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You're in the right place for all of Thursday's top stories. I'm Ricky | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
with some of this. I have been finding out why violence | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
in Brazil is causing problems with the World Cup just weeks | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
And one of the world's most iconic puzzles celebrates a big birthday. | :00:17. | :00:24. | |
This is Newsround. First to Brazil and the city of Rio de Janeiro. It's | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
one of the locations for this summer's World Cup, as well as the | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
host city for the next Olympics. But this week has seen violent clashes | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
there, close to a popular tourist spot. It's the latest in a long line | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
of problems to hit Brazil, with the world's biggest football tournament | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
just weeks away. Martin's got more. It's just a month to go until the | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
world cup starts and these are the pictures the world is seeing of | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
Brazil. Violence broke out in a poor area close to Rio's famous beaches. | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
Barricades were set up and tyres lit on fire. The violence started | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
because local people believed that the police had killed an innocent | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
man. The area is a neighbourhood known as a favela, or a slum, where | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
poor people live. There are many favelas in Brazil's big cities and | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
they often have huge problems with crime. This latest violence is a | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
real worry because it's happening close to the big tourist areas in | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
the city. But so far, there's been no risk to visitors coming to the | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
country. Brazil's famous for its love of football, but it also has a | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
lot of crime and poverty. The government has been trying to | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
improve things ahead of the World Cup by sending armed police into the | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
favelas to try drive out the criminals. The problem is it just | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
seems to have moved the trouble to other areas. Brazil was awarded the | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
World Cup seven years ago, and it promised to tackle the crime | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
problems. But the crime's so widespread, it's a massive task. | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
There have also been issues with stadiums not being ready and huge | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
protests about how much public money it's all costing, money that some | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
say could be going to help poor people in the country. With just a | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
few weeks to go before the best players on the planet compete for | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
this trophy, Brazil's got a big job on its hands to convince the world | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
it's ready. Next, we're talking hedgehogs. Once | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
a big part of British wildlife in years past, now they're listed as an | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
endangered species. But a new study has found that in some areas, | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
they're on the rise because of the controversial badger cull trial. | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
Here's Leah. They're cute, small and seriously | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
spiky. But across the UK, the number of hedgehogs has been going down for | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
years. One reason for this is thought to be that the areas where | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
they live have been built on or used for farming crops. But another | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
threat is the badger. They both compete for the same food, a mix of | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
slugs and worms, meaning the bigger animal wins. And in the wild badgers | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
will often eat hedgehogs, too. Now, researchers from Exeter and | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
Southampton University have found in the areas where badger culls are | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
taking place, numbers of hedgehogs have more than doubled. We also saw | :03:09. | :03:19. | |
from the same surveys that when you remove badgers, you ended up with | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
more foxes around and that could have a negative effect on other | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
wildlife. The key point is when you manage wildlife in an intensive way, | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
you can end up with a whole host of unexpected and complex outcomes for | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
other species. We need to think carefully before we undertake | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
large-scale wildlife management such as this. The research was funded by | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
the government department for environment, food and rural affairs, | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
who are behind the badger cull. And not everyone agrees with it. So | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
while numbers are on the up where the cull is taking place, in other | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
parts of the country hedgehogs are struggling. Conservationists are | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
warning unless action is taken these spiky creatures may not be with us | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
for much longer. It's one of the bestselling toys of | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
all time and today it celebrates 40 years of frustrating and puzzling | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
millions of people. The Rubik Cube first started life in 1974 and was | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
originally called The Magic Cube. More than 350 million have been sold | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
worldwide and this new exhibition showcasing 40 years of its history | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
is opening in the US. Our website's the place to see some | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
video of a very speedy solving of the cube, as well as find out some | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
fascinating Rubik's cube facts! Last up, manatee news. Four of the | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
creatures rescued from illegal wildlife traders have been released | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
back into the wild in Peru, in South America. Manatees, which are also | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
known as sea-cows, are an endangered species so this was part of a | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
conservation effort to help the creatures. The animals were very | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
young when they were rescued so they have been raised in captivity but | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
this was the moment they tasted freedom once again. | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
That's all from me, Newsround's back just before seven. See ya! | :04:57. | :04:59. |