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Good afternoon friends! Ore and Hayley here with a Newsround that's | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
as sharp as Jessica Ennis's javelin. Coming up in the next 9 minutes: | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
Taking a trip - to an asteroid. And bring on X Factor! We speak to | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
Aiden Grimshaw. We're starting, though, in | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
Afghanistan. And they're supposed to be on the same side - Afghan | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
soldiers, working with British and American troops, learning how to | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
keep Afghanistan safe. But things aren't going to plan. | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
There's been a big rise in trainee Afghan soldiers attacking the | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
mostly UK and US forces who've been teaching them. Now, the British | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
Government says it's doing all it can to protect UK troops there and | :01:01. | :01:08. | |
keep them out of any danger. Here's Nel. They're called green on blue | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
attacks, green the colour of Afghan forces uniforms, blue the colour of | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
international peacekeepers, NATO. 34 international soldiers have been | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
killed already this year by Afghan security forces who are supposed to | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
be working alongside them. The last week alone has seen five of these | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
attacks. Troops from Britain and other countries are in Afghanistan | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
training local security forces to protect the country when they leave | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
in 2014. They've been there for more than | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
ten years, trying to defeat Taliban fighters who the UK and US thought | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
were protecting terrorists who had attacked America. | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
The latest green on blue attack was yesterday. A man dressed in Afghan | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
police uniform opened fire on American troops. The Taliban says | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
the attacker had been working with them. It's not yet known how | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
involved the Taliban are in these attacks or if it's individual | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
officers acting alone. Officials here and in the States say it won't | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
stop plans to hand over security to Afghan forces and leave the country | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
in two years' time. They say they're carrying out tighter checks | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
on all Afghans before they begin working with them. But these | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
growing attacks have led to a serious breakdown of trust. A trust | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
that will shr to be rebuilt if there is to be any hope of a new | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
start in Afghanistan. That's not the only story out of | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
Afghanistan today. We are hearing that dozens of people have been | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
killed in a series of attacks in the south-west of the country. A | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
market, where people were preparing to celebrate the end of Ramadan. A | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
number of people have been arrested. Next, many of the wildfires that | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
have been burning on the Canary Islands have been brought under | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
control. Thousands of people living in one of the most popular places | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
for British holiday-makers had to leave their homes because of the | :02:51. | :02:59. | |
blazes. The islands of Tenerife and La Gomera are the worst hit. | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
Now, one six-year-old girl and her little brother are probably the | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
most envied kids in the country right now - their parents have just | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
won a whopping �148 million. It's the UK's second largest lottery win | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
- that's a whole lot of pocket money! Adrian and Gillian Bayford | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
from Suffolk say they're going to give some of the cash to children's | :03:14. | :03:24. | |
charities. The lucky couple said they almost didn't buy a ticket! | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
joked about it, we sort of - have you bought a ticket, I said I | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
haven't. He just went neither have I, we went we are not going to win | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
then, are we?. We sat for about ten minutes and then he went I have | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
some really. I went all right. The question is what would you do | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
with �148 million? Here are a few ideas. If you fancy travelling in | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
luxury, how about buying your own private jet? Or if you fancy | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
bagging yourself Wayne Rooney, actually with that money cow buy | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
three. -- money you could buy three. Or a new games console, you could | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
get around 600,000 with that sort of money. | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
How about your own gold medal, you could grab yourself 330,000 of them. | :04:09. | :04:19. | |
Good luck getting one off the Team GB, because they're priceless. | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
Yesterday the Olympic flag made the journey from London to Rio de | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
Janeiro in Brazil - the next home of the Games in four years' time. | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
But London's job isn't over yet. Yesterday work began on getting the | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
park ready for the start of the Paralympic Games in two weeks' time. | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
Thousands of flags and banners need to be changed. This was the warm-up | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
pitch for the hockey, this will be a football venue. We put 3,000- | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
seater stand and football field all in this blue area. What you can see | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
now we transform into a football stadium. We have about a week to do | :04:46. | :04:56. | |
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While we were all going Jess and Mo crazy, one of the few stories that | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
grabbed people's attention away from the Olympics was the landing | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
of the Curiosity Rover on Mars. But it's not just other planets that | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
scientists at NASA are keen to explore. British astronaut Tim | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
Peake has been working on a mission to get space explorers travelling | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
to asteroids. Joe went to meet him. Lift-off... The four astronauts are | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
launched into space. In this underwater lab conditions are | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
similar to the weightless environment of space. British | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
astronaut Tim Peake is getting ready for a trip to the | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
International Space Station but this training is for something very | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
different. Tim, you spent most of this year under water training, | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
what were you doing? The objective of the NASA's Nemo mission was for | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
us to be able to try different methods of manoeuvring and working | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
on an asteroid. Were there some methods that didn't work out? | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
Trying to manoeuvre holding on to a transhraeugs line is hard work F | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
you want to hammer into the rock surface very hard to do. On the | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
other end of the scale if you are in a foot plate on a space | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
exploration vehicle that's a very stable work platform and easy to do. | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
President Barack Obama has set a target of landing a crew on an | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
asteroid by 2025 or very soon after. Commercial companies are also | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
interested in the space rocks as well. And plans to mine them for | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
precious metals were announced this year, which caused quite a stir. | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
What are your thoughts on this plan to catch asteroids in mid-space? | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
And mine them? I think it's a really interesting concept and I | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
think it's achievable. Anything is achievable like that. It's a case | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
of do the benefits outweigh costs? Whether it's for discovery, or dosh, | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
it looks like one of these lonely space rocks should be expecting | :06:46. | :06:55. | |
company. Thank you, Joe. Bit of showbiz for you now - and | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
what do you need to fill the gaping hole left by the Olympics? Hayley? | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
X Factor! Yes, it's back on Saturday. And this year's | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
contestants will have a lot of work to do. Judge Gary Barlow has | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
accused last year's lot of getting lazy and not realising how much | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
hard work is involved. Aiden Grimshaw was on the show two years | :07:10. | :07:18. | |
ago. He told Nel just how tough the show is. It was crazy. I was only | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
18. One day I worked in Pizza Hut and would bring you pizza and the | :07:23. | :07:30. | |
next day I was Mad World Aidan. you think that people misunderstand | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
just how much hard work is involved in these talent shows and becoming | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
an artist? Yeah, it's hard. I went for the X Factor when I was 14. I | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
didn't get through. The most important thing to think about when | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
you go on a programme like that is to remember it's an opportunity. | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
You got to be confident and make your voice the loudest one. | :07:50. | :07:59. | |
You can see a longer interview with Aiden on the Newsround website. | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
Now the Olympics may be over, but the sporting spirit is still going | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
strong in the south of France. The 49th annual Snail Racing | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
Championships is followed by a feast, where all the losers get | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
scoffed! This year it was lucky seven-year-old Sebastian who was | :08:10. | :08:19. | |
the first to slime his way to the edge of the table. That's awful! | :08:19. | :08:27. | |
They get eaten? It's what you got to do. They knew what was going on! | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
Finally, if you think all those Team GB superstars gave it their | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
all in the Olympics - how about this? Firefighters from around the | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
world have been battling it out in a two-day competition in Poland to | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
see who's got the best skills. The teams are being tested on hose | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
carrying, fake-victim saving and rope pulling - a new Olympic event | :08:42. | :08:48. |