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Good afternoon. Ricky here with everything you need to know this | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Wednesday. Here's what's coming your way: Why Facebook's paid over a | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
billion pounds for 3D gaming technology. | :00:14. | :00:26. | |
I am happy that he's doing it but I am sad that he is gone. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
We hear from a front line family about missing their Dad fighting in | :00:31. | :00:31. | |
Afghanistan. First up, lots of kids in England | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
and Wales have been off school today after thousands of teachers went on | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
strike. Members of the National Union of Teachers have been out of | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
the classroom protesting over how much they work and changes that the | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
Government wants to make to their pay. The Government says by going on | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
strike, teachers are damaging children's learning, but the union | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
says they've been forced into it because talks about the issue were | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
not working. Next, later this year British forces | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
will pull out of Afghanistan, where they've been fighting for more than | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
12 years. For the families of those serving in war zones, it can be a | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
worrying time but modern technology helps to stay in touch. We asked | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
three sisters what life is like for them when their Dad is away in | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
Afghanistan with the Royal Air Force. | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
Sisters Emily, Keira and Lucy are used to their dad working away with | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
the RAF, but sometimes life in a military family is hard. My dad is | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
in the RAF and when he is in Afghanistan, it is surrounded by | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
Pakistan and Iraq, which are desert places. His job is to make sure the | :01:36. | :01:43. | |
runways are safe before certain aeroplanes fly off. I am proud of | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
him but I wish he was here, that's the thing. I am happy that he is | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
doing it but I am sad that he has gone. It is hard to cope with him | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
being away. Lucy and Keira have the charts that they look at to show | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
where he is and we look at that once in a while. The girls can keep in | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
touch with letters, phone calls and video chats. Their dad even managed | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
to make an appearance at Christmas dinner despite the fact he was in | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
Afghanistan. I miss you all. We miss you, too. On Christmas Day, we tried | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
not to look at the down side of things and be happy. We were lucky | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
to get through to him. Even with the help of technology, the girls say | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
that missing their dad and worrying about him is difficult. We love | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
you. Goodbye. I don't like watching the news because I don't like seeing | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
what is happening there if something bad happens. I get upset. He might | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
get hurt or injured. When they are feeling upset, the girls pull | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
together to cheer each other up. I tell him not to worry because he | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
will be home soon. We all have a big hug and say that he will be all | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
right and we are very proud of him. At last the waiting is over. Their | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
dad is arriving home early from his tour but the girls don't know he is | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
back so soon. And for some people, serving in the | :03:13. | :03:27. | |
forces is a family tradition. We've been to meet Army Cadet Baz who | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
comes from a family of soldiers going back generations. | :03:31. | :03:38. | |
It feels right to be in the army. It is so easy for me because my brother | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
and sister are in the army and they told me what to expect and what not | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
to expect. My grandad definitely inspired me to do it because of the | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
stories I have been told of him. They are just amazing and that is | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
what I want to be like. I want to pass it down to my kids and for them | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
to pass it to theirs. It is protecting my family, everyone | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
else's family, and protecting the people in Afghanistan. And you can | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
catch front line families, our special programme all about children | :04:15. | :04:22. | |
from military families, here on see BBC in just over an hour. | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
Next, Facebook has been spending lots of money again. The social | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
network giant has announced it's buying Oculus, a virtual reality | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
company, for ?1.2 billion. Their big product is a headset where users | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
enter a virtual gaming world. So why would Facebook want to buy into this | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
kind of tech? We don't see Facebook as a gaming company, certainly, but | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
some people think that as well as playing games, then if you are at | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
work you can go to a meeting and feel like you are in the room even | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
if you are not, rather than using a webcam when you feel removed. You | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
can use something like this and feel part of the action. That is what | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
many people think face pack will use the technology for rather than | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
games. -- Facebook. Last up, Chelsea and England footy | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
legend Frank Lampard has been telling us that he likes scribbling | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
stories as much as he does dribbling past defenders. Not only has he | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
written his own kids' books, but he's teamed up with the Premier | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
League and National Literacy Trust to encourage more boys to start | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
reading. He says that even top football stars can be into books. I | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
loved my football and I was younger. I was lucky that my parents always | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
guided me and told me to do reading and basic own work and the basic | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
skills. I did enjoy my reading and I always try to do an hour with my | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
children, whether it is an hour or 20 minutes a day, very small bits, | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
reading is so important. I was a good boy and I used to read. I will | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
be back just before seven o'clock. But stay | :05:53. | :05:53. |