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Hi, I'm Martin with the day's top stories live. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The Prime Minister David Cameron announces an important vote | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
And what's this penguin doing on a treadmill? | :00:13. | :00:27. | |
First let's get straight to that big announcement on Europe. | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
The Prime Minister David Cameron has said wants people to decide | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
whether the UK should stay in or leave an important club | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
Here is he making that announcement just a short while ago. | :00:37. | :00:45. | |
We are approaching one of the biggest decisions this country will | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
face in our lifetimes. Whether to remain in a reformed European Union | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
or to leave. The choice goes to the heart of the kind of country we want | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
to be. And the future we want for our children. | :01:03. | :01:03. | |
The Prime Minister wants adults to take part in a special vote | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
called a referendum on the 23rd of June. | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
Although children won't be able to take part in that vote, | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
the decision made will have a big impact on your lives. | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
Let's take a really quick look with Ayshah. | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
And that's when the UK joined what is now known | :01:21. | :01:30. | |
It's a club of 28 countries from around Europe who work together. | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
and its own money, the Euro, used by most of its members, | :01:37. | :01:44. | |
Countries join the EU because they think it will help | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
But now, British Prime Minister David Cameron has promised to hold | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
a vote on whether or not the UK should stay in or leave the EU. | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
Supporters of the EU think the UK is stronger as part of it. | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
That's because we buy and sell lots of things | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
People who want to leave the EU say it forces too many rules on Britain. | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
They say leaving will give British people more control over | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
It will be up to adults around the UK to decide what's best | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
And you can keep up to date with all you need to know | :02:18. | :02:29. | |
about the UK's vote on the European Union | :02:30. | :02:31. | |
with our special guide over on the Newsround website. | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
If your oldest in your family do you remember what it was like to meet | :02:37. | :02:45. | |
your brother or sister for the first time # for five years I have been | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
the only child. But that is going to change. I am excited. There is a | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
baby in my mummy 's tummy. It is a funny picture. But this is the baby | :02:58. | :03:13. | |
waving to us. Yes! I have got the baby, baby brother. Going to hug him | :03:14. | :03:23. | |
and I'm going to be so happy I'm going to cry. | :03:24. | :03:36. | |
Hello, dad. Where is he? We have got a Spider-Man lunchbox. In case he is | :03:37. | :03:53. | |
angry. -- hungry. Hello! I am your Big Brother. | :03:54. | :04:05. | |
And for more amazing siblings, Brothers and Sisters, | :04:06. | :04:17. | |
A Newsround Special, is online now, so check it out. | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
Next, a new rocket that will take the first ever tourists up | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
into space has been unveiled in California, in America. | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
The plan is for it to carry six passengers nearly 100 | :04:26. | :04:27. | |
700 people have signed up to take a trip already, even though it | :04:28. | :04:43. | |
Polar bears are meeting for the first time in this enclosure. Polar | :04:44. | :05:10. | |
bears are classed as a rare species. A group of people in Hampshire have | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
been swapping hats and coats for their goggles and preparing for a | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
cold dip. That's because the UK's first ever | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
ice swimming championships is taking The new sport is definitely not | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
for wimps - rules say swimmers have to take to the freezing water | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
with only a swimming costume Finally, it wouldn't be | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
Newsround without a penguin, Cute as it looks, there's serious | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
science behind it. Researchers studying king penguins, | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
including this little guy, found the fatter they are, | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
the more wobbly they are when they waddle, | :05:42. | :05:43. | |
which makes life more dangerous That's all from me, | :05:44. | :05:56. | |
Newsround's back tomorrow. | :05:57. | :05:59. |