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Hey, Martin here with your Thursday Newsround. | :00:14. | :00:14. | |
First to Italy, where rescue workers have been searching | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
overnight for survivors, following Wednesday's earthquake | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
More than 400 rescuers used heavy equipment and dug | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
with their bare hands in search of people that had been trapped. | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
Over 200 people have died and many more have been injured as the work | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
And remember, if there's anything in the news that upsets you, | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
there is help and advice on the Newsround website. | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
Next, scientists have discovered the closest planet to Earth, | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
outside our solar system, where life could potentially exist. | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
These pictures are artists' impressions of what this | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
It's been discovered in another solar system four light years away - | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
that's more than 25 trillion miles - but in space terms, this planet | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
It orbits around our nearest star called Proxima Centauri. | :01:06. | :01:15. | |
It's roughly the same size as Planet Earth and, | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
like our planet, scientists think it's a rocky, solid world. | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
It's not known if life exists on Proxima b, but scientists say | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
the temperature of the planet - not too hot or too cold - | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
means liquid water could potentially exist. | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
And where there's water, there's the possibility for life. | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
There are hundreds of planets being discovered now every month, | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
but this is a really special one, that's the nearest one. | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
This happened once, it will not happen again. | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
Astronomers in South America made the discovery using a special | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
instrument on a telescope operated by the European Southern Observatory | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
Getting to Proxima b at the moment is pretty much mission impossible. | :01:57. | :02:04. | |
Even though it's the closest planet we've ever found, | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
it would still take thousands of years to get there. | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
Maybe, if there's super-fast space craft in the future, | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
it might be able to be reached in a human's lifetime. | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
And until then, it's still a pretty amazing discovery for scientists | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
Next, we're still enjoying Team GB's success in Rio here at Newsround | :02:22. | :02:32. | |
and Olympic gymnast Nile Wilson broke records when he won a bronze | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
It's the first time that a British gymnast has won a medal | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
on the horizonal bar. Nile joins us now. | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
Congratulations. Thank you. Welcome back. Look at that bronze medal. | :02:45. | :02:55. | |
Last time we spoke to you, the team had not even been selected, now you | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
have that medal, how does that feel? Amazing, something you dream about | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
when you are a young boy, just a massive achievement to make the | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
Olympics and, too, home with a medal is just incredible. Well done, it | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
must feel stage coming back from something like that. What are you | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
focusing on now? 2020? Yes, the next Olympics, coming home with the | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
bronze medal, now to work out what to do to win gold, and be the best, | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
but now blacks and seeing my family. But not all serious? You had some | :03:34. | :03:46. | |
good times with your friends? Yes, lots of pranks going, Louis Smith | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
superglued all be toiletries to the bathroom shelf. But it was good fun | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
to be away. Brilliant, congratulations, thanks for coming | :03:59. | :03:59. | |
in. Thanks. Next, alongside Nile, | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
two of the big stars in Rio were Jack Law, | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
who won silver in the men's 3m diving event, and his partner | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
Chris Mears, who teamed up to win the Men's Synchronized | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
3m Springboard. We asked you guys to | :04:12. | :04:12. | |
send in your questions. Yes, come on! | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
That is an Olympic medal for sure! I think it's a pretty cool sport. | :04:15. | :04:30. | |
Yeah. We love watching the Winter | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
Olympics, especially when... The Winter Olympics | :04:35. | :04:36. | |
is fantastic for us. We never watch any, like, | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
Alpine sports, but curling, for us, I just love the whole | :04:39. | :04:40. | |
slide and glide thing, and the broom, it's really funny. | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
It's really cool. Chris would the stone guy | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
and I'd be the brusher guy, I think. | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
Yeah. That is a perfect place to start. | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
Good question. Both of us started when | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
we were seven years old. I swum before and did | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
a little spot of gymnastics, but nothing serious, | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
really, and took up diving and now, 14 years later, | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
I'm an Olympic gold medallist. You know, if you're | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
as passionate about something, like diving like we are, | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
then work hard and get through the hard training sessions | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
and end up with these. Finally, robots are usually | :05:13. | :05:14. | |
controlled by remote control, right? This cool wee robot has | :05:15. | :05:22. | |
no wires or batteries. It actually moves by pushing gas | :05:23. | :05:32. | |
through little chambers in its legs. It's hoped that, one day, robots | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
like this could help with surgery How cool is that? Pretty awesome! | :05:37. | :05:52. | |
That is all from me. Programme macros is back this afternoon, find | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
out more on Newsround online. | :05:57. | :06:00. |