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Good afternoon. I'm Hayley and here's Newsround to add a bit of | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
sparkle to up your Tuesday afternoon. A huge diamond robbery | :00:11. | :00:21. | |
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in Belgium. And. The new bionic limbs for wounded soldiers. But | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
first, power, and news that the UK is heading towards an energy | :00:24. | :00:32. | |
shortage. Today, Ofgem, the people who regulate Britain's power supply, | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
warned that we soon won't have enough power stations to meet our | :00:35. | :00:45. | |
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energy demands. I've been looking into our energy gap. Energy - | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
pretty handy stuff, but according to the people who keep an eye on | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
the UK supply, Ofgem, soon we won't be producing enough of it ourselves. | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
A lot of our energy comes from ageing oil and gas power stations, | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
but many are shut down because they don't meet environmental standards. | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
The Government have planned to use more resources like wind and water | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
and nuclear power stations, but are still trying to work out the mix | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
and how to pay for it. With no new power stations actually being built | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
at the moment, and the old ones being phased out, the UK faces | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
losing as much as 10% of the energy capacity. Within a month's time 10% | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
of the capacity basically old coal and other systems will go off and | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
we'll be tight. That doesn't mean the light are going out. We | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
normally have reserve energy supplies of 14% to fall back on, | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
but these will shrink to just 5%. If we are unable to produce our own | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
energy, we may need to buy more from abroad. We already buy gas, | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
but that is shrinking and increasing demand across the world | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
means it's getting pretty expensive. That win mean your mum and dad's | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
energy bills will go up, but the advice from the experts is don't | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
panic. They want households to help out by only using the energy that | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
you need until new power stations can be built. Next to Belgium, | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
where robbers have stolen over �30 million worth of diamonds from | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
Brussels Airport. The gang snatched the gems last night as they were | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
being loaded onto a plane destined for Switzerland. Local police say | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
they are looking for eight suspects, after what has been described as | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
one of the biggest diamond robberies ever. Next, soldiers who | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
lose limbs in battle have been promised new bionic legs by the | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
Government. Members of the Armed Forces who have been injured in | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
Afghanistan or Iraq will now be able to get the most up-to-date | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
artificial limbs available thanks to �6.5 million of new funding. | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
Joining us in the studio to explain all about artificial legs is John | :02:48. | :02:58. | |
Head from Salford University. Getting downstairs is a particular | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
function to be highlighted. I'm looking forward to that, but you | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
have to learn the legs, so there are lots of functions that we have | :03:06. | :03:16. | |
not been told about. What exactly is this new technology and what can | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
it do before? I can show you this simple limb. It's solid and does | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
the job and allows the person to stand and walk. In contrast, if we | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
look at these two, again, this is a simple knee unit and allows a | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
person to flex and straighten their knee. In contrast with this new | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
device, which effectively not only does what the old one does, but | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
stops a person from stumbling and adapts to their natural walking | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
speed, allowing them to walk more naturally and allows them to walk | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
upstairs, like Dave said in the clip. Are they expensive or | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
available for everyone? They are expensive, but they're not really | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
suitable for everyone. There are others that are just as useful. | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
Those who will need it will get it? I think so. Thank you. Fascinating. | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
If you've ever had a cold, flu or chicken pox you'll know viruses can | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
be nasty. But scientists have just started using diamond laser | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
technology to try and understand more about some the deadliest | :04:16. | :04:26. | |
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viruses on the planet. Here's Joe. This is a particle accelerator. | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
Tiny atoms are flying so fast they can travel around the world seven | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
times every second. The light this produces is what scientists are | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
using to look at the viruses. It's here in the labs that they are | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
being analysed. It's too dangerous for us to come anywhere near these, | :04:46. | :04:50. |