28/01/2014 Newsround


28/01/2014

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You're with Newsround on CBBC. Loads to get through this Tuesday morning.

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A big campaign to prevent this sort of thing happening at level

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crossings in the UK. And the Chinese chickens making a bid for freedom.

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This is Newsround. First, one of the biggest countries

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in Europe, Ukraine, is in crisis as violent protests there continue.

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They started in the capital city, Kiev, in November last year but have

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become more extreme in the past week, with some protesters taking

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over government buildings. You can see here how the unrest has now

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spread to other towns and cities across the country. The protests

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began because officials wouldn't sign a deal bringing the country

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closer to the European Union, choosing stronger ties with Russia

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instead. Then the government introduced controversial

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anti-protest laws and the clashes got worse. Now the president has

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made an offer to reverse the anti-protest law if demonstrators

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clear the streets and leave government buildings. There's going

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to be a vote on it but it's not yet clear whether other politicians will

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support it. Now to the Somerset Levels in South West England,

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underwater since Christmas and now, to make matters worse, more rain is

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expected today across Southern England and Scotland. England

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currently has 14 flood warnings in place, ten of which are in the

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south-west. There are three flood warnings in place across Scotland.

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We want to hear if you've been affected by the flooding. Have you

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had trouble getting to and from school, or are there flood waters

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near your house? Head online and let us know.

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Next, to a campaign to make people, and you guys in particular, more

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aware about the need to be safe near level crossings. Network Rail say

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they've reached their target early, of closing off 750 crossings, making

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them safer. And as I've been finding out they want to close another 500

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when it comes to level crossings there is always the risk of an

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accident, when a road, footpath or cycleway crosses the tracks. And

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somebody will always try to beat the barrier. So in 2010, Network Rail

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set itself a target of closing 10% of Britain's rail crossings by April

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this year. They've closed 766 so far, ahead of schedule. Level

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crossings are dangerous places because trains move very fast at

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often 100 miles per watt or more, and they are also very quiet. You

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think you've got plenty of time but you don't. The only true safe level

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crossing exist any more. Network Rail says it spent ?130 million

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improving level crossing safety. Part of that money was spent on

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making adverts like this one. Despite the safety improvements, ten

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people were killed on level crossings last year. The easiest way

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to stay safe on a level crossing is to know where you are. A lot of

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people are listening to music or text thing their friends and are not

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really sure of where they are. So if you can really keep an eye out when

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you are at a level crossing, know what you are doing, stock text

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links, look left and right and crossed over as safely and quickly

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as you can. Even though they've reached their target and more ahead

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of schedule, Network Rail say they want to close another 500 of these

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over the next five years. Because they hope that will mean many more

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lives are saved. Buckingham Palace should be opened up to the public

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whenever the Queen isn't at home. That's what a group of MPs is

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saying, as they advise the Royal Family to get its money in order.

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More money is needed to tackle repairs and improvements to the

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likes of the Palace itself, and Windsor Castle. The public can buy

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tickets to see the Palace but MPs say more can be done to raise money.

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More than one billion Smartphones were sold across the planet for the

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first time last year. Samsung phones were the top sellers, followed by

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Apple in second. Market research company IDC says the success is down

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to larger screens and lower costs, with big countries like India and

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China snapping up loads of cheaper models that cost around ?100 or

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less. . Now, you've heard of a wild goose chase, well, the weekend saw

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more of a chicken chase, after a truck loaded with about 3,000

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chickens turned over on a motorway in south west China. The birds made

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a bid for freedom from their cages and ran around all over the road,

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through the bushes and into the hills beyond. Traffic police had

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quite a job trying to collect them all up again. No-one was hurt

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though. Doctor Who fans get onto the Newsround website. The first picture

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of new Time Lord, Peter Capaldi, in costume has been released. Head

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online now to check out his new look! That's

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