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Evening all! Newsround taking over BBC One. Leah and Ricky with your | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
headlines. We've got plenty on the way for you this Thursday, | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
including all of this... We'll tell you once and for all whether food | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
off the floor is ever all right to eat. And the robotic arm you | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
control with your mind. Before all that - how comfortable are you in | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
the water? New figures out today claim thousands of kids aren't | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
learning to swim and could be putting themselves at risk as a | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
result. Leah, you've been looking into this one today. Well Ricky, | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
swimming in schools is on the national curriculum which means it | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
should be compulsory for you to learn. You're supposed to be able | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
to swim at least 25 metres by the time you leave primary. But this | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
new research from the Amateur Swimming Association claims that | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
more than 200,000 children are leaving Primary School unable to | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
swim at all. What's more, they've found that four out of 10 of those | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
kids aren't being given the chance to even learn. So we've been asking | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
you how important you think it is to learn to swim. We caught up with | :01:20. | :01:30. | |
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these kids at a pool in Stockport. If you fall in somewhere and catch | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
something you could die. More a dog could not swim and fell in the | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
water so I went in and tried to pull him out. Because of swimming | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
lessons you could do that? Yes. would prefer to have more schools | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
having swimming lessons, it means more people can learn how to swim. | :01:49. | :01:59. | |
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You've been getting in touch on the Georgina from Essex doesn't like | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
going swimming with school - she thinks children should only go if | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
they want to or can't swim. With me on the sofa is Matthew McFahn from | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
the Amateur Swimming Association, the people who did this study. | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
Isn't swimming like any other sport, if kids can't do it, why should | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
they try? In his hugely important, a life skill, the only sport that | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
can save your life. That is vital and will allow youngsters to enjoy | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
the water in a pool, on holiday, with their parents, going to | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
friends with a pool, or even by a river and need to be safe. We have | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
been in touch of the government and they said toss it is compulsory. | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
What else can be done? The key thing is for the government to try | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
to make sure inspectors spend more time looking at swimming and making | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
sure schools do something. They spend a lot of time on maths and | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
English and making sure academic subject a done but this is a life | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
skill that could save a life. can be expensive for some schools. | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
It can. Travel costs could be an issue but I know local councils are | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
working with schools trying to make a difference. If we can get that | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
right every child could have a chance of swirling. -- swimming. | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
Matthew, thanks for coming in. Moving on now and being able to | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
control something just with the power of your mind sounds pretty | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
amazing. Yep, you could get your mum to do your homework for you. Or | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
you could make your brother make your bed. But scientists in America | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
have been developing a much more serious use for it. Nel's got all | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
the details. Cathy Hutchinson is paralysed from | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
the neck down. She hasn't been able to serve herself a drink for almost | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
15 years. But that all changed in this moment. It's down to the box | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
screwed onto her head. It has a sensor linked to her brain and | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
that's controlling the robotic arm. She can't speak but the look on her | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
face tells you she's ecstatic. So how does it work? A tiny sensor | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
smaller than a five pence piece is implanted onto the top of the brain. | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
It picks up electrical activity from the brain and turns it into | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
commands for the robotic arm. was a moment of true joy, true | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
happiness, it was beyond the fact that it was an accomplishment. An | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
important advance in the entire field of brain computer interfaces. | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
This is not the first time scientists have experimented with | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
mind control. In January this injured British soldier was fitted | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
with a bionic arm which he can move with his brain. Here's a researcher | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
using his thoughts to tell his wheelchair where to go. And this is | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
Ricky trying out a computer game where you can control your | :04:46. | :04:56. | |
character via your headset! It's pretty fast. It's still early | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
stages but this latest development is a big step towards the long-term | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
goal of being able to use brain sensors to help the people who need | :05:03. | :05:11. | |
it most. The Russian spacecraft successfully docked today, the | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
astronauts will spend four-and-a- half months looking at the wonders | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
of the universe. So lucky. Back on earth, whether it's watching a new | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
family of lion cubs or tracking American black bears Planet Earth | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
Live is one of the most ambitious wild life series ever! It's been | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
following some of the world's most amazing creatures live. And this | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
morning we spoke to one of the presenters Richard Hammond all the | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
way from Kenya. That is the 10th I broadcast from. We are running | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
about getting ready for the show this evening but I wanted to show | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
you something you don't normally see. This is one of the camera cars | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
they used to go out and fill the animals. All this frame built on | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
the side, this is the spot and drivers are she knows where | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
everything is out there, it is her job to drive this car over | :05:59. | :06:06. | |
unbelievable territory so we can get the shots. They are up and away | :06:06. | :06:14. | |
at about 5:30am. I will up day you on how the animals are doing. Right | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
now it is not raining in the rainy season, which is lovely. I hope you | :06:18. | :06:25. | |
will be there with us tonight, 8pm BBC One. I will be watching. OK | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
Leah. You've dropped a crisp on the floor. What do you do? Three second | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
rule. Well, believe it or not, scientists are actually looking | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
into the theory behind the three second rule to find out if it's | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
right. There is nothing a lot more than sitting back with a cup of tea | :06:42. | :06:51. | |
We've all been there. You drop something on the floor, pick it up, | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
dusted off and carry on. It's called the three-second rule. But | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
scientists have started fighting back against this time old | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
tradition, they are putting food through its paces to see if it | :07:05. | :07:12. | |
passes the test. How does it work? We dropped different types of food | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
onto the floor, left them for three, five or 10 seconds, then put it | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
into a machine which mimics the stomach. It mashes it up into | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
liquid, then the liquid is transferred on to some plates which | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
will throw up different types of bacteria. Scientists worked out | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
that wet foods like jam and ham will still pick up bacteria if you | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
drop them on the floor. Because these foods have high levels of | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
sugar and salt the bacteria is less likely to grow. Have you worked out | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
that the three second rule is not necessarily always right? There was | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
not any significant difference between leading the food on the | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
floor for three, five or 10 seconds. If there was bacteria there it | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
would be there at three seconds. there we have the science behind it. | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
What have we learnt? Experts say it is never a good idea to eat food | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
that has fallen on the floor, instead, why not try and stick to | :08:12. | :08:22. | |
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Now just about now Britain will finally get its hands on the | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
Olympic torch. It's being officially handed over to the UK at | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
a special ceremony in Greece. David Beckham and Princess Anne will then | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
bring it back home before the torch relay starts here on Saturday. | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
sticking with the Olympics - one of Hollywood's biggest names has been | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
getting special 2012 training session. Men in Black star Will | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
Smith had a go at the hurdles at a special event. The actor also threw | :08:46. | :08:49. |