:00:24. > :00:27.Hello. Welcome to Newsround on BBC One. I'm Leah taking charge of
:00:27. > :00:37.things on my own tonight. Some of this is on the way.
:00:37. > :00:41.Joe finds out what it takes to climb Mount Everest.
:00:41. > :00:44.And movie or pop star - Rhianna says she'll do both!
:00:44. > :00:54.But first to a big row over how much money Britain should give to
:00:54. > :00:56.
:00:56. > :01:00.other poorer countries around the world. At the moment the UK
:01:00. > :01:03.Government gives about �8 billion a year in foreign aid t, but now they
:01:03. > :01:05.now want to increase that to �11 billion. And as Nel's been finding
:01:05. > :01:08.out, not everyone thinks it's a good idea
:01:08. > :01:11.For years Britain's been giving a portion of its money to poorer
:01:11. > :01:20.countries around the world. But now there's a big debate over
:01:20. > :01:23.whether we're giving too much to help others. Most Western countries
:01:23. > :01:27.sign up to pay a certain percentage of their budget to countries in
:01:27. > :01:29.need. But compared to the rest of the world the UK donates more than
:01:29. > :01:35.most others. It currently gives 0.5% of it's national income -
:01:35. > :01:38.that's almost �8 billion to you and me. Germany donates less than 0.4%
:01:38. > :01:41.of their cash and the USA gives 0.2%, But despite that the UK's now
:01:41. > :01:47.agreed to meet a new United Nations target that'll mean increasing what
:01:48. > :01:51.we pay - from �8 billion to nearly �11 billion by 2014.
:01:51. > :01:56.But the House of Lords say that's a bad idea. The House of Lords say we
:01:56. > :01:59.should focus on the quality of aid, the kind of aid, how it's delivered
:01:59. > :02:03.to poorer countries rather than the amount of money. Critics say the
:02:03. > :02:08.money could be used to sort out problems here in the UK like
:02:08. > :02:12.repairs our roads. They pointed to the fact that Britain has been dope
:02:13. > :02:17.ateing foreign aid for years, and the countries are no better off. So
:02:17. > :02:22.why should the UK be donating money to charity when we could be using
:02:22. > :02:28.the money ourselves? The amount we give to poorer countries is less
:02:28. > :02:32.than 1p per pound. It's a very small amount of money and far, far
:02:32. > :02:35.less than we spend on education and welfare benefits, yet the
:02:35. > :02:40.difference it makes to poorer countries is huge.
:02:40. > :02:44.The Government says cutting funds could cost thousands of lives and
:02:44. > :02:54.the extra money would get millions of children into schools.
:02:54. > :03:04.
:03:04. > :03:10.You've been telling us what you You can still have your say over on
:03:10. > :03:14.the website. Now she's mostly found sitting
:03:14. > :03:18.pretty at the top of the charts, but Rihanna's branching out to the
:03:18. > :03:21.big screen. She's got her first acting role in new film Battleship
:03:21. > :03:25.and says despite her worldwide fame, she was really nervous on her first
:03:25. > :03:29.day. But don't worry Riri fans - she says whatever happens she has
:03:29. > :03:34.no plans to give up on the music. Music is art for me. I really just
:03:34. > :03:37.want to make a great song. When I make a video, it has to really stay
:03:37. > :03:42.true to the song. I never, ever want to compromise that for
:03:42. > :03:46.anything else. Next, if you have heard everyone
:03:46. > :03:51.going on about passties recently, let me fill you in.
:03:51. > :03:55.The Government's been told off for trying to hike up the price of
:03:55. > :03:58.baked food in it's big budget last week. And it all means a warm
:03:58. > :04:03.sausage roll or stake pie could cost you more than a cold one.
