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Hi, guys. Ayshah here with the latest on this spewing volcano on | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
the way. Plus: The ten-year-old shopper who's forced a big firm into | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
some speedy changes. This is Newsround. | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
Exciting space news first. A new planet's been discovered that | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
scientists say is the most Earth-like one ever found. Watch | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
this. 500 light years from our world - an | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
Earth like planet that scientists think might have the right | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
conditions to support life. It's called Kepler-186f and this is a | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
computer generated image of what it could look like. Because it's so far | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
away we don't know how accurate the image is, but the planet's discovery | :00:41. | :00:48. | |
is still a pretty big deal. We've found what are called super earths | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
planets that are much bigger than our planet is in a habitable zone. | :00:52. | :01:01. | |
But this is the first time we have found a planet that is so close to | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
the size of Earth and that means a lot. The comparisons with Earth are | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
being made because Nasa say the planet has the potential to hold | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
water - meaning there is an area on the surface where life could | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
survive. But there are also some big differences. Kepler-186f orbits a | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
star that is cooler and dimmer than the sun. So while we may have found | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
a planet that's the same size as earth and receives a similar amount | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
of energy to what Earth receives it orbits a very different star so | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
perhaps instead of an earth twin, we have discovered an Earth cousin. The | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
problem is that at trillions of miles away it's currently impossible | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
to get any nearer to find out more. It may be pretty similar but for now | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
it's a very distant relative. Next to the Volcano that's starting | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
to rumble. Mount Oobeenas has started to spew out smoke and ash in | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
Peru in South America. 4,000 people who live nearby have been told to | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
leave their homes as a precaution. It's last big eruption was in 2006. | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
Meanwhile in New Zealand a tropical storm's cut off power and even | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
pulled giant trees out of the ground. Parts of the country's been | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
hit by rainfall and gales left over from a cyclone. This tree was filmed | :02:10. | :02:20. | |
topling in the city of Nelson. Next, we are getting behind the | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
recent rumours that giant rats are starting to take over our towns. Are | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
they really getting bigger and bigger? Rummaging in bins. Now, | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
there are reports that the scavengers up on the increase in | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
number and size. There are an estimated 10.5 million rats in the | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
UK and it is the job of pest controllers to catch them. For the | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
last nine to 12 months, the rats are definitely getting bigger. Everybody | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
in the industry I have spoken to has reported the same. There is a | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
growing problem of rats here. White-macro why are they getting | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
bigger? Your macro it could be more people living in our cities. , the | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
wet winter, the floods that we have had. How did they affected? The | :03:14. | :03:26. | |
storms and the rivers affected. The rats move into the cities and don't | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
want to go back and they have loads of food. Art that's getting bigger? | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
What makes an animal change shape? It depends on what is around it. If | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
there could well be rats that grow to be much bigger. I don't think | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
they have evolved yet to become bigger on average. They haven't | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
really changed from the rats of 100 years ago or a thousand years ago. | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
They are simply very well fed rats. Rat catchers like Sean are calling | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
on the government to allow the use of stronger poisons. Until then, it | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
looks like they are in for a busy summer. If you ever get annoyed at | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
people walking too slowly in front of you, take a leaf out of this | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
girl's book. She wrote to the bosses of a shopping centre, suggesting | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
they adopt a slow lane fast lane system and have introduced it. Our | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
reporter spoke to her and found out what shoppers thought. If you are | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
stuck behind slow person, it is annoying. Who do you think might use | :04:44. | :05:01. | |
the slow lane? People with buggies. And older people. | :05:02. | :05:03. |