28/10/2011 Newsround


28/10/2011

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What's up, Newsrounders? Hayley and Sonali here, with a great show to

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round off your half-term week. Coming up tonight: the movie that

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claims Shakespeare was a fraud. And Leah meets the creatures in a

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But first, a royal question for you. Who's more important, girls or

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boys? Well up until now, a law dating back hundreds of years has

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said its boys - at least in terms of who inherits the throne. The

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first son of a monarch was automatically made king, even if

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they had an older sister. Lots of people think that's unfair. So

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today, at a meeting of Commonwealth countries in Australia, the leaders

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of all 16 countries the Queen is head of state of, including Britain

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of course, agreed to change the law. So if Prince William and Kate have

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kids and they have a baby girl first, she'll have equal right to

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the throne, even if she has brothers. Prime Minister David

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Cameron made the announcement. The idea that a younger son should

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become monarch instead of an elder daughter simply because he's a man

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is at odds with the modern countries that we've all become.

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Put simply, if the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were to have a little

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girl, that girl would one day be our queen. And if you want to know

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more about this change in the law, head over to the Newsround website.

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Now to Thailand, where the flood waters are still rising - fast.

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Large parts of the capital Bangkok are now underwater. Many people are

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fleeing their homes. We'll update you on this across the weekend on

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Newsround on CBBC. And in Turkey, a dramatic rescue.

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Five days after an earthquake hit the east of the country, a 13-year-

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old boy has been found alive. This is the moment he was pulled out

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from under the rubble. 187 people have been rescued so far, but more

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than 500 have died. It comes after another rescue that's being called

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a miracle. A two-week-old baby girl was found under the rubble along

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with her mum. Here they are recovering in hospital.

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Most of us have learnt about world- famous poet and playwright William

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Shakespeare either through school or, of course, Horrible Histories.

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But a new film out today has caused quite a scandal by suggesting

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Shakespeare may be part of fake history. The movie Anonymous is

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about how the biggest name in literature could have been someone

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else, which has really angered some Shakespeare fans, as Joe's been

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finding out. Romeo, Romeo, where for art thou,

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Romeo?? To be or not to be. That is the question.

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We've all heard the words, but do we know if William Shakespeare

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really wrote them? I've come to his home town to find out.

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For hundreds of years, Stratford- Upon-Avon has been the place to

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visit for Shakespeare fans. But recently the town's been in uproar

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because some people think the famous writer didn't actually write

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his poems, plays and sonnets at all. And for big business this could be

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a problem. The theory is that a simple countryman born here in

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Stratford could never have produced such masterpieces. Some say they

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were written by the Earl of Oxford instead. You are an actress here at

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Shakespeare's birthplace and it is a popular tourist attraction. What

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you making of the theory that Shakespeare did not write the

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things we thought he did? obvious answer is that he did, and

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here in Stratford, on Tuesday, we had the statues covered up and

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bought the place names relating to Shakespeare covered to make people

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think about what if it were not true. What makes you so sure?

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have a lot of evidence existed and he is listed as one of the greatest

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poets of the time and his sonnets were called Shakespeare's sonnets.

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This isn't the first time people have questioned. Over 70 different

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authors have been suggested as the writer over the years. But for

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these people, William Shakespeare will be the greatest writer of all

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time. Shakespeare was not just big in Stratford. Now if you've

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wondering where Leah's been for the past few weeks, we can reveal all.

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We've lent her out to the BBC's Autumnwatch programme. Leah's first

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mission? To become the world's number one expert on eels.

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Let's face it, they're not the prettiest animals, and they get

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forgotten because they are deep down in our muddy rivers, but

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European eels are in decline, so that is why I wanted to find out

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more about them. This is the perfect opportunity to get close up

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with the eels. Can you tell us what it sees? The case anyone was unsure

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because they don't live like a fierce -- fish, they are fish.

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Every autumn, adult eels leave our rivers and travel away to the

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Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean to spawn. From there, the

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baby eels make an incredible 3,000 mile trip back to our rivers, where

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they grow. It is clear they are amazing creatures, tough creatures,

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but they're not having a good time at the moment. No, probably in the

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past 30 years the number of juvenile eels we found returning to

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fresh water has declined by anything up to 90 %. This means we

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are worried about the population in fresh water. When Eyles first enter

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the rivers as young elvers, they face their first big problem. What

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is being done to help them? Peter has been doing -- looking at tiny

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elvers to get them ready to go back to the wild. It is time to pull the

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plug. Peter, are you ready? We are ready. There we go. The little eels

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shoots down into the parking area to be boxed ready for the journey.

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This should give them the best start in life. Peter's work will

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hopefully increase the survival rate. Now we will release these

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I have beaten the All before. It was very nice. And you can see more

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about what happens to those baby eels on Autumnwatch on BBC2 tonight

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at 8.30pm. Finally, they're known as man's

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best friend and one dog has definitely lived up to that title.

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Monty the giant schnauzer was out for a walk when lightning struck

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his owner Ian Thomas. The quick- thinking pooch leapt into action

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and started licking his face, when he was knocked out by the bolt.

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Monty then dragged him home because he couldn't walk. After four days

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in hospital, Ian has now recovered and says Monty saved his life. Nice

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