:00:25. > :00:29.Hello and welcome to Newsround. I'm Hayley and I'm all on my own so
:00:29. > :00:32.I've been working twice as hard to bring you a packed show. Here's
:00:32. > :00:36.what's coming up. Counting the country - the results
:00:36. > :00:40.of last year's Census are in. Do you need to splash cash on
:00:40. > :00:43.expensive days out to have fun? You've been telling us what you
:00:43. > :00:47.think. There are just 11 days left until
:00:47. > :00:50.the opening of the Olympic Games in London. 10,000 athletes from every
:00:50. > :00:53.corner of the world will be competing for the chance to win
:00:53. > :00:56.gold. Today athletes started arriving with all their equipment
:00:56. > :00:59.at Heathrow Airport and the Olympic Village which will be the home for
:00:59. > :01:08.most of them has opened its doors for competitors to start checking
:01:08. > :01:12.Years of preparation, hours of intensive training and miles of
:01:12. > :01:15.travelling. It's the beginning of a challenge of a lifetime for
:01:15. > :01:18.athletes arriving at Heathrow airport for the Olympics. Thousands
:01:18. > :01:23.of competitors will be coming to London, each bringing hopes of
:01:23. > :01:25.Olympic glory and some of them have some pretty unusual luggage too.
:01:25. > :01:31.Airport staff have been warned to expect things like canoes, kayaks
:01:31. > :01:38.and bows as each athlete brings the kit they need to take part. The
:01:38. > :01:44.sailing team from USA were one of the first to arrive. It is my first
:01:44. > :01:49.Olympic Games and it is a dream come true. I have been working at
:01:49. > :01:53.this since I was seven years of age. The Olympic Village will house
:01:53. > :01:58.around 16,000 people at its busiest time. 45,000 meals a day will be
:01:58. > :02:00.prepared for all those hungry athletes. Organisers have had to
:02:01. > :02:10.come up with one million pieces of sports equipment including 600
:02:10. > :02:17.basketballs, 356 pairs of Boxing gloves and 2,700 footballs. The
:02:17. > :02:20.Olympic Park is a huge area the size of 357 football pitches. Over
:02:20. > :02:24.the next month about 11 million people will turn up to watch the
:02:24. > :02:34.world's top athletes compete. After seven years of work, it is finally
:02:34. > :02:37.
:02:37. > :02:40.BBC sports reporter, Katie Gornall, is lucky enough to be at the
:02:40. > :02:43.Olympic Park. What has been happening today? It is quiet here
:02:43. > :02:47.today. You get the sense that will change, of course, in 11 days time.
:02:47. > :02:50.But there is a lot of the park that is sectioned off. It is not ready
:02:50. > :02:55.just yet. There are areas that are a construction site and you see
:02:55. > :02:59.people walking around with yellow vests and hard hats, but the big
:02:59. > :03:03.news is that the athletes have been arriving to the village here, not
:03:03. > :03:06.all of them had a smooth ride. We have heard reports of some of the
:03:06. > :03:13.bus drivers transporting the athletes getting lost on their way
:03:13. > :03:18.here from Heathrow Airport! One of the US team said on Twitter, he
:03:18. > :03:21.said his bus had been lost for four hours. The athletes on board were
:03:21. > :03:26.hungry and tired and he said it didn't make a good first impression
:03:26. > :03:30.on him. Hopefully, that will change when he arrives here.
:03:30. > :03:35.Thank you very much, Katie. Let's hope things change.
:03:35. > :03:39.Now, can you think back to 27th March last year? Can't remember
:03:39. > :03:42.what you were doing? Don't worry, neither can I! But chances are your
:03:42. > :03:45.parents would have been filling in a Census form, along with millions
:03:45. > :03:48.of other people. The Census is a massive survey which asks lots of
:03:48. > :03:51.questions about the people living your house. It has taken a year to
:03:51. > :03:57.go through the 26 million forms that were filled in and today they
:03:57. > :04:00.have revealed the results. The big news is that the population of
:04:00. > :04:03.England and Wales has shot up by a whopping 3.7 million over the last
:04:03. > :04:09.ten years. It's the largest growth in numbers since records began and
:04:09. > :04:12.brings the total number of people living here to 56 million. That
:04:12. > :04:16.compares to just 9.4 million when the Census was first carried out
:04:16. > :04:20.more than 200 years ago in 1801. The reason for the big rise is
:04:20. > :04:23.partly down to people from other countries coming to live here.
