25/08/2016 Newsround


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Hey, Martin here with your Thursday Newsround.

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First to Italy, where rescue workers have been searching

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overnight for survivors, following Wednesday's earthquake

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More than 400 rescuers used heavy equipment and dug

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with their bare hands in search of people that had been trapped.

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Over 200 people have died and many more have been injured as the work

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And remember, if there's anything in the news that upsets you,

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there is help and advice on the Newsround website.

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Next, scientists have discovered the closest planet to Earth,

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outside our solar system, where life could potentially exist.

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These pictures are artists' impressions of what this

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It's been discovered in another solar system four light years away -

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that's more than 25 trillion miles - but in space terms, this planet

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It orbits around our nearest star called Proxima Centauri.

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It's roughly the same size as Planet Earth and,

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like our planet, scientists think it's a rocky, solid world.

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It's not known if life exists on Proxima b, but scientists say

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the temperature of the planet - not too hot or too cold -

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means liquid water could potentially exist.

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And where there's water, there's the possibility for life.

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There are hundreds of planets being discovered now every month,

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but this is a really special one, that's the nearest one.

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This happened once, it will not happen again.

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Astronomers in South America made the discovery using a special

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instrument on a telescope operated by the European Southern Observatory

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Getting to Proxima b at the moment is pretty much mission impossible.

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Even though it's the closest planet we've ever found,

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it would still take thousands of years to get there.

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Maybe, if there's super-fast space craft in the future,

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it might be able to be reached in a human's lifetime.

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And until then, it's still a pretty amazing discovery for scientists

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Next, we're still enjoying Team GB's success in Rio here at Newsround

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and Olympic gymnast Nile Wilson broke records when he won a bronze

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It's the first time that a British gymnast has won a medal

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on the horizonal bar. Nile joins us now.

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Congratulations. Thank you. Welcome back. Look at that bronze medal.

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Last time we spoke to you, the team had not even been selected, now you

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have that medal, how does that feel? Amazing, something you dream about

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when you are a young boy, just a massive achievement to make the

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Olympics and, too, home with a medal is just incredible. Well done, it

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must feel stage coming back from something like that. What are you

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focusing on now? 2020? Yes, the next Olympics, coming home with the

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bronze medal, now to work out what to do to win gold, and be the best,

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but now blacks and seeing my family. But not all serious? You had some

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good times with your friends? Yes, lots of pranks going, Louis Smith

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superglued all be toiletries to the bathroom shelf. But it was good fun

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to be away. Brilliant, congratulations, thanks for coming

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in. Thanks. Next, alongside Nile,

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two of the big stars in Rio were Jack Law,

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who won silver in the men's 3m diving event, and his partner

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Chris Mears, who teamed up to win the Men's Synchronized

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3m Springboard. We asked you guys to

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send in your questions. Yes, come on!

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That is an Olympic medal for sure! I think it's a pretty cool sport.

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Yeah. We love watching the Winter

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Olympics, especially when... The Winter Olympics

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is fantastic for us. We never watch any, like,

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Alpine sports, but curling, for us, I just love the whole

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slide and glide thing, and the broom, it's really funny.

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It's really cool. Chris would the stone guy

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and I'd be the brusher guy, I think.

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Yeah. That is a perfect place to start.

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Good question. Both of us started when

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we were seven years old. I swum before and did

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a little spot of gymnastics, but nothing serious,

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really, and took up diving and now, 14 years later,

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I'm an Olympic gold medallist. You know, if you're

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as passionate about something, like diving like we are,

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then work hard and get through the hard training sessions

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and end up with these. Finally, robots are usually

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controlled by remote control, right? This cool wee robot has

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no wires or batteries. It actually moves by pushing gas

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through little chambers in its legs. It's hoped that, one day, robots

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like this could help with surgery How cool is that? Pretty awesome!

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That is all from me. Programme macros is back this afternoon, find

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out more on Newsround online.

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