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You're with Newsround on CBBC. Loads to get through this Tuesday morning. | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
A big campaign to prevent this sort of thing happening at level | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
crossings in the UK. And the Chinese chickens making a bid for freedom. | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
This is Newsround. First, one of the biggest countries | :00:21. | :00:30. | |
in Europe, Ukraine, is in crisis as violent protests there continue. | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
They started in the capital city, Kiev, in November last year but have | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
become more extreme in the past week, with some protesters taking | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
over government buildings. You can see here how the unrest has now | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
spread to other towns and cities across the country. The protests | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
began because officials wouldn't sign a deal bringing the country | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
closer to the European Union, choosing stronger ties with Russia | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
instead. Then the government introduced controversial | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
anti-protest laws and the clashes got worse. Now the president has | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
made an offer to reverse the anti-protest law if demonstrators | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
clear the streets and leave government buildings. There's going | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
to be a vote on it but it's not yet clear whether other politicians will | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
support it. Now to the Somerset Levels in South West England, | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
underwater since Christmas and now, to make matters worse, more rain is | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
expected today across Southern England and Scotland. England | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
currently has 14 flood warnings in place, ten of which are in the | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
south-west. There are three flood warnings in place across Scotland. | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
We want to hear if you've been affected by the flooding. Have you | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
had trouble getting to and from school, or are there flood waters | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
near your house? Head online and let us know. | :01:46. | :01:53. | |
Next, to a campaign to make people, and you guys in particular, more | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
aware about the need to be safe near level crossings. Network Rail say | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
they've reached their target early, of closing off 750 crossings, making | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
them safer. And as I've been finding out they want to close another 500 | :02:06. | :02:13. | |
when it comes to level crossings there is always the risk of an | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
accident, when a road, footpath or cycleway crosses the tracks. And | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
somebody will always try to beat the barrier. So in 2010, Network Rail | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
set itself a target of closing 10% of Britain's rail crossings by April | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
this year. They've closed 766 so far, ahead of schedule. Level | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
crossings are dangerous places because trains move very fast at | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
often 100 miles per watt or more, and they are also very quiet. You | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
think you've got plenty of time but you don't. The only true safe level | :02:49. | :03:06. | |
crossing exist any more. Network Rail says it spent ?130 million | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
improving level crossing safety. Part of that money was spent on | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
making adverts like this one. Despite the safety improvements, ten | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
people were killed on level crossings last year. The easiest way | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
to stay safe on a level crossing is to know where you are. A lot of | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
people are listening to music or text thing their friends and are not | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
really sure of where they are. So if you can really keep an eye out when | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
you are at a level crossing, know what you are doing, stock text | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
links, look left and right and crossed over as safely and quickly | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
as you can. Even though they've reached their target and more ahead | :03:31. | :03:38. | |
of schedule, Network Rail say they want to close another 500 of these | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
over the next five years. Because they hope that will mean many more | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
lives are saved. Buckingham Palace should be opened up to the public | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
whenever the Queen isn't at home. That's what a group of MPs is | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
saying, as they advise the Royal Family to get its money in order. | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
More money is needed to tackle repairs and improvements to the | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
likes of the Palace itself, and Windsor Castle. The public can buy | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
tickets to see the Palace but MPs say more can be done to raise money. | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
More than one billion Smartphones were sold across the planet for the | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
first time last year. Samsung phones were the top sellers, followed by | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
Apple in second. Market research company IDC says the success is down | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
to larger screens and lower costs, with big countries like India and | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
China snapping up loads of cheaper models that cost around ?100 or | :04:21. | :04:33. | |
less. . Now, you've heard of a wild goose chase, well, the weekend saw | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
more of a chicken chase, after a truck loaded with about 3,000 | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
chickens turned over on a motorway in south west China. The birds made | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
a bid for freedom from their cages and ran around all over the road, | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
through the bushes and into the hills beyond. Traffic police had | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
quite a job trying to collect them all up again. No-one was hurt | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
though. Doctor Who fans get onto the Newsround website. The first picture | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
of new Time Lord, Peter Capaldi, in costume has been released. Head | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
online now to check out his new look! That's | :05:01. | :05:01. |