28/04/2014 Newsround


28/04/2014

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Hi, I'm Ricky live in the Newsround studio with the biggest stories of

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the day. Coming up, we dig up the story on what's been called the

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worst video game ever made. And how do you re-populate an island with

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puffins? We find out. This is Newsround.

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But first, just a five hour flight from the UK, Syria used to be a

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country full of beautiful buildings and busy streets. But after three

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years of civil war, hardly anything looks the same. 9.5 million people -

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that's almost half of the people who live there - have had to leave their

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homes. Fighting between the government and the opposition has

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been almost continuous and whole cities have been destroyed by bombs

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and fighting. Some of the fiercest fighting has been in the city of

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Aleppo. This is what it used to look like. Now the city is a dangerous

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place that few people go to. BBC reporter Ian Pannell got a rare look

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inside. Most of the people who live in these areas have fled. Hull

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neighbourhoods are effectively abandoned. Now and again you see the

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odd person, small children going through rubbish. But otherwise

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people have run to the countryside for safety. We spent the last few

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days in the city and the bombing campaign pretty much does not stop

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day or night. The truth is there is almost no work in Aleppo that could

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be described as safe, either on the government side and certainly not on

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the opposition side. And for guides, galleries and all

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the information you need on the Syrian conflict, head on over to the

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Newsround website. Next, for over one hundred years

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Ramsay Island, off the coast of Wales, has been a puffin free zone.

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Up until the late 1800s, thousands of the sea birds lived and bred on

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the island, until a rat invasion forced them to leave. For the past

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four years conservationists have been trying to bring the puffins

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back and have come up with sneaky plan that they hope will trick the

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sea birds in to returning. It is a simple speaker system. We have a

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puffin track and it is wired up to a solar panel. That will play from

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dawn to dusk the call of the puff out to sea. It seems almost

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immediately there was an impact from the speaker system. That has been

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the case at other sites. Next, how many of you have an old

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video game at home that you don't play any more? If so, what have you

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done with it? Thrown it in the bin? Recycled it? What about burying in

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the desert? It might sound a bit extreme, but that's what happened to

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thousands of copies of what's been dubbed the worst game ever made!

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Nel's been digging in to this one. The gaming industry is worth about

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?40 billion worldwide. It's been big business since the 1980s and these

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were some of the favourite titles back then. But they weren't all hits

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and this was thought to be one of the worst of all time. ET was a huge

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blockbuster which came out in 1982 and people wanted to cash in on the

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film's success. Games developers Atari designed and made the ET video

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game in just a few weeks at a cost of over 20 million dollars. But it

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was a massive flop. So just how bad is this game? I've got one here to

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test it out with a gaming expert. Why is it such a flop. A few

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reasons. It is extremely repetitive first of all. You are flicks back

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between the same screens. It does not really represent the film. At

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the time it was reported that millions of copies were taken into

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the new Mexico Desert in America and buried. Now more than 30 years on a

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team of documentary maker said on the site and after a few hours of

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digging they found a huge stash of these rejected games. It's thought

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there could be hundreds of thousands more copies of the game still buried

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in the New Mexico desert. It's a pretty unusual way to get rid of a

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something you don't want, although I rather like it! Next, wave goodbye

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to the Stafford tower. This 21-storey block in Birmingham was

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turned into eleven thousand tonnes of rubble over the weekend to make

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way for a new park. Demolition workers say it was one of the

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trickiest jobs they've have ever done in a city centre. That's all

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for now. I'm back here just before seven with news on Mount Everest,

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the UK's worst cricket team and why these guys are on the loose in South

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Wales. See you soon. Good buy.

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