0:00:10 > 0:00:11Good morning!
0:00:11 > 0:00:12I'm Jenny, first this Thursday.
0:00:12 > 0:00:15The UK's Prime Minister, Theresa May, is travelling
0:00:15 > 0:00:17to America today to meet Donald Trump.
0:00:17 > 0:00:21She'll be the first World Leader to meet the new US President.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Meanwhile, in his first TV interview since becoming President,
0:00:24 > 0:00:29Mr Trump repeated his plans to build a wall on the border with Mexico,
0:00:29 > 0:00:32that he says Mexico will have to pay for.
0:00:32 > 0:00:35But the Mexican President has said his country definitely
0:00:35 > 0:00:39will not pay for the wall.
0:00:39 > 0:00:41Did you know that right now, across the country,
0:00:41 > 0:00:44there are hundreds of thousands of children who are looking
0:00:44 > 0:00:46after a parent, brother or sister?
0:00:46 > 0:00:49These children are called young carers, and while many of them
0:00:49 > 0:00:52are happy looking after a disabled, or sick, relative, they also
0:00:52 > 0:00:57face many difficulties, as I've been finding out.
0:00:57 > 0:00:59Hi, I'm Morgan and I'm a young carer.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02I walk the dog, I load the dishwasher and I help out
0:01:02 > 0:01:04with jobs around the house.
0:01:04 > 0:01:05Now I'm cooking dinner.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08Morgan's mum has condition which causes her muscles to be painful.
0:01:08 > 0:01:14It means she gets tired very easily and can't stand or walk for long.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17What do you think are the best bits about being a young carer?
0:01:17 > 0:01:22It's good because to put a smile on someone's faces gives me joy.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25Because not only am I doing something to help someone,
0:01:25 > 0:01:28at least they don't have to do it another time.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31There are lots of children like Morgan in the UK.
0:01:31 > 0:01:35It's thought around 700,000 young people are caring
0:01:35 > 0:01:36for a family member.
0:01:36 > 0:01:39A new survey by the Carers' Trust charity found it's difficult
0:01:39 > 0:01:42for some young carers to achieve what they want to in
0:01:42 > 0:01:45school and in later life.
0:01:45 > 0:01:48One of the reasons is because they have to spend time
0:01:48 > 0:01:50looking after the person they're caring for.
0:01:50 > 0:01:52Do you ever feel like you're missing out?
0:01:52 > 0:01:55My mum does get tired a lot and there are some times where,
0:01:55 > 0:01:58if we plan to do something and then by the end of the day,
0:01:58 > 0:02:00she's got too tired, we have to cancel it.
0:02:00 > 0:02:04But my mum always tries to get me there.
0:02:04 > 0:02:0899% of the time I do, sometimes it's hard because I've got
0:02:08 > 0:02:10a lot of stuff to do.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13Do you ever worry about the future, and that you might have
0:02:13 > 0:02:14to look after your mum?
0:02:14 > 0:02:17Yeah, I do, because sometimes I wonder if I will get good grades
0:02:17 > 0:02:22because people are saying practice makes perfect, the way you revise,
0:02:22 > 0:02:26and I don't want to sort of drop out, I want to have good grades
0:02:26 > 0:02:27in the future.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30What advice do you have for other young carers
0:02:30 > 0:02:31who are having a tough time?
0:02:31 > 0:02:34If you do have a worry, don't keep it in, and if you are
0:02:34 > 0:02:38finding things hard, you should ask for help
0:02:38 > 0:02:41because you should not have to deal with it alone.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44Go to your teacher or whoever you're caring for and say,
0:02:44 > 0:02:46can you help me with this because it's getting
0:02:46 > 0:02:49a bit too much for me.
0:02:49 > 0:02:52There's more about young carers online, including animations of some
0:02:52 > 0:02:54other children's stories.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57That's also where you can get help and advice if anything
0:02:57 > 0:03:00in the news worries you.
0:03:00 > 0:03:03Orcas, or killer whales, have fascinated scientists
0:03:03 > 0:03:06for a long time, and now researchers in the US say that they could help
0:03:06 > 0:03:09us learn more about ourselves.
0:03:09 > 0:03:15The BBC's Victoria Gill has been finding out how.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18Killer whales, also known as orcas.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21They're the magnificent mammals of the sea, known
0:03:21 > 0:03:24for their intelligence and close family bonds.
0:03:24 > 0:03:28Researchers here on San Juan Island in the USA have been studying
0:03:28 > 0:03:31the lives of orcas for the past 40 years, and what they found
0:03:31 > 0:03:35could help to explain something that orcas and humans have in common.
0:03:35 > 0:03:41Just like humans, orcas stop having babies partway through their lives,
0:03:41 > 0:03:44and it makes us different because nearly all other mammals
0:03:44 > 0:03:46carry on reproducing until they die.
0:03:46 > 0:03:51Scientists have long wondered why it is we evolved like this,
0:03:51 > 0:03:54and by recording the births and deaths in every orca family
0:03:54 > 0:03:57here, the researchers found that there is a very important role
0:03:57 > 0:04:01for female orcas after they stop having babies.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03They become grannies.
0:04:03 > 0:04:08Leading the pod and helping their family to survive makes granny
0:04:08 > 0:04:11orcas very important.
0:04:11 > 0:04:14It's tough for babies surviving and feeding themselves
0:04:14 > 0:04:17in the world and there's lots of competition within families.
0:04:17 > 0:04:23This study shows that once grandmother orcas have stopped
0:04:23 > 0:04:24having their own babies, there is less competition
0:04:24 > 0:04:27and conflict and grandmothers can put their time and effort
0:04:27 > 0:04:30into helping the rest of the family to find food.
0:04:30 > 0:04:34This could even help explain why we humans evolved to keep living
0:04:34 > 0:04:37long after having babies.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39And it backs up what lots of you might already think,
0:04:39 > 0:04:43grannies are pretty important.
0:04:43 > 0:04:47That's all from us for now, Newsround's back right
0:04:47 > 0:04:51here at 8.15am with more of the day's top stories.
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