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Hi, guys, Ayshah here with news of Murray's worries down under on the | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
way. Plus, the amazing story of the winter Olympian forced to walk on | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
her hands until she was six. This is Newsround. First, peace talks aimed | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
at ending three years of war in Syria have started today. They'll | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
bring the country's government and the opposition they're fighting | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
against face-to-face for the first time. But already there've been | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
angry scenes with representatives of both sides blaming the other for | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
what's going on. I've been looking into whether these talks have any | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
chance of bringing real peace to the country. Three years since it | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
started, the war in Syria has devastated lives and landscapes. | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
Almost 2.5 million people have fled the country, including more than a | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
million children. And it's claimed the lives of more than 100,000 | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
others. It started when people began protesting against the way the | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
country's president, Bashar Al-Assad, was running things. His | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
family has ruled Syria for more than 40 years and people have never been | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
able to vote him in or out. His army forces reacted violently to try and | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
stop the protests and the rebels fought back. The battles have been | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
raging ever since, and have seen many of Syria's towns and cities go | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
from this... To this. Now, after lots of negotiating, the two sides | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
have been brought together for the first time, here at a special | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
meeting in Switzerland, organised by the United Nations. The fact that | :01:35. | :01:43. | |
these peace talks are taking place is hugely important. It's the first | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
time the government and the opposition have met face-to-face | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
since the conflict began. Alongside Syria, 30 other countries are also | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
at the talks, all hoping to have a say on Syria's future. But will | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
these talks lead to any kind of peace in Syria? The opposition wants | :01:57. | :02:04. | |
Syria's President Assad to leave power. The government doesn't want | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
to discuss that at all. So everybody here is saying these negotiations | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
will be slow and difficult. There's no quick fix. But for the real | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
victims of Syria's walk, and especially for all those children, a | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
simple cease-fire would be at a start. The peace talks are planned | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
to carry on in Switzerland until Friday. But back in Syria, ordinary | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
people wait, and the fighting continues. And you can check out | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
loads more about what's going on in Syria over on the Newsround website. | :02:32. | :02:41. | |
In other news, America is in the grip of another big freeze. New York | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
City has had up to 12 inches of snow and Washington is expecting its | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
heaviest snow fall in three years. It's just two weeks since the polar | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
vortex caused freezing temperatures in the same areas. Andy Murray's | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
hopes of winning the Australian Open are over. He lost his quarterfinal | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
with Roger Federer in four sets, despite a brief comeback in the | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
third. Federer will now play Rafa Nadal in the semis. Meanwhile, Team | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
GB has named their biggest Winter Olympic squad in a quarter of a | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
century for the Sochi games in Russia next month. There's a record | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
19 skiers and snowboarders, including freestyle silver medallist | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
James Woods. Former Olympic sprinter Craig Pickering has also been picked | :03:20. | :03:28. | |
for the bobsleigh crew. And the Sochi Paralympics are likely to | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
feature one of the most inspiring athletes the world has ever seen. | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
Tatyana McFadden may not be a name you've heard before but I promise | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
you, her story's one you're unlikely to forget. Like thousands of other | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
winter Olympic hopefuls Tatyana McFadden is training hard. But her | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
base in Utah in America is a long way from where it all started. Born | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
in Russia and put in an orphanage as a baby, she had a condition called | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
spina bifida, which meant she had to walk on her hands until she was six. | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
Then she was adopted and taken to America where her amazing talent for | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
sport was discovered. Last year, Tatyana won every wheelchair race | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
going, including a record six world titles and all four major marathons. | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
And now she's decided to swap the track for the slopes and add winter | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
medals to her summer successes. She puts her determination down to her | :04:19. | :04:28. | |
early life experience. Life is about winning the mental battle. So | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
whether you put that in sports or your personal life, I think that | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
makes me who I am. In her first full-season as a cross country skier | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
she's already won the US national Championships, which should see her | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
picked for Sochi. And she's already planning for life after the Winter | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
Games - she's due to defend her London marathon title ten days after | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
they finish. And you can watch more of Tatyana's amazing story over on | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
the Newsround website, along with some of the most amazing pictures | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
from America's big freeze. Newsround is back at 6.50pm. I'll see you | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
then. | :05:00. | :05:02. |