22/09/2011 Newsround


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Hi, guys. This is Newsround, brought to you live just after five

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by the team here at Newsround HQ in London. You're with Ore and Sonali.

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Sit back and soak in all the stories we have coming your way.

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Including: what Horrible Histories, this music maestro and your mobile

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phone have got in common. And we've got our eyes on the falling

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satellite that could reach Earth in the next 24 hours.

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But first - barbaric and disturbing - that's how some doctors and

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politicians have been describing it. Two kids in Preston have been

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filmed taking part in a fight inside a cage, watched by a live

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audience of hundreds of grown-ups. The organisers say there's nothing

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wrong with it, and what they were doing wasn't cage fighting, but

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mixed martial arts. This story has kicked up quite a fuss.

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Being led out like a champion fighter as crowds cheer him on,

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this is nine-year-old Kian. But this video of him wrestling an

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eight-year-old boy has stirred up an angry reaction from some

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children's charities, doctors and politicians. Those in charge of the

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event, though, say that the boys weren't in any danger.

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They say no kicking or punching was allowed and Kian's parents are

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completely happy with him taking part. If he wasn't in this

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environment what would he be doing? Stood on a street corner causing

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havoc or doing something else. He has choose to do the sport. Have

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you choose to do it? Yeah. There's been no action taken by police

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because they say no one had broken the law. But there are still

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worries over whether it's right to put kids in this environment.

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feels very barbaric and I know there are concerns about children

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that young doing a sport like that. Kids charity the NSPCC warned

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parents against letting their kids do something like this. According

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to the British Medical Association which represents doctors, the

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scenes are disturbing and the kids should have been wearing head

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guards. They say there are other safer sports that can teach

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children discipline and help them keep fit.

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Not everyone agrees. I thought it was good what they

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were doing. There was no striking involved, so I didn't really feel

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they needed to wear protective equipment. It's no different from

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judo and so yeah, this is very child-friendly. It teaches them

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balance. It gets them in to a discipline.

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Kian plans to fight again and the organisers have said there are more

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events planned. Last-minute appeals to save a man

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in America who'd been sentenced to death for murder failed last night.

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Yesterday we told you about Troy Davis. More than 20 years ago he

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was found guilty of killing a police officer. He was put to death

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after a final appeal from his lawyers failed. More than a million

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people around the world had campaigned to stop that happening

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and Troy Davis himself had always claimed he was innocent of murder.

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We know the death penalty is a subject that really divides people.

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If you want to know more about it we've got more info online.

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What happens if you team a rapper with the writer of one of CBBC's

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best loved shows? You get a new idea to get more kids into reading.

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Horrible Histories author Terry Deary has written a new story, not

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for books but for your mobile phone. It's called the Perfect Poison

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Pills Plot - 16 chapters, all the same length as a text message. He's

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got Chipmunk on board to help promote it. The rapper reckons kids

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are more likely to read on their gadgets than turning the pages of a

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book. Now to the spacecraft on a

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collision course with Earth! Scientists are warning that the

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satellite is going to crash back down on our planet tomorrow. But

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before you run for your satellite- proof bunker just know that the

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chances of anyone actually being hit are pretty slim.

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This may not look like much but it's actually a satellite hurtling

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out of control towards earth captured on film by an amateur

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astronomer. The six-ton space craft is due to crash land tomorrow

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evening. It was launched in 1991 by the

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Discovery space shuttle and has been out of action for the last six

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years. Now gravity is dragging it back to earth.

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NASA scientists are trying to track its route but because it's

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travelling at 5 miles a second it's moving so fast that they can't

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guarantee where it will land until a couple of hours before it gets

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here. Right now that could be almost anywhere on earth.

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It encompasses the entire world. Although most of the satellite will

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burn up in the atmosphere, 26 parts could survive and that's creating

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some dramatic headlines. NASA says a massive satellite is headed for

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earth in a crash landing. The good news is that NASA says no

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one has ever been hurt by objects re-entering from space and the

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chances of anyone being hit are about one in 3,000. So pretty

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unlikey. If you find any of it after it's landed NASA says not to

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touch it. It could be sharp, it could be

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still hot from re-entry perhaps and you could injure yourself. It's

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also remember the property of the US Government so you are not

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allowed to take it and sell it on ebay. Scientists will be watching

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the incoming satellite and probably secretly hoping it plunges quietly

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into the sea. Still 94 days until Christmas and

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the Time Lord himself has already started counting down. Today we've

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heard which famous faces will be appearing in the Doctor Who

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Christmas special. They include Outnumbered mum Claire Skinner and

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comedians Bill Bailey, Arabella Weir and Alexander Armstrong.

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We're heading to the other side of the world now for the story of an

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amazing Amazon rescue. When this couple got stuck in the rainforest

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in South America, miles from the nearest city they did what anyone

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would do - call home. But in this case home was 5,000 miles away in

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Eastbourne on Britain's south coast. This is where Bruce and Lesley's

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motorhome ended up when they tried to cross a wobbly bridge in a

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remote spot of the Amazon rainforest. They had been

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travelling around south America for almost five years, but at this

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point of the journey they hadn't seen anyone for days and the chance

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of being found at the bottom of the ravine was slim. It looked like a

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really good bridge and it just collapsed and the vehicle went down.

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That's about it, we couldn't continue our journey and the nice

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marines came and rescued us. Stuck 200 miles away from the nearest

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city, they knew their only chance of rescue rested on their satellite

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phone. They called relatives 5,000 miles away at home in Eastbourne

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and told them their exact location. Their family contacted Dover

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coastguards who alerted Falmouth coastguards in Cornwall before they

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passed on the message to the Brazilian Navy. Soon a helicopter

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was sent to the rescue. The couple weren't hurt and say they're glad

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to be safe. As for the motormoment, that might

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need a helping hand. Let's finish with a happy ending

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and a fantastic footy comeback. That's Owen Hargreaves in the red

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of Manchester United. But last night he wore the blue of Man City

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for the first time and started in scoring style. Because of injuries,

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the England midfielder only played six minutes of first-team football

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in the past three years. But what a way to mark his return. The goal

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