23/08/2011 Newsround


23/08/2011

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Hi there, check your watches. I make it just past five. Sonali and

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Ore here live - you're watching Newsround. We've got all the day's

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top stories for you, including... The bionic fingers that are

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transforming one girl's life. Plus the prince's trek - a brand

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new film of Prince Harry's arctic But before all of that, explosions

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and gunfire are still rocking the capital of Libya. Yesterday it

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looked like Colonel Gaddafi was about to be kicked out after 40

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years in charge of the North African country. Rebels have been

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fighting his men for six months and many had begun to celebrate. But

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today, there's been more fierce fighting in Tripoli. The BBC's

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Matthew Price had to hide in a basement to escape the violence.

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There are now sustained bursts of gunfire. It is still some distance

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away, but it is clear that there is still fighting continuing on the

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ground. Impossible to say whether it is pro-Gaddafi forces pushing

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back rebel forces or vice versa. So what's changed over the past 24

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hours? Well yesterday, the rebels said they'd arrested one of Colonel

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Gaddaffi's sons. But here he is, travelling around Tripoli, clearly

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not under arrest - and insisting his family will never surrender.

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The rebels say they've surrounded Colonel Gaddafi's base - but no-one

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knows if he's even inside. Right now, it looks like the rebels will

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have to be prepared for another long fight. So that's the very

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latest - and it's a very confusing and chaotic time over there. But if

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you want to learn more about what's going on in Libya, head over to the

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Newsround website - it's got Next, a 15-year-old schoolgirl with

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a pretty amazing new gadget. And we're not talking an MP3 player or

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the latest games console. This one is far more impressive - she's

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become the youngest person in Europe to be fitted with bionic

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fingers. I didn't think it would move the

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way it does and that I would have such good use out of it. Simple

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things like writing or using a knife and fork used to be pretty

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hard for Chloe. Not any more. are some sensors inside, but I

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don't really know how it works. Chloe lost her fingers as a child

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after she was really ill. Up until a few weeks ago she had to make do

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with this rubber hand. It didn't move and it was really frustrating.

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People used to stare when I was walking down the corridor and shout

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out things. Fortunately, technology is getting

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better and better. Last year we told you about Patrick, who became

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the youngest person in the world to get a bionic arm. Scientists are

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creating robotic limbs that are more and more like the real thing.

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The trouble is that these gadgets don't come cheap. Chloe's family

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paid �38,000 for her new hand. is amazing what she can do with it.

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We would go out as a family and people would stare for the wrong

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reasons, but they stare now in amazement. With the summer holidays

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nearly at an end, there's just enough time for Chloe to practice

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her new moves before she goes back to school. I think there will be

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staring but I don't care because I really like it. Great stuff, Chloe.

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And if you want more inspiring stories, then you're in the right

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place. Earlier this year, Prince Harry joined a group of wounded

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servicemen. Their mission? To trek to the North Pole. And tonight, we

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get to see their full story. The men were all seriously injured

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fighting in Afghanistan. But they managed to endure temperatures of

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minus 45 degrees, sleep on ice and drag a 100kg sledge with them the

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whole way. The task took weeks, and the men are hoping to raise more

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than �2 million to help other injured servicemen. Everyone's

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helping everybody, it's the only way to do it. I'm standing on a

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floating ocean. It is quite hard, we're not making a lot of ground.

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This is really cold. This place is Let's catch up with some of the

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kids affected by Japan's massive earthquake and tsunami now. It's

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almost six months since the disaster, which was made even worse

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by explosions at a nuclear power plant. Now children there are

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asking for more to be done to make Total devastation - as the tsunami

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hit land, it swallowed up whole towns, killing thousands of people.

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The waves slammed into the Fukushima nuclear plant. As

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potentially deadly radiation leaked out, around 100,000 people were

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forced from their homes. Life is still not back to normal - and

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being a child there has been tough. In some areas, it's still not safe

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to play outside, so kids have to spend lots of the time stuck

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indoors. Lots of children have written to the government, they

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want more help. For kids in Fukushima, you can't

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play outside due to the radiation, so you get into fights with friends.

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We just want to tell them how this is affecting us negatively.

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Radiation experts have been trying to get schools cleaned up again,

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ready for pupils to start the new term in a few weeks' time. They're

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spraying down buildings, re-filling swimming pools and even digging up

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playgrounds that might have poisons in the soil. But it will still be a

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long time until the area gets the all-clear.

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Today has been a sad day for Arsenal football fans, as a star

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midfielder has waved goodbye to the Gunners, and said hello, Manchester

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City for about �24 million. Go on, say goodbye. Yes, au revoir, Samir

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Nasri, who is on his way to Manchester for a medical and to

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finalise the deal. The Frenchman was one of Arsenal's best players

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last season, but for ages it's looked like he would be part of

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Manchester City's big summer spending spree. Now he's just got

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Since Saturday night, there's been lots of chat about whether the new

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X Factor judges were any good. More than 10 million people tuned in to

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see how Gary, Kelly, Tulisa and old boy Louis would get on. But how do

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they think they did? Ricky grabbed a quick word with the N-Dubz girl

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herself. I knew I was going to enjoy it, but

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I'm surprised at how passionate I have become about it. Did your foam

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blow up at the weekend, I bet your mum and dad and everybody is really

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excited for you. I was at the V- Festival, on the tour bus, and my

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battery died. Thank God, because I did not have to go through all of

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the messages. Two days later, I turned on my phone. And it was

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We'll just finish up with one teenager who probably won't ever

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have to audition in front of Tulisa or anyone on X Factor. Why? Because

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he's just won a part in the hit US show Glee. Damian McGinty from

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Londonderry in Northern Ireland was chosen from 40,000 hopefuls who

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entered the reality TV show The Glee Project. He will now get to

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appear in seven episodes of the third series. I think he's excited.

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That's it. If you have ever wondered what it looks like inside

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