:00:25. > :00:31.Hello, thank you for stopping bite. Hayley and creaky in the studio.
:00:31. > :00:36.Let's not waste any time. Coming up: The generous people giving
:00:36. > :00:42.tickets to athletes' friends for the Olympics. And what you fancy
:00:42. > :00:46.having your hair cut by a robot. First, living to 100 used to be
:00:46. > :00:52.unusual, but hard as it is to imagine, loads of us will get that
:00:52. > :00:57.old. The number of 100 year olds is going up and one in three born in
:00:57. > :01:05.the UK the this year it will become centenarians. I have been wondering
:01:05. > :01:10.what it feels like to be 100. This year 826,000 babies will be drawn
:01:10. > :01:14.in the UK according to the Office for National Statistics. Thanks to
:01:14. > :01:20.better medicine and healthier lives, they say one in three were lived to
:01:20. > :01:30.be 100. In Henry the eight's time most people only lived until the
:01:30. > :01:31.
:01:31. > :01:35.age of 38. By the Victorian times it was 48 and today it is 80. But
:01:35. > :01:43.14,500 have made it to 100. In the next century they say that could
:01:43. > :01:49.rise to nearly 300,000. What is it like to be 100 years old? I am
:01:49. > :01:59.going to meet someone who is. Lily was born in 1909 and there were no
:01:59. > :02:00.
:02:00. > :02:08.cars, computers or televisions. left school at 14. We never had a
:02:08. > :02:15.car. I enjoyed good health all my life. My mother fed us the best way
:02:15. > :02:19.she could. We had super, super, super. Living longer can be
:02:20. > :02:24.challenging, spending longer in care homes and missing all the
:02:24. > :02:29.friends you used to know. Working out how to support the increasing
:02:29. > :02:35.number of old people is one of the most difficult problems facing
:02:35. > :02:41.politicians today. But it also has its benefits, plenty of birthdays.
:02:41. > :02:47.Lilley will be 103 in a few weeks' time. Thank you, you are very nice
:02:47. > :02:50.as well. Bless you. You have made a new friend.
:02:50. > :02:56.Ships and planes are being warned to stay away from a drilling rig
:02:56. > :03:01.that has been leaking gas since Sunday. It is 150 miles off the
:03:01. > :03:08.coast of Scotland and has been evacuated. Ships are being ordered
:03:08. > :03:12.to stay at least two miles away. Next, the efforts to tackle a food
:03:12. > :03:18.crisis in one of the poorest countries in Africa. Niger was hit
:03:18. > :03:21.by a major drought two years ago. Hundreds of thousands of children
:03:21. > :03:25.could be affected by famine this year it helped does not get there
:03:25. > :03:31.in time. It is named after the famous river
:03:31. > :03:35.that runs through it, but the water has all but dried up. These are the
:03:35. > :03:41.victims, thousands of children suffering from extreme exhaustion
:03:41. > :03:46.caused by a lack of food and water. There are among 400,000 people that
:03:46. > :03:50.could be malnourished in the next few months. They predict one in 10
:03:50. > :03:56.will not survive because of the severe drought, the latest in a
:03:56. > :04:02.long list of problems to hit the country. It stopped raining and the
:04:02. > :04:06.systems in place to store water are not good enough. The crops cannot
:04:07. > :04:12.grow and without crops they cannot eat. In this village they rely on a
:04:12. > :04:18.single well, but it is close to running dry. This lady has already
:04:18. > :04:22.lost six of her children and her husband. She is pounding what grain
:04:22. > :04:29.she has got from this year's harvest, but it is only enough for
:04:29. > :04:35.a week. TRANSLATION: Of course we get hungry, the rain did not come.
:04:35. > :04:39.Niger is ranked second to last in developed countries. But help is on
:04:40. > :04:43.the way. The country has got an elected Government for the first
:04:43. > :04:49.time in years and they are working with the rest of the world to do
:04:49. > :04:55.all they can. In this village they have set up a scheme to trap any
:04:56. > :05:01.rainfall. This lady now gets money from the United Nations for taking
:05:01. > :05:07.part. TRANSLATION: Because of this work we can feed our families.
:05:07. > :05:10.though she has to break their heat with her baby strapped to her back,
:05:10. > :05:13.for the first time in a long time there is hope things could be
:05:13. > :05:20.getting better. If you hate going to the
:05:20. > :05:25.hairdresser, you may not like this, a robots that cuts hair. It doesn't
:05:25. > :05:30.look very relaxing. It is controlled remotely and its normal
:05:30. > :05:36.job would be to dispose of bombs and the explosive devices. I think
:05:36. > :05:40.it should stick to its day-job. It looks as bad as your hair cut.
:05:41. > :05:44.you have not got tickets for the Olympics, you might be frustrated,
:05:45. > :05:52.but imagine if you were competing and your friends and family could
:05:52. > :05:57.not cope. But by some athletes help is at hand from complete strangers.
:05:57. > :06:02.400 metre hurdler Dai Greene will be at the Olympics, but his friends
:06:02. > :06:07.cannot get hold of tickets. When he won gold at the Commonwealth Games
:06:07. > :06:12.in Delhi two years ago, getting hold of tickets was not a problem.
:06:12. > :06:17.But this year athletes are limited to two tickets each, which is not
:06:17. > :06:23.enough. He thought his family and friends would miss out and tell
:06:23. > :06:29.somebody he had never met came to the rescue. Matt de Monte found
:06:29. > :06:35.tickets overseas and found �1,500 to buy them for the athlete. Dai
:06:35. > :06:41.paid him back and this is the first time they have met. You either man
:06:41. > :06:46.who saved my Olympics. In stories like this it is doom and gloom, but
:06:46. > :06:52.somebody helping others is exactly the Olympic spirit, everybody
:06:52. > :06:59.coming together and having a good time. Anything which can help our
:06:59. > :07:01.Olympic champions, and especially Dai, and it will help Team GB.
:07:01. > :07:08.People around the country have clubbed together to help their
:07:08. > :07:12.favourite athletes. This is Olympic rowing champions Zac Purchase and
:07:12. > :07:17.alongside Tim people who have found him a 14 tickets. So many people
:07:17. > :07:22.have got behind me and helped me out at crucial times and it is nice
:07:22. > :07:27.to reward them in a way. friends and families saw him win
:07:27. > :07:32.gold at the Beijing Olympics. Now they will be hoping to cheer him on
:07:32. > :07:37.to even more success this summer. Time to raise at last for some more
:07:37. > :07:41.or some athletes. To win this competition in Japan you have got
:07:42. > :07:47.to be the quickest person to make a pair made out of cups. You won't
:07:47. > :07:52.need to be fast to get the gold. That is it, but let us know what