27/03/2012 Newsround


27/03/2012

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Hello, thank you for stopping bite. Hayley and creaky in the studio.

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Let's not waste any time. Coming up: The generous people giving

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tickets to athletes' friends for the Olympics. And what you fancy

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having your hair cut by a robot. First, living to 100 used to be

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unusual, but hard as it is to imagine, loads of us will get that

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old. The number of 100 year olds is going up and one in three born in

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the UK the this year it will become centenarians. I have been wondering

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what it feels like to be 100. This year 826,000 babies will be drawn

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in the UK according to the Office for National Statistics. Thanks to

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better medicine and healthier lives, they say one in three were lived to

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be 100. In Henry the eight's time most people only lived until the

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age of 38. By the Victorian times it was 48 and today it is 80. But

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14,500 have made it to 100. In the next century they say that could

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rise to nearly 300,000. What is it like to be 100 years old? I am

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going to meet someone who is. Lily was born in 1909 and there were no

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cars, computers or televisions. left school at 14. We never had a

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car. I enjoyed good health all my life. My mother fed us the best way

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she could. We had super, super, super. Living longer can be

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challenging, spending longer in care homes and missing all the

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friends you used to know. Working out how to support the increasing

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number of old people is one of the most difficult problems facing

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politicians today. But it also has its benefits, plenty of birthdays.

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Lilley will be 103 in a few weeks' time. Thank you, you are very nice

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as well. Bless you. You have made a new friend.

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Ships and planes are being warned to stay away from a drilling rig

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that has been leaking gas since Sunday. It is 150 miles off the

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coast of Scotland and has been evacuated. Ships are being ordered

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to stay at least two miles away. Next, the efforts to tackle a food

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crisis in one of the poorest countries in Africa. Niger was hit

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by a major drought two years ago. Hundreds of thousands of children

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could be affected by famine this year it helped does not get there

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in time. It is named after the famous river

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that runs through it, but the water has all but dried up. These are the

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victims, thousands of children suffering from extreme exhaustion

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caused by a lack of food and water. There are among 400,000 people that

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could be malnourished in the next few months. They predict one in 10

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will not survive because of the severe drought, the latest in a

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long list of problems to hit the country. It stopped raining and the

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systems in place to store water are not good enough. The crops cannot

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grow and without crops they cannot eat. In this village they rely on a

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single well, but it is close to running dry. This lady has already

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lost six of her children and her husband. She is pounding what grain

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she has got from this year's harvest, but it is only enough for

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a week. TRANSLATION: Of course we get hungry, the rain did not come.

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Niger is ranked second to last in developed countries. But help is on

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the way. The country has got an elected Government for the first

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time in years and they are working with the rest of the world to do

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all they can. In this village they have set up a scheme to trap any

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rainfall. This lady now gets money from the United Nations for taking

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part. TRANSLATION: Because of this work we can feed our families.

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though she has to break their heat with her baby strapped to her back,

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for the first time in a long time there is hope things could be

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getting better. If you hate going to the

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hairdresser, you may not like this, a robots that cuts hair. It doesn't

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look very relaxing. It is controlled remotely and its normal

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job would be to dispose of bombs and the explosive devices. I think

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it should stick to its day-job. It looks as bad as your hair cut.

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you have not got tickets for the Olympics, you might be frustrated,

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but imagine if you were competing and your friends and family could

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not cope. But by some athletes help is at hand from complete strangers.

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400 metre hurdler Dai Greene will be at the Olympics, but his friends

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cannot get hold of tickets. When he won gold at the Commonwealth Games

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in Delhi two years ago, getting hold of tickets was not a problem.

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But this year athletes are limited to two tickets each, which is not

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enough. He thought his family and friends would miss out and tell

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somebody he had never met came to the rescue. Matt de Monte found

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tickets overseas and found �1,500 to buy them for the athlete. Dai

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paid him back and this is the first time they have met. You either man

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who saved my Olympics. In stories like this it is doom and gloom, but

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somebody helping others is exactly the Olympic spirit, everybody

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coming together and having a good time. Anything which can help our

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Olympic champions, and especially Dai, and it will help Team GB.

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People around the country have clubbed together to help their

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favourite athletes. This is Olympic rowing champions Zac Purchase and

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alongside Tim people who have found him a 14 tickets. So many people

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have got behind me and helped me out at crucial times and it is nice

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to reward them in a way. friends and families saw him win

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gold at the Beijing Olympics. Now they will be hoping to cheer him on

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to even more success this summer. Time to raise at last for some more

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or some athletes. To win this competition in Japan you have got

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to be the quickest person to make a pair made out of cups. You won't

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need to be fast to get the gold. That is it, but let us know what

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