:00:23. > :00:26.Hi guys. I'm Hayley, and I'm live just after five looking after
:00:26. > :00:36.Newsround on my own this afternoon. Here's what's coming up on in the
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:00:37. > :00:40.next nine minutes. One month to go until the start of the Olympics.
:00:40. > :00:44.Hello from the children of planet Earth. The search for life beyond
:00:44. > :00:47.our solar system. But first to the big story of the day in Northern
:00:47. > :00:50.Ireland. This morning, the Queen's Diamond Jubilee tour took her to
:00:50. > :00:53.Belfast where she shook hands with the country's Deputy First Minister
:00:53. > :00:55.Martin McGuiness. It might not sound unusual but it was a moment
:00:55. > :01:03.that some people in Northern Ireland never imagined could happen.
:01:03. > :01:05.Joe's spent the day in Belfast for us. He sent us this report. Of will
:01:05. > :01:11.almost used to sites like this, aren't we?
:01:11. > :01:14.Thousands of people waiting to see the Queen. Today in Northern
:01:14. > :01:19.Ireland, there's even more to celebrate because this morning the
:01:19. > :01:24.Queen shook the hand of the Deputy First Minister. Just another
:01:24. > :01:27.handshake with a politician? This was the moment that she shook hands
:01:27. > :01:31.with Martin McGuinness. It's the first time they have appeared in
:01:31. > :01:34.public together and a handshake was a symbol of how things have changed.
:01:34. > :01:38.For a long time it would not have been thinkable for people in
:01:38. > :01:43.Northern Ireland. In the 1970s, there was a battle in Northern
:01:43. > :01:48.Ireland. It was about whether it should remain part of the UK. On
:01:48. > :01:53.one side, the Irish Republican Army, they were fighting what they called
:01:53. > :01:58.a war against British rule. On the other, the Unionists want to stay
:01:58. > :02:01.in the UK and some of them also turned to violence. The IRA carried
:02:01. > :02:08.it deadly attacks in Britain and Northern Ireland targeting police,
:02:08. > :02:15.soldiers, politicians and even ordinary people. Lord Mountbatten
:02:15. > :02:18.has been killed. Lord Mountbatten was killed in 1979 on his boat.
:02:18. > :02:26.Martin McGuinness was one of the leaders of the violent campaign for
:02:26. > :02:31.many years. He says he officially left the IRA in 1974 and became
:02:31. > :02:36.involved with the political party Sinn Fein. Around 3,000 people died
:02:36. > :02:40.in the unrest but in 1998, a peace deal was agreed called the Good
:02:40. > :02:46.Friday Agreement. Ladies and gentlemen, you will have heard the
:02:46. > :02:50.announcement that an agreement has been reached. Martin McGuinness was
:02:50. > :02:54.a key person in Northern Ireland peacemaking process but the
:02:54. > :02:58.different sides agreed to share power and he became a Northern
:02:58. > :03:01.Ireland's second most important politician. The Deputy First
:03:01. > :03:06.Minister. He believes his country should be united with the rest of
:03:06. > :03:09.Ireland and today's handshake won't change that but for the Queen, the
:03:09. > :03:13.Deputy First Minister and the whole country, it's a remarkable symbol
:03:13. > :03:18.of peace and shows how far northern Ireland has come over the past few
:03:18. > :03:22.years. I have spent the whole day in Belfast and it has been a
:03:22. > :03:30.remarkable day for Northern Ireland but what do the people here think?
:03:30. > :03:36.I went to find out. Years ago, it was really hard. Stories have been
:03:36. > :03:40.told to me. Now, because of the peace process, it is easier to live.
:03:40. > :03:46.It's a big deal because it shows communities can come together and a
:03:46. > :03:50.handshake this morning has brought everyone together. It will bring
:03:50. > :03:55.back the past and there will be more fighting and there were calls
:03:56. > :03:59.drama again. The school kids went around for a lot of the troubles
:03:59. > :04:06.saw a spoke to the BBC reporter Mark Davenport. Only last year,
:04:06. > :04:09.Martin McGuinness and his party, closely linked to the IRA, who used
:04:09. > :04:12.to battle against the British Crown forces, would not meet the Queen,
:04:12. > :04:17.so it's a big deal that now they are holding out the hand of
:04:17. > :04:20.friendship and will shake her hand, and she will shake his hand a.
