:00:12. > :00:14.and you're live with Newsround. I'm Joe, and here's what's happening
:00:14. > :00:16.today. Find out where Manchester United
:00:16. > :00:22.will be starting their title defence. And Nel finds out how
:00:22. > :00:26.rubbish is being turned into power. What's the weather like where you
:00:26. > :00:29.are today? Sunny, raining, overcast? Well, research by the University of
:00:29. > :00:32.Reading suggests that Britain is going through an unusual weather
:00:32. > :00:38.cycle, increasing the prospect of summer rain which could last for ten
:00:38. > :00:48.years. And this week, the top weather scientists in the country
:00:48. > :00:51.are meeting to try and figure out why.
:00:51. > :00:54.Tuesday, the Met Office, Exeter. Meteorologists and scientists from
:00:54. > :00:57.all over the UK come together in one room. Their mission - to find out
:00:57. > :01:03.what's going on with our unusual weather. A freezing winter three
:01:03. > :01:06.years ago, bringing the country to a halt. Oh, my.Last year, one of the
:01:06. > :01:10.wettest summers on record. And we've just had the chilliest spring for 50
:01:10. > :01:16.years, so what's going on with our weather? The truth is that
:01:16. > :01:19.scientists just don't know! One thing they are sure of is that it's
:01:19. > :01:28.got something to do with this swirl of colours, the Jetstream, a
:01:28. > :01:31.fast-flowing current of air above the Atlantic. But what does it do?
:01:31. > :01:38.The Jetstream is a fast flowing ribbon of air high up in the
:01:38. > :01:42.atmosphere. When it is high up, it can produce sunshine. But when it is
:01:42. > :01:51.to the south of the UK, this allows a lots of wet, windy and cold
:01:51. > :01:54.weather. But it's not just the Jetstream alone. Scientists are also
:01:54. > :01:57.looking into the factors that have an impact on its course - the
:01:57. > :02:01.melting Arctic ice, the temperatures and currents of the Atlantic Ocean
:02:01. > :02:04.and the sun, now in its more active phase of its 11 year cycle. They are
:02:04. > :02:07.all being studied to see how much they could be influencing the air
:02:07. > :02:11.above. And with the patterns of the winds and currents so complex,
:02:11. > :02:15.working it out is going to be one of the toughest challenges in modern
:02:15. > :02:19.science. So for now, we will just have to put up with it and make sure
:02:19. > :02:23.we are prepared for whatever the weather throws at us.
:02:23. > :02:30.Head to the website to see some of our top ideas for what to do on a
:02:30. > :02:33.rainy summer day. Next to the war in Afghanistan. The
:02:33. > :02:36.US has announced that it will hold direct talks with the Taliban, who
:02:36. > :02:43.they have been fighting along with the UK and other international
:02:43. > :02:46.forces for 12 years. The announcement was made just hours
:02:46. > :02:49.before four US service people were killed when the Taliban attacked an
:02:49. > :02:52.airbase in the country. The talks will start within days and some of
:02:52. > :02:55.the conditions from the US include the Taliban breaking ties with
:02:55. > :02:57.extremist group Al-Qaeda. We will have more on this story in our next
:02:57. > :03:00.bulletin. All this week, we have been
:03:00. > :03:04.searching high and low through the world of waste, and today we are
:03:04. > :03:07.talking about rubbish. We sent Nel to see how trash from a landfill
:03:07. > :03:11.site can end up powering our homes. This is the amount of rubbish made
:03:11. > :03:15.by me having my lunch. Normal amount, wouldn't you say? Multiply
:03:15. > :03:20.that by millions of people making waste every day, and you end up with
:03:20. > :03:24.something that looks like that. The UK currently sends 49% of its
:03:24. > :03:28.rubbish to landfill, but that is a long way from countries like Sweden,
:03:28. > :03:32.the Netherlands and Germany, who send about 1%. That is because more
:03:32. > :03:36.and more of them are using incineration technology as a way to
:03:36. > :03:46.turn rubbish into energy. This is an incineration centre outside London,
:03:46. > :04:01.
:04:01. > :04:03.where they can turn up to 80% of rubbish they received into
:04:03. > :04:05.electricity. Rubbish is brought from around the country and dropped into
:04:05. > :04:08.the incinerator, which burns the rubbish at over 1000dC. The harmful
:04:08. > :04:10.gases are got rid of safely, but the heat produced is used to turn water
:04:10. > :04:13.into steam to then power turbines which then creates electricity.
:04:13. > :04:14.we burn the rubbish, we can save fossil fuels from being used for
:04:14. > :04:18.electricity, so it saves the environment.
:04:18. > :04:21.Now, it may seem like only five minutes ago that we saw these guys
:04:21. > :04:23.lifting the Premier League trophy, but the football season is upon us
:04:23. > :04:26.once again. The Premier League fixture list was released today,
:04:26. > :04:29.with champions Manchester United kicking off their campaign with a
:04:29. > :04:32.trip to Swansea. So it couldn't have been an easier start for the Red
:04:32. > :04:34.Devils, but former England defender Phil Neville thinks United are
:04:34. > :04:37.favourites for the title once again. The foundations are solid at Man
:04:37. > :04:41.United. They have a great set of players who won the league by 15
:04:41. > :04:46.points last season. It will not be easy, because Jose Mourinho is back