:04:23. > :04:26.These figures are just for England and Wales, the results for Scotland
:04:26. > :04:29.and Northern Ireland will come out later, but they should help the
:04:29. > :04:35.Government work out how much they need to spend on things like
:04:35. > :04:42.It's the newest country in the world but South Sudan is facing big
:04:42. > :04:44.problems. Thousands of people have had to leave their homes because of
:04:44. > :04:48.fierce fighting on the countries border. The charity Save the
:04:48. > :04:50.Children say that 2,000 kids a day are arriving at refugee camps, but
:04:50. > :04:55.because of their location they can't get enough help to them.
:04:55. > :04:59.Ricky has been finding out more. These were the celebrations last
:04:59. > :05:04.year when South Sudan became independent from Sudan. Two big
:05:04. > :05:08.wars had left the country as one of the poorest in the world. People in
:05:08. > :05:12.the south hoped splitting up from the north would give them a chance
:05:12. > :05:15.of a better future. At the time Leah spoke to Annette whose family
:05:15. > :05:22.fled Sudan and moved to London because of the fighting, but a year
:05:22. > :05:28.later, the situation in some areas hasn't got better, it's got worse.
:05:28. > :05:31.My hope is that everyone is safe. A bad harvest this year means 2.4
:05:31. > :05:36.million people, a quarter of the country's population, won't have
:05:36. > :05:39.enough food. Forces in Sudan have been clashing with troops from
:05:39. > :05:48.South Sudan over who controls resources, like oil, along the
:05:48. > :05:53.border between the two countries. Around 150,000 people had to leave
:05:53. > :05:57.thavr homes because of the violence. Save the Children said 2,000
:05:57. > :05:59.children are arriving at refugee camps along the border every day.
:05:59. > :06:03.Over half the people living in the camps are children, many of them
:06:03. > :06:06.have been separated from their families, and had to walk for miles
:06:06. > :06:10.to get here. It is difficult to tell what is
:06:10. > :06:17.going to happen. The rainy season has started and heavy rains are
:06:17. > :06:21.swelling the rivers so it is difficult for people to travel.
:06:21. > :06:25.There maybe further influxz in the future so we need to stay prepared
:06:25. > :06:35.for that. The United Nations is calling for
:06:35. > :06:41.
:06:41. > :06:44.more aid so they can help people in need.
:06:44. > :06:47.Now most of you will be breaking up for the summer this week if you're
:06:47. > :06:51.not on holiday already. But the charity Family Action is warning
:06:51. > :06:53.that this year more of you may be sitting at home instead of doing
:06:53. > :06:57.exciting activities or days out. It says more families are struggling
:06:57. > :07:07.with money and need to spend less. We asked you for your tips on
:07:07. > :07:15.
:07:15. > :07:18.having fun on a budget and loads of Finally to get you in the mood for
:07:18. > :07:21.the start of the Olympics the Newsround team have been tracking
:07:21. > :07:26.down some of the country's top Olympians to ask them what it is
:07:26. > :07:29.like to compete in the biggest sporting event on the planet. Today
:07:29. > :07:38.it's the turn of Olympic silver and gold medallist sprinter, Darren
:07:38. > :07:43.Campbell. I'm Darren Campbell and I competed in the 1996 Olympic Games,
:07:43. > :07:50.the 2000 Olympic Games and the 2004 Olympic Games. In the 100 meters,
:07:50. > :07:56.the 200 meters and the four by 100 meter relay.
:07:56. > :08:00.In 2000, I remember the build-up to the 100 meters. I remember actually
:08:00. > :08:04.arriving at the stadium and starting to warm up. It dawned on
:08:04. > :08:08.me what I was about to take part in and it was the actual 100 meter
:08:08. > :08:12.Olympic final. I started to think about the 110,000 people in the
:08:12. > :08:19.stadium, all the billions and billions of people watching at home.
:08:19. > :08:25.One of the most surreal feelings I've ever felt. In the final, I
:08:25. > :08:30.came sixth. In the 2000 Sydney Olympics, in the 200 meters I was
:08:30. > :08:36.lucky enough to win silver. In the 2004 Olympic Games, as part of the
:08:36. > :08:42.four by 100 meter relay team, I won Olympic gold. Every time I see the
:08:42. > :08:47.three other guys who I won the gold with, it is like we were right back
:08:47. > :08:51.in the stadium celebrating. It is a strange thing, but in life, it is