25/05/2016 Newsround


25/05/2016

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Hey, afternoon everyone.

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Leah here with today's Newsround.

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Lots to get through including...

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One young boy's journey from Syria told in pictures.

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But first to the dramatic story of a bus driver and eleven school

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kids who made a lucky escape from a collapsing bridge

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in Worcestershire.

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It happened yesterday afternoon when two buses

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were travelling across a bridge and the road began sinking.

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The bus driver was able to quickly reverse as the bridge crumbled.

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Nobody was hurt and an investigation has been launched

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into what happened.

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Some of the children on the bus described what happened.

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Me and my best friend were at the back of the bus.

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We saw a big splash in the river.

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The bus driver didn't see, so we kept on going a quarter

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of the way on the bridge, then the bus driver stopped.

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The other side of the bridge went so he started reversing.

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The bridge collapsed.

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We didn't know whatwas happening and I felt really shocked

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and scared because I thought we were going to die.

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If we were just a couple of seconds earlier.

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Something really bad could have happened.

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First, thousands of children have been affected by the ongoing war

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in Syria in the Middle East.

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Many have been forced to leave the country and some have

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even become separated from their families.

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Omar is one of many young people who have made

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the dangerous journey on boat, train, bus and foot all the way

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from Syria to Calais in France, where they hope to continue

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on to Britain.

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A large area where lots of these people live in Calais

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is known as the Jungle.

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Omar has told the story of his journey through drawing pictures.

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TRANSLATION: You could see the sunshine rising over the hills.

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I was coming home from my uncle's house.

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All of a sudden there was a jet.

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We had seen many of them.

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Even kids as young as two could tell if it was a helicopter

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or another type of jet.

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I could hear explosions all around me and jets as they flew by.

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When they dropped barrel bombs nobody would dare to

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watch where they fell.

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If it were not for the war, I would not have left Syria.

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I got on a boat for the first time.

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We reached the middle of the sea and the engine made a strange noise.

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It broke down.

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Everybody was scared.

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But then we saw two dolphins and for a moment

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we forgot about the dinghy.

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It took an hour to fix the engine before we continued our journey.

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I left Syria and took a boat from Turkey to Greece.

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From there, I travelled by boat and train and I walked

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until I reached Calais.

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I have been stuck here in the Calais jungle

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for three and a half months.

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There is no way out unless someone helps you.

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I left Syria to go and live with my family in Britain.

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It has been so long since I saw them.

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I want to live, just like anyone else.

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And to bring you up to date, Omar is still in France living

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in the Calais jungle.

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He's receiving support to try and legally reunite him

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with his family here in the UK.

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Omar hopes he'll be in the UK in time to start

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school in September.

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You can find out more about the jungle camp in Calais

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on the Newsround website.

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And another reason to head online is that we want you to get in touch

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with us about another big subject.

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Prime Minister David Cameron wants people to decide whether the UK

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should stay in or leave an important club of countries in Europe

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called the European Union.

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So, do you have any questions about the vote or the union itself?

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BBC Europe expert Katya Adler will be here tomorrow afternoon

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to answer as many of your questions as she can.

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That's all from me, Newsround's back here tomorrow morning with Ayshah.

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