it
:02:14. > :02:18.will contain 1 million microprocessors. This is a scan of
:02:19. > :02:23.my brain. You are trying to create a computer which is based on the same
:02:24. > :02:28.principles, is that correct? Yes. We know how the brain is struck at, but
:02:29. > :02:33.we don't fundamentally understand how it works. We are building a
:02:34. > :02:36.machine that allows us to build little computer models of the
:02:37. > :02:42.brain. That might improve understanding. Some experts have
:02:43. > :02:47.concerns about giving robot the ability to think for themselves. It
:02:48. > :02:53.is a good idea if we know that what we are into that -- that what we are
:02:54. > :02:56.interacting with is actually an artificial creation. We probably
:02:57. > :03:04.don't want to pass robots offers humans. There is a demand for robots
:03:05. > :03:09.that they'd like us. Google is working on an artificially
:03:10. > :03:14.intelligent search engine. Whether it is right or wrong, that is a
:03:15. > :03:25.debate we are unlikely to be having more and more as the world of
:03:26. > :03:28.robotics continues to evolve. You've been sending us your robot
:03:29. > :03:32.designs all this week, and later on this afternoon we'll be showing some
:03:33. > :03:35.of them to a robotics expert. Head to the website to check out a
:03:36. > :03:39.selection of your designs in our gallery, and that's also where you
:03:40. > :03:42.can catch up with all the rest of Ricky's robot reports.
:03:43. > :03:45.Sport now and it's been a pretty dodgy week all round for British
:03:46. > :03:48.clubs in Europe, with Arsenal and Man City's Champions League dreams
:03:49. > :03:51.ending. Tottenham are in real trouble in the Europa League, too.
:03:52. > :03:56.They lost 3-1 at home to Portuguese side Benfica last night, which means
:03:57. > :03:58.they will have a huge job to do in the away fixture if they're to reach
:03:59. > :04:01.the quarterfinals. England's cricketers head into the
:04:02. > :04:05.World Twenty20 later this month off the back of a win against West
:04:06. > :04:09.Indies, inspired by Barbados-born Chris Johnson. They had already lost
:04:10. > :04:12.the three-match series, but won a cracking final game by just five
:04:13. > :04:15.runs yesterday. England have just over a week until their first match
:04:16. > :04:19.of the World Twenty20 in Bangladesh. It wouldn't be Friday without a cute
:04:20. > :04:22.animal story! A baby gorilla has been delivered by a rare animal
:04:23. > :04:25.Caesarean-section at the San Diego Zoo in America. 18-year-old mother
:04:26. > :04:28.Imani gave birth to a two kilogram newborn girl. A team of surgeons
:04:29. > :04:37.delivered the baby after the mother struggled during birth, they say
:04:38. > :04:40.mother and baby are now doing well. Finally, we want your questions for
:04:41. > :04:43.the UK's first official astronaut, Major Tim Peake. In 2015, Tim will
:04:44. > :04:45.spend six months onboard the International Space Station carrying
:04:46. > :04:49.out scientific experiments, but we're speaking to him today. So, get
:04:50. > :04:55.to the Newsround website and send us your questions.
:04:56. > :04:58.That's it from me. We'll be back, though, at 8.15am.