24/11/2015 Newsround


24/11/2015

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Good morning, it's Tuesday, Ayshah here with

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the stories you need today.

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The robot fair kicking off in China.

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And stay tuned for more of these incredibly cute red pandas!

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First to the girl who is being turned into a comic hero.

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Fed up of not seeing cartoon characters with disabilities,

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Emily decided to take action.

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Along with ther dad, Dan, they've invented a comic strip

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called The Department of Ability and Ricky went to meet them.

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Emily is nine years old.

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She has a condition called spina bifida which makes it

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difficult to move around.

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Like loads of young kids, she loves reading, playing guitar,

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football, and basketball, and when she's not busy doing all

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that, she is also a superhero.

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Dad Dan has turned his daughter into a comic book star and it's

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in this room where the characters come to life.

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There's five characters, and the name of the comic is DOA,

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short for Department of Ability.

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And we've got our own theme tune.

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They're all disabled apart from the creator of them, the person

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who joined them all together.

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So what kind of superpowers does your character have?

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A flying wheelchair, lasers on her wheelchair.

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Emily's dad is obsessed with comics.

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Some of the characters he's created are based on other

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children with disabilities.

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Together they make up Team Strong Bones.

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The Department of Ability came to life when Emily was born, and at

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the time we just started watching television, reading comics, she was

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looking for something she could relate to, ie disabled characters.

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And when we couldn't find any, I set about designing my own group of

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superheroes with disabilities that she could read and actually enjoy.

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Some shows I don't really see people in wheelchairs.

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And how does that make you feel?

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Kind of upset.

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The aim of the comic is to remind young people

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that anyone can be a superhero.

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The charity Strong Bones is publishing the very first issue of

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the comic at the start of next year.

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Go Super Emily!

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Next, scientists in the US say they've

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created a genetically modified mosquito, unable to carry malaria.

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Malaria is one of the most deadly diseases on Earth

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and is passed onto humans through bites from mosquitos like these.

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It's a huge problem in countries across Asia,

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Africa and South America.

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Scientists have added a resistance gene into mosquito's DNA so that

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when the insect produces young the new mosquitoes are malaria free.

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They hope this plan will eventually wipe out the disease.

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So far the results in the lab look good but the malaria-free mosquitoes

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haven't been tested in the wild yet.

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To football, and in the Champions League Arsenal

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need a win this evening to stand any chance of staying in the competion.

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They'll have to beat Croatian side Dinamo Zagreb.

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And Chelsea are also in action tonight, a victory at Maccabi Tel

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Aviv would send them through.

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And in the Premier League, Sunderland got

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their first away win of the season, beating Crystal Palace 1-0.

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Jermain Defoe's late goal moved the team up a place to 3rd

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from the bottom.

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It's Sam Allardyce's second win in four games

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since taking over last month.

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A dress worn by Judy Garland in the film of The Wizard of Oz has

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sold for $1.56 million, or ?1 million, at an auction in New York.

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The blue and white gingham dress, one of 10 thought to have been made

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for the actress in her role as Dorothy in the movie, was apparently

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a bit sweaty with stains around the neck but that didn't put off the

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mysterious buyer whose name hasn't been revealed.

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And check out this couple of cuties!

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These red pandas have just made their public debut at a zoo

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in the US.

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The little creatures were born in July in New York,

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but haven't been given names yet.

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Red pandas look similar to raccoons and have a reddish-brown coat

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and a long furry tail, but unlike giant pandas they're not

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members of the bear family.

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Everyone was excited to see little guys because they're considered to

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be very vulnerable in the wild.

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The World Robot Conference has just kicked off in Beijing in China.

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The three-day event includes an exhibition and

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a robot contest for young people.

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The conference has drawn hundreds of experts and robot companies,

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it's hoped that it will encourage China to make more robots.

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That's all from me, Newsround's back right here in about half an hour.

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