:04:03. > :04:06.Confused? Take a look at this. In its big budget last week the
:04:06. > :04:09.government said an extra tax should be added to the cost of hot pies
:04:09. > :04:15.and pasties. Meaning we'd pay more for them. It's all to do with
:04:15. > :04:20.something called VAT. If something costs one pound, the
:04:20. > :04:23.Government adds 20p, so you pay �1.20. Its added for most things
:04:23. > :04:25.people buy, including hot snacks like fish and chips, but some items,
:04:25. > :04:31.like cold snacks, aren't included. Some people say that's unfair and
:04:31. > :04:35.that's why the Government's changing things.
:04:35. > :04:38.What the Government has to try and do is make sure the VAT rules are
:04:38. > :04:41.fairly applied and so I dont think its fair for instance that the
:04:41. > :04:44.small businessman running the fried chicken takeaway is having to
:04:44. > :04:52.charge his custmers VAT but the big supermarket is not having to pay
:04:52. > :04:57.VAT for the fresh hot chickens. what does it mean for us? If you
:04:57. > :05:03.was to buy a pie today it would cost �1.35. Once the ruling for
:05:03. > :05:08.that would come in, that would rise to �1.62. But it gets more
:05:08. > :05:13.complicated. If this hot pie were to go cold before I paid for it, I
:05:13. > :05:19.wouldn't have to pay any extra money at all. Under the rules, if
:05:19. > :05:23.it's cold VAT would be added, which means I get to keep the extra money.
:05:23. > :05:26.Politicians opposed to the Government say the price rise will
:05:26. > :05:30.hit people already struggling with money, but fish and chip shop
:05:30. > :05:35.owners are behind the plan. One thing is for sure - whatever the
:05:35. > :05:39.temperature of your food, this is a debate that'll take awhile to cool
:05:39. > :05:44.down. It was good, that pie!
:05:44. > :05:47.Now to Mount Everest - the worlds tallest mountain. Adventurer,
:05:47. > :05:51.Kenton Cool, is heading to the top and he's taking a special Olympic
:05:51. > :05:57.gold medal Joe's been finding out more.
:05:57. > :06:02.Mount Everest, almost 9,000 metres of snow, ice and rock. Climbers are
:06:02. > :06:06.faced with deadly crevasses and sheer cliffs. The air gets thinner
:06:06. > :06:10.as you climb, so the higher you go, the harder it becomes to breathe.
:06:10. > :06:15.Climbing to the top is something only the bravest, fittest and
:06:16. > :06:22.strongest people can do, and that is why I have come to the garden of
:06:22. > :06:26.the man who has done it before. Cheers, guys. Kenton Cool is a
:06:26. > :06:30.professional explorer and adventurer. He's preparing to climb
:06:30. > :06:36.the mountain for the 10th time, but this time he has a special job to
:06:36. > :06:40.do. My latest mission is to take this medal to the top of the world,
:06:40. > :06:45.Mount Everest, to fulfil an almost 90-year-old Olympic Games pledge.
:06:45. > :06:49.It was these men who started it. In 1954 they received medals for
:06:49. > :06:53.bravely attempting to climb the tallest mountain in the world. They
:06:53. > :06:57.didn't quite make it, but vowed to try again, taking their medals with
:06:58. > :07:02.them. Something went wrong the second time around and one member
:07:02. > :07:06.died, and they abandoned the mission. To explorers like Kenton,
:07:06. > :07:12.this story is legendary. What do you have to do to prepare?
:07:12. > :07:19.You have to be super fit, so I have done a lot of cycling in the gym.
:07:19. > :07:24.Also, I carry a big rucksack and walk across the hills. You must be
:07:24. > :07:28.- to put yourself through that again. It's an amazing story and
:07:28. > :07:34.deserves to be told. He sets off today with the gold medal safely
:07:34. > :07:39.tucked into his pack. This summer Olympians from all over the world
:07:39. > :07:43.will be competing for one of these. By that time Kenton will have
:07:43. > :07:47.fulfilled a very special dream. Best of luck.
:07:47. > :07:50.And if you couldn't wait to race home from school tonight I bet you
:07:50. > :07:53.weren't as quick as this elephant. She broke out of a circus in
:07:53. > :07:55.Ireland and outran her handlers after they'd tried to give her a