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Hi, everyone! Joe here with your Friday afternoon Newsround. Stay | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
where you are for this. The meteor that crashed to Earth. And | :00:12. | :00:22. | |
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First up, a meteor was seen crashing to earth this morning. | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
It's reported that more than 900 people in central Russia have been | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
injured by debris falling from buildings and as the meteor blazed | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
a trail through the lower atmosphere. It's incredibly rare | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
for something like this to happen, but this time the event has been | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
caught on camera. We're used to seeing sights like | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
this in movies. But this is central Russia this morning. Brightly | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
burning rocks seen crashing to earth. Even if they couldn't see | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
the rocks, people on their way to work or school couldn't miss the | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
light show. It's not clear whether this was the moment the meteroid | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
exploded in mid-air or a fragment hit the ground. But shockwaves were | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
powerful enough to blow out windows and shake buildings. The falling | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
debris injured hundreds of people who were treated for small cuts and | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
bruises. The largest meteor fragment landed in a lake in the | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
sparsely populated Chelyabinsk region of central Russia. It's more | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
than 900 miles east of Moscow. Experts say smaller meteorite | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
strikes happen five to ten times a year, and quite often the space | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
rocks burn up entirely before they hit the earth. Large impacts such | :01:25. | :01:35. | |
as this one are much rarer, roughly one every five years. I was | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
standing by the window in my kitchen and waiting for my kettle | :01:38. | :01:46. | |
to boil. And I saw a flash of light, and my first thought was somebody | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
was setting off fireworks. For many Russians, like Anna, it was a | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
morning they'll never forget, a scene from the big screen, even | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
more spectacular in real life. Traces of horsemeat have been found | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
in cottage pie served in 47 schools in Lancashire. All the pies have | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
been withdrawn from the school kitchens and head teachers have | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
been informed. Scientists say any horsemeat that children may have | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
eaten would be in very small quantities. It comes as the Food | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
Standards Agency has revealed the results of tests on 2,500 products, | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
with 29 testing positive for Oscar Pistorius, the most famous | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
Paralympic athlete of all time, has appeared in court in South Africa | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
today and formally charged with murder, a charge he denies. It | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
comes after the death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, at his | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
home in Pretoria in South Africa yesterday morning, which sent | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
shockwaves around the country and the rest of the world. Ricky's been | :02:37. | :02:46. | |
looking at what has happened to one of sport's biggest icons. | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
Pistorius wins! Oscar Pistorius, the blade runner. After having both | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
legs amputated below the knee when he was 11 months old, he went on to | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
become one of the best known Paralympians on the planet. Gold | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
again for Oscar Pistorius! Last summer in London, he made history | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
when, after years of fighting for the chance to compete against able- | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
bodied athletes, he became the first double-amputee athlete to run | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
at the Olympic Games. He became a national hero in his home country | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
of South Africa, celebrated for uniting disabled and able-bodied | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
sports. All this means the news of his arrest on Thursday after the | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
tragic death of his girlfriend has stunned many people across the | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
world. All over South Africa, posters of the athlete are being | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
taken down, as people try to understand what's happened. Today, | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
Pistorius cried in court as the charge of murder was read out, a | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
charge which he has said he disputes in the strongest possible | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
terms. But the runner will now be kept in police custody until | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
another hearing on Tuesday. Even though he's been charged, we won't | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
know whether he's guilty or innocent for some months yet. | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
Whatever happens next, the world's view of one of its most celebrated | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
sporting icons has been changed forever. | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
Remember, if you're upset by anything you see on Newsround, head | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
to the website, where you can find loads of advice. | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
Next, almost one in five reptiles are struggling to survive, | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
according to a new report by London Zoo. Freshwater turtles are one of | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
the creatures most at risk. Experts think dramatic changes in climate | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
might be behind the drop in numbers. Campaigners say urgent action is | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
needed to stop some reptiles from disappearing altogether. | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
A British backpacker missing for three days in the Australian | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
outback has been found. 18-year-old Sam Woodhead from London had not | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
been seen since going out for a run. With the bush home to lots of | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
venomous snakes, people were very worried, but he was found by a | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
rescue helicopter safe and well, if a little sunburnt. | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
Finally, an asteroid the size of an Olympic swimming pool will whistle | :04:47. | :04:51. |