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Martin here with Wednesday's top stories. | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
Members of Parliament will vote later today | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
on whether to have a general election - that's where adults vote | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
It's after Prime Minister Theresa May made the surprise announcement | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
I have said that there should be no election until 2020. | :00:26. | :00:39. | |
But now I have concluded that the only way to guarantee | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
certainty and stability for the years ahead is to hold | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
this election and seek your support for the decisions I must take. | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
So it's a big day for the whole UK but it starts in London | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
Yes, I'm at Downing Street in Westminster in London. | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
Behind that door is where the Prime Minister | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
Later, she will go around the corner to to the Houses of Parliament | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
where all the MPs will vote on whether or not to give | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
the Prime Minister her wish and to have that big vote - | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
These big votes are supposed to take place every five years | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
so it was a big surprise to hear Mrs May say she wants one. | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
Here's our political expert Adam Fleming. | :01:23. | :01:23. | |
This came as a total surprise to people who watch politics. | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
Imagine the most surprising thing that's ever happened | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
to you and multiply it by about 100 and that is why there are so many | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
journalists from across the UK and around the world reporting | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
Theresa May says that she wants there to be a general | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
So in about six or seven weeks' time. | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
Although she can't just say it, she has got to get Parliament | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
This is all about Brexit, which is that process of taking | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
the UK out of the club of 27 other European countries called the EU. | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
Theresa May is about to start negotiating with lots of other | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
prime ministers and presidents from around Europe. | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
She reckons that by having an election year, she could get more | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
She reckons that by having an election here, she could get more | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
MPs who are on her side and that will make her job a bit easier. | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
What happens next is weeks of debates, arguments, leaflets, | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
adverts and fights about all sorts of things like the police, | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
the economy, Scotland, health and what happens | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
It is going to be fascinating to watch. | :02:27. | :02:35. | |
Members of Parliament are likely to vote later to allow this | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
It'll take place on 8th of June - so what happens | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
Well, the UK is divided into 650 areas called constituencies. | :02:44. | :02:52. | |
Each area has a Member of Parliament, or an MP, | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
All of them get a seat here, in the Houses of Parliament. | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
In a general election, adults 18 and over get the chance | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
to vote for who should be the MP in their area. | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
On election day, people go to polling stations to vote. | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
They get a ballot paper with names of all the candidates, | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
They put a cross next to the person they most want to represent them. | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
The candidate who gets the most votes becomes MP. | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
Most MPs are part of groups called political parties. | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
Usually the political party that gets the most MPs out of the 650 | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
forms the new government, which runs the country. | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
And that party's leader becomes the Prime Minister and moves | :03:41. | :03:42. | |
So it's a very busy time for politicians and for voters. | :03:43. | :03:50. | |
We've got 49 days to wait before the election happens and there'll be | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
a lot of talking and arguing between now and then as each | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
side explains why adults should vote for them. | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
The leader of the winning party will be back in | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
Thanks, Ayshah, and you can go online to find out more on this | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
story including exactly what happens during a general election. | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
Now, sadly it was the end of Leicester City's adventure | :04:20. | :04:21. | |
Saul Nigez scored first for Atletico Madrid but then | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
Jamie Vardy scored in the second half to give Leicester a chance | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
As these matches are decided over two games, Atletico got | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
through because they won the first match 1-0 meaing the final result | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
We are disappointed. But the football club can be proud of how we | :04:42. | :05:00. | |
have conducted ourselves and how we have gone about it. They should want | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
more of this because ultimately all players want to play at the highest | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
level and the Champions League is the highest level. But we have to | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
get back to winning ways in the Premier League now. Unlucky for | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
Leicester. Good run. And a massive asteroid will zoom | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
past Planet Earth today. NASA say it will get | :05:23. | :05:24. | |
very close to the Earth, but it won't make any impact | :05:25. | :05:32. | |
as it'll still be about I'll be back at 4:20pm | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
with your afternoon Newsround. Have you been watching Secret Life | :05:36. | :06:03. | |
of Boys? | :06:04. | :06:06. |