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Hi guys, Martin here with Wednesday's top stories. | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
First, the breaking news this afternoon, there will be a general | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
election on 8th June, that's where adults vote to chose | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
The Prime Minister said yesterday that's what she wanted | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
to happen and this afternoon, in a vote, Members of | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
Now, general elections might sound familiar, | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
They are normally every five years, but they can happen any time, | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
So, what is a general election, and how does it all happen? | :00:39. | :00:50. | |
How does a general election work? The UK is divided into 650 | :00:51. | :00:59. | |
constituencies. Each area has a member of Parliament or MP that | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
represents it. All of them get a seat in the Houses of Parliament. In | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
a general election, adults 18 and over get the chance to vote for who | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
should be the MP in their area. On election day, people go to polling | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
stations to vote. They get a ballot paper with names of all the | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
candidates, the people running to be MPs. They put a cross next to the | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
person they most want to represent them. The candidate who gets the | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
most becomes MP. Most MPs are part of groups called political parties. | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
Usually the political party that gets the most MPs out of the 650 | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
forms the new government, which runs the country. And, that party's | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
leader becomes the Prime Minister and moves into Number 10 Downing | :01:49. | :01:49. | |
Street. And there's loads more | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
info online in our guide to the general election, | :01:52. | :01:53. | |
including what to expect Next up, it's an exciting | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
time for space fans as the Earth is getting a very | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
special fly-by today. Space, it's a rather big place, but | :01:59. | :02:10. | |
every so often objects in space get a little bit close to each other. | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
That's what's going to happen today. An asteroid called 2014 JO-25 is due | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
to go past our planet in what Nasa is calling a close approach. Fear | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
not, the asteroid is going to pass is about 1.1 million miles away. | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
Still, given how massive space is, that still means it gets to be | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
called a near Earth object. Nasa have said there's no possibility for | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
the asteroid to crash into our planet, but scientists are very | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
excited to study it as it goes past. So, what do we know about the space | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
invader? The asteroid is about 650 metres wide. It's the biggest | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
asteroid come this close since a 5000 metre asteroid in September | :03:01. | :03:09. | |
2000 and four. 2014 JO-25 hasn't come this near to us for 400 years. | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
It doesn't plan on dropping by for another 500 years. Keep your eyes | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
peeled and let's enjoy the visit! Some rugby now, and Welsh player | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
Sam Warburton will captain the British and Irish Lions | :03:23. | :03:24. | |
for their tour of New Warbuton's Lions are made up | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
of players from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
but the shock news is that England captain Dylan Hartley | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
hasn't been picked. Finally, Egyptian archaeologists say | :03:34. | :03:34. | |
they've found an ancient tomb If you want to walk inside this | :03:35. | :03:59. | |
newly found tomb you'll find a small pathway that leads into a | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
rectangular shaped hole with an inner chamber. But, what you'll also | :04:03. | :04:14. | |
see are some really old Egyptian treasures. Eight mummies have been | :04:15. | :04:23. | |
found along with these colourful tombs. Also among them were more | :04:24. | :04:24. | |
than 1000 statues. It's believed the tomb belonged to a | :04:25. | :04:39. | |
noble man because a lot of the statues and artefacts had his | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
initials on them. You'll be pleased because his old belongings are still | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
in pretty good nick, considering they are over 3000 years old. | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
That's all from me, Newsround's back right here at 7:40am tomorrow. | :04:52. | :04:57. |