:04:20. > :04:24.been a big day for Northern Ireland and even after the crowds have
:04:24. > :04:30.moved away, it's hoped today's celebrations will have a big impact
:04:30. > :04:33.on the future of Northern Ireland. Thanks, Joe, for that report. Some
:04:33. > :04:36.other news now and the government have announced big plans to shake
:04:36. > :04:39.up the House of Lords. Like the House of Commons, the House of
:04:39. > :04:42.Lords debates laws put forward by the government. But unlike the
:04:42. > :04:46.Commons, the people that work there aren't voted in by ordinary people.
:04:46. > :04:49.At the moment you can be a Lord if your dad was a Lord or if you're
:04:49. > :04:53.appointed by the Queen. The government wants to cut the number
:04:53. > :04:56.of Lords by half, and they want the public to be able to vote on who
:04:56. > :05:04.gets in. It's causing arguments but many people think things need to be
:05:04. > :05:08.fairer. People who make the laws of the land should be elected by the
:05:08. > :05:12.people who have to obey the laws of the land. It's as simple as that,
:05:12. > :05:15.and I think we should get on with it. I hope people won't tie
:05:15. > :05:18.themselves up in knots in Westminster and get on with us.
:05:18. > :05:23.It's something the country expects us to do and we should get on with
:05:23. > :05:26.Time for a bit of sport. Britain's Heather Watson has stormed her way
:05:26. > :05:29.into the third round of Wimbledon. She beat Jamie Lee Hampton from the
:05:29. > :05:33.US easily, becoming the first British woman to go this far in ten
:05:33. > :05:39.years. And let's just say she was a little bit excited! She'll play
:05:39. > :05:43.either Agnieszka Radwanska or Elena Vesnina next. Both of which will be
:05:43. > :05:47.tough to beat. Next up, what lies beyond our solar
:05:47. > :05:52.system? It's a big question and one that this Voyager space craft may
:05:52. > :05:55.soon be able to answer. It's been travelling through space for 35
:05:55. > :06:00.years and is about to become the first man made machine to reach the
:06:00. > :06:03.edge of the solar system. Nel's been finding out more.
:06:03. > :06:13.This amazing machine is boldly going where no man made object has
:06:13. > :06:25.
:06:25. > :06:29.ever gone before. Scientists think it could soon become the first
:06:29. > :06:32.object to leave our solar system. The unmanned machine is a mega 11
:06:32. > :06:35.billion miles away. That's eight and a half times the distance from
:06:35. > :06:38.earth to the sun. The Voyager space crafts first blasted off from the
:06:38. > :06:41.United States 35 years ago. The space agency NASA is still in
:06:41. > :06:45.contact with the Voyager every day. But it's so far away, it takes 16
:06:45. > :06:47.hours for the craft's data to be sent back to earth. It's another 10
:06:47. > :06:55.years before we start losing the power. This is an incredibly long
:06:55. > :06:58.journey but even more importantly, it keeps discovering new things.
:06:58. > :07:01.The space craft has about the same amount of power as a light bulb,
:07:01. > :07:03.and less memory than a normal mobile phone. But that hasn't
:07:03. > :07:07.stopped it discovering amazing things. Thanks to the Voyager, we
:07:07. > :07:09.now know that 1,000 mile an hour winds rage on the surface of
:07:09. > :07:12.Neptune. And that Saturn's rings are bright and multi-coloured. When
:07:12. > :07:15.the craft was first sent up the team hoped that it would encounter
:07:15. > :07:19.alien life. The sides of the voyager are covered in gold plates
:07:19. > :07:22.with descriptions of what earth life is like. And inside it is a
:07:22. > :07:28.record player, all the rage in the 1970s, which plays greetings in
:07:28. > :07:34.loads of languages from children across the world. Hello from the
:07:34. > :07:37.children of planet Earth. So where next for the space craft? Once it
:07:37. > :07:42.leaves the solar system it will eventually reach another star. But
:07:42. > :07:46.that won't be for another 40,000 years.
:07:46. > :07:50.Thanks, Nel. Now, one month to go until the biggest sporting event on
:07:50. > :07:53.the planet arrives in London. The Olympic Rings were unveiled on
:07:53. > :07:56.Tower Bridge on the River Thames this morning but there's still a
:07:56. > :08:00.bit of work to do. Work started last week on the Beach Volleyball
:08:00. > :08:04.Stadium at Horseguards Parade in central London. And the finishing
:08:04. > :08:09.touches are being added to the Olympic Park itself. But despite
:08:09. > :08:13.the last minute work, organisers say everything's on track. We've
:08:13. > :08:23.been asking you what you're looking forward to and lots of you have
:08:23. > :08:45.
:08:45. > :08:51.Finally, who do you think would win a competition of scissors-paper-