27/05/2014 Newsround


27/05/2014

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Hi guys - Nel here live with record breaking news from Frozen

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and a bit of One D, plus: The wondrous underwater tunnel

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hidden away for centuries. It's Newsround.

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But first to the amazing discovery of

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Scientists unearthed the stinky swamp land while

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And they think it could help uncover mysteries of the natural world going

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Here's Ricky In Ukraine there's been serious fighting at an airport

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Deep in the heart of the African rainforest, rightists have made a

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remarkable discovery. A huge area of swampland in the Republic of Congo.

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At 2000 -- 200,000 square metres, it's bigger than the whole of

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England and debris than an Olympics remain cool. But the discovery

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wasn't easy. The scientists had to watch out for crocodiles, gorillas

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and elephants. It was incredibly surprising to find an area the size

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of England that, essentially, was uncharted. We walked through it in

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the daytime collecting our samples. In the evening, we put up tents. The

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land is special because it contains tonnes of decay which is more than a

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thousand years old. Pete is all around us. This peatland in Greater

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Manchester is quite wet and spongy. On the surface, it doesn't -- it is

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spongy on the surface. It is incredibly important for

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conservation because all of this has been slowly decomposing the more

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than 12,000 years. Via mac it's a living history that records

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everything that has happened in the area. They've got things like

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elephants, crocodiles. Things we don't have here. They've also got

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trees. Scientists have brought back samples of the Pete to test. It will

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help them learn more about how the environment has changed over the

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last thousand years. In Ukraine there's been

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serious fighting at an airport Armed groups who want Russia to have

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more of a say in how the country's run clashed with the Ukrainian army

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for control of the airport. Over the weekend a new President

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was elected promising to bring But after months of unrest

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the situation is still unresolved. And in other news a threatened

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walk-out that could have disrupted tomorrow's big One Direction

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concert has been called off. The boys are performing

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at Sunderland's Stadium of Light but fans travelling there were

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facing a headache. Rail workers said they weren't going

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to turn up to work and go on strike Next - to what was once called the

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8th wonder of the world - hidden It was the first under water tunnel

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built anywhere on the planet back And now it's been reopened to

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the public for the first time Deep below the River Thames

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in London lies one of the greatest This is a glimpse into the

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Thames Tunnel - built over 250 years Back in Victorian London,

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people needed a new way to get across the crowded River Thames

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so an engineer called Marc Brunel suggested building a tunnel

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between Rotherhithe and Wapping. This was the dream- but no one had

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ever successfully built an underwater tunnel before- and

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working on it was very dangerous. workers in cells,

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they do two hour shifts. Work began in 1825

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and took 18 years to complete. Workers would work in shifts but

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they had to come off after a couple of hours because of the air

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pressure. Work began in 1825

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and took 18 years to complete. 50,000 people came to the grand

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opening and it became a major tourist attraction as people flocked

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to pass under the Thames, and visit the underground shops that were set

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up in the tunnel's archways. But the novelty wore off

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and the tunnel was sold to it's used by London Overground

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trains - but for just one weekend these lucky visitors got to travel

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beneath the Thames- Victorian style. Movie news and Frozen has become

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the fifth biggest selling film The Disney hit has made more than

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?700 million worldwide It replaced Iron Man 3

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in the all time top 5 and is now just behind Harry Potter

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and the Deathly Hallows. That's all from Newsround on the

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CBBC Channel but so much more to

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