28/03/2016 Newsround


28/03/2016

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Happy Monday!

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I'm Jenny, this is Newsround, and we are live with all the news

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you need to know.

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Keep watching to find out.

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How Leicester City are winning new fans from far afield,

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and...

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The less-than-cute animals who are missing out.

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It's Newsround.

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First, a storm that's been named Katie has been battering large

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parts of England and Wales, last night and throughout

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the day today.

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Super-strong winds, lightning and flood warnings have left flights

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cancelled, trees uprooted, buildings damaged, and thousands

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of people without power or electricity in their homes.

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The bad weather is expected to ease as the day goes on.

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Now to football, and Leicester City are still at the top

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of the Premier League table.

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Fans are rooting for them to make it all the way

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and take the trophy this season.

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Their success this year is winning them lots of new supporters,

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and not just ones who live in the city - as I found out.

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Happy, smiling Leicester City fans are becoming a more common

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sight this year.

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But these ones aren't in England, they're in Thailand,

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in south-east Asia.

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Lots of people here support the big name English clubs like Liverpool

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and Manchester United.

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But when Thai owners took over Leicester City in 2010,

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many people switched to support the club.

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And with the recent success of the team in the Premier League,

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even more football fans in Thailand are supporting the Foxes.

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In fact, they're so popular, every Leicester City football shirt

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in the country has sold out!

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I've been a Leicester City fan since the beginning,

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when there were fewer than 10,000 of us.

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I have been a Leicester City fan since Thai people took over.

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Before that, I was a Manchester United supporter,

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but I have fully become a LCFC supporter.

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The Thai club-owners

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are encouraging their new fans by giving out free food and drink

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when the matches are on TV.

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But can Leicester City keep up the popularity?

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Only time will tell!

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Tennis star Jamie Murray has made history, becoming the first Briton

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under the modern ranking system to be named a World Number 1.

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He'll become the first British World Number 1 in doubles

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in more than 40 years

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when he officially takes the top spot next week.

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And head online for more on that story, including our Murray brothers

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top trumps!

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On the news we often hear about animals that are endangered

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or facing extinction.

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But have you noticed how often those animals are pretty cute?

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Well, what about the not-so-cute critters?

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A study has found that ugly animals are struggling to get

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the same attention.

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It's like something from a nightmare.

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A gargoyle face, a crumbling nose,

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fleshy wings and a loud, high-pitched squeak.

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This is the orange leaf-nosed bat.

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It's probably not going to win a beauty

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contest any time soon.

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But Australian researchers say this endangered mammal,

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and many others like it, deserve a lot more

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attention than they are getting.

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A new study has found a lot of animals

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in Australia are missing out on funding and research because,

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well, they're just not pretty enough.

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The study looked at 331 Australian mammals, and put them into three

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categories - the good, the bad and the ugly.

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We all know the good ones, the cute animals that people tend

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to love, creatures like kangaroos, koalas and echidnas.

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The bad ones are often pests.

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They need to be watched so that they don't harm

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other animals or the environment.

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They include cats, rabbits and foxes.

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And then, there's the ugly.

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They're the animals that often come out at night,

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and we normally don't pay much attention to them.

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Creatures like bats, rats and flying foxes.

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It's this last group that could be in danger of becoming extinct,

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which is a big problem, because every animal

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plays an important role in the ecosystem.

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For example, small bats can eat up to 1000 mosquitos an hour,

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so fewer bats could mean more mosquitos.

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Scientists think the country's ugly animals deserve

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just as much attention as the cute and cuddly ones,

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so Australians are being asked to be citizen

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scientists - regular people who help keep tabs on the animals living

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around them.

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So have a look for yourself.

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Up close, you might discover that even the so-called

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ugly ones can actually be pretty cute.

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Finally, it's the superhero face-off of the year -

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and now Batman v Superman has broken box-office records.

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The film, which brings the two superheroes together

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for the first time, has overcome bad reviews to take

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?300 million at the box office in its first five days.

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That makes it the best-ever opening for a March film release,

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and the fourth highest of all time.

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That's it from the news team today, but keep watching, because up next

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Ricky's here with a special investigation!

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He's been finding out how important technology is in our lives today,

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and asking what would happen if we weren't allowed

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to use our gadgets.

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It's a Newsround Special: Is Tech Taking Over?

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Technology is awesome.

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We can use it to create virtual worlds,

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send tweets from outer space,

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and experts can even predict earthquakes

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using everyday smartphones.

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Now, imagine a world where you can use technology whenever you want.

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