:00:00. > :00:00.Hi, I'm Ricky with Newsround this Monday afternoon.
:00:07. > :00:19.Could this be the worst time ever to get the hiccups?
:00:20. > :00:32.And the rescued lion that's finally free.
:00:33. > :00:34.First , Astronaut Major Tim Peake has
:00:35. > :00:38.completed his training ahead of his trip to the International
:00:39. > :01:02.Major Tim peat is about to make some serious space history. He is set to
:01:03. > :01:06.become the first British astronaut to live on board the International
:01:07. > :01:07.Space Station. This will be his first trip into space.
:01:08. > :01:12.Yeah we've trained a long time for this, so we're very ready
:01:13. > :01:23.Tim is travelling with a Russian who has been to the space station
:01:24. > :01:24.before. If something happens
:01:25. > :01:26.which he doesn't understand? He has to watch how others react
:01:27. > :01:28.and not rush. In space everything
:01:29. > :01:38.moves very slowly. Tim has been practising in this
:01:39. > :01:40.spacecraft, similar to the one they will travel in.
:01:41. > :01:44.It can take around 24 hours to get to the station so they need to have
:01:45. > :01:59.It is a long period, two and a half years. And everything we do here is
:02:00. > :02:03.in Russia must learning Russian language as well. The whole
:02:04. > :02:06.experience is a huge privilege and will be tremendously exciting,
:02:07. > :02:08.seeing the first view of planet Earth from space will be the most
:02:09. > :02:12.exciting moment. So the crew have passed
:02:13. > :02:14.their final exam. Next to the story of Mufasa
:02:15. > :02:25.the lion. It's thought Mufasa had been captured from the wild as
:02:26. > :02:28.a cub by a South American circus who then kept him chained to the back
:02:29. > :02:31.of a truck for most of his life. After being rescued
:02:32. > :02:34.and being brought back to health the big cat was taken on
:02:35. > :02:37.a three day journey by road and boat to a special reserve in the Amazon
:02:38. > :02:40.rainforest - where he can now live Next, to news of
:02:41. > :02:45.a high-tech solar powered plant that It's in Morocco in North Africa and
:02:46. > :02:51.uses melting salt to create energy. Wasassat,
:02:52. > :02:53.an ancient city in East Morocco is Row upon row of mirrors capturing
:02:54. > :03:04.the power of the desert sun. Once complete, it will be able to
:03:05. > :03:08.provide energy to a million people. During daylight hours, these mirrors
:03:09. > :03:16.track the sun through the sky. It is known
:03:17. > :03:20.as concentrated solar power. Each mirror directs
:03:21. > :03:23.the sun's rays that hit the tube Outside the tube is oil
:03:24. > :03:31.which is boiled to 400 Celsius, then transported and used here to
:03:32. > :03:35.make steam and produce electricity. But in order to generate power
:03:36. > :03:38.after dark, it uses the sun's energy to melt
:03:39. > :03:41.salt in this huge cylinder which has This thing you see here is a tank
:03:42. > :03:50.where we store salt just like the During the day, we heat this up,
:03:51. > :03:59.in order to keep the heat we will use to produce electricity,
:04:00. > :04:01.and this is quite a big innovation. We are able to store up to
:04:02. > :04:04.three hours of energy. It's hoped that this sort
:04:05. > :04:07.of technology is the future of renewable energy and poorer nations
:04:08. > :04:10.want help from rich countries to develop technology like this to help
:04:11. > :04:21.fuel the future, day and night. I'm pretty sure singing
:04:22. > :04:23.your national anthem in front of thousands is something no one
:04:24. > :04:25.would forget. Well, this 7-year-old boy
:04:26. > :04:27.from Australia stole the show Ethan stood up to sing
:04:28. > :04:31.the national anthem before He did make it to then though
:04:32. > :04:50.and got a massive round of applause from the crowd and high
:04:51. > :04:52.fives from all the players. That's all from me, Newsround's back
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