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